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miercuri, 25 iunie 2025

News : STO event - 8000 dilithium rewards !

I see the new RISA event ... maybe this will be the next ship ??
After rewards , today is the first day for 8000 dilithium rewards !
See wikipedia article : Dilithium (Star Trek)

marți, 24 iunie 2025

News : Bluesky social app with the Atmosphere Protocol.

Bluesky is a social app that is designed to not be controlled by a single company. We're creating a version of social media where it's built by many people, and it still comes together as a cohesive, easy-to-use experience. We've done this by building Bluesky on the AT Protocol, an open source toolbox for building social apps that can all talk to each other.
Traditional social networks are often closed platforms with a central authority. There’s a small group of people who control those companies, and they have total control over how users can use the platform and what developers can build.
As a developer, if you try to build a new app, you have to overcome network effects to rebuild the social graph from scratch, and if you try to build on the APIs of these companies they can cut you off and kill your company in the blink of an eye. As a creator, you might spend years building an audience only to lose access to it when the platform changes the rules on you.
You can find me at this social account

News : Developer Update | Season 17: Map Updates, Stadium Heroes, & More

Senior Game Designer Dylan Snyder, UI Artist Sadie Boyd, and Senior Systems Designer Connor Kou are here to go over some of the awesome new arrivals coming during Season 17!

luni, 23 iunie 2025

News : Lemmy Release v0.19.12

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Read more on the official website.

News : my first generator on perchance.org

My first generator on the official perchance.org.
Is very easy to use if you know javascript. I tested with two plugins and with canvas area. First is a random basic text generator and second one will generate image based on text prompt.

News : O&O ShutUp10++ - Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11.

O&O ShutUp10++ means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 and Windows 11 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 and Windows 11 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.
See this tool on the official website.

News : YouTube Data Analysis Workflow - my hackathon project on devpost

Here I managed with difficulty, the internet and this old laptop are slow, but I uploaded the project for the Agent Development Kit Hackathon with Google Cloud ...
See my project on the official website.
Project submitted! Continue to edit your project until the hackathon deadline: June 23, 2025 at 08:00pm EDT.

joi, 19 iunie 2025

News : Google Apps Script - get products by region into new sheet.

... this is source code for search products on my region using google apps script:
function onOpen() {
  SpreadsheetApp.getUi()
    .createMenu('Ocazii Scraper')
    .addItem('Scrape placa-de-baza', 'scrapeProcess_placa_de_baza')
    .addToUi();
}

function scrapeProcess_placa_de_baza() {
  const url_placa_de_baza = "https://www.okazii.ro/componente-computere/placa-de-baza/?judete_lp=35&sort=pret_asc";
  let html;
  try {
    const response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url_placa_de_baza);
    html = response.getContentText();
  } catch (error) {
    Logger.log("Error fetching HTML: " + error.message);
    return;
  }

  const itemRegex = /<div class="list-item[\s\S]*?<h2>[\s\S]*?<a[^>]+href="(.*?)"[^>]+title="(.*?)"[\s\S]*?<span class="prSup"><span>(\d+)<\/span>[\s\S]*?<span class="prList"><span>([\d,]+)<\/span>/g;

  const spreadsheetName = "placa_baza_200625";
  const spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  const sheet = spreadsheet.getSheetByName(spreadsheetName) || spreadsheet.insertSheet(spreadsheetName);

  // Adaugă headere dacă e un sheet nou
  if (sheet.getLastRow() === 0) {
    sheet.appendRow(["Data", "Titlu", "Href", "Pret", "Livrare"]);
  }

  const now = new Date();
  const formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(now, SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetTimeZone(), "ddMMyy");

  let match;
  while ((match = itemRegex.exec(html)) !== null) {
    let [_, href, title, price, delivery] = match;
    delivery = delivery.replace(",", "."); // înlocuiește virgula pentru formatare numerica
    const row = [formattedDate, title, href, price, delivery];
    sheet.appendRow(row);
  }
}

News : Construct 3 r444.2 Beta.

A new Beta version of Construct 3 has just been published - please note that Beta versions are not as thoroughly tested as Stable versions. If you choose to use Beta versions, please ensure you backup your work regularly and are willing to file bug reports if you run into any issues.

miercuri, 18 iunie 2025

News : Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 on inkscape website

Right after Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, from May 28th to the 31st, the team attended to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2025, also in Nuremberg. It was a great opportunity to learn and share, and a unique experience to see how Inkscape contributes to the Libre Graphics scenario globally.
You can read about this on the inkscape official website.

News : Upcoming (serious) Web performance boost by Adam Scott.

... Starting with 4.5 dev 5, you can expect your Web games to run a little bit more smoothly, without having to do anything. Especially when things get chaotic (for your CPU). It isn’t a silver bullet for poorly optimized games, but it will help nonetheless. Also, note that it cannot do anything for GPU rendering bottlenecks.
... From here on out, the 4.5 release official templates will only support WebAssembly SIMD-compatible browsers in order to keep the template sizes small. We generally aim to maintain compatibility with the oldest devices we can. But in this case, the performance gains are too large to ignore and the chances of users having browsers that are that far out of date is too small relative to the potential benefits.
See the full blog article from the official website.

News : Meet Stridewing - Your Wildest Travel Companion

... today I found this game by White Frame Technologies LLC:
Explore cosmic worlds, build unique bases, and battle for resources in this browser-based sandbox game. Interact with players from around the globe

joi, 12 iunie 2025

News : Another videos from https://www.weavy.ai !

Professional design platform unifying AI models with professional editing tools. Currently in private beta with selected creators. ... by https://www.weavy.ai

News : the app.1min.ai online tool comes new models !

I saw today these new changes into the app.1min.ai - online tool with a lot of artificial intelligence models!

News : FOSDEM 2025 Talk: From Pixels to Procedures.

Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics editor, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.
The GitHub repo for this project can be found on the github repo - GraphiteEditor/Graphite.

miercuri, 11 iunie 2025

News : FLUX.1 Kontext

Today I found this online tool named FLUX.1 Kontext.
FLUX.1 Kontext revolutionizes AI image generation with advanced text-to-image capabilities. Experience FLUX.1 Kontext's professional-grade quality, supporting image editing, style transfer, and creative workflows. FLUX.1 Kontext empowers creators with intuitive AI tools for stunning visual content.
You can find this online tool on the official webpage.
Today I found this online tool named FLUX.1 Kontext.

News : Fedora 42 (Adams) !

Fedora 42 is a version of Fedora released to the public on 15 April 2025[1], under the codename "Adams". This version is notably the first version since Fedora 23 to use a codename. This version updates GNOME to version 48.
Yesterday I installed the Fedora Linux distro with version 42 also known as Adams, on the old Cosmic environment.
The packages were installed correctly and updated to version 42. The Cosmic environment, although it has a pretty good design, is just as poor as some of the implemented applications. I tried with about three screenshot applications to take a screenshot and I couldn't succeed. I noticed some packages for basic and cosmic implementation, but they didn't solve anything. Moreover, it seems that cosmic is related to rust and it's throwing me some strange messages!!!
I had to take a picture of the screen for this installation ... after all, it is a test version from the Fedora team based on RedHat linux!

News : The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature | Official Reveal Trailer

This is the Official YouTube channel for The Sims™ where videos and Live Broadcasts created by Electronic Arts' (EA) Maxis Label are featured and released on behalf of The Sims franchise. The Official YouTube channel for The Sims also features player-created videos and content from The Sims' community of players from around the world. For more information about The Sims, visit http://www.thesims.com

luni, 9 iunie 2025

News : Android 16 stable on Pixel 9 series.

Google announced that Android 16(stable) will be available to all Pixel devices by tomorrow starting with Pixel 9 series

TickTick :To Do List & Calendar for management time application.

I don't just use one time management application on my phone. The main reason is that there isn't a perfect one, and moreover, almost all of them cost quite a bit. If I were to add up all the costs, they wouldn't justify themselves. Today I am going to present one that is quite useful, which I discovered can send notifications on the screen to check off the daily steps to follow, and additionally, it also has a centralized widget.
You can find this android application on the google play store.

News : Microsoft Flight Simulator | City Update 10: United States I

Apr 22, 2025 : Microsoft Flight Simulator City Update 10: United States IV delivers five spectacular cities throughout the United States in vibrant detail: Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Denver, Colorado; San Francisco, California; and Honolulu, Hawaii.

sâmbătă, 7 iunie 2025

News : twigl.app another shader editor.

twigl.app is an online editor for One tweet shader, with GIF generator, sound shader, and broadcast live coding.
Today I tested this online shader editor , my hardware is not very good and browser is low, but works ...

News : What's new in Bootstrap Studio 7.1

Bootstrap Studio 7.1 has arrived! In this release we added new components, made a major improvement to the Blog functionality, added new templates and are launching the official Bootstrap Studio Academy.

vineri, 6 iunie 2025

News : Star Trek Online - 06 june event !

... these days Star Trek Online started a new event :

miercuri, 4 iunie 2025

News : The 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

The 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival is scheduled to take place from 8 to 14 June 2025, in Annecy, France. See the wikipedia article.
Du 8 juin au 14 juin 2025, prenez part au Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy ! Durant une semaine, cet événement célèbre le meilleur du cinéma d'animation dans le monde.

News : Blender Mobile Version is Here!

Today I saw this testing of blender 3d software on mobile phone ... See more on the DECODED - the official youtube channel.

News : The Promellian Command Battlecruiser

Beginning alongside our next story update on June 3rd, players on PC will have the chance to pilot the Promellian Command Battlecruiser (T6).
The Promellian battle cruiser was a class of battle cruiser utilized by the Promellian military. The Promellians were a warp-capable humanoid species, characterized by a midline cranial ridge that ran from the upper lip to the back of the head.
Visiting a Promellian battle cruiser was always a dream of Jean-Luc Picard's, a dream he had held on to ever since he was a child, when he used to build model ships in bottles.

sâmbătă, 31 mai 2025

News : topoexport

Export with confidence using data from the best sources, for professional-grade precision.

News : Google Apps Script : get info from subscription list.

I updated my Google Apps Script for get info from my subscription list.
Works well on the new YouTube Service A.P.I., I want to fix some issues and add some new features but not now.
See the next image :

News : System76 Transmission Log: Linux Hardware, COSMIC News and Enhancing AI with View.IO

Unleash your potential on Pop!_OS: an operating system for STEM and creative professionals.
... is ubuntu based and you can find more about this and Linux distros in the official website - distrowatch.
Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a custom GNOME desktop. Pop!_OS is designed to have a minimal amount of clutter on the desktop without distractions in order to allow the user to focus on work. The distribution is developed by Linux computer retailer System76.
... from 9 days ago, ... is a new video with this distro based on the System76 - the official youtube channel:

News : K-pop Meets Digital Fashion: Behind ae-aespa’s "Whiplash" Universe 🌐✨[EN/KR/ES/CN/JP/FR/PT SUB]

Marvelous Designer allows you to create beautiful 3D virtual clothing with our cutting-edge design software. Finally breathe life into your designs with tools that enhance quality while saving you time. From basic shirts to intricately pleated dresses and rugged uniforms, Marvelous Designer can virtually replicate fabric textures and physical properties to the last button, fold, and accessory. With our versatile compatibility with other 3D software and interactive design interface, you can instantaneously edit and drape garments onto 3D forms with high-fidelity simulation. Marvelous Designer's innovative pattern-based approach has already been adopted by top game studios and can be seen on the big-screen in animation films including The Hobbit and The Adventures of Tin Tin.
... another video from the Marvelous Designer :

News : The Future of Blender NPR & Simulation!😍 from askNK.

Another video about the future Blender 3D and NPR & Simulation. See it on askNK's youtube official channel .
... the NPR Project can be found on this link ...

News : Another videos from Funcom with Dune: Awakening

I don't know if I can make a universally accepted correlation, but science fiction is a precursor to brainstorming ...
I have read some of the books from the Dune series, I haven't played this game, but I have watched the videos on the official YouTube channel. I think it can be improved with elements related to the specifics of the planet... it is a whole planetary ecosystem highlighted in correlation with intergalactic politics ...

News : Starship Simulator videos.

Welcome to Starship Simulator, a deeply immersive space exploration sandbox that combines fully simulated, realistically designed starships with a full-scale Milky Way galaxy, driven by real astrophysics. Watch the stars drift by in real-time as you venture out into the vast unknown reaches of space, all while quietly sipping a drink in your starship's luxurious officer's lounge.
This project is a marriage of our two greatest passions; nerding out over the design and engineering of massive space vessels, and gazing up to the heavens at night, wishing we could explore those tiny points of light to see what's really out there.

joi, 29 mai 2025

News : Introducing Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python.

Our mission We believe open source accelerates the pace of innovation in the world. By sharing our code, our stack, or even our hardware designs, we're moving the industry forward while giving other companies and individuals a chance to use our platform to scale more quickly and build great products.

marți, 27 mai 2025

News : tested local artificial intelligence with gemma2:2b and void editor.

I had a new full instaled windows 10 with the gemma2:2b in order to work as local artificial intelligence, with the 4Gb RAM!
Ollama gemma2:2b can works with minimal RAM!
The netstat command can show you if ollama server works, see bellow image:
I have done some tests with source code generation and it is a quite functional artificial intelligence, but at a minimal level. If you want something functional with a minimum of 4G RAM, then it works very well !
The settings of local ollama into void editor can be set on first running :

luni, 26 mai 2025

News : Meet Studio | Turn ideas into AI, Lightning Fast | from Lightning AI Creators of PyTorch Lightning.

Lightning is the collaborative, AI Development Platform where teams build AI Products Lightning fast ⚡️. It takes products from prototype to production by adapting infrastructure complexity to product maturity. Scale when it matters. Stay fast when it doesn’t. Infra teams get control. Builders get freedom. Leaders get transparency. Everyone stays in sync.
This online tool can be a substitute for Google's online tool Colab. See this one year old intro :

duminică, 25 mai 2025

News : ... integrations and models in Vercel platform.

... the vercel comes with these integrations, see the models integrations on this image:

miercuri, 21 mai 2025

News : tested GitHub repo on bolt and netlify !

I used in the past javascript with react and vite, but today I tested two web tools: bold and netlify - both online tools.
The first issue on bold was to use an repo from my secondary GitHub account catafest-work because on bolt account was set catafest.
I asked on discord and answer was simple one:
Use this in the URL area:
bolt.new/github.com/username/reponame
I used easy , works and bold make the default project with react and vite. I set the Gemini API key!
I ask to create a simple grapphic interface and works well.
This works well without any errors.
For deploy an application on web, the bolt give me an answer to netlify ...
I follow that answer and I have a full simple application online, see this website - catafest-gemini-ai.netlify.app.
I tested and works. See some screenshots from work area with these online tool:

News : ... void editor I.D.E with local ollama feature.

Yesterday I tested this I.D.E. named void and works great.
You can see this project on the GitHub repo by voideditor.
You can see more on the official website !!!
NOTE : on web you can find a reference to this feature: you can use ollama as local artificial intelligence with void editor

marți, 20 mai 2025

News : ... replay an old event on Star Trek Online

... these days I saw on event on my Start Trek Online game - basic objectives, I replay and was an old and long event. The player becomes a borg and ...
Long and boring event , but comes with new characters ...

duminică, 18 mai 2025

News : Debian - new refresh (12.11) updates !

NOTE : ... this is not only news on linux distro area , but I wrote only I read about or used ...
Debian distro Linux comes with a new refresh (12.11), featuring 81 bug fixes and 45 security updates. Here's more on that.
After Debian archive was updated to 12.11, the Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to ensure everything worked properly. Their work is now complete and the images are available at

News : Wine development release 10.8 .

The Wine development release 10.8 is now available.
What's new in this release:
  • User handles in shared memory for better performance.
  • Improvements to TIFF image support.
  • More work on the new PDB backend.
  • Various bug fixes.
See this news on the official website ...

vineri, 16 mai 2025

News : ... win $50,000 in cash prizes !

Well here's your chance to AND win $50,000 in cash prizes 💰
I'm excited to announce the launch of the Agent Development Kit Hackathon with hashtag#GoogleCloud! I've been leading an effort across product, engineering, and marketing and it's LIVE 🏁
Submissions are open from May 12, 2025 to June 23, 2025.
Learn more and register at: the official webpage.

News : ... only one video this is good !

... this is only video .... from all videos on this channel !!!

News : AccuPOSE INFINITY EXPANSION 4 - Kids' Act, Dining Party, and 6 More New Models

... CHARACTER CREATOR 5 PRE-LAUNCH OFFER Character Creator 5 is FREE with $399+ Order : !!!

News : Deno got even better!

... I worked with javascript and deno was just one step into learning process ... works great !!!

News : Inkscape 1.4.2 Released! | Here's What's New

Inkscape 1.4.2 is here! This update brings more than 70 bug & crash fixes, a fresh splash screen, new path cleanup tools, updated translations and enhanced support for file formats like Affinity Designer and Vectornator.

News : Steam, dizzy cut for payment area ?

If you want to sell on steam you need to pay 91,99€ and you get : Earn Steam Points for this purchase 10,439
The my main issue was the upload of 5euro because my card VISA was blocked by steam and take 1 and -1 euros on transactions withoud load the 5 euros money.
The steam will come with two ways to add your creddita card, if you want to make a payment then you can selet more ways to pay , but you can see in the next image the add your payment as default comes just with these ...

Blender 3D : my custom addon for 2D game development.

Why do I like working with the Python programming language? Because it is very versatile and allows me to process data from the Blender 3D software.
Here is an addon that I created this week to create 2D sprites from 3D animations from Mixamo. It took almost a week because the artificial intelligence from Copilot is flawed in the field of programming, and I don't have hardware resources that allow me to run AI with specialized IDEs along with Blender 3D... I need to find software management solutions on this hardware.
The idea is simple: a 3D animation is chosen, a rendering camera is set up, the animation parameters and the number of sprites are established, along with the involved rendering cameras, and it is rendered with resolutions and transparency. The reason for multiple cameras is that 3D effects can be created in 2D games. A simple example: the game Syberia is a 2D game with combined 2D sprites. The addon can be improved based on the developer's requirements.
NOTE: If I had better hardware and a good network without ... it would have taken from the first step in 3D modeling, animation, creating addons, and making sprites almost a day.
See these results:

News : ChatGPT fails miserably and Grok Beta is a super winner.

ChatGPT fails at tasks in image processing. I tried to use a sprite image of about 19 x 7 sprites with a character as input and it returned a similar image with the same number of sprites but modified according to the 3D position of the character in each sprite
After a few days, until a week with the use of its limitation, I didn't manage to take any images at all.
Grok, however, managed to correctly go through the changes in proportion of 88% of the number of sprites, the other 12% are approximately 80%, in four queries, it seems that from the third query he started to forget and come up with a simplistic combination with a few characters, I came back with the input with the image and I barely got this percentage. The whole process took less than four minutes with my typing.
See the result of the Grok Beta :

duminică, 4 mai 2025

News : Testing GeometryCrafter: Consistent Geometry Estimation for Open-world Videos with Diffusion Priors

The paper arXiv:2504.01016 introduces GeometryCrafter, a framework designed to estimate temporally consistent, high-quality point maps from open-world videos. These point maps are crucial for applications like 3D/4D reconstruction, depth-based video editing, and camera parameter estimation.
I tested this week on the huggingface.co GeometryCrafter project and works with a short video because I don't have a Pro account ...
The GeometryCrafter can generates .npz files. These are NumPy compressed archive files that store the predicted point maps corresponding to each frame of the input video. Each .npz file encapsulates the 3D spatial information derived from the video frames, facilitating further processing or visualization.
I tested a python script for .npz with Blender 3D software and works , not finished yet!

Google Apps Script : google trigger task execution works well !

... today I check my google trigger task execution for mails, I can add a feature to tell me but is no need to spend time for a read a row into log area.
You can use many way to automate your work on computer but the easy way is the google with google apps script if you want to make custom changes.
I read a lot on web and I test a lot of online tools but the all prices are expensive versus few changes.
I cannot read all mails because comes I don't have tasks with some forums , API ... and trigger execution works well.
Head	batchDeleteEmailSheet	Time-Driven	May 1, 2025, 11:43:19 PM	158.919 s	Completed

News : creati.ai - only google and apple accounts!

An website with a year of these artificial intelligence tools.
https://creati.ai/login/ only google and apple accounts !!

News : monica.im artificial intelligence with set of other online tools.

... another website with artificial intelligence, with a set of many websites tools implementations and few models.

News : make website with external app or service and webhooks.

... comes with many templates for many external app or service, and you can test webhooks.
Webhooks allow you to send data to Make over HTTP by creating a URL that you call from an external app or service, or from another Make scenario. Use webhooks module inside the Scenario Builder to create a webhook that triggers the execution of scenarios.

miercuri, 30 aprilie 2025

News : Steam, do you know that with payment lock?

It seems that the Steam platform is not aligned with the payment system in the area where I live and limits my features ... I called the bank where I made payments, they take one euro and return it because they don't accept the transaction on some servers ...
Having a previous experience with the implementation of the paypal system that requires you to go to banks in Romania to confirm the payment based on such dangers with hackers who stole from addresses abroad and who filled prisons in Romania and abroad, the system imposed that measure ...
I'm trying to imagine now what payment block I have on steam because I keep spinning on the platform and I can't let them know to make me a payment acceptance!

News : Farming, Automation... and Giant Mechs

I saw today this game about:
Autonomica is a third-person life simulator sandbox multiplayer game with an open-world experience that seamlessly merges resource management and automation into a farm building with extensive customization. Play alone or with friends and build your ultimate farm factory with almost no limits.

News : The Biggest Misconception in Physics - Veritasium!

... lately there has been a new trend of presentation in the field of presenting scientific content to the target of the official Veritasium channel - a very good channel and a very good informational assimilation in my opinion.

marți, 29 aprilie 2025

News : OpenRA is open-source on GitHub.

Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
You can find this game engine on this GitHub project.

News : Visualize and Analyze Molecular Structures

Being able to visually inspect molecular structures is a basic yet crucial skill for practical applications. Training your eyes to recognize structural fragments and identify similarities is essential in chemistry. This how-to demonstration is meant to sharpen your observational skills and enhance your ability to compare molecular structures. Practice this simple task by looking at two molecules that both interact with the same protein.

News : Discover the Top 10 Linux Distros Which One’s Right for You

Star trek Online : Leaderboards - my place .

... today I saw my place on Star Trek Online leaderboards ...

News : Alaska Volcano Observatory map - Alaska’s Mount Spurr

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) is a consortium of the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, and the State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. AVO was founded in 1988, and uses federal, state, and university resources to monitor and study Alaska's volcanoes, to forecast and record eruptive activity, and to mitigate volcanic hazards to life and property. Volcano studies and monitoring are prioritized using the National Volcano Early Warning System (NVEWS) threat level, where in general, highest threat volcanoes are highest priority.
More informations can be found on the oficial website.
You can see in this screenshot: the Alaska’s Mount Spurr hit with 22 earthquakes in recent weeks ...