"Open Source" vs "Free Software" the disagreement on Paternalism - take 2

Blender Dumbass
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There are two types of people. One type of people is following the ideas called "Open Source" and another one follows the ideas of "Free Software". There is a third concept that I will hope to explain in this article, called "Paternalism", that in my opinion is the dividing force between the two camps of people.

#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #richardstallman #rms #linustorvalds #gnu #linux #philosophy #enshittification

PeerTube | I fixed the Curbs | Exercise in Pointlessness | Dani's Race GTA Clone | UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux

Blender Dumbass
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I'm punishing myself for being tired by doing a pointless work ( which ended up being only partially pointless ) on my GTA clone Dani's Race.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #modeling #GTAClone #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource #philosophy

"Open Source" vs "Free Software" the disagreement on Paternalism

Blender Dumbass
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Both "open source" and "free software" mean, in terms of software itself, largely the same thing. The source code is published. The project is developed by a community of people. The project is forkable. Many pieces of software are both "free software" and "open source" in the same time. But when you dig into the details of their definitions, you start to see differences.

#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #richardstallman #rms #linustorvalds #gnu #linux #philosophy #enshittification

PeerTube | One does not simply make a HIGHWAY for Dani's Race | Blender 3D on GNU / Linux | Feat. RowdyJoe

Blender Dumbass
👁 56

In this video I show the process of extending a game world and how tedious it might be. The video is featuring @RowdyJoe who's Mastodon account you need to follow to sign the current petition.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #GTAClone #3D #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource

PeerTube | Optimization Nightmare when it comes to UPBGE Gamedev | Dani's Race | Blender 3D | Python

Blender Dumbass
👁 56

Working to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).

Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light Driving" ( and another one with no proper title yet ) done using soundfont "Touhou" cc-by by Team Shanghai Alice. The tracks themselves are CC-BY-SA and for now a test version of them are available on my mastodon.

The video includes ( at 01:18:53 ) a section from the livestream of LogalDeveloper that happened on his Owncast on 02/05/2025.

#DanisRace #Optimization #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource

Dani's Race v2024-09-25 is finally released!

Blender Dumbass
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Thank you to all those people who signed the petition. You made it so now Dani's Race v2024-09-25 is finally available to the public to download, play and explore.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #project #gnu #linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

PeerTube | Bugs! How are they fixed? | Also First Person Mode | Dani's Race UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux

Blender Dumbass
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In this video I fix some bugs in Dani's Race. And also implement a first person mode.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource

PeerTube | Dani's Race | First Year of Development

Blender Dumbass
👁 37 💬 1

The story of the First Year of development of Dani's Race.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #gamedev #freesoftware #gnu #linux #opensource

The Untapped Market for Indie Game Developers

Blender Dumbass
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I'm the stupidest man alive. Back in 2021 or so I wrote an article on Odysee where I basically outlined my plan to do Dani's Race, my libre open world game. Yet while the idea is descent and the game turned out to be quite fun, I completely disregarded any considerations when it comes to the market. I didn't think about who might want to play it.

#gaming #games #gamedev #indiegames #libresoftware #gnu #linux #freesoftware #opensource

GPL doesn't make the program libre

Troler
👁 25 ❤ 1 🔄 1 💬 5

I don't consider freedom binary, for me some things are inherently more free than others. Here I define freedom as the capacity to do a task unhindered. With such definition, it comes to be clear, what I mean by freedom not being binary and existing on an axis. For instance, repairing a standard PC is easier than the newest model of iPhone. This ease of repairability exists on a gradient, with the PC and iPhone being on different sides. The same applies to the actual binary, software world as well. It is easier to modify a program written in Python than the same one written in C. In Python there is no need to keep recompiling and seeing the changes, all alterations can be done on the fly.

#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #gnu #libre #chrome #firefox #emacs #philosophy #essay #enshittification

Is Using Blender's Denoiser Evil?

Blender Dumbass
👁 97

There is a war between artists and Artificial Intelligence people. AI is primarily useful today to those people who want to avoid the hassle of doing something impressive, while still maintaining an image of impressiveness. Artists, on the other hand, who's whole being is in grinding themselves into true impressiveness are not satisfied with AI being used to replace their labor with cheap, algorithmic knock-offs. One such machine learning algorithm, though, had found its way into millions of artist's work-flows, which they don't seem to care much about. And I'm talking about the Intel's Open Image Denoise found inside of Blender.

#blender3d #AI #art #philosophy

Equal Rights to Kids

Blender Dumbass
👁 89

The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were enough men, who agreed with women. And now women can vote. Something like this has to happen with children's rights too.

#kids #children #equality #equity #humanrights #freedom #ageism #paternalims #philosophy #politics #freerangekids #letgrow

I bled for this Blender 3D Model

Blender Dumbass
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Telling a story of the difficulties I went through to model this one building in Blender. The cringe, and the trauma and all of the bleeding in between.

#vfx #cgi #architecture #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking #health #medicine #art #mastoart #3dart #blender3dart

It's Better to Want It Than to Need It

Blender Dumbass
👁 65

A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?

#philosophy #politics #freesoftware #userfreedom #consent #ownership #corydoctorow #firesidefedi

Release: Dani's Race v2024-09-25

54 / 30 Signatures

Blender Dumbass
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Dani's Race version 25-09-24

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #project #petition #release

Why Age Verification cannot work even for its intended use?

Blender Dumbass
👁 42 💬 3

Short answer People are stupid. But seriously, even though we have a lot of talk about why Age Verification laws are bad ( for human rights ) and how we can fight against them ( EFF just made a comprehensive guide on the issue ) nobody seems to realize the underlying logical fallacy, or multitudes of them, that even brought us to this point to begin with.

#ageverification #pivacy #age #kids #development #philosophy #law #stupidity #stupid

Making Breakable Cars in Video Games

Blender Dumbass
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We all love some mayhem when it comes to playing games. And nothing makes car games more satisfying than damage models. RockStar Games understood it early on, and all GTA games have breakable cars. Today some of the most popular car games like BeamNG.drive holding on a realism of damage models almost solely. And therefor for me, making Dani's Race any other way, would have not been a good idea. I knew I had to make the cars in my game breakable.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #cars #damage #Gnu #Linux #Freesoftware #OpenSource

Flow ( 2024 ) deserves the Oscar

Blender Dumbass
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I don't know if you know but Flow was in fact done using Blender. At the 2024th Blender Conference the head of the animation department on the film Silly-Pélissier Léo even presented a talk about this. ( available on PeerTube )

Let that sink in.

#flow #cat #cats #animation #blender #blender3d #b3d #oscars #GintsZilbalodis #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The Paradox of The Paradox of Tolerance

Blender Dumbass
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For me personally the word "Tolerance" means something akin to patience. Therefor I don't understand how we arrived at using this word to talk about Freedom. I have already written an article suggesting that it is perhaps a wrong word to use, and something like "Hate" or "Lack of Hate" would be a much better word to describe contemporary politics. But then I keep hearing about this concept called The Paradox of Tolerance which has to do something with the current way the word "Tolerance" is used. But if the word itself is incorrect, how should the paradox make any sense? It is like we are having the paradox of the paradox of tolerance here.

#paradox #philosophy #freedom #tolerance #politics #TheParadoxOfTolerance #KarlPopper

PeerTube | Age Verification and Chat Controll are FUCKING STUPID!!!

Blender Dumbass
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A rant about Age Verification and Chat control and Stuff.

#ageverification #pivacy #age #kids #development #philosophy #law #stupidity #stupid #ageism #paternalism

The Challenge of Writing NPC Characters for Games

Blender Dumbass
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I'm developing a game called Dani's Race, which is supposed to be a GTA clone. A game where you can run around a city and cause all kinds of mayhem. And a humongous part of the experience of such a sandbox world simulator are the reactions from the in-game non-playable characters. If you steal a car, what will be the reaction of the driver? What will the police in the game do? What will other drivers do if you hit them on the road? All of this is a part of my daily problem-solving when working on Dani's Race.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #GameDev #FreeSoftware #Gnu #Linux #OpenSource #GtaClone #Programming #UPBGE #blender3d

Release: Dani's Race v2025-03-17

Blender Dumbass
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Dani's Race version 2025-03-17

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #project #petition #release

Is Blender's DOGWALK Even Libre?

Blender Dumbass
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It seems like the project is meant to show that they understand the frustrations of people who didn't understand where the Game Engine was gone. And in the same time, to develop / polish Blender in regards to game development.

The question stands though: Is DOGWALK even Libre?

#blender3d #b3d #dogwalk #game #gaming #godot #freesoftware #libre #opensource

How To Spot An Evil Law?

Blender Dumbass
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"They are taking a mild issue and trying to fix it with absolute apocalypse!" - this became a sentence I like to repeat in various comment sections since I calculated the impact of mass surveillance on well-being of the population. Even in relation to murder, a huge problem, even in relation to the worst offenders in this category, murder is a mild issue, compared to the absolute apocalypse that is total mass surveillance. If you are not convinced, click on that link and go see my calculations for yourself.

#philosophy #law #freedom

Part 2: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

Blender Dumbass
👁 114

So a real cinema movie project is being developed, and as explained in my previous article about it I don't have the money to shoot a real chase scene. Instead I gonna use CGI as much as possible, to cut down the costs ( but not my sanity ).

#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking

Release: Dani's Race v2025-01-19

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Blender Dumbass
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Dani's Race version 2025-01-19

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #project #petition #release

Moria's Race is an okay movie created by a an expectional person

Troler
👁 20 💬 3

Reviewing a movie made by the author of the website, surely there are no conflicts of interest! This review is as honest as I can be without being petty. For the experience to be more enjoyable, reading the context would be beneficial.

#MoriasRace #DanisRace #Film #animation #project #blender3d #movies review cinemastodon

Release: Dani's Race v2026-01-14

Blender Dumbass
👁 24 ❤ 5 🔄 1

Dani's Race version 2026-01-14

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #b3d #release #gamedev #gaming #racing #libresoftware #freesoftware #opensource

Path Finding in UPBGE for Dani's Race

Blender Dumbass
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Paps needs to walk from his room to a car, wait for you, the player to sit with him into said car, and then drive you across a town to a completely different location. Seamlessly.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Gamedev #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #Navigation #NPC #AI

Is Lars Von Trier Really an Edge Lord?

Blender Dumbass
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There is a certain sense among cinephiles that the danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier is nothing but an edge lord, making his films simply as a sort of pornography designed to outrage people. It does not help his case that his films are some of the hardest films to watch. And it doesn't help that his movies tend to touch upon uncomfortable things in very uncomfortable ways. Yet I don't believe Lars Von Trier does any of that for laughs.

#LarsVonTrier #filmmaking #film #movies #cinema #cinemastodon #horror #philosophy

So I Cleaned Up Some Spaghetti from Dani's Race Code

Blender Dumbass
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A few days ago I had told you that I'm stopping with making the police station in my game Dani's Race because it had a Spaghetti Code Problem. The main() function in the Main_Update.py file was 1683 lines of code long and contained way too many things in it. At the moment, the same function is down to 641 lines of code. This is still way too much stuff in the main() but this is a hell of a lot of reduction.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #GameDev #FreeSoftware #Gnu #Linux #OpenSource #GtaClone #Programming #Python #SpaghettiCode #UPBGE #blender3d

Dani's Race

^Pinned

Blender Dumbass
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Continuing the saga of Moria and Dani, Dani's Race is a Free / Libre Software video game that aims to compete with AAA titles.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project

Humans are all fucking stupid

Blender Dumbass
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Nobody knows everything. The top scientists don't know everything. The science is incomplete. The Gödel's incompleteness theorems show that even something as basic as math ( which we rely on to understand the rest of the world ) is incomplete. And probably logically dubious as well. We can't know everything.

#humans #stupid #philosophy #development #science #childhood #kids

The Copyright Mentality

Blender Dumbass
👁 176 💬 5

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freedom more complex.

#copyright #endCopyright #copyleft #libre #piracy #privacy #dataProtection #AI #AiArt #philosophy

Never Trust Proprietary Software With Security

Blender Dumbass
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There is a person on the inter-webs, who dedicated himself to reviews on security devices. His name is Lock Picking Lawyer and he showcases how secure real life locks are. In his video 1543 he reviewed a rather peculiar security feature on a lock from ABUS. Which is strengthening itself not by building some clever mechanism that is hard to bypass, but rather, uses law, to make bypassing it more illegal than it already is. They made the key-way ( and by extension the key ) to be shaped as the trademarked logo of the company. Therefor producing or distributing blanks for this lock would be a violation of the trademark law. Using proprietary software for security is doing the same mistake as trusting this lock by ABUS.

#freesoftware #userfreedom #malware #security #privacy #gnu #linux #opensource

Statistics On Moria's Race So Far

Blender Dumbass
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Moria's Race was released 118 days ago on 26th of August 2023. And as of now, I'm aware only of about 604 views across 6 platforms that I track.

#MoriasRace #blender3d #animation #statistics

Moria's Race

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Blender Dumbass
👁 492 💬 1

An adventure of a little girl ( Moria ) that is so obsessed with racing that she throws her caution out of a fast racing car's window.

#MoriasRace #DanisRace #Film #animation #project #blender3d

PeerTube | Making Addon Karts for SuperTuxKart

Blender Dumbass
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As you probably have guessed by my username, I know Blender. And I also know how to make SuperTuxKart addons. So I decided to make a Fedi-based series of tutorials explaining how I go from zero to a finished addon. This first part focuses on Karts ( since they are a bit simpler).

#supertuxkart #gamedev #freesoftware #tux #karting #racing #game #modding #addons #blender3d #b3d #tutorial #peertube #fediverse #opensource

Is clarity in action a bad thing?

Blender Dumbass
👁 13 ❤ 5 💬 3

I often hear how good action film-making is always clear and easy to follow. Camera isn't shaking like crazy and editing isn't filled with ADHD mania. Yet the more I think about it the less this makes sense.

#filmmaking #cgi #vfx #cars #movies #films #michaelbay #lucbesson #shazam2 #lucy #badboys #action #cinemastodon #b3d #blender3d

Dani's Race Franzo Livestream Report

Blender Dumbass
👁 51

Yesterday ( 5th October 2024 ) Franzo from opensource_gaming did a livestream of a game I am developing called Dani's Race.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #GameDev #FreeSoftware #Gnu #Linux #OpenSource #GtaClone #Programming #Python #UPBGE #blender3d #Franzo #Livestream

3D model of Honda Civic 2006 EU Rigged

Blender Dumbass
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This is the model of Honda Civic that I use for tests, while trying to develop my skills to make CGI shots that could be inter-cut-able with real footage.

This is a version from 5th of February 2026. I still change the model on my end.

#model #blender #honda #blender3d #3dmodel #hondacivic #cgi #3dart #rig

UPBGE - What is Depsgraph? And How to Optimize for Depsgraph?

Blender Dumbass
👁 187

You see things like "Physics", "Logic" and even "Rasterizer" and you immediately understand what you need to do to optimize you game. But "Depsgraph"?... It looks like a mysterious thing that nobody knows nothing about. Yet is it one the most problematic things there is in your game. And you are going mad just trying to figure it out.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #python #project #performance #depsgraph

Story Without Cutscenes in Dani's Race

Blender Dumbass
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The challenge for Dani's Race is deliberately not to be a movie. As in the game should not have cuts, nor there ever should be a moment when the player loses control over the character. Yet through all those limitations I want to continue a story I started in an actual movie. Which is kind of complicated.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #Story #Storytelling #Gnu #Linux #Freesoftware #OpenSource

Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

Blender Dumbass
👁 83 💬 1

I'm in the middle of developing a movie in which there is a car chase. You know me I can't live without a car chase. But this time I'm trying to make the movie properly. By "infiltrating the movie industry" as some people suggested to call it. Which means ( since I live in Israel ) I need to write something that is possible to do in Israel. Getting $40 million to shoot a first feature film in Israel is not something that I can expect to happen. So instead I need to come up with something else.

#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking

The Spaghetti Code Of Dani's Race

Blender Dumbass
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Spaghetti code! The insidious thing that often happens even to the best of us. No wander that it happened to me. When programming you want to break your code into functions that could be called from many other places. Doing everything as one large function is a problem, because sometimes you might want to do the same operation or the same check, or whatever, again in another place, and that will require you to copy paste large chunks of code. And if suddenly you decide to change something about those checks, or functions, you have to change that something in all those places one after another. Dani's Race my game, has a bit of a Spaghetti code problem.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #GameDev #FreeSoftware #Gnu #Linux #OpenSource #GtaClone #Programming #Python #SpaghettiCode #UPBGE #blender3d

The Fractal of Consent

Blender Dumbass
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"Consent" is a word thrown around willy-nilly these days. And yet it feels like people don't really understand it. Some assume one thing while there is a different thing. Some assume another thing, while there is the one thing. And so on and so forth. Consent forms on websites and inside of apps. Sexual Consent. What the fuck is consent? Is it even real?

#fractal #consent #politics #philosophy #freedom

Who Is Blender Dumbass?

Blender Dumbass
👁 194

Who the hell am I?

#blenderdumbass #jyamihud #whoami #about #bio #biography

Why Night Scenes in Video Games are so Hard to Make Right?

Blender Dumbass
👁 380 💬 2

Until yesterday I thought that street lights was impossible to make, so I was trying to find some kind of other ways to brighten up the frame at night, so at least it would be visible, but yesterday I stumbled upon something that might work.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #Gamedev #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project #light

$500 Billion Industry That Causes Not Only The Loss Of Freedom But Also Increases Anxiety

Blender Dumbass
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It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels the industry itself is causing much more damage than good. Here is a short summary of the damages it is causing and how to deal with them.

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

The Paradox of Tolerance is Real, Look at Israel

Blender Dumbass
👁 20 💬 3

People like to pretend that everything is simple. That every problem has a straight forward, easy solution. That the paradox of tolerance is not real, because you could simply look at it a bit differently and it magically disappears, or something. People claim a soothing claim that all you need to do to make the paradox go away is to think of it as a "social contract". If you are not willing to tolerate, you are not tolerated. But I happened to live in Israel...

#tolerance #paradoxoftolerance #israel #palestine #politics #philosophy

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