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

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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

Few Words of Hope

Blender Dumbass
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With today's seeming apocalypse it is easy to give up all hope, to feel hopeless. Age-Verification, Chat Control and other ( usually ageist ) attempts at attacking our freedom seem to be overwhelming at their might. And while it is true that they are terrible things and that they are bad for our freedom, still they are not the end of the world. There is still hope.

#hope #law #ageverification #freedom #dmca #drm #freesoftware #gnu #linux #california #ab1043 #chatcontrol #privacy #ageism

Why you should care about Dani's Race?

Blender Dumbass
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Dani's Race is a pretty to look at, open-world game. Is this a good enough reason to care about it? No. It's not. There are plenty of good looking games out there. And Dani's Race is not even close to some of them. Dani's Race is a Libre "GTA Clone". Okay... so what? It's not the only one. And it is not even that GTA-like anyway. Yes, you can get in and out of cars. Yes, you have an open world. Yes, the levels are structured into missions. But so what? Why should you give a damn? What's so special about this game in particular? Well...

Let's start with a square.

#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #python #programming #gta #gta5 #gtav #gta6 #gtaiv #gtasa #gtavicecity #gta3 #stupertuxkart #libregaming #zeroad #supertux #tux #gnu #linux #gnulinux #opensource

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

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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 | 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

PeerTube | Dani's Race | First Year of Development

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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

Is Using Blender's Denoiser Evil?

Blender Dumbass
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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

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

"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

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

The Paradox of Tolerance is Real, Look at Israel

Blender Dumbass
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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

The Friends We Meet Along The Way

Blender Dumbass
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#story

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

Is Blender's DOGWALK Even Libre?

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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

Have I given up on Dani's Race?

Blender Dumbass
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Dani's Race development has been halted. The last changes to the project I've done maybe more than 6 months ago. The game still contains a lot of bugs and only 3 story missions. And it still runs like ass, averaging 20 fps on average laptops.

#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #git

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

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

Troler
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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

Lunatics! Episode 1 has dropped. And I have thoughts!!!

Blender Dumbass
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Lunatics! is a Open-Movie project by Rosalyn Hunter and Terry Hancock. I was following their socials ( mainly their Peertube account ) for quite some time now. And today, about an hour ago they released an unfinished version of episode one. Why does it matter? Well, they are working on it, if I understand correctly, since 2003, ( based on this video ). This unfinished episode is, therefor, 23 years in the making. My Moria's Race short-film with its 3.5 years is nothing in comparison.

#lunatics #openmovie #libre #blender3d #b3d #animation #review #movies #cinemastodon #film

Dani's Race and notgit.py ( Updater )

Blender Dumbass
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Not so long ago I decided to forgo the wisdom of using git for this game. Instead, most changes will be recorded via the notgit.py program I wrote for fun the other day.

#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #git #python #programming #hacking

Jenifer's Fucked up Plan

Blender Dumbass
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This is a random bullshit story my brain vomited while bored.

#story

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

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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

Story Without Cutscenes in Dani's Race

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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

Never Agreeing To Agree

Troler
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The constant tugging from different sides caused me to become restless. I couldn't find peace in any of the ideas, it was impossible. To admit of one being true, would mean rejecting the other. So I had to pick a side. And I did. I chose those that spoke that the truth was hidden, obscured from me. 'Twas easier to believe that I've been lied to and embrace the truth. For some time I was gratified with what I believed in.

#philosophy #essay #mentalgymnastics

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

Is clarity in action a bad thing?

Blender Dumbass
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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 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

Release: Dani's Race v2026-06-15

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Dani's Race version 2026-06-15

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

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

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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

Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

Blender Dumbass
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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

I bled for this Blender 3D Model

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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

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

AI is a Prostitute

Troler
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The video shook me up, like no other video on AI had. Since it handled the problem at its root, at what reality this AI was: radical opposition to despair of enforcement. It tackles the problem of having a select few channels of information, providing only limited subset of what may be of specific interest to one, by providing only questions.

#AI #philosophy #deleuze #essay #rant #ai #stopai #aislop #copilot #enshittification

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

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

Did the word "AI" just lost all meaning?

Blender Dumbass
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AI ( Artificial Intelligence ) just a few decades ago meant a robot or a computer that has human-like thinking. Think of HAL 9000, or the robots in I Robot. All of those things were "AI".

Today any remotely automatic algorithm on the planet is labeled with this nonsensical term.

#ai #llm #machinelearning #analytics #algorithm #programming #intelligence #philosophy

GPL doesn't make the program libre

Troler
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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

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

One Day In Running

Troler
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#story

Using Talmudic Techniques To Understand Free Software

Blender Dumbass
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In the Wikipedia article about Talmud it says that:

It records the teachings, opinions and disagreements of thousands of rabbis and Torah scholars.

And if you know from books like Tanya which references the book of Nida on the first page, in the first paragraph, in the first sentence, you know that Talmud likes to link things Wikipedia style, and then argue those things, trying to find patterns.

What could be the pattern in linking a Wikipedia article and then talking about Wikipedia in an article about using Talmudic Techniques to understand Free Software?

#talmud #freesoftware #wikipedia #freedom #userfreedom #opensource #torah #jewish #judaism #richardstallman #gnu #linux

Winning Dani's Race ScoreBoard on WINdows

Troler
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I want to get the scoreboard working on Dani's race, but I'm using Winblows operating system. That means a lot of things are broken. That's because Dani's race was developed for the Tux operating system.

#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #python #windows #leaderboard #programming #hacking

AI users are Fake-Nerds

Blender Dumbass
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This is just a thought I had the other day thinking about why I dislike AI so much, while also having a problem with the concept of copyright. Strange, right? I both hate copying restrictions on things I want to copy or share. And both hate biggest copyright attacker in the history of copyright attackers: AI. How's that? Well I hope my "Fake-Nerds" analogy will be helpful.

#ai #llm #chatgpt #claude #nerd #samaltman #computers #software #programming #noai #stopai

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

Equal Rights to Kids

Blender Dumbass
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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

So Why The Hell this math NaNs out? Help me!

Blender Dumbass
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Why does ( 1 / ( D ( ( T - carD"prevT" 2 ) ) ) result in a NaN? What is going on?

#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #python #programming #hacking #NAN

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

Who Is Blender Dumbass?

Blender Dumbass
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Who the hell am I?

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

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

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

Blender Dumbass
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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

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

Part X: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money | Example Scene

Blender Dumbass
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I don't really know if all articles in this series are equal. So it could be part 4, or part 6 or part who knows what. But today I want to dump my thoughts about this video I did recently: