Arthur Brainville
@ybalrid.info
French. EN/FR. He/Him. C++ dev working on #XR tech @liv.tv
❤️Retro tech, film cameras, and fountain pens!
Accidental collector of vintage Canon cameras.
My favorite cocktail is Rodinal on the rocks.
(pfp by @meropotato) http://ybalrid.info/links
❤️Retro tech, film cameras, and fountain pens!
Accidental collector of vintage Canon cameras.
My favorite cocktail is Rodinal on the rocks.
(pfp by @meropotato) http://ybalrid.info/links
Maybe I am a old fart C++ guy at this point but...
Rust developers, due to the fact that you have "cargo", you make, and use, way too many libraries. They take way too much time and disk space to compile from source every time somebody setup your project.
Feels like npm and js sometimes...
Rust developers, due to the fact that you have "cargo", you make, and use, way too many libraries. They take way too much time and disk space to compile from source every time somebody setup your project.
Feels like npm and js sometimes...
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Maybe I am a old fart C++ guy at this point but...
Rust developers, due to the fact that you have "cargo", you make, and use, way too many libraries. They take way too much time and disk space to compile from source every time somebody setup your project.
Feels like npm and js sometimes...
Rust developers, due to the fact that you have "cargo", you make, and use, way too many libraries. They take way too much time and disk space to compile from source every time somebody setup your project.
Feels like npm and js sometimes...
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Quest native streaming is LIVE in LIV Creator Kit! Now anyone can livestream your game directly from Quest to YouTube, Twitch & more. Update to the latest LCK to enable advanced streaming for your creators. Get recording + live streaming into your app now. dashboard.liv.tv/dev
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Quest native streaming is LIVE in LIV Creator Kit! Now anyone can livestream your game directly from Quest to YouTube, Twitch & more. Update to the latest LCK to enable advanced streaming for your creators. Get recording + live streaming into your app now. dashboard.liv.tv/dev
Going to spend a few drops of it to ask Waterman France why did this happen and also to encourage them to reintroduce this product on the market.
Mostly for the bit. But I would be surprised if they don’t respond!
(Yes, this bottle is about 10 years old - so it’s not the newer blue label)
Mostly for the bit. But I would be surprised if they don’t respond!
(Yes, this bottle is about 10 years old - so it’s not the newer blue label)
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Going to spend a few drops of it to ask Waterman France why did this happen and also to encourage them to reintroduce this product on the market.
Mostly for the bit. But I would be surprised if they don’t respond!
(Yes, this bottle is about 10 years old - so it’s not the newer blue label)
Mostly for the bit. But I would be surprised if they don’t respond!
(Yes, this bottle is about 10 years old - so it’s not the newer blue label)
To my great astonishment and horror, I learn that Waterman has seemingly discontinued Waterman Absolute Brown (formerly Havana Brown) ink?
Not that there's no other choices for brown fountain pen ink, but I just have less than half of a bottle of the stuff and wanted a new one...!
Not that there's no other choices for brown fountain pen ink, but I just have less than half of a bottle of the stuff and wanted a new one...!
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
To my great astonishment and horror, I learn that Waterman has seemingly discontinued Waterman Absolute Brown (formerly Havana Brown) ink?
Not that there's no other choices for brown fountain pen ink, but I just have less than half of a bottle of the stuff and wanted a new one...!
Not that there's no other choices for brown fountain pen ink, but I just have less than half of a bottle of the stuff and wanted a new one...!
Le pinard... Santé à la République!
Un député se fait rembourser sa cave personnelle, des sénateurs se font financer leur apéro, des incidents en état d'ivresse se multiplient au Parlement... Et pourtant pour les élus, pas question de se remettre en question.
Enquête avec @paulinegraulle.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Enquête avec @paulinegraulle.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Les parlementaires veulent continuer à boire de l’alcool sur fonds publics
Un rapport préconisant d’interdire l’alcool à la buvette de l’Assemblée nationale suscite émoi et colère chez la plupart des députés. Que de l’argent public finance leur consommation, sur leur lieu d…
www.mediapart.fr
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Le pinard... Santé à la République!
Maybe I am not putting the right words in AliExpress, but it seems nobody in china is making small little touchpads one could plug into an arduino or something.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Maybe I am not putting the right words in AliExpress, but it seems nobody in china is making small little touchpads one could plug into an arduino or something.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
Thanks to Valve, 2026 may well be the year of the Linux desktop…!
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Thanks to Valve, 2026 may well be the year of the Linux desktop…!
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The Steam hardware family is growing 🎉 learn more at steampowered.com/hardware
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Steam hardware family is growing 🎉 learn more at steampowered.com/hardware
I totally did not pay attention to this in the last decade, but France 100% stopped emitting *any* AM radio stations.
In my region if one was to try to tune in to anything with an antique radio, you could get (with difficulty especially during the day) only stuff from the UK, Spain....
In my region if one was to try to tune in to anything with an antique radio, you could get (with difficulty especially during the day) only stuff from the UK, Spain....
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I totally did not pay attention to this in the last decade, but France 100% stopped emitting *any* AM radio stations.
In my region if one was to try to tune in to anything with an antique radio, you could get (with difficulty especially during the day) only stuff from the UK, Spain....
In my region if one was to try to tune in to anything with an antique radio, you could get (with difficulty especially during the day) only stuff from the UK, Spain....
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RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group.
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Release Version v1.41 · baldurk/renderdoc
Version v1.41
This release includes new threaded support for the shader debugger on all supported APIs (D3D11, D3D12, Vulkan). More details are found below, and please report any problems encounter...
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group.
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
I promised film scans, here there are:
This is no alternative to Ektachrome.
Kodak might be unintentionally making a pretty acceptable 50 ISO tungsten balanced "lower" contrast and saturation slide film (with some amount of magenta/green shift)
Again, it's a negative film for ｐｌａｎｅｓ
This is no alternative to Ektachrome.
Kodak might be unintentionally making a pretty acceptable 50 ISO tungsten balanced "lower" contrast and saturation slide film (with some amount of magenta/green shift)
Again, it's a negative film for ｐｌａｎｅｓ
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I promised film scans, here there are:
This is no alternative to Ektachrome.
Kodak might be unintentionally making a pretty acceptable 50 ISO tungsten balanced "lower" contrast and saturation slide film (with some amount of magenta/green shift)
Again, it's a negative film for ｐｌａｎｅｓ
This is no alternative to Ektachrome.
Kodak might be unintentionally making a pretty acceptable 50 ISO tungsten balanced "lower" contrast and saturation slide film (with some amount of magenta/green shift)
Again, it's a negative film for ｐｌａｎｅｓ
E-6 Cross processed Kodak Aerocolor IV (REFLX Pro 100 in this case. It's same film as SantaColor 100 and Elektra 100. Probably other rebrand exist)
Rating it EI 50 (so, box speed +1EV), 85B warming + Skylight 1A filters.
This looks too good to be a hack, like WTF?
Will do real scans later...
Rating it EI 50 (so, box speed +1EV), 85B warming + Skylight 1A filters.
This looks too good to be a hack, like WTF?
Will do real scans later...
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
E-6 Cross processed Kodak Aerocolor IV (REFLX Pro 100 in this case. It's same film as SantaColor 100 and Elektra 100. Probably other rebrand exist)
Rating it EI 50 (so, box speed +1EV), 85B warming + Skylight 1A filters.
This looks too good to be a hack, like WTF?
Will do real scans later...
Rating it EI 50 (so, box speed +1EV), 85B warming + Skylight 1A filters.
This looks too good to be a hack, like WTF?
Will do real scans later...
Searching stuff inside the scan of a old paper from 1922. The OCR that was used on the PDF read the greek letter gamma (γ) as a 7. Which is slightly annoying when this is a paper about sensitometry.
(Interestingly they use a geometric method of obtaining the gamma, not the analytical one)
(Interestingly they use a geometric method of obtaining the gamma, not the analytical one)
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Searching stuff inside the scan of a old paper from 1922. The OCR that was used on the PDF read the greek letter gamma (γ) as a 7. Which is slightly annoying when this is a paper about sensitometry.
(Interestingly they use a geometric method of obtaining the gamma, not the analytical one)
(Interestingly they use a geometric method of obtaining the gamma, not the analytical one)
Please @discord.com do not force on users your halloween sound pack. This is extremely annoying to opt out of.
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Please @discord.com do not force on users your halloween sound pack. This is extremely annoying to opt out of.
iOS 26.1 Beta is suprisingly buggy at least on an iPhone 14 Pro. Camera app often opens to a black screen
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
iOS 26.1 Beta is suprisingly buggy at least on an iPhone 14 Pro. Camera app often opens to a black screen
Old manual mechanical typewriters in "okay" shape (not fully broken but need some love) are a dime a dozen sure...
But if you are French, and want to find something with a QWERTY keyboard, and that types in Elite fount not Pica (12 characters to the inch, rather than the usual 10) seems impossible
But if you are French, and want to find something with a QWERTY keyboard, and that types in Elite fount not Pica (12 characters to the inch, rather than the usual 10) seems impossible
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Old manual mechanical typewriters in "okay" shape (not fully broken but need some love) are a dime a dozen sure...
But if you are French, and want to find something with a QWERTY keyboard, and that types in Elite fount not Pica (12 characters to the inch, rather than the usual 10) seems impossible
But if you are French, and want to find something with a QWERTY keyboard, and that types in Elite fount not Pica (12 characters to the inch, rather than the usual 10) seems impossible
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Podcastathon Is Live! https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/19/podcastathon-is-live
Podcastathon Is Live! — The Pen Addict
The best pen review site on the internet. Gel pens, Fountain Pens, Japanese pens, and more!
www.penaddict.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Podcastathon Is Live! https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2025/9/19/podcastathon-is-live
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Meta Connect sale is live with up to 50% off until Sept 21st. We've rounded up 10 LIV Creator Kit games on sale - from Hard Bullet's physics combat to Dungeons of Eternity's co-op adventures. Don't miss these deals. www.liv.tv/blog/meta-co...
September 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Meta Connect sale is live with up to 50% off until Sept 21st. We've rounded up 10 LIV Creator Kit games on sale - from Hard Bullet's physics combat to Dungeons of Eternity's co-op adventures. Don't miss these deals. www.liv.tv/blog/meta-co...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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L'Europe a inauguré en Allemagne Jupiter, son premier ordinateur géant et ultra-rapide, destiné à combler son retard dans l'intelligence artificielle, et à renforcer la recherche scientifique, en particulier sur le climat.
L'article: ➡️ u.afp.com/Sdso
L'article: ➡️ u.afp.com/Sdso
September 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
L'Europe a inauguré en Allemagne Jupiter, son premier ordinateur géant et ultra-rapide, destiné à combler son retard dans l'intelligence artificielle, et à renforcer la recherche scientifique, en particulier sur le climat.
L'article: ➡️ u.afp.com/Sdso
L'article: ➡️ u.afp.com/Sdso
Each time I see anything written in cyrilic it's interesting that I can read most of it because I know greek
September 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Each time I see anything written in cyrilic it's interesting that I can read most of it because I know greek
J’avais complètement zappé que depuis iOS 18.4 il y a deux nouvelles voix françaises pour Siri
Elle sont beaucoup plus naturelle au niveau des intonations, inflexions et liaisons.
Voix 3 (féminine) somne un peut à bout de souffle par contre
Elle sont beaucoup plus naturelle au niveau des intonations, inflexions et liaisons.
Voix 3 (féminine) somne un peut à bout de souffle par contre
August 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
J’avais complètement zappé que depuis iOS 18.4 il y a deux nouvelles voix françaises pour Siri
Elle sont beaucoup plus naturelle au niveau des intonations, inflexions et liaisons.
Voix 3 (féminine) somne un peut à bout de souffle par contre
Elle sont beaucoup plus naturelle au niveau des intonations, inflexions et liaisons.
Voix 3 (féminine) somne un peut à bout de souffle par contre
125?! Not my choice as, ISO is a standard. And I should think that 125 is derived by sensitonetry: Develop it to the specified rate, and LogE o, 0.10 density above base+fog is used to calculate arithmetic film speed…
The question should be about EI (exposure index) and not ISO speed…
🤓
The question should be about EI (exposure index) and not ISO speed…
🤓
July 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
125?! Not my choice as, ISO is a standard. And I should think that 125 is derived by sensitonetry: Develop it to the specified rate, and LogE o, 0.10 density above base+fog is used to calculate arithmetic film speed…
The question should be about EI (exposure index) and not ISO speed…
🤓
The question should be about EI (exposure index) and not ISO speed…
🤓
There was a number of BlackMagic Cine immersive cameras around the 14th of July celebrations in Paris.
Wonder when and where any of this footage will show up
Wonder when and where any of this footage will show up
July 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
There was a number of BlackMagic Cine immersive cameras around the 14th of July celebrations in Paris.
Wonder when and where any of this footage will show up
Wonder when and where any of this footage will show up
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It was 56 years ago today Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon — a worldwide event that millions tuned into, including me and my brother (even if I did fall asleep). It’s a big reason we became astronauts and a great example of what our country can do when we work together.
July 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It was 56 years ago today Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon — a worldwide event that millions tuned into, including me and my brother (even if I did fall asleep). It’s a big reason we became astronauts and a great example of what our country can do when we work together.