#Pacs software

[ds4u]

DICOM & PACS is a widely accepted phenomenon around the globe in the healthcare sector. DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. At the same time, the PACS stands for Picture Archiving & Communications Systems. If you are one of the healthcare providers looking up for dicom and pacs development and implementation, DreamSoft4u is the right destination.

[highretrogamelord]

Zuckman for the ZX81

[techbuji]

PACS Imaging Software | Avanttec Medical Systems Chennai

PACS Imaging Software, developed by companies like Avanttec Medical Systems, allows healthcare providers to store, retrieve, and distribute medical images like X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs digitally, eliminating the need for physical films and facilitating seamless access to patient data. The software’s ability to integrate with hospital information systems has empowered physicians, radiologists, and other healthcare professionals to access crucial patient information in real time. One of the primary benefits of PACS imaging software is its ability to store large amounts of medical images in a secure and organized manner. In traditional film-based systems, medical images were stored in physical form, making it challenging to access and share them as needed. With PACS, images are stored digitally, eliminating the need for physical storage space and making them easily accessible at any time. PACS also allows for easy retrieval of images from the archive. A simple search based on patient name, date, or other relevant criteria can quickly bring up the required images, saving valuable time for healthcare professionals. This feature is particularly beneficial in emergency situations, where prompt access to medical images can be critical in making accurate and timely diagnoses.

[hk-1989]

PACS Solutions: Revolutionizing Radiology Management

In the dynamic realm of healthcare, PACS solutions are catalysts for innovation, reshaping the landscape of radiology management. At the heart of this transformation lies the seamless interfacing of radiology machines with Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), ushering in an era of enhanced efficiency and improved patient care.

PACS integration stands as the cornerstone of this revolution. By seamlessly linking radiology machines to the centralized PACS platform, healthcare facilities can streamline their radiology workflow, expediting the process from image acquisition to diagnosis. This integration empowers radiologists with instant access to patient images and data, eliminating the delays associated with traditional film-based systems.

Central to the efficacy of PACS solutions is the swift and secure data transfer capabilities they offer. Through advanced networking technologies, patient images are swiftly transmitted from radiology machines to the PACS server, ensuring rapid availability for analysis and diagnosis. This streamlined PACS connectivity enhances collaboration among healthcare professionals, facilitating prompt decision-making and timely patient care.

Moreover, radiology software plays a pivotal role in optimizing image management within PACS environments. With intuitive interfaces and powerful tools, these software solutions empower radiologists to efficiently organize, analyze, and interpret medical images. From customizable viewing preferences to sophisticated image processing algorithms, radiology software enhances diagnostic accuracy while expediting report generation.

In essence, PACS solutions are reshaping radiology management paradigms, driving operational efficiency and elevating patient care standards. Through seamless interfacing of radiology machines with PACS, healthcare providers can unlock new levels of productivity and precision in medical imaging. As technology continues to evolve, embracing these innovative solutions is paramount for staying at the forefront of modern healthcare delivery.

[limpbizkitmutual]

Nothing like having an obscene amount of Pac-Man ports and going through each one of them to figure out which one is the good one

[glendasguidance-inactive]

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Pile 1 🐢

twitter user @robynsquill - You need to be slowmaxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwww.

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Pile 2 🧰

The point of spirituality isn't to just act like everything is pretty & positive all the time, and like everything will always just work out. The point is to give you the tools to turn complex situations into opportunities and empower you to work through the heavy emotions you face in your daily life in a healthy, productive way.

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Pile 3 🧑🏾‍🎨

"The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language, so you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing." -Toni Morrison

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Pile 4 ✂️

CORD CUTTING MANTRA by MoonMagick - I release you with a full heart, with love for the place you once held in my life. May you be happy in the life you have chosen. I now take back all the energy that has been taken from me or that I have given away and I return the energy that I still hold from you. May I be free from the ties that bind us. May all cords be cut, transmuted and dissolved. May all energy return to its original sender with power, peace and forgiveness. I ask that this is complete and sealed now. So it is.

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Pile 5 🫨

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

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Pile 6 🔄

It's not for us to have shame, it's for them. - Gisele Pelicot

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Pile 7 🪁

Life got sweeter when I realized the magic behind childhood wasn't because I was a child, it was because I was present.

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Pile 8 🌸

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. - Jean-Paul Sarte

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Pile 9 ❤️‍🔥

"It isn't courageous of modern women to run away from emotion and love. It is cowardice." - Sinead O Connor

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Pile 10 ✊

"Once we stop searching for approval we often gain respect" - Gloria Steinem

♥︎ much love - Glenda ♥︎

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[sl-walker]

OTW Candidate Anh P.

I had a very long and interesting discussion with OTW-board candidate Anh P.

They tracked me down because they wanted to talk about how @squidgiepdx and I got otw-a working (for SquidgeWorld Archive and Ad Astra Fanfiction) and what we might suggest to make otw-archive more easily deployable to other, independent archives.  What might make it easier to use.  It was a really productive conversation, too, enough that Walter and I have decided to start tackling the setup documentation from the outside to see if we can’t make it as easy as possible for others to deploy otw-archive, and to test a few things we think might make it more not-OTW userfriendly.  (Like changing the hard-coding of OTW/AO3 to something that can be configured from the local.yml file.)

Anh P. is Vietnamese, very aware of the situation re: racism, AI, and the consequences of PAC being overridden.  They’ve been a volunteer for both Fanlore and Open Doors and have been for long enough to be able to run for board, but not so long that they’re completely assimilated.  They also have deep connections to the pan-Asian fan communities, including those currently marginalized by OTW’s present administrative structures.

Mostly, I'm impressed as hell that they not only wanted to talk to two people who have definite Opinions on OTW, but were genuinely and actively seeking our thoughts, good or bad, about what we would suggest to make the software more easily used by others seeking to do the same as we did.

I know I don't have a real stake in the debate over racism, being white and American and unable to understand the lived experiences of those who suffer it both in everyday life and in fandom, but they made excellent points about how decentralizing fandom and otherwise helping people be able to curate their own, inclusive spaces with their own rules might help with that.

They showed me a script a Chinese user made which is frankly brilliant to translate the AO3 Work posting page, and which could easily be translated to other languages, it’s so intuitive.

The part that sent my eyebrows up was their desire to use OTW's platform to help support independent fan archives in order to keep them afloat, rather than just let them sink and import them to AO3 via Open Doors, including not-Anglosphere archives and communities.

So, take it as you will, but I was very impressed someone was doing some of the harder legwork and seeking outside opinions, especially opinions that aren’t necessarily OTW-friendly, and with an eye towards actual measurable hard action that can be taken to start addressing some of the problems OTW is having right now.

[sweet-potato-42]

I ramble about the scientists and engineers on qsmp (mike, pac, tubbo, ramon and aypierre) and about what i think they specialize in:

Pac to me is a bio chemist/ pharmacist. He knows how to make antidotes as he did in the happy pills arc. He is the one in the tazercraft duo who learned medicine and chem. This man however does not know the meaning of "ethical practices". he picked up some physics and engineering knowledge from being with mike

Mike feels like a phycisist with some knowledge in other fields. It lfeels like he knows theory very well and has the problem solving skills for it. He knows some engineering stuff, some chem from pac and some computer science stuff. This is what helps him be a sort of jack of all trades and build things like the game arenas with pac.

Tubbo and ramon are very similar to me in that they are both just mechanical engineers who know some other stuff. They are create mod experts making them especially good at mechanical engineering but htey also know some electrical stuff and maybe some computer science. They are both well versed in physics though not professionals as they can do shit like time machines or build the radio reciever. Tubbo in particular is also a logistics nerd which is what pushes him to make large interconnected systems and factories.

Aypierre feels like a robotics and software expert. He might also be a create mod user but the way he does it and his factories give a much more modern fancy robot vibe. He certainly approaches the mod in a more 1 project at a time way which is closer to working on computer science. He also always makes displays that show what the factory is producing. Other evidence for this is the ayrobot shit.

Im convinved these 5 have had intense joke arguments over whihc science or field is the best. Theyve done it several times. By now pac has given up on fighting since hes the only biologist.

i need more scinecy art and shit frm them. Especially for pac. I need fitpac moments where pac is just rambling about some complicated chem stuff and fit is like :)

[beardedmrbean]

NEW YORK — New York City’s campaign finance regulators rejected mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo’s request for around $2.5 million in public matching funds Tuesday, an embarrassing glitch for a bid predicated on experience and competence.

Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi blamed fundraising software the team used that he said was missing a field required by the board. After regulators flagged the issue Friday, the campaign rushed to gather information from donors, blasting out an email Sunday morning titled “Urgent – Action Required.”

But it was too late.

“We have since fully addressed the software issue and have complied with all requirements and will be submitting the proper documentation to the Board within the one week grace period the board allows to remedy technical issues," Azzopardi said in a statement.

Campaign finance records indicate the campaign will be eligible for around $2.5 million in matching funds May 12, provided it makes the mandatory fixes.

Though the news undercuts Cuomo’s argument that he is the most competent of the Democrats looking to replace Mayor Eric Adams, it’s not much of a financial setback for the former governor. Cuomo reported raking in more than $1.5 million in just two weeks after launching his campaign and has brought in an additional $1 million in the month since the last reporting deadline, Azzopardi said Tuesday. He had $1.2 million in the bank March 13 and is being boosted by a super PAC that’s raised nearly $5 million.

Nearly every other top mayoral campaign received payouts Tuesday — including Jim Walden, who is running as a political independent. The board continues to deny Adams $4.5 million in matching funds over bookkeeping irregularities.

Upon announcing he would run as an independent instead of a Democrat, the mayor said he would appeal the ruling in court if need be. But he has yet to take any official action to fight the decision.

[wirewitchviolet]

They sell the sizzle, but don't people need to buy the steak?

I'm seeing people passing around a video today of someone showcasing some predictive software "version of Quake" which I'll get around to, and people are having a good laugh at how they previously did a "version of Doom" with this, and now they're moving on to a newer game to try and convince people they're "improving" when the way this scam works, it doesn't matter at all how technically impressive the game it's trying to mimic works, because all its doing is looking at screenshots and trying to guess which comes next.

But that isn't entirely true. Because the FIRST time con artists were trying to wow people with this particular trick, they were using Pac-Man:

And I will admit. When I FIRST saw footage of this... weird moldy version of Pacman where dots you just ate kinda slowly fade back into existence, I was really impressed, because there was narration from a tech nerd who I hope didn't actually understand what was going on trying to explain it and just getting everything wrong. The way this crap actually works is just... looking at screenshots and active input values.

Pac-Man is a single-screen game with EXTREMELY limited inputs, and completely deterministic enemy behavior. If you look at a screenshot of Pac-Man from a video, and you have a stack of other videos of Pac-Man you can look through frame by frame, it is very easy to find an identical frame to what you are looking at, and if you look at the next one in that other video, you can guess what's next in the one I'm showing you. For instance!

I'm pretty sure you, without even having access to a bunch of Pac-Man "training data" can guess what comes in the next frame of the random youtube video I screengrabbed this from, right? The ghosts are all gonna move a little in the directions they're looking, Pac-Man's gonna continue to the left, that mouth is either gonna open or close a little more and that dot that's just a pixel away is going to be eaten. The only way that isn't going to be the case is if the joystick's getting held to the right in the next frame, in which case OK yeah Pac-Man would flip around.

Hey, look at that! I was actually slightly wrong because I forgot Pacman's mouth doesn't actually move on every single frame. That actually helps a lot to explain why in the video above anything with any animation to it looks all moldy. Because the way this works it really is just looking at its sequenced screenshots and trying to find a match, it can't quite make a solid guess on how any animated bits are going to animate and it does this gross smeary average thing. Can't for the life of me figure out why all the dots are smeary too. Maybe when they fed in the source footage like 1 in 10 videos was slightly off-center to the right and it's just averaging that in? But that's how this technology works.

And again, it also has access to current inputs. It needs that to be "playable," right? Otherwise all it would be able to do is show you a video of someone else playing Pac-Man. But yeah if we have it both looking at screenshots AND inputs, then we presumably have a pile of screenshot pairs where Pac-Man continues to the left here, and some smaller set where someone hits right on the next frame, creating the only possible situation where there is another possible result, and that is the only option there.

Assuming, of course, the source footage includes any examples of anyone turning around at that point. Which honestly might not be the case? People rarely just randomly turn around in the middle of a hallway in Pac-Man if there's no ghosts nearby, so honestly odds are really good the "AI generated version" here would just completely ignore your inputs there... or do another weird smeary thing. And it'd definitely probably start getting squirrely if you kept like partially eating rows of dots and turning around, because then you're giving it screenshots that are increasingly far from anything in the database and it's gonna toss out mud or something.

There's other old single-screen arcade games used in early demos of this, which can maybe be more impressive, but if you look at old footage of these things, you'll see stuff like versions of breakout that very explicitly have a trail of pixels behind the ball for an after-image so looking at a single screenshot let's you actually tell which way it's going. Without that, that ball's going basically anywhere.

Anyway these demos of single-screen arcade games from freaking five years ago now are something I can see people investing in. They're BASICALLY functional, for a bit, until you get to situations where there isn't an exact match in the "training data" to present the obvious followup, because really those games don't have a whole hell of a lot of moving parts.

So now that I've explained how this is working, let's see how it handles a game that isn't a simple single screen sort of thing! Actually, can I embed a bluesky post in here these days?

Sorta! Click through, unmute it, and hopefully you can guess what you're gonna see.

Yeah, so there's some stuff that's very consistent. In any recorded footage if someone hits the shoot button, a shot comes out of the gun and a number changes (do I mean the ammo count decrements? Haha no!) so that's pretty consistent. There's gonna be plenty of footage of heading down a hallway, maybe backing up, shifting side to side in this specific starting screen, so yeah, matching one screenshot to the next is consistent-ish. But the second you have a single frame of facing a wall or a dark area you're screwed, because there's no actual game running. Just piles of frames from videos. Any black screen is going to look the same, so we're looking for the next image from any source image that has one, and... the whole thing falls apart. The UI at the bottom theoretically having health and ammo also don't actually do anything, just, every frame of every video consistently has those. If you watch carefully you'll notice that firing the gun changes the health total... for a bit, and then it just kinda drifts back to 100ish, quietly, eventually. Because that's what's there in most of the footage. We don't actually have any values being tracked. It's literally just a game of, find a screenshot in any of the sample footage matching the current frame, then here's the next one best matching the currently held inputs.

Pretty sure I'm preaching to the choir that this is the most pathetic dead end. AT BEST, what this would do is correctly play back a let's play if you had a TAS recreating all the inputs from it properly, but it's probably still going to mess that up (especially if two frames of that video happen to look identical), and if you change one input, well, now we're on another timeline, and if we don't happen to have a video just like that in the pile, it's gonna break. This is why these demos always have strict time limits. Longer it runs the harder it is to find video footage matching every possible set of inputs.

So yeah, if we have infinite monkies hitting infinite inputs eventually we're going to have the footage to simulate playing Quake, as long as there's never an identical hallway or facing a wall or a shadow... but like, why not just take the copy of Quake one of those monkeys has and just play that, and have it actually work right 100% of the time?

The scam being sold of course is the "AI" can spin up a whole game without needing anyone to actually make a game first, and the reality is no, we definitely need someone to make the game first, and then also make a ton of TAS recordings to steal screenshots from (oh and we can't do any sound because you don't want to be trying to predict a "frame of sound." Recreating a music track, sure, having sounds playing over that, don't try this at home).

But here's my real point with this. People have kept this scam going for what, 5 years now? And every time they release a new demo to try and sell it as doing what they claim, it's even more obvious that this is COMPLETELY USELESS GARBAGE, requiring even less expertise and familiarity, and for that matter time, to see how it just completely falls apart.

So I have to ask, how are we still here? If you have carefully curated footage from a specific angle for 10 seconds you can maybe use this snake oil to make something that looks kind of OK if you aren't paying attention, but like... if you convince someone to buy anything based on that, they are going to immediately get their hands on... unusable garbage. And there's no way they're going to convince themselves otherwise, this tech can't do what it promises or really anything else. So I was confused for a second as to how in the world people have kept this scam running as long as it has.

But then it hit me. They aren't selling this to anyone. They're JUST making demos. And they're showing those to venture capitalists who are just dumb as a sack of rocks, and will never listen to a single person who actually gets hands on experience with what they're throwing money at. It really is the thing where you sell the sizzle not the steak, and then just... doing everything they can to make sure nobody ever gets anywhere near a steak because it will just kinda burble and blur out and fade into the ether if they do.

So HOPEFULLY the entire U.S. economy completely collapsing will at least make venture capitalists gun shy enough to quit investing in these con artists and FINALLY the rest of us will get some peace, as a silver lining, from this naked emperor shaking his junk in our faces at all hours for five freaking years at this point?

[milesluna]

My Favorite Games of 2023.

Hi. Hello. Thanks ever so much for clicking on this page. Happy to have you.

First thing's first: I'm a little freak when it comes to video games. I don't feel the need to beat most games I play. From Software is one of my favorite studios in the industry and I've never finished a single one of their games. This means, fortunately, that I get to play a LOT more games than the average bear.

I've written up some blurbs about my top ten favorite games from 2023, but before that here's the list of every game I remember playing this year that left any sort of lasting impact on me (in no particular order):

Dead Space Remake Resident Evil 4 Remake F-Zero 99 Humanity Dredge Metroid Prime Remastered Anemoiaplois Alan Wake 2 Baldur’s Gate 3 LoZ Tears of the Kingdom Counter Strike 2 Hunt Showdown El Paso Elsewhere Jusant Slay the Princess| Remnant II The Finals Street FIghter 6 Lethal Company BattleBit Remastered Don’t Scream Homebody The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog Pizza Tower World of Horror Super Mario Wonder Mr. Sun’s Hatbox Fifa 23 Sea of Stars (Demo) Half-Life (25th Anniversary Update)

And the games I played that were NOT released in 2023:

Unpacking Persona 4 Golden Picross 7 The Order 1886 Shovel Knight Dig Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Spider-Man: Miles Morales Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Project Zomboid Quake LoZ The Minish Cap Drill Dozer Wario Land 4 Pokemon Pinball Resident Evil Revelations Summer of ‘58 Trackmania TwinCop We Were Here Visage Cursed Halo CE Half-Life 2 (I probably play this once per year) Witch Hunt Red Dead Redemption 2 Cyberpunk 2077 Borderlands 3 Brutal Legend Cultic Slay the Spire PUBG Rez Infinite Batman Arkham City Alan Wake Alan Wake: American Nightmare Max Payne LoZ: Majora’s Mask 3DS Metroid Prime Metroid Prime 2 Tunic Everhood Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VII Remake GOODBYE WORLD Yakuza: Like a Dragon Critters for Sale Dome Keeper Phasmophobia Hades Nintendo Switch Sports

Now that you understand the kind of freak you're dealing with…

Let's dive into my top ten favorite games from this objectively fucked up year.

10. El Paso Elsewhere Developed by Texas indie studio Strange Scaffold, El Paso Elsewhere is a Max Payne-clone with vampires, an opinionated narrator, and lots and lots of bullet time. As a small studio punching well above their weight class, Strange Scaffold leans into abstract, PlayStation 1 minimalism when it comes to visuals and pairs them with a soundtrack that will make your hands sweat. The vibes are here and they're ready for the end of the world. I'm personally also a big fan of everything this studio stands for.

9. Mr. Sun's Hatbox I want you to imagine Metal Gear Solid V. Now I want you to imagine that game as a 2D, level-based, slapstick platformer you can play with up to three friends. If you think that sounds stupid, you'd be right. And it's beautiful. As you build up a secret army of soldiers with various skills (and disorders), you'll start to develop *favorites*. This game constantly asks if you're willing to send those favorites on a harrowing mission and risk losing them forever… or if you'd rather send an idiot you recently captured who blinks constantly and can't kill anyone without fainting.

8. Dredge Every year I feel like I find one game that falls into the “just one more round” category, and baby… Dredge was it for 2023. As a weary fisherman in strange waters, you'll make the most out of your 12 measly hours of sunlight only for your daily voyages to inevitably pull you into the darkness of night, and night is when things get weird. Rocks emerge from the fog that you swear weren't there before, your equipment malfunctions, and you're pretty sure you just saw something in the water… something big. Despite only containing a small collection of islands, the world of Dredge manages to feel vast - perhaps vast enough to swallow you whole.

7. Resident Evil 4 Remake I was curious to see what sort of changes would be made to the timeless classic and father of modern 3rd person shooters, Resident Evil 4. I wasn't let down. RE4 Remake takes all the things that didn't age well about the original, tossed them out, and replaced them with only good things. And MORE things! It's campy, fun, and better than a game of bingo.

6. Jusant I really feel like this one didn't get the recognition it deserves. Jusant is a rock climbing game that combines the quiet contemplation of Journey with the mechanical specificity of Death Stranding. Unlike Death Standing, though, there is very little story to interrupt your flow. There are plenty of collectible bits to find for those curious to learn more about what happened before the events of the game, but the environmental storytelling does most of the heavy lifting. For me, the joy of the game comes from how it feels. Right trigger controls your right hand grip, and left trigger controls left hand grip. Plan your route, manage your stamina, and climb high above the clouds in search of answers.

5. F-Zero 99 This. Shit. Slaps. I've never been a big F-Zero guy, but this MADE me one. The “battle royale”, 99 player format is the perfect fit for the ruthless, high octane world of the game. Races last about three minutes, and friend, they are the most intense, white-knuckled three minutes of your life. The decision to make your boost meter the same as your health meter started in F-Zero 64 (I believe), and it is so much more HARROWING in this game when another player could side-swipe you mere meters from the finish line and blow you to bits. Sadly it's only playable via Switch Online, but it made me cheer, laugh, and scream enough this year to earn a spot in my top 5.

4. Alan Wake 2 Remedy makes weird games that also manage to exist in the AAA space and for that I will forever love them. Although Alan Wake 2 resembles a 3rd person shooter survival horror, I'd honestly say it's more of a narrative game than anything else. There's sidequests, there's puzzles, there's upgradeable skills, but at the end of the day the characters, world, and story are what kept me playing. If you haven't checked them out recently, you should definitely watch a story recap of the original games before diving into this sequel, but the wild swings for the fences this game takes are well worth that small price of admission. There's a god damn musical number, for Christ's sake.

3. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I've really got nothing to say about this game that most people don't already know. It's incredible. The fact that Nintendo made a game that redefined an entire genre and then made a SEQUEL to it that ups the ante is remarkable. To be honest, I've only cleared the Rito, Zora, and Goron cities. I got a bit tired of exploring the depths and guiding Koroks to their friends, but I can't deny the sheer level of complexity and polish on display here. I saw someone on TikTok build a functioning Mecha Godzilla in this game. Good God. I've heard that the ending of this game is one of the best in the franchise, and if I'd seen it this year then it may have wound up higher on my list, but for the time being I'll continue picking up this masterpiece from time to time, chipping away at it until the day comes that I can finally smack the tits off thicc Ganondorf.

2. Half-Life (25th Anniversary Update) I know I'm gonna get shit for this, but I don't care. This year was the 25th anniversary of Half-Life and Valve released an update that made playing it (and it's online Death Match) much more accessible. I threw it on my Steam Deck out of curiosity, expecting to play for 20 minutes. I could not put it down. It is unbelievable how modern this game still feels. I simply had so much fun sprinting through the corridors of Black Mesa with a dozen weapons strapped to my back, blasting aliens and military Spec-Op chumps as a 24(?!) year old theoretical physicist.

1. Baldur's Gate III This game is fucked up, man. The sheer amount of writing in this game scares me. We can all talk about how BIG this game is, it deserves it, but the thing BG3 does better than any other role playing game I have ever experienced is actually encourage roleplaying. I've played through Act I four times now, with four different groups of friends, and it has felt fresh every time. I have seen the same events play out in so many different ways that it boggles the mind, but in every one of those play sessions I see players asking themselves “What would my lil guy do here?” rather than "what is the best thing to do here?" The game rewards players constantly for just trying shit and the D&D 5e rule set means playing like the character you said you were from the start leads to frequent Points of Inspiration. Maybe one day I'll see the end of this story (probably not), but I don't have to in order to feel a connection with BG3's world, characters, and most impressively, the characters I made myself.

Honorable Mentions for 2023

5. Dave the Diver 4. Homebody 3. Sea of Stars 2. Humanity 1. Super Mario Wonder

Top 5 Favorites NOT from 2023

5. Metroid Prime 4. Final Fantasy VII Remake 3. Cursed Halo (Halo CE Mod) 2. Red Dead Redemption 2 1. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (3DS)

Games I didn't have a chance to play from 2023 but still want to when I find more time...

Viewfinder Venba Chants of Sennaar Thirsty Suitors Hi-Fi Rush Moonring Armored Core VI Laika Aged Through Blood Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

OKAY THANKS BYE!

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hey big fan of your channel and art!! was wondering if for the midnight snap series what kind of sound design you were doing it rlly sounds nice!! (also smth that could be nice with it is maybe a little bit of like tape saturation or something might be able to make the audio sound "warmer" if youre like not already doing something like that already, but you probably know better than me!!) feel free to ignore that, but wanted to say in general its so well done and sounds so good!!! its really cozy and nice!!

hey thank you!!! yeah i'd.... genuinely LOVE to talk about my thinking and approach behind the sound design, i'm actually so happy you asked me this LOL this is the kind of shit i live for.

you might assume that it's just me recording the game audio and talking quietly with my normal stream settings, and that is kinda how it STARTS, but there's actually a bit more i've been doing behind the scenes :) nothing too crazy just yet but a little goes a long way when it comes to sound! i'm hoping to really nail down the soundscape and increase the quality over time and specifically up the soothing vibes by a lot. as well as get a little better about mic etiquette and my style of speech. BUT in terms of what i'm doing in post:

the first piece of the puzzle and definitely one of the most important sauces in the whole mix is the Hard Limiter. it does what you might imagine it does, basically just places a hard barrier and says "any sounds that exceed this volume.... no you don't", sort of like a much more intense compressor. currently i have a Hard Limiter on both my commentary AND the game audio, commentary i have set to peak at around -15 to -12 db, whereas game audio is more around the -23 to -20 range. in my more polished audio from later in the AC episode it's enough difference that one doesn't drown the other out in most cases, but not a wide enough gulf that people are struggling to pay attention to one in particular or have to frequently change volume (preferably they don't have to change it at all!). i took this screenshot of the episode's complete waveform when rendering out the audio-only version of AC part 1 and it was super satisfying cause like.... yeah. this is exactly the kind of waveform read i was going for. just super even and smooth across the board, save for a couple anomalies i'll buff out over time.

the next thing i do to both my own commentary and the game audio is actually just cutting down on harsher, higher frequencies with an EQ and just upping the bassier, warmer tones. i started with something super small in the first couple of episodes, i'm probably gonna go a bit harder on it for future stuff though. i wanna find a balance that doesn't make the game sound unrecognizable or anything but is noticeably easier on the ears and sounds more like a nice rolling wave rather than beep boop pac-man time.

past this i have a couple more things added to the commentary track:

to intensify the previous effect mentioned and cut down on harsh frequencies in my speech, i actually have a dedicated de-esser on my voice as well as my usual warmer EQ. i have the de-esser going pretty hard too, you might hear the difference from my usual stream commentary if you were to listen closely. really just taking those harsh t's and s's in my speech and making them sound more like a nice "shhhh", this one is super important i think

last thing i have to speak on otherwise is actually a plugin i found and bought specifically for this show and ends up being subtle but i think SUUUPER helpful in the long run, and that's this plugin called "spiff". spiff is a plugin by oeksound and i guess it's referred to as like, a transient editor? i'm actually not sure how it works at all on the nitty gritty level BUT the important thing is that they have a very important preset in the software, and that is a preset specifically designed to lessen and/or remove like... mouth sounds. yknow like lip smacks and the like. just kinda the gross smacks and clicks you don't hear as much in normal speech but can come through really intensely on a recording and kinda make ya uncomfortable. it obviously doesn't remove a lot of the more intense stuff, it's not a magic wand in my experience. but listening to the output of what it's removing on its own makes it REALLY clear there's a lot of little things it picks up and just kinda makes speech more soothing to listen to. not something i'm racing to apply to my normal streams, BUT for a sleep aid series where good audio is key????? 100% worth it, i like it a lot.

anyway yeah that's about it for now! a lot of it is pretty simple in and of itself but it's stuff i've been working at and experimenting with since i first started doing tests for the show and it's gonna be real nice to keep honing this stuff in. also cool suggestion with the tape saturation idea, i might look into something like that! once i nail stuff like leveling and frequency tuning for this show, i wanna look into some fancier ways of making the soundscape unique to this show compared to my normal streams so ideas like that are super helpful!

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As one of his first acts after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency by reorganizing and renaming an existing entity, the US Digital Services (USDS), as the US DOGE Service. And while some have noted that this version of DOGE moves away from the sweeping vision of deregulation outlined in a November Wall Street Journal op-ed, it's a move that will give centibillionaire Elon Musk and his allies seemingly unprecedented insight across the government and access to troves of federal data.

“It’s quite a clever way of integrating DOGE into the federal government that I think will work, in the sense of giving it a platform for surveillance and recommendations,” says Richard Pierce, a law professor at George Washington University.

Soon after his election victory, Trump announced that he would form DOGE, led by Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to provide ​​“advice and guidance from outside the government”—something that would generally require it be formed as a federal advisory committee. The idea was that DOGE would provide recommendations for how to cut some $2 trillion from the federal budget. (Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, Ramaswamy exited the DOGE project.)

Both Ramaswamy and Musk supported Trump during his campaign, but Musk emerged as one of the president’s most important financial backers, donating close to $200 million to the Trump-supporting America PAC. Additionally, he used the power of his own celebrity to drum up support for Trump both online and off, joining the president on the campaign trail and amplifying Trump's messaging on X, the social media platform he owns. Almost immediately after the election, Musk began to take a central role in the transition, joining Trump on calls with foreign leaders and making staffing recommendations.

Meanwhile, Musk put out a call for people to work with DOGE onlin, and turned the Washington, DC office of his company SpaceX into a staging ground for the entity while bringing in other major figures from Silicon Valley to assist in the effort. Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen apparently joined the effort as a self-proclaimed “unpaid intern.”

But under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, committees of the sort DOGE seemed to be shaping up to be have several legal requirements, including making all meetings publicly accessible and requiring a diversity of perspectives on the committee itself. By repurposing the USDS, which was already part of the Office of Management and Budget, Trump managed to skirt both the requirements of a formal advisory committee and the congressional oversight required when creating a new federal agency. In short, it meant DOGE would get more access to sensitive data than an advisory committee would likely have, while offering less transparency.

The USDS was created by former president Barack Obama to untangle dysfunctional or failing technology across the federal government in the wake of the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov. The Service’s mandate allows it the wide-ranging ability to enter any government agency and access its software or technical systems with the goal of helping to streamline or reform existing systems.

Under the executive order, DOGE teams, which “will typically include one DOGE Team Lead, one engineer, one human resources specialist, and one attorney” will be dispatched to various agencies. They will be granted “access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems,” ostensibly with the goal of streamlining data sharing across federal agencies.

A former USDS employee who spoke to WIRED who was granted anonymity to preserve their privacy called the repurposing of the Digital Service an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” But, they say, they’re concerned that DOGE’s access to sensitive information could be used to do more than just streamline government operations.

“Is this technical talent going to be pointed toward using data from the federal government to track down opponents?” they ask. “To track down particular populations of interest to this administration for the purposes of either targeting them or singling them out or whatever it might end up being?”

It appears, however, that the first order of DOGE is to weed out people in agencies that might push back on the Trump administration’s agenda, starting with existing USDS staff, and hire new people.

“DOGE teams have a lawyer, an HR director, and an engineer. If you were looking to identify functions to cut, people to cut, having an HR director there and having a lawyer say ‘here's what we're allowed to do or not do’ would be one way that you would facilitate that,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, noting that DOGE’s potential access to federal employee data could put “them in some sort of crosshairs to be fired.”

When Musk took over Twitter, he brought in outside help from his close circle as well as his other companies to transform the company, a move he appears to be repeating.

Who exactly is going to be part of DOGE is a particularly thorny issue, because there are technically two DOGEs. One is the permanent organization, the revamped USDS—now the US DOGE Service. The other is a temporary organization, with a termination date of July 4, 2026. Creating this organization means the temporary DOGE can operate under a special set of rules. It can sequester employees from other parts of the government and can accept people who want to work for the government as volunteers. Temporary organizations can also hire what are known as special government employees—experts in a given field who can bypass the rigors of the regular federal hiring processes. They’re also not subject to the same transparency requirements as other government employees.

In the best-case scenario, this would allow DOGE to move quickly to address issues and fast-track necessary talent, as well as build systems that make government services more seamless by facilitating the flow of information and data. But in the worst case, this could mean less transparency around the interests of people working on important government projects, while enabling possible surveillance.

“I think part of the reason they're wanting to use special government employees is because so long as they all work less than 60 days, the financial reporting requirements are less, which is going to be attractive to billionaires who have a lot of financial things they don't want to disclose,” says Nick Bednar, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law. “And with agency approval, these individuals are allowed to continue contracting with the federal government if they represent, say, a corporation that has a lot of contracts with the government.”

Musk alone has over received billions of dollars via contracts with the federal government through his company SpaceX.

“To me, [the temporary organization] suggests there's some sort of, there's some reason for that which probably has to do with skirting disclosure and conflicts of interest requirements,” claims Moynihan.

Noah Kunin, former infrastructure director at the US General Services Administration, tells WIRED that “the government has access to incredible amounts of sensitive or proprietary business information that [businesses] had to share with the government in order to get a contract or take some action.” And while not everyone gets to access this—it generally requires some form of clearance, and government employees are not supposed to share it—this kind of information could be particularly useful to someone like Musk or other members of the business community who might be brought into DOGE.

“You always have concerns whenever you have private sector individuals entering government for a temporary position,” says Bednar. “This is how regulatory capture occurs.”

Even with all these special maneuvers, DOGE will likely still face hurdles. Sharing data across government departments and systems is tricky, particularly when different laws govern different agencies and the information they collect. Similarly, sensitive data often requires some form of government authorization, which DOGE volunteers and employees might not be able to get.

“There are legal restrictions to sharing data between organizations, and those agreements take an enormous amount of effort to put into place,” the former USDS employee says. “There are tons of examples of obstacles to information sharing like that. So maybe this is more aspirational than it is possible.”

“DOGE has just sort of added this element of unpredictability to what happens next in government,” says Moynihan. “It could be a bipartisan effort to make government technology work better. It could be an oligarch extracting resources from the government. We just really don't know. We're all gazing at tea leaves right now.”

[spookyjudgement]

A few of my thoughts on Careless People, kind of typed out as I read the book:

So I'm reading this partially because it came heavily recommended and partially because I have to for things I'm doing right now. I think many other people enjoy the book more than I did or get more out of it than I do. I think because I am deeply familiar with Silicon Valley culture and the software engineering industry as a whole the cultural internal revelations are less surprising for me, and I have a bit more of a sense of how exactly Wynn-Willams is an unreliable narrator than the completely naive reader. For me, the book is actually hard to move through because of how much Wynn-Williams was so obviously drinking the kool-aid. For all her remarks about the ignorance of the Facebook execs, her own actions and moves are incredibly revealing. She comes across as a white woman with plenty of gaps in her knowledge and understanding of other countries and cultures. She doesn't seem to want to go out of her way to address this lack of knowledge (or at least doesn't describe herself doing so) unless not knowing will produce really serious political consequences/backlash against Facebook that would affect her job. And I understand, she was in a work environment that almost certainly would have left her with very little time to do that due diligence and would have discouraged/devalued it, but that knowledge doesn't make her story any easier to read.

Also I came across a gizmodo article saying that Careless People made Sheryl Sandberg more human and likeable to that particular reader and I was...baffled. Sandberg is explicitly described as someone so obsessed with her image that it has consumed her and based off of the descriptions of Sandberg's behavior and everything I know about her outside of this book I can't say that description rings false.

And now. Highlights. Or lowlights. Or just moments. You can decide.

Sheryl Sandberg being so my-way-or-the-highway about facebook and data and international policy around organ donation that she says "Do you mean to tell me if my four-year-old was dying and the only thing that would save her was a new kidney, that I couldn't fly to Mexico and get one and put it in my handbag"

Mark Zuckerberg trying to show off "fake gangsta handshakes" instead of learning the culturally expected way to bow to South Korean leadership. (everything he does somehow makes him even lamer)

Wynn-Williams not even questioning being sent alone into Myanmar to find a way to get the ear of the junta or being asked to do jail time in South Korea for the sake of the company while she had a 7-month-old child at home until her husband gets mad at her.

Mark wanting to be surrounded by people and gently mobbed (a riot or a peace rally) during a trip to Asia.

This one has been brought up online already but Mark's love of Andrew Jackson, he's collecting wine that was made during Jackson's presidency just because of that love. "Mark explains that Jackson's the greatest president America's ever had, that he was ruthless, populist, an individualist, and that he 'got stuff done.'" (p 142) and of course he ignores the trail of tears and the violence done to native people.

Using Hong Kong users' data explicitly as a bargaining chip while trying to get Facebook into China, and the head of the China policy needing the Nuremberg defense explained to him so they don't just go ahead and suck up to the Chinese gov't praising how they are handling the HK protests.

It really is a clique. More than ideology or competence, many in facebook leadership have simply known each other forever in various ways and continue to look to each other first. "A tiny enmeshed group of people increasingly responsible for shaping the attention of billions. Their preferences turned into policy." (153)

Joel Kaplan (Bush admin joker who clearly has entitlement issues) not knowing that Taiwan is an island and being amazed that PACs are illegal in other countries and contributions to foreign politicians are considered illegal bribery.

Joel also seems to have problems with people expressing legitimate concerns/having real questions about how things are to work and sees it as questioning authority, which. Isn't that such a quintessentially Republican attitude .

"'Sarah stop taking notes,' Sheryl instructs, knowing Kenny's about to tell us how he's going to keep the gravy train going for us. She doesn't want it to be written down. My notes can be subpoenaed. So this part of the meeting will be 'off the books.'" (175) so that the Irish PM can describe how Facebook can keep neatly avoiding taxes.

The sheer number of times they are late to meetings (even ones that are of critical importance to Facebook's future) because of stupid shit like Mark not wanting to get up early and scheduling dumb last-minute meetings with other people that flatter Mark's (or someone else on the management team's) ego.

Mark Zuckerberg asking Xi Jinping to name his unborn child. Xi refusing.

Mark meeting more world leaders and learning about more world issues just makes him care less about the world, actively has him lose interest in playing nice with them or conversing with them.

Passing around toxic strategies from other Silicon Valley companies (like Uber) to combat good faith government interventions interfering with their products.

"[Mark] launches into a spiel about Emperor Augustus, his favorite emperor, who led the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire. He talks about 'offense.' He wants lists of adversaries, whether they're companies, individuals, organizations, or governments. He wants to know how we can use the platform and tools we have to win against these adversaries." (207)

"there are unspoken rules with Sheryl about obedience and closeness. Those closest to Sheryl are rewarded. Marne and Sadie often appear in her unwanted designer clothes; both assumed plum seats on boards that Sheryl had been asked to serve on. [...] Sadie is very conscious of the benefits of being Sheryl's 'little doll,' as she calls it and having Sheryl tell her she loves her." (219) this is after Wynn-Williams says no to Sheryl asking/outright ordering her to "come to bed" on a flight they were sharing. There was anote about how "Sheryl and Sadie had taken turns sleeping in each other's laps, occasionally stroking each other's hair." (218)

Because of Joel Kaplan and increasing Republican influence there, following the 2016 election there is a distinct disdain in a good section of that policy and leadership team for the many people who are worried about Trump and what a Trump presidency meant for the US. "It's hard to ignore the eyerolls exchanged by some of the Republicans on the DC team who forget that their faces are being magnified and projected on the wall." (254-5) Also things like all lives matter graffiti popping up on the Facebook campus. Also somehow people like Elliot are blindsided by the notion that 2016 could have been their fault despite the fact that it OBVIOUSLY was and that Trump used Facebook as intended, as other fringe candidates around the world had to gain traction.

Mark getting annoyed about international governance, " What I take from this is that he's feeling Facebook's rising power globally. He has politicians from around the world wanting to see him and kiss the ring [...] He has this global network, more political capital and more wealth than he can possibly spend, and he's wondering what he can use it for." (259) telling that the way this takes shape for Marky Mark is not in addressing a world need like world hunger but instead in looking at power and thinking hey why isn't that stronger so I can take advantage of it.

Plans to visit Peru for APEC thrown into question because it coincides with Priscilla's ovulation and Mark and Priscilla were going to try for a baby and they're stretching Zika concerns to Lima (ignore the fact that there was basically no Zika in Lima at the time and Wynn-Williams had been sent to Zika ground zero while actively pregnant) and Mark wanted a "tribe" of kids. Operation protect sperm. Ridiculous.

When Mark comes around to Facebook's influence in the election he's struck by the ingenuity of it rather than being upset, despite the fact that there's unsavory stuff like voter suppression that happened as a part of that. Sheryl, similarly, thought it was brilliant rather than horrifying.

"It's like Mark's a kingmaker, and they're there to bend the knee." (272) about John Key, PM of New Zealand, and Peña Nieto, president of Mexico, and Justin Trudeau, president of Canada, and Malcolm Turnbull, PM of Australia. Sickening.

"These leaders are all in the business of getting elected. [...] I'm sure that Trump's election elevated Mark in their eyes. He's the powerbroker and they want to stay in power. They understand that one of their most important assets - their voice - is political capital that is ultimately controlled by Mark" (273) SPINELESS SPINELESS SPINELESS

"I think he's telling me to be quiet, to drop it, to know my place. And I realize that everyone around Mark is like this. No one is going to try to talk him out of [trying to run for president]." (281)

I'm being reminded that I need everyone who's cavalier about the extent of authoritarian rule in China and the repression of human rights advocates and the legitimate threat of violence that the CCP places on people against them to get a grip. Also Facebook was happy to play ball on all of these topics, labeling human rights and minority advocate groups as terrorists, allowing for censorship and surveillance, and spreading CCP propaganda ads as long as it kept them in business with China.

"From the start, the Facebook team agrees that Facebook will store Chinese user data in China under their terms. When other countries have asked for this-Russia, Indonesia, Brazil- Facebook has refused." (310)

"One of Facebook's few supposed red lines is that China will not get any access to the data of users who are located outside China. But, unsurprisingly, the documents tell a different story." (311)

"Another document, titled 'Aldrin Security Risks,' outlines the risks that the Chinese content moderators could feed data on non-Chinese users to the government either directly or by sharing their credentials. This, coupled with espionage reaching further into Facebook's network, was a real concern." (312) really rich knowing that part of the reason for the TT ban was Meta pushing fear about TT's Chinese connections HARD in congress.

"The goal for companies is, as I understand it, to answer the questions Congress has without committing perjury." (317) well that's comforting, isn't it? That they find that hard?

Ha. They were already considering that they might be compared to Nazis back in 2018. Fun. Also Mark lies to Congress and Facebook's stock price rises. Ugh.

"Zhao tells the team about GitHub, a site with very active discussion boards, owned by Microsoft. He tells them that he knows GitHub's leadership and when someone 'started slandering' President Xi, the CAC filed a report with the GitHub CEO, the content was removed, and GitHub let them know it was because of their relationship with the Chinese government." (324) free speech my ass. These tech companies have never been shit.

"Facebook is operating illegally in China. One of American's biggest publicly listed companies is completely indifferent to the rules." (332) it has been the whole time, water is wet, this is what happens when you let the attitudes you saw at the start just keep rolling

In a meeting on gender and diversity issues, a senior man says "When will women focus on work and stop talking about diversity already," (340) which kills a discussion on workplace sexual harassment. "I think many of the employees are fine with that. Most of the company is made up of white and Asian men who don't seem to have a problem with how things have been going. The entitlement in the Facebook offices flows as freely as the prosecco from the Prosecco Tap that's installed in one of the Facebook office kitchens. When there are complaints of gentrification around Facebook's Menlo Park campus, driving up rents and forcing longtime residents out, they post things that could have been lifted from the pages of Atlas Shrugged, like, 'I take exception to think that I am part of the problem, I won't be villainized for my own successes in life.' And, "These people just want our gobs of Money.'" (340-41). I'm deeply familiar with this attitude already, I just need everyone to get how vile and how persistent it is into their heads. It exists EVERYWHERE in tech. You get little oases, little teams where your immediate coworkers respect you and your managers are nice. But upper management and the company as a whole? hah.

"It's us against the outsiders and hates, whether that's the media, academics, or other companies. It's us versus them. And as with nationalism, there's something cleansing in this narrative pushed from the top, something comforting about being in the right, an organized innocence." (342)

"If you want someone to actually influence the policy and political decisions that are ultimately made by Joel and Elliot, they'll have a greater chance of success if they're male, older, white, and a Harvard graduate." (353)

"I've spent a lot of time thinking about what unfolded next in Myanmar, and Facebook's complicity. [...] It was just that Joel Elliot, Sheryl, and Mark didn't give a fuck." (359) yep. it was all fixable and foreseeable and they did jack. Wynn-Williams tried to get people in place to help but was not able to do so (feet were dragged, she was told it was not priority).

Joel's power increased as Trump's did, since Joel cozied up due to his history of Republican connections. "He drops a napkin at the opening night reception and he waits and stares at me till I figure out that he's expecting me to kneel to the ground and pick it up for him." (362) the sexual harassment returns/is really in full force as soon as his power is on the up-and-up again.

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