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Italy Bet on People Over Bots: Ambitious National Plan to Regulate AI

21 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments CondividiSulWeb $0.11

Italy has taken a significant step toward regulating artificial intelligence by approving a set of draft legislative decrees that begin to define how AI will be integrated into key sectors such as work, education, and public safety. According to r...

Textures and Swizzling in GLSL: How Shaders Read and Rearrange Data

20 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31 $0.10

When most people start learning shaders, textures seem straightforward. They are images made up of pixels. But in GLSL, textures are much more than images. They are data containers, and understanding how to access that data efficiently is where swi...

The Tripwires: Monitoring Your Online Presence

20 Jun 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515 $0.10

Passive, low-effort tools for keeping track of your own digital footprint before someone else does. At some point, someone is going to Google your name. It might be a recruiter reviewing your application, a client checking you out before a call, or m...

Generative Text Fields in TouchDesigner (DAT + Feedback System)

19 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31 $0.03

In this setup, we build a live generative text field using a Text DAT and turn it into an evolving visual texture using Feedback TOPs. The result is a constantly shifting “data surface” made of random characters. This can be used for: cyberpunk bac...

Your First GLSL Line: Understanding Coordinates in a Fragment Shader

19 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31 $0.03

This shader creates a grayscale gradient and then draws a green diagonal line across the screen. The line runs from the bottom-left corner to the top-right corner because the shader compares the X coordinate with the Y coordinate. Whenever they becom...

Palantir - Digital Operating System for Power

19 Jun 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Sdom $0.07

For over two decades, Silicon Valley giants tried to convince us that their sole purpose was to "connect people" and make the world a better place. While this was rarely true, the narrative sounded light, fluffy, and safe. However, modern geopolitica...

What The Tech?! The Pager

19 Jun 2026 5 minute read 5 comments Investigator515 $0.15

Before the evolution of the mobile phone, the pager was king. With the smartphone being an all-in-one device, it can often be difficult to picture how things worked before the internet was everywhere. And, rather than having an all-in-one device, soc...

AI Tools That Save Time and Boost Productivity

16 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Bhatt_G $0.10

Nowadays we all use various kinds of tools in our work. Some tools are very important and yet they do not help us in our work. In a way you can say that they are important for your work. If you use those tools then you can see a lot of improvement in...

Fragment Shaders Made Simple: What gl-FragColor Does

15 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31 $0.06

This is a fragment shader written in GLSL (used in WebGL / Three.js / TouchDesigner-style pipelines). This is the 3rd post in the GlSL learning series. Learning GLSL as a Beginner Understanding gl-Position: My First Real Vertex Shader Let’s break i...

Understanding gl-Position: My First Real Vertex Shader

15 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31 $0.06

This is part 2 of learning about GlSL:This is a very common vertex shader, especially in libraries like Three.js. const vshader = ` void main() { gl_Position = projectionMatrix * modelViewMatrix * vec4( position, 1.0 ); } `; Let's break it do...