Tobias A. Franke

Canonical profile reminder. The Fediverse is the only place I have meaningful engagement. graphics.social/@thefranke These hellhole corporate traps are only copies: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/thef... Xitter: x.com/thefranke LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thefranke

Optimizing games used to be hard because serious runtime issues often appear at the threshold between art and engine code. I am excited for the future of game development. Tech artists will be able to fix and optimize issues in games that previously required an entire team.

If you are interested in new operating systems like HarmonyOS, game engines, computer graphics, reverse engineering and agentic workflows, please reach out to me. We are building lots of fun stuff at my lab in the Huawei Ireland Research Centre. linkedin.com/in/thefranke/

Huaquanbei in Shenzhen is quickly becoming my favorite place for electronics, because the whole right-to-repair dream is a reality there. Want to change some old hardware to have USBC instead of whatever? Done. Change battery for cheap? Done. Get some ancient console fixed? NP x.com/DominiqueCAP...

We will all be killed by Terminators trying to protect WAP lyrics hahaha x.com/thiojoe/stat...

With all the cool new EXTRA BIG ASS INTELLIGENCE reverse engineering going on right now I feel like we're entering the glorious 80s and 90s era again were we ought to have enough time to put some kickass #demos in front of everything!

Those image classes in the background are still here: github.com/thefranke/de...

Beautiful documentary, well worth a watch! Also, found an old screenshot of my desktop from 2004 o7

Also featuring the #RSS-Librarian: www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php Store random articles in a personal RSS feed to read-them-later. Self-hostable, git yourself setup here: github.com/thefranke/rs... toolbox.rss.here.now

For some odd reasons I enjoy Number Theory and Cryptography quite a bit, and so this fantastic Veritasium video on the Enigma was delightful to watch. odysee.com/@veritasium:...

GOG: www.gog.com/en/games?dev...

DOOM... on a Vectrex.

Our poster "A Spatio-Temporal Acceleration Framework for Order-Independent Transparency" will be presented at Pacific Graphics 2026 in Singapore. www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...

"Fuck the gatekeepers." gultsch.de/posts/breaki...

About those weird XML comments and GUID entries in my page and RSS feed: A blog post about cryptographically securing my website against tampering, with EdDSA signatures and GnuPG. www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/09/...

Hello PM of Australia @albomp.bsky.social, can you please do something sane with technology and tell them to simply implement RSS/Atom? kthxbye www.pm.gov.au/media/my-fee...

I never owned a TV because all of them have tech-aids, but holy shit this needs a really nice GDPR investigation!

The scraping will continue until Corpo-AI-morale improves!

I am happy to announce that #RSS-Librarian has now arrived at Version Two, a much improved state compared to the last release. Read my post to see what is new and how to write custom extraction for enshittified pages into beautiful RSS/Atom feeds! www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/09/...

LMAO Use Redirector and forward *x.com/* to xxcancel.com/$2 to load balance across them, or similarly with Tzeentch at alternator.hstn.me#nitter

Amazing, feels like living in Germany in the 90s again. Unlike movies, games were not considered art and therefore not exempt from displaying certain symbols. Good US corporations are catching up LMAO retro-replay.com/wolfenstein-...

It's ... magnificent! #SpaceKing www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNht...

Hey @blizzard.com and @gog.com mind also pairing up on Galaxy integration and some DRM-free older Blizzard games please? news.blizzard.com/en-us/articl...

Some troglodyte sent a cease-and-desist to the #Nitter maintainers because muh scraping LMAO yet I can still follow accounts via #RSSBridge. Good luck to Elon fighting a gazillion instances. Also, stay free in the Fediverse: graphics.social/@thefranke

I'm not-a-console-guy, but thanks for reminding me I will forever stay a not-a-console-guy. Buy your games on @gog.com www.techspot.com/news/113603-...

Apple and Google will be sanctioned to continue this farce everywhere because without full control over third-party sources, ChatControl and Age Verification will not work. reclaimthenet.org/google-start...

"Taking away your consumer rights is a business decision, NOT a technical necessity." www.youtube.com/shorts/7os0q... Exhibit A: Thick as Thieves from Otherside Entertainment will eventually shut down their servers, so they added a peer-to-peer play option store.steampowered.com/news/app/334...

**Canonical profile reminder** The Fediverse is the only place I have meaningful engagement. Add me here: graphics.social/@thefranke Hellhole corporate traps I copy posts to: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/thef... Xitter: x.com/thefranke LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thefranke

I'm excited to announce a first development release of nanobind 3.0. It introduces *split mode*, a new distribution model where a single Python wheel runs across all Python versions, while achieving outstanding performance and gaining rather than losing features! 🧵

Sad news: farside.link, the alternative frontend redirector, has shut down. However, you can roll your own! Use Tzeentch and update in a cronjob with the merge tool. Source: github.com/thefranke/tz... Read more: www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...

After running de-bloaters and privacy scripts and tools that prevent default overrides and turning off telemetry everywhere and installing low-latency enhancements (LOL) maybe, just maybe, the spaghettified OS is at fault. VLC launches in 0.42 seconds on my M4.

Lots of blogs I read use Mathjax for equations, which however do not get rendered in many feed-readers due to <script> being invalid in RSS. In this post I describe how to setup Latex-to-MathML pre-baking for a webpages and RSS feeds using Jekyll. www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2026/08/...

My favorite TUI feed reader got a big update: github.com/crocidb/bull...

The solution is simple: Do not trust governments nor corporations. Encrypt locally before uploading it anywhere, or simply don't upload at all.

Running a @gog.com Library on Linux wasn't a big issue with clients like Minigalaxy, but I look so forward to having Galaxy for Linux. I like my achievements! Also, I will never have to touch a Windows installation again. That OS is unsalvageable. www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-...

I know this is not a healthy way to deal with tech, but I'll never give up my existing, dumb hardware after reading this. Holy shit! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895...

Don't solve the problem at the predators, just monitor everyone without a clear suspect. #ChatControl @eppgroup.bsky.social are morons of the highest order, and subverted agents if I am forgiving. Also, LOOK AT THOSE CORPORATE PARTNERS FROM THEIR SOURCE LMAO: missingkids.org/supportus/ou...

Good call from the European Peeping Party @eppgroup.bsky.social! Let's name it for what it is: - Reading someone's mail like disgusting Stasi pigs - Spying without prior cause - Violating GDPR - Guilty until proven innocent - Protecting big tech shareholder value - Wanna have some EU user data?

Fenris Creations (CCP) open-sources Carbon, the engine driving EVE Online. github.com/carbonengine

Very cool project to turn a GrapheneOS phone into a laptop. I've been toying around with a setup like this as well, only with a dedicated monitor instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxX4...

Remember the faces of the @eppgroup.bsky.social in your local elections. These are the so called "representatives" that voted to put EVERYONE under the radar with the assumption of "guilty until proven innocent". Everyone in the EPP should loose their seat immediately just for the suggestion.

Hey Fidias Panayiotou, perhaps you can file a motion that instead of trying to ban the ESN we can instead pivot to @eppgroup.bsky.social and adjacent EU "representative lawmakers" for: - not representing citizens - violating the presumption of innocence - SELLING EU DATA TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

@president.europarl.europa.eu Roberta Metsola and @eppgroup.bsky.social, just like @ylvajohansson.se, are handing sovereign EU data to foreign big tech companies and intelligence services. You won't get child safety, but more ads! Re-read this article: balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/w...

Diese Personen haben für die #ChatKontrolle und gegen die Unschuldsvermutung gestimmt. Zum Schutz des Grundgesetz muss jedem sofort das Amt entzogen werden.