freya.bsky.social
🎮 indie tech artist
🏗️ I made Shader Forge & Shapes
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we do, but it was relatively recently introduced and isn't really enforced retroactively (ie: for cats you got before the rule was in place) even though it applies to those cats too
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thanks! I'm really happy with how it turned out too!
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bc they're a sweet little guy
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I know a cat named anna-greta so yeah why not an anna-glyph
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not sure! either case is something to address
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yep
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I have an RFID reader with me! so I just scan for a chip whenever the cats are social enough to get close to me
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unfortunately phones don't capture that frequency range, you need a separate rfid reader device (which I have!)
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I know of
vilse.nu
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www.id-registret.se/saknad-katt/
and then there's a ton of local facebook groups yeah, they're usually good for reaching owners too
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yeah, it's much easier to spot a lost dog, but it's hard to spot a lost cat because the circumstances look pretty similar to a cat just roaming near home
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if your friend keeps cheating on their partners over and over again, and you can tell it's destructive to everyone involved, including your friend, aren't you morally compelled to intervene, at least in *some* way?
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this gets into really weird moral territory but I do think most of us have thresholds both for how much we care and what we consider to be a non-invasive but sufficient intervention to attempt to fix something we perceive to be an actual problem
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I do think it's a problem to have an outdoor cat without an ID yeah, because you're putting them at huge risk of getting lost and never finding their way back
but yeah, most people are probably a lot more careless about that than both me and the current law think they should be
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I think the most reasonable explanation I can think of is that
1. I appear more concerned than most people to them
2. they then assume I don't know the cat is probably fine
3. they think I'm worried in a situation where I don't need to be
4. they'd like to reassure me that it's probably fine
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I know that I, at least personally, have a really hard time receiving reassurances, because it legitimately comes across as either lying to me, or, downplaying my concerns, which probably colors my intuitions on this quite a lot
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but I also don't quite know how to respond when they're effectively asking me to drop it w/o providing any actual evidence that I should
like imagine finding a human child who's clearly too young to be out alone, and someone says "well there's lots of families in the area, don't worry :)"
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after it's happened multiple times it makes me wonder if I'm actually going crazy, bc it legit feels like I can't properly parse/understand people and/or phrase my questions in a way to make my intentions clear, so it almost feels like my introspection machinery is broken which is, scary?
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it low-key feels like they want to help me rather than the cat, which, is weird to me, because, I'm perfectly fine?
or are they suspicious of me and want me to drop it and stop "being weird"?
or do they think I'm in the wrong to want to inquire about a cat with no identifiers?
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I get the sense that they think I'm overly worried and that they want to reassure me that it's almost certainly fine
but like, I don't really need reassurance? I just want to find out if this cat is lost, so I can help the lil guy and report a found cat in various lost cat databases if so
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we don't talk about image formats
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i... I'm not sure
I didn't even know changing the basis was an option and I feel like this chart can't capture what just happened
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the alternative would be to keep the {X,Y,Z} basis order, change all editor/rendering/input/rotation alignment code to match right handed Y up/Z forward, which would almost certainly break/rotate/mirror a ton of existing projects/code
there was also the option to leave it as is lol
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in terms of the algebra, the order of the basis doesn't actually matter at all, but in code and sometimes in math when converting from vector form to matrix form, it's pretty much always implied that
[0] = x
[1] = y
[2] = z
and you generally assume that order when reading/parsing buffers of data
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it's for verse/UEFN only right now
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oh there is no vector2 lol
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this isn't even on the chart this is some secret third thing ahah
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they really went for the secret third option huh
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that part is fine imo! that's just what happens in a right handed Y up Z forward system
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me: the one thing we can all agree on is that it's always XYZ in RGB colors, in that order!
unreal:
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"at the whims of my brain..."
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Siri is still lost yeah, Simba is a different cat!
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he'd been gone for about 12 hours when I started searching, and then I found him after 1 hour or so, at most!
some of the time was spent just talking to the owner to get info on what exactly happened, what Simba's personality and experience with humans and the outdoors is like, and giving advice
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..I really wish I took a picture as she was getting him out from the bramble but I was too emotionally invested at the time ;-;
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4. know that your cat will hide in silence, they will not speak up to get your attention
5. bring a treat bag or something you know your cat has a positive association with, and crinkle with it at unpredictable intervals in order to get your cat to look at you, in order to see their eye reflections
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1. don't wait to let neighbors know
2. don't wait to get help from others
3. use a headlight (or, less ideally, a flashlight or phone flashlight), place it as close to your eyes as possible - this will illuminate cat eyes in the dark, especially effective at night
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something ppl might not know is that scared cats are *silent*. even towards you as their parent, they won't speak up until they feel safe
when I spotted Simba's eyes in some bramble, I called his mom over to get closer
the way simba meowed as soon as her hand reached him 🥺🧡 a very relieved lil guy
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hah, I'm glad
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he's literally just a standard issue tabby cat
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the scopes usually have that feature too, but this was just as a FoV measurement
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also I've decided my phone takes pictures but my DSLM takes photos