#firestorm — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #firestorm, aggregated by home.social.
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This DC Next Level One Shot Is Quite Literal https://popgeeks.com/this-dc-next-level-one-shot-is-quite-literal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DCComics #NextLevel #Batwoman #Deathstroke #Firestorm
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This DC Next Level One Shot Is Quite Literal https://popgeeks.com/this-dc-next-level-one-shot-is-quite-literal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DCComics #NextLevel #Batwoman #Deathstroke #Firestorm
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This DC Next Level One Shot Is Quite Literal https://popgeeks.com/this-dc-next-level-one-shot-is-quite-literal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DCComics #NextLevel #Batwoman #Deathstroke #Firestorm
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American comic book writer #GerryConway has died #Punisher #Ms.Marvel #Spider-Man #Firestorm #Batman #JusticeLeagueofAmerica
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American comic book writer #GerryConway has died #Punisher #Ms.Marvel #Spider-Man #Firestorm #Batman #JusticeLeagueofAmerica
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Donald Trump gave an account of the attack that took place at a gala dinner in Washington, where he, several members of the US government, and over a thousand j... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43468 | #news #addresses #amid #dismissing #firestorm
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Donald Trump gave an account of the attack that took place at a gala dinner in Washington, where he, several members of the US government, and over a thousand j... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43468 | #news #addresses #amid #dismissing #firestorm
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Donald Trump gave an account of the attack that took place at a gala dinner in Washington, where he, several members of the US government, and over a thousand j... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43468 | #news #addresses #amid #dismissing #firestorm
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Donald Trump gave an account of the attack that took place at a gala dinner in Washington, where he, several members of the US government, and over a thousand j... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43468 | #news #addresses #amid #dismissing #firestorm
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Firestorm Labs Demonstrates Expeditionary Manufacturing Capability in Rome, New York
Senator Gillibrand visits Firestorm facility to see American-made defense technology in action ROME, NY / ACCESS Newswire /…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #Firestorm #FirestormLabs #SenatorGillibrand #SenatorKirstenGillibrand
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really #firestorm? an o rly? meme in 2026 😂
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Firestorm "His brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living " Sale: $30 to $6.99 by Jacob Soboroff Rating: 4.3/5 (394 Reviews) #Firestorm #LosAngeles #Wildfire #Memoir #Disaster #Journalism #Climate #BookSky
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Ukraine unleashes night firestorm on Russian depots, ammo stocks, and command posts
Ukraine targets the arteries of the Russian aggression.#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #firestorm #depots #ammo #CommandPosts #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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Ukraine unleashes night firestorm on Russian depots, ammo stocks, and command posts
Ukraine targets the arteries of the Russian aggression.#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #firestorm #depots #ammo #CommandPosts #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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Ukraine unleashes night firestorm on Russian depots, ammo stocks, and command posts
Ukraine targets the arteries of the Russian aggression.#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #firestorm #depots #ammo #CommandPosts #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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Ukraine unleashes night firestorm on Russian depots, ammo stocks, and command posts
Ukraine targets the arteries of the Russian aggression.#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #firestorm #depots #ammo #CommandPosts #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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Ukraine unleashes night firestorm on Russian depots, ammo stocks, and command posts
Ukraine targets the arteries of the Russian aggression.#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #firestorm #depots #ammo #CommandPosts #warfare #army #war #Russia #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers #defenders
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#OTD Ist anniversary
Interview with author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster.” -
#OTD Ist anniversary
Interview with author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster.” -
#OTD Ist anniversary
Interview with author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster.” -
#OTD Ist anniversary
Interview with author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster.” -
#OTD Ist anniversary
Interview with author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster.” -
"Forest Culture in Relation to Industrial Pursuits", 1 8 7 1
Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller on forestry:"Strange as it may appear, an impression seems to be prevailing in these communities, as if our forests have to serve no other purposes but to provide wood for our immediate and present wants, be it fuel or timber."
"For even after warning of climatic changes, and after the commencing scarcity of wood, no forest administration … has been as yet initiated in any portion of Australia". Wilderness remained "unguarded" and in some places was "already annihilated".
"No statesman, I feel assured, would want to impoverish our woods at the expense of the next generation."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-09/melbourne-cbd-bourke-street-car-crash-one-dead-five-injured/102834812
#ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #NSWlogging #NativeForests #ClearFelling #destruction #degradation #StateForests #SaveTuckersNob #fires #firestorm #bushfires #colonial #plantations #botany #koalas #climate #biodiversity #NatureRights #commons #Ecology #biosphere #EnvironmentalManagementImage: Koala habitat: Bellingen, Tuckers Nob State Forest, 2023
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The decision by the Association of Family Businesses (Familienunternehmer-Verband) to open channels for dialogue with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has igni... https://news.osna.fm/?p=24668 | #news #afd #business #dialogue #firestorm
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#Secondlife #Firestorm 15th birthday party.
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#SecondLife #Firestorm's birthday formally took place yesterday, but the anniversary party is on Saturday.
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PISTOLITA GUNN, DANOS #FIRESTORM EN EL #DCU
Queremos a Firestorm y los elementales en #cine, con #SwampThing, #AnimalMan, y más.
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Eight minutes really is short for this... Basically it was just an action scene and reveal (to viewers) of an in-organisation traitor.
The puppets were also... Not puppety enough?
Maybe more time, a series with various reveals coming mire slowly..?
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More #FirestormArmada. Pink underlayer, ProAcryl Warm Yellow airbrushed top layer, PA Golden Yellow edge highlights. The metallic parts are a payne's grey base, then Vallejo game air silver and PA Burgundy gradient for the lenses.
These Sorylians will be the last of my old Spartan FSA. I've got no inspiration for the Terrans and there's a friend I'd rather give them to and see what he comes up with.
#spaceships #wargaming #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures
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Still working through an old box of Spartan #FirestormArmada models. The game is having an odd little resurgence at my local, and this brings me up to two fully painted basic fleets. The paint job is ivory and burgundy (Pro Acryl) base layers with a black wash and heavy brighter drybrushing. I wanted a slightly mottled and worn look. And of course the plunging red slash the dagger-like warships need.
#spaceships #wargaming #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures
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Distrobox is neat!
So I've been running #Firestorm for #SecondLife against a local Mesa build in #Debian because Debian has ancient crap versions of everything. I like the stability but running modern stuff can involve a lot of workarounds, sometimes distro breaking workarounds.
And now I can just spin up Bazzite, and launch Firestorm without the local Mesa... and it actually gives me better performance in some locations than the old solution!
Get what I like about Debian without the downsides(at the cost of some disk space, but that's a small cost) or the VM shenanigans I'd have previously used. #Linux -
#SecondLife #Firestorm 'New features coming soon (part 2)'
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Goofing around with some old #FirestormArmada Aquan spaceships. There's a guy at the local with a humongous collection that came out of hiding and I'd forgotten how much I like the game. Especially compared to the bloated lumbering mess that the third edition of #DystopianWars has become (the publisher actually agrees with me, they're working on a new edition to fix those problems).
#spaceships #wargaming #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures
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#SecondLife "Some statistics – #Firestorm versions, who’s running what?" - also, a survey.
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The "Linux Early Access (Beta Channel) – 7.1.12.77211" version of Firestorm fixed most of the FPS drops and lag I had with Second Life. If you left SL because of lag, you may want to check out the same version for your operating system.
https://www.firestormviewer.org/early-access-beta-downloads/
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Wasn't online at all yesterday, gathering strength.
Today, I have paid-subscribed to 7 newsletters to help support independent journalism, in addition to continuing to support The Guardian, Pro Publica, Mother Jones and others who support the truth.
If you can, you might want to, as well.
Take care of yourselves, but if you're able, don't turn away. This is actually happening.
1/n
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Hackaday Links: January 12, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/hackaday-links-january-12-2025/ #HackadayColumns #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #amateurradio #SuperScooper #enforcement #interactive #california #WheelChair #firestorm #aviation #pasadena #labcoat #atlas #drone #space #fire #fcc #ham #jpl
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Hackaday Links: January 12, 2025 - The big news story of the week of course has been the wildfires in California, whi... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/12/hackaday-links-january-12-2025/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #amateurradio #superscooper #enforcement #interactive #california #wheelchair #firestorm #aviation #pasadena #labcoat #atlas #drone #space #fire #fcc #ham #jpl
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#fires #firestorm #pasadenafires I’m feeling a wee bit weird right now. I live near the periphery of the Eaton fire, LA, Pasadena, and have 0 to fear, odds are great but I live in a large building, and just realized that I am the only one on my floor still here out of 11 units. Empty halls. The rest have gone south to avoid bad air quality or worse. Forty people still in this historic 7 floor building, but none are left on my floor. Feels creepy as hell. Tho’ I know it’s very safe.
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Monday Miscellany!
This week:
- Examples of #prayer
- #Isaiah 40-66
- #Bible readings
- #cat tax: Bucky
- On the #Internets: Jesse Jackson and White Evangelicalism
- Book reviews: #totalitarianism, #firestormPlease read, share, and subscribe!
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University researchers confirm fire-generated tornado over British Columbia lake
Researchers from Canada’s Northern Tornadoes Project say they began an extensive investigation after a video was posted showing an "intense vortex" over Gun Lake in southwest BC during a "raging nighttime wildfire."
#ExtremeWeather #FireStorm #Firenado #FireWhirl #fire #tornado
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A Fire Tornado? Yes, They’re Real — and Dangerous
A video posted by the British Columbia Wildfire Service captured the ‘intensely rotating columns of gas and flame’ of a wildfire tornado
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/25/Fire-Tornado-Real-Dangerous/
#tornado #firenado #firestorm #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather
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Good news: Early access to Firestorm beta versions is for everyone now. And yes, there's a new beta version, 7.1.10. @Hyacinth 🏳️⚧️ ☮️ already said there's some improvement over the "stable" 7.1.9.
[Installation noises]
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@Austin Tate I guess it'll really only work on USB VR headsets attached to machines with fairly recent, fairly high-end hardware, especially if guaranteed 60fps are the goal.
I'm running upper-mid-range hardware from ca. 2018, and I'm one of the lucky few OpenSim users for whom Firestorm 7.1.9 works well enough to have become the new daily driver, also because it's so fast. Still, with a few more avatars in my field of vision, the fps drop under 60 even with shadows and ambient occlusion off. And that's without VR.
I guess stand-alone headsets with passively-cooled mobile hardware won't stand a chance.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #Firestorm #FirestormViewer -
I, for one, love the high dynamic range in Firestorm 7.1.9. It made me notice how faded and subdued everything was before.
Pity that it's still eight months until next Cornflakes Week.
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CW: Impressions of the first Firestorm version with PBR support; CW: long (over 5,300 characters)
Just yesterday, the Firestorm team released the Firestorm Viewer 7.1.9.74745. Although they only advertise the new version for Second Life, the OpenSim variants have been upgraded, too.
So @Juno Rowland, my little in-world sister, helped me test it and travelled around a bit.
Firestorm 7 introduced three major changes. The first one is the introduction of Physically-Based Rendering. The second one, along with it, is that the Advanced Lighting Model is now permanently on. This caused a lot of commotion in the Second Life and OpenSim communities and fearmongering that Second Life and OpenSim will now require high-end gaming machines.
The third change, however, is the introduction of multi-threading. Up until Firestorm 6, the viewer was single-threaded, and only one CPU core was ever used. So if your Firestorm was slow, that probably wasn't because it drove your hardware to its limits but because it actually didn't. In contrast, Firestorm 7 makes use of all CPU cores. And the test drive was done on a not-quite-new-anymore AMD CPU with six cores and a dozen threads.
So after Juno had logged in, Firestorm produced a rather stable 60fps. Then again, that wasn't too unusual, given she didn't exactly login with a toaster, and the graphics settings were lowered somewhat. So she turned ambient occlusion on. Still 60fps. She turned shadows on. Still 60fps. Then she went for the new settings. Screen Space Reflections. Still 60fps, although there wasn't that much around her that was reflective. Even with mirrors on and reflection detail set to realtime, the fps didn't drop, only the CPU and GPU fans howled increasingly.
It did show that the new Firestorm and its new rendering engine are still a bit rough around the edges. Ambient occlusion under nothing but sunlight and ambient light seems a lot grainier now. The water surface is somewhat prone to tearing. And with mirrors on, it produces nasty cyan, magenta and yellow artifacts.
Still, Firestorm 7 stayed blazing fast. So we decided to challenge it a bit. Juno put on a Clutterfly Ruffled Bottom Dress, notorious for raising your avatar rendering complexity by a whopping half million, and then she went to Lbsa Plaza.
Lbsa Plaza promised to be a challenge for two reasons. One, it's Blinn-Phong galore now with a floor texture that's both specular-mapped and normal-mapped, and it has a lot of stuff standing around that'll demand its share of graphics power. Since its redesign, it looks like Nexus Storm of Neverworld fame had a part in it because she actually did. Two, you're practically never alone, and if there's something that eats into your graphics performance, it's avatars.
At this time of day, only few avatars were around plus the usual few animesh figures. With three or four avatars on-screen and shadows and ambient occlusion still on, Firestorm still delivered 50fps or more. Even with eight avatars, it didn't go under 40fps. Firestorm 6 would be lucky to reach 20fps without shadow and without ambient occlusion in the same situation on the same hardware.
Also at Lbsa Plaza, there is a sci-fi helmet on display with very detailed glossy surfaces and various bruises on it. It really demonstrates what the new Firestorm can do. I'm not sure, but it may actually already have been built using PBR materials. After all, this should be possible, seeing as OSgrid still is the same experimental grid as which it was launched back in 2007, and Lbsa Plaza runs on a development version of OpenSim from Wednesday evening. But that helmet didn't cut into the performance at all.
Something else we've noticed: When an avatar with a facelight teleports out, the illumination by the facelight disappears immediately.
Juno's next stopover was the Dereos Grid, the PSSMG Freebie Mall, to be more specific. It's a very detail-rich mixture of classic prim construction and custom meshes. This particular sim, being an "official" sim of the grid, runs on a special version of OpenSim. It used to be the ArribaSim fork, but Arriba itself stopped being developed even before OpenSim 0.8.2.1. It was then forked by Freaky Tech and eventually forked again or taken over by grid admin Akira Sonoda. In fact, it doesn't even have all features of OpenSim 0.9.1.0 included; for example, it still doesn't support universal layers, nor does it support BoM scripting. In fact, Bakes-on-Mesh itself was backported from a newer vanilla version because Arriba's development came to a halt before BoM was introduced to vanilla.
And so the newest and most advanced Firestorm met a not really up-to-date OpenSim.
First of all, the FPS dropped to something between 20 and 35 while looking at the town from an elevated location, depending on what was visible. This has to be due to the many details and being out in the open.
I've also noticed a reflective ground that didn't reflect a building immediately adjacent. Otherwise there was no trouble that I might attribute to the new version.
One bug that persists, however, is that Firestorm renders certain surfaces on certain mesh objects persistently and reproducibly as plain white.
All in all, however, I'll stick with the new version, seeing as how performant it has grown.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #PhysicallyBasedRendering #PBR #Firestorm #FirestormViewer
