Craig Mason

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@CompaniesHouse Is the "find and update" service down? Getting error 502.

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@PatrickChristys lol was it Hypnotits? 😂

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@benmcbean There really are some sausages on X....

Glad the fund is going strong 💪

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@RoyalMail What's going on in Plymouth? We've had letters dispatched on 2nd April which still haven't arrived. PL5.

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@michaeljknowles Your lighting looks like a different colour temperature to the background behind, that's why it's looking green-screen / composited.

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@benmcbean and then PCC used this as justification to remove your blue badge!
Still annoys me...

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@F1 Temu chroma-key.

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@TimSweeneyEpic it's something that should have been done many years ago and become the cultural and technical norm. Now, governments are trying to apply band-aids to catch up. Both sides should have done better much sooner.

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Today on X..

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@StartBayInn Oh no this is awful :( Good luck with today.

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@KirstieMAllsopp @windgieindgie Remember, what you see on Twitter/X is not a true reflection of the real world. Both extremes are amplified.

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Had an interesting time speaking with @NickyAACampbell on Radio 5 Live this morning. First time on live, a little discombobulating hearing the show + producers talking to you. No briefings or warnings from the producers, just straight on live within 2 minutes of getting the call.

I figured there would be a whole set of warnings beforehand about language, all kinds of things... but nope, straight on. "What would you like to say?".

It was a very important discussion about social media usage for teens. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

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Netflix using Temu microphones tonight... I can barely hear Kate.

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Cloudflare - and thus, X - seems to be having a few problems this hour...

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I'd say this strongly depends on whether the "error" was domain/business logic, or infrastructure/server.

Errors pertaining to authorization to access a resource are perfectly good use cases for HTTP error codes, but it would also be entirely justified to use a 200 OK response, but return a specific application-layer error enumeration.

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@Value_Theory @BorisJohnson The Government is not in charge of the BBC. Funding is done indirectly through the licence fee, to *ensure* that the BBC is funded without intervention from the gvt. Boris would have had zero control over the BBC or its output.

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My child's phone has Qustodio installed to monitor social media messaging and flag up any potentially harmful content.

90% of the warnings are from me 😐

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@iBrews @NathieVR I think it's on sale today in the US, but not in the UK :(

I'm still looking for info on whether it can use a wired PC link and what its OpenXR runtime offers.

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@tom_krikorian @iBrews @TinaDebove @sixtine_rose @Frankdavid @florentmorin That must have been a fun discussion with your insurance company!

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I started switching over directly to OpenXR and not using any Meta plugins. I recently developed a plugin to support the `XR_EXT_hand_interaction` extension, which is supported in Quest headsets: https://t.co/G2JMd90ytJ

It's still great to see Meta providing new code samples though. But I did find for portability, going direct to OpenXR is always the best option.

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Demo of @UnrealEngine 5.6 with @OpenXR, I have implemented `XR_EXT_hand_interaction` to grab Aim, Pinch, Poke and Grip/Grasp poses without requiring any vendor-specific plugins or modules.

All encapsulated within an single Plugin, purely using OpenXR.

This is paired with a Physics Asset with associated colliders and constraints, controlled by a Physics Control Asset to enable physics interaction with realistic blocking/environment interaction.

No grab mechanics in here, purely relying on friction and collision.

Currently running on Quest 3 via Link, but also working over Steam Link directly with hand tracking data passed through. Should support any runtime that provides the hand interaction extensions.