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Valve has released its source code and the possibilities are huge

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Valve just Release the source code of ‘Team Fortress 2’. This game, considered one of the parents of the Hero Shootershas been spinning since 2007 (how hard it has been to write that) and is one of Steam’s best known and popular titles. Few online games that have been in the market for almost 20 years can say that they bring together more than 20,000 players daily. Today your code become free (With certain conditions) and that means one thing: that a huge range of possibilities opens. What happened. Valve, the company behind Steam, has published a huge update of the Source SDK that adds “the entire client and server code of ‘Team Fortress 2′”. Basically, from now on any person with the appropriate knowledge could make their own ‘TF 2’. This sdk, They explain from Valve“It offers mods creators the possibility of changing, expanding or rewriting ‘TF2’, making possible from small touch -ups to complete conversions.” But huh, no money. Valve has covered his back well with this. The SDK is licensed with a non -commercial base, that is, “any mod created using the SDK must be free”, as well as any content included in these mods. However, if someone uses the ‘Team Fortress 2’ code to create, for example, an action and adventure game in the first person, they can publish it in Steam and appear as a new game. Whenever it is free, there are no limitations. Se (can come) little things. The world of mods is spectacular. There are many games that we have today whose origin dates back to Mods of other games. For example, ‘Counter Strike‘It was, in the beginning, a mod of’Half life‘. The first ‘Team Fortress’ was a mod of’Quake‘ and ‘Deta Auto Chess‘It is, indeed, a mod of’ dota 2 ‘whose origin is, in turn, a mod of’Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos‘Call’ Defense of the Ancients’ (hence the acronym, Dota). As regards ‘Team Fortress 2’, if it was already a living game now has all the ballots to be even more. We are not talking about modders can Add maps or weapons modelsbut to make deep changes to the point that new games look like. Let’s think about making a racing game, a tactical shooter, an Moba, the options are practically infinite. Valve’s future. Everything points to what goes through ‘Deadlock‘. It is a secret project (which is very little secret) that consists in combining the genre Moba with the Hero Shooter. It is located in an early stage of development, but more than 10,000 people say it. It has no release date, requirements, nothing at all, but is in the oven. When will it come out? We will have to wait. Image | Valve In Xataka | If you like ‘Doom’, the mod called ‘Doom Zero’ that includes 32 new levels can already be enjoyed in consoles, mobiles and PC

I wanted to set up my own Google photos. I have achieved it thanks to a wonderful alternative Open Source

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I have a particular obsession to have my photos well organized. As I have been fighting with this for a few years, I have tried a good handful of solutions, and for example I enjoyed Picasa –Google killed him, like Reader– And I also tried solutions like Synology photos Following the steps From my partner Alejandro Nieto. The goal has always been the same: Google photos of Googlea service that is wonderful but that like other services in the cloud, it worries me because I don’t know what my photos can be used. They assure They are not used for advertising purposes, but can be used to improve their automatic learning algorithms in image recognition. A custom nas The cloud is fantastic in many things and for many users, but as I say, I preferred to mount it at my home. Recently I counted this whole search process and tests in more detail in my blogand now I wanted to take advantage of it also in Xataka. About a year ago looking for new alternatives, and to achieve a decision I rode a nas With 30 hard drive, 4 TB of SSD and a modest plate and processor because it sought more efficiency than power. My NAS, in a Jonsbo N2 box with hard drives bays. There was also detailed research process to choose the operating system with which to control everything. There are many and varied options for NAS, although I would say that among the most prominent are unraid, thunder (formerly Freenes), proxmox, OpenMediavault or Casaos. After documenting, reading and watching videos I ended up deciding on Unraida very veteran and respected project. The “Starter” license costs 49 dollars and is valid for machines with up to six disk units, and I thought it was very good option. Putting everything in motion took some time: this is not like installing Windows on a PC, and I also wanted to have a very specific configuration to use the ZFS file system for the three hard disk units configured in Raidz (Raidz1 ), Something that when I settled I had just started to be available in Unraid. Solved that, I migrated all the data of my old NAS, an old Synology DS-212J who gave me many joys but that began to fall short in many things. That also took time, because I wanted to take the opportunity to reorganize the small chaos in which some folders that had used almost as “digital storages” had become. Testing alternatives to Google photos Once that was resolved, I could start trying different alternatives to manage my photos. Here Unraid is especially wonderful, because it allows (like other systems for NAS, certainly) to assemble services separately and easily isolated, especially thanks to Docker. UNRAID’s “App Store” with the different types of autosted services that you can install on your server at click. That makes you become 5, 10 or 100 servers. Those you want and those that your hardware allows, of course. And the same with virtual machines, that I do not use just but that are an equally interesting option to get your server more. I have ended up installing about 15 servers in my nas, although the vast majority are usually deactivated. Be that as it may, Unraid has its own “App Store”and in it there are dozens and dozens of possible services that you can ride on your server to run them from there and have your own cloud essence with your local services. There are alternatives for almost everything that exists on the Internet: you can mount your email, music, your web server, download, databases, or, of course … photos. And this is where it was time to try alternatives that seemed interesting and on which I had already investigated. Others met them along the way, but thanks to Unraid and Docker’s magic starting these alternatives is a matter of minutes. Then, of course, there is an import process of the photos – if you have many, that can take to days – but I reduced the import to a small subset of photos for the tests. First of all, I must say that what is clear is that in this field there is everything, and for all. The options are very varied both in their reach and in their way of “attacking” the problem, but I had certain priorities. In essence I wanted a good alternative to Google photos that inherited its virtues (interface, chronological organization, favorite management, perhaps facial and object recognition). Photosyructure is an original, different and very powerful alternative. That made some projects quickly discard that they did not fit me but that can be great for many users. Among them were Piwigo, Photonix, Chevereto, Damselfly, Lycheeeither PhotoViewbut there are certainly more. The thing however interesting with Some really serious and very striking alternatives. I had already tried Photosyructure And I loved his interface with that first page of random photo team, but they did not fit their favorite management (subscription to enable that option) or its interface, which is not focused on the chronological order. LIBHOTOS I looked great, but it was not easily installed (I was not in the “App Store” of Unraid) and gave me many problems, probably because I did something wrong when riding it. I also tried NextCloud Photos, curious option if you are already users of NextCloud Photos and its improved version, Memoriesbut the interface and some options were not entirely fine. The one who really put things difficult was Photoprismone of the most popular options among those looking for alternatives to Google photos. His options are extraordinary, and the only thing that really backed down is that it seems to me an option that focuses more on organizing your photos (the power here is amazing) than to enjoy them. The interface did not fall in love either, but it always remained as a great candidate if other options did not convince me anymore. I finally discovered a candidate … Read more

What is it, how does this Chinese artificial intelligence of open source do for the creation of videos

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Let’s explain What is Goku Aia new artificial intelligence model of video generation. When we were still recovering from the irruption of Deepseek In the sector, the Chinese technology company Bytedance has launched a totally revolutionary model fear. We are going to start this article telling you what exactly Goku AI is, and the two reasons why this model is so revolutionary. Then we will try to explain how it works inside, and we will end up telling you the possibilities offered This new model. What is Goku ai Goku ai is a new artificial intelligence model trained to be able to Generate video from the text. It becomes something like the AIs that generate images, you tell him what you want it to appear in the video, and this will generate one from scratch. This model is completely revolutionary for two things. The first is by The incredible quality of its results. The IA of videos creation has not yet reached the general public, and we have been seeing how realistic mediocre results pass. This AI is positioned among the most realistic in what can be generated with it. But the most disruptive is that it is again An open source model Available for everyone in GITHUB. As with others such as Deepseek, this means that anyone can access it and replicate it, and you can also use your code to settle for free on devices. Of course, there is currently no distilled models of Goku that can be used in normal computers, and the complete model needs very powerful GPUs and technical knowledge to settle. Even so, we should soon see the arrival of distilled models that you can use with Some of the free tools To install an AI on your computer. But come on, for you to get the idea, so far the most popular artificial intelligence models were closed and could only be used paying. Meanwhile, Goku arrives in this new wave of China with open source models that can be used for free. How Goku AI works This artificial intelligence model works as a video generation model based on flow and fed by a rectified flow transformer (RTF), which helps Improve your quality and efficacy. With this technology you can refine the images and each frame of the video progressively, making movements transitions soft and have a high visual fidelity. The video creation process begins when a user writes in text format what he wants to see, or even when he shares images. Then, the model understands what you are asking for with your natural language and converts these elements into structured representations. Then use a rectified flow dynamic to improve photograms interpolation, reduce noise, and try to guarantee good continuity. As a final step, Goku synthesizes coherent video sequences with fluid transitions. As for its technologies, the RFT allows you to maintain a good quality minimizing the computational load of the process. The process also uses A neural rendering with which to guarantee that the generated video has realistic movements and fluid transitions, and that there are no grotesque results. An architecture based on transformers is also used to model temporary units in video sequences. With all this, the resulting videos should be very realistic, and even static images can be encouraged. What can this AI do The main function that can be expected of this AI is the possibility of Generate videos from text. You write what you want the video to have, and generate an animated video with natural movements and realistic environments from nothing. It can also be used to convert images into animated clips. You can give you an image that will analyze and understand, and then you will describe what you want me to generate from it and make you an animation. This can be a real revolution in many areas, because the resulting people are realistic, the effects of clothing and textures are also, and objects move normally. Everything you can think of you can ask for it, and as it will be open source it is logical to think that it will have fewer restrictions. In Xataka Basics | Deepseek guide: 36 functions and things you can do for free with this artificial intelligence

A Japanese study is being able to transform methane into a clean energy source: turquorogen turquorogen

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Green hydrogen is the best known for its production from renewable energy, becoming One of the cleanest options. However, there are other types of hydrogen that can be of less to more pollutants. Among which we are going to highlight turquoise hydrogen, because it has aroused interest in its production process from methane without emitting CO₂. Turquoise hydrogen. The Japanese company Ebara has begun to investigate The main benefits of using turquoise hydrogen in front of other types of hydrogen. In his studies he has found in this gas a clean alternative that comes from methane contained in natural gas or biogas. The National Institute of Materials Sciences and the University of Shizuoka participate in the project, as well as the Taiyo Koko material manufacturer. In addition, the initiative is part of the Organization for the Development of New Energies and Industrial Technologies, promoted by the Japanese Government. How is the process? The Japanese company has concentrated its work on the pyrolysis of methane, that is, in trying to separate hydrogen and solid carbon into different reactors. From this work, more efficient hydrogen can be produced without compromising the quality or amount of carbon generated. In addition, when separating solid carbon, the possibility of using it in a variety of industries, such as the manufacture of tires, carbon fibers for cars and airplanes, among others, is opened. What happens in Spain? If we have to talk about hydrogen and methanewe can talk about Spain, but before that a recent report has detailed that the Iberian Peninsula leads the energy transition with 82% of clean electricity. Spain has stood out for ambitious initiatives, such as the H2Med corridorwhich aims to create an infrastructure for the distribution of green hydrogen between Spain, France and other countries in Europe. For its part, the biomethane It is presented As an interesting option in the context of the transition towards cleaner and sustainable energy, being one of the sources to produce hydrogen without CO₂ emissions, as demanded by the growing energy industry. Turkish hydrogen forecasts. The future of turquoise hydrogen seems promising and Spain could become a great energy hub if combines the different projects that are underway. For its part, the Ebara company hopes to have its production process ready for marketing around 2026. In addition, the combination of clean hydrogen with solid carbon industrial applications opens new opportunities for the use of these materials in key sectors, such as automotive and aviation, which could transform not only energy, but also entire industries. Everything remains in Navarra. Apart from producing hydrogen through methane, there are also other investigations to continue taking advantage of this gas. A group of engineers from the same Autonomous Community managed to develop A solution by transforming the way clean energy occurs from methane. This research, focused on a technique of decomposition of methane, promises to offer a sustainable natural gas alternative without generating carbon dioxide emissions (CO₂). Image | Pixabay Xataka | The largest recorded methane is just a warning: we have been underestimating this greenhouse gas for decades

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