douglasg14b
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- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 days ago:
That is parallelized… I didn’t make mention of threading being the concern here.
The 100+ billion operations per second isn’t exactly easy.
4k 60fps = 498 million pixels per second
Each pixel takes a couple hundred logical operations with HEVC.
A modern high end 4GHz, 8 physical core CPU at 4 instructions per cycle, at maximum capacity, can handle 128 billion operations per second.
You probably wouldn’t even get your realtime framerate in this scenario.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 days ago:
Yeah, because of the ASICs built into them to enable that decoding.
Without that, a 4K HEVC video is in upwards of 100+ billion operations/s to decide on the CPU. Which limits you to high end CPUs getting capped out on something you essentially get for “free” otherwise
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
This isn’t tech news, go post your Elon spam somewhere else
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 days ago:
Almost nothing you mentioned here has to do with accessibility and accessibility tooling.
I get the feeling that most of the people replying here and downvoting the folks that are right don’t actually know what accessibility means.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 days ago:
It’s not about being better than everything else.
It’s about literally maintaining the same capabilities that it had before that don’t alienate an entire class of users.
Accessibility apis are non-optional for accessibility tools that many individuals require in order to use their device effectively.
That’s a pretty big difference from what you seem to be thinking. We’re not talking about how the user interface looks here.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 days ago:
I mean if you rely on accessibility apis you’re not going to use it because it’s not there… You literally cannot use the OS because you require accessibility tools to use your computer effectively.
And implying that someone should just make it their own is kind of asinine. This is a big shift in the Linux Desktop ecosystem that one person cannot affect when decisions have already been made and contributions that go against project decisions are not necessarily welcome.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 days ago:
Accessibility apis on Windows and Mac actually work and are actually consistent.
They’re only consistent across Linux Desktop environments if you are using X11. Wayland kills that
I think most of the commenters that are replying to me or completely missing this point
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 days ago:
Too bad Linux completely abandoned accessibility with Wayland by putting accessibility API implementations up to the distros. Which, by far, don’t. And when they do it’s fragmented as fuck.
Making Linux an absolute no go for anyone that needs accessibility tools like Talon, which does work on X11 APIs. Since those were actually consistent.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
Not a single one of the robot vacuums that I’ve bought in the last 2 years seem to be able to function without internet access.
It’s asinine.
Also they break down so freaking fast. It’s not even funny. Even worse when the part that’s broken is non-replaceable and it’s like a $3 part.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 weeks ago:
To other companies?
There is a lot movement opportunity for experienced developers still.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 weeks ago:
Honestly same thing here. They didn’t even do internships anymore.
They don’t seem to be hiring anyone that’s not a senior engineer either.
They also have been regularly laying off folks every year or more than once a year but not backfilling. So workloads are up.
Couple of this with them freezing promotions and now they’re risking high performers leaving because they aren’t being considered and rewarded for their contribution levels and engagement.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 weeks ago:
Other countries are doing it to themselves, no need to do anything explicitly.
I mean, look at the shit hole that is the U.S. now. They are u doing themselves just fine and giving victories to their adversaries.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I mean, large corps like Meta get away with straight up piracy these days.
Laws only matter if you’re not part of the ruling class.
- Comment on Server notifications on fedi 3 weeks ago:
Development time and user support?
These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but corpos get a pass on anything and everything.
The rest of us peons don’t
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 3 weeks ago:
Does it support multi-tenancy?
For instance, being a backup and media manager solution for multiple people in my family hosted on one server.
The same with a few friends that want to get out from under Google’s thumb.
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 3 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah, probably all of these things.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.
The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.
But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.
Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
Accept that grid scale batterys are largely a pipe dream.
The largest battery banks in the world can provide a meager few minutes of grid power.
Battery storage is beyond infeasible at this time. Pumped hydro is far more cost effective, but limited to certain geographical locations, and often quite limited in capacity
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention the fact that the grand majority of federalized services have extremely unsustainable performance characteristics that make them effectively impossible to scale from hobby projects
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 4 weeks ago:
Once you put anything on the public internet these days, it will be harvest by corporations and used against you eventually
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 5 weeks ago:
Joke’s on them. My coffee maker has a physical button!
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 5 weeks ago:
This is a good reason to start investing in multi region architecture at some point.
Not trying to be smug here or anything, but we updated a single config value, made a PR, and committed the change and we were switched over to a different region in a few minutes. Smooth sailing after that.
(This is still dependent to some degree on AWS in order to actually execute the failover, something we’re mulling over how to solve)
Now, our work demands we invest in such things, we’re even investing in multi-cloud (an actual nightmare). Not everyone can do this, and some systems are just not built to be able to, but if it’s within reach it’s probably worth it.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 5 weeks ago:
There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.
It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.
If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain mobile data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.
- Comment on Miami-Dade PD just rolled out PUG, a fully autonomous AI-powered police cruiser. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. 1 month ago:
Seems rather passive. Bucket of epoxy seems more appropriate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This isn’t technology news.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 month ago:
This… Is a very possible future
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month ago:
Most obtuse comment thus far.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 1 month ago:
This essentially sums up cutting education and ramping propaganda.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 1 month ago:
This… Doesn’t work at all here.
Generally, you’re long past this point.