Kushan
@Kushan@lemmy.world
Formerly /u/neoKushan on reddit
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a joke.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
People blame Google for the death of jabber because of one blog post from a disgruntled contributor but the truth is jabber was never popular and Google chat died as well.
Jabber was a mess, most of the clients were barely compatible with Each other and it was a wild west of feature support. Some clients were well featured with the ability to send richer messages, but typically only worked with a specific server and the same clients. Jabber did a crap job at making sure clients and servers interacted properly with each other and didn’t push the standards quickly enough, forcing clients to do their own thing.
Which is all Google did, they went their own way because nobody used jabber and the interoperability was causing more harm than good. It didn’t work, Google talk died and many years later clients like WhatsApp took over instead.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
Yup I’m with you here. I love KBM and it’s my preferred way to play for most games, but when it comes to driving I’d much prefer a controller with analogue triggers and a stick (unless it’s a sim racer, in which case a wheel of course) for that extra precision.
Unfortunately I can’t think of a good design to give that level of control to just one hand. Analogue keys are a thing but they sound awful, nowhere near enough precision due to the short travel of them.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 2 months ago:
I used this within smart tube for a while, but honestly I kind of missed some of the clockbait titles. There problem I faced was that it wasn’t clear when a title had been replaced or not, so when you did find a video with a relatively clockbait titles, it gave you a bit of a false sense of security. I also found that sometimes the crowd sourced titles were just boring, albeit accurate.
Maybe I’m just weird or maybe I’ve just been browsing YouTube for so long that I’m used to it, but for now it’s an addon I’ll skip, though I’m very glad it exists.
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 2 months ago:
It’s… Not good
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
Same, they’re an absolute game changer for me. I have to use multiple different identities in work due to separate active directories and container tabs makes it super easy
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
I honestly wouldn’t mind the new interface if it at least has all the options and functionality from the control panel, but it doesn’t - there’s so much functionality you can only access via control panel
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
Unrelated but how would you rate sous vide cooking? I am tempted for a bunch of reasons but I’m worried it’ll be just another kitchen appliance that I rarely use.
- Comment on Teams finally fixed the most important problem! 3 months ago:
This actually is an improvement. Not everyone wants to be on camera and for those folks, getting pushed off to the sidebar often means they’re overlooked.
This at least means they’re given the same importance as anyone else.
No idea what the rant about presentations is about, when anyone presents it becomes the main content and everyone - camera or not - gets pushed to the sidebar. You can also pop out presentation content to give it it’s own dedicated window.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 3 months ago:
Not quite but tech for sure
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 3 months ago:
This makes me laugh because I work for a UK company that was bought out by an American company, who’s trying to treat the UK staff how they would treat US staff - and it’s not going well.
Our American colleagues cannot fathom how much time we take off for holidays, especially around Christmas. They also got a shock when doing some recent “restructuring” they couldn’t just fire a bunch of UK folks.
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 3 months ago:
One of the “protect our children” protests in the UK yesterday involved burning down a brand new library because…reasons, I guess?
If you ever had any doubts about the right wing protests affecting the UK, remember they burned down a local community library for no fucking reason.
- Comment on HACS, microWakeWord, and Music Assistant projects have been added to the Open Home Foundation which manages open-source projects related to Home Assistant and Smart Home applications 3 months ago:
That will always be a thing, but there’s also clearly a demand for non official integrations and Lovelace components.
HACS isn’t the most popular add-on because people want a lot of stuff that doesn’t play by the rules, they mainly want functionality that isn’t officially within home assistant and HACS is a straightforward way to enable that.
- Comment on HACS, microWakeWord, and Music Assistant projects have been added to the Open Home Foundation which manages open-source projects related to Home Assistant and Smart Home applications 3 months ago:
Great news but HACS (or something similar) really needs to be officially integrated into home assistant out of the box.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
That’s fucking hilarious
- Comment on A "test" to judge Star Trek shows 4 months ago:
TNG’s the inner light is one of its best episodes and it spectacularly fails this test.
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 4 months ago:
I’d be surprised if it’s directly linked
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
Wait, What’s this about corned beef? I am Irish (as in actually from Ireland) and I have no idea what that has to do with St Patrick’s day?
- Comment on What happens when councils take control of buses? 5 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Warrington’s bus service is owned by the council and it’s dire. Expensive, infrequent and the buses are old.
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 5 months ago:
It didn’t require using arcane commands just to sign up and log in. I love IRC and will always remember it fondly, but it wasn’t easy for a novice to use and that’s why things like slack and discord took off.
- Comment on What file format do you store your media in? 5 months ago:
Another recommendation for tdarr, set it up in January and let it transcode away, going to h265 for all my media - saved me over 40TB of space so far and I haven’t noticed a massive drop In quality or had any playback issues.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
A former employer actually did send lawyers after me for a bad Glassdoor review. The dumb thing is that it wasn’t even my review.
This is beyond stupid.
- Comment on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites 9 months ago:
I don’t think your second point is correct. You can still embed analytics on a static website. I believe you’re conflating it with your first point by assuming that scripts are disabled on the browser side, in which case it’s a bit of a redundant point.
I also think it’s a bit unrealistic in this day and age to run with scripts completely disabled. I know it sucks, but we need better ways of protecting our privacy and disabling all scripts is a bit of an extreme measure given so much of the modern web relies on it.
- Comment on How much 1 TB of egress costs by cloud provider 9 months ago:
You can shove most services behind cloudflare’s CDN with a bit of jiggery pokery. I’ve used netlify + cloudflare’s free tiers to great success a few times now.
- Comment on Uncomplicated firewall rule set for a *arr stack. 9 months ago:
Yeah honestly either solution is a solid one
- Comment on Uncomplicated firewall rule set for a *arr stack. 9 months ago:
The guy above you gives great advice. Set up SWAG, then the only ports you’re exposing are 443.
Once you have that set up, look at adding something like authelia. This will give you 2FA on top of those apps meaning even if someone guesses the password and the URL to access them, they still won’t be able to.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike? 9 months ago:
I feel slightly obligated to buy it day one.
- Comment on What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games) 10 months ago:
I love this right up until the random rule gets applied, then it’s just frustrating.
- Comment on Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... 10 months ago:
Well it’s more like you’ll get the usable parts without a huge premium. The was a time when monitors faster than 60hz were premium but now it’s pretty common to see 120hz and beyond on even basic monitors.
There’s still diminishing returns as you go higher, but there’s definitely a noticeable difference between 60hz and 120hz, as well as a less noticeable but noticeable difference between 120hz and 240hz.240hz is becoming more standard now on regular high end monitors and beginning to trickle down too.
Beyond that in terms of response times, you might not notice a difference between 240hz and 360hz, but image clarity will be better because you’ll get less ghosting just from the virtue of the pixels changing so quickly, so it’s not entirely useless.
Part of the reason you’re seeing this is because they can. The panel technology (OLED in this case) is super fast due to it’s design, so it’s not too costly to add the necessary hardware to drive those speeds. For LCD tech, you do get to drive the panels faster and harder, that’s why older screens required shitty TN panels to get those refresh rates, but everything else has been around for a while.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
The article seems to suggest this film is part of the Kelvin line.