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- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
Nah, just grab the domain and redirect it to X. Watch him explode.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
How good are the RISC-V vector instructions implementations IRL? I’ve never heard of them. My experience with ARM is that even on certain data center chips the performance gains are abyssal (when using highly optimized libraries such as dpdk)
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
Harder to write compilers for RISC? I would argue that CISC is much harder to design a compiler for.
That being said there’s a lack of standardized vector/streaming instructions in out-of-the-box RISC-V that may hurt performance, but compiler design wise it’s much easier to write a functional compiler than for the nightmare that is x86.
- Comment on Help me navigate the world of debloated/custom Windows 11 Installs 6 months ago:
Oh nice! A new tool! Do you happen to know how this compares to win10privacy?
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 6 months ago:
Vanced got taken down due to trademark violations.
They need something more substantial for revanced. Especially since it’s only a set of binary patches and there is no redistribution of YT source code.
- Comment on ifn't 9 months ago:
Here you dropped this:
#define ifnt(x) if (!(x))
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 9 months ago:
This probably sounds pedantic but based on this the issue isn’t that the software is Russian. It’s that the software is under the regulation of an authoritarian government (which is Russia)
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 9 months ago:
Nginx is 2-clause BSD, which I would argue is more “Open Source” than Arch Linux (official repo contains proprietary components such as discord, steam, multimedia codecs). You could argue that the majority of it (and it’s build system) is open source, but probably not “Arch Linux” is fully Open Source.
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 9 months ago:
Out of curiosity what do you think of Nginx, which used to have its main offices in Russia (that also got raided by Russian police) or Arch Linux, where one of the main packagers (up to 30% of official packages) is managed by Felix Yan (which I believe is a Chinese citizen)? Where is the line drawn? Is it only for profit companies, security software, or something specific?
- Comment on Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure 10 months ago:
It was always there, but we’ve long ignored the warnings. It invented the Internet, which we took for granted. It wasn’t until Gore seeped through a series of tubes that we realized, but by then it was too late.
It had already taken over the windmills.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer 10 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be turn-based. FFXI and FFXII are also great. I feel the bigger issue is that making a story heavy game while everyone else is also making story heavy games makes it no longer unique.
- Comment on RIPE, Regional Internet Registry, hacked because an admin account's password was ripeadmin 10 months ago:
according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.
What’s a ”BGP expert”? Most of this stuff is covered in an undergraduate networking course. Wouldn’t just “networking expert” do?
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 10 months ago:
And I’ll be sure to let them know that I use windower add-ons and DAT mods when playing FF11. Maybe they’ll ban my PS2/PlayOnline from any future updates?
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
The problem here is they need to stay where the users are. It doesn’t matter if Twitter is shit, as long as that’s where people are the broadcasts need to be there to reach as many people as possible. Hell, if 90% of the people are on IRC then they should also support IRC. Dumping Twitter isn’t going to make it better, it would only mean people are less likely to get warnings -> more people in danger.
At least with a half broken app there’s still a chance.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 10 months ago:
Why can’t y’all just make normal children’s food like chicken curry with rice? Stop putting so much sugar and corn syrup in everything.
If this continues we’ll have to retaliate: see how certain East Asian countries make pizzas and burgers and see how you like it! (PS: it was flatbread with corn and ham as the only toppings)
- Comment on Windows 11 KB5033375 December 2023 update breaks Wi-Fi in universities 11 months ago:
Uh oh. I used to work University IT. I can only imagine the number of tickets this would generate:
“Bad wifi at XYZ hall”
“Request to setup private router in dorms due to bad wifi”
“Please fix my computer I’ve heard this patch breaks wifi” (meanwhile, the reporter never installed said patch)
- Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 11 months ago:
Having a good, dedicated e-reader is a hill that I would die on. I want a big screen, with physical buttons, lightweight, multi-weeklong battery, and an e-ink display. Reading 8 hours on my phone makes my eyes go twitchy. And TBH it’s been a pain finding something that supports all that and has a reasonably open ecosystem.
- Comment on Arkane release new Marvel's Blade concept artworks, hinting at missions, combat and levels 11 months ago:
Back in the 90s we had the flash as well.
Somehow I still have that theme song stuck in my head…
- Comment on Capcom announces Monster Hunter Wilds, coming 2025 11 months ago:
When I said small I meant portable, as hunts can be completed in 15min or less. I think I would still prefer World though, probably because I did 300 Narwa hunts in one week before they fixed the “loot drop tables” bug.
- Comment on Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD's new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia's 11 months ago:
If we’re nitpicking about AMD: another thing I dislike about them is their smaller presence in the research space compared to their competitors. Both Intel and NVIDIA throw money into risky new ideas like crazy (NVM, DPUs, GPGPUs, DLSS). Meanwhile, AMD seems to only hop in once a specific area is well established to have an existing market.
For consumer stuff, AMD is definitely my go-to. But it occurs to me that we need companies that are willing to fund research in Academia. Even if they don’t have a super good track record of getting profitable results.
- Comment on Capcom announces Monster Hunter Wilds, coming 2025 11 months ago:
MH series always does one big (console) one small (mobile) in that order. Last gen World was the big and Rise was the small.
This is probably gonna be the big one :)
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 11 months ago:
Or just anyone who’s worked at a help desk.
- Comment on An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python 11 months ago:
Haskell is still as beautiful as the day it was first made.
Except for class methods. We don’t talk about methods.
- Comment on ShadowSOCKs 1 year ago:
Is there a specific reason you’re looking at shadowsocks? The original developer has been MIA for years. People who used it in the past largely consider it insecure for its original stated purpose
trojan-gfw is a better modern replacement. However that requires a certificate in order to work. You can easily get one via lets encrypt.
At this point, let Shadowsocks, obfs, and kcp die a graceful death like GoAgent before it did.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 1 year ago:
You don’t understand. It’s not like the self-driving feature is just software where they can price it at whatever they want. It’s physically consuming brain cells every month. And those aren’t free you know!
spoiler
Do I really need a \s tag for this or does this tin foil hat make me look fat?
- Comment on The best MMOs in 2023 - PCGamer 1 year ago:
Oh great, a human failed the Turing Test…
- Comment on Web based IDE suggestion 1 year ago:
Another thing you can look into is apptainer/singularity. Basically portable container binaries. Executing the binary automatically runs a program/drops you into a shell inside the container with your $HOME mounted inside. Stuff like cuda also work as long as your host system has appropriate drivers.
- Comment on NFS or iSCSI? 1 year ago:
What someone does with their 16,777,215 IPv4 addresses is none of our business…
- Comment on PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter 1 year ago:
Am I the only idiot that read this as X11 first then realized it was Twitter?
- Comment on YSK that horses evolved in North America, migrated to Eurasia across the Bering land bridge, then went extinct in North America. 1 year ago:
Because the horses are coming. And they are ANGRY.
The only way to survive is to win three rounds of trivia nights on various horse topics. So quit horsing around!