justJanne

@justJanne@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The affordable Sony Xperia 10 series is really good. My new Xperia runs circles around my OG Pixel, costs basically nothing, is waterproof, has upgradable storage and a headphone jack, and besides Apple, Google and Intel, Sony is the only manufacturer that actually has working bluetooth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just office, SH has been slowly replacing the entire O365 suite with OpenDesk, which is an open source product based on Matrix, Jitsi, LibreOffice, and a few other tools.

  The goal is to have a fully integrated solution for calender, chat, calls, documents, cloud storage, etc.

  My employer is developing parts of that solution and we recently switched our internal communication over to it, and tbh, it’s working really well.

  Now is the perfect point in time to do it, with the GDPR ruling regarding O365 and Microsoft fumbling the migration between old teams and new teams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord would have made a better name for a decentralized network and Matrix would have been better for a private company.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ESS is a product built on top of synapse with custom additions, but it’s still synapse underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Docker nukes your firewall rules, and replaces them with its own.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to be able to have multiple nodes in one LAN access ports on each others’ containers without exposing those to the world and without using additional firewalls in front of the nodes.

  That’s why kubernetes ended up removing docker support and instead recommends podman or using containerd natively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Docker nukes your firewall rules, and replaces them with its own.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no alternative for 0.0.0.0 and a firewall if you’re e.g. using kubernetes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Docker nukes your firewall rules, and replaces them with its own.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That assumes you’re on some VPS with a hardware firewall in front.

  Often enough you’re on a dedicated server that’s directly exposed to the internet, with those iptables rules being the only thing standing between your services and the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU demands that alternative app stores or individual users can do exactly that.

  Apple disagrees.

  That’s precisely why this is back in court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It being totally without rules or terms is exactly what the EU demanded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they need to comply with Apple’s ToS to publish apps outside of the app store?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just like those shitty recipe sites that tell you their grandma’s life story for hours before giving the recipe. Get to the point, who cares about the anecdotes of some writer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms instead of source code !!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that reading source code can take a long time

  You’ll get faster over time, until reading code is faster than reading documentation, as code will always represent what’s truly happening, while docs are frequently outdated.

  In a language the user isn’t familiar with

  If you’re not that familiar, it’s likely you won’t be contributing to the project. Open source projects usually to have quite limited resources, so they tend to optimize docs and dev UX for people who are likely to contribute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can only have a good experience by installing malware, you don’t have a good experience.

  I really should finish building that nvidia jetson based hardware anticheat that’d allow anyone to cheat even in vanguard protected games with perfect accuracy for just ~150$. Ring 0 anticheat’s only use is to spy on you and yet people will continue defending it until someone’s proven just how useless it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fellow landchads of Lemmy. Don't you hate when this happens?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If parcel A has a property value of X

  And parcel B has a property value of 2X

  Then you can have the same rent on both of them if building B is twice as tall as building A.

  The whole “single family residential only” zoning in the US is the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NIF can’t really ever reach Q>1. All the statements of having reached that only include the energy that reaches the capsule. The energy the lasers actually use is orders of magnitude larger.

  This theoretical Q>1, where the plasma emits more radiation than it receives, have been reached by other reactors before.

  But while tokamak or stellerator designs need a 2-3× improvement to produce more energy than the entire system needs, the NIF would need a 100-1000× improvement to reach that point, which is wholly unrealistic with our current understanding of physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most fusion attempts try to keep a continuous reaction ongoing.

  Tokamak reactors, like JET or ITER do this through a changing magnetic field, which would allow a reaction to keep going for minutes, the goal is somewhere around 10-30min.

  Stellerator reactors try to do the same through a closed loop, basically a Möbius band of plasma encircled by magnets. The stellerator topology of Wendelstein 7-X was used as VFX for the closed time loop in Endgame.

  The NIF is different. It doesn’t try to create a long, ongoing, controlled reaction. It tries to create a nuclear chain reaction for a tiny fraction of a millisecond. Basically a fusion bomb the size of a grain of rice.

  The “promise” is that if one were to just repeat this explosion again and again and again, you’d also have something that would almost continually produce energy.

  But so far, the NIF has primarily focused on getting as much data as possible about how the first millisecond of a fusion reaction proceeds. The different ways to trigger it, and how it affects the reaction.

  The US hasn’t done large scale nuclear testing in decades. Almost everything is now happening in simulations. But the first few milliseconds of the ignition are still impossible to accurately model in a computer. To build a more reliable and stronger bomb, one would need to test the initial part of a fusion reaction in the real world repeatedly.

  And that’s where the NIF comes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you actually calculate the maximum speed at which information can travel before causing paradoxes, in some situations it could safely exceed c.

  For two observers who are not in motion relative to each other, information could be transmitted instantly, regardless of the distance, without causing a paradox.

  The faster the observers are traveling relatively to each other, the slower information would have to travel to avoid causing paradoxes.

  More interestingly, this maximum paradox-free speed correlates with the time and space dilation caused by the observers’ motion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely at least in-engine, likely actually in-game footage:

  • characters swimming in the water during both of the beach shots have no animations whatsoever, they just stand on the water like they’re jesus christ.
  • one of the container ships in the later overhead shot showing the derelict bridge is entirely untextured and extremely low res, while the rest of the environment is highly detailed
  • in the opening shot, parts of the city are billboarded or simple blocks to provide a basic skyline shape, while the areas around the prison are extremely detailed

  The NPCs standing on the water also suggests NPCs are driven by the final actor and animation systems, but the animations for swimming or walking through water are just not done yet.

  We also see a significant difference between the recreations of florida man memes, where every motion is keyframed to match the original videos, and the parts of the trailer where we see NPCs actually running their regular animation loops, as in the beach, club or road scenes.

  Now, will we see this level of quality in game? Yes and no. Usually, a small elite team builds a vertical slice, a single mission in which every little mechanic already works, followed by many larger teams then building the rest of the game, trying to match the quality of the original template.

  A good example of this is the original 40min E3 demo of cyberpunk 2077, which exists in the game 1:1 today. This vertical slice was awesome, but later missions usually had fewer alternative solutions, less polished environments and an overall lower interactivity.

  So while I’m sure the robbery / prison / parole hearing part is fully fleshed out and will likely be included in the final game as-is, other parts of the game might not reach the same level of realism. Even if you ran the game on the same high-end workstations the developers are using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we sure it’s Sony and not just Zaslav again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve got 14 billion years, a theft takes a minute, then you need 53 recursion levels of binary search to find the moment of the theft.

  That means OP assumed that it’d take 1 minute to decide whether at a certain still frame the theft had already occured or not, to compute the new offset to seek to, and the time it’d take to actually seek the tape to that point.

  Not an unreasonable assumption, but a very conservative estimate. Assuming the footage is on an HDD and you’ve got an automated system for binary search, I’d actually assume it’d take 5 seconds for each step, meaning finding a 1min theft on 14 billion years of footage would take 5 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're probably pretty fortunate that humans have at least some degree of self control over when we stop eating.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have that sense either. Food, no matter how much I’ve already eaten, still tastes so incredibly awesome that I just want to continue eating. I only stop once there’s nothing left, which is why I cook every meal myself to be able to control portion sizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “completely different environment”, ah, since when is Lemmy US-only?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, city streets are by law limited to 50km/h (30mph) in Germany unless the road is physically blocked off from pedestrian access and is designated a motorway. And even that speed is only allowed for major thoroughfares, most city streets are limited to 30km/h (18mph), and many cities are currently arguing for enforcing that in EU law.

  Streets faster than that need to be physically separated, well-lit, need to have an additional lane or frequent additional locations to park broken down vehicles and need significant setbacks so you can see potential obstructions entering the road early enough to brake in time.

  So what I’m taking from this is that the road design where you live is dangerous and substandard.

  Now, to the personal appeal:

  I did take a defensive driving course before I even started driver’s ed, and it was actually the reason I decided not to get a car. Nowadays I do everything — including weekly grocery runs — by bicycle instead.

  The average speed in cities is 15-20km/h, primarily caused due to traffic jams and waiting times at stoplights. I can achieve or beat those speeds on a bicycle just as well, without the stakes being as high. If I make a mistake as a driver, it’s going to cost lives. If I make a mistake as a bicyclist, no one’s going to die. And considering the environmental footprint as well as the monetary costs in terms of road tax, fuel prices and maintenance, it’s definitely worth it.

  Even if sometimes, people try to kill me by overtaking me far too close while speeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is someone using the road to get to work, school or the grocery store automatically an asshole just because they use a bicycle instead of an SUV or a horse-drawn carriage? Don’t they have the same right to use a lane of the road as you do?

  (Not talking about lycra-wearing racing-bike cyclists using the road as gym here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, in EU countries the law explicitly says you have to drive slow enough to react to unexpected changes on the road. If you as a driver hit something or someone, you are automatically at fault because you violated that law. There is an incredibly high burden of proof required to not be at fault as a driver.

  But that’s usually not an issue, because road planners are only allowed to set speed limits that are low enough that drivers can actually react to unexpected changes. Which is why e.g. the Autobahn has a separate lane for broken down vehicles and significant setbacks and green areas to both sides of the road so you can see from a long distance away if something is in the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you actually think about it, it’s absolutely makes sense. The Autobahn has additional stopping lanes for broken down cars and several meters of grass to each side, which means you can safely drive hundreds of kilometers an hour while still being able to see obstructions early enough to brake in time.

  Slower motorways have smaller setbacks, but still enough to keep their speeds.

  City streets where you can’t see people entering the road in time to brake usually have relatively low speed limits to reduce the braking distance as well as the damage caused by a collision.

  But if the visibility or braking distance are affected due to weather or broken streetlamps, it’s up to you to slow down accordingly. But even for situations like that traffic planners usually add additional signs, it’s common to see roads with signs that say

  /❄️\
  (60)
  

  to warn people to drive slower when the road is freezing or signs that say

  /🦌\
  (50)
  

  to warn of crossing animals and set a lower speed limit.

  The same obviously applies when it’s not crossing deer but crossing pedestrians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The speed limit isn’t a suggested speed, it’s an absolute maximum (excluding motorways with a minimum of 60km/h). If the road is frozen over you can’t drive the speed limit either, the same applies when it’s slippery due to rain or leaves or when the lights are off.

  You always need to be able to react to sudden movement, no matter if it’s a pedestrian crossing the street, a motorist leaving their own driveway or even a trash can rolling into the road. It should be in your own best interest to avoid accidents.

  The entitled attitude you ascribe to the overtaking drivers but also display yourself is just going to cause problems for everyone. Trying to shave a few seconds off of your commute by speeding in dark areas isn’t going to get you home any faster, all you’re doing is increasing your own stress level and risking someone’s life.

  A little bit of respect on the road would go a long way to improve everyone’s experience on the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slow. Down. That’s all there is to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law says, regardless of the speed limit, you need to be driving slow enough to react to someone suddenly stepping on the road. If you can’t do that while driving at the speed limit, you’ll just have to drive slower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He also uses his own http server that in turn queries the ldap server solely for the articles. The rest is compiled into the http server binary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, you met fefe.