stifle867
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- Comment on Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats 1 year ago:
How do judges normally treat destruction of evidence? Do they not care who committed the crime and just make a ruling on how to infer it? I feel like the court would want to know who has committed something as serious as this but I’m not sure of the actual process for it.
- Comment on Australia to amend law to regulate digital payments like Apple, Google Pay 1 year ago:
We want to make sure the increasing use of digital payments occurs in a way that helps promote greater competition, innovation and productivity across our entire economy.
If we are to take this stated goal at face value it would seem to be a good thing. Getting ahead of the curve before the tech giants find a way to turn these products against us.
The problem is a lot of Australian’s will not take this at face value especially in the current climate of the movement away from physical cash. It’s hard to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are doing this to protect the Australian people with the lack of any sort of harm or complaint. Feel free to point out if there’s something I’m not thinking about regarding this point.
Personally, this smells extremely fishy to me and the most likely explanation in my mind is that they want to kneecap the tech giants and allow our financial sector to push in this space. I can’t imagine CBA, ANZ, etc particularly enjoying their control over this space being eroded. They have every opportunity to innovate in the space but they’re clearly lacking the drive to do so. Instead of improving competition by forcing the big banks to step up, they’re knee capping actual innovation.
- Comment on GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in 1 year ago:
On new installs it does force you. I had to do it today (Windows 10). There are workaround such as attempting to log into a banner account, or other weird hacks involving disconnecting the internet and know the right combinations of hidden menus to navigate.
- Comment on Australia unveils strategy to drive additional 32GW of renewable capacity by 2030 1 year ago:
So much of our economy is export driven. Particularly to China and particularly coal. Sad.
- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 1 year ago:
Which model do you have? Mine doesn’t have a “home screen”. It turns on to the last used input. There is a bar that pops up from the bottom with all the apps on it and that opens when you turn it on. Honestly I didn’t realise how different the UI may be across different models.
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 1 year ago:
I would have but I don’t want to tie my Lemmy account to my actual identity :/
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 1 year ago:
It’s great to see the attempt and also an example of what the C4 guidelines are made to avoid.
Notice how many comments are little nitpicks about this and that. Completely stalling the commit and getting further away from the original point of C4 which is to reduce contributor friction and avoid these kind of endless discussions on PRs.
I don’t want to be too critical because some of that is a clear lack of understanding of the motivations of C4 which is explained more thoroughly in Pieter’s blog posts. You don’t want to adopt a contributor guidelines that you don’t understand of course.
IMO it’s better just to implement it as-is and start using it in practice rather than bikeshedding.
- Comment on How large pull requests can exacerbate complexity and slow down development 1 year ago:
Best practices for minimizing complexity:
- Try out “stacking”
- Simplify software design
I didn’t say there wasn’t information in there but the above paraphrased quote goes to the heart of what my comment was about.
Firstly, how is purchasing their product considered a “best practice”? It’s not generally accepted or the standard superior option by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, the option they give to minimizing complexity is to simplify your software design. Ignoring a couple problems with this statement, if they’re being honest this should be above the recommendation to “try out stacking”.
It doesn’t have to be that deep. You can give it a quick read and take from it what you will, but it is an ad for their product more so than it is an article that contains broadly useful information. They have every right to do so and maybe their product really is tremendously great but I’m just calling it how I see it.
- Comment on Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist 1 year ago:
Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance
- Comment on Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist 1 year ago:
New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).
- Comment on Simple landing page listing my installed services 1 year ago:
That’s truly as lightweight as you’re going to get. Cool little script.
- Comment on Simple landing page listing my installed services 1 year ago:
If you like Heimdall you could run it without Docker. It’s a PHP app, you could run nginx and it would be pretty lightweight.
- Comment on The dirty little secret that keeps Australian housing wildly unaffordable 1 year ago:
Honestly, the Labour party is not truly interested in doing this. In USA politics (assuming you’re familiar with it) the left and right are further apart than in Australian politics.
We have the Greens party which is the left leaning party and the Nationals which are the right. Labour and Liberal are on opposite sides of the middle and they team up with the Greens and the Nationals (respectively) to make up the numbers.
- Comment on The dirty little secret that keeps Australian housing wildly unaffordable 1 year ago:
No secret at all.
- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 1 year ago:
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Yes this is a big deal. Some important apps are missing. While I’m not in an area that has ESPN I have noticed the lack of CrunchyRoll.
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I can’t even get cast support because my TV has MiraCast and AirPlay but my fucking Pixel doesn’t support either, only ChromeCast.
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I used to have a pi-hole setup working properly with the TV, i.e., blocking tracking but keeping functionality.
Real issues and definitely not perfect but when I’ve used other TVs it’s the every action that is unbearable for me. Using a TV without a magic remote just seems obsolete and especially on the Android based TVs there’s sooo much lag.
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- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 1 year ago:
I wish I could do this but I don’t have a Windows OS. I wish it had ChromeCast built in because fucking Pixel doesn’t even support MiraCast!
- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 1 year ago:
It’s strange because I’ve never had an issue with the app order changing. It’s consistently worked for me since I bought the TV. It’s an older C8 but still works perfectly well.
- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 1 year ago:
My personal experience has been the opposite. I have a C8 so maybe the software is different but I’ve found the settings to be decent, the remote to be far and away the best (magic remote) as you can use it like a mouse. Especially when you have to input something, rather furiously mashing directional buttons to navigate the keyboard you just point and click. All the apps I use work great. The UI is responsive especially compared to the typical TV that runs Android which just feels like a massive lagfest. The software store does suck! Luckily I rarely use it after the initial setup. You can put apps in whatever order you want and quickly switch between them.
- Comment on X may lose up to $75 mln by year-end on advertiser exodus - NYT 1 year ago:
I don’t think Twitter ever even had ad revenue that high right?
- Comment on NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer 1 year ago:
What’s silicon valley’s favourite saying? Move fast and…make things safer? Close enough.
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 1 year ago:
There’s a number of them as the idea grows. See also the C4 process RFC
- Comment on Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads 1 year ago:
I find LG TVs to have the best user experience. If you care you would want to look into a pi-hole to stop all the usual phoning home activities.
- Comment on OpenAI's reported 'superintelligence' breakthrough is so big it nearly destroyed the company, and ChatGPT 1 year ago:
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 1 year ago:
Yes that’s right. I was only just transitioning into adulthood and Pieter mentored me and profoundly changed how I view many things. It wasn’t just zeromq but that was the main thing. I still keep his books at hand on my bookshelf. His death impacted me greatly.
- Comment on With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison 1 year ago:
Let’s hope he doesn’t lose these customer’s funds! If he thought he could talk his way out of justice on the outside, he’ll be even more surprised about the justice system inside.
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 1 year ago:
Yes it is. The code is in Bitcoin Core so there’s a non-zero chance you win at life if you want to try.
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 1 year ago:
This is not an answer to your question but it’s tangentially related.
Someone I greatly respected ran an open-source project with the policy of merge everything. Completely flip this idea of carefully review, debate and revise every PR. His theory was that it helps to build an open community, and if something breaks someone else will revert that commit. He says that the main branch was almost always stable, a massive improvement to how it was run previously. He passed several years ago and for some reason this reminded me of him.
I guess what I’m trying to say is if you get something out there that people find useful, the code will be looked at. It doesn’t help you if you’re looking for someone to collaborate sorry.
- Comment on Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department 1 year ago:
I’ve heard 2nd stories of the few old-timers who still know COBAL, FORTRAN, etc who have very generous salaries working in sectors like banking. It’s probably too late now though.
- Comment on Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department 1 year ago:
I’m unsure if the details of that process are public but presumably it is possible. What I could find publicly was that CZ’s personal fine of $70m is payable either by ETF, cashier’s check or money order.
- Comment on BBC: The woman who successfully sued the website that matched her with a paedophile explains how she forced the site to close down. 'Alice', or A.M. as she was known in court says she feels "vindic... 1 year ago:
I really don’t understand how you can “force” anyone to do anything over Omegle but I guess that’s neither here nor there. The more important point is that it would have been better to take the opportunity to catch more pedos doing the same thing on this site. They’re still out there just moved to different platforms now. It’s not really the win she thinks it is. There’s HIGHLY questionable/NSFL stuff even on TikTok and Google Photos.
