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- Comment on Podman or rootless docker? 5 days ago:
Podman not because of security but because of quadlets (systemd integration). Makes setting up and managing container services a breeze.
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
So much more. It’s not even in the same ballpark.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
I remember people being upset by it back when office 2007 was released. Their complaints made sense until I sat down and used it. Found it to be a great improvement. I switched my libre office to the ribbon layout as soon as they added it. Because I don’t use it often, the it’s great for finding stuff compared to looking through the menus.
The nice thing about the LO implementation is also that they added a couple of varieties of the design, like the compact one which pushes things closer together so it’s not distracting.
- Comment on Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games 2 months ago:
IBM argued that its patent, initially used to launch Prodigy, remains “fundamental to the efficient communication of Internet content.” Known as patent '849, that patent introduced “novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements in an interactive service that would take advantage of the computing power of each user’s personal computer (PC) and thereby reduce demand on host servers, such as those used by Prodigy,” which made it “more efficient than conventional systems.”
According to IBM’s complaint, “By harnessing the processing and storage capabilities of the user’s PC, applications could then be composed on the fly from objects stored locally on the PC, reducing reliance on Prodigy’s server and network resources.”
The jury found that Zynga infringed that patent, as well as a '719 patent designed to “improve the performance” of Internet apps by “reducing network communication delays.” That patent describes technology that improves an app’s performance by “reducing the number of required interactions between client and server,” IBM’s complaint said, and also makes it easier to develop and update apps.
All I can say is yikes.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
Games are already horifically inefficient
That’s so far from the truth, it hurts me to read it. Games are one of the most optimised programs you can run on your computer. Just think about it, it’s a application rendering an entire imaginary world every dozen milliseconds. Compare it to anything else you run, like say slack or teams, which makes your CPU sweat just to notify you about a new message.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
You can hide chat and you’ll barely even notice it’s online. And I don’t see how it’s grindy - in fact they made the base game so easy your companion can kill everyone for you.
If you just play the base game content from 2011, it’s 8 completely voice acted stories that are interconnected into one big story. And it’s free.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
It’s not that uncharacteristic. Mono is a fully open source project they didn’t create, didn’t really work on, and one they can’t extract any value from. So this is basically a gesture that doesn’t cost them anything, but at the same time it doesn’t do much except generate a headline.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Have you ever played swtor? It’s a lot like kotor 3 in many respects.
- Comment on iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones 2 months ago:
Khtml was licensed as LGPL.
- Comment on Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative 2 months ago:
But check that it has all the features you need because it lays behind gitea in some aspects (like ci).
- Comment on Google’s head of Pixel 9 design won’t apologize for its big, beautiful camera bump 2 months ago:
At least it’s symmetrical so it won’t rock, unlike every other phone out there now.
- Comment on North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory 2 months ago:
You say that as if solving grid storage wasn’t one of the most important problems humanity faces right now.
- Comment on Just as a heads up, AutoDesk will start deleting your Fusion Files if you don't login once a year 3 months ago:
I mean I learned it in a few days and found it very intuitive as well. Far more intuitive than I found fusion when I tried that years later. Inventor and onshape also feel more pleasant to use.
The issue seems to be that the fusion interface is very non-standard when compared to other cad suites, so people that get used to it first find everything else unintuitive.
- Comment on All I Know Is Rejection. When I Was A Kid, My Yo-Yo: It Never Came Back 3 months ago:
Yay, fan club.
- Comment on All I Know Is Rejection. When I Was A Kid, My Yo-Yo: It Never Came Back 3 months ago:
I was just introducing someone to Rodney last night because some actor in a show we saw looked a bit like him. Then I wake up and see this here. Life sure has funny coincidences sometimes.
- Comment on It's EVERYWHERE! 4 months ago:
Shame he didn’t have a scandal on that stage. They would have stopped taking about it within the day.
- Comment on Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars 5 months ago:
I believe this is about air pollution, as in the dirty kind, not co2.
- Comment on Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B 6 months ago:
Just have NAS A send a rocket with the data to NAS B.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 6 months ago:
There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they’re not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
It’s an American thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
They’re doing this at the OS level, so Firefox can’t protect you from that, the issue is with Windows. They could do the same to Firefox, they just don’t bother.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 8 months ago:
Not sure what you mean, they’ve always used Snapdragons? The S23 from 2023 uses one, and the S3 from 2012 uses them in some models, and most galaxies between those do as well.
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits 8 months ago:
Seems it’s exploiting vulnerabilities in some software called “Ivanti Connect Secure VPN”, so unless you’re running that, you’re safe I guess. Says in the past they used vulnerabilities in “Qlik Sense” and Adobe “Magento”. Never heard of any of those, but I guess maybe some businesses use them?
- Comment on How long until I can 3D print a 2D printer? 8 months ago:
You can start here: hackaday.io/project/…/details
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 8 months ago:
It actually seems common for less developed countries to have better internet than the more developed ones. Germans always complain about their internet, for example. I believe reason is simply that your country laid down lines relatively recently, so they’re compatible with high speed internet, while Germany laid down their lines 30 years ago, so they’re fairly shitty in comparison. It tends to be a lot harder to convince governments or bosses to replace something that seems to work fine, and it can be costlier too.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
You already have AI in Firefox - local translations for example. Developing local AI aligns perfectly well with Mozilla’s goals, but it seems people panic as soon as they see the two letters together.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
Microsoft didn’t get nearly enough flack for the amount of environmental damage they will cause with that decision. A literal mountain of computers being unnecessarily replaced worldwide.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
Come on now, give him some credit. He waited whole few days before completely going back on his words.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
I’m hoping the legislation doesn’t forbid dual charging ports, where the device has usb charging which works as well as it can, and then a proper charging port. My current laptop has that configuration.
Because there’s also the issue of durability. A barrel power connector can freely rotate which can absorb a lot of stress so I think a usb-c cable that’s used the same way would fail a lot sooner, especially with all the delicate wiring it has in comparison.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
They’d tell you what the movie was, but they’d have to search for it and don’t want to waste an hour.
Jokes aside, I believe them, I spent close to an hour recently finding a YouTube I knew existed but I could only remember vague details. Ended up having crawl back months though my YouTube history in the end.
It used to be that you could just describe a movie to Google like "movie where " and it would be really good at finding that movie even if it was some obscure one. Now if you’re trying to find that one movie you saw years ago where you just remember one scene, be prepared to spend that hour.