Nighed

@Nighed@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System requirements for a Matrix server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Follow up question for voice/video servers in general.

  If I want to host a server that allows video calls, do I need GPU hardware acceleration?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Github

  Looks like they got caught out by this all too, they are asking for another month or so to get a refactor in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Playstation blog post: blog.playstation.com/…/kena-scars-of-kosmora-anno…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone was dead there, hopefully as people seem to be alive here it might be more… Alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the opposite of how I would understand it though. If you said a passive RCE I would understand that as it being run without me doing anything - in this case, just having notepad open making me vulnerable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t stop them from calling the product “oat milk” though does it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • At least one payment card
  • travel cards
  • driving license/ID
  • organ donation card (I stick mine on the back of my ID)
  • at least one coin for supermarket trolleys
  • some notes, just in case.
  • work building access card
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nepal or something wasn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand correctly, they recently rebuilt all of the voice/video stuff. Video should be coming soon, it’s more of a resourcing issue for their servers.

  I looked at self hosting, but it’s a bit of a mess currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the UK though, so they imply they may (already or in teh future) need to verify my age anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to try self hosting stoat.chat not sure it has screen sharing yet, but apparently they just re-wrote all their voice/video stuff, so it should be available soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great success. Apple for scale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what a small set of files is for! You put in three boundary layers, use them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played around for a while with Blazor (C# Web assembly) and wasn’t a massive fan.

  The debugging experience was awful.

  Lots of runtime gotchas, it’s limited to one thread, so anything that creates a thread will fail at runtime (but not ‘normal’ async stuff). What code creates a thread? No idea until it fails at runtime.

  Yes, you can share a dto project between front end and backend, but anything else will eventually trip you up.

  It’s still a cool idea though, will try it again at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coastal road swept away into the sea in Devon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a natural spit of land (there is another technical term if it has land at both ends I think?). It was there, and flat, so they built the road on it. It wasn’t built for the road. (…probably)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the aluminium was fine conductivity wise, the problem is that it oxidises and becomes brittle.

  Every time a BT man went into the box, it was russian roulette as to whose internet would get broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wanderer - federated trail database (komoot etc)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also wandrer.earth (not federated) that is really cool. It gives you points for each unique mile you have been, encourages you to explore new places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that they are gigantic companies, it’s that they are big companies with lots of techies. Other organisations can have them as well.

  The BBC has it’s own TLD for example. their Mastodon account uses it: social.bbc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is My Pub Fucked?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One nearish me closed overnight after the announcement of the higher tax. Just decided it wasn’t viable.

  Don’t think it was that popular to be fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the idea is: build it and they will come… If 10% of users have NPUs, then apps will find ‘useful’ ways to use them.

  Part of it is actually battery life - if you assume that in the life of the laptop it will be doing AI tasks (unlikely currently) an NPU will be wayyyy more efficient than running it on a CPU, or even a GPU.

  Mostly though, it’s because it’s an excuse to charge more for the laptop. If all the high end players add NPUs, then customers have no choice but to shell out more. Most customers won’t realise that when they use chat got or copilot one one of these laptops, it’s still not running on their device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  really? able to nest nultiple times etc?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox has tree style tabs add-on. Gamechanger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure that’s true. How would it get there originally, other than through what you eat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do the pools idea too.

  But every Christmas I sum my expected non regular expenses (maintenance fees, insurance, dentists, cloud storage, etc) and divide by 12 to get the monthly cost so I can spread out the expected budget busters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The companies making the ram chips are not the ones making motherboards. They just want to sell their product for as much as they can.

  Shutting down your entire consumer business does seem a bit short sighted though - keep the doors open for the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for Community Organizing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If only half the estate is on WhatsApp, you will get even less on the rest.

  Maybe make a website with basic info, what’s happening etc, but that’s probably it. ( Unless you have a very young road)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended email providers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube has a great algorithm, in that it mostly seems to show you stuff you actually want to watch, and let’s you say you don’t like stuff.

  You can train it with a little effort to show you what you want.

  You just can’t make the shorts go away, even with premium!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GPS is a great way to get an accurate time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s now a requirement to be able to book appointments online I believe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that jams were so sugary it was probably fine?