Mihies
@Mihies@programming.dev
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 13 hours ago:
Sure, bandcamp is a very good option to buy albums. But that doesn’t give one the right to pirate.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 13 hours ago:
I’m sure they are on Spotify (which is shitty anyway) and other streaming services by choice. And if you are against streaming services, feel free to buy their albums.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 13 hours ago:
Even if that was ok, I’m sure people who pirate buy a ton of merch from all the artists they pirate, that’s why all those artists get a ton of money.
- Comment on Estonia is digging a 40 km trench to stop Russian tanks — and 600 bunkers are next 14 hours ago:
Maginot line in 2025.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 14 hours ago:
No, it’s not. Even more so if you like your artists.
- Comment on Growing numbers of universities sever ties with Israeli academia over Gaza genocide 3 days ago:
Not in Slovenia, EU, though where they don’t care.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 3 days ago:
I would be surprised if Western countries aren’t interested.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I’d be perfectly fine with some sort of subscription. That gets distributed to authors I watch. But I can see technical challenges to it.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
A big problem with peertube is monetization. There should be some sort of mechanism that’d do that automatically. Otherwise there won’t be much content ever. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really happy that it exists but just don’t see it replacing even few % of YouTube as it is.
- Comment on Still no EU action on Israel, despite Gaza famine 2 weeks ago:
Oh, absolutely. At best we are recognizing Palestine as state which doesn’t matter a bit, and politicians tap on their shoulders how brave they were.
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 2 weeks ago:
And also community profits. But I don’t see it happen because politicians are dumb. In my country (EU) they still use X and Facebook only to communicate on social media. Microsoft is also heavily embedded in all pores.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 weeks ago:
That’s the usual excuse, but at what price? 🤷♂️
- Comment on Israeli military regretful over drone malfunction killing two Lebanese soldiers 2 weeks ago:
Can’t agree more. It’s like we are hit with sadistic insanity virus pandemic.
- Comment on Israeli military regretful over drone malfunction killing two Lebanese soldiers 2 weeks ago:
They’re regretting not killing more…
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 weeks ago:
But why? Of all people I’d expect scientists to have learned the lesson of Twitter and embrace fediverse 🤷♂️
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
The only way to fake it would be to use a “public” signature, but then again, I’m sure google will revoke them eventually. I guess rooting won’t be enough, one would have to change some internal binaries. Perhaps it’s time for a ungooglified android OS 🤷♂️
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Torrent client is just an application, author shouldn’t be responsible - naive thinking I suppose
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
I’d say a big ton of them :(
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
I’m on your side and you are correct, besides Google amassing a ton of money (each registration costs $25) they will have total control and we know that Google is far beyond “not evil”.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Sideloading still works, just the apps have to be signed. Still awfull.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. I have flatpack Chrome and camera works (hence my it should). OTOH I have dnf Firefox and camera doesn’t work because ‘You did not allow the browser to use the web camera. Reload the page and try again.’ I guess (your) Firefox issue might not be related to flatpak. (Fedora 42/KDE)
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 weeks ago:
It should.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 4 weeks ago:
SSDs have controllers that help mitigating storage issues whereas SD cards are dumb.
- Comment on US ready to provide Ukraine security guarantees, but opposes NATO membership, Macron says 4 weeks ago:
At this point US guarantees are worthless.
- Comment on Sony Closes All Operations in Russia After 18 Years, Ending PlayStation, Music, and Film Presence 4 weeks ago:
I bet they have still a string presence in Israel.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
See my other reply
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
I was thinking about Apple’s M CPUs that have fixed length and they benefit out of it. It was explained on Anandtech years ago, here is a brief paragraph on the topic. Sadly Anandtech article(s) isn’t available anymore.
Since this type of chip has a fixed instruction length, it becomes simple to load a large number of instructions and explore opportunities to execute operations in parallel. This is what’s called out-of-order execution, as explained by Anandtech in a highly technical analysis of the M1. Since complex CISC instructions can access memory before completing an operation, executing instructions in parallel becomes more difficult in contrast to the simpler RISC instructions.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but RISC knows the exact position of that instruction in cache and how many instructions fit the instructions cache or pipeline. Like you said, it doesn’t help with data cache.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
From what I remember one of problems with CISC is that it has variable length instructions and these are harder to predict since you have to analyze all instructions up to the current one wheres for RISC you exactly know where is each instruction in memory/cache.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
RISC is perfectly good for desktops as demonstrated by Apple. Microcontroller chips are suitable for light desktop tasks, they are nowhere near modern x64 CPUs. For now.