magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on A billion dollars and a Ferrari doesn't matter if all you have are bumpy torn up roads with potholes to drive on 1 week ago:
This depends how far away where they want is. I feel like down the block is impractical for a heli.
- Comment on id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs 1 week ago:
Interesting times (positive) vs interesting times (nightmare)
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
They’re still making mobos with SATA. Not everyone uses laptops.
- Comment on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 2 weeks ago:
I would like to know how well iocaines spanky new redirection module works compared to Anubis.
If nothing else, to see if throwing Anubis in front of iocaine is still a worthwhile idea.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 weeks ago:
My bad, Neuromancer.
Didn’t know it was getting adapted into a series.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 weeks ago:
Arguably this isn’t too far off of necromancer either.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 4 weeks ago:
Yeah he also had a single testicle, what’s you’re point?
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 4 weeks ago:
Lmao what is this comment?
Are you really conflating the idea that people want art made by people with racism and hard-right politics?
- Comment on JP Morgan says Nvidia is gearing up to sell entire AI servers instead of just AI GPUs and components 5 weeks ago:
Its funny because a sizable chunk of the fediverse has a server/network rack in their home. Myself included.
Granted its not running any modern ‘ai’ like stable diffusion or LLM’s.
- Comment on Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Good it’ll teach companies they don’t get to have “trusted execution” on a custies client device.
My hardware should run the software on it the way I want. If my computer works against me on purpose, that should be considered malware.
If you want me to not do something to your computer you should be increasing your server-side security, not breaking my client-side security.
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 1 month ago:
Valve does, they literally have teams dedicated to the work.
Also, do you guys not have re-occuring donations going out to your favorite open source projects every month?
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 1 month ago:
Every major tech company has a stake in chromium. Google could die tomorrow, and someone would bankroll it for their own selfish use.
You thing Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon wouldn’t jump at basically owning the development of the worlds most popular web browser?
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 1 month ago:
Get a CRT, or buy a new TV and just don’t connect it to the internet.
The difference between a disconnected smart TV and a dumb one is basically zilch.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 months ago:
The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily.
Yeah that’s the design flaw. Thats literally what im saying they shouldn’t do. You can make a mechanical-first door with an internal solenoid thats capable of popping the door.
The main and only handles on the doors should be mechanical, with door popper buttons for all four doors on the driver-side arm rest (where window controls go)
What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
This allows the driver to open doors for passengers, while also making the main way in and out NOT dependent on electronics.
Unnecessary luxury? Sure, but so are cars in a lot of the world. Its cheap to implement and not inherently a danger when done right.
Your issue isn’t electronically controlled door poppers. Its cars being made by silicone valley, y-combinator sucking, tech-bro douchebags.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 months ago:
I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there’s solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.
I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn’t dangerous.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 months ago:
There where just as many cheesy UI’s done without flash back in the day. Its because web development became more of a commodity as more people got into it. Everything’s been done and the cheapest thing to do is to slap together something using the framework of the month.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 months ago:
All of that is possible with modern JS and WebGL?
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 months ago:
This is technically possible, but it’d be best implemented as animation software that compiles a file/archive that’s usable by a standard browser based client that renders things locally using a canvas element.
They didn’t give you the entire kit because that wasn’t the W3C’s job, it was to give you the tools necessary to build the kit.
- Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more. 2 months ago:
They call him: “Stinky Mike”
- Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more. 2 months ago:
Next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimin container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart in it so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 3 months ago:
Eh, my early g9 civic is nice, though I think they ruined it only like coupla years later with cell radios.
- Comment on Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space 3 months ago:
Yes, it depends the game.
There are 20gb games that require much faster medium than retail WoW which is like 80gigs, despite the engines lineage tracing back to when it would’ve been stored on rust made by Maxtor.
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 3 months ago:
Honestly could a just stuck Debian at the end XP
- Comment on bet you can think of more 3 months ago:
I agree in theory, but honestly I’d rather must fucking avoid them.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 months ago:
Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection.
You can pretend your iPhone isn’t owned by a corporation that just swore fealty to the current regime, but until its running a custom ROM it isn’t fucking yours.
Only phone that comes your own from factory I’d maybe the pinephone. Otherwise, get a pixel, rip out the factory OS install, and throw Graphen OS on it.
Both Android AND iOS have taken code from Graphene and used it to secure their codebases. Its probably one of, if not the most secure OS available to the average person today.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 4 months ago:
Its always going to be relevant, even only when emulated, simply because of how many code bases are stuck on x86/x86-64.
Open sourcing it and all of its extensions solves the licensing problems of not only itself, but Arm, while providing a battle tested architecture with decades of maturity.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 4 months ago:
Imagine if x86-64 got blown open because of it? Might literally be the best thing to happen to computing in like 40 years.
Really fuckin’ doubt it’ll happen, but a girl can dream XP
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 4 months ago:
Actually the bastard won’t tell you what specific tire. Just that one of them has low air pressure.
Kind of a dick move since there’s no way the computer can’t tell which tire it is when they’re four separate sensors.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 4 months ago:
My Honda civic 2012’s head unit firmware isn’t that bad.
It tells your input source, volume, if your trunk is open, if your tires are fucked, and includes a hookup for a backup camera that only made it into other models, making it ezpz to retrofit.
Could be a lot worse.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 4 months ago:
Fuck that buy xmr.
Not because you should invest, but because you’ll need a way to pay for mullvad and diy E.