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- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 23 hours ago:
The original WSL DOES use the Linux kernel. Which runs as a native NT process (there’s a huge difference between NT and Win32 processes). But porting a Linux kernel into the NT binary is a maintenance nightmare, it’s much easier to run the original in a slim VM.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 23 hours ago:
Yes, as long as your Linux distro is Windows.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 23 hours ago:
It’s to run Linux stuff on Windows.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 days ago:
As others said, EGS is just a fucking cancer, not a competition. A good competition to Steam is actually Microsoft App Store. It’s a very streamlined mobile-like experience.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 days ago:
This is the way!
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 3 days ago:
Who said that adding glue to pizza is not healthy? Meat glue is used in restaurants all the time!
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 3 days ago:
But that’s how you cook an egg. Every Chinese chef does it this way no matter the pan.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 3 days ago:
It never is just a checkbox though. You have to test the result and with Linux you have to test dozens of distros. For a fraction of users. If Linux crowd wants to be taken seriously, they should settle on a single distro for everything.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 3 days ago:
Why do you even play games if you rush them? It’s like the guy a few years ago asking on Reddit if he should go past no return in Cyberpunk 2077 at level 18. The fuck, mate? You missed the whole game!
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
Lol ok.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
Netflix user base grows by tens of millions each year and their ad supported plan is the most favourite. And their growth is slowly turning into exponential.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
Except that you’re completely wrong.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
I think a lot of people keep paying for nostalgia reasons
I think you’re talking shit. Netflix had 21m customers in 2011 and they have over 300m today. They’re getting tens of millions of new customers each year and at least half of them are choosing to watch ads. Ad subscriptions have grown to be 1/3 of all subscriptions. Everyone loves ads and Netflix.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
But you’re only getting ads if you choose to get them. What’s your problem exactly?
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
Just imagine that your personal anecdote is not representative of human behaviour. The biggest lie and a myth is “I will pay more not to see ads”. No, you won’t.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
No one wants to pay money for the services they’re using. Ads is the way to go.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 5 days ago:
Are you high, kiddo? Their customer base is steadily growing by tens of millions each bloody year. Netflix is a publicly traded company, everyone has access to all of their financial information, including the customer base.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 6 days ago:
It’s funny, you’re using Linux for 15 years, but you’re still 15 years old…
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
Lol wut?
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
No, not really. First of all, you can disable uploads. Second, you can use a seed box hosted in a country which doesn’t prosecute uploaders. So, you can be clean for all legal intents and purposes.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
That’s because you don’t understand what copyright legally is.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
Several reasons:
- Compilers strip all the bullshit from the code. Most software projects have shitty code structure and navigating them without prior exposure is a bloody nightmare. Everything gets a lot easier in binary.
- Compiler optimisations flatten the code into an easier to understand structure. You don’t have to just around function definitions in multiple files when the compiler inlined them all for you to see on one screen.
- Assembly debuggers usually have a lot more features than source code based ones: trapping OS calls, scripting, etc. They make life so much easier.
Most software developers have no fucking clue how computers work, it’s all magic to them. People joke about “vibe coding with AI” these days, but let’s be real, 99% of software developers are vibe coders, but with Google instead of AI. Of course these people will never understand a bit of assembly, they can’t even fucking grasp the basics of higher level languages!
There’s nothing hard about binaries, code is code.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
You don’t need a copyright for that. Copyright doesn’t pay anyone anything.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
There are no good reasons.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
Maybe in some weird countries.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
As someone who has extensive experience with decompiling, I can say that working with binaries is usually a lot easier than with a source code.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
The whole point for many, me included, is for everyone to be able to use any works in any way we want. Including putting “open source” code into “proprietary” binaries. Because there are no proprietary binaries without IP protections - everyone can just decompile the code and reuse it.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
The original copyright law was created to protect authors from publishers. The current law is an abomination and should be removed.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 1 week ago:
It doesn’t. You can download anything you want, distribution is what is illegal and criminal.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 3 weeks ago:
By making battery renewing devices.