AudaciousArmadillo

@AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not more so than any other non LTS package. Backporting bugfixes can be anything from trivial cherrypicking to practically impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Debian is LTS in that sense. You’ll be able use the old version with X11 plasma for many many years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reverse WSL? I Tried This New Tool to Integrate Windows Apps in Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is literally what wsl2 is though. It boots a full linux vm and wslg for GUIs is just rdp as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes we have achieved AGI! But what we really need is Artificial General Super Intelligence! Just another trillion and it will be useful bro!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Report: Renewables Not Cause of Spain’s Blackout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the incident they were suffering a black out too because the entire peninsula was cut off. They recovered only a few hours before spain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transport Tycoon Deluxe returns from Atari - now a requirement for OpenTTD via Steam and GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no reason to pirate TTD at all:

  However, it does not affect getting OpenTTD directly - only the GOG and Steam pages are being changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic is getting a Community Edition with Source upgrades and Ubisoft's blessing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s great! Really a unique game with fun, if goofy combat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. But I don’t see any other company that could even have an interest in the console market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean with MSFT abandoning Xbox as a hardware platform why wouldn’t they? Especially if Valve becomes their main competition in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the comments they clarify that is mostly targeted at servers and IoT first. In the enterprise world attestation is absolutely needed. And on personal devices? I’d be very happy if I had a secure boot chain for full disk encryption working out of the box. At least for portable devices…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m a Computing Dummy Who Tried Quantum Coding. Here’s What Happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it’s IBM sponsored/supported they probably didn’t want to tell the reader that you can simulate a quantum computer on classical hardware. So no need to use their service to use “the real” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to say “Free Palestine”, you could say “Free Palestine”. “From the river to the sea” is also used by Israel and I bet I don’t have to convince you as hard that they aren’t talking about peaceful co-existance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your slogan implies genocide, as your example also does, yes it is hate speech. You cannot undo colonization by disposing the occupiers. Any nation is occupying some native land in one form or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For many of these, WebAssembly is critical to either their entire product or a major feature.

  But I think this alone is not very convincing. We don’t yet see major websites entirely built with webassembly-based frameworks.

  Why should it be necessary to build things only in wasm for the web? JS is a really good language for building frontends. There is a reason why lots of companies prefer building native applications with React. People always complain about framework bloat with JS, but then we want to hype up shipping huge wasm binaries? Just for basic interaction in a UI?

  Wasm is doing great, inside and outside the browser. But it won’t replace JS because there’s no reason to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What actually happens in a DDOS attack?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Others mentioned good points but don’t really capture the scale or techniques. A high volume DDoS may even overwhelm the network equipment, so simply saturating the network with garbage traffic. On the smaller scale, a server has limited resources to handle connections. So in the most extreme case, you simple run out of memory to store all the incoming requests. More likely you exhaust a thread pool or run out of connection handles. This “breaks” the server as it may not have resources left to recover to a working state even after the attack has stopped.

  As for techniques, DDoS don’t just spam genuine requests. Usually the requests are malformed to have the worst impact on the servers. For example you only send the connection request without completing the full handshake. Now the server has to wait until the connection times out which consumes resources for a potentially long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, those expensive PC games. Much cheaper on console and on the first party stores of the publishers, yes yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A recent Scott Manly video about radiation in space https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcbevbBzsc.