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- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 week ago:
This is only loosely related to your post but I just came across this project:
This is a cross-game modification system which randomizes different games, then uses the result to build a single unified multi-player game. Items from one game may be present in another, and you will need your fellow players to find items you need in their games to help you complete your own.
It supports a whole shitload of games: archipelago.gg/games
I only just started reading about it. So far it seems like insanity.
- Comment on Flaw in Git bloated Microsoft repository by a factor of 35. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not as stupid as this blog post makes it sound. This was a hashing function that was intentionally taking the end of the path as the most significant part. This just impacts the order of objects in a pack file, and the size of the compression window needed to compress it.
It’s not actually mistaking one file for another, and their proposed solution is not better in all situations.
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
Yeah, I would love to stop getting potato quality videos on MMS, but not enough to install a proprietary app. I’ll just have to create matrix accounts for more people.
- Comment on Royal Mail deal to be probed over potential Russia links 3 months ago:
Having a monarchy is stupid, but not as stupid as selling the Royal Mail to foreign billionaires.
- Comment on Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? 4 months ago:
I was thinking about this last time I drove an ev (ioniq 5). It will really decelerate quite hard when you lift off, and it’s configurable by the driver.
I don’t think they need to do it with an accelerometer, but if the regeneration system is applying more braking force than it would take to turn on the light with the brake pedal, it should turn the light on.
Either that or they should require the brake pedal to be used beyond that point.
- Comment on Who could pass up this ballin' opportunity? 4 months ago:
Not that I recall. It turns out that most people have their Xbox in a place that sucks for dribbling a basketball, so I think the correct way to play this game was to move the setup to your garage/patio. :)
- Comment on Who could pass up this ballin' opportunity? 4 months ago:
I worked on this game. You have to dribble a basketball in front of all your expensive electronics. Insane idea, but it was a fun project.
- Comment on Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-( 4 months ago:
Have you checked all the ethernet links are actually connected at 1G and not 100M?
- Comment on HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash 4 months ago:
I was expecting something in the article to back it up, like sales figures, but I couldn’t find anything.
- Comment on HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash 4 months ago:
popular
[citation needed]
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 6 months ago:
EVERYTHING THAT MAKES US WHO WE ARE
Lead poisoning. That checks out.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
There’s actually not that much autotools jank, really. There’s configure.ac and a few Makefile.am. The CMakeLists.txt in the root is bigger than any of those files.
There’s also some stuff from autotools archive in m4/. IMO that’s a bad practice and we should instead be referencing them as a build dependencies.
I’m not convinced this backdoor would have been significantly more difficult to hide in the cmake code.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 7 months ago:
Emacs I assume.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
cmake compiles to makefiles as well (it just also supports some other backends). I’m not sure why that matters though. In both cases the makefile is generated.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 8 months ago:
I feel like AGI might be the furthest away of all those things.
- Comment on Announcing freenginx.org 9 months ago:
freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/…/000007.html
The most recent “security advisory” was released despite the fact that the particular bug in the experimental HTTP/3 code is expected to be fixed as a normal bug as per the existing security policy, and all the developers, including me, agree on this.
And, while the particular action isn’t exactly very bad, the approach in general is quite problematic.
I read something about this the other day, but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around it.
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-2… my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000138444 …nginx.org/…/NW6MNW34VZ6HDIHH5YFBIJYZJN7FGNAV.htm…
This seems to have the best discussion I’ve found:
- Comment on Apple's next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don't look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades 9 months ago:
That would be awesome, but who’s going to push for it?
It’s easy for the opponents to use safety as a case for why users shouldn’t have control of the software in their car.
The manufacturers already want to get rid of ODB because they’d rather control that data themselves.
At least android auto has been reverse engineered, and doesn’t currently require any sort of difficult-to-bypass hardware attestation.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 9 months ago:
I’m more experienced with graphics than LM, but wouldn’t that cause a significant increase in computation time, since those aren’t native types for arithmetic? Maybe that’s not a big problem?
If you have a link for the paper I’d like to check it out.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
And when they figure out how to serve ads on IMAP, you can take thunderbird to another provider.
I don’t think it’ll actually come to that, due to popularity, but I can see them blocking IMAP access on new accounts due to ‘security’.
- Comment on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain 9 months ago:
Huh, I’ve seen .local used for this quite a bit and only just now realised that it’s meant for something else.
I’ve also seen .corp 🤮
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 10 months ago:
My non-expert take on this:
Haier claims these plugins cause the firm significant financial damage
Don’t care. Competition is not damage.
violate copyright laws
Prove it.
plug-ins developed by you […] that are in violation of our terms of service
The plug-ins never agreed to your ToS. Better sue your customers instead.
- Comment on Self hosted browser IDE that supports C# and runs on Windows 10 months ago:
What’s the android IDE? To me solving the file permissions thing sounds simpler.
Android should allow you to do something like that with storage scopes.
- Comment on Self hosted browser IDE that supports C# and runs on Windows 10 months ago:
OP is looking for a browser based IDE. I don’t think vscode has anything like that.
- Comment on Microsoft KB5034441 Windows 10 security patch for BitLocker bypass is leading to errors and has a complicated fix 10 months ago:
I’m very curious about the vulnerability, but there doesn’t seem to be much info (only what MS posted).
How could you possibly bypass bitlocker, unless they write the key to the recovery environment?
- Comment on Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU 10 months ago:
I wonder how this will work where apple controls the OS and sort of controls the Dev tools.
The gatekeeper shall not be prevented from taking proportionate measures to ensure that third party software applications or software application stores do not endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system provided by the gatekeeper;
To me that sounds like they won’t have to offer root access to users, which is no suprise, but will they be able to continue to require certification of apps, even if they’re sold on other stores?
I’ve only just skimmed the legislation so far.