drspod

@drspod@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I use a uBlock Origin filter that looks like this:

  lemmy.ml##div.mt-2.post-listing:has(.d-sm-block.d-none>.post-container.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala/i))
  

  You’ll need to modify the domain at the start (replace lemmy.ml with your instance hostname) and then change the keywords at the end with whatever keywords you want to exclude.

  To use it:

  • click the uBO icon and then the gear (settings) icon
  • click on the My Filters tab
  • make sure that “Enable My Custom Filters” is checked
  • paste the filter into the text area below
  • press the “Apply Changes” button
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among apps vying to replace Twitter, Bluesky may have the news and innovation edge⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  bluesky is bad and mastodon is the only way forward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers develop Python code for in-memory computing — in-memory computation comes to Python code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In-memory computing is a new way of computing that aims to solve the memory latency problem. As the name suggests, in-memory computing enables the system memory to do some calculations the CPU would do otherwise, cutting down the amount of data that must be transferred between the CPU and DRAM.

  Samsung and TSMC are actively working on memory capable of doing this, featuring MRAM memory cells. In-memory computing is still in the prototype phase, but progress is being made on the hardware side to make it a viable technology. With the help of conversion layers like PyPIM, software should be developed to support this computing method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  deflock.me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a researcher and publisher withholds information then ignores requests -- what’s the recourse? How can science have integrity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who funded the research? They probably have the source code and want to keep it proprietary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played Forza Horizon 4 and the Drivatars are pretty convincing. They make exactly the kind of mistakes on the track that I make and they can be challenging but beatable in a way that’s much more fun than any other racing game I had played before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing in the licensing scheme changed, at all.

  This statement is incorrect. The SDK had specific source files placed exclusively under the SDK license, and the remainder of the repository dual licensed between GPL 3 and the SDK license. So the licensing scheme did change.

  See also: github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/blob/…/LICENSE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why you’d suggest the previous commenter is out of touch with what users want, but what does that have to do with being a software engineer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Zuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.

  I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”

  Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy’s facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.

  She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scythe: The Digital Edition - Prettier than Chess, uglier than Scythe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it gets racist and victim-blaming.

  A strange confession to put in a game review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Bluetooth Vulnerability Leak, Your Passcode to Hackers During Pairing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the article, the described attack allows a man-in-the-middle attack on two devices while they are pairing.

  This means that someone could intercept and modify your bluetooth mouse or keyboard inputs, resulting in complete compromise of the device they are connected to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The (50!) games

  50! presumably referring to the number of different orderings in which you could play them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He can sue for compensation under the Equality Act 2010, or probably even the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then what you bought is not a mouse, it’s a proprietary peripheral that emulates a mouse when you install its propretary drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You clicked the tree somewhere and it would tell you either to try again, or you would win something. I think most people who won got $5 and a monkey plush toy. I’m not sure anyone ever won the jackpot. You could just click over and over again trying to remember where you had previously clicked, like a treasure hunt. Meanwhile they’re showing banner ads on the page.

  It worked using the ismap attribute on the image which tells the browser to add the x,y coordinates of the user’s click to the link when fetching the result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone remember the TreeLoot.com MoneyTree? It existed from 1998-2004 and looked like this:

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  I’m all in favor of going back to the old internet, but… not this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, there’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is

  At the end of its third quarter of its fiscal 2024, […] Qualcomm had $7.8 billion in cash and […] just over $23 billion in total assets. That means Qualcomm, […] is almost certainly looking at a stock-for-stock transaction. As of writing, Qualcomm’s market cap is $188 billion, just more than double that of Intel’s at $93 billion.

  In fact, Chipzilla may not be worth much to Qualcomm unless it can renegotiate the x86/x86-64 cross-licensing patent agreement between Intel and AMD, which dates back to 2009. That agreement is terminated if a change in control happens at either Intel or AMD.

  While a number of the patents expired in 2021, it’s our understanding that agreement is still in force and Qualcomm would be subject to change of control rules. In other words, Qualcomm wouldn’t be able to produce Intel-designed x86-64 chips unless AMD gave the green light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone UI Always Crashes in the Same Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • Does your phone automatically join open wifi networks?
  • Do you have worse cell signal than usual in this store?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there such a thing as an automotive relay with no resistor?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to find a schematic for your car’s electronics in order to get a proper solution for what you’re trying to do. I would be particularly cautious about connecting a relay coil to some unknown wiring. The back e.m.f. from a discharging relay coil could easily fry a microcontroller if it happens to be connected to one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone finally figured out a good use for NFTs: Peter Molyneux is using 'land' sales from his failed blockchain game to fund the development of his new project⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since nobody has mentioned it yet, the other game that ruined his reputation for me is Godus. He funded it with a kickstarter with the promise it would be a successor to the God-Sim genre like Populous. It turned out to have all of the dark patterns of mobile games (time-gating with micro-transactions), but in a PC game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to move blocklists from account to another?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you using the Import/Export Settings buttons in the settings page?

  If you can reproducibly crash an instance then you should definitely file this as an urgent security issue in the lemmy repo so it can be fixed: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A symbol for the fediverse ⁂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you one of the three proposers mentioned in the git repository?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A symbol for the fediverse ⁂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  closest current one I can find is

  ⛥

  or

  ⬠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geoff Keighley: No Silksong in Gamescom. Team Cherry are still cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silk Nukem SongNever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck with the PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter — you’ll need it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: they had no complaints about the headset or the adapter, but they had trouble pairing the controllers over Bluetooth and even when they did work they would regularly drop out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips Tech Hoarders 2 - Helping a Retrogaming Collector Get Rid of His Collection⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as Linus starts talking about something that you actually know about, you realise that he is bullshitting you, and it immediately calls into question everything that you’ve heard him say about subjects that you’re not an expert in.

  I had this realization about LTT years ago, but it’s a known phenomenon in journalism (the Gell-Mann amnesia effect) and seems to be even more common in YouTube journalism since the barrier to entry of publishing video is so much lower that publishing in print.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to Windows CE on the SEGA Dreamcast? -- MVG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDW: there is very little information but he speculates that either game developers struggled to use it, or Microsoft were delayed in finishing it in time for the DC launch.

  So what exactly happened here? While there’s no definitive reason provided, we can conclude a few things: according to a CNET article during the launch of the Dreamcast, developers were having trouble adapting to Windows CE. Rainbow 6 was intended to be a launch title for the Dreamcast but it was delayed. However, the company missed the date because of issues surrounding the use of Windows CE according to a spokesperson. One factor in the delay was a lack of experience in targeting Windows CE based software for use on a game console. Sega’s then vice-president of third-party development said, “in the lifetime of Dreamcast products you’ll see a lot more folks with PC experience building Windows CE titles,” and he estimated around 30% of Sega titles will be Windows CE based. In the end that percentage was closer to around 13%. Other sources suggested that Microsoft was delayed in bringing Windows CE to the the Dreamcast with its development taking over 2 years to complete and it simply wasn’t ready in time for the Dreamcast launch.