SunlitCat

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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Especially Samsung. I’m still very salty about Samsung never officially releasing their Samsung Odyssey VR headset in Europe. It was the best VR headset among the Windows Mixed Reality headsets at the time of their release. Of course, the H
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Since when became XMPP "the internet standard for chat"? What about IRC[0]? :( [0]: RFCs 1459, 2810 - 2813, 7194.
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Which is kinda sad. Way back in the mid-2000s, I was playing World of Warcraft with a few people I had met in the game itself. Later on, we chipped in to rent a TeamSpeak server from a company that offered ready-made servers and we had a lo
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
There’s something else I notice in my daily work with all kinds of different people, which I like to call “tech avoidance.” For example, this week I helped someone set up an account on an online library platform we use. I had to tell them m
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
As always, there’s a well-fitting xkcd for that one: https://xkcd.com/978/ :D
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Oh no. :( I really liked his series about modern c++ and learned a lot from it. It even made me understand some of the more complex topics of it and kinda rekindled my will to keep on learning.
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Something i never understood about WASM is....Why? Why the need for yet another binary format. I mean we have java bytecode and .net bytecode already, why was there a need for yet another bytecode? Or was it an case of https://xk
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Quite the opposite! There's an opportunity for a service like CloudFlare here to give people a simple toggle that manages to circumvent such geoblocks. ;)
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
I wonder if AI would have been a huge help to that.
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Another rewording: "...to upload your photos (on your IDs)..." :D
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Recently, i found lots of fun with codex-cli of openai, which even works as a mere ChatGPT Plus subscriber. :)
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
> a public alternative with private transactions This is exactly why governments should step in and regulate Visa and MasterCard, to prevent them from banning porn or other adult services. If this kind of banning goes too far, there will
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Funny that you mention Apple Stores. There's a widely circulated video showing a masked man walking into an Apple Store, yanking all the display units off the tables, and walking right out, without anyone trying to stop him. No interve
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
To really delve into the technical side of things: I’m fairly certain that large parts of Windows, especially when it comes to DRM, rely on third-party technologies, components that Microsoft licenses and integrates but doesn't necessa
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
That's maybe one of the biggest helping things. Having the right audience and even if it is only one or two people (or kids). This can make a lot of difference.
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Ideally, the entire path from source to display is secure and inaccessible (even for the operating system), that is the core promise of DRM. Of course the device must render the content somehow, but DRM is specifically designed to ensure th
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Coworkers convinced me to switch to whatsapp a few years ago (like 2023 or so). The reason, tho was as old as the internet is! They wanted to see the pictures of our cats we have at our workplace, which I liked to take with my phone. Later
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Although those apps are still out there, i really miss those days were all you needed was some kind of unique identifier like a nickname, username or something like that an email address and some fancy password (and you weren't even pe
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Although being too young to be really have seen gopher, i can still remember the (comparatively) simple "Internet" from mid to late 90s. IRC for chatting, ICQ for instant messaging (which didn't work because my ISP at that ti
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
But the larger issue is, if Microsoft Windows is able to grab DRMed content, there is some path to grab DRMed content at all. Which means that if someone with lots of time, passion and talent on their hand might be able to exploit that path
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Nice ad slogan! One AI per person One voice. One vision. One AI - for you.
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Not that the bomb answers: "I am sorry Dave, i can't do that!"
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Wow, it was like forever ago that i've seen that movie. Didn't realize it was meant as a comedy!
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Three.js is no game engine, tho. It can be used to create one and being all Javascript / HTML makes it totally approachable for a task like this.
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Well, yes. I totally agree with you on that one! The original comment was about (mis)using the browser as some kind of platform independent runtime environment for apps. Admittedly, at my workplace, I created a few (very simple) html/j
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Especially what does it have to do with that "these models are getting more powerful"?
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Was about to say "If we only have some kind of runtime system, which could run an app exactly the same on every supported operating system without needing to port that app, that would be awesome!". :D
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
The opposite would be something like the bug reporting system in Second Life by Linden Labs (an online world where you can be with a virtual avatar, doing stuff) (at least way back, i dunno if they still have that open). They had a public f
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Now! The real exercise would be to run wine for linux in that one (and of course, having FreeBSD running in a Hyper-V VM under Windows :D).
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by SunlitCat 1y ago
Thank you for your response! This makes personal branded software kinda awesome. Actually if it is some software providing value, i wouldn't mind getting it regardless who is selling it. Of course a company name in the background looks

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