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by ericflo 5y ago
Linux on M1 and sideloading OSX apps are fairly orthogonal. Bootloader/sideloading term mixup maybe?
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by ericflo 5y ago
Even the main skynet portal doesn't run off a mint subsidy - it's funded by VC money instead :) No problem on running a portal! It was fun to be part of it for a while. I may run one again in the future once it's a bit more s
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by ericflo 5y ago
As someone who used to run a Skynet portal and no longer does because it was costing me too much money: no, it's not funded by subsidy from minted coins. Right now portals pay for the hosting of the files as a charitable service to the
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by ericflo 6y ago
> Twitter eventually cut off Instagram in-line image sharing, but by then it was too late. It actually went in the opposite direction - Instagram shut down Twitter's ability to display their images in-line.
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by ericflo 6y ago
Electricity consumption doesn't equal climate change per se - not all electricity is created equally. I see PoW cryptocurrencies as one of the most promising incentives to move to a sustainable energy future. Given the lack of politica
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by ericflo 6y ago
My cynical view on this is that Facebook has realized they can better protect their market dominance by raising the walls on their garden and locking down your data as much as possible, and calling that privacy. I expect them to fight data
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by ericflo 6y ago
It's not at all about those things. This move is about entertwining Oculus and Facebook in such a way that Oculus can't be trivially broken apart from Facebook once antitrust regulators set their sights on the company.
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by ericflo 6y ago
Dear Mozilla, Please continue your work on this. It's one of the lowest-cost, highest-leveraged points of counterbalance against Facebook's continued attempts to dominate the platforms of the future. In addition, there are numerou
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by ericflo 6y ago
microk8s has a Prometheus add-on that you can enable with one command: https://microk8s.io/docs/addons I'm using it and it's been great so far.
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by ericflo 6y ago
Rift S is discontinued, their marketing materials notwitstanding. Half Life Alyx can only be played by a standalone headset if you let a computer run the all the graphics and game logic, similar to how an iPad can be used as a second monito
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by ericflo 6y ago
Standalone absolutely is a separate product cateogory. It's the difference between a computer monitor and an iPad: even though they both have screens, they are different in kind. They target different market segments, have completely d
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by ericflo 6y ago
Epic has been very clear from the beginning that they would like to viably run a store on the major mobile hardware, they are not claiming that stores are bad in general.
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by ericflo 6y ago
And yet, today you can buy Control on Steam.
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by ericflo 6y ago
Not really, the economics are just better for the platform with vendor lock-in. They'd still recoup their costs via their store, which they can gift powerful advantages like making it default, having it be more integrated in various wa
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by ericflo 6y ago
They're clearly picking their battles. If they are able to win this case against Apple, they can use it as precedent to (hopefully) pressure consoles to open up too.
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by ericflo 6y ago
The direct link mention is encouraging, I hope they do something interesting with the opportunity
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by ericflo 6y ago
> Why is that hard to believe? Because they haven't given us any of these details that you're imagining. Will there still be an approval process? Will Facebook give up any control? Will this be just like "keys only" d
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by ericflo 6y ago
I'll believe their new distribution method when I see it. How will they handicap it? How will they maintain their requisite absolute control? And we won't see it until sometime next year? Hmm. (Spoken as someone who was rejected f
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by ericflo 6y ago
Either government has to intervene and make the marketplace competitive, or we'll have to spend a decade or more routing around the app duopoly. I used to think we could build a new platform in a sandbox on top of the old platforms (li
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by ericflo 6y ago
Great! Facebook's Oculus store, more locked-down than any smartphone app store, is the canary in the coal mine for the future of independent developers.
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by ericflo 6y ago
> Tell me one last known successful launch by Facebook in the last 2 years Oculus Quest
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by ericflo 6y ago
That misses the largest and fastest-growing market for VR: self-contained systems like Oculus Quest, which has had no real competition for about a year now. They ask that you pitch them with marketing materials and get permission before you
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by ericflo 6y ago
People who are worried about Apple's review process being arbitrary and onerous have no idea what's in store for them when VR/AR becomes more mainstream. Facebook's Oculus store is more of a "don't call us, we&
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by ericflo 6y ago
It's in the post - the author was able to put the taken-down video back up on lbry.tv, which is a cryptocurrency-based decentralized media platform.
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by ericflo 6y ago
What about games? People pay tons of money for them, and they are content too. When Cyberpunk 2077 comes out later this year, try telling people it's worth $0. I think the difference is social norms. The internet having no real built-i
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by ericflo 6y ago
Whether or not the API is opt-in is orthogonal to its security hardening - this is a false dichotomy.
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by ericflo 6y ago
It's been a while since I used PyPy, but JITs in general warm up over time. If you have hot loops with heavy arithmetic and no branches, that's usually best case scenario for JITs. If you have branchy non-uniform control flow, tha
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by ericflo 6y ago
> A decentralized website makes both parts censorship-resistant: it uses IPFS (a distributed file storage network) for storage This is a bit over-prescriptive: there are other distributed file storage networks out there. For example, Si
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by ericflo 6y ago
The framing of open APIs disappearing because of bad actors doesn't ring true to me. In my view, the golden age of APIs disappeared one-by-one as tech companies realized they won their respective markets and consolidated their power.
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by ericflo 6y ago
If it's around your forehead, how is it shielding you?

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