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by grishka 2y ago
Heh, I installed this and immediately found out that "LegacyScreenSaver" has leaked 40 GB of memory.
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by grishka 2y ago
English is not my native language yet somehow I share this sentiment towards AI. I'm fine with a spell checker, I don't need whatever I write completely rewritten, thank you very much.
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by grishka 2y ago
Definitely not everywhere. Starlink cares a lot about national borders, neutralizing the one major advantage it has over most other internet access technologies. This just begs me to say "you had one job".
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by grishka 2y ago
IMO the reason Apple doesn't provide this level of hardware documentation is because modern Macs don't have comparable expansion capabilities. The kind that expose system buses on connectors that users are supposed to plug cards i
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by grishka 2y ago
> I think these federated platforms can use some kind of spam detection, though. I plan to explore this in Smithereen (my fediverse server project) at some point in the future. Ideally, I want something similar to VKontakte's "
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by grishka 2y ago
Fediverse-based platforms usually just don't do any proactive moderation. They rely on users spotting violations and reporting them. The reports are federated though. If admins of two servers disagree on what should be allowed, that us
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by grishka 2y ago
You know, I expected that they'd find or synthesize some naquadah to build an actual stargate and maybe even defeat the Goa'uld. The exciting stuff, not AI.
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by grishka 2y ago
> Microsoft PC certification Why is that a thing to begin with? What happens if a PC doesn't have it? It's not like Windows would refuse to run on it.
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by grishka 2y ago
It's a "shared heap". There are relays that collect and pass the entire firehose of events through themselves to interested parties, there are PDSes that store each user's data, and there are AppViews that users interact
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by grishka 2y ago
> At that time, the carriers controlled so much of the cell phone experience. In English-speaking countries, maybe. But I remember at least Windows Mobile PDAs that had both a cellular radio and wifi before the iPhone launched. At least
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by grishka 2y ago
> If software doesn't want to run on your hardware because it can't make sure you're not tampering with it, why is it wrong for doing so? It's not the software, it's that the hardware itself, that I bought to own
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by grishka 2y ago
Lol, I've had my Pixel 9 Pro for a month but I forgot about that pixel screenshots app. The other features are unavailable in my country anyway, especially anything that has to do with calls.
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by grishka 2y ago
The problem with bootloader unlocking on modern Android devices is that they have a hypervisor that you don't get to ever unlock but that will snitch on you and make some apps, like some banking ones, refuse to work because the &quot
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by grishka 2y ago
> You didn't even have to fall for a scam to get something like that, plenty of reputable software came with such "add-ons", because that's how you made money back then. That's why you never blindly clicked &quot
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by grishka 2y ago
The problem is larger than that, it's the IT industry's obsession with denying users the ability to evaluate their own risks and take their own responsibility. You do that all the time every day in most other areas of life, but so
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by grishka 2y ago
This whole "just cross your eyes" thing has never worked for me, not once. I've seen these strange patterns printed on the backs of notebooks that supposedly make some sort of 3D effect when you "just cross your eyes&quo
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by grishka 2y ago
I'm not getting much sunlight. Especially now. But I was getting plenty when I lived in Dubai for several months. Didn't change anything much, my sleeping schedule was still slipping. So no, your theory is wrong. Non-24-hour sleep
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by grishka 2y ago
Meanwhile in my Russian university, everyone scraped whatever they wanted. As long as you didn't cause any harm or disruption to these systems, no one cared. There were tests you had to take in a special classroom full of Sun thin clie
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by grishka 2y ago
Fight the sunlight? What the hell do you even mean ?! I don't have a 24-hour sleeping schedule naturally. I can force myself into it, but I'll feel miserable because I have to fight my own body to not "fight the sunlight&quo
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by grishka 2y ago
Interesting. I have a similar problem that I haven't had any obligations to follow the "normal people schedule" ever since I graduated the university (and even then, I got like 4 hours of sleep and slept on the subway on my w
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by grishka 2y ago
But that stuff is usually not x86.
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by grishka 2y ago
I have a growing Mastodon thread of this shit: https://mastodon.social/@grishka/111934602844613193 It's of course trivially bypassable with a VPN, but getting a 403 for an innocent get request of a public resource
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by grishka 2y ago
> It ought to be up to the individual user to decide their own tolerance for the risk of privacy violations. It's a recurring theme in the modern IT industry that the user can somehow never trusted to take their own responsibility f
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by grishka 2y ago
You don't really need to emulate the position of the beam, at least not for the NES light gun. When you pull the trigger, the game first makes the entire screen black for one frame, reading the sensor in the gun and checking that it do
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by grishka 2y ago
No. Light gun games rely on the fact that a CRT display will draw the picture on the screen pretty much at the same time it's generated by the console's video chip. Modern digital displays introduce all kinds of delays due to proc
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by grishka 2y ago
That's what disk encryption is for.
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by grishka 2y ago
Own hardware doesn't mean own data center. Many data centers offer colocation.
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by grishka 2y ago
Interesting. The only time I traveled on a Deutsche Bahn train, it was delayed 20 minutes, and they scanned my ticket off my laptop screen while I was already on the train, without saying a word :D
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by grishka 2y ago
That's how train tickets still work in Europe, I was kinda surprised and impressed. They don't check IDs at all, you just show a QR code. In Russia where I'm from you need to show an ID to buy a long-distance train ticket and
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by grishka 2y ago
No. Most airlines allow you to manage your booking with your last name and PNR. Which is perfectly fine. You would usually only need an account for two things: the loyalty/miles program, and having your details autofilled next time you

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