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by grishka 2mo ago
So the world is slightly better right now.
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by grishka 3mo ago
The apps that are the reason some people use smartphones at all — bank apps — require Google services and remote attestation that runs in an environment with more privileges than the OS kernel. Otherwise everyone interested would just unloc
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by grishka 3mo ago
Pixels do have unlockable bootloaders, but they also have a non-unlockable hypervisor that would snitch on you and make some apps refuse to work.
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by grishka 3mo ago
In 2021, I upgraded to the 2021 MBP from the 2012 first-gen retina. So I also skipped the bad models. The difference is night and day. You don't really notice the notch, especially if you view it as giving you extra space for the menu
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by grishka 3mo ago
I know at least one person who still uses an Intel one and doesn't like it
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by grishka 3mo ago
I half-jokingly thought to myself, "of course it's all software rendering, Haiku doesn't have GPU drivers", so imagine my amazement when I saw that this thread is about porting an NVidia GPU driver from Linux, and HL2 do
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by grishka 3mo ago
> OpenGL never was a big thing on game consoles. I've never tried developing anything for a 3D-capable console, but I've always had the feeling that their graphics APIs are bespoke, thin abstraction layers on top of the raw gra
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by grishka 3mo ago
OpenGL is the only truly cross-platform graphics API out there. Vulkan isn't on Apple platforms, unless you use MoltenVK which implements it on top of Metal. Also I don't know why, but Windows games tend to use Direct3D even thoug
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by grishka 3mo ago
Also don't CD-Rs need a more sensitive detector in the drive to read? I remember seeing somewhere that early drives have trouble with them
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by grishka 3mo ago
Fun fact: Rutracker is one of the few remaining places on the internet where random Russians and Ukrainians talk respectfully to each other, and do so in Russian.
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by grishka 3mo ago
Related: different people think of time different ways. I myself have never liked analog clocks because they require a conversion to make sense . Technology Connections made a video about this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N
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by grishka 3mo ago
Afaik they aren't manufactured any more
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by grishka 4mo ago
Getting someone else's preexisting code to meaningfully run on a thing you made from scratch is quite rewarding. I haven't made an OS but I did make a Game Boy emulator. It runs most of my childhood games just fine, which made i
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by grishka 4mo ago
The use of AI is still optional.
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by grishka 4mo ago
Can't Chromium-based browser developers work together to fork the entire thing? Ideally becoming independent of Google altogether.
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by grishka 4mo ago
I wonder what will Vivaldi do. They say that their built-in content blocker is "good enough" that you supposedly don't need uBO (I very much disagree) but they also keep MV2 extensions working to this day.
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by grishka 4mo ago
TSPU isn't for spying, it's for censorship enforcement and everything else that makes the experience of using the internet here miserable without a VPN. It's SORM that's for spying. And Roskomnadzor is very much part of
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by grishka 4mo ago
Yes, that's another law they have. Can't access the internet anonymously, basically. And yes, foreign phone numbers do work. Though I've seen, plenty of times, smaller places have a "public" wifi with a password, an
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by grishka 4mo ago
> Chile, you virtually needed to be a citizen, as I recall. I heard something similar about Russia after recent changes actually, it could as well be impossible for non-residents so tourists just stick with international roaming and publ
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by grishka 4mo ago
As a Russian: huh, you guys could still just buy a sim card without any kind of identification? Impressive. We had that ID requirement introduced way back in the 00s. Even EU countries seem to require an ID now. When I traveled to France
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by grishka 4mo ago
There's this: https://codeberg.org/fsphil/hacktv It's not "VHS footage" though, but it can generate all kinds of analog video signals, some of which my decoder can decode.
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by grishka 4mo ago
Well I made this: https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/tree/master/AVDecod...
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by grishka 4mo ago
Relatedly, I recently made a software decoder for SECAM and PAL: https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/tree/master/AVDecod... Though in my case the purpose was to digitize my video tapes and teach mys
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by grishka 4mo ago
> USB-C port to receive firmware updates. So do you mean that even camera lenses now ship unfinished?
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by grishka 4mo ago
So weird to me to realize that for some people, email providers have a UX , and enough of it that they could consider switching. I've been using email through a client for decades. My primary email is Gmail, but I have no idea what Gm
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by grishka 4mo ago
Instagram is blocked in Russia so everyone here uses it through some sort of VPN. No one I know has ever got banned for that.
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by grishka 4mo ago
HN has this thing where it would automatically "fix" submission titles.
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by grishka 4mo ago
I always enjoy it when someone makes "obsolete" hardware natively talk to modern network services that it was never meant to talk to. And bringing an entire browser to a system this old is a serious achievement. I don't own
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by grishka 4mo ago
Or Alisa
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by grishka 4mo ago
Thankfully, once something is on the internet, it's here forever.

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