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by grumbel 3y ago
> the author of the project controls what is put in the Git repository itself The author doesn't control the Git repository. The Git repository is a shared data structure, not just bits on a server. Neither the author nor anybody el
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by grumbel 3y ago
> But both come from the same authors. The Git repository comes with a history containing each and every commit, along with checksums and sometimes cryptographic signatures for it all. The tarball is just a bunch of random files. If some
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by grumbel 3y ago
DSLinux[1] used a 4x6 font for the terminal, I found that surprisingly usable. [1] https://www.dslinux.org/dslinux-cpuinfo.jpg
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by grumbel 3y ago
Git evades censorship just fine, since it is properly decentralized and doesn't care about where you got the repository from. Plain HTTP transport however does not and most Git repositories are referred to by HTTP URL. If you simply ho
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by grumbel 3y ago
> Suppose you were new to the contest and were allowed to put money down on the choice at the point that there were two doors left. That would be a completely different game. The goat doesn't get reshuffled. The doors that remain ar
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by grumbel 3y ago
The remaining doors are not random. The one you picked still has a 1/3 chance of winning, that doesn't change with opening another door. However switching doors is essentially the same as picking all the other doors at once, since
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by grumbel 3y ago
When you view a Twitter post without being logged in it will only show you the post itself, not the rest of thread. You only get to see that when logged in. And of course the Twitter.com start page itself gives you no way to even find any p
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by grumbel 3y ago
The handling of multi-line strings is needlessly complex and can easily end up in white-space getting eaten unintentionally.
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by grumbel 3y ago
The original Oculus Rift had 1080x1200, VisionPro has 3660x3200, field of view is similar. In virtual monitor terms that means a Rift can display a 640x480 monitor and the VisionPro a 1920x1080 one. Still quite far away from Retina, but sho
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by grumbel 3y ago
SSH requires to have shell access on the receiving end, that renders it unusable in most situations. Rsync can in theory do anonymous file offerings, but it's not a shell one-liner to get it up and running either.
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by grumbel 3y ago
There is also: python -m http.server Which tends to be my go-to solution for file transfer between devices, it shares the current directory over HTTP. Not perfect, since HTTP makes downloading directories rather cumbersome, but at
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by grumbel 3y ago
Meanwhile if put a podcast URL into my Webbrowser I just get a bunch of raw XML. I never liked that RSS, while having some nice properties, exists as this awkward thing next to the Web, but isn't really part of the Web. What RSS is doi
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by grumbel 3y ago
Oculus DK1 sold 56,334 Oculus DK2 sold 118,930 Rift and Vive together ~1 million PSVR1 ~6 million Quest123 20+ million
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by grumbel 3y ago
The major problem VR has isn't the games, but all the boring and basic stuff, like using 2D apps in VR or running multiple VR apps at the same time. The discontinued WMR Portal, essentially the Window's desktop in VR, was so far t
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by grumbel 3y ago
> 4K monitor It's more like 1080p monitor. The virtual monitor only covers a small part of the VisionPro's display. You can compensate a bit for a lack of resolution by making the virtual screen bigger or by leaning in, but non
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by grumbel 3y ago
My "favorite" toggle button is the one where they add on/off labels[1] to it, but only one, and the slider hides the label. So the label actually tells you the state, not the state it would be when you move the slider over th
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by grumbel 3y ago
> doesn't destroy the reflog or runs the GC server-side. Git doesn't give you access to the server side reflog either. So it's of not much use if you don't control the server. As for losing data with Git, the easiest
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by grumbel 3y ago
> but that also means they're hard to remember Nobody remembers domain names either, that's what we have search engines for. The point of public keys is that they give the user something they own completely themselves and that
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by grumbel 3y ago
Domains are a rare and expensive resource, that also happens to get hijacked by spammers all the time when somebody forgets to pay their bills. It's not even possible to buy a domain permanently. Meanwhile if you stick to just a hostna
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by grumbel 3y ago
The person who added it, is not tracked. A file can be added by anybody at anytime and anywhere and it will get the same content address. It's up to the person doing the redistribution to ensure it's legal, but IPFS gives them no
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by grumbel 3y ago
Everything in your local cache is redistributed, meaning every single website you view through IPFS ends up getting potentially redistributed. Can you guarantee that each and every item you view on the Web allows redistribution?
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by grumbel 3y ago
Has it? I have never seen anybody using IPFS in the wild, even projects for which it should be well suited (archive.org, Linux package distribution, Git, Lemmy, Imgur, CivitAI), don't use it. Worse yet, IPFS still provides no real way
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by grumbel 3y ago
But you could feed the text through the LLM, generate a summary and a list of keywords, characters and locations and search through that the regular way. And as far as I can tell, that doesn't really exist yet. IMDb has a keyword featu
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by grumbel 3y ago
It's weird, I always expected AI categorization and search to arrive long before generative content. But despite a lot of research going into that direction, it never really arrived in the consumer space. Search today feels not fundame
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by grumbel 3y ago
There are numerous $50-100 Rockchip-based GameBoy-like emulation handhelds on the market, such as the R36S. The R36S runs normal Linux (ArkOS/Ubuntu), has an audio jack along with numerous buttons. It's missing a touchscreen and W
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by grumbel 3y ago
More RAM. It's the only thing that can reliably prevent it. Magic SysRq key[1] can trigger the OOM manually, which can sometimes rescue the system if you notice it soon enough. But if you run into the situation regularly under normal u
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by grumbel 3y ago
You have only about 10sec between the system getting slower and the system locking up completely. If you manage to hit the Magic SysRq key combination to trigger OOM manually, that can save the system, but you have to be quick. [1] https:&
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by grumbel 3y ago
> never went away. It might still be hiding out there, but when search engines never point you to it, social sites don't allow links to it and even your browser lacks any advanced way to deal with it (recommendations, notifications,
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by grumbel 3y ago
Steam will drop Windows7/8 support January 1, 2024[1], Vista and XP support got dropped a long time ago. Meanwhile they still sell Win95/98 games on the Steam store, which won't run well or at all on a Windows10/11. So n
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by grumbel 3y ago
Snowden spend the last ten years in exile in Russia, that's not that much of an improvement.

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