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by haasn 5y ago
This is not true, many are moving to OFTC. But the obvious answer is, Libera is run by the ex-freenode staffers, and runs on the same software. (Unlike OFTC) So Libera is basically Freenode's spiritual successor with a different name.
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by haasn 5y ago
> XMPP & Matrix bridge together fairly well these days. I want to test this claim. After an hour of google searching I'm none the wiser: 1. Can I bridge private messages, or just MUCs? I use XMPP only to keep in contact with fri
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by haasn 5y ago
Sounds exactly like my experience trying to reintegrate into society.
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Show HN: Efficient video filtering on the GPU, using libplacebo(github.com)
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by haasn 9y ago
This is what you get for using Slack. Meanwhile, IRC still works fine.
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by haasn 9y ago
Well, one question we could ask is why basically every single popular open source multimedia project (FFmpeg, x264, MPC-HC/madVR, mpv, avisynth/VapourSynth, MVtools/SVP, heck even LAME, .....) is made mostly by european autho
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by haasn 9y ago
SMPlayer can barely even be considered an mpv front-end and I hope nobody who uses it will ever make an mpv bug report again. It's a gigantic pile of hacks from the MPlayer age, and it “interfaces” with mpv using the most horrible meth
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by haasn 10y ago
I believe you are misunderstanding the issue. Nobody is trying to argue that 4:2:0 video looks objectively superior to 4:4:4 video if given a free choice. Obviously, full chroma information will always be better, such as is the case for som
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by haasn 10y ago
I'm not actually sure. In retrospect, I'm not sure what ‘DCT without quantizing’ really means, since the output of the cosines are probably real numbers? I guess the interpretation would be quantized to however many steps to repro
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by haasn 10y ago
> what i think of as undershooting or overshooting is relative to the range... and besides that, what is wrong with clamping? its how computer graphics has always had to deal with these things... limited range simply doesn't exist i
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by haasn 10y ago
> Chroma subsampling isn't going anywhere. You'll usually get subjectively better quality with 4:2:0 chroma compared to 4:4:4 at the same bitrate. And this means you can't have everything in RGB, so all the colorspace conv
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by haasn 10y ago
This comment is pretty much what I was going for. I've reworded it to make it clearer. The issue you can run into in practice is stuff like softsubbed signs, which can clash and look out of place with the native video if you render the
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by haasn 10y ago
In the car analogy, the car crashing is the equivalent of the programmer introducing a bug. The adversary is out of the picture here - you want to write your kernel in a way that makes accidental bugs hard/harmless. (i.e. prevent “rand
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by haasn 10y ago
I still think the title is misleading. Compare: “A TCP weakness in Linux systems allows ...” vs “A TCP weakness allows ... on Linux systems” Technically, it's not just Linux that's affected - it's the TCP protocol itself. The
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by haasn 10y ago
There's always the option of running certbot in certonly mode - in fact, that's what I do for the majority of my setups (mostly because certbot doesn't support nginx).
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by haasn 10y ago
On second thought, block devices are sort of sketchy for this use case - but FUSE still seems like a perfectly natural way to export networked storage. I'd expect a backup hierarchy to just be a directory of read-only snapshots of my f
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by haasn 10y ago
Those patches are for running the nvidia kernel driver in a PaX-enabled kernel. It doesn't help you protect the actual libGL.so, which my concern was about. (Indeed, I have to use those patches otherwise the nvidia kernel module wouldn
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by haasn 10y ago
That implies running Windows, though. My biggest problem with GPU drivers is that they stick out like a sore thumb on a hardened system. All the protection and isolation in the world won't help you when you have a stock-compiled, PaX-d
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by haasn 10y ago
I wonder if these numbers would change if one included sexting. I have a feeling that a growing portion of both relationships and sexual activities are being held over the internet.
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by haasn 10y ago
Wait, wouldn't that be standard? I've never used online backup, but I would naively assume that Linux would just have a block device or FUSE driver for these things. How can that not be the case?
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by haasn 10y ago
I think a better way to look at it is not the chance of total data loss, but the expected running cost over time. Even with just RAID6 it's hard to imagine a scenario in which you would be unable to replace one of the failed drives and
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by haasn 10y ago
> Which are ...? I'm not an expert, but I wonder if this means you could restrict GPU access to the master process only (for the sake of hardware-accelerated compositing) without needing to expose it to the website-facing process (d
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by haasn 10y ago
While I don't think the URL shortening matters too much, there's still another important attribute of using these shortlinks that manifests itself on youtube: They also omit irrelevant metadata like URL parameters that were specif
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by haasn 10y ago
This feature already exists and you don't need a button for it. It's part of HTML metadata, specifically the <link rel="shortlink"> tag. You could either provide some sort of button to your browser to place this in
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by haasn 10y ago
I always copy/paste the URL when I want to share a website. That's what the URL is meant for. Heck, it's easier to copy the URL (using the keyboard) than it is to use the mouse to click on some button. Sharing buttons are a n
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by haasn 10y ago
This is my biggest worry too. It's easy to turn on ASLR and PIE and SSP and whatnot and still have tons of obvious bugs in your actual business logic. I'm sort of worried that these automated metrics are too easy to game, and that
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by haasn 10y ago
I have an LG display with this anti-feature built in as well. An amusing anecdote about that: The OSD is not documented very well. There's a feature named “SUPER ENERGY SAVING” and a feature simply named “DFC”. As I learned via google,
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by haasn 10y ago
I think this article does a fantastic job of illustrating why legal problems (determining or enforcing the Colour of something) can never possibly be solved through the use of (colourless) technology - the two are fundamentally incompatible
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by haasn 10y ago
Indeed, the only absurd thing about the law is when people try to flirt with it by treating it mathematically.
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by haasn 10y ago
At some level, laws inherently have to be up for interpretation, and operate on some level of abstraction above the intimate details - because virtually everything in life is a spectrum, including the applicability of a given law. In the “f

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