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by jsheard 11mo ago
It could always be worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed They haven't had an incident that bad since they switched from C to Rust.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
OP said they're using an Apple TV, which most definitely supports the 4K DRM.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding#Hardwar... Yeah, that's... sparse uptake. A few smart TV SOCs have it, but aside from Intel it seems that none of the major computer or mobile vendors are bothe
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by jsheard 11mo ago
H266/VVC has a five year head-start over AV2, so probably that first unless hardware vendors decide to skip it entirely. The final AV2 spec is due this year, so any day now, but it'll take a while to make it's way into hardwa
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Sounds like they need something akin to audio volume normalization but for video. You can go bright, but only in moderation, otherwise your whole video gets dimmed down until the average is reasonable.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Apple's RAM is on-package, not on-die. The memory is still a separate die which they buy from the same suppliers as everyone else. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Mac_Mini... Tha
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Every type of DRAM is ultimately made at the same fabs, so if one type is suddenly in high demand then the supply of everything else is going to suffer.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
I wonder if Apple will budge. The margins on their RAM upgrades were so ludicrous before that they're probably still RAM-profitable even without raising their prices, but do they want to give up those fat margins?
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by jsheard 11mo ago
PG got suspended for directing his followers to Mastodon: https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1604604968677392386 They did walk that policy back due to the backlash, but they really wanted to do it.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Paying users are also explicitly given priority in the reply section, which naturally hands a megaphone to the type of user that is more willing to give money to Elon Musk and wear the "I gave money to Elon Musk" badge.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
To be fair, Samsung's divisions having guns pointed at each other is nothing new. This is the same conglomerate that makes their own chip division fight for placement in their own phones, constantly flip-flopping between using Samsung
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by jsheard 11mo ago
> The SOTA cheats use custom hardware that uses DMA to spy on the game state. And the SOTA anti-cheats now use IOMMU shenanigans to keep DMA devices from seeing the game state. The arms race continues.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Did they? AFAICT what they actually said was not to expect a faster Steam Deck any time soon, which was true, because the OLED version had basically the same performance as the original and in the two years since they still haven't r
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by jsheard 11mo ago
They also require TPM, which I think facilitates remote attestation for secure boot.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Valve recently said outright that they have no VR titles in development. https://www.roadtovr.com/valve-no-first-party-vr-game-in-dev...
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by jsheard 11mo ago
A funny detail is that Microsoft's mostly fruitless ARM efforts unintentionally ended up being a boon for Valves ARM effort. From MSVC 2019 they started augmenting x86 binaries with undocumented metadata specifically to assist the Wind
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by jsheard 11mo ago
I think even the "Major" tournaments that are officially sanctioned and sponsored by Valve, though organized by third parties, usually run on FACEIT or similar.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
> I Don't understand why everyone else does not. It's because the Linux versions of those anti-cheats are significantly weaker than their Windows counterparts.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
AIUI they intend to retire support for x86 macOS apps in a few years, but Rosetta will remain as a low-level component so that things like Crossover and Parallels can continue to work. Maybe not forever, but there's no immediate threat
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by jsheard 11mo ago
I'm not sure what FEX could offer on macOS that Rosetta 2 doesn't already, with better performance thanks to Apple Silicon magic. Running x86 code on ARM macOS is the most solved part of the stack, if anything needs work it's
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by jsheard 11mo ago
They forced all personal accounts to "upgrade" to more expensive AI plans, but the trick was that they presented the change as if it were a general price increase when the old plans actually still existed, albeit buried at the bot
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by jsheard 11mo ago
They got in trouble for tricking Office users into paying for AI-enabled plans they didn't actually want, and now they're all out of ideas.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Helldivers 2 is only on current gen consoles so older ones are beside the point, the current ones use NVMe SSDs exclusively. PC is the only platform where HDDs or SATA SSDs might still come up.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
> I think COD games are regularly hundreds of gigs I looked up the size of the latest one, and Sony's investment in RAD Kraken seems to be paying dividends: Xbox: 214 GB PC: 162 GB PS5: 96 GB
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Yeah, I don't think any of the stores charge developers in proportion to how much bandwidth they use. If that changed then the priorities could shift pretty quickly. Publishers do have to care somewhat on the Switch since Nintendo does
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by jsheard 11mo ago
From a business perspective the disk footprint is only a high cost if it results in fewer sales, which I doubt it does to any significant degree. It is wasteful, but can see why optimization efforts would get focused elsewhere.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Tired: homelabbers bringing decommissioned datacenter gear home. Wired: homelabbers moving into decommissioned datacenters.
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Maybe he was correct in the extremely literal sense of AI producing more new lines of code than humans, because AI is no doubt very good at producing huge volumes of Stuff very quickly, but how much of that Stuff actually justifies its exis
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by jsheard 11mo ago
Look, if a terminal emulator can raise $67 million by riding the AI hypewave then a Javscript runtime can do the same. Nobody ever said that AI investments and acquisitions have to make any sense.
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Amazon Prime Video removes controversial AI anime dubs(animecorner.me)
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