mort96

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by mort96 1mo ago
I've never used a TV that way, that's the job of whatever is connected to the TV. But if you do use your TV like that, didn't those things work when you got it? Why do you need software updates?
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by mort96 1mo ago
Wait who are these people who praise GrapheneOS but complain about it not allowing root? It sounds like you're conflating two groups of people
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by mort96 1mo ago
why would I want to keep the software on my TV updated, it's a screen
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by mort96 1mo ago
Responsible disclosure makes sense when the user and the manufacturer have the same goal of the product being secure. Jailbreaking is a case where the user and the manufacturer have opposing goals: the user wants to be in charge their hardw
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by mort96 1mo ago
A V8 does not "predict" the firing of the next piston, it triggers the firing of the next piston at a precisely controlled time with a spark plug (or a fuel injection nozzle in the case of a diesel engine). The output of the LLM
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by mort96 1mo ago
At the same time, it ... is literally a next token predictor. Like that's what it is. The input is a sequence of tokens. The output is a probability distribution of next tokens.
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by mort96 1mo ago
It has mostly become my go-to as well. Just wish it wasn't a Facebook product.
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by mort96 1mo ago
The problem is that everyone who's championing IPv6 is talking about how it makes NAT unnecessary and about how bad NAT is. See TFA as one example. NAT is perfectly fine, so all the IPv6 boosters who make this huge deal of it get dismi
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by mort96 1mo ago
It's sadly the only practical way to do things now. For client/server, you only need one party (the server) to not be behind CGNAT. For p2p, you need both parties to not be behind CGNAT. It's typically only possible to guaran
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by mort96 1mo ago
> A number of folks ran Mincecraft servers at home, but you'd only be able to have one on the default port. This is such a common and stupid problem. It's the same with SSH; if you want to run your own git host, you need to eit
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by mort96 1mo ago
If it's any consolation, I don't think NAT did anything particularly harmful other than making the adoption of IPv6 less urgent. It's CGNAT that's the real problem, not NAT.
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by mort96 1mo ago
NAT itself was a hack to let everything keep working like it already was despite there being more computers than IPv4 addresses. The Internet Protocol only concerns itself with IP addresses. The idea is that each computer has an IP address,
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by mort96 1mo ago
Yeah NAT is still "every household gets a public IP address". This is a perfectly good foundation for an open Internet. You can still host servers in your home. I did this a lot as a kid and learned a ton from it. It's maybe
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by mort96 1mo ago
Building enough nuclear to replace fossil electricity generation is both insanely expensive and not enough to fix the problem because plenty of emissions don't come from electricity generation.
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by mort96 1mo ago
Too much stuff doesn't work with Podman still. Especially if you're on an SELinux system.
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by mort96 1mo ago
The thing is, I don't want to just "not update apps". If there's a security vulnerability which needs to be patched ASAP, I need to be told about it ASAP.
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by mort96 1mo ago
If you'd limit yourself to cores implementing the Application profile of ARM (Armv8-A etc), you'd do the same and limit yourself to cores implementing the Application profile of RISC-V (RVA23 etc). In that case, you can assume vec
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by mort96 1mo ago
Intel has done such a good job keeping AVX512 support away from reaching ubiquitous adoption, it's insane. There are so many useful instructions in AVX512 which are just missing from AVX/AVX2 that you can't assume exist, even
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by mort96 1mo ago
This is Nextcloud to me. I use it, but it constantly nags me about some software upgrade I need to do. People don't appreciate enough that releasing new software has a cost. Upgrading is risky and disruptive. Even on iOS, where app u
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by mort96 1mo ago
I mean that we don't have numbers for how this competes with Apple
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by mort96 1mo ago
Oh, so we're at the "good for an engineering sample" stage not "competitive with Apple" stage
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by mort96 1mo ago
I went some time without a desktop computer at home. The idea was, I have a perfectly good laptop, I'll just connect it with a dock when I want to use a desktop-like device. Never ended up happening. I didn't get much done at home
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by mort96 1mo ago
Podcasting 2.0 seems to be a cryptocurrency project. Saying that Podcasting 2.0 invented chapters and transcripts is saying that cryptocurrency people invented chapters and transcripts.
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by mort96 1mo ago
Did their test results include power draw?
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by mort96 1mo ago
> There is nothing to detect on the sink side, for basic operation. I know. You need the detection for the fancy stuff like PD, not for basic operation. So why does it matter that a resistor is missing on the sink side? It's stupid.
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by mort96 1mo ago
I know how cheap resistors are. I design PCBs as a hobby and occasionally semi-professionally. Leaving off parts should result in behavior which is identical whether you connect an A-C cable or a C-C cable. Detecting the difference between
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by mort96 1mo ago
IMO it's a huge failure of the USB-C standard that to a USB 2 only device, a C-C cable looks different to an A-C cable. It's the cause of so many issues of the kind, "it works when I use a different cable" or "it wo
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by mort96 1mo ago
Well you can run any bandwidth at any frequency, I get that the WiFi specs define set bands which include both a center frequency and a bandwidth but it's a bit weird then to focus on the frequency when the bandwidth is what matters is
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by mort96 2mo ago
Wouldn't it make more sense then to ask about high bandwidth channel support rather than frequency support? It's not the frequency that's important here.
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by mort96 2mo ago
Why would 6GHz make such a difference compared to 5GHz?

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