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by nullifidian 3y ago
The issue with the Rust ecosystem, and other similar "move fast and break things" npm-like ecosystems is not the lack of review per se, but the fact that most modules are microdependencies, or depend on them, each with its own mai
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by nullifidian 3y ago
There are some positive movements though. For example the addition of explicit synchronization that the nvidia driver needs to function properly into DRI3 / Xwayland https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver&#x2F
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by nullifidian 3y ago
AMD's drivers weren't open in 2007 either and for a number of years after that.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
The situation has been changing rapidly since summer. According to my research, if you combine their desktop and cuda bugginess (for 7900 XTX) they are approaching the nvidia level of bugginess on linux, which is surprisingly quite high (mu
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by nullifidian 3y ago
That's UK/Australian legal/cultural norms for you.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
According to the following article the south also indirectly a supplier in this war. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/world/asia/north-south-ko...
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by nullifidian 3y ago
>The market judges everyone’s skills, and barring nepotism, the market will pay everyone what they are worth That's when the the miseducated majority will find that the market is unjust. All goes according to plan.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Comcert is verified functional code in coq that is translated to ocaml for execution, the compiler for which isn't verified. It doesn't solve the problem of verification of imperative code. The state of the art approaches to imper
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by nullifidian 3y ago
The experience will probably be hellish anyway because of the Web integrity API. Javascript compiled to asm.js could produce painted-to-canvas websites too, and it won't be any less viable especially considering the growth of the CPU s
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by nullifidian 3y ago
that ship has sailed. Minified and optionally obfuscated js is already highly annoying to decipher. The wasm spec is surprisingly high level for what should be a low level VM, and is planned to get much more high level approaching near jvm
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by nullifidian 3y ago
>you don't really need any (almost any?) intermediate JS anymore I don't think that's true. You still need JS glue code that would return these externrefs. A WebAssembly module loaded through ESM integration can't as
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Do you know anything about any WASM developments that will enable pure WASM interaction with the browser's Web-APIs at no or at a low cost without the JS layer? Sometimes I look at https://github.com/WebAssembly/pr
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Personally I want a pure rust (minimal unsafes) PDF rendering/parsing library and viewer, same for EPUB (basically minimal browser engine), a video player (with ffmpeg equivalent), an image viewer with the accompanying image format li
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by nullifidian 3y ago
"Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time. Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. ..."
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Would be funny to discover that libgen was the key provider of knowledge for the AI revolution. Unsung heroes so to speak.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
No, it should have to do with the British Culture, the lack of anti-authoritarian implants in it, or something like that. The fact that there is no broad political opposition to the laws like this one (There are many others enacted in the l
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by nullifidian 3y ago
There is even bigger financial incentive in general to shut up / deplatform an outspoken, high-profile leftist (as in a person who threatens profits), or a politician in general. So such accusations should be considered with caution.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Maybe a bit too conspiratorial but I can easily imagine some Google exec asking advertisers: "Give as a casus belli for a crack down on free speech".
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by nullifidian 3y ago
https://youtu.be/hDek2cp0dmI?t=499 the presentation with narration of the author.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Why not segment user interfaces for different demographics by creating several apps (or switchable app modes) -- one for the "marginal" users, another for the less "marginal" "normal" users, and another for &q
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by nullifidian 3y ago
>My app is totally free, done as a charity/side project for disadvantaged kids. I assume you haven't made "$200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months" from it, so you can relax.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Yup, it makes free-to-play games with high installation numbers and less exploitative mechanics that result in $200k (or over $1mil with the pro subscription iiuc) yearly income either non-viable, or much less viable using this engine. They
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by nullifidian 3y ago
>Upgrading your CPU On the recent Intel platforms upgrading your CPU required upgrading your mobo too, and there are many people who upgrade almost every generation, i.e. 1-2 years. Burdening game developers with this is unjust. The engi
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by nullifidian 3y ago
>if you install it on a different one it will. Making the developer pay for user's hardware upgrades is still insane.
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by nullifidian 3y ago
"We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user. We chose this because each time a game is downloaded, the Unity Runtime is also installed." This reads as somethi
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by nullifidian 3y ago
Considering there are only few actors (the social media, search, internet infrastructure companies) the coercion is unlikely to stop due to a court decision. The government and the legislature have a lot of leverage, up to an anti-trust act
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by nullifidian 3y ago
There is also https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx pass-through 3D acceleration for qemu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e34mSBxDm7s
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by nullifidian 3y ago
I checked the form, and you in fact have to add plenty of personal information to submit a takedown request. So in this case the submitter obviously didn't supply their real name. A youtuber on the other hand can't submit a false
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by nullifidian 3y ago
I posted this video because it's a telling illustration of the interaction between the DMCA, the Youtube's particular implementation of compliance with it, and the resulting ability of third parties to inflict significant harm to
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I'm Being Stalked and YouTube is Ignoring it [video](youtube.com)
46 points by nullifidian 3y ago|9 comments

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