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by rollcat 1y ago
Agree. My 2017 MBP cooked its own battery (spicy pillow) by 2021. My 2019 Thinkpad T495 (Ryzen 3600) does get hot under load, but it's still fine to type on.
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by rollcat 1y ago
I really like the principles behind AMD's chiplet design, of course they've had different design goals behind it (easier diversification of their product portfolio), but it remains a fact that you can slap a not-so-terrible GPU ri
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by rollcat 1y ago
> It's a fairly common issue on Linux to be missing hardware acceleration, especially for video decoding. I've had to enable gpu video decoding on my fw16 and haven't noticed the fans on youtube. I've worked in video
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by rollcat 1y ago
A language model will create the market force to displace an oligopoly in the most influential sector of our society? Hedge your bets.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> [...] someone with serious name recognition like Linus Torvalds starts to lead that kind of effort [...] Linus is a kernel hacker, and already busy tending to his own project. "GNU/Linux" is effectively a committee of co
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Maybe it's time for a third large phone OS [...]. Apple and Google conspired to never allow that to happen. They've pushed Microsoft out of that sector. Microsoft! Name a bigger challenger.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Apple is quite happy to patch & extend stuff. Their ssh-add(1) accepts --apple-use-keychain, --apple-load-keychain; vanilla OpenSSH doesn't even know what long flags are. I think it's entirely OK for long-established programs
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by rollcat 1y ago
> [...] Linus has not bothered to write them down himself [...] He's a kernel hacker and a technical leader. He doesn't write specs for the userspace, that's the least of his concerns. Linux has very strong guarantees on s
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by rollcat 1y ago
Japan is Japan, most of their history can be summarised as isolationism/NIH. Software developers are also not seen as "real" engineers there. They're just typing words into a computer, right?
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by rollcat 1y ago
That is my entire point. The creators fight each other in a pit, for the Emperor's amusement.
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by rollcat 1y ago
I don't mind the ads as much as all the mandatory meta-baiting. Not the MB itself, but the mechanisms behind it. Even if you produce interesting videos, you still must MB to get the likes, to stay relevant to the algorithm, to capture
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by rollcat 1y ago
Engineering is making sure stuff works first, art distant second. Even if the text is a simple article, a personal touch / style will go a long way to make it more pleasant to read. LLMs are just making everything equally average, minu
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by rollcat 1y ago
You now need an LLM to go thru write calls?
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by rollcat 1y ago
I wonder how much money have these three companies made from FOSS in the last quarter alone. I guess they don't know either, it's easy to take all of that work for granted.
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by rollcat 1y ago
The way to handle a password: plaintextPassword = POST["password"] ok = bcryptCompare(hashedPassword, plaintextPassword) // (now throw away POST and plaintextPassword) if (ok) { ... } Bonus points: o
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I only pay $1 per month for my VPS, and even that piece of trash can handle 1000s of requests per second. Depends on the computational cost per request. If you're serving static content from memory, 10k/s sounds easy. If you
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by rollcat 1y ago
I think at this point every self-hosted forge should block diffs from anonymous users. Also: Anubis and go-away, but also: some people are on old browsers or underpowered computers.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Sometimes I find an odd password being probed, search for it on the web and find an interesting story [...]. Yeah, this is beyond irresponsible. You know the moment you're pwned, __you__ become the new interesting story? For every
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by rollcat 1y ago
Shoulder surfing is exactly the risk factor that biometrics are meant to mitigate. Every time you type your PIN - that's an opportunity to snoop it. Neither will protect you against rubber hose cryptography.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Wherever you're working with colors and text/emblems, please also consider contrast and legibility: < https://apcacontrast.com/ >
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by rollcat 1y ago
That's one reason to prefer Oklab ;)
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I can’t use ctrl+C in the terminal for Copy because that’s reserved for the interrupt signal. It's not reserved - the terminal emulator is free to handle any key, in any way, however it wants. Some examples: 1. The XFCE terminal
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by rollcat 1y ago
That's a bit unfair to the modern compilers - there's a lot more standards to adhere to, more (micro)architectures, frontends need to plug into IRs into optimisers into codegen, etc. Some of it is self-inflicted: do you need yet-a
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by rollcat 1y ago
I really wish we could make uniformity a trend again. GTK has basically made it a rule that applications must do whatever the heck they want. Then next day I'm using Inkscape on a Mac. Cmd-A on the canvas selects all elements. Cmd-A in
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by rollcat 1y ago
> considering the system reboots in 1.2 s That's not the point - it's about usability. You'd be constantly losing work. > Just killing off a hanging process that doesnt yield [...] <3 !
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by rollcat 1y ago
Gold coins were replaced by paper money. Paper money was replaced by credit cards. Now credit cards are being replaced by smartphone wallets. My phone or watch can still pay for stuff while they're offline. For the past 5 years, I didn
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by rollcat 1y ago
The OS looks highly opinionated and I respect that. Better to have a single overarching vision than try to do too many things poorly. However I will question some design choices! - 32-bit only: the writing is on the wall, many vendors (HW&a
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by rollcat 1y ago
Nothing better than being able to rely on your partner, but really - do reach out. We're all friendly folks, ready to help each other.
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by rollcat 1y ago
It looks like it could be future-compatible with a possible Euro Rack refit? Nothing cooler than DIYing a DSP for your DIY modsynth! Heightwise, it fits: 100mm vs ER's ~128mm; trickier with depth - 180mm vs "deep" ER modules
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by rollcat 1y ago
Since we're having an impromptu ADHD club forming in this thread - I totally feel you. I've had too many ideas like this one, even some prototypes over the years. There are many tricks to stay focused, particularly when there are

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