samoa42

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by samoa42 6y ago
someone probably said this to stallman and tovalds
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by samoa42 6y ago
> Am I just lucky or is this "crashes and blue screens"-business just a persistent memory from the late 90s and early 2000s? the choice of components determines if a windows machine bluescreenes all the time or accumulates upti
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by samoa42 6y ago
idk an url of a video file passed to a player worked 20years ago as it does now. "the streaming video tech" integrated the player into the browser to control it and show ads. not much gained imo.
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by samoa42 6y ago
> I've been using awk for past 2-3 years or so and I wrote a book on GNU awk one-liners not to criticise your work, but this does not sit well with me.
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by samoa42 6y ago
also a question of codec. h264 is still the only widely supported in-hardware decodeable codec out there (cheapest for the client) but google serves webm by default (cheapest for them and built in-house) ytdl-format lets you choose
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by samoa42 6y ago
> You can’t put modern ads into a downloaded video youtube-dl has an experimental --include-ads option =)
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by samoa42 6y ago
> I wonder how many of those use YouTube-dl on the backend i wager to say that the vast majority of browser extensions and websites that allow downloading of media content use ytdl in the background
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by samoa42 6y ago
try out mpv. with cranked up caches it will buffer the whole vid in ram and bobs your uncle.
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by samoa42 6y ago
> The placebo is the meningitis vaccine wtf?! a placebo should by definition have no effect at all
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by samoa42 6y ago
afaik pole coverage is not on the table
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by samoa42 6y ago
it is
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by samoa42 6y ago
> youtube-dl isn't just a user facing tool it sure is on my end
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by samoa42 6y ago
yea, mobile devices are limited by the ammount of thermal energy they can dissipate. most laptop cooling systems top out at around 30W, anything more is peak load or charging. my i7-6600u idles at around 3W
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by samoa42 6y ago
> Has the tech improved significantly since then? I'm also skeptical of wireless headphones i used logitech h600 for a decade, they had a usb-bt dongle which connected instantly, the range was good, they were lightweight an cost aro
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by samoa42 6y ago
thb it is very dependent on the location. ie. i get good 4g signal in most of the forests in bavaria but no signal at all in the lobby of my local hospital.
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by samoa42 6y ago
completely agree on most points but starlink is not likely to beat the speed of light, so geolocation is still the dominating factor for latency. it will improve the situation for regions with poor wired infrastructure. funny thou how 8gigs
137.
by samoa42 6y ago
not sure where you think this meme (never heard of it) was brought up itt.
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by samoa42 6y ago
was going to say "of course, why would the router care for layer4 proto" but then again, netgear is like a synonym for "unpredictable crappy middlebox".
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by samoa42 6y ago
considering how many sites say "dont archive me" while residing as a public resource on the internet at the same time, i support this practical ingnorance.
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by samoa42 6y ago
suggests that ipv6 is here to replace the rfc1918 space but "the internet" largely remains ipv4. the high v6 penetration in mobile networks likewise suggests that smartphones are generally not a part of the network as much as dedi
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by samoa42 6y ago
the wording "can be faster" tells that this is the upper bound. ie. it is generally about the same, while it can be 15% faster or slower than the ip4 average. sample sizes are most likely somewhat different aswell .
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by samoa42 6y ago
note that this is a runtime config. drop it somewhere in /etc/sysctl.d/ to make it permanent.
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by samoa42 6y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3194
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by samoa42 6y ago
hope everyone appreciates the irony of that reply as much as i do. ie. "you can pay the muggers or build yourself a castle with a drawbridge"
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by samoa42 6y ago
> "ohmygod I need one extra K of unfragmented low memory, time to tinker with config.sys again" i know a lot of ppl went deep down the rabbit hole of computers because of this. thou the period _was_ short because memory got big
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by samoa42 6y ago
> CPUs get more energy efficient at lower speeds. intuitively i agree but how does this fall in line with the 'race to idle' concept? would love to see some graphs with operations-per-watt for different cpu/arch.
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by samoa42 6y ago
those seem to be a minority thou
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by samoa42 6y ago
> I stream alot. no kidding 1080p stream ~ 1-2GB/h -> 1TB/mo ~ 16h/day > I last had a 150GB/month cap when I had ADSL connection there is no cap, i meant what i said 'typical usage' > How are you us
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by samoa42 6y ago
generally you can not block DoH without blocking most of the web, thats literally the point of it.
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by samoa42 6y ago
really surprised that india apparently has data caps in the terrabyte range... typical usage in germany is around 150gig/mo. is p2p that much more popular? are you streaming everything in 16k+?

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