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sunbeam60 ,

Server blocking hexbear is the only way to stay sane on Lemmy.

sunbeam60 ,

… “and don’t worry about your family back home in North Korea who will be compressed into tinned meal”.

The defection rate will be low I suspect. It’s an automatic TFK (total family kill) to defect and I doubt they’ll send anyone who don’t have family at home in Glorious Motherland!

sunbeam60 ,

The Korean War was led by the UN. NATO wasn’t involved.

sunbeam60 ,

Maybe on account of the communities I subscribe to, but I’ve personally not come across right wing extremism on Lemmy. The tankies, though … so prevalent. Anyways, by server blocking hexbear it’s reduced by 90%.

sunbeam60 ,

The challenge is, in a real org of some size, you’ll suddenly get marketing or customer success asking you for commitments that are very far out, because ad slots have to be booked or a very large customer renewal is coming up.

And some of the normal coping mechanism (beta-branch that spins off stable feature to the general release branch) don’t work for all those requests.

Try as you might, you are going to get far off deadlines that you have to work towards. Not for everything but for more than you’d like.

sunbeam60 ,

Yeah, I agree that might work if the marketing team isn’t that connected to the product. I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some. It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

sunbeam60 ,

Completely. Give me a light Geländewagen (and I’m talking about the utility version that armies buy, not the blinged up Chelsea tractor version), with triple differential lock and it’ll out-drive these monster trucks any day, on any terrain, pulling the same weight.

sunbeam60 ,

Lol. What a load of hogwash.

sunbeam60 , (edited )

“Sophisticated scripts to scour pirate sites”.

I think we’ve just found a new tagline for radarr and sonarr.

sunbeam60 ,

Enig. Meget af det her kommer jo direkte fra USAs husstle-culture. Jeg spurgte engang en amerikansk CEO, hvordan han dog kunne gøre alt det her og samtidigt se sine børn. Han svarede at han havde masser af tid til sine unger, han så dem om morgenen inden de skulle i skole og han var tit hjemme i tid til at putte dem.

Øh, ok…

sunbeam60 , (edited )

They definitely do. The vast majority of cars (Tesla being a notable exception) run their critical systems on CANbus with AUTOSAR and QNX or VxWorks. That’s why their entertainment system can still crash while the car drives on just fine. That doesn’t mean one can’t obscure the other; on VW group cars, for example, the reversing camera is run by QNX on CANbus but shown on the entertainment screen as an overlay. Occasionally you’ll see QNX starting to show the camera before the entertainment system has had a chance to draw the frame around it.

Espionage: In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines ( www.wired.com )

The United States Department of Justice is quietly prosecuting a novel Espionage Act case involving a drone, a Chinese national, and classified nuclear submarines....

sunbeam60 ,

100% cigarette reversed into a cupped hand.

sunbeam60 ,

I used mine in my mail signature for a while and I’ve kept all my emails since late 90s.

sunbeam60 ,

You are correct that when you build one new plant every 25 years it takes a long time to spool the industry, the skills, the testing and the manufacturing capability up to build new nuclear.

In countries that regularly build new nuclear it takes 5 years, comparable to any other power source. When France when through their mass-conversion to nuclear in the 70s (following the oil crisis), they put 2-3 new nuclear plants into operation every year.

All new western nuclear is in “production hell”. We don’t build them often enough to retain the skill set or for industry to dare invest. So they become massive state-run enterprises.

If we were serious on solving our climate crisis we would build nuclear power plans en masse.

sunbeam60 ,

This is what Mozilla should have done a LONG time ago - focussed on browser features, ease of use, compatibility and speed. Make a better browser if you want to win a browser war.

sunbeam60 ,

Let’s spend all that new-found battery life by translating x86 code to ARM code.

sunbeam60 ,

On the x86 architecture, RAM is used by the CPU and the GPU has a huge penalty when accessing main RAM. It therefore has onboard graphics memory.

On ARM this is unified so GPU and CPU can both access the same memory, at the same penalty. This means a huge class of embarrassingly parallel problems can be solved quicker on this architecture.

sunbeam60 ,

Yes unified and extremely slow compared to an ARM architecture’s unified memory, as the GPU sort of acts as if it was discrete.

sunbeam60 ,

It’s been a while since I’ve coded on the Xbox, but at least in the 360, the memory wasn’t really unified as such. You had 10 MB of EDRAM that formed your render target and then there was specialised functions to copy the EDRAM output to DRAM. So it was still separated and while you could create buffers in main memory that you access in the shaders, at some penalty.

It’s not that unified memory can’t be created, but it’s not the architecture of a PC, where peripheral cards communicate over the PCI bus, with great penalties to touch RAM.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

sunbeam60 ,

Cancelled last month. Don’t miss it. Entertain myself by downloading and installing Linux distributions instead. They usually can be downloaded using torrent/magnet links.

sunbeam60 ,

Yeah, Plex downloads work fine still, on all devices.

sunbeam60 , (edited )

I do think Zig is better for this kind of thing.

const ret = try do_thing();

if( ret ) | result | {
   do_something_with_result(result);
}

The try keyword returns any error up; the if-unwrap works with what came out of a successful call. Normally you wouldn’t have both, of course.

do_thing would be defined as a union of an error (a distinct kind of type, so it can be reasoned about with try, catch and unwrapping) and the wrapped return value.

sunbeam60 ,

Well, different floats for different boats I suppose.

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More ( www.mozilla.org )

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...

sunbeam60 ,

For the love of Darwin, really?

Any product manager needs data about how a product is used to make the product better. Of course they need to test if moving a button to a different place leads to an easier to understand setting screen; or if moving extensions into a separate menu means fewer people find the malicious extension and turn it off.

I’ll be the first person to say that Mozilla is bigger than it needs to be and their org size isn’t justified by their results. But to think collecting data automatically makes them suspect seems to me lazy. It’s what they do with the data that counts.

sunbeam60 ,

If you go through my comment history you’ll find me saying, multiple times, that Mozilla has worked itself into this problem, by adding far more people than they need. The browser would be healthier, I suspect, if there was a 50-strong, open-collective backed, dev team working on just the browser. At the minute the org is enormous and they now need to find a way to pay for that enormous org.

sunbeam60 ,

Because that allows them to sell the default search engine spot for more; the more you know about an audience the more it’s worth, even this high up the food chain.

sunbeam60 ,

They are specifically not tying it to people, but to countries.

sunbeam60 ,

Discord is honestly the most awful way to create a helpful community.

It’s a great way to give the 20 most active members of the community someplace to trample on top of newbies trying to get questions answered.

sunbeam60 ,

I’ve already paid for a lifetime license of Plex. Is it worth considering a switch?

sunbeam60 ,

And that’s how Microsoft moved into irrelevance under Ballmer until Satya Nadella started focussing on innovation again. When sales lead technology businesses they always decline.

sunbeam60 ,

AN order I said.

sunbeam60 ,

After 20+ in software, my loyalty towards my current employer is as strong and unyielding as theirs is to me: Not at all.

sunbeam60 ,

Everyone believes what they look at every day “looks right”. It’s just habit.

sunbeam60 , (edited )

Engine breaking braking destroys the engine.

Today: <Bing!> DO NOT ENGAGE CLUTCH ABOVE 1300 RPM.

sunbeam60 ,

Yeah this is a great point!

Fat is bad!
Sugar is fine (but brush your teeth)!
Yes, this thing that’s been vacuum packed for 24 months is still edible food.

sunbeam60 ,

“Ignore them and they’ll go away” really is rubbish advice. But that’s of course not to say that the only other step is violence.

My oldest daughter didn’t have a great time in secondary school (UK, age 11-16) but through persistent discussions and alarm raising to the school, the bullies eventually got the message and left her alone. I’m happy to say she’s having a wonderful time in college now (UK, age 16-18).

sunbeam60 ,

Half of you is him. He quite literally is right there with you.

sunbeam60 ,

The real truth of it is: Through persistent action and discipline, you can dramatically increase the probability that you can be what you want to be.

I always use the lottery analogy with my kids: “How many lottery tickets did you get today?”.

The second part of the truth is: Some people come with a lot more lottery tickets that you, through genetics, income background, family support and, yes, luck. Don’t let that stop you; most don’t and you don’t need to be first to win this race.

sunbeam60 , (edited )

And irrational imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

sunbeam60 ,

Lol. Yes. Don’t drink and Lemmy.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week ( arstechnica.com )

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

sunbeam60 ,

I haven’t done this myself because it’s obviously very illegal, but I’ve been told you set up a server with docker and set up the following containers:

  • gluetun for VPN (exit in Switzerland with a fallback to Spain) as these countries have the laxest regulation re downloading licensed media.
  • radarr for film
  • sonarr for tv
  • other *arr instances for subtitles, music, ebooks etc
  • qbittorrent piped through the Gluetun container
  • jellyfish, plex or XBMC in front as a player.

But what do I know? I haven’t done it myself and only download large Linux distributions because I love distro-hopping.

sunbeam60 ,

I exclusively use qbittorrent to download Linux distros.

sunbeam60 ,

There are just so many distributions.

sunbeam60 ,

I’ve been told some use an app called LunaSea to to manage their arr instances. Apparently it brings all the arrs under one simple interface.

sunbeam60 ,

It’s qbittorrent all the way down.

sunbeam60 ,

Me neither as I haven’t done it.

But apparently it basically creates your own Netflix. You write a title you’d like to watch and within minutes you get a notification that it’s there, ready.

sunbeam60 ,

Most people I speak to about this assume that the "good VPN" provider can be trusted not to keep logs.

sunbeam60 ,

I don’t think it is but the headline clearly mimics a standard newspaper headline. I don’t think it’s trying to say something about genders, just saying something about how media communicates.

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