WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The treaty isn’t the technology, it’s the result of people much better informed on the topic considering the scenario you are asking about.

  The technology is the hypothetical anti-ballistic missiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I kinda don’t mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to download Virtualbox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s fine if it’s in a bag and off or silent” has been cell phone policy in my experience (10-20 years ago).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap

  FFMPEG is an open source command line tool and software library for audio and video encoding. You’ll find it mentioned in the credits of just about any video playing software ever, but you can also just go use it for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like GIMP but find Inkscape impossible to use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory “fuck Notch” but I really liked the idea of 0x10c when it was announced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon predicts the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a chance to make some radical societal changes. Working from home became socially acceptable. Commuting disappeared, and the environment noticeably improved. People had more time to take care of themselves and work on hobbies while also still getting their work done.

  Then as soon as bans on working in person were lifted, companies decided they had to bring people back to office in order to justify the expense of the office building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Oh whoops got the instructions mixed up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? My actual GameCube controller works with all games on the Switch 1, although it doesn’t have all the buttons used by some games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Metroid⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s also a “bounty hunter” because “Boba Fett in Star Wars looked cool”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrimp colour drama⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t really detect direction of light exactly. Instead we detect the location in the eye where the light landed, and have lenses to focus the light onto our retina. That relationship does imply some of the directionality of the light I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • a tool for backing up offline installers

  This really should be something they offer for free, and there are already some FOSS options that do this, although they aren’t as good as I’d like.

  • ability to install previous versions of a game

  This is a feature they already have for free and there would (or at least should) be backlash if they were to lock that behind a subscription

  • extra insight into the preservation work they’re doing.

  Sure, neat.

  • voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.

  Sure but said votes better have an actual impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab a box full and test a bunch until you find one that works well for your use case. That way you end up with a resistor that’s much better than the rated tolerance you’d get if you just grabbed one resistor at random.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Javascript/Linux is what I call it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo I miss all the great in-browser shockwave games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the controls in the OG Mario Bros (and even the OG Super Mario Bros, to a bit of a lesser extent) are very clunky compared to modern entries. I’d say SMB3 holds up well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2 although 6 is also pretty good from my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a list of VR games I’d 1000% recommend:

  • Half Life: Alyx
  • I Expect you to Die (James Bond themed virtual escape rooms - 3 games in the series so far, all of them are good)
  • Super Hot (slo-motion first person combat puzzle game)
  • Beat Saber (a unique rhythm game)
  • Pavlov (CS:GO but in VR with extensive modding support)

  There are other good ones out there but that’s the list that justifies the headset to me.

  Also there are some good VR ports of non-VR games out there such as Myst and The Talos Principle. Also there are some good Minecraft mods that add VR support (Java edition of course). Stay away from the Skyrim port though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeesh sounds like your monitors color output is badly calibrated :/. Fixing that requires an OS level calibration tool. I’ve only ever done this on macOS so I’m not sure where it is on Windows or Linux.

  Also in general I wouldn’t use the non-hdr to hdr conversion features. Most of them aren’t very good. Also a lot of Linux distros don’t have HDR support (at least the one I’m using doesn’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t really understand the benefit of HDR until I got a monitor that actually supports it.

  And I don’t mean simply can process the 10-bit color values, I mean has a peak brightness of at least 1000 nits.

  That’s how they trick you. They make cheap monitors that can process the HDR signal and so have an “HDR” mode, and your computer will output an HDR signal, but at best it’s not really different from the non-HDR mode because the monitor can’t physically produce a high dynamic range image.

  If you actually want to see an HDR difference, you need to get something like a 1000-nit OLED monitor (note that “LED” often just refers to an LCD monitor with an LED backlight). Something like one of these: www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/

  These aren’t cheap. I don’t think I’ve seen one for less than maybe $700. That’s how much it costs unfortunately. I wouldn’t trust a monitor that claims to be HDR for $300.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will absolutely pick up other peoples trash if it’s somewhere like the wilderness. They should have picked it up themselves but I’m there now and that trash shouldn’t be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon builds a new PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of fancy PCs is to run Minecraft with shaders and a bunch of mods

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of this is kinda already happening.

  Score could be kept with citations.

  This is already something people brag about / look at as a measure of success. There are plenty of free websites to keep track but the most popular one is Google Scholar.

  Perhaps competing labs could both receive citation credit if their results essentially showed the same thing.

  When I find multiple good papers that have the information I need, I cite all of them, and even feel happy about it because citing a lot of papers can make your paper look like you put in more work.

  If nobody could scoop anyone else’s work, then cooperation may be encouraged over competition.

  It’s a bit hard to completely do away with scooping. A possibly more practical way to increase cooperation would be to eliminate the idea of the “first author” getting the majority of the credit. It’s really annoying when like 5 people heavily contributed to the paper but whoever’s name is listed first ends up getting 90% of the credit because that’s what people look for.

  The idea of doing things in a wiki format is interesting though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s assuming the user knows that and didn’t just buy a prebuilt tower from Costco, and that it isn’t a laptop or something where changing the motherboard is much harder if not impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly when I’m dubious of the quality of a product, I look for the negative reviews. If the only negative reviews are people clearly being dumb or really minor gripes, I take that as a good sign. If there are very few or no negative reviews, that’s a red flag that something fishy is going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinkpad for the win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There should be options avoiding AC depending on your scenario. Most laptops charge off of DC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conferences⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite loot is an NSA-branded webcam cover