The_Decryptor

@The_Decryptor@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does some online shopping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While there’s an overhead to safer runtime environments, I wouldn’t put much blame there. I feel like “back in the day” when something was inefficient you noticed it quicker because it had a much larger impact, windows would stop updating, the mouse would get laggy, music would start stuttering. These days you can take up 99% of the CPU time and the system will still chug along without any of those issues showing.

  I remember early Twitter had a “famous” performance issue, where the sticky heading bar would slow systems down, because they were re-scanning the entire page DOM on every scroll operation to find and adjust the header, rather than just caching a reference to it. Meanwhile yesterday I read an article about the evolution of the preferences UI in Apple OSs, that showed them off by running each individual version of said OS in VMs embedded within the page. It wasn’t snappy, but it didn’t have the “entire system slows down and stops responding” issues you saw a decade or so ago.

  Basically, devs aren’t being punished (by tooling) for being inefficient, so they don’t notice when they are, and newer devs never realise they need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guardian reporting on antisemitism plan proposed by government. Sweeping proposals including withdrawing funding from unis. Envoy claims that academia is steeped in antisemitism.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In an interview on Sky News, Segal wouldn’t nominate examples of media coverage she felt breached that standard, but said Australian media outlets should represent the situation in the Middle East with “fairness and balance”.

  So no examples of unfairness, but still needs to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Draw distance sucks for a vast ocean of plants and sealife. Seriously, I have a really good video card, and this fucking Unity engine can’t draw 500 feet in front of me.

  If anything Subnautica lets you see too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched a year ago, after trying and failing multiple times over the years whenever I gave it a try.

  1. Linux has massively improved, systemd is a lot cleaner than the mess of disparate shell scripts it displaced. Network Manager is also a lot nicer now than I remember it being when it was first introduced into Red Hat.
  2. Windows hasn’t, in a lot of ways it was actually regressing. I used to get multiple shell crashes a week with no insight as to why, friends would claim it was just me but then receive an update and start having similar crashes. Also noticeable UI issues that went unfixed for multiple revisions, made it felt cheap.
  3. MS went all in on AI garbage and was jamming it into everything, kept getting popup notifications and the like to try Copilot, notifications went from being useful to just being an ad delivery mechanism.
  4. Gaming on Linux massively improved, last time I tried it OpenGL support was a mess. Now OpenGL is very mature, and all the D3D translation stuff uses Vulkan which has been rock solid for me. I’ve found games run better than they did on Windows on the same hardware, and the only game I’ve had an issue with was Destiny 2, which is intentional on the devs behalf (Luckily the game’s boring now)

  I find I’m a lot more willing to let issues slide though, like I’ve had some Thunar crashes which I’m cool with since there’s like 4 devs maintaining it, vs. the multi-billion dollar company working on Explorer which I expect better from. Also unsurprisingly the only actual shop-stopper issue I’ve had was with a memory leak in the Nvidia drivers, the actual FLOSS stuff has been great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon remembers moot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d have to be pretty damn spicy considering what the users already post.

  edition.cnn.com/2019/08/04/business/…/index.html web.archive.org/…/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gam…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia being the only company that can make Nvidia GPUs does make them proprietary, but it’s also a redundant statement.

  The actual user facing side of it is cross platform, ray tracing is exposed via Direct3D and Vulkan like any other hardware feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon remembers moot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons 8chan was created, was that moot banned the gamergate crap from 4chan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is a perfect use case for torrents, could go a step further and keep track of a downloader’s ratio to stop people leaching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced LLMs as they exist today don’t prioritize sources – if trained naively, sure, but these days they can, for instance, integrate search results, and can update on new information.

  Well, it includes the text from the search results in the prompt, it’s not actually updating any internal state (the network weights), a new “conversation” starts from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (and why isn’t spell check core Windows functionality?)

  It actually is, introduced in Windows 8, it’s just taken devs ages to actually implement it (Notepad only got it last year, 12 years after it was introduced)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Littleproud said his party remained committed to the introduction of nuclear power in Australia, saying renewable energy had lost its social licence and country communities wanted change.

  Yes, this is definitely what the election results showed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Web rings may make a big comeback.

  I’ve got great news for you

  • 🕸💍.ws
  • weirdwidewebring.net
  • webring.xxiivv.com
  • hotlinewebring.club
  • epic1.neocities.org/webring
  • vastrecs.neocities.org/links/webrings
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the political mail I got this election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LNP: “The Greens’ extreme agenda will destroy Australia!” Greens: “It’s odd that dental isn’t considered part of healthcare, we should fix that”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember one of the modders behind a UI overhaul talking about the response to paid mods, when users kept saying that a donation system was better, that in the entire time they’d been making the mod they’d only gotten like $50 in donations total.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while Google let you blacklist domains from search results, fantastic feature so of course they killed it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never knew until I immigrated to the US. And even then, its merely a brief mention on it and calls it “communism” (its not lol) and then the teachers proclaim its why “communism” is bad, USA constitution rule of law blah blah.

  That’s when you bring up Kent State

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A single user mastodon instance has the same issues, any hashtags you can see will be from users you already follow. You need to subscribe to a relay to see more posts (Which GTS actually currently doesn’t support, so you need to follow tags from something like relay.fedi.buzz)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d run afoul of the whole “editing your own article” restrictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it really stealing if you pay for it?

  Xerox PARC had lots of great ideas, and then just never really commercialized any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tarlogic has detected that ESP32 chips, which allow connectivity via WiFi or Bluetooth, have hidden commands not documented by the manufacturer. These commands would allow modifying the chips arbitrarily to unlock additional functionalities, infecting these chips with malicious code, and even carrying out attacks of identity theft of devices.

  It’s not a backdoor, it’s a jailbreak. Sounds like they left the debug functionality enabled but just undocumented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s any consolation, in Australia that’d make you far-left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates Apple⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood why it’s just Apple that seems to get the blame for using Foxconn, they’re estimated to make 40% of all consumer electronics. Nintendo uses them for all their consoles (since the GameCube), Sony use them for their hardware (TVs, the PlayStation, etc.), MS for the Xbox, Amazon for the Kindles, Google for the Pixels, etc.

  I don’t want this to sound like whataboutism, but I’ve just literally never understood why people seemingly overlook all the other companies using them to place the blame solely on Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates Apple⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like macOS or Windows are any different there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not enough people buying Premium, eh?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which replaced Google Play Music, which was actually good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jack Dorsey may have had lofty goals for Bluesky, but he doesn’t even work there anymore.

  Which is a point in BlueSky’s favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyway, i started blastin'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine the stones would survive it, just fall out of the vanishing gauntlet. It’s not like the stones were a part of it, they were just being held in place by it, but then there’s the question of whether or not the contents of people’s pockets got snapped as well, we know the pager Fury had didn’t count as “part of him”.

  And no, they used the ant man tech to go back in time, no stones there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you trust that doctor?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tad out of date, but the Second Doctor claims he received a medical degree after studying under Joseph Lister in 1888.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His personal LLC is called “Excession”, considering some of the plot points in that book I doubt he enjoyed it at all, it’s just “nerd set dressing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time it was just an ad-lib by Jason Issacs, guessing he wished on a monkey’s paw for it to make sense in context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the problem with that, though? Systems like that are pretty much guaranteed to be isolated from the internet.

  Because things break down eventually, and when it comes time to buy replacement parts you discover that they’re effectively impossible to find. Then instead of having a nice, planned transition period you’ve got like a weekend to cobble together something to get it working again.