BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@feddit.nl
- Comment on On the seventh day, god created uranium 17 hours ago:
Why would an all-knowing god need to test anything?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
What the hell are you on about, they added a new piece just last month.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 1 week ago:
Helldesk comes from the BOFH stories.
It’s because working for customer support is absolute hell.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 1 week ago:
Is this even social engineering?
According to Wikipedia:
In the context of information security, social engineering is the use of psychological pressure to influence people to perform actions or divulge confidential information.
No one got tricked or pressured, the helldesk employee was just following established procedure. They did exactly what they were supposed to do.
It’s just that Sony’s procedures are laughably insecure.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 1 week ago:
No one got hacked. No one found an exploit and broke into Sony’s servers.
They simply called Sony’s helldesk who handed over accounts with little to no verification. WTF.
- Comment on All in one 1 week ago:
Bold of you to assume my car is waxed.
Or wash for that matter.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 1 week ago:
Also, a racing game without VR support? What is even the point of that.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
Solar is very common, and I suspect battery storage to become really popular (at least in my country) in the coming years due to legislation changes.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
What environmental damage?
I’ve got 5400Wp of solar panels and a 15kWh home battery. Excess solar power generated during the day is stored and used at night. With the exception of a few months in winter all my power is self generated using solar.
Even when I use grid power in winter I have a contract with the energy company for 100% renewable energy. In winter it doesn’t matter anyway since that 3 watt eventually ends up as heat which means my heating system needs to produce 3W less.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
How is that in any way equivalent?
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, 3 watts. How will I cope with the €0,00 that is going to cost me?
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
Do you also turn off your phone at night? Or your tablet?
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
MacBooks use practically no power when in standby. Turning it off actually uses more power than leaving it on (due to the time and processing power it takes to start everything back up).
Leaving it on also reduces wear on components. Being on all the time doesn’t cause a lot of wear, it’s switching between on and off that causes wear due to the component warming up and cooling down.
why would you just leave it on if you’re not using it?
We’re talking a MacBook, not a desktop Windows machine. There is no benefit to turning it off and a lot of downsides.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
Why not? There is no point in turning it off. Just close the lid and it goes into a deep sleep mode. It’s super efficient and it’s ready to go instantly if you need it.
It’s don’t know anyone who turns their MacBook off when they don’t use it.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 weeks ago:
when the MacBook is turned off and plugged into my dock it just keeps on charging to 100%…
Why would you ever turn it off?
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
Someone comes up with an idea that the state should cut spending on the sick and elderly and start campaigning about how we should be focusing healthcare on only the fit and the strong
That’s already the case with private health insurance.
I think the terminally ill should have a way to leave with dignity instead of jumping off bridges or driving into oncoming traffic.
Where I live euthanasia is available in case of “suffering without chance of improvement”, which includes mental health issues in very rare cases (and only after every treatment option has been exhausted).
The last few years there has been some discussion to allow for euthanasia for people who feel they have “completed their life”. As in: elderly who don’t want to spend their last few years in an old peoples home wearing adult diapers slowly withering away. They had a good life, they feel like there is nothing left for them to do on this earth and just want a dignified death on their own terms. There is something to be said for that.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
How do you imagine that would work?
I live in a country that allows for euthanasia and it’s not like you just walk into a doctor’s office and ask for a suicide pill. It’s a long process involving multiple doctors and psychological assessments.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
Why would those disadvantaged groups agree to being euthanized?
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 month ago:
Not based on Konqueror (the browser) but on khtml (the render engine Konqueror was built around).
- Comment on Cry cry cry 1 month ago:
They just proposed it, so sounds like they aren’t the ones who get to make the final decision.
I suspect they’re going to end up calling it ‘trump crater’ or something equally heinous.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 month ago:
Over here in 2026 we have satnav in our cars and on our bikes.
- Comment on It hurts. 1 month ago:
Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.
- Comment on DST 1 month ago:
I live in northern Europe, summer days are long. We don’t get actual night for several months (best we get is astronomical twilight for a few hours). DST makes no sense here.
- Comment on DST 1 month ago:
That’s not an issue at all during summer. Do you really need sunlight until 22:00 at night? Right now you basically cannot be outdoors during summer nights because it’s too hot in the direct sunlight. By the time it cools down enough to be outdoors it’s already time for bed.
The best parts of summer nights are when the sun goes down and the world finally cools down enough to be outdoors. We should move the clock an hour back in summer to get more of that. Call it Moonlight Saving Time.
- Comment on DST 1 month ago:
Is there any benefit to DST? I can’t think of anything.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 months ago:
LOL, What do I know right. I only have a degree in computer engineering and 20 years of experience as a software engineer.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 months ago:
See my other post. A PC is a general purpose machine designed to be modular, this comes at a pretty significant cost in performance. Everything in technology is a trade-off, nothing comes for free.
A PS5 may use the same x86 architecture but the system architecture is not the same as a generic PC. It’s not that a PS5 punches above its weight, it’s actually the other way around: PC’s perform relatively poorly considering their specs. For example: the ability to replace the GPU comes at a massive cost in performance. PCs make up for this somewhat with sheer brute force. A purpose-built machine will always be more efficient.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 months ago:
The PS5 does still need some time to load anything, it’s not magic.
It’s not magic, it’s engineering. Games specifically designed for the PS5 can pretty much load instantly. It’s not just the SSDs raw bandwidth. The SSD controller plays a huge role. It can decompress data as it’s loading from the SSD, effectively acting as a bandwidth multiplier. It also communicates directly with the GPU cache.
Remember that PCs are held back by their modular architecture. To allow for an interchangeable GPU it needs to be on a PCIe card with its own separate VRAM. This all comes at a huge performance penalty. Data needs to be copied over the slow PCIe bus to the VRAM before it can be accessed by the GPU. On a PS5 with its unified memory architecture everything is immediately usable once it hits the system RAM. This is a massive advantage when streaming assets.
The big difference is latency. Not how much data it can load per second, but the time between starting a load and the data actually being available. Sony spent a lot of effort in getting this as short as possible throwing a lot of purpose-designed hardware at it. Something you can’t do in a PC because it’s a general purpose machine.
Another huge factor is that every PS5 has the same minimum performance level. The fact that you have a super fast SSD is meaningless because the game has to be designed to work with the crappiest spinning rust HDD that meets the minimum system requirements. So while a PS5 may not be as fast as the best PC that can run the game, it is much faster than the crappiest PC that can run the game, so the developers can optimize for a much faster machine than they can when they have to take into account that crappy low-end PC that has to be able to run it.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 months ago:
I was always under the impression that these were here specifically because loading screens broke immersion and were just as disruptive.
This is especially infuriating when you’re playing on a PS5 where there shouldn’t be a need for a loading screen but the game is cross platform and they need to design them into the levels because PC and PS4 need them.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 months ago:
The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.
But the problem never was typing in the actual code. The majority of coding is understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and figuring out a good solution. If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop. You can’t review your way out of it because a proper review still requires that level of understanding the problem. If you just let the AI do the typing for you, there’s very little to be gained there as the time spent typing is negligible.
AI may be good at building simple, boilerplate-level code. But that’s what we have junior developers for. Junior developers we need because they grow into medior and senior developers.