lemmyng
@lemmyng@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Left. It wouldnt know how big the pants should be on the right 1 day ago:
The one on the right, but each branch wears its own pants like a JNCO Matryoshka doll.
- Comment on Going splendidly 1 week ago:
You get the snoot AND the boots? I call that an absolute win!
- Comment on Top 10 metal moments in classical music 2 weeks ago:
Vivaldi would have definitively enjoyed speed metal.
- Comment on Someone make an app 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact, pollution makes sunset colors more vibrant.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 4 weeks ago:
A great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward beetle, or you will soon be dead. The journey before you may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the frog’s ass, or your tale can’t be told.
- Comment on A 100 year storm, you say... 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t skip the dialogue, even if you use subtitles and are a fast reader. It sometimes switches from one sentence at a time to whole chunks of dialogue and action getting skipped. Plus, the voice acting is superb, and the physical reactions of characters can convey a lot of emotion.
Apart from White Orchard, you shouldn’t need to complete all side quests in your area before moving on. Particularly with witcher gear, it’s sometimes expected to need to come back at a later time when you’re more powerful.
Others may disagree, but I don’t bother dismantling gear and weapons. I find it simpler to just sell things and buy materials I need from vendors.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 1 month ago:
Since the mob is immune to damage as long as the heart is safe it could also work as bait for mobs that are hostile to it.
- Comment on What is the purpose of this plastic piece? 1 month ago:
It could be to protect the cord from being damaged by the prongs - the plastic cover would be softer and less sharp.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 1 month ago:
Pixel 8 user here - the in-display fingerprint reader is fine, as long as my finger isn’t super dry (which happens regularly). So I’m regularly licking my finger to unlock the device like some boomer that’s used to doing it from turning pages in a book.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
On the other hand it dilutes the effect of lower values because a lot of them are double digit. 20F, 40F, 60F… all double digit, but wildly varying. On the other hand, with Celsius you get:
- Below 0: There’s ice/snow.
- 0: Things are freezing/thawing (depending on what the temperature was before.
- 10s (Spring): T-shirt weather.
- 10s (Fall): Sweater weather.
- 20s: Nice in the sun.
- 30s: Nice in the shade.
- 40s: THIS IS PUNISHMENT FOR OUR HUBRIS.
- Comment on Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s still the case, but in my experience (years ago) PGP messed with the proper rendering of HTTP email bodies.
From a security standpoint also, the signature confirming that the email is from your is a double edged sword: Yes, your contacts get to verify that it’s you, but you’re also losing plausible deniability (privacy).
- Comment on AI Artefacting 2 months ago:
GNU STP.
- Comment on arachnids 2 months ago:
You know what, I think you are right. I was hasty and the shape fits your suggestion better.
- Comment on arachnids 2 months ago:
Red spider mites. They’re plant pests.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 months ago:
It also has to be fully functional offline. I don’t want to be locked out because someone’s login server is down.
- Comment on Sonic The Hedgehog, also known as bad comic book movies enemy number one 2 months ago:
Why Birds of Prey and not Suicide Squad (2016)? Could also include Madame Web.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
My decision tree roughly follows these steps:
- Steam for games that have an online multiplayer content, because GoG Galaxy sucks ass on Linux.
- Steam for games that objectively run better on Proton.
- GoG for games that support LAN multiplayer.
I used to also prioritize GoG because it was largely DRM-free, but the Luna partnership is putting doubt on that.
- Comment on apps .. repo or not 2 months ago:
Rant: We’re living in a time where
curl | bashhas become normalized. This generation’s security practices are fucked.Back to the topic: I see it as a problem of not enough education and too much trust. People are not taught how to verify the authenticity and legitimacy of software, and put too much trust in claims of authority. It’s not just a consumer problem either, look at the CrowdStrike incident: people in the industry knew it was shit, but the decision makers kept trusting it because they are a big name. How did they become a big name? The same way a lot of other companies do, by bribing the early decision makers into using them.
Back to consumers: it doesn’t help that there’s no first class sandboxing features. Both Android and iOS rely heavily on app store controls. Sure, there are some system controls, but the user has barely any agency over them.
- Comment on Was it Good? - Neverwinter Nights 3 months ago:
It was a very linear story, too.
- Comment on What JRPG combat is your favorite? 3 months ago:
Since FF 6 and 7 have already been mentioned, I’m going to give a honorable mention to Shining Force.
- Comment on An algorithm, among the many other things they ruin, is causing stability problems on Intel Core CPUs 3 months ago:
Math is causing problems! We must get rid of the pesky electricity that’s allowing these chips to fail!
- Comment on CrowdStrike impact on aussie.zone? 3 months ago:
And even if they did, hardly anyone outside of enterprises uses Crowdstrike on their servers.
- Comment on It's an epidemic 3 months ago:
SVG is probably a better fit for this use case.
Absolutely… when available. But many companies/teams do not release SVG artwork. PNG material is much more commonly available, and actually works with these tools.
- Comment on It's an epidemic 4 months ago:
WebP supports both lossy and lossless compression.
WebP did not always support lossless compression. It’s conceivable that the tools’ developers made the decision before that.
Images on the web usually aren’t large enough for this to make a significant difference, and it can sometimes be offset by the quicker download time.
That does not fit the use case of diagramming tools. They usually have comparatively few assets that are used multiple times in the same document. The larger the document, the more benefit lower CPU cost has. And I’ve seen LARGE diagrams.
libjpeg and libpng have had a number of CVEs too though.
Fair. I’m just speculating that it might be a contributing factor for the tools still not supporting the format.
- Comment on It's an epidemic 4 months ago:
Maybe because in those scenarios PNG offers sharper images, which is more important than compression when you have complex diagrams. Or because webp is more CPU intensive, and PNG gives better performance when rendering. Or because of CVE-2023-4863.
- Comment on It's an epidemic 4 months ago:
Good luck using webp in any kind of collaborative diagramming software.
- Comment on The Best Movie Sequels of the Last 20 Years 4 months ago:
That’s a really odd list, with some entries (like the Avatar one) that certainly did not live up to the hype.
- Comment on Aaaand fade out... 4 months ago:
