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gabrielesvelto

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Old school nerd.
Knows things about computers that would drive you insane.
Hacks on Firefox at Mozilla.

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gabrielesvelto, to firefox
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The nightly version of for on 32-bit ARM phones is broken.

It's likely caused by a compiler bug but I'm not sure yet. In the meantime you can use the beta/release versions which both work fine.

I'm investigating the problem here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1897635

eniko, to random
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hmm. 10 unique bosses in kitsune tails once the remaining few are done. feel like that's actually a pretty decent number for a lil indie game

i mean. SMB3 arguably had like, 3

gabrielesvelto,
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@eniko sounds like plenty to me. Oniken had 6 IIRC and Odallus: The Dark Call had 12 maybe? But I seem to remember some you encountered twice and it was a much, much larger game than the former.

gabrielesvelto,
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@eniko I'm thinking "very successful indie platform games I know of" here. I don't remember how many were in Owl Boy and Iconoclast, but I doubt it was much more than 10.

bhearsum, to random
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Been trying out NES games from time to time with the 5 year old. Mario has been a bit too frustrating for him. We picked up Excitebike yesterday, which has been almost perfect. I was surprised to learn you can even make your own tracks!

Are there are other vintage games that are fairly forgiving and good for young kids?

gabrielesvelto,
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@bhearsum tetris!

gabrielesvelto, to random
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In what can only be considered an example of karma, the Houthis struck a tanker which was being used to smuggle Russian oil

https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-ship-attack-6e133626776f4264e66d9f1d0b58315f

mastomememakers, to scifi
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science?! lets be honest ...

gabrielesvelto,
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@mastomememakers close but not quite: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/

gabrielesvelto,
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@mastomememakers that one is totally accurate

gabrielesvelto, to linux
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I've updated my tutorial on how to monitor memory on to include information about the kernel_lockdown LSM, and how to make it work when it's enabled.

Long story short, you can still monitor corrected & uncorrected memory errors with kernel lock-down enabled, but only using integrity mode. rasdaemon is incompatible with kernel lock-down confidentiality mode, as it deliberately hides kernel information from userspace applications.

https://www.setphaserstostun.org/posts/monitoring-ecc-memory-on-linux-with-rasdaemon/

gabrielesvelto,
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@rgacogne yep, thanks, I'll fix it later

csepp, to demoscene

Following the tag is quite nice except for all the AI art crap. :)

gabrielesvelto,
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@csepp you can use a keyword filter to get rid of the AI crap. Most stuff is tagged with so filtering that out will get rid of the junk

eniko, to random
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note that a reduction in reaction speed is probably not (solely) a function of aging because there's been studies that point out that after retirement age reaction speed actually increases*

seems way more likely that working age adults being more stressed, overworked, and ill rested reduces reaction speed to me. meanwhile retirees who have no job and functional UBI won't have nearly as many of those issues

*no i will not cite my sources on this since it was years ago i was looking into it, if you want to find the study i recommend you hit up a search engine (if any functional search engines remain in our AI-tainted present)

gabrielesvelto,
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@eniko I have no trouble at all believing that a lot of the decline in my reaction speed is being almost constantly tired and overworked

mhoye, to random
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"...when examining only those who passed the [bar] exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to 48th percentile overall, and 15th percentile on essays."

So, yeah.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-024-09396-9#Sec11

gabrielesvelto,
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@mhoye this calls for a meta-study about who lies more about their products between Elon and Sam

dotstdy, to random
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The Firefox mobile app is really not good :(

gabrielesvelto,
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@dotstdy @DenJohn does the interface still respond but the page remains white and it doesn't load new pages no matter what you do? Sounds like a but I've also encountered: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892395

gabrielesvelto,
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@dotstdy @DenJohn could you grab the logcat when it happens? That'd be a good way to figure out if it's the same issue

gabrielesvelto, to random
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I'm gonna say it: I'm really, really grateful to our QA people. Testing stuff over and over and over is not fun, but it's crucially important. There's so many things that can't be caught by automated tests. There's no replacement for a user manually interacting with your software.

gabrielesvelto,
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@usul @mte90 also stuff related to localization and accessibility

noelreports, to random
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Russian Air Force affiliated channel Fighterbomber commented on the attack on Belbek Air Base.

"There is no point in writing anything about Belbek.
Both the Ukrainians and us are lying. As usual. But the "truth" won't change anything. We need to learn. To the wounded recover, to the dead eternal memory."

gabrielesvelto,
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@noelreports 😂

davidho, to random
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Explain to me like I'm 10 years old: Is the Biden tariffs on electric vehicles, batteries, and solar panels coming from China motivated 100% by politics (and maybe racism), or is there some other (more legit) reason to do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PEcRiZPdvY

gabrielesvelto,
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@davidho anything that makes cars more expensive is a net positive for humanity, regardless of the motivation

gabrielesvelto, (edited ) to rust
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If you're doing a lot of work in C/C++/Rust consider using sccache to cache compilations. It's easy to set up and will save you a lot of time and a huge amount of power.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache

As an example this is just a couple of hours of work on Firefox, it saved me from re-running the compiler almost 90% of the time.

gabrielesvelto,
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@shram86 this is a generic tool that works with all mainstream compilers and requires just a few lines of global configuration. After that it works completely transparently

mhoye, to random
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Random linux question: Is there way to tie a keystroke directly to an action in a console? Not in a terminal emulator, mind you. I mean, I'm not running X or Wayland anything, the console.

I'm thinking of volume keys, etc.

gabrielesvelto,
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@mhoye you can create a custom keymap and bind commands to the keys you care about. The Arch wiki has some examples on how to do it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration#Creating_a_custom_keymap

gabrielesvelto, to random
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The shocking realization that - in spite of the way it objectifies its characters and the heaps of fanservice it contains - passes the Bechdel test.

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