I left my job about two months ago, and I applied for unemployment immediately. I got a new job today, but I STILL haven’t gotten my unemployment decision. Additionally, my food stamp application was delayed due to personal circumstances. In short, had I not had money saved for an emergency, I would have been mega-screwed....
Even that doesn’t really explain it. The streets are crawling with people who were evicted from their homes because their jobs didn’t pay enough to cover rent. These people have nothing to lose, and yet they still stay quiet.
I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source....
Linux. I signed up with my first proper ISP as a kid in the '90s. The service included a shell account on their Linux server accessible by telnet. I thought it was really cool and decided to see if I could run it on my own computer, and to my delight, I could.
Unless I’m mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process’ memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.
Such an on-device feature would either be trivial to break (if it’s an ordinary API) or be impossible to implement in an open-source browser and OS (if it’s some locked-down DRM-like thing), and the latter is not privacy-preserving because proprietary software tends to be spyware.
If these moralizers would just shut up, go away, and stop trying to ruin the Internet, that’d be great.
This group has been demanding the censorship of porn, consequences be damned, for decades now. They have failed thus far, and the sky has not fallen as a result, so it’s pretty clear that it’s safe for society and the courts to continue to dismiss their irrational hysteria.
Dynamic typing is insane. You have to keep track of the type of absolutely everything, in your head. It’s like the assembly of type systems, except it makes your program slower instead of faster.
The organization that represents Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s works has petitioned the U.S. government to restrict the right to repair a religious artifact called an E-Meter. This device is core to Scientology practices but the group argues exemptions allowing device hacking should not apply to equipment restricted to...
What I want is better rasterization performance per dollar.
“Ray tracing” is a silly gimmick that contributes almost nothing and halves your frame rate. DLSS/FSR is upscaling, and upscaling is for consoles. To hell with them both.
I say “ray tracing” in scare quotes because what AMD and NVIDIA call “ray tracing” is nothing like the full-scene path tracing used in CGI movies. That is absolutely awesome, but it’s far too slow to do in real time.
Also, I’ve heard a lot of complaints from CUDA programmers that AMD GPUs are pretty much useless for anything other than graphics, and NVIDIA is basically the only GPGPU game in town. I don’t know the details, but AMD should probably work on whatever the problem is, if it still is a problem.
Donald Trump's Georgia case to be livestreamed (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2185545...
For the Love of Everything, Please Keep 3-6 Months Worth of Money for an Emergency Fund (If You Can)
I left my job about two months ago, and I applied for unemployment immediately. I got a new job today, but I STILL haven’t gotten my unemployment decision. Additionally, my food stamp application was delayed due to personal circumstances. In short, had I not had money saved for an emergency, I would have been mega-screwed....
What was your gateway product to open source? (www.cnet.com)
I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source....
Starfield has been cracked (i.redd.it)
AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty (arstechnica.com)
Court Rules in Pornhub’s Favor: Age-Verification Law Violates First Amendment (variety.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2168303...
What are your programming hot takes?
So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?
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Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up' (www.reuters.com)
Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair (www.404media.co)
The organization that represents Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s works has petitioned the U.S. government to restrict the right to repair a religious artifact called an E-Meter. This device is core to Scientology practices but the group argues exemptions allowing device hacking should not apply to equipment restricted to...
Microsoft accused of malware-like tactics, again, in attempt to push users onto Bing (www.techspot.com)
AMD Says GPU Efficiency Doesn't Matter To Most PC Gamers, Will Do Better On Ray Tracing In Future Generations (wccftech.com)
AMD's Radeon boss has talked about the RDNA 3 GPU power efficiency, 12VHPWR on Radeon RX 7000 GPUs & ray tracing capabilities....
And I don't even use most of them (feddit.de)
[PIRACY NEWS]Team MKDEV retires after releasing FIFA 23 as their final crack(Denuvo Crack). They also posted some stuff about cracking Denuvo on their discord that I am sharing below.
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