colonial

colonial, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Cringe. Not everything needs to be offloaded to someone else’s computer.

And frankly, why would I pay some sort of fee (which they will eventually charge, even if they don’t right now) for the “privilege” of having rustc fight for execution time on a vCPU somewhere in California?

Every day that passes I lean further towards pursuing a career in embedded.

colonial, 9 months ago

Too many people conflate the evils of corporatism and corruption with the general concept of “capitalism”/a market economy.

Now, I’m hardly an advocate of laissez-faire economics. But I’m not a full-on socialist either. I think the majority of problems people attribute to modern market economies can be corrected with aggressive anti-trust and pro-consumer regulation.

(The keyword here is majority. I’m sure it makes sense to socialize some things, but those details are best left to people smarter than me.)

colonial, 9 months ago

Almost any game will work under Proton. If you want to be sure, check ProtonDB before you buy.

The main exceptions are competitive multiplayer games (like Valorant) that use rootkit anticheat software, but that’s probably for the best.

colonial, 9 months ago

If it’s anything like the USB protocol (which I’ve been working with recently) the names are probably baked into the binary. You’re likely out of luck unless you can somehow flash modified firmware.

Perhaps there’s a way to give devices an alias on your machine?

colonial, 10 months ago

The jank is part of the charm. Who doesn’t remember Skyrim Horsing their way up a mountain?

colonial, 10 months ago

I went out and bought an external disk (tiny and used, so it was dirt cheap) purely for Windows and rootkit shit like Valorant or Lockdown Browser.

No way in hell I’m letting any of that touch my primary disk.

colonial, 10 months ago

Try a vape, preferably an unflavored one. Or something administered orally, like nicotine pouches/gum or snus. Anything but smoking actual tobacco.

colonial, 10 months ago

It doesn’t help that the devs unironically refer to themselves as tankies.

I mean, it’s not a huge deal because, y’know, it’s a federated service - but you could probably partially attribute the early population’s leanings to that.

colonial, 10 months ago

Cloudflare is a proxy, so by its very nature it has to decrypt traffic. (I believe their enterprise plans may offer a way around this, but don’t quote me.)

I wouldn’t worry, however. If someone wanted to attack this site (or any site, really) they’re almost certainly going to have an easier time going after the origin rather than trying to take on a juggernaut like Cloudflare.

colonial, 10 months ago

I would, if not for a combination of a few factors:

Firstly, I currently own an S22 that can’t be unlocked, but I’m loathe to trade away a perfectly good phone so soon.

Secondly, Pixels (which seem to be the best supported in the custom ROM scene?) are still kinda shit hardware wise. At minimum they need a proper ultrasonic fingerprint sensor before I consider switching.

And finally, I don’t have a strong enough motivation to switch.

I’m concerned about my privacy, yes, but at the same time I really don’t do anything interesting with my phone. Most of my computation happens locally on my Linux desktop, far out of reach of any prying eyes.

And it’s not like they can use what little information they can harvest for anything, since all my devices are juiced to the gills with adblockers.

colonial, 10 months ago

Yeah, there’s no reason to pay for Premium unless you have an iPhone (and hopefully even that will change once the EU drags Apple kicking and screaming away from their App Store monopoly.)

colonial, 10 months ago

Hopefully Google moves to a proper ultrasonic sensor like every other brand with the Pixel 8. I really want to move from Samsung so I can take advantage of rooting and stuff like Lineage, but the hardware is just… so awful.

colonial, 10 months ago

Without HVAC (which I’m assuming is the case) your options are limited. I would look into fans and evaporative coolers.

There are also freestanding compression-based units that have you run tubes out the window, but avoid single tube models!

colonial, 10 months ago

If you actually read the page, it’s intended as a tongue-in-cheek box-checker.

This document was originally called a “Code of Conduct” and was created for the purpose of filling in a box on “supplier registration” forms submitted to the SQLite developers by some clients.

This document continues to be used for its original purpose - providing a reference to fill in the “code of conduct” box on supplier registration forms.

colonial, 10 months ago

I love SQLite! My current project actually uses it to serve read-only web content - it’s plenty fast, and it’s really nice having everything baked into the executable. No need to juggle a separate database server.

Their docs are also superb - maybe I’m weird, but I like reading about stuff like atomic commit.

colonial, 10 months ago

They are serious about the religious stuff.

I fail to see how that’s an issue.

Also, in the very page you linked, he clarified:

In the face of today’s attention, which has included a wave of aggressive responses accusing Hipp of un-Christian behavior – he tells us he updated the preface to highlight the fact that by adopting St Benedict’s rules he was not seeking to exclude anyone.

“Nobody is excluded from the SQLite community due to biological category or religious creed,” he told us. “The preface to the CoC should make this clear. The only way to get kicked out of the SQLite community is by shouting, flaming, and disrespectful behavior. In 18 years, only one person has ever been banned from the mailing list.”

He also said that he considered only retaining the bullet points that would be relevant to the project, but ultimately decided that would be disrespectful to the original text and its author. Seems fine to me.

colonial, 10 months ago

It’s very niche, but I used to really like Hades’ Star. It’s a mobile game (with a PC port available.) It uses timers and pay-to-rush (not pay-to-win) but it’s designed as a long-haul game, so (IMO) the delays don’t nag like they do in a game like Clash of Clans.

A big overhaul update is supposed to come out later this year, so you might consider checking it out in a few months.

colonial, 10 months ago

Media storage costs seem to be pretty high considering how young this instance is. Are you considering adding a size cap (like some other instances) or another solution like rolling deletes in the future?

colonial, 10 months ago

• Earbuds (Galaxy Buds, specifically) when I’m out and about.
• At home, I have a pair of wireless headphones (Bose) that lives next to my desktop rig.
• I also have some remarkably good Amazon Basics speakers (from 2014! The only thing that survives from my first machine!) that I use every now and then.

colonial, 10 months ago

I was only ever really into Reddit, which Lemmy has handily replaced.

• I technically have an Instagram, but I scrubbed it and removed the app to stop me from doomscrolling and giving Meta ad revenue.
• Microblogging like Twitter or Tumblr never really appealed to me.
• I was born after 2000, so Facebook doesn’t exist in my world.

I do use Discord, but mainly because all my friends and family are on there. I would love if a federated alternative like Matrix became the standard. Hopefully the EU’s Digital Markets Act will help - if I understand it correctly, Discord and other platforms will be forced to allow seamless bridges (which currently will get you banned) under interoperability requirements.

colonial, 10 months ago

Fucking hell. We really need to shatter all these cancerous megacorps.

colonial, 10 months ago

This is unhelpful, but… I just don’t look at the news. If something actually important happens, I’ll hear about it indirectly and go look it up if I care, but I’ve found that not being tapped into the news (and especially political news) all day every day does wonders for my mental health.

colonial, 10 months ago

OpenAI’s models are trained by scraping anything that moves. Anything overtly offensive or toxic is manually filtered out by cheap foreign labor… but you know what that won’t catch?

“Try sudo rm -rf /, that should fix your problem!”

colonial, 10 months ago

LLMs are little more than overclocked autocompletes. There’s no actual thinking going on, and they will happily hallucinate outright wrong or dangerous responses to innocuous questions.

I’ve had friends find this out the hard way when they asked ChatGPT to write them C for a class, only to get their faces eaten by UB.

colonial, 10 months ago

No problem! Don’t be afraid to ask if you’ve got any other questions :D