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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 amiga
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Treat yourself with a generous helping of classic game music today: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MGr4CKqj5HM

gabrielesvelto,
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@supernov me too!

gabrielesvelto, to random
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When working on any kind of software that has a user interface, you should never dismiss accessibility as a secondary concern. It must be taken into account at every step, starting from the design.

And remember: no matter how able-bodied you are now, you'll need it too, eventually.

gabrielesvelto, to random
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Good first step, now send them to Ukraine instead where they won't be used against unarmed civilians

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold

spook, to random
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A pair of pigeons is REALLY determined to live on my balcony and I am losing my mind. On top of copious amounts of tin foil everywhere, I just came up with this contraption

gabrielesvelto,
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@spook my parents have a very realistic looking hawk mounted on a spring (which makes it move in the wind, as if it were looking around) that seems to have solved the problem for them.

gabrielesvelto,
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@spook :lolsob:

gabrielesvelto, to steam
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Negative reviews on that begin with "this game is too expensive" drive me crazy. Seriously, I'll be the judge of that. If you feel like penalizing an independent game because you think it's too expensive you're an asshole.

gabrielesvelto,
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@leeloo a $50 game is almost certainly made by a big studio who can take the flack if their game's too short and they've been too greedy.

Most of those type of reviews are leveled at indie games in the $10-20 range. It's maddening because for many independent developers that's the main source of income, and negative reviews will actually hurt them.

gabrielesvelto, to random
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I haven't touched AF_UNIX sockets in a while and I find myself going back to the manpages every five minutes now that I have to.

Traditional Unix APIs can be extremely confusing, especially due to their reliance on a limited number of type-agnostic functions plus a bunch of flags and a size parameter to tell the different types apart.

We can design better ones now and we shouldn't be afraid to.

ThomasNoppers, to miniaturepainting
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I finished painting my Dreadstone Blight. I'm happily impressed by how great a miniature display centerpiece it can be!

image/jpeg

gabrielesvelto,
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@ThomasNoppers great Warhammer / Hero Quest cross-over, those miniatures are fantastic!

blabberlicious, to random
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I rarely drive. I had to drive across London today. Main thought, was how utterly filthy the whole place looks, everything caked in grey dirt - thrown up by a bazillion cars.

Going through Tooting, there where Susana Hill Anti Ulez Plackards taped to junction railings.

They were filthy, too.
Perhaps more so. 😕


gabrielesvelto,
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@blabberlicious having to drive across London sounds like some form of cruel punishment to me, what did you do to deserve that?

gabrielesvelto, to random
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Google target ads: are you selling your car? Do you wanna know how much it's worth?

No, I don't have a car, I never owned one in fact, never bought one in the first place. You spent billions and intruded everybody privacy and now you're likely ripping off advertisers too, pretending that their ads go to people who actually care even when they don't.

ko4fzg, to linux
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It's Alive! On an old I3 it took about 48 hours to get everything done all from source. Took another 6 hours to get audio working but that was me being dumb. Now I don't want to use anything else.

gabrielesvelto,
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@ko4fzg installing takes time, but keeping it around is a piece of cake. I have installations that are two decades old.

gabrielesvelto,
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@ko4fzg I did and using binary packages no less. I hit a couple of snags because not all packages were ready to work on split-usr profiles, but they were all promptly fixed after I reported them. I'd say that it should go pretty smoothly now.

gabrielesvelto, to random
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“We’ve created a chicken coop safety and security board, it’s entirely staffed with foxes and weasels”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-department-of-homeland-security-names-ai-safety-and-security-board-members/

jonty, to random
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User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

gabrielesvelto,
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@jonty this is the kind of stuff that makes you reevaluate keeping a server closet with a bunch of physical machines in it.

gabrielesvelto, to lotr
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Today my 9yo daughter asked me a surprisingly pointed question about the dwarves of : if they dug an entire underground realm, where did they put all the material excavated during the process?

gabrielesvelto,
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@munroe that was her guess too, seems logical

gabrielesvelto,
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@datarama there was a great joke in Divine Divinity on this:

P: What is the reason for the relatively small stature of dwarven people?
H: It's an economy measure. If we were any taller, we'd have to dig bigger tunnels to get about.
P: How tall can dwarves grow?
H: There was once a dwarf who never drank mead or ale. Poor bugger grew to the height of four dwarves on top of each other. That's why we dwarves drink alcohol from birth - to stunt our growth to a decent size.

https://divinity.fandom.com/wiki/A_Dwarf%27s_View_of_Dwarves

gabrielesvelto,
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The little one is smart, I can already imagine the conversation with her pediatrician:

me: What is it doctor?
her: It's bad
me: How bad?
her: Worse than I thought
me: Can she lead a normal life?
her: No. She'll be an engineer

eniko, to random
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i really like the weight and feel and accuracy of logitech G pro mouse but jesus fucking christ why dont they make these in a way where the left click doesn't die every 1-1.5 years?

EDIT: tbh this is one of the rare occasions that i wouldn't mind suggestions for alternatives. just, don't recommend shit that is significantly heavier or a different form factor from a bog standard office mouse, thats why i like the G pro

gabrielesvelto,
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@eniko shitty micro-switches? Given the price of those things it might be worth replacing them with better ones when they break. De-soldering and re-soldering is easy and only requires a cheap soldering iron and some solder. If you've never soldered anything it's a good starting point because the pads are large and widely spaced on the PCB.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Logitech+M720+Micro-switch+Replacement/136122

tjdraper, to random
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Any company right now: You want some AI?

Me: Not particularly, thanks

Company: Got it, here's a big huge heaping helping of AI

Me: No thank you please

Company: Make job go fast, do vroom vroom on your career:

Me: I don't really…

Company: We put AI IN YOUR FREAKING MOUSE DRIVERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

Me: Kinda but not really

Company: Here's AI tools for your software engineering

Me: These are really obtrusive and in my w…

COMPANY: YOU WILL LOVE OUR AI

Me: …

gabrielesvelto,
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@tjdraper

gabrielesvelto, to random
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This is gonna be fun: OpenAI runs afoul of the GDPR because it generates false information about individuals and they don't have full access to the data that pertains to them.

From the article:

> Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “The obligation to comply with access requests applies to all companies. [...] It seems that with each ‘innovation’, another group of companies thinks that its products don’t have to comply with the law.”

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

gabrielesvelto, to random
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I've started playing The Witcher 2 only 13 years after it launched and 17 years after finishing the first one... and I'm immediately reminded that all the female characters appear to have been written by a horny teenager.

gabrielesvelto,
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@dotstdy I think I saw that article back in the day. The whole cards thing in the first one was absolutely ridiculous. The dialogues where hilarious (I like flowers / here's some flowers / fade to black) and the mechanism was... totally pointless? It had no effect on the game or story whatsoever, it really felt like someone tacked it on at the last minute just to put some nudies in the game. Even in 2007 it felts like some sexist relic from an era gone by.

omar, to random

neither macOS nor Linux feels much like "Unix" when you do non-1970s stuff (graphics, webcam, low-overhead profiling, introspection, some networking, IPC and weird MMU stuff, low-overhead polling/IO/subscriptions)

but Linux at least tries with /proc and /dev/videoX and new file descriptors like userfaultfd and pidfd and so on (and fork(2) still kinda works). macOS really makes no attempt to be Unix-like in comparison https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HWGZM1ACNS48HEQMFBCW0VAY

gabrielesvelto,
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@omar since macOS uses mach under the hood it does all kind of horrors to emulate Unix features. Their fork() implementation is the thing nightmares are made of. And don't get me started on signals. Signals are wrapped into mach messages to be delivered, but some mach messages are also converted to signals by the kernel if you have a signal handler installed. Using native mach exception handling and signals is possible but nightmarish. I could go on for a while...

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