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Use-after-free thinker. [he/him/🐻 of very little 🧠] :welp:

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gamingonlinux, to Nvidia
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NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nvidia-switching-to-open-kernel-modules-by-default-in-future-driver-update-for-turing/

rotopenguin,
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@gamingonlinux it's about dang time. Nvidia still has tons of 'special sauce' sitting in their proprietary userland drivers and card-side firmware.

All of the other PC video cards have opened up their "how do I configure the hardware to display a framebuffer" and "how do I submit command lists" kernel code without some horrible IP apocalypse happening to them. Having a PC with an Nvidia-tainted kernel means one thing to a user - any kernel bug at all can only be debugged by Nvidia.

mcc, to random
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Just discovered a new YouTube cheat code: Search for the seemingly nonsensical phrase "biodata sonification" and you will be rewarded with a wealth of incredibly weird shit

rotopenguin,
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@mcc oh no. Are you "doing your own research"?

mediaarchaeologylab, to random
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today on MALtv, Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins.

A lucky thrift store find, this is a preview VHS of a pilot that Mattel made but never sold.

rotopenguin,
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@mediaarchaeologylab it looks like a knockoff of of Rock Lords knocking off Go-Bots knocking off Transformers

rotopenguin,
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@mediaarchaeologylab okay, I caught a youtube copy and it was mehhhhh. I can see a few reasons it wasn't picked up.

For one, I think it was late to the "boys toys that transform" party? I think that game consoles were already sucking the oxygen out of the rest of the toy market by 1989?

rotopenguin,
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@mediaarchaeologylab But mostly, it just sucked. Yeah, all of these toy-pushing shows sucked, but I think Computer Warriors put zero effort into "writing" or "plotting" at all. The story felt like it was just Ctrl-C Ctrl-V'd until they finally padded out the airtime. Hey we're flying around on our sleds. Hey, we're doing another ambush! The bad guys split up again, you go after the straggler. Again.

rotopenguin,
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@mediaarchaeologylab I could totally see an executive blowing up like "you barely delivered half of an episode, and you want me to order 30 more of them?". The writers didn't set any story stakes to care about. They didn't present any characters to care about. They didn't tie any element of storytelling together with the toys that they're trying to sell. The "Pepsi can that's also a Bofors" was interesting for 10 seconds, but there was no plan to make the toy interesting beyond a single episode.

rotopenguin,
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@mediaarchaeologylab I figure that you'd have to keep the audience interested for several episodes before you can convert that to a toy sale - there's no such thing as "ordering it instantly" and your next trip to the toy store is several days away. From what I saw in the pilot, I don't think they had any plan for that. I think management saw that weakness before the showrunner's pitch was done.

mcc, to random
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I'm going to go see a movie about ants

rotopenguin,
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@mcc

gamingonlinux, to random
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I have 4TB in my PC 😆

I'm using nearly all of it 💀

No, I will not uninstall all those games I haven't played for over a year.

rotopenguin,
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@gamingonlinux you're in social media production, the memes are a business expense.

arstechnica, to random
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M4 iPad Pro CPU cores and RAM amount are tied to storage capacity

Apple has tied RAM to storage capacity in iPads, but it's a first for the CPU.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/m4-ipad-pro-cpu-cores-and-ram-amount-are-tied-to-storage-capacity/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rotopenguin,
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@arstechnica it must take a loooot of cores and memory to stretch Apple's decrepit filesystem to the unthinkable heights of "1TB".

(Btw you can buy a 1TB ssd for about $35.)

nixCraft, to random
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Friend: You dating anyone?

Me: Does my Thinkpad laptop running Arch Linux count? We're practically inseparable.

Friend: That's... concerning.

rotopenguin,
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@nixCraft why don't you settle down with a nice stable distribution, like Debian?

arstechnica, to random
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Amid two wrongful death lawsuits, Panera to pull the plug on “charged” drinks

A large previously contained nearly as much caffeine as the FDA's daily safe limit.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/amid-two-wrongful-death-lawsuits-panera-to-pull-the-plug-on-charged-drinks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rotopenguin,
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@arstechnica this is an old artic…

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, PANERA IS STILL SELLING THE DEATH-LEMONADE??

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Garrison Keillor is really strange to me career wise. He wrote exactly one outstanding novel - his first. Then ever after he wrote the same novel, only worse, and with more weird sex stuff. He also wrote very good (really!) poems early on, and then over time what he counts as poems is just aw-shucks Minnesota stuff. It's like he noped out of a lasting literary career for kitsch.

rotopenguin,
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@ZachWeinersmith @Flux being rich has nothing to do with "being financially satiated"

mcc, to random
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Good news? https://digipres.club/@mickylindlar/112395280314464222

rotopenguin,
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@mcc @mickylindlar PDF will support "having an entire Unity project inside it", before you know it

arstechnica, to random
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Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rotopenguin,
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@arstechnica it's been several days since Google last killed off a service, I was getting worried that something had happened over there.

mcc, to random
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This is a really good t-shirt

rotopenguin,
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@mcc

mcc, to random
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Error messages you don't wanna see

rotopenguin,
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@mcc admit it, you were trying to run a wallhack mod or something on bash, right?

gsuberland, to random
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something that's been bouncing around in my head for a few days: I wonder if any of the common permuted congruential generators (PCGs) have the property that for any finite sequence of unique integers there is always a set of parameters (seed, multiplier, increment, modulus, shift amount, rotation amount) that produces that sequence.

I know it's not the case for LCGs, but the permutation step changes the details quite a bit.

rotopenguin,
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@gsuberland is this better or worse than "give me an offset into pi" compression?

gamingonlinux, to steam
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HELLDIVERS 2 will soon actually require a PlayStation Network account https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/helldivers-2-will-soon-actually-require-a-playstation-network-account/

#Steam #Linux #SteamDeck #HELLDIVERS2

rotopenguin,
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@gamingonlinux as it should, when you take someone's money and then change the deal on them.

arstechnica, to random
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Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings reveal a drop in iPhone, iPad sales

Services growth looked rosy as Apple's hardware revenue in China slowed.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/apples-q2-2024-earnings-reveal-a-drop-in-iphone-ipad-sales/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rotopenguin,
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@arstechnica number not go up? Shut Apple down!

mcc, to random
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I bet if you formed an electric car company made only of people who previously worked for Tesla then quit in disgust, you could make a really good electric car company

rotopenguin,
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@mcc better yet, do that for airplanes.

mcc, to random
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Not very far into today and already I've got a bad feeling about this one. Like this is just not going to be a good day. A sense of low production values permeates throughout

rotopenguin,
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@mcc all sales final

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: If you were designing a new distribution, which existing distro would you use as your foundation?

rotopenguin,
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@nixCraft I would start my distro with Ubuntu, strip out all of Canonical's stuff until I was left with Debian. I would then add in all of "oh no it's not free" packages that you need to use it on real (not imaginary Gnutopia) hardware. If there was still time left before supper, I would bump the shipping Gnome up about three major versions.

Jennifer, to random
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Holy shit. Thanks @pluralistic now I don't want to fly anymore 😱

Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured ... in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

Hundreds of parts from that Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) were secretly pulled from that cage and installed on aircraft that are currently flying the world's skies.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa

rotopenguin,
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@5ciFiGirl @artlung @Jennifer @pluralistic @alex I would wait until we're up to at least three guys suicided before I start considering the possibility of it being enemy action. Yeah, definitely three.

bored pink panther GIF

mcc, to random
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Just opened my ThinkPad and for the second time in three days the act of closing the laptop to sleep it, then opening it again had caused Ubuntu to hardlock. This time I got a very brief small printout about "amd ring 0 error", then it went back to a black screen and I had to hold down the power button again.

I thought getting a ThinkPad, getting AMD cpu/gpu and picking the Linux distro Lenovo lists as supported would mean I got a minimally functioning computer but I guess not.

rotopenguin,
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@mcc if you happen to be on btrfs (or zfs, I guess), why choose? You could take a Minotaur snapshot, leap right in to Numbat, and hop back if it's worse.

(Ideally, you would have /home on a subvolume (or, sigh, its own partition, i guess), and have that mounted in no matter which OS is running)

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