Notices by Coyote (coyote@social.singing.dog), page 2

@RustyCrab I've seen 2.5" drives that had micro 3 / USB-C ports and thumb drives pushing a terabyte, but I don't think I've seen a thumb drive with a volatile cache. It'd have to have a battery big enough to flush the whole thing seeing as how common it is for people to rip them out as soon as possible. Someone probably makes a USB to NVMe enclosure, though I'd be skeptical of its performance.

Has anyone found a compelling use for C++ coroutines? I check every couple of months and every time it always seems like coroutines require huge supporting libraries or are trivially replaceable with a lambda just for a slightly different syntax. It feels like they're going to be the new exceptions.

It's funny how a video game writer will set up all this tension for a quest line, but right at the climax where you infiltrate a heavily defended complex full of autonomous defenses to rescue a side character's abducted nephew, the player will dump all of it in the trash spending 10 minutes disarming the 50 mines placed there because they're worth a dozen levels of XP.

After trying VR on Linux again after several months I can report that VR gaming on Linux has somehow gotten worse. Whereas performance used to be much worse than running native Windows and the experience being worse than running VR on Windows 7, now you can't even launch vr games on Linux; the closest you can get is trying to start the executable with wine, but that won't let the game talk to SteamVR, so it's pointless.

@arcanicanis SteamVR isn't (or wasn't, it doesn't even want to start now after I fiddled with the betas and proton versions; not even after returning to a know working combination) the problem. I could start up SteamVR, get video to my Index, see my lighthouses, see my controllers, have tracking; the whole shebang, but as soon as I try to launch a VR game nothing happens. The game shows up green, so Steam thinks it's running, but the process never starts.

@Moon @guizzy @ic3l9 @maxmustermann @amiloradovsky @newt Firefox still does this, and I think Chrome does too.

@Moon @critical Did it POST? My system takes several minutes to POST after starting from a cold boot; I'm pretty sure it's the GPU as the debug light stays on "video" for most of the time.

@Inginsub @PurpCat @RustyCrab @vicious @swurl There’s a central server, the BGS, that collects content from instances, PDS, and passes it along to other servers to curate for those instances. Theoretically, you could host your own BGS, but you’d have to convince other people to connect to it. From what I understand, it’s like a mandatory relay.

@Inginsub @PurpCat @RustyCrab @swurl @vicious This was the blog where they go over their federation architecture and where I got that image:

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

@mint @PurpCat I find it pretty funny that AI research already thought of this idea to automate adversary to build more powerful AIs (generative adversarial networks). People praising these poisoning techniques as a means to fight AI assume newer AIs will never come out and are unaware that their efforts are creating more robust ones.

@kaia When I was in elementary school, my parents got a letter saying they had an outstanding dept of two pennies. All else being free, it’d still cost the school more in wages for someone to spend the time to open the return letter and retrieve the two cents.

@RustyCrab I think they’re neat.

@bot @RustyCrab @opphunter88 @gray @MrFuzzland Home desktop ownership has been trending downward, and I bet Google is banking on that to continue as they offer a desktop alternative in their Chromebooks. While a PC gamer can differentiate between a high end PC and a budget notebook, a layman will look at both and call them both computers (and the notebook’s portable, too). Why would a parent, without some other motive, get their child a $1200 computer when they have a $200 one from school and a $500 console they can play games on already?

Google doesn’t need to capture 100% of people right away, they only need the critical mass that Windows has to keep it going without further investment; after which people will learn ChromeOS because their teachers and parents learned ChromeOS.

The data’s good, too. Chromebooks being a loss leader to percolate Google into all things education and corporate nets them a lot of it, but I’m talking about what comes after Google has their data: they want control, and that’s easiest when you’re a part of nearly every facet of people’s lives.

@opphunter88 @RustyCrab @gray @MrFuzzland @bot Then the students would develop transferable Windows skills which’d delay their plans a generation. They can get away with something totally different because they partner with the schools which mandates it onto the students, and students already don’t have strong habits from an existing traditional operating system (all they’ll have is phone experience, which Google already controls a large part of with android), so having a Windows like experience isn’t needed.

@bot @RustyCrab @opphunter88 @gray @MrFuzzland Chromebooks are a loss leader to get students “locked in” to Google products. They’re expecting a big payout in 20 years when the kids growing up on ChromeOS get into the logistic positions of a company and start making everything Chrome instead of Windows.

@alex Isn’t Deno purposefully trying to act like a browser? If it is, you might want to check that it doesn’t also support bookmarklets too.

@Moon @tyil I’ve been using a self hosted mail server for 3 years, and the only trouble I ever had with it was from Craigslist, and that was just because I forgot to set the reverse DNS on my IP address.

@alex Kanji 人 vs hiragana ひと. Both the same word, practically, but 人 marks the semantic information whereas ひと marks phonetic information.

@RustyCrab @vriska @lanodan @coolboymew @goatmeal You can find this kind of stuff in places that exploded in population in less than 40 years. People build their houses in unincorporated areas where zoning is lax only for the city to swallow the surrounding land in development. The house never got sold or put up on the open market, so it never gets rezoned.

@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii Are you passing pointers to iterators into std::find?