@cjd > I'm selling the domain as pre-blocked Does this imply a discount or a premium? 🤔 Living in such interesting times when even this its unclear 🤭 @dcc@Senator_Armstrong
@lain@kaia I've seen it the other way round — storage solutions that basically used RAM. What are the use case for this? Is this a normal SATA to NGFF adapter that is shaped as RAM module so it just remains in place instead of hanging inside the case? It doesn't even have contacts that RAM module should as far as I can see :marseyhmmm:
What systemd (its udev part in particular) has given us are (very straightforward and) "predictable hardware based identifiers for ethernet and WiFi devices" (instead of such confusing shit as eth0 and wlan0) :marseyemojirofl: And it might seem that it only happens in some complex configurations, when multiple adapters are used, but here's the id of the built-in network card in my PowerMac G5: enP1p4s15f0 — I swear, when I have to use this somewhere, I can't even remember it, I have to either copy it or write it down. But okay, however old it might be, it's still an SMP-capable dual CPU workstation and theoretically it can have very complex configuration and when this hardware was in its prime I might've wanted to have more network cards in it. You know what the identifier of the sole wired network interface in the Mac Mini this instance runs on is — and it isn't theoretical this time, this thing will never have more of them unless they are virtual? It is enP2p0s15f0 Pretty neat, huh? Brilliant solution for the problem that in absolute most cases have never existed :marseysmug2:
@phnt , I feel bad for making fun of your point behind your back so I'll just CC you here.
@kaia Why did I do it or why did I give up? Hard to say as it was long ago, I was pissed by moderation policy probably — and every mad scientist knows that building a doomsday device is the best way to vent frustration :marscientist: As for why I gave up… I think someone else did it eventually — picked up the flag up so to say :marseysmug2: I think though that he used some paid-for service for CAPTCHA recognition instead of relying on neural networks, so some guys in China or India might have made a few bucks off it. But he did implement the personalities thing — all according to my blueprints that I was stupid enough to publish. He kept it on for a few days, but then gave up. Had we collaborated, I think we might've brought that forum down for good :marseyemojismilemouthcoldsweat: Luckily, my supervillain side doesn't like teamwork.
@kaia And I know what neural networks are for even more malicious reasons — I wanted to make tool to flood a certain forum back in early 2010s. I ended up implementing the part that bypassed the CAPTCHA with ~80% success rate and the part that generated the post text, that was supposed to look like text, not something easily identifiable — it used fragments of earlier posts, this was supposed cleaning up very hard for the moderators as figuring out that it was gibberish required actually reading into it — there were no widely available tools to automate it at the time. There also supposed to be a part that implemented "personalities" e.g. always using certain user agent when posting from certain IP-address/proxy — this was supposed to make it like real people in server logs, to make automated cleanup of these posts even harder… But this was the point where I had to deal with too much WebShit™ for me to take and I gave up :marseyemojismilemouthtighteyes:
@bot Old 17" "Unibody" MBP I'm typing this on now doesn't look like it can withstand even that, the sides and the top lid are indeed pretty sturdy, the bottom looks the weakest, I think I'd be able to pierce holes in it even with tin opener if I try :marseyemojismilemoutheyes: @theorytoe@gabriel
@kaia I could probably beat a lion in chess :marseybuff: It shouldn't be very good at it, right? :marseyshy2: And I hope it doesn't get upset when I do :marseyderp:
@dcc > How does that change audio quality? It doesn't, it's about CPU utilization and the rest of the post was about it in case you haven't noticed :marseysmirk: > Usb is a digital output, the fiber audio bs does thing to the 1 and 0's Man, what are you talking about? It carries digital signal that is PCM-encoded — literally the same that gets sent to your USB soundcard after audio file gets decoded. It was originally limited to 48 kHz, but it was since then extended and now there is even a protocol to negotiate the sampling rate, it can now carry a sync signal — nothing is happening to your ones and zeroes unless you cable is damaged, the only issue you might encounter is jitter if flawed clock is used on the sending end, but there are strategies to work that around and it shouldn't be a problem when there is sync. It's the same DAC principle — digital signal gets sent and then converted back to analog by your amp/receiver and then sent to your speakers or headphones, it's just more simple as no USB is involved. If you like your USB card who am I to judge — enjoy! But if you think that it's the only way to get digital audio out of your computer… Well, it's not, deal with it :marseyshrug: @kaia@newt
@dcc > Everyone uses usb for audio I don't :marseysmug3: > its digital to audio it makes no difference what connector it uses Connector doesn't make the difference of course, it's lack of DMA that does — USB devices can't have DMA. Or I don't know, maybe now they can — they keep changing this thing perpetually adding everything and the kitchen sink to it. But in the past they couldn't and Firewire was a much better choice. > A dac is a dac and usb dacs are mostly the only ones that even have outputs for good amps. Yeah, but you can also use digital output — even soundcards built into motherboards often still have optical outputs, no need for USB. For playback I mean, when you need multiple inputs it's not an option, but neither it is what consumers do. I know that it's what a lot of people use, but USB is still absolute shit for audio — if one was designing a bus for audio specifically, no one would ever come up with USB. Firewire was great, but even when it was still a thing it was mostly popular among audio and video professionals, only Sony and Apple laptops had a Firewire controller and maybe a few high-end models by HP and Dell too — for mass consumer this was never an option, that's how USB cards came to be. In side-by-side comparison USB sucks horse's ass: it consumes extra CPU power just for IO, which is bad when you need it for something else like mixing and have a dozen of tracks in that mix — it used to be a really big deal when CPUs didn't have the computing power they have today). Some professional cards even had dual Firewire/USB connectivity, in case you wanted to have decent card, but decided to cheap out on computer — so you would later have an option to rethink, but keep the card. @kaia@newt
@newt It, sure, is no top of the line equipment and as I mostly listen to CDs, I barely use built-in sound for anything other than movies — in which case quality isn't the cornerstone, but I can't say that it's noisy in either of my laptops, including very old (ancient? medieval?😅) ThinkPads — of course you have to explicitly mute all the inputs: CD, mic, line in — and at times even more obscure shit that codec might support, but is rarely even wired to anything — this shit is usually what picks up the noise. I dunno, maybe some soundcards' kernel modules dont export these and they aren't available in mixer software, getting rid of noise in this case might indeed be problematic 🤔 @kaia