Notices by small, versatile 6DoF c++ witch *ada (ada@zoner.work), page 3

@navi@social.vlhl.dev ok a hot take

this meme is kind of in bad faith, because you do actually have to be aware of the gpl terms as the end user as if you distribute binary forms you now need to comply with the license and have a copy of the source.

@navi@social.vlhl.dev i mean the gpl does have conditions that you have to follow (source disclosure upon request), so there is something for you to actually accept to.

it's not a no-condition license like BSD.

"internet is dying" you know neocities still exists, google sites still exists as well

"the internet is dying" people when you can host a website for free

you can just create a GitHub page, boom you have extreme-gay-yearning.github.io, throw in $10/month and you can have extreme-gay-yearning.net

i just found out that Spellbreak's devs published the symbols, server binaries (with symbols) and test client (without anticheat) to itch.io after they shut down the game two years ago.

which will allow for community servers, and modding to happen.

A+ end of life plan.

@novenary@akko.wtf but the bundled libraries are the ones that are broken 🙃

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i love this

mark my words those are the four horses of the apocalypse, when those distros die foss dies.

it's kind of funny how many void, arch, alpine, and gentoo maintainers i see in foss projects

the megabyte/mebibyte confusion upsets me to no end.

20 MiB is not 20 MB, it's 20.97 MB
20 MB is not 20 MiB, it's 19.07 MiB

@MiaWinter@tech.lgbt @puniko@mk.absturztau.be you should see the cleaned up, processed versions.

so far every nuclear power plant melt down has been caused by cost cutting and neglect, nuclear power plants are low upkeep but not zero upkeep. you have to repair and upgrade systems while having a good culture. so basically meltdowns are because of capitalism.

if you think that green energy (ignore that nuclear is green energy) is going to be different, think again. solar farms can overheat if the cooling system is nonexistent or breaks down due to lack of repair, resulting in the photovoltaic cells igniting.

wind turbines can, and have just fucking obliterated themselves because of cracks and strains in the structures.

how many dams have collapsed and flooded, destroyed towns?

nuclear power fear is just propaganda through misinfo, it's a victim to capitalism like everything else. most nuclear power plants are built in low impact zones so even if you have a meltdown only the industrial complexes are affected. (this is largely a coincidence because land there is cheaper.)

no seriously i hate this btw

i think the supposed complexity of rockets and nuclear reactors is largely why people are scared of them

rather than you know, war and capitalism.

rockets are 99.99999% used for war, the remaining 0.00001% is for exploration and science.

big rant about nuclear power and capitalism coming

"It's not rocket/nuclear science, it's simple" is such a weird statement because rocket and nuclear science is relatively simple as far as sciences go.

Rockets are things go boom, nuclear is two hot things makes a much hotter thing.

It's the two trillion caveats that you have (so called "Safety Measures" and "Aerodynamics")

you can make a conceptual rocket with mentos and a soda bottle, if you measure the impulse by the components- that's rocket science.

@navi@social.vlhl.dev I've always interpreted it as the first, because there are a lot of considerations and caveats with cryptography such as avalanching, reflection, initialization, alignment and padding along with the complexity/entropy of the mathematical equations-- most if not all of which will have been taken into consideration.

but sometimes you have to reimplement the cipher due to either platform availability (i.e. embedded, old consoles) or they're a niche that doesn't exist on the language you're using like most secondary ciphers like almost everything in the eSTREAM project.

there also are concerns about backdooring when using mainline ciphers but that's a conspiracy theory rabbit hole.

reminder that most garbage collectors don't really free memory, they reuse buffers.

if you're lucky the runtime will clear it.

most languages with a runtime have a memory arena for this purpose. C# has three, Unity has five (3 from C# and then two engine specific.)

so depending on the GC to free memory might still leave a gigantic allocated buffer in memory until for whatever reason it decides to free this.

C# in fact, never does. you have to manually set a hard limit using environment flags.

i saw a post about soup and it reminded me of this meme

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me most sane docker fan stack

@thesamesam@social.treehouse.systems i love that i went to audit the rest of this system and found
// yes, technically this creates a memory leak of 64B every hook creation. But I don't care. // tracking all the users of the memory would be painful. // Nobody will hook 100k times, and even if, that's only 6.4 MB. Nothing.
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