Da_Boom

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

Look up the satanic panic

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

Can’t star trek across the fediverse without multiple space docks.

Just watch for the Klingons on the starboard bow.

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

When the ninja turtles become the crew of a federation star ship.

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

I thought it had a combination, eac and something else.

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

For gaming I’m fairly sure that overtakes macOS

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

Link for the mobile user

m.xkcd.com/1105/

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

Meanwhile me: wakes up 20 minutes before my alarm every morning, needing to pee: “another morning, another bathroom, another power nap”

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

Read a book for at least half an hour with a warm white book lamp (or if using a backlit eReader, use the warmest temperature setting on the backlight).

If you have RGB LEDs, set them to red when it gets close to bedtime as well.

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

Mmmmmm starch

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

We need your buddy, the Riker maneuver.

The Riker Maneuver

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

And If it doesn’t require more work, it requires different work. The beast you know is easier and more comfortable to understand than the beast you don’t know, even if it would be more beneficial to learn to deal with the newcomer.

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

And their complete mistrust of the justice system.

Vive la revolution anyone?

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

We really need to abolish the concept of “normies” people who categorise people like that can fuck off.

Normal doesn’t exist. The definition of what normal behaviour is is too fluid among different social and age groups to fit.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Idk, in my mind it still slaps

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Bruh, if you’re going to insist on someone installing arch, at least sit by their side and walk them through it.

Having installed arch multiple times before, I can get a base system with networking and desktop environment up in half a day to a day depending on which DE.

Da_Boom, 6 months ago

I’m not saying it’s particularly fast, but having someone who knows what they are doing drastically reduces the time.

I could probably make it quicker if I set up a bunch of scripts for initial installation.

That said the whole point of arch is DIY, lightweight - people forget the kinda of people arch is for, then complain about how long it takes to install. If you complain about install times, then the distro is not for you. (For more about the point of arch, see the arch way principles.design/examples/the-arch-way)

But it can be a great platform for learning about the inner workings of your typical Linux system, and that’s why it’s great. If you’re willing to learn and look things up it can be the best option.

If you want it here and now with no fuss ,it’s the third worst system to use- followed by Gentoo and lastly, LFS.

And heck once it’s installed you can be as pedantic or as lazy as you want - my main system has had the same install of arch for multiple years - it’s a mess and I havent really maintained it well, I just fix it when it breaks and use it like a regular system. It’s just the set up process that takes the most effort.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

The rest will go to some other chrome derivative that includes a built in adblocker.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Nah, there’s a big difference between what and how much you’re allowed to block in V2 vs V3 - the current status V2 adblock is way outside the range of V3’s version.

I’d say V3 blockers can probably block at best 30% of what V2 can block. Which means it has to be selective. It essentially nuders the extension, making it worthless - an adblocker that only blocks some ads is not an adblocker at all. It’s more of an ad restrictor, and in heavily monetized sites it might not even be that.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

The movie isn’t anywhere near the same as the book.

And it shouldn’t be thought of as the same story - it’s not an adaptation but an interpretation of the first book.

Though in doing that it ruins a few key points needed to link the sequels, which never received movie sequels because the movie was just that bad.

The only thing I can complement is some of the actor choices. Particularly the choice for Brom Murtagh, and galbatorix (though the mad king doesn’t appear in the books till the last book at the final showdown)

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Fear of the unknown can be a huge problem with getting people to try new things.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Don’t they want people to sit on the park bench? That looks uncomfortable as even just general seating.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

In an automatic car. It’s a good way to do a burn out provided the engine has enough torque and the breaking is biased to the front.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Nope, jus that the front breaks have more breaking force than the rear. The power from the engine will overwhelm the rear breaks, so for a standing burnout you need the strong front breaks to not get overwhelmed.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

I get louder, and I lose much of my profanity filter. Which people used to think wasn’t possible. But that’s it.

Da_Boom, 7 months ago

Meanwhile here I am driving a little 2L manual fiesta (ST150/XR4). Not great, but not bad mileage, but fun AF to drive, and lightweight. It only has a 45L tank, as opposed to a 60-100L tank you find in larger cars.

Then there’s also the fact I only drive on weekends or after work. I use public transportation for my commute to work.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Wait! Girls EXIST on the internet ‽‽‽ /s

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

You could make a religion out of this!

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Ok cool, but they’ve done this once before, for all of a few weeks. Hopefully this time they don’t reneg or impose specific conditions.

Now, can we please have a better codec for twitch? Sure I have NVENC now, but eventually Im going to have AMD card, and I want good codec support on Linux.

EDIT: looks like there is a condition: no chat merging… Really?

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

It was good for certain situations, such as obscure subreddits and google was good for others.

They both had their benefits and drawbacks.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Wasn’t that Kaze Emmanuar?

He did so much with that game, including decompiling the entire game and building modding tools to make it easier to make modifications. An absolute legend in the romhacking community.

Obligatory Shoutouts to Simpleflips.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Or just windows store exclusives…

I’ll eat my fine leather hat before I use that dog shit store again.

Keep in mind that that’s extra special because I don’t own a fine leather hat, so I gotta buy one first.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Mid roll ads are fine if the video was made with midrolls in mind that the midrolls actually happened at the times the maker of the video has set them up to happen.

Sure they are selective about which videos have ads, but not when the ads come on.

YouTube, with no adblocker or premium subscription has basically become an interrupting cow, making noise at the most innapropriate time and then you have to wat-MOOOOOOOOOO-ch the ad, then you rewind 10 seconds to get your cont-MOOOOOOOOOO-text back. There needs to be a legal limit to the number of midrolls you can stuff in a short space of time.

I’d rather watch a series of multiple consecutive midroll ads placed at a prespecified time than a random number of ads scattered at completely random intervals, Ruining the flow and mood of the video.

Its frustrating af.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

I mean, it makes sense, DDG already use apple maps for their maps platform.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

While I like driving. I hate all the shit modern car manufacturers put in modern cars. Sure they’re more efficient on fuel than older ones. But we should be able to have that without needing the car to be tracked and data collected, we have in the past.

I feel like all these driver aids are also making people worse at driving. They need to do less, so they pay attention less.

On top of that, can we ban touchscreens in cars? Physical buttons give physical feed back, you can feel for the button you want and press it without taking your eyes off the road. A touchscreen gives you none of that, and means you have to look away. It’s somewhat mitigated when they put buttons on the steering wheel, but not all buttons can fit in that spot.

Sure some cars have google assistant, Siri or Alexa. But I actually get so frustrated when trying to tell my phone to navigate somewhere or just simply change the song. And that’s just the phone! The amount of times I have to pull over because it glitches out, or just fails to interpret some or all of what I’ve just said (sure it’s better than voice assistants used to be, but it still breaks regularly) is still too high. The amount of times I regularly tell it to do something, only to find it was still processing the activation voice command, and therefore was initialising the VA screen, and not listening to a word I said after the initial activation is infuriating.

I love technology, but the technology has no place in cars if it detracts or distracts from the act and safety of actually driving the car.

/Rant.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Nah, I don’t know if AI will ever be 100% perfect, and I don’t want to trust it fully. Ai is human built, and it’s my personal belief that humans aren’t perfect, so AI will therefore never be perfect.

Also, you will always want a qualified driver to be able to take over should some part of the car sensor systems fail.

Sensors, unlike humans have a tendency to fail quickly, sometimes instantly, and even AI and autopilot can behave erratically if it gets bad or false inputs from bad sensors.

It’s like in a airliner, autopilot even though at this point is pretty much practically capable of flying a plane completely from takeoff to landing, there will always be at least pilots on duty in the cockpit in order to account for unforseen circumstances and failures, even if they never actually fly the plane normally.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Nah, I don’t have the budget for that, and here in Australia even an NB MX5 is over 10K- I’m actually currently looking at a 08’ fiesta XR4 (in other parts of the world that’s the 2L fiesta ST)

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Even if we somehow manage to create a sentient AI, it will still have to rely on the information it receives from various sensors in the car. If those sensors fail, and it doesn’t have the information it needs to do the job, it could still make a mistake due to a lack of, or completely incorrect data, or if it manages to realise the data is erroneous it still could flatly refuse to work. I’d rather keep people in the loop as a final failsafe just in case that should ever happen.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

That’s why it’s layers of security. Humans have a natural instinct - usually we can tell if our eyesight is getting worse. And any mistake we make is most likely due to us not noticing something or reacting in time, something that the AI should be able to compensate for.

The only time where this is not true when we have a medical episode, like a grand Mal or something. But everyone knows safety is always relative. And we mitigate that by redundancies. Sensors will have redundancies, and we ourselves are also an additional redundancy. Heck we could also put in sensors for the occupants to monitor their vitals. There is once again a question of privacy, but really that’s all we should need to protect against that.

A sentient AI, not counting any potential issues with its own sentience, would have issues with sudden failed or poorly maintained sensors. Usually when a sensor fails, it either zeros out, maxes out, or starts outputting completely erratic results.

If any of these results look the same as normal results, they can be hard for the AI to tell. We can reconcile those sensors with our own human senses and tell if they failed. A car only has its sensors to know what it needs to know, so if it fails, will it be able to know? Sure sensor redundancy helps, but there is still that minor chance that all the redundant sensors fail in a way that the AI cannot tell, and in that case the driver should be there to take over.

Again I will refer to the system of an aircraft, as even if it’s a 1 in a billion chance there have been a few instances where this has happened and the autpilot nearly pitched the plane into the ground or ocean, and the plane was only saved due to the pilots takeover - in one of those cases it was due to a faulty sensor reporting that the angle of attack was too steeply pitched up, so the stick pusher mechanism tried to pitch the nose down, to save the plane, when infact it already was down. An autopilot, even an AI one will have no choice to trust its sensors as that’s the only mechanism it has.

When it come to a faulty redundant sensor, the AI also has to work out which sensor to trust, and if it picks the wrong one, well you’re fucked. It might not be able to work out which sensor is more trustworthy…

We keep ourselves safe with layered safety mechanisms and redundancy, including ourselves. So if anyone fails, the other can hopefully catch the failure.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Never trust an open network. Even if the company providing isn’t doing anything shady, the easy at which MITM (man in the middle) attacked, can be performed means that many insecure (and some secure) networks can be spoofed with a small amount of know-how.

Always make sure your connecting to a safe, secure wifi network, in a place where you expect that network to exist at.

If your phone connects in a place you wouldn’t expect it to connect, double check what it’s connecting to, and if necessary, disable your wifi.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

That mechanism only happens after you connect to it, you have to connect to the wifi in order to download the certificate to connect. And it doesn’t apply to all open WI-FI. A someone can still spoof the wifi. The fun part is when they set up their own false “I agree to the usage” pop up page that just steals your data - standardised systems like this are easily spoofed, especially when it comes to open and insecure wifi. They could even send you a bogus certificate that routes all the traffic through their gateway, allowing them to spy on the secure connections.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

I do that if I lose the original bread tag.

If I still have the tag, it’s twist and tag.

Though with modern cardboard tags, it’s a bit more difficult and the tags wear out more quickly.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

They should probably change that to “jurisdictions” imo

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Fly them slower. Haven’t hit stall speed yet.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Kobo has ways around it. Especially if you manage to get certain models. - certain variants have the entire Linux based OS installed on its SD card - you can remove it to edit the internal sqlite database with an SQL editor to bypass the login requirements. Other models are supposed to have methods to just not use a login. (Though I’ve never been successful at that)

Also, to save battery it usually doesn’t connect to the internet unless you tell it too (sync update or whatever)

I have the Kobo Sage, while it doesn’t have a removable SD card, and I did have to create an account initially. It doesn’t require you to use it - you can plug it into a PC and just copy any ebooks, cbz comic files or PDFs you want to read. But I chose it for one reason: it’s one of the most stable models for running KoReader, a custom interface that adds some interesting features. Including support for direct OTA syncing with the Calibre eBook management and editing software. All Kobo devices has a hidden folder that can be used with a koboroot archive file to flash stuff into the internal file system.

Running this software literally kills the original interface, (meaning it can’t spy on you) and gives you full root access via an inbuilt terminal emulator. The fact it gives you access to full internal storage, means you can retroactively bypass the account requirement system, as their operating systems are almost completely identical across models.

Before that I used to own an old Clara HD (the screen broke, highly advise buying a cover for any e-reader) and did the SD card trick to bypass login.

There’s a huge community for hacking most models of eReaders for better and more uniqur experiences. Theyre low security ARM devices, way easier to mess around with than an android phone these days. All Kobo devices have single account Linux distros - meaning everything is running as root.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

I only play standing games that stick within the confines of room scale, that way all my movements are natural.

When I play other games, it’s teleport or nothing, no other locomotion form works for my, my sense of balance is to sensitive, and I haven’t had the time to work to get used to it… and swinging on vines is way out no.

Curiously I also get severe motion sickness when I drive go karts, but not when I drive cars. Although, sitting in the passenger seat, especially the rear seats, however can be a problem sometimes if I’m going around windy roads)

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Damn that site is pop up advertising cancer, use an adblocker if you value your ability to read the entire article - especially if you’re on mobile.

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

Head of the code breakers at Bletchley Park. Cracked the enigma code. He was gay

Da_Boom, 8 months ago

So alongside the part about mulitimc that StarDreamer said regarding the AUR and packaging attacks.

After the fork to PolyMC the maintainer of PolyMC decided to make it political. He was trying his best to prevent a specific clarification to an inclusivity clause in its contributors guidelines or whatever it’s called. (From “everyone” to something along the lines of “everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and preference”) A huge argument broke out, and he went full right wing and just kicked all the opposing people off the project, spitting right wing “wokeism” rhetoric the whole time.

People realised what was happening and left the project for prism launcher with a new maintainer who had been kicked as a result of the maintainers rampage and need to make it intensely political over what was essentially a minor issue: wether or not to clarify the word “everyone”

As someone who was watching from the sidelines, It really was a circus in both the mulitimc and the PolyMC cases.