sznio

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sznio,

where do I find these “new people”

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

sznio,

I use Firefox with uBO on Windows and it doesn’t help. I tried installing filters I found online but they don’t do shit.

I’ll just install FreeTube.

sznio,

If you’re using Firefox, install uBlock as well. You can also add the YouTube website as a shortcut to your desktop.

sznio,

Updates only make products worse, not better.

sznio,

you do not exist

you are simply trolling

block and don’t reply

sznio,

You’ve gotta kill yourself dude. For the good of all of us.

sznio,

CS2 just doesn’t precompile shaders. The game just shits itself running on AMD because of that.

The shader cache itself is also broken and gets reset by the game on every restart.

sznio,

typical NT

sznio,

If only an open source thing had some consistent margins. It could look so much better.

sznio,

I think that Spotify (or any other music streaming service) are the only ones still worth it. I don’t have to sign up for Spotify and Tidal and YouTube Music since any of them has whatever I need.

If that were to change, then I’ll be subscription-free.

Also, I like paying for Spotify since it’s the only European big-tech.

sznio,

Do you have a shitty 10mbps connection like my parents? Then WiFi, because you’re easily saturating that line either way.

Only if latency doesn’t matter. WiFi has a lot more jitter, no matter if your WAN connection is 10 or 1000mbps.

sznio,

No pulling wires from walls, just cutting the ends off and installing new connectors. Might not be enough in every case though.

Crimping took me like 5 attempts to get right when I learned it in school.

Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder (www.pcgamer.com)

A statement from a Google employee, Dov Zimring, has been released as a part of the FTC vs Microsoft court case (via 9to5Google). Only minorly redacted, the statement gives us a run down of Google's position leading up to Stadia's closure and why, ultimately, Stadia was in a death spiral long before its actual demise....

sznio,

But somehow, Google couldn’t be bothered to advertise the product at all. They ran 1 Super Bowl commercial which didn’t make a whole lot of sense to the average viewer, and then basically zero marketing after that.

Google is really bad at marketing despite being an advertising company. Most of the products they’ve launched then shut down I just never heard of, despite finding the ideas behind them really enticing after the fact.

sznio,

But Kotlin is actually an improvement over Java.

Golang thoooooo

sznio,

Rural areas are already covered by Viasat. Which is going to be more efficient due to the simple nature of only needing like 5 to 10 satellites in the 100-year orbit height… rather than 60,000+ Starlink satellites in the 5-year orbit height.

Latency sucks with Viasat. You won’t play multiplayer games on it, and even web browsing will be sluggish with how many round trips displaying just a single page requires nowadays.

sznio,

That video is a thinly veiled listicle.

sznio,

Can you connect PCI-E devices to USB 4? That feels like the only useful feature of Thunderbolt imo.

sznio,

Try to do any formatting more complex than none at all in Confluence. It just gets polluted with invisible markup and changes styling randomly.

sznio,

It’s the main most privileged program running on a computer, through which all other programs access shared resources like hard drives, memory, network etc. It also performs access control on these resources.

sznio,

I didn’t fully drop Reddit but I use it significantly less.

sznio,

Now connect all these people to water, sewage, roads and power.

sznio,

I’ve heard of people printing out charts, then cutting out the part they wanted to calculate an integral of, then weighing the paper.

sznio,

If I have a camera on a tripod and I angle down…the view goes up. If I angle up, the view goes down.

I much prefer a simpler analogy: If I look up, I look up. If I look down, I look down.

sznio,

My Facebook is only memes, only from the large meme pages, not the ones I like that I have to check manually since they’ll never end up in my feed. And news articles.

It started with Facebook just hiding what your friends are posting. It still happens that someone shares a photo once a year or so, but I will never get shown it. I just browse my friend’s profiles manually.

sznio,

The internet could be and should be so much more

The internet is already too much.

sznio,

You definitely have access logs that contain IP addresses.

sznio,

That meme’s been on the front page every day for the last week. Did karma farming bots make their way here?

sznio,

I really like PowerShell’s object-oriented approach to pipelines. Unix pipes feel really dated in comparison.

sznio,

I don’t know the prices now, but half a year ago in Poland olive oil was cheaper than any other oil and significantly cheaper than butter. Like 6€ a liter.

sznio,

And will only get more expensive.

sznio,

Surprisingly more readable than standard C++

sznio,

It’s so idiotic that it can’t be malice.

It’s just Linus overworking his employees.

sznio,

It’s good old C.

sznio,

Steam version performs worse than bnet imo. Steam is so much bloat but we’ve grown accustomed to it.

sznio,

It’s easy to port, has low system requirements, and it’s funny to see running on a toaster

sznio,

First thing I do on Debian is disabling unattended upgrades. I will need to install some package now and it will always get in the way.

sznio,

Leftpad

sznio,

I got a note 10 pro as well.

First thing I did after I got it was to install LineageOS. It’s so much better.

sznio,

I’ve even had one tell me that he and Pence were the two prophets of the End Times in Revelations.

In a way they are

sznio,

Styrofoam is good enough for that.

sznio,

Which is why the first thing I do when I get a new Android phone is to install LineageOS.

sznio,

Yep.

But reading one outdated line of English is worse than reading 5 lines of code and seeing the true picture.

sznio,

Working as a software engineer developing for the IT team, I understand the system I’m developing on, but not the system I’m developing.

Jira customfields give me nightmares.

sznio,

What beehaw did is very detrimental to the health of the fediverse, especially in the most crucial month.

I don’t blame them though. They are running a really specific community with it’s own culture and it ended up getting disrupted and diluted by the influx of new users.

In a month everything will calm down and I hope they refederate again.

Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...

sznio,

Because they know it will sell.

They don’t need to make a good Star Wars movie because they don’t need to onboard new fans. They make them only to squeeze out existing fans who will pay regardless of quality.

The new Matrix movie was actually a masterpiece. The Wachowski’s didn’t want to revive the franchise since they considered it complete - but the studio insisted that if they didn’t make it, the studio would get it done itself. So they accepted the offer, and made a movie so bad that it killed any attempts at reviving the franchise for good. The Matrix is now dead, and it will stay that way (hopefully).

I guess Star Wars is too strong to kill even with multiple shit movies.

Besides that, for how long can you squeeze the same universe? I’d rather have something new.

sznio,

Teams is still horribly optimized and barely works though. I love having to restart my computer in order to be able to sign in.

Protip: It’s much faster and more stable when just opened as a webpage in Firefox

sznio,

I also used to have that message but it seems like they’ve got that back in order.

I remember that back then you could download an extension to pretend your user agent was Chrome and Teams would work flawlessly.

sznio,

Stage 2: it works and you feel the dread that you won’t hunt that bug down until it crashes prod.

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