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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • ultra high iq

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  • Thank you, that makes perfect sense. It's easy to fall from the outside into the trap of judging it by the "smarter than you club" label, and forgetting that probably isn't the point for most members, and the club part is the important one.

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    Hyprperks: a new 5€ official subscription to support Hyprland development.

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  • Is Hypraland the one with the extremely homophobic and toxic community/creator? I remember looking up their discord and he was spewing vile homophobic stuff and people who didn't like that were getting muted.

    And there was something about free desktop banning it?

    Looks like it is. https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

  • ultra high iq

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  • I don't get why something like Mesa even exists. Like, what even is the moment where pulling out your Mensa card is a good idea?

    Assuming you are inteligent, you should know that flashing a card from a gatekept "clever people" club will probably not impress many people, just like you should recognize that the test you did doesn't mean shit and IQ is not a good way how to measure people.

  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • As far as I know monero didn't really have that issue, of being a pyarmid scheme, while also being privacy-respecting way more than Bitcoin.

    Which is also why it's starting to get banned in Europe. As far as I know, most brokers don't even sell it.

  • Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster

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  • Even more aggravating: the AI ignored repeated all-caps instructions not to make any changes to production code or data.

    Lol.

  • Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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  • Maybe because of Nozi? Would be a weird filter.

  • 'Flettner Rotor' - xkcd

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  • This is the principle behind the rotor ships. It really is just a rotating cylinder.

  • A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.

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  • Just a side note - while the original comment wasn't directly speaking about this, and something like this requires way more precise instruments amd can't be done just from your total energy consumption, it is kind of possible to in theory decode/steal data from your PC based on it's pwer consumption, such as stealing private cryptography keys.

    It's mostly theoretical and very specific attack, but I find things like that super cool so I kist wanted to share them. The whole area of Side channel attacks is cool.

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  • The anti-canvas fingerprinting that replaces all canvases (or whatever it is, usually dynamicly drawn stuff) with rainbow square does break a lot of stuff. It used to break even pasting of images to messenger.

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  • Good reminder to have https://snowflake.torproject.org/ ready.

    And run a node, if you can! It's just an extension, and shouldn't cause any trouble (since it's a middle node, IIRC).

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  • I'm not sure how to feel about this.

    On one hand, it's consequences for CEO, and he does deserve that.

    On the other hand, it's people who are deliberately investing into Meta, knowing full well how does it operate and what it does, who are now mad at Meta leadership that Meta got caught, and they lost money due to fines Meta paid, so they are suing the leadership to get their money back. And that is really scummy.

    I think I want them to loose and get fucked, I hate shareholders even more than CEOs, because it's the shareholders who decide who is going to be a CEO, and who the CEO answers to. They are the people who are behind mass layoffs, and any other enshittification, because they don't care about the product, only that the lines goes up, and ruin good companies. So, they can go get fucked, and I really hope they loose.

  • Comparison of video game performance of Windows 11 vs SteamOS/Linux on the Lenovo Legion Go S

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  • That was probably the dramma about Fedora ending support of 32b libraries, which Steam heavily relies on and won't easily work without.

    It's still being discussed, and even if they go through with it (which is a PR suicide for Fedora), it won't be earlier than in two years.

  • Unity half-revert forced cloud saves "for now"

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  • I work in gamedev, both on my own game in my free time, and professionally. Projects take years to develop, and Unity was doing pretty ok 6 years ago, when I started my own project. Will I make another one in Godot? Very probably yes, Unity sucks, but moving an existing project is unfeasible.

    Another reasons are console ports. Getting a Unity game to run (run, not release/port completely, but that's an important step) on any console is pretty simple, since all the core libraries are prepared for you and you just include them. For Godot, you have to find someone who already has those libraries.

    Unreal is too heavyweight for a lot of games. It's amazing if you want some kind of realistic-leaning 3D, but the project size and (editor) performance is a huge problem for smaller things. Still better in a lot of things compared to Unity, but it's also harder to get into, since it's C++. Unity with C# is way more approachable, especially for students with laptops, who can barely get the editor running (It was a reason why I barely finished my Unreal assignments on college, and stuck with Unity). So, you have a lot of people who grew up on Unity, making it easier to hire for it. And when you are used to one engine for most of your life, with years of experience that's limited to it, it is difficult to switch (although, almost everyone I talked to who works in Unity has "learn Godot" on their todo list)

    I've been mostly seeing Unreal recently, when talking to other devs and studios at conferences, and not many new Unity projects. Anecdotal evidence, though.

    Also, while I'll definitely use Godot for any future project (which I already did for some gamejams), I can't imagine maintaining a large AA(A) codebase written in GDscript. To be fair, it might be because I don't have any large-scale project python experience (which I also can't imagine writing a large app with), and IIRC the C# support isn't as good in Godot yet.

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  • Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

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  • Isn't Aurora still Fedora? Then it probably wouldn't solve the issue with gaming on Fedora being made so difficult to set up, that it forced one of the more popular distros to shut down.

    Bazzite is a gaming focused distro, so I wager that that would be a major problem for a lot of people.

    The only choice for a lot of gamers (including me) will simply be to not use Fedora, and find a new distro to switch to, which is a shame. (Although, it will probably just be SteamOS at that point). I'm also worried about my Lenovo Legion Go. It's unusable with Windows, and Bazzite being atomic is a really really good fit for it, and they have builds specially tailored for Legion.

    But we still have two years to go, so we'll see. I don't think Fedora has the power and market share to force others to follow with depreciation of 32b, and unless other distros join in, it will just be a PR disaster and people will just begrudgingly move to other distros.

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  • Wow, I had no idea Microsoft is gamified. That sounds like such a dystopic experience :D

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  • By the way, noyb supporting member membership starts at 60$ a year (you can also go for less, but without some goodies), with the 60$ tier providing you with a free 1 hour of professional consultation about your personal data protection/privacy problem you might have per year.

    They are also doing a really good job in general with succesfully suing companies, I think they already managed to win lawsuits for billions of dollars. If you have the 60$ (or anything less!) to spare, I'd say it's one of the best cases to donate to, if privacy and data protection is important to you.

    I'm not affiliated with them, but I did recently found out about what they do and it feels like a really good cause. Seeing meta being forced to pay billions is satisfying.

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  • I'm too afraid to ask, but what are Microsoft points?

  • RetroArch is The Best Way to Play Classic Games on Linux

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  • I also really recommend EmuVR, it's a frontend for Retroarch, that is the most archetypal 80s room in VR, with CRT tvs, your roms as physical disk or cartriges, and each core has it's physical model you plug into the TV, plop yourself down in front of it, and can play. It makes the experience way, way better than playing on an LCD or a phone, and it's my favorite VR experience I found so far.