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bmicraft··on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
The video before it was uploaded.
bmicraft··on Google unkills JPEG XL?
my fallible memory of roughly the same sources
bmicraft··on Google unkills JPEG XL?
That library had a hiatus with zero commits of over 1.5 years until recently iirc.

That this is working out is a combination of wishful thinking and getting lucky.

bmicraft··on Google unkills JPEG XL?
Google is one of the parties involved in the creating of jxl. If it's their own fault they didn't write a decoder in a memory safe language sooner.
bmicraft··on Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
Isn't that basically every router out there?
bmicraft··on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
> We wouldn't have incredible GPUs in our gaming systems and even cell phones if the primary market for these things was retail entertainment purchases that people make every 5 years.

Arguably we don't. Most of the improvements these days seem to be on the GPGPU side with very little gains in raster performance this decade.

bmicraft··on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
Aren't the proportions is those essentially static?
bmicraft··on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
The transit agency also doesn't have a lot of agency about the budget they receive from the city either
bmicraft··on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
I'm not convinced HDR PDFs will be a common thing anytime soon, even without this chicken and egg problem of support
bmicraft··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
> If you're hosting at home, your ISP may blackhole all traffic to your residence (affecting your day job and being a nightmare).

That's a very big stretch. Worst case you need to stretch to wifi tethering from you phone, which isn't much more than mildly annoying.

bmicraft··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
If the incident lasts for more than a few hours you could still set up ddos protection and rotate ips though.
bmicraft··on iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline
Those laws literally only apply to companies a size close to Apple. Don't make this about startups.
bmicraft··on Hard Rust requirements from May onward
Ironically, the people hating on it (and usually without any technical arguments) act way more cultish.

At least it looks that way to my not-rust-using self

bmicraft··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
But it's not if you trust the url and curl has `--proto '=https' --tlsv1.2` as args
bmicraft··on California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
That's plain wrong, they have not announced that price target anywhere. There is speculation that it could be there target internally for the long term, but there is basically zero chance they'll start at that price and no guarantees they'll ever reach it.
bmicraft··on Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage
Yeah, thought so...
bmicraft··on Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage
Do you have a source for the $40/kWh? I can't find anything but unsubstantiated speculation surrounding the price.
bmicraft··on Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage
Resistive heating is pretty wasteful, and heat pumps are expensive. If it's not necessary then leaving it out will be much more efficient.
bmicraft··on Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage
Your mixing of units is baffling, almost nobody knows both Celsius and Fahrenheit. For the rest of us:

-18°C to 0°C

0°F to 32°F

bmicraft··on The scariest "user support" email I've received
It could even conceivably be both
bmicraft··on EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
Maybe the car is more efficient and it's twice the rate in "driveable distance-charged" per unit of time?
bmicraft··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
Zfs is pretty much the only thing, everything else is exactly the same after the system is installed
bmicraft··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
Minor correction, the K Desktop Environment is instead called KDE Plasma starting with version 4
bmicraft··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
Not surprising, when gnome it's already the default everywhere.

GNOME is polarizing with its feature minimalism and non-traditional desktop, and many people therefore are unhappy it's the default choice in all the big distros.

bmicraft··on HTTP3 Explained
Well, it seem like is was originally, but isn't now and hasn't been at date of publication.

Edit:

> The initial QUIC protocol was designed by Jim Roskind at Google and was initially implemented in 2012, announced publicly to the world in 2013 when Google's experimentation broadened.

> Back then, QUIC was still claimed to be an acronym for "Quick UDP Internet Connections", but that has been dropped since then.

from https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/proc

bmicraft··on Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
If the "fueled by bots" comment wasn't here already I'd have written it.
bmicraft··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
I can't really blame anybody for using Ubuntu, and many ways of "doing it wrong" should even be possible in the first place. But there definitely is badly & unsupported hardware you can really blame Linux for. That's on hardware manufacturers.
bmicraft··on Indefinite Backpack Travel
For a lot of countries, it did go away.
bmicraft··on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
New? It doesn't even look like it supports Wayland.
bmicraft··on Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
More involved fixes are not something allowed in rc kernels, and Kent knew that.
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