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hd4··on Deepseek R1-0528
On the day Nvidia report earnings too. Pretty sure it's just a coincidence, bro.
hd4··on Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars
https://archive.is/2wkD0
hd4··on Calibre 8.0
Hope he will one day get round to fixing the issue where document file types in Windows 10 become associated with Calibre without being explicitly asked to do so.
hd4··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Yeah it's incredible when the mask drops this far.

Trump is a pathetic fuck, but this lines up with how he only ever plays to the domestic audience in advancing protectionist interests. We're feeling that dissonance because this kind of protectionist thinking is extremely rare, basically unheard of these days for world leaders.

hd4··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert
I think this marks the first time EA have open-sourced a videogame, a welcome development.
hd4··on Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years
So it's just unashamed racism now, is it?
hd4··on I'm Done with Ubuntu
No it's really not. I've had enough problems with badly-maintained/broken packages that I've switched to Archlinux (btw). Just go with Debian Sid or Arch.
hd4··on Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
"These days it feels like the only way you get resolution to this automated bullshit is to post on some social media platform or other."

Just leave for another platform, especially if you're making content people would actively seek out. Who even watches Youtube at this point?

hd4··on What's OAuth2, anyway?
One thing I wish I had learnt early on when I started looking into authentication is that OIDC (ideally with SSO through Google or GitHub) is the protocol/real-world implementation most developers will want to just be able to get started with whereas OAuth2 is more like the (boring) specification.

If you're wondering what to use to get authentication working (and not doing something risky), 90% of the time the answer will be OIDC.

hd4··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
War? No, ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians - not war.
hd4··on Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Hard to imagine how other similar companies wouldn't just follow suit even if the cost of staying with VMware wasn't prohibitive (which is unlikely for most cases, probably).

Stupid business decisions should be punished by the customer walking out. Homebrew KVM is not that hard.

hd4··on OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'
They're not at odds. "default-public accessibility of information" doesn't necessarily translate into "default-public accessibility of content" ie. media. Content should be served behind an authentication layer.

The clickbaity hysteria here is missing out how this sort of scraping has been possible long before AI agents showed up a couple of years back.

hd4··on Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
"They have spent the last few years doing nothing but suing fans so they won’t be prepared to face lawyers that are completely identical to them but are better because as I said before, they have guns.”

Beautiful. I'm rooting for these guys.

hd4··on Unrealized gains taxes are a pointless hassle. Much better ways to tax the rich
That's actually hilarious. "The rich won't invest if you tax their unrealized gains", or said differently an argument for trickle-down economics. News for you: they already don't.

Not sure if some of you know how bad things are for the less well-off in the world right now but they are actually fucking hellishly bad. We're on the brink of a recession if we're not already in one.

hd4··on Unrealized gains taxes are a pointless hassle. Much better ways to tax the rich
Those two things just boil down to "you own a thing, you pay tax on the thing".
hd4··on Unrealized gains taxes are a pointless hassle. Much better ways to tax the rich
I liked the argument put forth by Trevor Noah here in favor of taxing unrealized gains: https://x.com/SPC_Harry/status/1828873257530839210

As the article points out, Harris's proposal would only kick in at $100M. I don't see how anyone should be against it.

hd4··on ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator
I've got Bloodborne running on a standard PS4 at 60fps using the Illusion patch (you have to drop to 720p but it still looks great).
hd4··on Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
Weaponization of the monetary system.
hd4··on Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
Anecdotally it feels like there has been an uptick in these high-profile hacks recently, maybe a result of more security people being laid off as a result of companies thinking they would replace everyone with AI?
hd4··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
It's still interesting that they got it to work as fast and precise as they did.
hd4··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
Yes that one. Just use it and see. It's blazing fast.
hd4··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
Spacemonger uses the MFT and doesn't require Administrator privileges
hd4··on Descent 3 Source Code
What did it take behind the scenes to get this approved? Can you go into some of the decision-making? This is nice but a far too rare event these days.
hd4··on Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown
"The problem is when we're actually renting but it's being marketed as ownership."

which is the primary form of videogame ownership now.

hd4··on Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown
"acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is"

Okay I'm gonna say out loud what people are thinking, just pirate videogames. These companies are comfortable with taking away ownership of a product we paid for when they feel like, they broke the social contract, just take their shit.

hd4··on 20 years ago Far Cry was released
https://twitter.com/VinciusMedeiro6/status/16748901398798458... Far cry src leaked recently
hd4··on Hackintosh is almost dead
I'm yet to be convinced there is a single use-case other than iOS development/publishing for someone to want Hackintosh rather than simply installing a well-supported distro like Ubuntu or Fedora.

I tried it a few times and it was always a painful and substandard experience.

hd4··on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
You summed it up nicely.
hd4··on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum
really hoping dang doesn't let this get flagged off the front page like similar threads on this subject, even though it's obviously contentious. this is a conversation that needs to be had and also recorded for posterity.
hd4··on Who Still Works from Home?
Yet another article most likely paid for by CRE interests crying for people to stop devaluing the investments of those same interests by taking back a small amount of control over their lives.
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