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krystalgamer··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
If I understand correctly, they're ditching Electron but still using React but with their custom renderer.
krystalgamer··on OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability
it's the default for most systems. I can't remember a time I had to not turn it off.
krystalgamer··on Show HN: Lasm – Write formally verified webapps in Lean for Node/serverless/edge
same! i noticed this a while ago and can't stop seeing it everywhere - https://github.com/legluondunet/SpiderMan2k1Fix/blob/7c6e032...
krystalgamer··on AlpineBSD
more like NetBSD + busybox
krystalgamer··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
am I talking with an LLM?

you don't even acknowledge that you're wrong on your initial response and just pivot to the first thing you could anchor on (vegetarian diets).

krystalgamer··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
liar, liar, pants on fire.

I'll link what you're referring to - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-supply-per-person

It's the meat supply not consumption :) Very disingenuous to include world average there too. The number is brought down but countries whose main diets are vegetable based.

krystalgamer··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
"i'm sorry you can't afford food, but have you thought about going on a hike?"
krystalgamer··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
brazilians are extremely poor, even with the programmes that try to masquerade the numbers.

why would they care about the amazon if they barely have any money?

climate pov is a first world luxury. no one serious about this election would even attempt to make.

krystalgamer··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
similar to how Netflix offers 4K but at much lower bitrate when compared to Blu-ray. the engineers have spent a considerable amount of time optimizing the encoding presets to be acceptable by the majority of their audience.

even though phones have 1080p resolutions, the pixel density is so high you could get away with the more minute detail that would be obvious on a 24' screen.

currently Xbox games are made to be played on regular monitors the devs are optimizing for that.

krystalgamer··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
wonder if they can bring the cost down. with all the streaming needed it may be possible to cut down on all the fancy graphical effects.
krystalgamer··on Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
funniest one I found so far was "accurately recreated the hardware in software so it's running natively" :P
krystalgamer··on Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
ah yes, another recomp that still emulates a core system component.

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp/blob/1066c9eea78c2...

krystalgamer··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
just a tiny difference between being banned and having "no voice online".
krystalgamer··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
> then you deserve no voice online

the good kind of censorship! it could never happen to me!!

krystalgamer··on Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker
Any reason to use Debian Squeeze? Was it because it's the only with the packages you needed?
krystalgamer··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
you can create slop that matches, they're called "fake matches". it's basically when you coerce the compiler to output what you want and then the source looks unrecognizable.

LLMs still produce some of these, specially on C++ decomps.You can see it most often when calling the base class constructor/destructor. Here's an example: https://github.com/emoluvjd2/thps2-demo-decomp/blob/33d2c12b...

krystalgamer··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
cool concept, seems like also a good way to avoid touristy places :)

how do you verify the prices btw? even yesterday I'd check a place that had their own website with menu and when I arrived there the prices were ~10-15% higher. noped out of there real quick.

krystalgamer··on eBay agrees $56M settlement with bloggers over harassment case
This case is beyond the typical harassment/cyber-stalking. CEO was obsessed with destroying the couple and the person he put in charge (James Baugh) had multiple law enforcement connections.

Video with more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQMuS87gLw

krystalgamer··on Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program
it's voluntary and a nice incentive for those whose have spent time on getting familiar with the systems.

also given that nowadays most bounty hunters have some level of automation don't see the issue of getting paid by the task instead of the by the hour. diversification of source of income is always good :)

krystalgamer··on The Psychology of Software Teams
co-worker started reading "Extreme Ownership" and it improved his mindset and approach to problems. at the same time became extremely unbearable towards own team. if someone was complaining it was hard to get follow-up on a task from someone external he'd jump in and say "you're not owning it".

the tipping point for me was when he started preaching "Never Split the Difference". he'd gotten so cocky to the point he'd start meetings with "I already know how this is gonna end".

i don't mind these books as long as they come from a place of need, but it seems the main crowd are wannabe master manipulators. also, they can often be distilled to a couple chapters, not sure why they're so long.

krystalgamer··on How to read more books
been thinking about buying one, but the whole debacle with locking down the fw put me off for a bit.
krystalgamer··on Patching my guitar amp's firmware
> just blows my mind that companies don’t

i'm pleasantly surprised when products don't come with all the security features :) hopefully it was their intent and not a fluke.

the amount of hoops hobbyist hackers need to jump through in order to play around is really getting out of hand.

krystalgamer··on Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
same, not worth getting 100GB of content getting scrapped every other day.
krystalgamer··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
reiteration is still important
krystalgamer··on Microsoft admits Windows 11's dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows
unit test for sure, but not integration.

the chain of design to implementation is so laser focused on the key doing what is meant to do that they forget there's an existing ecosystem they have to respect.

krystalgamer··on EU Cloud Comparison Matrix
why is Hetzner listed has not having bare metal servers?
krystalgamer··on Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler
wiwm i'd imagine it has a 3rd party tool. very nice to get it out of the box in 3.15
krystalgamer··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
> The argument being made for this specific feature

great display of intellectual honesty here.

krystalgamer··on Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader
agreed and they support non android devices too!
krystalgamer··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
exactly, but it doesn’t pertain to you until you pay.

if we assume there’s a directional graph with edges labeled as “visited”. what linkedin is offering is to traverse it backwards for a fee.

what they’re demanding is ludicrous. pure entitlement that would have horrible ramifications for all social media platforms.

should a gdpr export include who has unliked/unreposted your posts too? it definitely pertains to you.

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