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natebc··on From Silicon to Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]
Link to the project site too: https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/

I thought this was really cool and a nice diversion on a cold New Years day.

natebc··on All Delisted Steam Games
FWIW Delisting in this context is just removing it from the store for purchase. It doesn't remove it from your library, nor remove your ability to download it.

Your concerns for digital licenses are totally valid but his specific topic isn't that.

natebc··on Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis
Yeah, that bit of the Star Trek Universe is something not many folks know about.

You want to be born into the utopia, not before.

natebc··on Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)
https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/mission-...

Seems like this is better, or at least maybe a primary source?

natebc··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
Their ops teams are probably ground into dust.
natebc··on Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm
I am, and don't ... but that still doesn't mean it doesn't take effort. There's way more to it than smiling and not being a complete tool.

How long has it been since you called your long lost best friend and caught up? Did you go to his brothers funeral? Check in on him after his divorce? A year after his divorce? 5?

It takes effort and is far from elementary no matter how much rizz you have.

natebc··on Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm
it's really not. It's easy for some, sure and you're maybe one of them (or perhaps mistaken!) but many, many MANY people, especially men, even intelligent men struggle with social situations and maintaining healthy social relationships.
natebc··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
History has told us it won't be good for the lords when that happens.
natebc··on The sixtyforgan: a Commodore 64 with a spring reverb; chiptunes like a church or
what a beautiful effort! sounds amazing!
natebc··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
brew is a decent compromise between "breaking debian" and running newer stuff and newer versions of things for desktop use at least.

For servers, we just use containers.

natebc··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
Wait till you open the humble calculator.
natebc··on Why use OpenBSD?
It's not about keeping spam out of comments, it's about keeping systems and content safe/operational for normal people and more costly or unavailable for the trillion dollar "AI" companies that are shitting all over everything.

Don't blame this on site operators, this is the fault of careless LLM operators knocking down everybody's walls doors and windows to "learn" from their content.

natebc··on Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
Is it not GPL?

The license file in their github seems to indicate that it is. https://github.com/flox/flox?tab=GPL-2.0-1-ov-file

natebc··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
It needs to be much more granular than it is. For example: Turning that setting off also disables the (very, very old) Updates/Promotions/Social/Forums tabs in the Gmail interface. ONE checkbox in the sea of gmail options?
natebc··on Helm 4.0
This is what I've done too. Just enough features easily available to handle everything i've ever needed in the simple deployments I use. Secrets, A/B configuration, even "dynamic reload" of a Deployment for Configmap changes.

Gets the job done.

natebc··on X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
no
natebc··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
Well I'm sure Google will be just fine as they've been in the ad business for quite some time but all these hundreds (thousands?) of also-AI companies won't fare very well when they pivot to the selling eyeballs business.
natebc··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
It's ads right?
natebc··on Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
> a po' boy full of shit

Now that's a sandwich-in-the-face worthy of getting worked up about!

natebc··on Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions
The other Cyberpunk. Not that it's any better but we for sure won't have Judy there to save our asses.
natebc··on TextEdit and the relief of simple software
You think that's great, wait till you rediscover VLC!
natebc··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
The Maritime industry can run into this too. Tug companies, barge companies. The level of consolidation vs the size of the labour pool is what does it.
natebc··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
still more than spaceships and meteorites!
natebc··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
still a lot more birds than meteorites or spacecraft.
natebc··on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
Our 5 year ELA for VMware went from 1.5M USD to 12M USD. I work in Higher ed.

Our Hyper-V environment came online a few months ago. It was already included with our ELA with Microsoft so we were able to splash out a bit for some higher tier support.

Granted, we have a separate team working on "genAI stuff."

We started converting virtual machines about 3 weeks ago and we've gotten through ~500 of about 3500 or so.

Our grant based HPC environment is just moving back to bare metal. The VM conversion is just for ad-hoc HPC and then all of our general infrastructure. Some of our larger application servers (SAP Hana) are possibly staying on VMWare if SAP won't support them on Hyper-V.

This summer sucked big time but we'll make it.

natebc··on F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
The Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor agent (with a kernel module) establishes TLS connections to several random AWS endpoints.

I really have no idea how security people think this is a good thing aside from checkbox compliance but man-o-man do they love it.

natebc··on FSF announces Librephone project
This probably explains a lot of the problem then. IME those who are good at writing code are pretty bad at the social parts of running an organization.

This isn't a dig, I've known and admired quite a few people who were absolute geniuses at hardware and/OR software, real engineers but they couldn't even manage a group lunch. It's just an entirely different skillset.

natebc··on The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979
They're asserting that they want to live in a world where two things are true.

- Gore was declared winner of the 2000 presidential election

- the WTC wasn't attacked on September 11th, 2001.

the two don't have to be connected to be wishes.

natebc··on German government comes out against Chat Control
In Germany? Yes. Yes, they do.
natebc··on Remember: Kurt Vonnegut Was 47
What?

What's the secret that you know which makes poor people have a better life after 50? I'd love to hear it and quit working so damn hard. Hell these days the middle class is getting their ass kicked at the grocery store. I can't even imagine how hard it would be if you cut my income by what it would take to get me to the poverty line. That amount won't even cover my rent.

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