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nzgroveron The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

I switched to Bazzite about 3 weeks ago and am amazed at how well everything "just works". Steam and Battlenet games all running. Nvidia 5070, AMD Rizen 7800x3d, recent gigabyte motherboard.

nzgroveron Outsourcing thinking

You might want to read this then: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/585370/ai-on-australian-trave...

nzgroveron Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1

Farthest Frontier is a recently released game in the same vein: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/Farthest_Frontier...

nzgroveron Plain Vanilla Web

In my experience, the sharp edges are browser compatibility issues, and I've been gratefully avoiding them for years by using jQuery.

nzgroveron Furilabs Linux Phone

It's marketing drivel, and marketing loves the "rule of three".

nzgroveron Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go

Since noone else has posted it, I will: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1iL0fYmMmariFoSvLd9U5...

The OSI Deprogrammer

nzgroveron 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

Quoting _khhm who posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850091

> On iOS there are no web browsers other than Safari, per the app store rules. "Chrome" / "Firefox" / etc on iOS are just basically skins on top of Webkit.

> See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> This is why you don't get any of the features / extensions / etc of Chrome or Firefox on iOS.

nzgroveron Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'

One of my favourite lines is from Three men in a Boat: "George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge-sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat family-physician way of putting things".

nzgroveron Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park

yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_e...

nzgroveron MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan

Doesn't pass the sniff test ;-)

nzgroveron SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

You might enjoy Grace Hopper's leacture which includes this snippet: https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=vjEQHIGmffjqfHBN&t=2706

nzgroveron Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit

beer => whiskey

wine => brandy

nzgroveron Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090

Heh, in New Zealand, the card alone is $3500NZD

nzgroveron Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API

This is a fantastic book if you have difficulty sleeping! I had no idea such an interesting topic, the fundamentals of the operation of computers, could be rendered so lifeless and dull or that it would take so many words to do so. I'm reading through it now but it's taking an awful long time as I never get through more than 3 or 4 pages before it's lights out.

nzgroveron Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

The Path of Exile wiki moved off fandom to https://www.poewiki.net and has been very successful. If I google "path of exile wiki" it's the top result for me (in an anonymous window). The creators of PoE even agreed to host the new wiki. The move to the new wiki was heavily supported by the subreddit for PoE, often pointing people that posted links to the fandom version to the new version. I remember there being guides to on how to block fandom with ublock, how to add the new wiki as a search provider in Firefox, etc.

nzgroveron Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

Is that what they mean by "used as the primary key in a database while ensuring good locality"/"database locality"? That read/write access will hit fewer disk pages?

nzgroveron Estimated U.S. deer population, 1450 to 2016

Also, New Zealand. https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/hu...

nzgroveron Cities: Skylines II

Traffic. Traffic, Traffic, Traffic. Please.

nzgroveron WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

It’s not DNS

There’s no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

Credit: https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/

nzgroveron The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish

When are we going to accept that we are just a life support system for a bacterial colony?

nzgroveron We are removing the option to create new subscriptions

re PIA, have you seen this? https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn...

nzgroveron Things I learned from building a production database

Nowhere does it say what an "IC" is. Is it so hard to provided the Full Name(FN) and the abbrevation the first time you use it?

nzgroveron Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS

I did this literately yesterday following this guide: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-r...

Kids played for a couple of hours last night without issue.

nzgroveron A new air-conditioning system manages without nasty gases

This one did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamahere_coolstore_fire

nzgroveron ST3 Update now is ST4

This was a bit of a shock this morning for sure. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Maybe it's time to commit to neovim after all.

nzgroveron WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

Why is Wire never mentioned in these discussions on HN, is there something I'm missing? Seems like the most secure option to me: https://wire.com/en/security/

nzgroveron Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter

Probably when they were on the verge of bankruptcy in 1996/97.

edit: link: https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-forgotten-mic...

nzgroveron Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

Likewise for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

nzgroveron A photo is crashing some Android phones

"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge." - Tolkien