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zeratax··on Resetting Xbox
yeah like i assume this is better by now, but when gamepass was relatively new i got a free month with my laptop but just installing games would frequently fail, same with updating them. same with epic games for that matter, though not that bad. also at the time the xbox app would install everything in this readonly directory that you couldnt even access with admin rights, which ofc made modding impossible and also after reinstalling windows left me with an external harddrive where i wasnt allowed to delete a huge folder of games... fixed this by mounting it in linux.....
zeratax··on I Hate Compilers
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng...
zeratax··on I hate compilers
> Clang relies on address layout for ordering things

I would consider that a bug tbh

zeratax··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
i really want to use a similar tool that uses age instead of gpg, but the ones i've tried were all not as nice to use, or very undermaintained. but idk i havent checked in a while
zeratax··on Siri AI
true, but also there is no debugging, right? it's apple's software either it works or it doesn't. (i guess other than connectivity issues)

idk if most of my home assistant automations have actually saved me time since i def had to debug them, but the level of satisfaction when they do work is def worth it for me, since i created (and debugged) them haha

zeratax··on The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
can you explain why? what unintended consequences would such a law have?
zeratax··on Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
what is incomprehensible about her actually having paranormal powers
zeratax··on The Prompt API
> but the feedback ended up being AI-generated slop...

Wow yeah the feedback is actually useless ai generated slop. Has that happened before?

zeratax··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
Every time I do report these kinds of bugs it's clear to me they clearly do not look at them lol. The Feedback site still thinks windows 10 is the latest windows version and doesn't even display the latest ios version.
zeratax··on Store birth date in systemd for age verification
there is no verification happening though
zeratax··on Store birth date in systemd for age verification
this is not attestation though? it's just parental controls, no?
zeratax··on SSH has no Host header
what control panel is perfect for literally every type of project and has no edge cases
zeratax··on Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
there is PEP 671 for that, which introduces extra syntax for the behavior you want. people rely on the current behavior so you can't really change it
zeratax··on Nvidia DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games
I've only so far seen the re9 comparisons and imo it's awful there. lots of colored light transfer is suddenly gone, post processing effects like bloom on street lights is also gone and in general it just looks flat to me now
zeratax··on Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
I assume this is pretty rare, but ty sometimes finds real issues that are actually allowed by the spec, like:

  def foo(a: float) -> str:
    return a.hex()

  foo(false)
is correct according to PEP 484 (when an argument is annotated as having type float, an argument of type int is acceptable) but this will lead to a runtime error. mypy sees no type error here, but ty does.
zeratax··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
finding out who is a child online doesn't seem difficult at all to me, and i also doubt groomers big issue online is not finding children.
zeratax··on X is selling existing users' handles
both of you used gmail as an example to make opposing arguments
zeratax··on Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)
imo it's not just that other brands are of similar quality but often of way higher quality than lego. you get so much more for less money from other brands, while lego sets are becoming kind of a joke. using stickers everywhere and randomly colored bricks on the internal sides of the set
zeratax··on I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
yes everyone who has a different opinion to you is lying. that's a great worldview
zeratax··on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
I don't follow? when you write userscripts you modify the dom not the already running scripts usually, no?
zeratax··on Cryptographic Issues in Matrix's Rust Library Vodozemac
I kinda agree that there is no practical impact, though i also don't see the downside in just fixing it?
zeratax··on Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
my biggest issue with guix by far is that it doesn't use systemd. i just can not use a distro nowadays without systemd
zeratax··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
on my corporate laptop as well as my own private surface laptop as well as my gaming rig does file explorer lag doing pretty much anything and the context menu can sometimes take like 10 seconds to open. this is a pretty wide spread issue you can see people mention this everywhere
zeratax··on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
they actually rewrote the history later, but github shows force push history too https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/activity?activi...
zeratax··on I was right about ATProto key management
how does it avoid that? i have experienced just as many power tripping mods on discord as i have on irc. the only difference to me is that i have never seen an irc channel with over 20 million users
zeratax··on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
I don't get why you do not understand why nobody wants to waste time on a MR where the author didn't even themselves have any interest on looking over it even once. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03... also all the unused functions...

did it fix a long time issue? maybe, but 9 tests for 13k lines doesnt give much confidence in that

and even if it worked perfectly, who will maintain this?

zeratax··on When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?
idk looking at what the creator of leptos talks about it seems to be very significant: https://youtu.be/4KtotxNAwME?si=e_xwqo5gopKDlOtK
zeratax··on Winamp Legacy player source code
where is this quote from?
zeratax··on iOS 17 Is a Prude
optional things like this are fine. preventing me from joining e.g. NSFW discord servers wholesale is not imo. As an adult I should be able to use my phone however I want
zeratax··on Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
I don't really understand what stops this from happening locally?
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