[–] 0 points 2 years ago

I assume it will still be possible to enable the APIs with adb.

So this will mostly affect users in that in-between skill level where they know how to use a third-party app store (or how to download and install apps from a file browser) but don't know how to use adb. I'm not so sure how big that segment is. Probably pretty small.

For the group of users who are tech-illiterate (the common case), this is actually a very welcome change for malware prevention.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs. One of the terms of my contract with AMD was that if AMD did not find it fit for further development, I could release it. Which brings us to today.

    From https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From an engineering perspective, I prefer Debian distros. Apt is the greatest package manager ever built. For a production server, I'd choose Debian or maybe Ubuntu if I needed to pay someone for support.

    But for a desktop, Ubuntu kinda sucks. These days, I think I'd recommend Fedora to Linux noobs.

    And for my toys at home, I run Arch btw.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    Album art I see:

    • Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
    • The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
    • Led Zeppelin (1969)
    • Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
    • Weezer (the blue album) (1994)

    Other music art:

    • The Nirvana logo (smiley face) is on the wall.
    • The Rolling Stones logo is shown as an album art (IIRC it was never the cover of a studio album).
    • Yellow Submarine (1968) is there, but it's not the album art.
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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    With pipes/sockets, each program has to coordinate the establishment of the connection with the other program. This is especially problematic if you want to have modular daemons, e.g. to support drop-in replacements with alternative implementations, or if you have multiple programs that you need to communicate with (each with a potentially different protocol).

    To solve this problem, you want to standardize the connection establishment and message delivery, which is what dbus does.

    With dbus, you just write your message to the bus. Dbus will handle delivering the message to the right program. It can even start the receiving daemon if it is not yet running.

    It's a bit similar to the role of an intermediate representation in compilers.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nit: It's "à la carte" meaning "by the card" or "according to the menu". Often the accent is dropped in English writing, but it's always written as three words.

    This is just a stupid, meaningless nit-pick. I totally understood what you were saying, so it's really not important. It's just, the more you know, ya know?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    TTYD is a masterpiece.

    The story, I thought, was more compelling than PM. The movement abilities were wonderful. And the graphics upgrade of the GCN is surprisingly a very welcome addition.

    Just like PM, it's a bit of a slow start plot wise.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    The alternative to IPv6 is CGNAT.

    CGNAT is really annoying for users, since the entire ISP looks like a single IP address. This can lead to situations where the entire ISP accidentally gets classified as a bot or otherwise blocked. It's not too hard to find these kinds of stories from StarLink customers.

    We are at the point where we are are legitimately out of IPv4 addresses. Household NAT isn't enough and CGNAT has too many problems. IPv6 code was written ages ago and is very stable in all OSs these days.

    It really is just these legacy middle boxes holding us back.

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