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- on Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2h ago
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on Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Is that better than Super Ultra Intelligence II’ X Turbo Hyper Fighting Plus Extra Special Champion Edition Revival: The World Warrior New Challengers Tournament Battle Grand Master Challenge?
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on Next major Halo game being developed by Activision, as Halo Studios all but closes as part of Microsoft's Xbox restructuring in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Activision actually did publishing for Bungie through the 2010s.
But the cherry on that hypothetical cake is that Sony currently owns Bungie.
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on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago
This is the time for the usual reminder that tech giants obtain something like 3000 patents each a year, by patenting everything under the sun. For the sole purpose that if one of them sues another for the violation of one such patent, the other can dig up a hundred of them to countersue.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
Nah, I’ve got an ancient machine with too little memory. However, you reminded me that I might want to look into NixOS just to check out how it works, for better or worse.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026
That’s familiar, yes.
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on Self-hosted TV interface solutions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Thanks for your input, I didn’t even know that killing customers would increase companies’ revenue.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
Possibly yes, but I don’t think that makes the overall statement distinctly better.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
messaged around with additional repositories a lot
Gotta say again, as an APT user, I have no idea what “messaged around with additional repositories” means.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
Thanks again for the info. However, I can’t remember when I ever had to ‘fix dependency problems’ with APT. Maybe when I ran Debian Testing for a while, or if I added one too many external repos, or if I really really wanted to run two explicitly conflicting packages — but still it’s such a foreign thing that I can’t recall if it actually ever occurred. Apparently APT’s reputation for most solid dependency resolution among package managers is quite well deserved.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
Thanks. Just to clarify, by ‘fixing dependencies’ you mean upgrading the packages?
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on Self-hosted TV interface solutions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Yes, it’s relevant, because DEI inherently limits what the company does, and yet the shareholders voted to keep it. Apparently Apple’s shareholders aren’t bigoted idiots.
if 2028 goes Republican in US they probably won’t even do a logo change that pride month
Nice job showing your ass here, because Apple never ‘changed the logo’ for the pride month. Where the fuck are they supposed to change it, on the Macbooks?
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
Come on man. I know what KDE looks like. Running a VM for a bit won’t help me learn what issues occur with Fedora sometimes.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
Got it, thanks.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
Uh-huh. And how long do I need to run the VM before I run into an ‘isn’t stable’ situation? Half a year, a year, more? Am I supposed to use the VM as my main machine during that time?
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
it’s relatively stable until it isn’t. If you don’t have time to fuck around, use mint.
Elaborate please. I’m weighing installing Fedora for KDE. What kind of fucking around should I expect?
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on Self-hosted TV interface solutions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Just to check, would Apple’s commitment to DEI policies look as thrown-away profit to shareholders?
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on Impersonation rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
React Native doesn’t use webviews.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Yeah, Apple were doing so great with their engineers until 1997, and then Jobs came back and ruined things.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Cook diversified Apple’s product lineup, overseeing the introduction of many new products such as the AirPods, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, AirTag, Apple silicon in its Mac lineup and expanding its services business.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
it’s a modernist essence that has never been properly ejected from postmodernism
That’s like saying that the essence of windows wasn’t ejected from a house.
As for your other claims, you should look into the concept of touching grass, it’s pretty cool. Clears the head wonderfully.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Minimalism is not postmodernist, you doofus.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Audacity is where you edit samples or record stems. A DAW is where you then use those samples and stems.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Indeed, all software maintainers should make their legal decisions on the fact of which OS nyan@lemmy.cafe uses.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
You really don’t realize that your ip address can tell them which country you’re in? So that they’re obligated to disclose in the terms that they have this info, and that if for some reason police ever come knocking, police would also get this info. Takes all of a minute to think about this.
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on Flock bans Journalist from Convention, Journalist use their tools against them. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
a handful of other names
Closer to three handfuls, as is tradition among edgier edm producers.
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on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Show me where Weinberg said that DDG continues to allow MS’ trackers to this day, or sends them other data, which is what you claim, continuing to weasel out of supporting it with any evidence except for “I feel that way”.
Besides, you must have missed that the trackers affair was about the DDG browser, whereas this thread is about the search engine.
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on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Microsoft does get your data
they must be getting something else
which are verifiable facts
“My source is that I decided it must be true.”
You realize that DDG is a commercial company and they use part of the revenue to pay for third-party services they use? Or did you think they just run the service for shits and giggles?
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on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Don’t know if I can trust him, since the photo shows he’s playing the graphical version of the game.
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on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
There are of course LLM ‘games’ that pretend to create a story in which the player does arbitrary actions. They’re utter dogshit, because a) they can’t keep track of their world for a prolonged time, since LLMs were never made for such cohesive reasoning and keeping track of objects; and b) they just string the player along forever without any particular objectives, since their whole modus operandi is endlessly generating text that seems coherent.
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on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
people often wrongfully assume that they provide a privacy oriented service.
What do you think they provide then? DDG sits between me and Bing, the latter doesn’t get my data.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
It happens within Firefox, without rhyme or reason that I could discern. I think it’s more common if I open a link from another app, then switch away from Firefox while the page loads in the background; or when returning to FF and it tries to reload a previously suspended tab. Firefox is allowed to load stuff on my phone in the background even when battery saving is on (which it always is), but I guess FF might get into a fight with the system over available memory, with the system killing one of FF’s processes/threads. Wouldn’t explain it happening on the desktop, though.
If this is such a percentage issue I’d there big open about it?
It happens pretty rarely for me, and I have no idea how it could be reproduced. So, I already barely ever open issues (by principle), and certainly won’t report this. Idk about others — wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a bug about this among the many thousands of issues that Mozilla has.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
No, that issue definitely occurs in Firefox Android sometimes. The tab just gets stuck and does nothing. Has been happening for years, in fact, so it’s not something new. Might be due to some specific settings, but I like my settings and the problem doesn’t pop up too often, so eh.
Desktop Firefox also gets this sometimes, actually. The tab just doesn’t load until I bash ‘enter’ on the address bar, or create a new tab. Since afaik Firefox uses its Gecko engine on both platforms, the issue could be in the engine rather than the UI.
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on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
You mean Reddit told Google? They actually have an agreement with Google where the latter get a direct feed of new posts and comments, and index them pretty much immediately. So not sure where you got the ‘told Google to pound sand’ idea.
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on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Semantic web was a separate initiative by Tim Berners-Lee when the web already used un-semantic HTML. And it never went anywhere.
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on A Hegseth Employee Created a Database to Track Americans Based on Their Political Affiliation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
to vote for the guy that they think is less electable when they know their own guy already is going to get it.
I can’t even compute why anyone would want to do that, much less imagine ‘a lot of people’ doing it. Is that, like, throwing a pity bone to the less-electable guy? Could this be how the US got Trump?
Yall’s political shenanigans are fun, but you need ranked voting yesterday.
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on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
I’m actually surprised that they use some beefy servers. Like, Google famously use shitty and cheap commonplace hardware, but in large numbers, so it’s easy to replace when it croaks.
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on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Most probably off-the-shelf hardware, but with software optimized out the wazoo. Like, reading directly from SSDs instead of using a filesystem. Or more likely using an in-memory database like Redis, perhaps with custom additions.
I knew a guy who went on to work for CloudFlare. Back at that job, he made a write-only static-file storage in Node.js, dumping the contents into a giant file bypassing the filesystem and its metadata overhead. That’s the kind of optimization you want — pretty similar to what database engines like MySQL/PostgreSQL do (iirc one of them does in fact support using a plain disk partition for the database).
Back in early-mid 2010s I’ve read an article on Youporn’s architecture. They ran Redis behind Haproxy load balancers. An in-memory database, behind load balancers. Some people say that it’s normal, but I’ve never had conditions calling for such a thing instead of just sharding harder.
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I use Doom Emacs, so we’re both in glass houses here. I love Lua because it’s fast as fuck, but it’s militantly imperative, which is a big bummer. In comparison, Lisp still has a lot to teach a novice-ish programmer. Fennel is the best of both worlds, I guess.
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Vim: quick and easy
Emacs: properly decent programming language in the configs, supports Vim bindings via Evil, Org-mode as the ultimate notes app
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on Illusion of choice in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026
‘Goon’ seems to sometimes be generalized to just any kind of masturbation.
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on YOLO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Did you triple check which device you picked?
I checked five times, actually. And then I check some more.
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on I rule against everyone in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 Aug 2026
Me when hearing about ‘Minecraft’ time and again.
So I just grind ‘Assetto Corsa’ instead.
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on Microsoft built a dedicated app that forces Bing everywhere on Windows 11, including Chrome, Firefox, and Brave in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I still can’t figure out installing Audacious. Keeps telling me the package requires dependancies, but won’t install them.
Does it say which ones? Is Audacious itself installed?
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Mercedes doesn’t get paid by Germany to build more cars to sell in China
Maybe Germany should try that a bit, but with the condition that the wonderful AUTOSAR is killed.
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
The goddamn page required me to enable JS to see the list, after which Firefox immediately pushed the system into swap.
Anyway, makes sense since the foundation afaik funds and coordinates development of some important low-level stuff, and these dudes are invested into that (since Fuchsia apparently went nowhere, hehe). Although idk what the foundation wants with React or Neo4j.
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Hmmm, bit of an oversight on the part of whoever came up with the encryption format. The disk blocks can just fail by themselves, after all.
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
See if the headers are duplicated somewhere else on the partition (at the end or somesuch).
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
This is where Ansible comes in.
- on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
This is your usual daily reminder that each of the tech giants obtain something like 3000 patents a year, by patenting everything under the sun. For the sole purpose that if one of them sues another for the violation of one such patent, the other can dig up a hundred of them to countersue.