megaman

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[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

Playing games was fine - it was loading things up that has sucked. I haven't gotten dota up on the SSD yet, but on the HDD it was real clunky and would half-load the landing page and sit there for ~10 seconds.

The biggest difference, though, is that firefox now opens immediately instead of taking ~10 seconds after clicking the icon

 

I installed pop!_os as my daily driver some months ago (completely got rid of windows) and have thought it pretty good. But something about it seemed off - it would take programs just too long to open, it wasn't snappy... Once I got into something it seemed to run fine (playing dota or something else was fine after initial quirks).

Well, today, figured it out...

When I did the first install, I was very nervous about deleting all of my existing data on my disks and so tried to manually partition everything so that I could get it right (I think I was also planning to dual-boot).

Fast forward to today, and I'm testing speeds on all the drives to see which one to pitch for a new one I acquired. I see the 3 HDDs, but where is the SSD... Oh god, I installed the boot partition and root and home all onto one of the ~12 year old HDDs and the SSD has been sitting idle.

Anyway, just about done with the new fresh install onto the SSD, hopefully it isn't too hard to start port over the home directory from that HDD...

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It sounds like you have a heavy duty door lock to be very secure, but you are essentially trying to backdoor all that security with a new internet-connected thing. An adversary only has to break the weakest link here, rendering the physical door lock obsolete.

If you are just going to have some digitally-connected device ultimately controlling access to the house, I'd go with just some standard door lock that does that (i haven't used em but they exist). The physical lock on those is surely less what you have know, but with your proposed solution the physical lock probably isnt what people who crack anyway.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Can "ai" make a good game, or just a thing that generates video and mostly accepts inputs (and it isnt even hardly doing that)?

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Women are you and I are going to be a little late.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Datasette is a neat tool intended to publish static data in a sqlite database on the web with a helpful gui and a bunch of extensions available. I havent come across a good enough reason to do it myself, but may do what you want.

You can spin it up locally and it wont be on the web at all, just accessed via your browser if thats what you want.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

"we wont drink at Moe's, cause Moe's a big jerk and we really hate him."

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

The folks who found it are presenting at Defcon this weekend, according to the article.

I imagine some of the industry press (i.e. Wired) are just looking through the Defcon agenda to figure out what to write. I saw two or three other articles about hacks or exploits and things like that that also mentioned it was bring presented at Defcon.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

"be not drowsy"

 

Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Duff Man says a lot of things!

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unrelated to your actual post (plan to read later), but is your RSS busted? The rss link on the webpage gives a 404 and my RSS reader is erroring on it as well...

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I doubt PBS has 15% slack in their budget, so a 15% cut would cause a lot of havoc.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I learned a lot about pandas (a library built mostly on top of numpy) by going to stackoverflow and trying to answer questions with the tag. Hopefully the questions have a minimal reproducible example and are isolated to one specific question

 

An android messaging app that sends everything as an image where the text is in a blue bubble. All images, baby.

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