The_Decryptor

never ever did google give you the pdf from a search.

What? of course it did, that’s what made it such a good search engine.

I don’t think Mozilla ever claimed Gecko was embeddable, they sold it as a framework you’d use to build apps with (i.e. XULRunner)

Meanwhile Servo is already usable by Gtk, Qt, Slint, and Tauri.

Microsoft announced these price increases back in April, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody.

Give Marginalia search a try, see how well it works out for you.

Moltbook is already a thing unfortunately, even owned by Meta.

I’d also wager keyboards and mice won’t stop being USB-A anytime soon. There’s just no reason for them to be anything else.

Depends on whether or not the cable is fixed or removable, my mouse has a fixed cable so it uses A (lowest common denominator), meanwhile my (5 year old) keyboard has a removable cable so has a C port only.

USB-A is the common standard. Most devices are made with USB-A compatibility. Most portable media are USB-A.

Well, per spec the client devices are supposed to have B ports (e.g. printers, scanners, external hard drives, etc. are all B), thumb stick are outliers in that they use A.

Well they used to at least, all the ones I’ve seen recently are A/C. A is legacy at this point.

Think about what technology looked like 20 years ago.

20 years ago I had a 64-bit PC with a dual-core processor and 8GB of RAM, now I have a 64-bit PC with a 6-core processor and 32GB of RAM.

Sure, it’s an improvement but consider the same situation from 1986 where it would have been a 386 (The first 32bit x86 chip!) with 1MB of RAM. The rate of computer technology improvements is slowing down, not increasing.

Edit: Thinking about it, 20 years ago I had a GeForce 7600 GT, which I replaced with a 570, that with a 980, and finally with a 3070. So 4 GPUs across 20 years, and they all used the same bus on the motherboard.

Huh, I checked the talk page out, turns out the guy behind the picture was jailed for trying to kill his wife.

I think it illustrates that the AI tends to write tests where it already anticipates and tries to fix potential issues, which absolutely goes against the use of tests!

LLMs just generate “statistically probable” text, all it’s doing is generating text that looks like how you’d write tests, they may or may not actually test anything.

Doubtful

I wish people actually read the california law, it’s rather short, and covers a lot of the “gotchas” people are coming up with (e.g. No it doesn’t apply to servers).

I don’t like age verification laws (Especially since I live in a jurisdiction with one already in effect) but at least argue against the law itself rather than a strawman version people heard about via social media.

AMD’s supported it since 2015, but it’s not something a normal app would use anyway (They’d just ask the OS for it).

More likely for the app to get it wrong though, generating unpredictable random numbers (Which is all you realistically need) is pretty easy, not screwing up and making them more predictable is hard.

Gitlab is also going all-in on AI.

In 145.

Funny thing is, the WebM format is actually a constrained profile of MKV, and Firefox strictly enforced those compatibility checks. Chrome never did though, so it could always support MKV files but only if you lied and claimed they were WebM.

Edit: Lemmy eats the highlight in the link, look for “Matroska” under “Web Platform”

I think AMD just consistently trails Nvidia in performance in this area unfortunately.

It’s because he’s an idiot.

And my major takeaway, beside the point they’re trying to make, is that the California law has taken the asinine step of redefining the word “user”.

They don’t, they’re just providing a definition of the term for that specific bit of law.

As an example, this bill, it defines a relative to be “an adult who is related to the child by blood”, doesn’t mean that suddenly people under 18 are no longer considered relatives, just that for this one specific part it doesn’t apply to them.

Yep, every time minesweeper comes up I link this version.

Open source, made by the PuTTY dev, and deterministic. No RNG outside of the map seed.

“Web 3.0” was supposed to be things like the fediverse, or tech like IPFS/Dat. Crypto/NFT tied their cart to that horse to appear legitimate.