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Yokoloson PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

I bought 32GB of DDR5 SODIMM last year for 108€ on Amazon. The exact same product that I bought back then is now 232€ on Amazon. I don't like this ride.

Yokoloson The feds want to make it illegal to even possess an anarchist zine

It's crazy how good the writing in that game is and how applicable it is today. It makes me wonder who wrote it and what their influences were.

Yokoloson Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades

The license renewal has nothing to do with anything. It's not related to the incident where its existence was revealed. This is about "secret" vs "unpublicized", not "secret" vs "license renewal".

Yokoloson Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades

Seems like a distinction without a difference to me?

> And aside from a license renewal snafu in 1980, the device made no waves until its existence was shared with the local newspaper—it wasn’t a secret, just unpublicized.

Yokoloson Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

I mean, the only difference we care about is how much of it is actual RAM vs HBM (to be used on GPUs) and how much it costs. We want it to be cheap. So yes, there's a difference if we're competing with enterprise customers for supply.

I don't really understand why every little thing needs to be spelled out. It doesn't matter. We're not getting the RAM at an affordable price anymore.

Yokoloson Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

Yes, but if new capacity is also redirected to be able to be sold as enterprise memory, we won't see better supply for consumer memory. As long as margins are better and demand is higher for enterprise memory, the average consumer is screwed.

Yokoloson Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

I wouldn't be so sure. I've seen analyses making the case that this new phase is unlike previous cycles and DRAM makers will be far less willing to invest significantly in new capacity, especially into consumer DRAM over more enterprise DRAM or HBM (and even there there's still a significant risk of the AI bubble popping). The shortage could last a decade. Right now DRAM makers are benefiting to an extreme degree since they can basically demand any price for what they're making now, reducing the incentive even more.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-s...

Yokoloson HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs

It's not disabled in the sense many people are thinking. The codecs just aren't installed by default. The hardware is present and still functional. You just have to use software that directly supports HEVC or buy your own HEVC license on the Microsoft store for $1 to get system-wide hardware accelerated HEVC codecs.

Yokoloson PHP 8.5

So you're going to ignore the rest of what I wrote? I'll just assume you agree with me and the rest of my comment, but you don't want to admit it. Works for me.

Yokoloson PHP 8.5

You can do crazy things in every language. However, in a language like Java, the crazy things are more conceptual (factory for factory of factories) and not basic things like what does == mean or problems with weak typing and implicit conversions. A lot of the issues with PHP can be avoided in modern PHP using things like strict_types=1, but most of the time, we don't get to work with projects using best practices. And I'd rather work with a bad Java project than any bad PHP project (which I have had the misfortune of maintaining).

Yokoloson Why don't people return their shopping carts?

I've had bad days. I still managed not to be a net negative on my environment. Why can't you? Why can't other people? From my perspective, how you behave when you're having a bad day is the real litmus test. If you're still a decent person then, then you actually have values you care about, that you don't just follow when convenient.

Yokoloson Are you stuck in movie logic?

I mean, if they'd been open to addressing the real problem, it could've worked. Otherwise the remaining solution would be to never try and to never know. Now you know there's nothing you could've done and the ball was solely in his court.

You can't fix everything, but you can set things up so there's an opportunity for change.

Yokoloson Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

> Drones are not for conquering, but destruction.

Yes, and we have plenty of infrastructure to destroy. It's a target rich environment.

> And Western leaders know this, they are preparing Drones

I've seen zero indication that this is true. Do you have sources that we're in any way preparing for a large-scale drone war?

Yokoloson Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

If we see a war between Russia and the EU, we're going to have to deal with them learning from Israel and using the same idea of decentralised drone hubs attacking military and civilian targets across the entire continent. We're woefully underprepared to deal with something like this. Western Europe still thinks that if a war breaks out, it'll be tanks and soldiers going into the Baltic states, and we'll crush them with our advanced arsenal. It'll be more like when Russia took eastern Ukraine. A hard push, then months of digging in as they proceed to genocide the Baltics, gaslight the West into thinking it'd be easier and safer to just hand over the Baltics without a big fight and wage asymmetric warfare across Europe and severely hamper any military response by hitting the logistic chains at every point.

Yokoloson I don’t need a Steam Machine

Their audience is Steam users primarily. There are millions of them and all they need to do is market it on Steam. And as Valve had said (and shown with their hardware survey), the vast majority of users have shitty PC's. People keep mentioning in these comments "oh who is this for? I just built a gaming PC with an RX 9070". Good for you. Then you don't need it. However, there are millions of Steam users who do not have a 9070.

Yokoloson I don’t need a Steam Machine

> That's still higher than what seems reasonable

Based on what? Your arbitrary standards. I still don't understand what's wrong with 30% for everything Steam provides as a platform. It's perfectly acceptable. It's not making indie developers poorer. It helping to ensure Valve can focus on the things that matter to them and do things like invest in Steam Input, Proton, SteamOS, and Steam Deck/Machine/Controller/Frame/etc. And it's still significantly better than the times when your only option was brick and mortar, where you maybe got 10-30% as the developer.

Every other digital storefront does far less and still takes 15-30%. Why is Valve the big boogey man and everybody else is free to charge whatever they want on developers while doing fuck all for anybody but themselves?

Yokoloson Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

That's an insane way of looking at it. One of the reasons I'll never be a CEO, I guess. "Why are they making money off of our broken shit, we should be making that money fixing our broken shit instead". Like, talk about perverse incentives. Seems like the kind of thing that should be regulated.

Yokoloson European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft

Yes, I'm sure all the countries around China are really excited and looking forward to this. Oh, wait ...

It's the same shit with the Baltic states and other former Soviet satellite states. They're terrified of Russia, but people in Germany or further West think it's all overblown propaganda and there's nothing to fear from Russia.

You being ignorant doesn't mean there aren't real issues and real, justified fears.

Yokoloson Valve is about to win the console generation

CS is consistently the top played game on Steam every year. Are you saying Steam isn't relevant? That's quite the claim to be making.

Yokoloson Valve is about to win the console generation

Yes, you need to license SteamOS to preinstall it on devices you sell: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/oem

Why would you not need to license it? Steam isn't open source and Steam, the trademark, is owned by Valve. If we were talking about a standard distro like Fedora, no, I guess they wouldn't have to license it, but we aren't.

Yokoloson Android developer verification: Early access starts

How about the harms of fascist authoritarian governments that will use this functionality to ban any apps they don't like? Why do you people only care about malware and not essential fundamental freedoms that affect us every fucking day?

Yokoloson Steam Machine

Sorry, no. You're wrong. It's extremely optimized. I get 60-100 FPS on a 3060. It's ridiculously optimized. If you're having issues, it's particular to your system for some reason.

I remember 2042 being significantly worse when it launched. I've also played almost every other AAA launch of recent years from Elden Ring to Borderlands 4. They all run worse than BF6, even now.

Yokoloson Steam Machine

I was replying to a comment saying it would be better if the Steam Machine had 8GB of RAM and 16GB of VRAM. My point being that 8GB of RAM, not VRAM, would not be sufficient.

Yokoloson Steam Machine

I'm talking about RAM. Otherwise I would've written VRAM. I was replying to a comment saying it would be better if the Steam Machine had 8GB of RAM and 16GB of VRAM.

Yokoloson Steam Machine

Modern cheats are far more advanced than this. Using a DMA cheat, you basically just read the game's memory from a different computer and there's no way for the game to know unless the PCI device ID is known: https://intl.anticheatexpert.com/resource-center/content-68....

Yokoloson Steam Machine

Yeah, I would hope not. Trying to impose your will on suppliers and b2b customers like this is how you get hit with an antitrust lawsuit.

Yokoloson Steam Machine

8GB just isn't enough for modern AAA games. Battlefield 6, probably the most highly optimized AAA game to have come out in the past few years, still has a 16GB RAM minimum and Arc Raiders, which is also incredibly optimized, still has a 12GB minimum. Games are only going to become more resource hungry from here, so 8GB in early 2026 would be a terrible idea.

Yokoloson Steam Machine

> They should have put them just above the joysticks, like the PS5 controller

I don't understand how that would be in any way ergonomic. The new Steam Controller's layout has a proven track record with the Steam Deck, which is essentially identical. It allows you to play KB&M games like Alpha Centauri on the Steam Deck without any external peripherals. It would be utterly unplayable if the trackpads were in the same place as the PS5's pad, which is basically just used to open a menu or map or for gimmicky in-game gestures.

Yokoloson Steam Machine

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1493

This is fun, just found this issue from 2018 which was closed with this comment:

> Hello @setsunati, this is not a realistic objective for Proton. As @rkfg, mentions wine for ARM does not magically make x86 based games work on ARM cpus.

> Even if Steam were brought to ARM, and an x86 emulation layer was run underneath wine, the amount of games that could run fast and without hitting video driver quirks is small enough not to entertain this idea any time in the near future.

It's mentioned in this issue https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8136 which was closed Oct 2024 with this comment by kisak-valve:

> Hello @Theleafir1, similar to #1493, this is not a realistic objective for Proton any time in the near future.

Yokoloson FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

I see you didn't read the article.

The problem isn't Google reporting vulnerabilities. It's Google using AI to find obscure bugs that affect 2 people on the planet, then making a CVE out of it, without putting any effort into fixing it themselves or funding the project. What are the ffmpeg maintainers supposed to do about this? It's a complete waste of everybody's time.

> The latest episode was sparked after a Google AI agent found an especially obscure bug in FFmpeg. How obscure? This “medium impact issue in ffmpeg,” which the FFmpeg developers did patch, is “an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”