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xani_··on Stadia Is a Major Driver of Vulkan Adoption
Steam Deck does.
xani_··on Predicting Google Closures (2013)
I'm firmly convinced that YouTube RSS feed feature is just thing they forgot to remove at that point.

And so far only way to get notification from channels that don't get eaten by google's whims

xani_··on YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary
This got age-rated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mte6z7TQI

There is not even a word spoken in it.

xani_··on YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary
I can't say if you're saying satire or actually serious in your corporate cuckery
xani_··on YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary
You can have site without them, with login and accounts working just fine (cookies required for obvious functionality like logins don't need consent), the single thing site would have to do is to stop tracking you
xani_··on YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary
> There comes a point where Youtube is not saving money by automating their content moderation but Youtube decides to keep pushing forward. At some point a competitor that is good enough will arrive and once large creators like this one, around 1.5 million followers, almost every video with over 2 million views, 8 videos with over 5 million views, leave they will pay attention.

We're waiting for that competitor for last 10 years. It ain't fucking happening.

Hell, MS tried that with Mixer, they outright bought out few of the big content creators on Twitch, didn't worked.

xani_··on Nier Automata for Switch is a miracle port
> The character development is atrocious, in a single mission a character goes from "feelings aren't allowed" to "the mission doesn't matter I will literally die for you".

You might call that problem with the format but the reason for that was explained later on. It's "oh, that's why the thing few hours earlier happened!" moment

xani_··on Nier Automata for Switch is a miracle port
The problem is that they aren't really, as you're playing in few of them in parallel to the story, with different character. "Chapter 2C" would be just as confusing...
xani_··on Nier Automata for Switch is a miracle port
He said "weakest part", not bad.It was just decent. It wasn't up to level of say Bayonetta but it was a good combat system.

> It's like saying the greatest movie of all time, except for the plot.

There are many movies people hold in great regard with just okay plot. Execution matters a great thing

> The greatest car, except for the driving.

If you want luxury you don't care about driving feel

> The greatest winter coat, except for staying warm

If you care for fashion, not freezing in -10C is "good enough", don't need to survive Syberian winters

xani_··on FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
> Now they need to install a propulsion system.

Or just add more drag. Like deploying big sail.

xani_··on FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
It would be most likely far more expensive than just adding few kg to your payload to allow for faster deorbit.
xani_··on FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
> But many other satellite operators will have to launch more frequently, and SpaceX is positioned to meet that growing demand.

Read the article. It's about deorbiting after mission is finished.

If you have enough fuel on board you're free to keep your satellite for 50 years on the orbit. You just have to deorbit it within 5 after you stopped using it.

xani_··on FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule
Nope
xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
We're already at that point, altho mostly because standard is so complex so many companies got it wrong.

There is also a ton of optional stuff, which pretty much means every device needing above 5V needs to have buck/boost converter

xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
Being connected via 2 caps is considered "galvanically isolated"

If you're feeling "tingling sensation" your protection caps are fucked Mr. EE

xani_··on 'Big Short' investor says white-collar jobs bubble is 'bursting'
That reads like "We wish to start paying our devs like our cleaning staff to get more profits"
xani_··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
You will just have a bunch of random false positives that get blocked and never come back. Even before VPN a lot of ISPs gave you dynamic IP that changed anywhere from every few weeks to daily, to each reconnect. Same with any public access point

Same with carrier grade NAT, IP stopped being good way to block things long time ago. About the only use is "this IP is DoSing me now, block it for few hours".

There are few other methods, all of them intrusive on privacy. Generating fingerprint of browser and blocking based on that might work for the clueless users but dedicated ones will go around it. Making using one of the popular SSO logins is one option (at least banning-wise) but that's a lot of work

xani_··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
Browsers already want to send every domain you visit to cloudflare via DoH.

Other options of securing DNS included "just" encrypting traffic to DNS server. But no, they decided to centralize sending DNS records via HTTPS

xani_··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
Same with most VPN providers. Just expands the search from "ask ISP" to "ask ISP, they tell government its a VPN company, ask VPN company".

Now, sure, they could "just" delete logs, but their government can "just" tell them not to, or even tell them to live send the logs to them directly.

So it's really "which country's government you trust".

xani_··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
The solution is already impossible. When Mozilla had browser domination they had a chance to dictate something. The moment Chrome became popular, now another company, just as MS and IE did before, could just do the feature creep of "add feature, subtly break/slow down opposition, get more users that just want browser that works"
xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
Just put one of those aliexpress usb-pd things so it actually delivers that 18-20V USB-C can
xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
It's because standard have nightmarish level of complexity for something as simple as "pick a value from list one device provides and maybe change powering if that device signals you need to take less power"
xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
And basically nothing supported that.
xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
Well, except none of the cables or connectors of them was designed for 48V
xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
Wish the standard wasn't such a massive clusterfuck. IIRC someone tried to implement it on plain microcontroller (back then there were no chips dedicated to do the whole PD stuff) and it used 30k+ of memory which made using it for smaller devices... dubious.

Of course now we have chips that blackbox that complexity but the standard seemed to be way over-engineered from the start... for just essentially negotiating few values and a direction

xani_··on USB Charger (USB Power Delivery)
48V is most likely the limit for tiny USB-C connector just because of conductor distance
xani_··on Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP
They would still charge you per raw GB processed regardless of compression used.

IIRC Elasticsearch compresses by default with LZ4

xani_··on Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP
Modern SQL engines can index JSONs tho. And they can be structured
xani_··on Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP
I'm more surprised that they don't just ship logs to central log gathering directly instead of saving plain files then move them around
xani_··on US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
"How dare they do it before us"

USA next decade:

"Posting bad things on twitter reduces your credit score"

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