You can’t even truly read what’s inside of an SSL packet. They probably want to fuck with the routes around torrent trackers.

There are always ways around, tor, retro share, i2p. I kind of wish we’d find a harder to track version of torrent.

I’m sure the one above is actually right in some companies and wrong and others.

People shouldn’t make blanket statements about all companies.

Good companies pay by position and don’t underpay women in minorities.

That said the person who made the statement probably works in a company where that is the case.

It doesn’t default insecure anymore and it bitches at you when you try to make it public.

My bet would be that It was either a pre-existing bucket, or some team put a “temporary” measure in (making it public) instead of using the API to pull the data until they got around to implementing it correctly.

When I first read it I had a like thought and then realized that I missed the portmanteau.

It’s a chuckle. One person’s epiphany may not meet other people’s expectations.

I’ve used both. I had a few slight issues with dis transcoding (It was most likely a temporary Plex bug), moved to ers which wasn’t affected by the bug and stayed there, They are approximately equivalent and both great projects.

Running an old 7th gen Intel, It has a 2070 and a 1080 in it, six mechanical hard drives 3 SSDs. Then I have an eighth gen laptop with a 1070 TI mobile. But the laptop’s a camera server so it’s always running balls to the wall. Running a unified dream machine pro, 24 port poe, 16 port poe and an 8 port poe

Because of the overall workload and the age of the CPU, it burns about 360 watts continuous.

I can save a few watts by putting the discs to sleep, But I’m in the camp where the spin up and spin down of the discs cost more wear than continuous running.

Edit: cleaned up the slaughter from the dictation, after I cleaned up my physical space from Christmas festivities.

Ehhh, a bunch of studios have things in the works. Just because very little came out in 2024 doesn’t mean that the industry imploded or anything.

There were plenty of layoffs all over the tech industry. I’d argue that big tech was hit harder than games.

It takes many years now to release anything big. Good blockbusters are relatively infrequent. Star wars outlaws hit in October, It wasn’t stellar but it wasn’t a bad game. Civ 7 is due out in February.

At worst, I’d say we’re in a little bit of a lull.

Finamp is slowly getting there, still miles to go though…

Individual developers develop on Mac hardware. They do primary tests on Mac mobile devices.

For production and QA, our CI pipeline builds on a cluster of bare metal Mac Minis. Basic unit tests happen during the build. We deploy to mobile devices.

Mac doesn’t make any server equipment anymore, We could technically run VMs on the minis. But they’re not so expensive that we can’t just have a cluster of them around. We even tried to do the hackintosh route with VMs. It was incredibly difficult to keep it stable, and every time we had to do a xcode update, It needed an OS update and it fucked over the hackintosh. I would have had to keep somebody on staff full-time just to keep the hackintosh VMs going.

They had terrific brightness. (At least until they started to wear out)

The resolution was a mixed bag. They couldn’t handle the resolutions we have today, But when you were running 800 by 600 on a 1600x1200 they looked pretty crisp. It was a problem on LCDs before they got their pixel counts up because they were driven purpose built for a given resolution and anything else was a hack.

Nowadays 800 by 600 on a 4K screen looks pretty decent.

The biggest problem we’re dealing with replacing CRTs with LCDs are the sharpness was crap so the content looked good soft. We have to throw shaders and all kinds of crazy stuff on ROMs to degrade the screen enough to make them look good. And then any light screen devices that use pixel scanning for location just don’t work because newer technology doesn’t work that way. The best in the light guns are going so far as to use camera sensors to detect location.

My company has a multi-platform product. I have to support the developers in the build systems. Dealing with the iOS side of the build equation is the bain of my existence. Xcode updates locked to OS revisions, key chains that magically corrupt themselves, hardware lock-in keeping me from running real servers. Hostile attitude towards virtual machines.

Apple could really do a lot to make it easier.

Actually, the walled garden around xcode is infuriating. To develop for Apple you need current hardware running the latest operating systems. You have to stay squarely in their ecosystem to generate anything that builds for their mobile devices.

Ideally, I wouldn’t have to see the proofs for everything, just recognize the observable math.

The problem with the “This statement is false” could simply be coupled by something akin to imaginary numbers. Paradoxes can be described mathematically without being solvable.

Honestly finding out the lack of free will exists would be the most liberating thing ever. I could just let autopilot take its course.

or even I have to do something I’d rather not

What works for me for this: A soundtrack. Back in the day, I used to bike every weekend. I hated exercise but realized I had to do it. I started collecting fast, powerful tracks, found what made me focus rather than go into daydreaming. I slowly over the weeks, months and years, kept at the same soundtrack. Now, when there’s busy work, or shit work, or pain i need to endure, i throw an earbud in and i’m back on the long ass boring trail, just focusing on whatever bullshit i need to do.

Doesn’t work well if I need to do something creative, but cleaning and grass cutting, it’s like a switch to turn off my “god i ate this” switch.

Our ideas are always good to us, but they’re highly informed based on our own experiences and needs.

I had a neighbor who asked me to help them create some form of device that sits on the dashboard of their car and catalog billboards. Apparently, a hole in their life was passing by a billboard with kids in the car and forgetting what exit the food/restaurant was on.

This was in an era where cell phones and online maps/search existed.

I had another acquaintance (decades ago) who wanted me to work on a photography simulator in which you had to manipulate people in 3D to compose a picture. I tried to explain the high level of difficulty and the cost per unit being so high that no one would be willing to pay for it. They pushed me until I did some napkin match on arists/developer/marketing costs then they got all pissed off at me because it came in conservatively north of 300k.

I suspect it’ll be the other way around.

Our brains must be augmented with tech first, then uploads are trivial.

Start with a calculator, learn how to manipulate it and read it like proprioception. At some point we have an LLM on a chip in our head and updates to that update our consiousness.

I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

Every family without a gigantic kitchen has that drawer.

I have the contents of that drawer in about 4 drawers and 2 cabinets. I have so many cabinets, I don’t even have things in some of them and I have instant pots, a tortilla maker and sourdough proofing tools

However, I do have an oversized drawer that has a l lot of stuff in there like the funnels and tenderizer, but it has no sharps in it, and no scale.

There are some YouTubers that are easily understandable at those speeds. Watching them at 1x is like watching paint dry.

I rarely watch anything below 1.5 unless it’s dense or I genuinely like their cadence.