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OmnipotentEntity , 7 days ago

For those curious: Gothic 1.

I’ve never heard of it before and it doesn’t look like my type of game. Anyone played it?

OmnipotentEntity , 7 days ago

To add, let’s do some math!

Let s be the total annual salary of every employee using Adobe. Our goal is to find the productivity ratio r such that changing to Gimp and open source more generally is a net positive from the standpoint of productivity and labor.

s/r will be the total annual salary after changing over, because (for instance) if r = 0.8 then LTT will need to either hire or work his existing hires 1/0.8 times longer, giving (at best, ignoring overtime and so on) s/r as the new labor cost.

We then subtract the current labor cost to get the switching cost s/r - s, and if this is greater than $10,000 then the switch is not worth it.

For instance, let’s say LTT employs 1 person at $50k/year. He’s a bit of a skinflint. We solve for r and arrive at a ratio of 5/6 or 83.33%.

If we have a different world where LTT hires 10 people and pays each of them $100k, we solve for r and get about 99%.

In other words, the switch is worth it only if the labor cost is small, so the extra labor is not very expensive, or the difference between the two software is negligible.

OmnipotentEntity , 18 days ago

Cassette Beasts not Beats ;)

OmnipotentEntity , 22 days ago

What about Elisa? I was under the (potentially mistaken) assumption that Elisa was the successor of Amarok.

OmnipotentEntity , 1 month ago

Redox-OS?

OmnipotentEntity , 2 months ago

A human made the graph

OmnipotentEntity , 2 months ago

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OmnipotentEntity , 2 months ago

So like, it’s really easy to armchair and just say that they should ignore the haters and so on, but having been on the opposite end of a small Internet hate mob, even if you only have like a dozen people telling you that you’re a crook, or a piece of shit, or your stupid or dishonest, or whatever, it doesn’t really matter how accurate any of that is, it really does start to get to you, no matter who you are.

The only healthy option is to log out at that point.

OmnipotentEntity , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Most closely matches the behavior of actual SNES consoles.

This requires very careful emulation of the timings of the various buses and co-processors, as well as on-cart chips which may or may not be present. For instance, a Speedy Gonzales game has a button in the final stage which crashes almost every emulator because enters an infinite loop reading from an open bus and waiting for the value to attain a specific pattern. However reading from an open bus is generally specified to be the last value loaded into the bus, which in this case is the load instruction itself, $18. So the value is read to be $1818 by most emulators, which doesn’t match the pattern expected.

However, this is only if you’re emulating with instruction level accuracy. It is possible for the value of the bus to change in between the instruction being loaded and the value of the bus being loaded due to an HDMA load being triggered, but this requires a cycle accurate emulator.

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

You give me hope.

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

1001st, technically

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

It’s at least partially because the specification was designed to detect and thwart attempts to tee the video and audio data in order to bypass copy protection on DVDs and Blu-Rays, iirc.

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

GT4 is better than GT3 imo, but if you have to spend money on it, it might not be worth.

I’m mostly into RPGs, and it doesn’t seem like you are from this list. If you are, then FF10 and 12 are available. So are KH1 and 2, and also Wild Arms 3, Personas 3 and 4, Disgaea, Shadow Hearts, Okage, Okami, Star Ocean, Dragon Quest, Devil May Cry, God of War, and so on.

Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2 are silly and fun side scrolling beat 'em ups. Tony Hawk needs no introduction. Silent Hill 2 and 3 if you’re into horror. Resident Evil 4 if you’re into action horror.

Shadow of the Colossus is great if you’re into a quiet, contemplative adventure game.

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

I’m not going to weigh in on the specifics of Flatpak vs AppImage, because I don’t know enough about the particulars.

However, I think the “user choice” argument is often deployed in situations where it probably shouldn’t be.

For instance, in this case, it’s not the user’s choice at all, but a developer’s choice, as a normal user would not be packaging their own software. They would be merely downloading one of a number of options of precompiled packages. And this is the thrust of the argument. If we take the GitHub rant at face value, some developers seem to be distributing software using AppImage, to the exclusion of other options. And then listing ways in which this is problematic.

I, for one, would be rather annoyed if my only option were either AppImage or Flatpak, as I typically prefer use software packaged for my package manager. That is user choice, give me the option to package it myself; hopefully it’s already been done for me.

There are some good things to be said about trust and verification, and I’m generally receptive to those arguments way more than “user choice.”

OmnipotentEntity OP , 3 months ago

I spent an hour and a half arguing with my brother about probability, because he asked ChatGPT what the probability that he and his daughter were born on the same day.

ChatGPT said 1/113465 which it claimed was 1/365^2 (this value is actually 1/133225) because there’s a 1/365 chance he was born on such and such day, and a 1/365 chance his daughter was too.

But anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of probability would know that it’s just 1/365, because it doesn’t actually matter on which day they both happened to be born.

He wanted to feel special, and ChatGPT confirmed his biases hard, and I got to be the dickhead and say it is special, but it’s 1/400 special not 1/100000. I don’t believe he’s completely forgiven me over disillusioning him.

So yeah, I’ve had a minor family falling out over ChatGPT hallucinations.

OmnipotentEntity OP , 3 months ago

in fact I just asked that exact same question to chatgpt4 and it also replied 1/365

Yes, you can get different answers because of different phrasing and also because random vector input

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

Be careful, the small partitions might be UEFI partitions (/boot and /boot/efi) and are required for booting your computer.

OmnipotentEntity , 3 months ago

Not to be that guy, because James Madison was a fine writer, and I don’t think you meant this, but it kinda comes off as you saying that just because someone is prolific means that they are a good writer, which is obviously not true.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

If I’m understanding this correctly, it’s not even copying. It’s apparently just a wrapper for the built-in runas command that’s been there since Windows 2000.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

So please forgive me if this is a rather naive question. I haven’t seriously used Windows in nearly 15 years.

I seem to recall runas being a lot like su, in that you enter the target user’s credentials, rather than your own as in sudo. This works because sudo is a setuid executable, and reads from configuration to find out what you’re allowed to do as the switched user.

Is the behavior of windows sudo like unix su or unix sudo with regard to the credentials you enter? Can you limit the user to only certain commands?

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

So it’s su then, not sudo.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

“We’re listening and we hear you,” Phil Spencer wrote on X earlier this week. “We’ve been planning a business update event for next week, where we look forward to sharing more details with you about our vision for the future of Xbox. Stay tuned.”

If I understand corporate speech correctly, this means that XBox is essentially doomed. This is far more damning than anything that he is responding to could possibly have been saying.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

Yup

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

Bollywood maybe?

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

If this is what it takes to get copyright reform, just granting tech companies unlimited power to hoover up whatever they want and put it in their models, it’s not going to be the egalitarian sort of copyright reform that we need. Instead, we will just getting a carve out just for this, which is ridiculous.

There are small creators who do need at least some sort of copyright control, because ultimately people should be paid for the work they do. Artists who work on commission are the people in the direct firing line of generative AI, both in commissions and in their day jobs. This will harm them more than any particular company. I don’t think models will suffer if they can only include works in the public domain, if the public domain starts in 2003, but that’s not the kind of copyright protection that Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. want, and that’s not what they’re going to ask for.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

Because the nix package manager places all system packages under /nix/store/uniquehash-packagename-version/

Where the unique hash is obtained via a Merkel tree of all the inputs. So in particular, binaries and libraries exist underneath those directories, not in the places you would expect from FHS.

In order to make the system actually work, environment variables are set up and executables are patched to refer to specific paths within the Nix Store.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

Correction, it is two tacos. One flipped upside down and rotated 90 degrees and placed on top of the other.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Considering he seems to be under the impression that OCR still sucks enough that he printed his entire letter, he’s probably not aware of recent computer stuff , (or he just writes like he’s 11, I guess?)

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

It’s never really clear from this video what exactly is his use case though.

OmnipotentEntity , 4 months ago

From Marx: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/intro.htm

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

Use ffmeg, here’s how to do the image part: superuser.com/…/producing-lossless-video-from-set…

To do the audio use the copy option. See here for an example usage: stackoverflow.com/…/ffmpeg-to-duplicate-an-audio-…

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

Yes, nominally, but there is a layer called XWayland to support backwards compatibility, so it’s not really a concern.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

A pair of friends of mine’s game is being featured, and I’m pretty stoked about their game getting the exposure. Cassette Beasts, Monday at 13:18 UTC.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

I would love to see it. But I’m far more excited for RISC-V desktops, truth be told.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

Yeah, you’re not wrong. I’m not saying it’s soon, there’s clearly a lot of work to be done in the space still, I’m just excited for unencumbered processor designs.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

Dang, way to both sides genocide done by an apartheid state. Very centrist. Let the cooler heads prevail.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Put a shell script in your PATH named inkscape with the following content:

<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape
</span>

Note that you can use a local folder in your home directory to house small executables and scripts like this, so you don’t have to touch your system config. I generally recommend using something like ~/.local/bin and add it to your PATH via your Shell’s RC file.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

If you need to pass flags you can use

<span style="color:#323232;">flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape "$@"
</span>

To forward all of the arguments to the script. Note that this might be a bashism, so you might need to change your hash bang to /bin/bash as well. Double check though.

(An easy way to check if something is working as you assume is just prepend the line with echo.)

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

Thanks, I wasn’t sure it worked in sh. I’ve been surprised a lot before by seemingly simple stuff like this.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

Nix is also working on reproducible builds. In fact, the minimal installation CD for NixOS last release was reproducible. discourse.nixos.org/t/…/34756/

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

If the disc is corrupted it may be failing, recommending ddrescue over dd is probably a better call not knowing anything else about this situation. Essentially, no reason not to use it.

OmnipotentEntity , 5 months ago

It’s a website that seems to digest other websites and spit them out badly. Here is the original article: phoronix.com/…/intel-meteorlake-windows-linux

OmnipotentEntity , 6 months ago

Forever. For the simple reason that a human can say no when told to write something unethical. There’s always a danger that even asking someone to do that would backfire and cause bad press. Sure humans can also be unethical, but there’s a risk and over a long enough time line shit tends to get exposed.

No matter how good AI becomes, it will never be designed to make ethical judgments prior to performing the assigned task. That would make it less useful as a tool. If a company adds after the fact checks to try to prevent it, they can be circumvented, or the network can be ran locally to bypass the checks. And even if General AI happens and by some insane chance GAI uniformly is perfectly ethical in all possible forms you can always air gap the AI and reset its memory until you find the exact combination of words to trick it into giving you what you want.

OmnipotentEntity , 6 months ago

We know you’re a gigantic money-hungry corp. You all don’t have to lie and pretend to care about safety. We’re not a bunch of idiots.

Alas, as long as there is doubt, there are a large number of suckers who are willing to give the benefit of the doubt. We are a bunch of idiots, collectively. That’s why shit like this works.

OmnipotentEntity , 6 months ago

ZFS has encryption now, dunno about the rest