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azdle , 8 days ago to programmer_humor in It's called attaining divinity

C was originally created as a “high-level” language, being more abstract (aka high-level) than the other languages at the time. But now it’s basically considered very slightly more abstract than machine code when compared to the much higher level high-level languages we have today.

azdle , 3 months ago to pcgaming in GTA 6 Devs Slam Rockstar Games For Return-To-Office Mandate

Tell them if you have to go back to the office, you quit.

Nah, never say “or I’ll quit”, you just say you won’t go to an office. End of statement. You don’t make any sort of threat or give them an ultimatum, just set your boundaries. Make them fire you, if you’re valuable and/or well liked odd are they won’t and you just get to keep working remote.

azdle , 4 months ago to selfhosted in which dynamic dns hoster?

IMO, the best free option is freedns.afraid.org. The biggest downside of that one is that you have to login a couple times a year (IIRC?) to keep it active. I actually still use this even though I have a paid domain, I just CNAME my real domains to the afraid dynamic name. That was easier than changing the config every time I become unhappy with my domain registrar and have to reconfigure everything after swapping.

azdle , 5 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why is TikTok seen as privacy invading and bad, but Facebook is fine?

For the purposes of data collection, the US basically isn’t foreign for AU: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

azdle , 5 months ago to nostupidquestions in If saturated fat is the most unhealthy part of cooking oils, then why don't we remove it?

We tried that in the 90s, it went poorly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#History

azdle , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Why docker

Less commercial interest means only hobby level development

Podman is developed by RedHat: github.com/containers/podman/graphs/contributors

azdle , 5 months ago to technology in The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

The day Firefox shutters its doors is the day the internet truly dies.

*the web

The internet has so far been doing a much better job surviving as a proper decentralized system than the web.

azdle , 5 months ago to pcgaming in Surgeon Simulator and Lost Skies devs Bossa Studios lay off a third of staff due to "perfect storm of events"

Oof, that’s rough. I really hope they’re able to recover. I Am Fish is my all time favorite game, I really hope they survive to make an ‘I Am Gull’ (or w/e).

(P.S. to a mod: English seems to be blocked as a language on this community.)

azdle , 6 months ago to pcgaming in What is your favorite controller(s) to use with a laptop?

are you able to use the bluetooth functionality on Linux then?

Yep. Well, I’ve technically only tested it on SteamDeck, but it works out of the box there, so I’m fairly confident it’d work on other distros too.

azdle , 6 months ago to pcgaming in What is your favorite controller(s) to use with a laptop?

I use an Xbox Series X/S controller (I think? I don’t actually own an Xbox Series (is that the name?)). I usually use it via Bluetooth (requires a FW update that can only be installed via windows to actually work), but I aprecieate that there is also a dongle I could use (though, sadly that requires out of tree kernel drivers [edit: on Linux]).

azdle , 6 months ago to fediverse in Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol.

Assuming you meant de-federate, there are a few listed on fedipact.online that seem to be lemmy instances.

azdle , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to selfhosted in Should I move to Docker?

IMO, yes. Docker (or at least OCI containers) aren’t going anywhere. Though one big warning to start with, as a sysadmin, you’re going to be absolutely aghast at the security practices that most docker tutorials suggest. Just know that it’s really not that hard to do things right (for the most part[^0]).

I personally suggest using rootless podman with docker-compose via the podman-system-service.

Podman re-implements the docker cli using the system namespacing (etc.) features directly instead of through a daemon that runs as root. (You can run the docker daemon rootless, but it clearly wasn’t designed for it and it just creates way more headaches.) The Podman System Service re-implements the docker daemon’s UDS API which allows real Docker Compose to run without the docker-daemon.

[^0]: If anyone can tell me how to set SELinux labels such that both a container and a samba server can have access, I could fix my last remaining major headache.

azdle , 6 months ago to technology in What is this camera like thing on electronic shop price tags? (And how does it work)

The light is visible, the flashing isn’t.

azdle , 6 months ago to technology in What is this camera like thing on electronic shop price tags? (And how does it work)

The top white rectangle is a multi-color LED (presumably RGB). Can’t make out what’s in the bottom, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was some form of light sensor for (literally) flashing new information onto the tag.

azdle , 6 months ago to steamdeck in 5 reasons Linux is better than Windows for gaming handhelds

Meh. Now I’m a dyed in the wool Linux zealot, but this list is crap.

1. Everything you need, nothing you don’t

Phoey, even the description for this point talks about how much Valve had to build to make the deck possible.

2. Better performance, lighter overheads
   Windows is a pretty bloated OS

Honestly don’t know enough about Windows to say anything on this one definitively. I still doubt it though…

3. A hidden desktop experience
   You never need to use it if you don’t want to

This has nothing to do with windows vs linux, Valve just did a good job on their ‘not-desktop’ side of things.

4. Never worry about drivers

Do the windows consoles not come with drivers installed? Also, can you point out where I can download all the Linux drivers from Valve without exacting them from a full OS recovery image? (Actually kinda honestly asking on that last one. Or have they just upstreamed everything already?)

5. Modify it to your heart’s content
   Linux puts tools in your hands

This is a choice that Valve made. They absolutely could have given this thing secure boot that only lets you run official software with no hooks for mods. I was tangentially involved with doing exactly this for the SmartThings Hub V3, it’s not particularly hard.