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Comment · 6 days ago
Why are there 5 different animations for switching between light mode and dark mode. I guess whoever made this is very interested in the big dark mode button in the top right corner.
Comment · 20 days ago
How does the lightbulb shaped projector work?
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I was hoping for a very detailed menu with more flight avionics in the in flight entertainment screen but I guess the speed and altitude in the HUD is all I get. I want to know the exact plane T am flying in
Comment · 1 month ago
Bandwidth is very important for low latency with wireless VR. To have a low latency you need to give the VR headset a video stream of at least 90 fps. That means every 11ms the headset needs a full screen frame of video. Over regular Wi-Fi 5 from my phone I can ping my desktop in 4ms so is the latency problem solved? The problem is there is not enough consistent bandwidth over my consumer Wi-Fi router to maintain a high quality experience in VR.

Enthusiasts solve this problem with a dedicated VR only Wi-Fi router connected to their PC but now it will be much easier with the included 6Ghz Wi-Fi dongle in the box

Comment · 2 months ago
I don't think that you can draw the line between NAT and CGNAT. The fact that single NAT works as well as it does is an argument for why it is ok to double NAT with CGNAT.

The conceit behind NAT is that 99% of traffic over the router will be client-server and the last 1% can get away with separately negotiating with the router to get inbound traffic.

For example my ISP Xfinity by default will put your router in CGNAT space (and ipv6) but if you request port forwarding from a mobile app the upstream router will assign you a ipv4 address and it all works. NAT is considered fine because adding roadblocks to server hosting is a acceptable tradeoff.

The reason they i think they can be so flexible is that they likey have a ipv6 backbone to route to all the customers and ipv4 is not used for routing but as a extra service layered on top with packing the 48 bits of ipv4 and port inside a ipv6 address via MAP-T

Comment · 2 months ago
You could generate tests that give you 100% line coverage but the real test is if the thousands of subscribing players have the same experience which doesn't have the same agent friendly testing feedback loop
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
DEFCON the fun hacking conference in las Vegas that happened last weekend.
Comment · 2 months ago
Suckless software does have config files they just have a “.h” extension

Having your config file be a c header and needing a recompile is different than not having any user accessible configuration

Comment · 4 months ago
They already picked out a interconnect standard it is called 100 Gigabit Ethernet. They can interoperate with multiple different vendors using the sfp28 ports on the switch. I bet they are even working on new programmable hardware for a next gen 200 Gigabit Ethernet fabric with oxide controlling the entire stack from hardware to software
Comment · 4 months ago
First half life one in browser now we have half life 2! I guess it’s that time again Mr Freeman
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
If you just install CUPS in a virtual machine (emulated in wasm on the web) what patches do you need to share?
Comment · 5 months ago
If they reverse engineered the drivers then why do they need a virtual cpu and a Linux kernel to run them. Is this reverse engineering or just installing software in a weird environment?

Speaking of not just gluing stuff together with usb/ip could one make a virtual WebUSB host kernel module that could be used by the Linux kernel USB stack? They most likely would not want to do that because then all of the code would be GPL and would have to be shared with the public.

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