nithssh

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Comment · 2 months ago
We have already seen LLM misuse by counsels around the world. While this judge use is being tried out in the open for what seems like the first time in the world, I wonder how long until judges do the same thing as software devs and barely look at the output.

Inb4 Vibejudging

Comment · 4 months ago
Which Indian state is this? I'm assuming something southern.
Comment · 4 months ago
That non-steam-deck section is glorious.
Comment · 1 year ago
The post had some nice structural discussion about digital forensics
Comment · 1 year ago
The author wants a DRM that won't stop working in older platforms. He wants DRM. The problem is that the DRM is on a rolling release, and non-latest versions are not supported. His concerns would be solved if the games are able to pin to a specific DRM version/policy
Comment · 1 year ago
Lots of the key people working on things like SDL that Value very heavily relies on are also very vocal critics of the Steam Input API. Steam Input is a bastardization of SDL technically.

I have personally benefitted from the steam input feature in niche cases, but the way it hijacks everything by default even when not enabled does seem to be poor engineer-ship. I have run into some issues when doing controller management within games, only to realize it has to be solved at the steam level.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is the best explanation I've read of this limitation
Comment · 1 year ago
I used to wonder what was the play with pouring so much money into making a React framework the default. Now I understand the play
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds interesting, is there anything online about this?
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be more grey on white than you think. It's not just Gaussian blur, they also have noise layers in the shader.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very enlightening piece on how corpo sponsorship of OSS work. Thanks to the author for writing this.
Comment · 1 year ago
There are a lot of reasons why just making a copy of the files you need to another FS is not sufficient as a backup, clearly this is one of those. We need more checks to ensure integrity and robustness.

BorgBackup is clearly quite good as an option.

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