Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one
Hello there!
I boost a lot of posts, but I have a few things to say every now and then.
I am largely fine with boosting posts from people I disagree with even on significant, dividing issues. I usually don't, however, if they actively advocate for these ideas... so it goes :/
#Christian #coding #HaikuOS #Linux #privacy #FOSS #Fediverse #SmashBros #SSBU #LegendOfZelda
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@golemwire thanks for the clarification. But the threat remains nonetheless as long as you don't use Free Software.
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Debugging: the art of slowly realizing you're the problem.
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I went on Mario Kart World last night and noticed something fascinating.
1. 21 people was the high water mark in my lobby, but getting into a lobby took about 1 minute whereas pre 1.1.2 it was about 5 seconds.
2. Said lobby had people with 8000VR and 3000VR when usually it’s closer to 8000VR and 6000 VR IME
3. The likelihood of an intermission being picked is inversely correlated by VR. Basically, the worse you are at the game, the more likely you are to pick an intermission track.
On net it does seem like World has fewer people online in Worldwides and the game is hiding it by increasing the skill difference between players.
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The U.S. Department of Defense is building custom AI agents to test military operations. They hope to use AI to simulate conflicts and generate scenarios in the future.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/thunderforge-ai-wargames-dod?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
@pleasestop Ahahha-hhahh
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in case it's useful, you can also toggle boolean options within less(1) so if you want to toggle case-sensitive searching, you can type
-i
or if you you want to toggle line-wrap
-S
or squeezing blank lines
-s
or search highlighting
-G
-g
etc. No need to quit and restart it just to toggle an option you forgot.
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@rl_dane I have my phone set up to do light theme at daytime and dark theme at night. It's quite nice. (Unless the phone ignores the setting and just stays dark. It does that sometimes.)
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KDE released their own immutable distribution KDE Linux that is based on Arch Linux (without Pacman) and uses Flatpak/Snap as the primary package managers. It comes with Distrobox and Toolbox pre-installed
@ChristosArgyrop What. I'm hoping it's satire ..? Wow.
@rl_dane The SubSky CPU can only R/W one byte or four bytes at a time, so unfortunately I need to avoid e.g. 2 bytes per pixel, as well. (Still unsure about how to handle audio with this limitation...)
@rl_dane Some notes on color indexes, from my bobcolor.s lib (for the videogame; it uses this palette):
A bobcolor color index can usually be interpreted as:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Brightness Saturation Type (often hue)
with Saturation descending (keeping RGB values generally ascending).
Type:
4-15: the 12 hues
0-3: other types
@rl_dane @cerement SubSky's supposed to be easy to program for (in a low-level language), so I feel like color cells would be too hard to work with.
Here's a demo of the palette I have in mind. The colors have been rearranged since I made this demo image, but nonetheless there are a few short of 256 colors here so that'd be 1 byte per pixel.
@rl_dane Keep pushing for [positive!] change though. There's always something one can do.
@rl_dane I don't know if this is really an encouraging thing to say or a discouraging thing to say, but -- the world has always been an altogether bad place, since the fall.
I also don't know if this is an encouraging thing to say or a discouraging thing to say, but... I look forward to leaving this all behind one day :)
@rl_dane @cerement I've considered doing paletted color instead of 24-bit color. Given that you usually don't need that much color, I might step the graphics down a bit to make it more minimalistic.
The sort of level of "low-tech" I'm going for is something like a computer with 1 -- 4GB RAM, one core at 0.3 -- 1GHz. Again this isn't for nostalgia and definitely not for historical accuracy; it's more for simpler computing with less bloat. And because I enjoy designing computers.
Hello there!
I boost a lot of posts, but I have a few things to say every now and then.
I am largely fine with boosting posts from people I disagree with even on significant, dividing issues. I usually don't, however, if they actively advocate for these ideas... so it goes :/
#Christian #coding #HaikuOS #Linux #privacy #FOSS #Fediverse #SmashBros #SSBU #LegendOfZelda
#fedi22
Note: social.librem.one doesn't support DMs
Joined Jul 2022
