technology

This is kinda an unorganized post, so sorry for that.

Recently, I've been thinking about creating a computer in the form factor of the "Handheld PCs" that were around during the 1990s. It's mainly just for me but I wouldn't mind selling a few to the small community of nerds who like those things. I'm trying to avoid making another PC or ARM device like someone would normally do just because I'm not really a fan of either of those architectures or the monopoly they represent.

I've been considering the MIPS-compatible X2000 from the Chinese semiconductor firm Ingenic but unfortunately that chip doesn't have an external memory controller so you're limited to just the 128M/256M of DRAM in the package which is less than ideal.

So, has anyone heard of any weird chips lately? Idk where else to ask. I don't know where people who make computers discuss things like this.

(Btw if you're interested in this topic you may enjoy www.greenarraychips.com. It's Charles H. Moore's outfit, the guy who invented Forth. They make cute little chips with many independent stack machines on them. Not useful for this project but still pretty cool. This is not an ad, I just like weird computers.)

@technology So I tried creating a Hexbear account but the only thing I can see on it or reply to are my Mastodon posts to Hexbear. I can see the communities but they appear empty (my posts from Mastodon aside) unless I log out. I can also see posts from federated Lemmy instances but not Hexbear ones. It's very annoying and weird. I guess I will keep posting from my Mastodon for now. I've tried different browsers and devices. Anyone encountered something similar?

it's indistinguishable from the original. I for one welcome our javascript-speaking, dolphin overlords.

recently newpipe has started automatically pausing itself as soon as i watch about 80 seconds of a video. then when i un-pause it, it automatically skips to the next video. very, very irritating. so my questions are:

1. is there a fix for this?

2. if not, what's the move to replace newpipe?

Death to America

What would you recommend for an Android-based TV streaming box? I'm looking for a few features:

• HDMI out (but I think it's a fair bet that they all do).

• Isn't locked in to some oddball proprietary app store, but is standard Android that allows for easy sideloading of APK app files.

• Can use a large-capacity external USB drive for storage, say several TB.

• Has the CPU power to decode a bunch of older video formats in addition to the hardware-decoded modern ones.

• Is a current model that's likely to get updates for a few years or so.

• Is priced somewhere near or below $100CAD.

• Has reliable wifi and bluetooth.

that's pretty neat

Guaranteed to remove all instances of from your system

finishes after 2 mins but continues in the video below.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MiDCnt6iDo Details in these two videos.

They seem to have workcamp/slave conditions at their factories. They ripped off a lot of other people's musical instruments (the discontinued stuff is one thing, but many were still being made in some form). They remove negative comments from their socials or customers whose gear has broken and try to get it resolved.

Just such a shitting tech company.

Tests revealed the older mice who received the young blood had higher concentrations of regulatory compounds such as tricarboxylic acid, evidence of chemical processes that are usually interrupted by aging, increased production of mitochondria 'powerhouses', reduced inflammation, and greater expression of genes associated with longer life.

"This effect correlates with a longer life span, improved physiological parameters and a globally rejuvenated" genetic regulatory and cell protein systems the team explain in their paper, confirming three month blood circulation link was far more effective than previously studied short-term blood sharing (five weeks).

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Instructions:

• Go to 's Data Request page and log in. (https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request)
• Submit a request. I selected the GDPR option.
• Select 'I want data from my full time at Reddit'
• Submit and wait. Mine took about 10 minutes, but yours might be different.
• Check your 's Unread Messages (https://www.reddit.com/message/unread/) and you should see a message like this.

• Download the ZIP archive. Your effortposts are in posts.csv and comments.csv and can be opened within a spreadsheet program.

IP is a joke. Fuck copyright. Fuck patents. Nintendo is out here patenting physics.

"The movement of movable dynamic objects placed in the virtual space is controlled by physics calculations, and the movement of the player’s character is controlled by user input. When the player’s character and a dynamic object come in contact in the downward direction relative to the character (in other words, when the character is on top of an object), the movement of the dynamic object is added to the movement of the player’s character.”

These aren't even inventions. They are just obvious models of the real world that would occur to anyone who is trying to replicate physical interactions in a virtual world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics

These are Japanese patents but I also have no fucking doubt a lot of this stuff has very obvious prior art even in gaming, to say nothing of other physics-based software packages.

Typing this on thumbs sorry for lack of details.

Partner kicked power plug out while cleaning and the whole computer shit itself. Doesn't boot into windows at all. Shows mobo thing but I can't access boot order or bios stuff at all. Computer eventually gets mad and tells me to use a recovery cd. That ofc doesn't work (which specifically could be issue with my DVD drive, it has been wonky burning things lately). Recovery USB looks mad glitchy and when I try recovery it just gets mad that I didn't select a windows installation. I can see all my drives if I try to install windows from it.

All this is out of my wheelhouse and I really don't want to take it in anywhere. What should I check next?

[EDIT: IGNORE THIS. I FIXED IT BY CHANGING THE BOOT MODE TO AHCI AND THEN UNINSTALLING THE OFFENDING UPDATES IN THE SAFE MENU]

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/07/24/appalling-instinct-branding-designers-react-twitters-x-rebrand

Here's one example (and this is just one example). My workplace makes heavy use of linters and static analyzers. The CI is configured so that if the linter outputs any errors or warnings, the pipelines fail. Often that occurs because an empty code block or type definition contains a space, and the linter really wants to see '{}' instead of '{ }'. I simply cannot imagine the consequences to humanity at large if this excess whitespace ever made it to production. The kicker here is that the default VS Code autofmt wants that singular space to be there, and inserts them itself, and the default Angular linter thinks they really do not belong. I'm not sure which of these two organizations (Microsoft and Google) are right, as both normally emit good practice the way Moses emits commandments, and they are now in direct contradiction with one another.

I have approached colleagues about the idea of maybe turning off some or all of these rules, and was promptly told that I should have my editor configured to run the linter and apply its fixes whenever I save, and given instructions on how to do so. This is a Good Argument, in that it solves my problem effortlessly, but I just can't resign myself to do it, and still find myself embarrassingly pushing commits to apply linter recommendations after opening merge requests. To put it as simply as I can, I have identified The Problem. Please address it. I do not care if your solution is easy and low impact. It does not solve The Problem, it just sticks a layer of paint over it. It's also not just the failing builds that piss me off, it's also that the linter is garbage and overly opinionated and actively makes our code look worse by (for instance) removing line breaks in lengthy call chains or array literals making them longer than 100 characters. Motherfucker I broke that up for a reason.

As far as dysfunction and cargo cult nonsense goes, I have seen a hundred times worse in my time. This is a complete non-issue. But fuck me, I can't do it. I can't be slippery like that anymore. I just can't tolerate all this fucking process that never touches the fundamental problem of engineering nondiscipline. I can't jump on the latest fads that promise to solve every factoring problem and just make code bases wordier and ten times more opaque. I don't want copilot to be fucking turned on by default. It sucks and will always sucks no matter how many teraflops you throw at the LLM and how strongly you believe that AGI is among us. I just want to choke a bitch. I want to punch some poindexters in the face and break their +1.50 glasses.

Maybe I should quit software development? Should I flip burgers? Become an Agile coach? Go fight for the YPG?

I've used Ubuntu in the past so that's what I'm thinking of using, but if anyone has another suggestion I'm open to ideas. I'm looking for something user-friendly and lightweight when it comes to hardware requirements. The laptop will mostly be used for web browsing and streaming video, if I can get that to work.

Hello, Windows 10 user of about a year now. I would like to switch to Linux (Ubuntu or Debian), but have a couple of questions.

1. Is there a way to play steam games designed for Windows on Linux?/What are the drawbacks of doing this?
2. Is there a way to transfer files from my old OS to the new one without using external drives (i dont have one ;-;)
3. Is there a distro more suited to a Windows user going into linux rehab?
4. Is there anything else I should be aware of?

TIA as always comrades and good day.