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by mort96 15d ago
> A number of folks ran Mincecraft servers at home, but you'd only be able to have one on the default port. This is such a common and stupid problem. It's the same with SSH; if you want to run your own git host, you need to eit
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by mort96 15d ago
If it's any consolation, I don't think NAT did anything particularly harmful other than making the adoption of IPv6 less urgent. It's CGNAT that's the real problem, not NAT.
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by mort96 15d ago
NAT itself was a hack to let everything keep working like it already was despite there being more computers than IPv4 addresses. The Internet Protocol only concerns itself with IP addresses. The idea is that each computer has an IP address,
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by mort96 16d ago
Yeah NAT is still "every household gets a public IP address". This is a perfectly good foundation for an open Internet. You can still host servers in your home. I did this a lot as a kid and learned a ton from it. It's maybe
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by mort96 17d ago
Building enough nuclear to replace fossil electricity generation is both insanely expensive and not enough to fix the problem because plenty of emissions don't come from electricity generation.
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by mort96 17d ago
Too much stuff doesn't work with Podman still. Especially if you're on an SELinux system.
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by mort96 17d ago
The thing is, I don't want to just "not update apps". If there's a security vulnerability which needs to be patched ASAP, I need to be told about it ASAP.
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by mort96 17d ago
If you'd limit yourself to cores implementing the Application profile of ARM (Armv8-A etc), you'd do the same and limit yourself to cores implementing the Application profile of RISC-V (RVA23 etc). In that case, you can assume vec
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by mort96 17d ago
Intel has done such a good job keeping AVX512 support away from reaching ubiquitous adoption, it's insane. There are so many useful instructions in AVX512 which are just missing from AVX/AVX2 that you can't assume exist, even
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by mort96 19d ago
This is Nextcloud to me. I use it, but it constantly nags me about some software upgrade I need to do. People don't appreciate enough that releasing new software has a cost. Upgrading is risky and disruptive. Even on iOS, where app u
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by mort96 21d ago
I mean that we don't have numbers for how this competes with Apple
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by mort96 21d ago
Oh, so we're at the "good for an engineering sample" stage not "competitive with Apple" stage
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by mort96 22d ago
I went some time without a desktop computer at home. The idea was, I have a perfectly good laptop, I'll just connect it with a dock when I want to use a desktop-like device. Never ended up happening. I didn't get much done at home
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by mort96 22d ago
Podcasting 2.0 seems to be a cryptocurrency project. Saying that Podcasting 2.0 invented chapters and transcripts is saying that cryptocurrency people invented chapters and transcripts.
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by mort96 23d ago
Did their test results include power draw?
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by mort96 23d ago
> There is nothing to detect on the sink side, for basic operation. I know. You need the detection for the fancy stuff like PD, not for basic operation. So why does it matter that a resistor is missing on the sink side? It's stupid.
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by mort96 23d ago
I know how cheap resistors are. I design PCBs as a hobby and occasionally semi-professionally. Leaving off parts should result in behavior which is identical whether you connect an A-C cable or a C-C cable. Detecting the difference between
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by mort96 23d ago
IMO it's a huge failure of the USB-C standard that to a USB 2 only device, a C-C cable looks different to an A-C cable. It's the cause of so many issues of the kind, "it works when I use a different cable" or "it wo
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by mort96 23d ago
Well you can run any bandwidth at any frequency, I get that the WiFi specs define set bands which include both a center frequency and a bandwidth but it's a bit weird then to focus on the frequency when the bandwidth is what matters is
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by mort96 24d ago
Wouldn't it make more sense then to ask about high bandwidth channel support rather than frequency support? It's not the frequency that's important here.
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by mort96 24d ago
Why would 6GHz make such a difference compared to 5GHz?
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by mort96 24d ago
To back up the "surprisingly efficient way to get a speed-up" thing: I once wrote a toy compiler, without an optimizer and without even a register allocator (so all variables lived in stack memory). In my test benchmarks it was ro
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by mort96 24d ago
A non-optimizing compiler is a real compiler.
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by mort96 25d ago
I have no idea why you are talking about Stalinist college kids all of a sudden.
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by mort96 25d ago
That's another technical workaround. A good one, when possible, but it doesn't exactly fix fascism.
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by mort96 25d ago
I'm not in the US, but say I was. I'm fully on board that the country is slowly (or not so slowly) drifting into becoming a fascist state. Say I needed to leave the country for some important reason and come back. Say I didn'
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by mort96 27d ago
Depends on a lot of context. You may notice issues with some GPU drivers if you have hardware with new drivers, because older GPU drivers contain X-specific workarounds which new drivers may lack (I know this is an issue with the Apple M1 G
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by mort96 27d ago
I never found GitHub's systems for issue tracking to be all that great. Cross-repository issues and development plans are hard to track within a git host. I've always used an external panning and issue tracking tool, mostly Linear
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by mort96 27d ago
If you're a big company, you can afford having one engineer spend one or two days per year to maintain your self-hosted GitLab or Forgejo. On top of better reliability than GitHub, you'll get the additional bonus that your source
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by mort96 27d ago
Merging a PR by drive-by contributors is far from trivial. As the maintainer, you become responsible for the other person's code for all eternity; it's on you to read it, understand it, update it when stuff around it changes, an

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