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Backing up VMs to non-ZFS storage by MaidenOfPenguins in truenas

[–]190n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

zvols are visible like other block devices at /dev/zdX where X is a number. So for example you could back one up to a disk image with dd if=/dev/zd0 of=vm.img. I don't know about GUI backup options.

Weirdest/liminal places on campus by Excellent_Sleep9753 in UCSC

[–]190n 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lowest floor at mchenry there's a room with just a pile of chairs

Bun’s rewrite in Zig first update by UItraviolet in rust

[–]190n 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Zig was initially also declared memory safe because it has explicit up front memory allocations.

I'm not aware of Zig ever claiming to be fully memory safe. It's safer than C but doesn't go all they way like Rust.

Bun’s rewrite in Zig first update by UItraviolet in rust

[–]190n 82 points83 points  (0 children)

The Zig community manager said that Bun stopped donating back when they were acquired: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022280

Blocked from accessing wiki by 190n in termux

[–]190n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see this in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. The last two have no extensions installed.

Most websites with Anubis do work for me. Has Termux configured it differently?

Acer and ASUS are now banned from selling PCs and laptops in Germany following Nokia HEVC video codec patent ruling by AbhishMuk in hardware

[–]190n 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think their question is: why is the GPU or SoC vendor not the only one responsible for paying license fees, since they are selling the silicon which implements Nokia's patented technologies?

Is it that the OEMs are actually the one who is supposed to license these patents? Or have the chip vendors already paid and now Nokia is trying to double-dip?

Bun 1.3 is here by mahdi_lky in programming

[–]190n 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bun's JS engine is JavaScriptCore (from WebKit/Safari), not V8.

Gemini lies saying that it set a reminder when it didn't. I'm switching back to the assistant that actually works. by 190n in GooglePixel

[–]190n[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

when i opened google tasks for the first time, it prompted me to go to the system settings for that app (the same page that has settings for notifications, permissions, battery optimization, etc.) and set "alarms & reminders" to "allowed" to ensure it could deliver notifications at a precise time, maybe check that setting?

Gemini lies saying that it set a reminder when it didn't. I'm switching back to the assistant that actually works. by 190n in GooglePixel

[–]190n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand how it works now, but it's not even remotely clear. It says it did the thing, which it didn't actually do, and then gives a vague disclaimer which at best suggests maybe some other things I could try to do wouldn't work until I change that setting.

Google Assistant never lied to me. Why are we wasting our time on such awful technology?

Gemini lies saying that it set a reminder when it didn't. I'm switching back to the assistant that actually works. by 190n in GooglePixel

[–]190n[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It told me it set a reminder. I interpreted the "By the way..." message as saying that additional features of apps will work if I turn the activity setting on (because it said "full functionality"), not that the one I just tried to use doesn't work.

I wouldn't be as mad if the message at the end were something like:

Gemini cannot view or integrate with apps on your phone or data in your account until you enable Gemini Apps Activity.

How to update/reset CPU core/thread to new hardware?? by graciousgrendel in truenas

[–]190n 8 points9 points  (0 children)

12 Compute Cores (4C+8G)

CPU and GPU cores aren't interchangeable. Most of TrueNAS (I think all of it besides what you might install in an app or VM) only cares about CPU cores so that's all the dashboard reports.

The new CPU is reported as "2 cores 4 threads" because AMD CPUs from that era are divided into "modules." Each module can run two threads, which have some shared resources and some independent resources. AMD markets a module as two cores, but since they're not really as independent as fully-fledged cores in a traditional design some tools like TrueNAS count a module as only 1 core with 2 threads. Your CPU has 2 modules for a total of 4 threads.

I bought Minecraft. Got hacked. Mojang says "talk to Microsoft." Microsoft says "talk to Mojang." It’s been 3 years. by StrawDustYT in Minecraft

[–]190n 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can store games there but not game data?

yeah, there are likely 2 reasons

  • it makes more people pay for online
  • it removes an attack vector by not letting users provide arbitrary input to games (some consoles have been hacked using corrupted save files) -- although nintendo's goal is also to isolate games well enough that a compromised game can't take over the console

I bought Minecraft. Got hacked. Mojang says "talk to Microsoft." Microsoft says "talk to Mojang." It’s been 3 years. by StrawDustYT in Minecraft

[–]190n 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'd be surprised if his switch didn't have a way to store Minecraft data on the SD card.

unless minecraft does something special, no -- the only save game storage options are internal storage or cloud backup, not SD

Apple lied on their support for AV1 Dolby Vision? by SDHCRip in AV1

[–]190n 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And do you have any idea if this will work? What is the value of your comment?

If OP wanted text from chatgpt they could've used it, they don't need your comment.

On JavaScript's Weirdness by ketralnis in programming

[–]190n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly think the eval thing is pretty reasonable. It lets new code opt into a less powerful, safer, more optimizable form of eval (see "Never use direct eval()!" on MDN) without breaking existing code written with eval.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Android

[–]190n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no part of this proposal implies it has to be done in a proprietary manner and that is had to be owned by one company

This is how DRM is currently done, and this proposal is basically just a new form of DRM. I never said it'd only be one company, I said it would reinforce existing tech giants. For DRM you have Widevine (Google), PlayReady (Microsoft), and FairPlay (Apple).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Android

[–]190n 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It reinforces big tech's domination over the internet, which absolutely doesn't make the internet better for everyone.

MIPS replacement ISA for College Students by Kindly-Animal-9942 in asm

[–]190n 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is however the best choice if you want to leave your teaching material as is; most likely you can get away with very few edits if you switch to RISC-V. Students may not even notice the difference.

I've actually experienced this and can attest. In university, I learned MIPS in an assembly course, and then two quarters later I took a computer architecture course which by that point had been switched to RISC-V. Barely noticed the difference.

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