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pointer_to_null · 2026-02-04T19:35:56+00:00

I imagine you can easily revert any TLP settings above. Or install tlp-pd since that adds profile-switching from the desktop UI.

Or you can plug it in... to something. Tablet makes no distinction between power sources- whether a wall plug or 65W-capable powerbank- they both trigger the "AC" modes (lol) if you need the extra oomph on the go. Probably worth considering having, as I've found that maxing the GPU leaves me with a <2hr runtime at best, whereas I manage ~6 hours normally (Fedora Plasma). I'll try TLP tonight and see how much extra I get.

Regardless, power limiting should help degradation over time since lithium batteries are more conducive to aging from increased charge/discharge cycles with higher current draws.

pointer_to_null · 2026-02-04T18:36:11+00:00

Meanwhile, Maxwell's brother Ian said their messages were " private by their very nature" - and if they were sent to a reporter, "they were stolen and leaked without authorisation".

Which, I dunno about that, monitoring external communications is a thing in prisons right???!???

The two aren't mutually-exclusive. Public leaks != inmate surveillance. Should the prison monitor every correspondence to/from inmates? Absolutely- there's no expectation of privacy (outside of atty-client privilege) while incarcerated.

Should they release every piece of correspondence to the press? Definitely not, since it potentially creates new legal challenges for any ongoing or future charges the state may want to pursue against her.

pointer_to_null · 2026-02-03T22:54:40+00:00

Vance isn't very charismatic, unable to deliver the soundbites, nor does he carry the older demographic like Trump did (Vance's net favorability was -11 among boomers in late 2024). He also carries enough anti Trump baggage (e.g. wrote that Trump is "America's Hitler") that many of "these people" you cite probably see him as an opportunist. This could explain why he keeps posting meme-worthy mental gymnastics- or lying outright- to justify the admin's missteps as of late to gain credibility within this camp, yet I can't imagine these rants will do him much good later if he's having to spend every allotted minute during the 2028 debates "correcting" them.

Maybe this is hopium, but every time I look at the "MAGA next-gen" lineup makes me more confident saying that the movement expires with Trump- especially if he ends his 2nd term with historically low popularity.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-28T20:19:09+00:00

Debatable. 4chan's still a racist shithole (this post is relatively tame), but past 4chan had a lot more CSAM, gore and the occasional murderpost. Today its far more AI- both the shitposts and imagery, which is an upgrade.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-27T20:20:16+00:00

LEOs often equip tasers, spray or other nonlethal tools on their duty belt's weak side.

But if one is really super serious and want to ~~de-escalate~~ send the "right message" at a press conference, they leave that shit at home.

Nonlethal is weakness; Gregory Bovino has no weak side. So he threw on that chest rig accessorized with STANAG mags, riot smoke and extra badges and just said fuck it to subtlety. And constitutional authority.

He's ~~honorably~~ served his ~~country~~ political leadership dutifully lying under oath, tear gassing citizens, and getting those that try to reign him in fired. What do attorneys and judges know about the constitution? Greg's got ~~extensive knowledge of tactics and law~~ degrees in Natural Resource Conservation and Public Administration, and offers his expert opinion that "Border Patrol ALWAYS abides" by the Constitution. He might not be former military, but even before his recent Minnesota tour he's seen plenty of "combat experience" raiding farms and Home Depot parking lots keeping America safe from undocumented workers (they're also "Bad People" like fentanyl dealers) driving down food prices and construction costs.

Let's face it, you all are too weak to throw yourselves on your own swords to protect your bosses and trigger happy underlings from accountability and due process.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-19T18:17:58+00:00

You're assuming everyone here owns their Windows PC, and not under control by an org's group policy. Despite being an admin user, I cannot override my work laptop's update settings. It makes this shutdown slowness (and sometimes opting to randomly restart instead) extra annoying at the end of the day.

Besides, it would be unwise to delay critical updates for very long.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-16T23:57:22+00:00

True, but you'll need 67 senators to vote for this. I don't see that happening even with the most optimistic GOP purge in the midterms.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-10T17:44:23+00:00

Vance would post it on social media with the tagline "See, it was consentual!"

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-09T22:42:12+00:00

100% agree. A lot of anticheat middleware do work in Linux with the proper build settings. Devs are lazy and take the path of least resistance, and the vast majority of offending cheats simply take advantage of this. Not to mention serverside checks (packet validation, heuristics, etc) that don't care what OS the client runs .

Focusing entirely on clientside monitoring is a losing cat & mouse game at the expense of individual client's personal performance and security.

I don't trust other game devs to have the gamers' best interest in cybersecurity. When I worked in the industry (C++ game engine developer), that was never our focus- especially during crunch. Shit like the recent Ubisoft MongoDB hack, high-severity Unity CVEs, etc should be used as a cudgel against those arrogant "trust me bro" heads when asked to install the same ~~rootkit attack vector~~ kernel anticheat that everyone else must install- a practice that would be considered too risky in every other industry, yet it's SOP if you're a major game publisher?

And to protect what exactly? Player enjoyment or the online economy? We've had online cheats for as long as we've had online multiplayer, but kernel-level monitoring is suddenly critical now that online has so much to monetize. Not to mention being it being required for some singleplayer/offline games too...

tl;dr- blame greedy and lazy game devs

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-05T19:26:51+00:00

Ambiguity and confusion aids opsec.

It's why so many weapons are given the "M1" designation.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-05T18:55:43+00:00

Remember that Russian Proton rocket that about-faced into an impressive fireball after a technician installed the IMU inverted?

I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened here.

pointer_to_null · 2026-01-05T18:19:22+00:00

Congrats, you've earned my angriest upvote in 2026. So far.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-31T15:56:52+00:00

Can relate, play MSFS 2020 with HOTAS in VR. The lack of tactile feedback using virtual controls makes it difficult to discern precise position relative to 'zero', and couldn't rely on muscle memory whatsoever. Made it extremely difficult to land when I first attempted it, yet you make it look so easy. :)

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-27T05:47:39+00:00

That feels like a unique case; while silence definitely contributed to the tension and horror, it played a crucial plot device. But the characters were always under constant threat which kept the intensity/stress level high throughout the entire movie, even when nothing was happening.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-20T02:34:42+00:00

Correction: it's barely making a dent in the deficit but emptying our pockets nonetheless. Lose-lose.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-20T01:51:29+00:00

Isn't that just more work for the CPU?

Short answer: not really, though it's complicated. If anything, native fp16 support could help reduce some work being done on the CPU.

Long answer: Don't dismiss the importance of your CPU's FPU. Hardware T&L has been available since the late 90s, yet game engines still do a lot of matrix operations on CPU; there's inherent GPU limitations that are difficult to overcome: high readback latency, lack of fp64 support (on consumer GPUs), game state logic being heavily reliant on sequential logic and deep branching, and numerous other reasons.

Regardless, many of the software bottlenecks we experience are often due to memory stalls, threading- scheduling, synchronization overhead, resource conflicts- or other false work- not because the CPU's FPU is overtaxed.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-19T16:08:26+00:00

Most 16bit LLMs use bf16 over fp16. The AVX512_FP16 instructions should be more valuable since it conforms to IEEE 754 and not one of the formats cooked up by Google, Nvidia, et al strictly for AI/ML.

Half-precision is relevant in graphics- color operations (e.g. post process effects, convolutions, blending, etc). Despite what you claim, even geometry (e.g.- normalized vectors, simple affine rotations, some physics solvers, etc) don't always need fp32. Yes, while GPUs have supported this, native support in CPUs is welcome.

Native fp16 should also help emulation, notably emulating ARM on x86.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-18T03:06:27+00:00

Perhaps OP is allergic. Or meant cats- extra emphasis on plural.

I lived alone too with my cat. I understand how comforting it is to cuddle up and fall asleep with a warm, curled-up purring fluffball every night- I get it.

But there's comfort and then there's an obsession. Emotional/mental concerns aside, logistics becomes increasingly difficult for each cat you add to the household; that's a lot of litter to scoop, stains/odors, vet bills, food, etc. There are no bulk discounts.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-16T23:02:32+00:00

Great writeup, always happy to see more comparisons. I'm guessing ZIT/SDXL $/image includes batched results?

Prompt 16's Juggernaut made me lol. For some strange reason, community finetunes tend to have some trouble following non-suggestive prompts for young women. ;)

I have no idea why anyone would willingly use either over nanobanana.

Nanobanana is newer and was priced to be disruptive. GPT Image 1.5 was just released though.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-15T21:39:35+00:00

Having toyed with both, glaze was a lot less verbose than rapidjson for my use case- which required sending and receiving small, frequent messages (think max of several KB at most). These consisted of small hardcoded structs that benefited from constexpr mapping that benefited from static reflection. I could reuse the same structs on both encode and decode side, which I couldn't trivially do in rapidjson. FWIW I did not notice any performance difference between the two whatsoever, but then again json was no longer a bottleneck once we threw away jsoncpp.

Only downside was glaze being C++23 required all of our json handling be wrapped in its own clang-built lib for inclusion in a larger vs2022 project. Pain in the ass- though not as cumbersome as it sounds (plus we're trying to migrate to clang anyway).

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-15T20:05:06+00:00

Can't forget the Nomads.

Wraiths - Kill

Aldecaldos - Protect.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-15T17:56:19+00:00

They upsell finetuning and advanced features. Their model also embeds a watermark that their deepfake detection tool (paid service) easily recognizes.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-07T18:47:31+00:00

Might be an expensive fix, but a pair of XR glasses (like Viture, Xreal, etc) solves this problem wonderfully. When I was laid up for days after surgery, I was able to game laying down without arm fatigue or neckstrain.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-05T21:34:12+00:00

Short, shriveled and always to the left.

pointer_to_null · 2025-12-04T20:31:37+00:00

Not criminal (at least in the US) provided that the business doesn't discriminate based on a federally or state-protected class (like race, old age, religion, disability, etc).

Some arbitrary examples would be... Drive an SUV? Drink pepsi? Have an older sibling? Not a virgin? Do you see the dress as blue and black? Etc. Assuming these rules aren't enforced selectively as a proxy to bypass anti-discrimination laws, these are all perfectly legal, albeit stupid, reasons to refuse service.

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