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2kb? While it may not sound like much, that’s at least three packets worth of data (depending on MTU). If you think about it in terms of how TCP sends packets and needs ACKs, there’s actually a lot of round trip data processing going on for just that one part.

Padding isn’t anything special. Most practical uses of block ciphers require it.

That has never worked well. It might give high average framerates on paper, but it introduces jitter that produces a worse overall experience. In fact, Gamers Nexus just came out with a video on a better way to measure this, and it touches on showing the problem with multi-GPU setups:

https://youtu.be/qDnXe6N8h_c

Admission time: I actually used a porn AI chatbot.

To defend myself, what I was trying to do is experiment with high-protocol BDSM ideas in an environment where cost of failure was low. This is when there’s a more formal hierarchy and rules. Often, the rules are deliberately unfair to the subs so that they can be “punished” for breaking them.

Problem was that chatbots would straight up hallucinate one rule or another all the time. The idea isn’t for the subs to fuck up every time. Then it’s nothing but punishment, and that doesn’t work. There needs to be times when they’re successful so they can be “praised”, and the chatbots simply couldn’t do that.

Their “new things” have created a bubble that will chop the head off the US economy, and at the same time is directly propping up a fascist in the White House. Fuck them. I’d rather the Internet be frozen the way it was in 2006 than deal with this shit.

Local archives of Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg have never been a better idea.

There were when the first Ethereum bubble burst. That was one easier for the average person to get into with gamer GPUs, and they flooded the market on eBay as soon as it was no longer profitable.

Bitcoin won’t do that, because it hasn’t been based on GPUs for a long, long time. Ethereum doesn’t even work like that anymore.

The AI bubble popping will only flood the market with GPUs that are useful for running AI models. The GPUs in AI datacenters often don’t even have a display output connector. I think Corey is overstating his case on that one. Most likely, those GPUs are headed to the landfill.

Year of the Linux download!

Me ahead of time: Slapping Xbox branding on a small hardware upgrade to a handheld that already isn’t selling well will probably fail.

Me now: It doesn’t help your case when it’s also a buggy piece of shit at release.

Congrats, Microsoft, you are this close to making the Xbox brand radioactive.

I have a few on my desk right now that won’t. Usually somewhat more obscure titles where nobody has ripped the key and shared it in the public KEYDB.cfg. Like the Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (incidentally, one of the movies in there is public domain, and another will be on this coming Jan 1).

Although I also have a copy of Deadpool, not UHD, that won’t rip, so it’s not always obscure titles, either.

I just want to say the foil art on the old DS9 DVDs is way better than what’s available now. Wish I picked up a set back in the day.

Your local used movie place.

I’m somewhat leaning towards DVD sometimes because you can reliably rip them and store the originals away. Blu-ray either works easily, or it’s a major pain that can only be done by peeking into the memory of a Windows Blu-ray player to extract the key.

Letting shit slide will lead to nothing good.

It’s not entirely by choice. There’s a limited range of frequencies available.

The network includes accounts impersonating reputable news outlets such as BBC News, Euronews, and Meduza, designed to give credibility to Telegram propaganda links. We believe it may be connected to the “Pravda/Portal Kombat” pro-Russia propaganda network.

Accounts are hosted across numerous Mastodon instances and bridged into Bluesky, creating the appearance of independent sources. Activity on Bluesky helped reveal aggregate patterns, identical usernames, posting schedules, and content themes more clearly than across decentralised Mastodon services.

If your first reaction was to post “posts I dislike are Russian bots”, then you haven’t actually grasped the argument. It has nothing to do with anyone disagreeing with specific posts.

It’s also very telling that you’re reflexively posting that when it says nothing about the data being presented.

Meh.

I converted my blog from WordPress to a static site generator using Gemini’s version of Markdown as the base format, and then hosted both HTTP and Gemini versions.

I later took down the Gemini version. The web site remains as static HTML driven by (a variation of) Markdown. No cookies, no JS, limited CSS. Even took out some old YouTube <iframe> tags and converted them to straight links to videos. Doing it this way does everything anyone would want out of Gemini without having to use a specialized client.

We should be promoting some kind of browser extension that flags a site as having no cookies and no JS.

This has been mangled up by history. The important parts of the World Wide Web are having hypertext (basically links inside the document to other documents) and being networked (those links can take you to a completely different server). Apple’s Hypercard had hypertext, but it wasn’t networked. Usenet was networked, but had no hypertext.

This is laid out in Tim Berners-Lee’s original 1989 proposal for the web while he was at CERN:

https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

Gopher has all the qualities he was talking about. Gopher was a different kind of World Wide Web. We decided against that particular route, and for mostly good reasons, IMO.

Sort of. It predated the web, so calling it a “site” is wrong. Just like you can have an email application that’s completely separate from your web browser, you can have a Usenet client that’s also its own thing. Of course, people made web-based clients as time went on.

Your ISP ran a Usenet server that connected to other Usenet servers. The biggest problem with this system was that your ISP would automatically delete posts past a certain age. Following old threads was a pain.

Google Groups started as a Usenet archive where messages were kept forever. Google bought them and turned it into what it is now.

Except this comes from aggregated data from across the service. It’s not a matter of “I don’t like that post, must be bot”.