Why does the government keep trying to regular fake Internet money? The whole point of it was that it was a free for all. Who the fuck cares if crypto bros get fucked, if you want real securities you go to a real bank and open a real investment account.

I'm talking about the new one they made from scratch in Rust: https://system76.com/cosmic

Counter argument to that is, it would suck to be unable to reinstall your OS because it can't load a text file.

It's instance dependent and likely small on bigger instances to reduce storage costs as it can grow really big. I don't know the exact number for lemmy.ml.

The data set is paywalled so it's hard to know. If they picked shovelware most people would rather pirate then yeah, they could reach that conclusion easily.

Denuvo could also be just making people forget about the game once the hype dies down so they never end up trying it which ends up never buying it.

Some people also end up buying the game in sale later, or well after they played it. I personally ended up buying a lot of the games I pirating a while back, well after their release.

Pop_OS! is about to drop a whole new desktop environment (COSMIC) made from scratch that's not just a fork of Gnome. Canonical tried that as well a while back with Unity although it was mostly still Gnome with extra Compiz plugins.

A lot of cool stuff is also either for enterprise uses, or generally under the hood stuff. Simple packages updates can mean someone's GPU is finally usable. Even that LibreOffice update might mean someone's annoying bug is finally fixed.

But yes otherwise distros are mostly there to bundle up and configure the software for you. It's really just a bunch of software, you can get the exact same experience making your own with LFS. Distros also make some choices like what are the best versions to bundle up as a release, what software and features they're gonna use. Distros make choices for you like glibc/musl, will it use PulseAudio or PipeWire, and so on. Some distros like Bazzite are all about a specific use case (gamers), and all they do is ship all the latest tweaks and patches so all the handhelds behave correctly and just run the damn games out of the box. You can use regular Fedora but they just have it all good to go for you out of the box. That's valuable to some people.

Sometimes not much is going on in open-source so it just makes for boring releases. Also means likely more focus on bug fixes and stability.

I'm pretty sure the whole 35-50 range is unlikely to want kids because they're getting too old to have them safely.

If your masturbator breaks during a masturbation cycle I recommend replacing it before it dies completely. A good masturbator should comfortably last an entire session without issues.

You have to keep in mind, when you write JavaScript, there's an entire runtime written in C++ to run it under the hood, with some crazy optimizations to make it reasonably performant. What type of languages do you use to write that runtime? A systems programming language like Rust and C++.

You don't have to use Rust if you don't like it. Not everything must be written in Rust. The whole pick a language also involves a lot of picking your tradeoffs. Picking a interpreted/JIT language for speed of development is a perfectly valid tradeoff, but not one you can universally make. Sometimes the performance cost becomes really expensive currency-wise, where you can save thousands of dollars on server costs by simply having a more efficient application that only needs a fraction of the hardware to run it. Even in JavaScript, a fair chunk of libraries you use end up calling to C++ native code because it would be too slow in pure JavaScript. Sometimes the tradeoff is pick the popular language so it's easier to hire for cheaper.

Even at the dawn of time, most computers shipped with a variant of BASIC so people could write simple applications easily. But if you wanted to squeeze out every bit of power in your Apple II or C64, you sure did reach for assembly. Assembly sucks so we made C, then C++. Rust is still a language that's made to eventually compile to assembly/binary and have the same performance as if you wrote it in assembly.

And low spec hardware still exists: the regular Pis have gotten pretty fast but if you run on an RP2040 then suddenly, you're back in like 300MHz dual core land with pitiful amounts of memory, so you do need to write optimized and fast code for those.

Rust's type system is actually really, really good. Most of the time, if it compiles it runs. It eliminates a ton of errors other than memory safety: the system is so powerful you can straight up make invalid state unrepresentable. You can't forget to close a connection, you can't pass the wrong data, you can't forget to unlock a lock. It does a lot more to enforce correctness of a program well beyond memory safety.

It's sitting at around 46GB at the moment, not too bad.

Instance is a year and a few months old, so I could probably trim down the storage a bit if needed by purging stuff < 6 months old or something.

I think it initially grows as your users table fills up and pictrs caches the profile pictures, and then it stabilizes a bit. I definitely saw much more growth initially.

You need an account to upload stuff. The Internet Archive isn't just archiving websites, you can also upload book scans to them, rips of old floppies and discs for old software, even old TV shows and movies. For example, the entirety of the Computer Chronicles series is available for download there.

Perspective du Québec, je dirais même que le titre fait parti du problème.

Ça fait une dizaine d'années que j'ai terminé mes études alors ça peut avoir changé pas mal, mais ce qui me surprenait pas mal à l'époque en parlant avec mes amis français, c'est à quel point les études sont compétitives en France. Faut toujours être meilleur que l'autre, faut toujours plus de points, la recherche éternelle de l'école prestigieuse et tout, un peu comme aux États-Unis. Au final ça fait des gens qui se croient le meilleur au monde et qui se la pête constamment.

Au Québec ils évitent que les élèves puissent se comparer, de sorte à ce que l'attention soit pleinement sur l'apprentissage. L'important c'est de bien apprendre et surtout comprendre les concepts, plutôt que de mesurer à quelle vitesse tu peux régurgiter une formule mathématique. L'école c'est l'école, laquelle tu va n'a pas vraiment d'importance non plus. Avoir 2 points de plus que l'autre ne veut rien dire non plus en entrevue, la personne dans son ensemble est évaluée, parce que le type avec le score parfait il est souvent très chiant de travailler avec.

Et puis, au final, on m'a jamais demandé mes diplomes ou même si j'ai passé, du coup l'école c'était une sacré perte de temps au final.

I used to write my papers in HTML and a custom print CSS file I made so it fits the school's formatting requirements. It worked surprisingly well. Just write HTML, and then just print it, as basic as it gets. That was easier than bending LaTeX to the school's template which was in MS Office format.

I subscribe to a few more communities and my DB dump is about 3GB plain text, but same story, box sits at 5-15% most of the time.

A few woes at the beginning but it's been running smoothly since. If you have experince setting up stuff in Docker and exposing them to the Internet over HTTPS, it pretty much mostly just works.

It's the kind of stuff I imagine if you don't cause them trouble they won't bother with you.

The mayor though, probably had plans that made the cartels unhappy. Just look at how many people want Biden and Trudeau dead right now. Politics are dangerous if you piss off the wrong people.

I had to block ByteSpider at work because it can't even parse HTML correctly and just hammers the same page and accounts to sometimes 80% of the traffic hitting a customer's site and taking it down.

The big problem with AI scrapers is unlike Google and traditional search engines, they just scrape so aggressively. Even if it's all GETs, they hit years old content that's not cached and use up the majority of the CPU time on the web servers.

Scraping is okay, using up a whole 8 vCPU instance for days to feed AI models is not. They even actively use dozens of IPs to bypass the rate limits too, so theyre basically DDoS'ing whoever they scrape with no fucks given. I've been woken up by the pager way too often due to ByteSpider.

My next step is rewriting all the content with GPT-2 and serving it to bots so their models collapse.

That's pretty much why I made my own instance: nobody can take it away from me. I can ban whichever instance I deem hostile or don't want content from. Nobody's taking away my API anymore or shoving ads in my face.

Nobody can pull a Reddit or Twitter on the fediverse, there will always be alternative instances to use putting pressure on the big ones to not drive away people.

looks under desk and pats the Dell Optiplex server

Log seems to indicate issues with scanning, which could be maybe too many APs around. I believe I may have experienced something similar in a mall briefly.

Does turning off WiFi help? Like full on airplane mode, and make sure to disable WiFi scanning when WiFi is off as that remains on by default for location services, you want to kill WiFi scanning completely.