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Epic Games says its titular store remains unprofitable
  • I buy everything I can on GoG due to lack of DRM. If something is not on GoG, I buy from Epic simply because they pay a bigger share to developers than Steam. When I buy a game I want that money go to the devs, not middlemen.

    GoG also integrates well with Epic, so I can have all my games there.

  • Cities Skylines II Releases To Mostly Negative Reviews About Performance
  • Severe performance issue on day one is most likely a bug, some incompatibility, or debug code accidentally left in.

    I don’t know why people interpret it as if the game will never be playable and behave as if it was some master plan to make 4090 look slow.

  • Famous ADHDers part 1
    www.sciencedaily.com Did Leonardo da Vinci have ADHD?

    Leonardo da Vinci produced some of the world's most iconic art, but historical accounts show that he struggled to complete his works. New research now suggests the best explanation for Leonardo's inability to finish projects is that the great artist may have had attention deficit and hyperactivity d...

    Did Leonardo da Vinci have ADHD?
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    Hyundai To Use Tesla's NACS Connector In The US Starting In 2024
  • It’s also (obviously) a problem limited to North America.

    Everywhere else Teslas and Superchargers use a CCS2 connector.

    In Europe, non-Tesla charging networks together are bigger than the Supercharger network, and Ionity and Fastned have 300kW chargers that are significantly faster for Hyundai/Kia/Genesis than Superchargers.

  • Software Disenchantment
  • This has always been the case. When Windows XP came out people hated it needed 64MB (not GB) of RAM, because that was more than the entire disk installation of Windows 95, which was also bloated compared to older Macs and Amigas.

  • Linus Torvalds Comments on ARM: Did he lose touch with reality?
  • I’ve got an ARM Mac. I’ve got ARM VPSes from Hetzner, and I’m compiling native code for the server.

    It’s definitely easier to develop, build, and test on the same architecture, than to deal with cross-compilation and emulation.

    So I think Linus is right.

  • My poor RAM...
  • Use the system webview, you cowards!

    Developers bundle all of Chromium, because they're afraid the OS webview will have a different browser engine. Testing is too hard…

    This is such a terrible excuse — usually the same app runs in browsers too, so it already has to deal with even wider variety of browser engines.

  • They tried
  • The annoying popups are an act of malicious compliance from data harvesting companies. The tracking industry wants people to associate the right to privacy with stupid annoyance, so that people will stop demanding privacy.

    The legislation does not say anything about cookies. It's about rights and responsibilities in data collection (no matter how it's done technically). The "consent" part of it exists as a compromise, because there has been heavy lobbying against the legislation.

    This is not a technical problem — we've had many technologies for it, and the industry has sabotaged all of them. There was the P3P spec in 2002! It has been implemented in IE that had 90%+ market share back then. And Google has been actively exploiting a loophole in IE's implementation to bypass it and have unlimited tracking. Google has paid fines for actively subverting Safari's early anti-tracking measures. Then browsers tried DNT spec as the simplest possible opt-out, and even that has been totally rejected by the data harvesting industry. There are easy technical solutions, but there are also literally trillions of dollars at stake, and ad companies will viciously sabotage all of it.

  • Are short mp4s preferable to gifs for brief animated site elements, or...?
  • Generally yes.

    GIF's ancient LZW compression is remarkably ill-suited for modern CPUs, and more expensive than modern algorithms. Combined with significantly larger file sizes, it costs much more to decode, on top of increased costs of transfer and caching.

    GIF might have an edge if the animation is very small (<16px, few frames).

    It also gets messy if you need to play hundreds of animations. GIF will be terribly inefficient, but also browsers aren't designed to have hundreds of video elements, so both will eat memory in their own way, and it will vary which is worse.

  • Keeping Rust projects secure with cargo-audit 0.18: performance, compatibility and security improvements
  • It's nice they're moving away from libgit2.

    This dependency made rustsec library unusable in any project that used any other version of libgit2, and libgit2 kept making incompatible releases causing fragmentation, churn, and conflicts.

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