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  • I wouldn't do a mailing list these days, but as someone who spent the early part of my career interacting with devs that preferred this method, it's actually pretty ergonomic by a 2005 standard. A message thread aware, text based email client that can turn messages into patches in a keystroke makes it actually pretty comparable to modern code review...

    I think it's hard for younger devs to get this because they're used to email being stuck in a crappy, unthreaded browser interface or Outlook etc. (which are terrible for mailing lists) and most collaboration taking place in code review and chat platforms like Teams/Slack but for decades before these were feasible, email was the way...

  • The IAC confirms the existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
  • In a certain way, it does feel close. We can't figure out how to go faster than light, but we could theoretically get to a significant fraction of c and 20 years isn't such a long time to plan for in terms of getting a probe there to start relaying messages that take 20 years to get back.

    I mean, it's the span of a career, but people could conceivably work on the launch and live to see it return data.

  • After many years on GNOME, I finally switched to Plasma.
  • GNOME 3 introduced the current shell paradigm where you don't really have a start menu but a variety of searches, integrated indicators, per-app desktops with a dock etc.

    Before, it was far more conventional experience like Plasma/Windows/Cinnamon are now. GNOME 2 was forked to be the MATE desktop if you want to check it out.

  • Jellyfin Android remote comes up blank for mpv shim

    Hey all. I use the Jellyfin Android app to control an MPV shim running on Linux (Arch, Plasma 6) and for the most part it works great. However, sometimes the app just completely loses track of what's playing or where in the video it is. I can still pause/play blind, but I'd like to be able to tell where I am in a season/episode. Any trick to dealing with this?

    For reference I have the app set to "unoptimized" battery usage so it shouldn't just be going to sleep. I do have to open Jellyfin to actually send pause/play button presses from the notification though so I don't know if I just need a better workaround (I'm on the latest Android version if that matters). I also had the same problems using a Chromecast but never bothered to mess with that since the dongle is proprietary, but with the mpv shim the whole stack is open source so I thought I'd ask...

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    Who says S31 gets to have all the fun?
  • These are such great episodes. The Enterprise one specifically is amazing. We so often see our valiant crew save Earth, but they almost never sacrifice their morals to do so.

    For Archer, with practically all of humanity in the balance, how could he not fuck those guys over?

  • Film Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31
  • Well said. Especially agree on point one. I'm not a fan of the Discovery era characterization of Section 31, but ultimately there was no reason they had to be related to this movie at all. Georgiou had plenty of personal reasons to deal with this and to have a collection of ne'er-do-wells on hand without any involvement from Starfleet / S31.

  • First-timers Ichiro, CC and elite closer Wagner elected to Hall
  • Wagner was off my radar, but just based on stats I'm not super impressed? Like, I understand relievers aren't held to the same standard as SPs, and a 2.3 career ERA is damn good... But half as much bWAR as Mariano? How is that not Hall of Very Good material?

    Like Adam Wainwright, who won't even whiff the hall, provided more WAR in half the games just by eating innings...

  • Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet
  • Yeah, I was watching Potato McWhiskey and this is his take. They have metrics that show most people don't actually finish a game and that indicates a pretty big flaw in game design.

    One interesting thing the devs brought up was the ability to pivot from one civ to another based on new information. Like if you discover your continent is mostly plains and horses, then maybe your next iteration looks more like the Mongols, with bonuses to cavalry. If your early conquest didn't go off, maybe you pivot to a more science or culture oriented civ.

    I don't hate these ideas, it just depends on how it actually feels in game.

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  • I default to piracy too, but I'm guessing you don't listen to a lot of new music. The thing a music service offers isn't just access, it's discoverability. It didn't replace my FLAC collection, it expanded it. What it replaced was listening to the radio to find new stuff.

    For video I'm more with you. I'm happy to rely on word of mouth. Especially since the streaming services drop movies all the time and discriminate against watching in a browser. Getting a good rip means you can watch it anywhere, anytime, and not have to worry about it disappearing.

  • I'm something of an Open-Source-Developer myself
  • I have a couple of very minor commits in Linux and, in the 3.0 era, had my name at the top of a source file for a platform that never saw the light of day and was later removed wholesale.

    Still feel that invisible feather in my cap.

  • ScIence
  • Bah, Imperial Units all the way. How else would I know how many stone I weigh, or how many King's Pubes I am tall? I don't want to convert from kilometers (whatever those are!) to gentlemans-strides or shilling miles to get where I'm going.

  • I cannot enable `HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE` - Kernel compile
  • Basically just start with what you're aiming to enable and work backwards (as you've started to do). With judicious use of grep find out where that symbol is defined. If it's in arch configs for other arches but not your own, it's probably that.

    There may be better tools out there to do this, but in my experience just sleuthing it out a bit will answer your question. The Kconfig system can be complex, but the files are pretty readable.

  • Is the FDA good or bad?
  • Ideally the FDA should not be swayed by business interests, but everything controlled by our government is. That said, you want the FDA to exist and protect us from bullshit snake oil products and keep corporations from lacing our food with cheap poisons and carcinogens.

    Trump gutting the organization makes it go from "could do better" to "actively subverting its own purpose."

  • Diablo 4 lead claims players don’t actually want classic Diablo back as modern gamers are too “consumptive”
  • It's subjective. Easy builds can be super fun. Especially if you earned it by getting some gear. It's also an accessibility issue. Not everyone is 25 years old with lightning reflexes (or, conversely, not everyone has 20 years of history with the genre).

    Anyway, my point was only that if you're bored with being OP, try something different. If you think you're invincible but killing things is a slog, maybe shift your gear to be more offensive etc. The way these games work, difficulty is entirely up to you.

  • Diablo 4 lead claims players don’t actually want classic Diablo back as modern gamers are too “consumptive”
  • I enjoyed D3 and D4, I think they both do difficulty well (at this point, D3 was stupid at launch). In both there are now hundreds of fine grained tiers you can shift up or down to find the right difficulty for your gear/build/skill.

    That said, holding down a button to win is more of a build issue unless you're running embarrassingly low difficulty. There will always be easy builds and more challenging, technical, timing based builds. Finding a fun build is part of the fun of ARPGs.

  • Hello pirates, I am looking to start sailing the seas again but it's been a while looking for hardware requirements?
  • Sorry, why would Jellyfin be different from Plex for exposing to the Internet? Dynamic DNS service / static IP and router port forwarding just like any other self hosted thing. It requires a user/pass to login as usual. VPN is nice but not required.

  • www.mlb.com Dodgers get their ace, agree to $325M deal with Yamamoto (source)

    The winter of the Dodgers keeps rolling on, with Los Angeles agreeing to a deal with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the top ace on the market, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The contract is for 12 years and is worth $325 million, per a source. The team has not confirmed the

    Dodgers get their ace, agree to $325M deal with Yamamoto (source)
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    www.mlb.com Dodgers get their ace, agree to $325M deal with Yamamoto (source)

    The winter of the Dodgers keeps rolling on, with Los Angeles agreeing to a deal with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the top ace on the market, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The contract is for 12 years and is worth $325 million, per a source. The team has not confirmed the

    Dodgers get their ace, agree to $325M deal with Yamamoto (source)
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    www.usatoday.com Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers agree on 10-year, $700 million deal

    Shohei Ohtani announced on his Instagram account Saturday that he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a 10-year deal worth $700 million.

    Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers agree on 10-year, $700 million deal
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