Posts by rastilin@aus.social
(DIR) Post #ARXLBYO0HSYDxzozj6 by rastilin@aus.social
2023-01-11T14:13:40Z
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@CKsTechNews I'm on an ancient version of Windows 7 and have been rolling along fine for ages. These screens. Oh wow, when was the last time Microsoft's technical support did anything. Never. When did they last give a useful software update for a released version, in the far remote past.Security updates might be a thing if they weren't all for pretend non-issues and packaged together with more telemetry and nagvertising. There's one for-serious security issue that's been found in 7 since it was depreciated, and Microsoft pushed out a KB fix for it. But that was an actual for-real security threat.
(DIR) Post #ASIzPfNK5KVCCyo4W0 by rastilin@aus.social
2023-02-03T14:34:02Z
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@Tilopa So it's basically an admission then?
(DIR) Post #ASRgCSSSeLCtfwpzMG by rastilin@aus.social
2023-02-07T19:11:36Z
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@slashdot This seems false. It's not accessible, they haven't added anything.
(DIR) Post #AV11xwmOq5DhM5lnOK by rastilin@aus.social
2023-04-25T16:14:34Z
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@nkizz @same Exactly. 99% of security issues are a fantasy. No one's running timing attacks on a desktop running Skyrim.
(DIR) Post #AY0rUwPrVL5LlNxXnc by rastilin@aus.social
2023-07-24T07:53:33Z
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@itsecbot A guest essay by the CEO of an organization that sells passwordless authentication. Isn't that just called a sales pitch?
(DIR) Post #AYYe0B8oCGaWfIBxE8 by rastilin@aus.social
2023-08-09T14:50:53Z
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@moralrecordings @retronianne Yeah, now I just roll my eyes at these greenwashing efforts. It's all "we use ugly packaging for the environment ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ", no mention of the illegal dumping from their waste plants or the massive tire fire they keep burning 24/7 to ward off spying drones from the competition.I exaggerate, but probably not by that much.
(DIR) Post #AYfULl4w8cQAllkegK by rastilin@aus.social
2023-08-12T22:17:21Z
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@tomjennings Yeah, I don't really see the problem with this. The writers of "Talk To Jesus AI" aren't breaking any laws and are pretty clear no actual religious advisors are involved at all. The project is just what it says on the box.
(DIR) Post #AZ2AxdYPjor185WDJY by rastilin@aus.social
2023-08-23T20:58:09Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Don't worry, I'm already on the paranoia train about this.
(DIR) Post #AaIHa1OKZopAiFMJay by rastilin@aus.social
2023-09-29T02:28:18Z
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@bastardsheep @randahl @ghost_shit Also, I don't understand why Elon cares about the border, like, what's it to him? I think he only cares because it's pandering, which actually mystifies me even more that he's not pro Ukraine.This is someone who really wants to be a popular figure for the right wingers because he sees how much attention people like Jordan Peterson get, and he knows he won't get that kind of love from left leaning supporters.
(DIR) Post #AlTIjl866UViVl0Q4G by rastilin@aus.social
2024-08-29T14:08:23Z
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@crazyeddie @scherzog @lina The worst part is that in benchmarks, Rust beats out C++ and is only very slightly slower than C (by 7%), but would probably be more secure and more reliable in practice.It might also be faster than C in production since it can better optimize itself.
(DIR) Post #AlTpIZ505tTpo8CJdY by rastilin@aus.social
2024-08-30T03:32:54Z
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@Archivist @crazyeddie @scherzog @lina I dug around for the article so I could reference it and I've linked it here.https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/Their tests might be a bit simplistic, but even in more complex tests, Rust might be able to optimize more heavily in situations where C wouldn't be able to.
(DIR) Post #AltbRiJGnam1nBIZHM by rastilin@aus.social
2024-09-11T13:55:17Z
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@internetarchive The idea of "lending" ebooks was always a bit strange. Especially as "Print on Demand" is becoming cheaper.
(DIR) Post #Aruh4UEAnDdJWERQYK by rastilin@aus.social
2025-03-10T13:45:18Z
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@SuperDicq The Fandom wiki does seem to be something of a blight. Even when they're empty they crowd the search results, they're filled with ads, they're wayy to slow even while empty. Just awful in every way.
(DIR) Post #AtJx6g4RiyGH1YKrR2 by rastilin@aus.social
2025-04-21T16:09:09Z
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@kaia That does look kind of nice. But unfortunately I've heard it's not a real product.
(DIR) Post #AtJxPFYiWDNaIkLmuu by rastilin@aus.social
2025-04-21T16:12:41Z
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@kaia I did some searching on the internet, but the only link I found is this one "https://gizmodo.com/that-viral-photo-of-roundmeal-macaroni-and-beef-product-1846980589" which refers to the Henton's images we're seeing here, and they're apparently Photoshopped by "Alan Wagner".
(DIR) Post #AtJxUA9m21eWzi1fsm by rastilin@aus.social
2025-04-21T16:14:01Z
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@kaia I looked it up because I wanted to try one. It does look kind of tempting as a bread-thing.
(DIR) Post #AwWRG5fuHYiAoMAt3Q by rastilin@aus.social
2025-07-26T10:17:27Z
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@arichtman @untsuki The scheduler video sounds awesome, do you have a link?
(DIR) Post #AyxvAw9xi96YzZwKQa by rastilin@aus.social
2025-10-07T12:17:24Z
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@wolf480pl @eta Oh wow, my condolences. I was thinking that every single time I've tried to work with the "advanced" devops services, I ran into time consuming and expensive issues that were always much worse than if I'd just run everything on a VPS and pushed out code with SFTP.
(DIR) Post #Az6KyRfNPWKn1617lA by rastilin@aus.social
2025-10-11T12:42:39Z
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@N33R Now I'm really curious which online videogames appeal to someone who used to run a country.EDIT: I'm also really curious if he's any good or not.EDIT2: Is it strange that I have more respect for someone who's willing to take his money and just chill out instead of buying a social media company or trying to get into politics or something else?
(DIR) Post #AzirhH0Ea5mSe5p8bo by rastilin@aus.social
2025-10-30T03:49:49Z
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@ricci That was my takeaway from all this as well. Every additional redundancy also seems to add a new single point of failure to manage it, so your cost goes up, but your effective reliability does not.The only way a system would be actually redundant would be if the protocol was something like bittorrent, where your servers operate completely independently and don't need a central point to route users between them.