Story by a game dev who gave up on Rust after 3 years https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

hardcoded into android

This explains so much! Thanks

FYI 90.6% of all votes are upvotes.

following the first report’s publication, TikTok disabled its hashtag measurement functionality in a move that made it impossible for the researchers to replicate their findings.

To have any chance of doing serious CAD work in a VM you are going to need to set up GPU passthrough so the guest OS can access the GPU directly. AFAIK Virtualbox doesn’t do this. Some hints about further research can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU_virtualization.

I strongly doubt Windows will be faster in a VM, that’s a pretty bold claim. But it should be possible to get it to an ok level.

Yes although I’m more troubled by what we do *to ourselves* when we imply that sometimes political assassination is ok. On the left, integrity matters not because the opponents might one day be swayed by it but because without it we have already become what we fight against.

There will be assassination attempts on Biden as a result of this event. When they happen, how would you want ‘the right’ to react?

Let’s take the high road.

What do you want those users to be able to do with their accounts?

A CMS like Drupal or Wordpress might be what you want.

It’s hard to recommend something when you haven’t described the purpose. Having users register accounts is just a means to some end.

The headline had me hoping for things like “Xinjiang - how we incarcerated 1 million people for only $5k pp / year” or “Integrating vassel states - lessons from Hong Kong” or “The Tibet Journey” or “Propaganda for fun and profit Steve Bannon edition”.

Nope 😴

Yeah, I read the whole thing. It was a good story but I felt that when it came time to “deliver the goods” they fell a bit short. For example, this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/final-image-global-south.png. That is under the heading “Clearly authoritarian”, which seems pretty strong for such a boring sounding course.

I stand by my earlier comment.

I wish they were able to find better examples of the courses and the content (not just the summary from marketing materials). The examples they provided were really tame.

in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry.

Very succinctly put!

In the Constitution of China you’ll find a section where it explicitly states that the interests of the group outweigh those of the individual. It’s baked into the legal bedrock.

I made https://www.chorebuster.net which does that.

It’s is not self hosted or FOSS but it has a one-time lifetime license or a very cheap subscription. Free 1 month trial.

Like a blog?

Check out Wordpress, Hugo or Ghost.

FYI the german word for “emotion triggered by a combination of sad, funny and stupid dystopia” is “Traludystopieunglücklichkomik”.

ChatGPT told me.

Ubuntu has a set of scripts you can run to harden a new server (not advisable on a server that has already been configured for something). You need an Ubuntu Pro subscription to access them but you can get a free trial and then cancel it after you’ve finished.

More info at https://ubuntu.com/security/cis.

I did this process for a customer recently and it was pretty straightforward and much much more thorough (over 100 configuration changes) than just tweaking SSH and fail2ban.

I expect other commercially-oriented distros offer something similar.

Israel is using an AI called Lavender to decide who is or isn’t a militant, and another one called Where’s Daddy to track them until they were home to kill the whole family. You might wonder who was providing the servers and computer infrastructure for that…

Time magazine may have a part of the answer: Google

https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

It’s quite disarming, isn’t it?

But the nice happy guys coding the thing now are not the ones who are going to make the decisions later which will bring about the extend + extinguish phases, the ads, the crypto or whatever form the enshittification takes.

They both implement the ACME protocol internally, allowing them to integrate with services like Let’s Encrypt to automate regularly obtaining the certificates needed to offer HTTPS.

I did not realise this. Very nice, I’ll be trying Caddy on my next server!

It depends

Netlify has the highest network data transfer fees. If you’re going to use them, you must have a CDN.

They wrote their own GUI toolkit (oof) and it’s hardware accelerated (argh), so OS portability is going to be unusually difficult unless they planned for it from the beginning. No mention of that in the article, so I doubt they did.

Check out Magic Mirror or Dakboard.

Being mediocre is fine. And you can’t expect to feel competent after 2 years, especially if you’re not in a supportive environment. Maybe 5 years. It took me muuuch longer than 5… This stuff is hard, don’t expect to master it quickly.

GPUs these days use a whole lot of power. Ensure your power supply is specced appropriately.

or they could just comply with the law:

sites will have to provide a reason to users when their content or account has been moderated, and offer them a way of complaining and challenging the decision. There are also rules around giving users the ability to flag illegal goods and services found on a platform.

Doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.

Wow, the big providers are $$$$

I’ve been using it heavily for the last 6 months. It’s been great, considering it’s running on a shoestring, volunteers, etc.

Also, this: https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infrastructure.html

Try the PyCharm IDE. It’s really smart and helpful. The free ‘community edition’ is fine.

There was a discussion in this community about this 2 days ago. Check it out - https://lemmy.world/post/10777395

Admitting that your tech requires fusion power is admitting that it is a fantasy.

Cloudflare has been controversial for dragging their feet when it was time to stop providing protection to nazi websites like The Daily Stormer, 8chan and Kiwi Farms. Also the Taliban, ISIS and so on More about this.

For this reason, a lot of fediverse servers do not use CloudFlare.