Thanks for the link! I didn’t know about this study. Interesting. And not so surprising, maybe, if you followed the technical discussions that surrounded the design of MV3 at the time.

Been very tired and without energy lately, so, basically only comfort games. Which apparently means Silksong right now.

Well damn, that’s a super thorough answer! Thank you so much! ❤️

Those of that list I’ve played, I definitely enjoyed. Celeste in particular is special.

I haven’t played Shovel Knight but I’m really intrigued by Mina the Hollower from the same studio, and will likely grab it sometime!

Wow, that’s incredible. I feel pretty much the exact opposite (and don’t get me started on Silksong, I’ll rave for days) but that must mean there’s a game I missed that’s your Hollow Knight? Please tell me about it!

Depends on your RAM (main + GPU), but assuming 32GB total: Qwen 3.6 35B A3B for coding support, Gemma 4 26B for general stuff. The LM Studio app curates a list of recommended models that will run well in it and makes it easy to run them.

Mind you, what I like most about local models is their limitations, because it turns out closed models have limitations of the same nature, just with quite a bit more runway; and becoming aware of those limitations is valuable.

That’s a very, very short time for such a major change. Makes me wonder what currently green ecosystems we take for granted a bit too easily.

But it also makes me wonder whether a reversal is within human reach. To start with, cheap solar potentially enables desalinization and irrigation at unprecedented scales… What a nice thing to feel optimistic about, if nothing else.

That’s not been quite true in a long time.

When it used to happen, there were a couple of issues involved.

It used to be that Linux identified partitions (“slices” of hard drive) by number, and when Windows changed its own layout in a way that caused that number to change, Linux could fail to boot. But these days partitions have a unique identifier that doesn’t change even when the layout of the hard drive does, and Linux uses these identifiers to keep track of its partitions. So this issue is gone.

It used to be that installing a boot loader involved taking over the first sector of the hard drive and OSes would fight over that sector on install and during updates. But these days there is a mechanism where OSes can put their individual loaders side by side in a special partition and the PC BIOS lets you choose which loader to use. At worst Windows can only update the default choice. It’s been known to do that, but it’s easy enough to change back. There are tools that let you do so right from inside Windows.

So yes, dual-booting Linux and Windows is safe and easy these days. Keeping them on separate drives isn’t even necessary anymore.

This, too, shall pass.

NO! This is not just false, it’s dangerously false.

If a country takes measures to emit 500M less tons of CO2 per year, the result is… 500M less tons of CO2 in the air per year than otherwise. That helps!

There isn’t a single fucked/not fucked threshold. There are a lot of nuances of fucked and each one we dodge puts us in an incrementally less awful place. Who knows how many more lives saved for each Mton CO2 not produced. Who knows how many species get to live, how many fewer days of heatwave per year, how many more glaciers survive.

I STG, “we’re already fucked anyway” is oil shill talk. Fuck that noise, let’s make oil obsolete, let’s avoid entire shades of fucked, we’ve already made insane progress with renewables and electric cars, let’s just keep going! Let’s pressure our individual politicians because you know the fuckers love it when you give up! You on board?

OH. 😂

Just wanna quickly applaud the writing in this comment. Conveying a show’s vibes this effectively in just a few sentences is not easy.

(What’s the long-payoff Andor joke though? I may have missed it.)

I’ll venture, it’s a natural if misdirected immune reaction from people who are all too aware they are being tracked ceaselessly and relentlessly, all day, everyday, not to their benefit. So sure, this one piece of software swears its own tracking is just for debugging purposes… But why risk it?

I know how MV3 works, thanks. The point remains that from the moment it was announced people have been claiming, usually with much hyperbole, that Chrome was trying to kill adblockers, and yet here we are with adblockers still blocking ads. In terms of software engineering, I actually find it interesting that they managed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a certain class of malware extensions while letting adblockers still work (though I know it’s not a widely shared sentiment).

Mind you, I still preferred living in an MV2 world, and I still encourage people to switch to Firefox. It’s better for everyone if the ecosystem is more diverse.

uBlock dragged its feet supporting MV3 but AdGuard works fine.

Yup, some do! There’s a whole spectrum out there. My point is, though, that some don’t, and that’s okay.

Except the aces, which is fine too.

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Seattle is pretty great, as US cities go. NYC is hit and miss but also feels like a place where real people live real lives.

Naples is breathtaking, but… Yeah. That constant niggling feeling dampens the experience a wee bit.

You better start believing in furry stories on the Internet. You’re in one. The joke that furries run the Internet is only a joke until you discover that it’s, in fact, largely true.