matcha_addict

@ matcha_addict @lemy.lol

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2mo ago

Building from source - disadvantages?
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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 2mo ago
Not with gentoo!

3mo ago

Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

I am yet to hear a justification for opposing illegal immigration that doesn't tie back into racism or racial prejudice, let alone a justification that actually makes sense if you take it apart.

Someone prove me wrong, and I'll change my mind.

3mo ago

The golden age of real-time strategy returns? Dying Breed releases October 7

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 3mo ago

Any recs?

3mo ago

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 3mo ago

Nothing wrong with paying for biased journalism, as long as it's high quality.

New York times and walk street journal both publish a bunch of propaganda, but also have high quality stuff and I find it worth subscribing.

3mo ago

i found this website that has linux native games is it safe?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 3mo ago

I tried using bubble wrap for this purpose, but it's too difficult and doesn't seem to target this use case.

3mo ago

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 3mo ago

Is this a robot.txt alternative?

4mo ago

PSA: Flatpak likes to mess with GPU drivers. If you experience terrible performance with Flatpak Heroic, try this

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 4mo ago

Yeah I also thought the same thing. It's interesting that it still works, just really poorly.

4mo ago

PSA: Flatpak likes to mess with GPU drivers. If you experience terrible performance with Flatpak Heroic, try this

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 4mo ago

This is because flatpak has a layer of isolation and installs its own copy of the drivers. If your system driver gets updated, then the flatpak one isn't matching.

If you update your system, you should always update everything, including flatpak.

4mo ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 4mo ago

Final Fantasy: strangers of paradise

It has a co-op mode (up to 3 players), which is a huge plus for me.

Whats great:

variety of weapons and combat styles
aesthetics
Variety of enemies
co-op mode

Whats decent:

combat
character customizations
level design

Whats meh:

exploration and rewards

Whats not good

story. Wasn't really interesting and some parts I didn't understand.

Overall I really enjoyed it, because not many coop games I can play with loved ones.

5mo ago

A theory I have

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

The reason is because company decisions are largely driven by investors, and investors want their big investments in AI to return something.

Investors want constant growth, even if it must be shoehorned.

5mo ago

First of all, I would ask them if they're familiar with the boycott and the reasons why it is happening. If they are, ask them them if they have a reason not to participate. Based on that, and how serious the cause behind the boycott is, I would judge.

5mo ago

Arch Linux limitations?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

Arch is not the most widely supported distro (as in supported by the creators of programs). You will see it supported most by some of the more indie open source programs, but beyond that, Debian and Ubuntu are more likely to be explicitly supported.

Arch definitely requires you to read. It's a distro for those who want to assume greater amount of choice and freedom in their system. If you prefer an out of the box experience, try another distro.

5mo ago

Arch Linux limitations?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

Arch's limitation is that you kinda have to stick with the latest version of things. This is usually a good limitation, and imo better than the limitation of having to stick with an old frozen version.

Depending on the package, trying an older version may not work or even break the system if dependencies or reverse dependencies are expecting it to be a certain version, which is often the case.

5mo ago

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

I love open platforms, open standards, open source, and interoperability! I like that I can choose lemmy as my preferred way of posting to social media, but someone can read my content in their preferred format as lemmy supports federating to other platforms as well as distributing content via RSS.

I also love the lemmy culture. Anytime I ask questions here, I get some very thoughtful, educated and unique answers that I cannot seem to get anywhere else. The content I see on lemmy is the exact type I wish for. I only wish there was more of it.

5mo ago

Tesseract has been discontinued

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

If you just make it public it wouldn't be an announcement, and it wouldn't have the irreplaceable first impression effect that you fear, because the only people who will see it are the very curious ones like I am.

At least explain to us what it's all about if you won't post it. I would love to know and see if I would be interested in contributing!

5mo ago

I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

I don't want to watch the people who aspire to do it as a job. They saw some influences online who are profit driven and think they can get similarly rich. Many see it as an easy job (it's not).

I want to watch people motivated by their thirst for creativity and sharing knowledge, and if money comes their way they will see it as secondary. I would prefer them to do something else as a job.

5mo ago

[Technical] Why not Fanout via static files or CDNs in the Fediverse?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

bringing up RSS feeds is actually very good, because although you can paginate or partition your feeds, I have never seen a feed that does that, even when they have decades of history. But if needed, partioning is an option so you don't have to pull all of its posts but only recent ones, or by date/time range.

I would also respectfully disagree that people don't subscribe to 100's of RSS feeds. I would bet most people who consistently use RSS feed readers will have more than 100 feeds, me included.

And last, even if you follow 10,000, yes it would require a lot more time than reading from a single database, but it is still on the order of double digit seconds at most. If you compare 10,000 static file fetches with 10,000 database writes across different instances, I think the static files would fare better. This isn't to mention that you are more likely to have to write more than read more (users with 100k followers are far more common than users with 100k subscriptions)

And just to emphasize, I do agree that double digit seconds would be quite long for a user's loading time, which is why I would expect to fetch regularly so the user logs onto a pre made news feed.

5mo ago

[Technical] Why not Fanout via static files or CDNs in the Fediverse?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

Sure, but constantly having to do it is not really a bad thing, given it is automated and those reads are quite inexpensive compared to a database query. It's a lot easier to handle heavy loads when serving static files.

5mo ago

[Technical] Why not Fanout via static files or CDNs in the Fediverse?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

Yes, precisely. The existing implementation in the Fediverse does the opposite: everyone you follow has to insert their posts into the feed of everyone that follows them, which has its own issues.

5mo ago

[Technical] Why not Fanout via static files or CDNs in the Fediverse?

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matcha_addict @lemy.lol 5mo ago

Oh my bad, I can explain that.

Before I do, one benefit of this method is that your timeline is entirely up to your client. Your instance becomes primarily tasked with making your posts available, and clients have the freedom of implementing the reading and news feed / timeline formation.

Hence, there are a few ways to do this. The best one is probably a mix of those.

Naive approach: fetch posts and build news feed when user requests it

This is not a good approach, but I mention it first because it'll make explaining the next one easier.

User opens app or website, thereby requesting their timeline / news feed
server fetches list of user's subscriptions and followees
for each followee or subscription, server fetches their content via their static file wherever they are hosted
server performs whatever filtering and ordering of content they want
user sees the result

Cons: loading time for the user may be long, depending on how many subscriptions they have it could be several seconds. P90 may even be in double digits.

Better approach: pre-build user's timeline periodically.

Think like a periodic job (hourly, or every 10 min, etc) , which fetches posts in a similar manner as described above, but instead of doing it when user requests it, it is done in advance

Pros:

fast loading time compared to previous solution
when the job runs, if users on the same instance share a followee or subscription, we don't have to query it twice (This benefit already exists on current fediverse implementations) Cons: posts aren't real-time, delayed by the batch job frequency.

Best approach: hybrid

In this approach, we primarily do the second method, to achieve fast loading time. But to get more up-to-date content, we also simultaneously fetch the latest in the background, and interleave or add the latest posts as the user scrolls.

This way we get both fast initial load times and recent posts.

Surely there's other good approaches. As I said in the beginning, clients have the freedom to implement this however they like.