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Alex

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FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

  • words to live by 🙏

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  • One of the things I like about Horizon Zero Dawn is they introduced cosmetics so you didn't have to compromise your visual style for the right set of numbers for your current opponents.

  • TIL that right-wing commentator Jeremy Hambly's (AKA The Quartering) first Youtube channel was about claw machines

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  • The term I've heard is the "right wing grift drift". Even the left leaning Russell Brand went through the drift when he got cancelled after SA accusations.

  • Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support

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  • Modern machines have TPM so we can do attested boot and validate a system hasn't been tampered with. They don't need third party kernel modules to test that.

  • "Yes, Games Really Were Cooler Years Ago" | f4mi

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  • Well that looks fascinating. The first thing I thought was the Colin Mcray coders night have been ex-demo scene or at least aficionados of it.

  • Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83

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  • Fundamentally the reason they want to use kernel modules is to observe the system for other executables interfering with the game. This is a hacky solution at best

    The TPM hardware can support attested boot so you can verify with the hardware nothing but the verified kernel and userspace is running. That gives you the same guarantees but without letting third parties mess with your kernel.

  • Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices | Igalia

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  • It's nice to see Valve and Igalia see the benefit of open GPU drivers for Proton and FEX utilise.

  • The important reason why we stopped running our food bank

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  • It's an interesting model they have moved to (heavily discounted food Vs donations). There is probably more work to do on wages and energy costs as time to cook is the greatest reason people don't make healthy food.

  • Steam Machine

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  • I would have thought unified memory would pay off, otherwise you spend your time shuffling stuff between system memory and vram. Isn't the deck unified memory?

  • Minisforum launches its first ARM-based Mini PC with a full x16 PCIe slot for discrete GPUs — The MS-R1 packs a 12-core Cixin P1 SoC with up to 64 GB of RAM and generous IO, starting at $500

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  • I'll believe it when someone has put a discrete GPU in the slot that runs with open drivers and no hacky workarounds for the PCIe bus.

  • Meta can't afford its $600B [data centre spend] love letter to Trump

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  • Google, who are not short of a few bob, raised $25B in bond issues so they can keep up with AI build out. All of big tech seen terrified they will be left behind if they don't have oodles of floating point compute on tap.

  • ‘Pluribus’ Review: Rhea Seehorn Is a Funny, Sad Marvel in Vince Gilligan’s Evasive Apple TV Multi-Genre Original

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  • Foundation was the first sci-fi I remember reading but I don't understand what people want when they ask for a faithful adaptation. The individual characters weren't especially well written, the dialog is very rooted in the 50s/60s that Asimov was writing in and the constant reference to atomics was also a function of the time.

    To me Foundation is about grand space opera and the rise and fall of empires. I think the TV show captures that pretty well. The narrative hacks to introduce recurring characters across the seasons never really bothered me. The inventions and embellishments of the "lore" basically modernise the story and that is fine.

  • What software do you use to aggregate email in a single interface?

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  • mu4e inside my Emacs session.

  • Hong Kong legislature now an 'echo chamber', four years after shake-up

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  • When the transition from colonial rule happened there was a (naive?) belief that China needed Hong Kong's dynamism in a rapidly globalising world. Time has proved that not to be the case and I guess Hong Kong just withers and is subsumed into the mainland while a brain drain of those that can leave continues.

  • Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hardware Acceleration

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  • I ran into something similar when in haste I went from Raspbian Stretch to plain Bookworm and discovered the Debian version of Kodi didn't have all the userspace drivers to drive the hardware decoding. In the end I worked around it by running Kodi from a container with stretch in it until the official Raspbian Bookworm got released. Maybe you could build a stretch based container for your VLC setup?

  • Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !?

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  • Did you ever play with the audio visualiser? I believe it was built in with the CD-ROM drive? What about Tempest 2000?

  • Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !?

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  • I never got a Jaguar despite being a signed up Atari fan boy at the time. The hardware was ridiculously complex which made ports to it a hard sell and Atari just didn't have the first party exclusive clout needed to sustain a console at launch.

    I do wish I'd had a chance to play with some of Jeff Minter's creations on it though. Apparently there was a nice audio visualiser that built on the trip-a-tron from the ST days as well as some reboots of classic arcade games like Tempest 2000.

  • Is the US currently in a recession or entering one?

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  • Anyone working there during the shutdown?

  • Worth it

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  • Has anyone compiled a Gowron arc watchlist?

  • Just Stop Oil activists who attempted to spray paint Taylor Swift's private jet spared jail

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  • I assume the defendant had mentioned as way of mitigation?

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    This Autism stat makes no sense

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    QEMU version 10.0.0 released

    www.qemu.org /2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/
  • Free Software @lemmy.zip
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    QEMU version 10.0.0 released

    www.qemu.org /2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Can't add matter devices with f-droid companion app

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What ever happened to QAnon?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

    fishshell.com /blog/rustport/
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:​ (@mainframed767@infosec.exchange)

    infosec.exchange /users/mainframed767/statuses/112180749990584294
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    A week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next week

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Controllable water valves?