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xthexder

@ xthexder @l.sw0.com

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  • Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

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  • If there's not enough power to run a manufacturing plant without impacting residents, then the generation needs to be expanded before anything can be built anyway.

    Luckily renewable energy is the cheapest form of new electricity to build. I see no problem with making new manufacturing plants build/pay for their own power generation as well. The cost of installation is probably a tiny fraction of the cost of the actual manufacturing equipment or GPUs if it's an AI data center.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers

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  • I'd actually be genuinely curious to see how it compares to taxi drivers, bus drivers, or ubers. Since they drive professionally, you'd hope they'd drive a bit safer than the average human.

    I'm sure nothing will be able to compete with the safety numbers of trains or just being close enough to walk though.

  • Windows Marketshare since 2010

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  • The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where...

    You get the idea

  • Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM

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  • I just spent $200 on a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB :/

    I'm finally swapping my main PC to Linux full time and ended up buying an entire new boot drive rather than dealing with shuffling files around to make space.

  • It's a feature.

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  • Didn't The Crew shut down servers recently anyway? I thought that was the catalyst for Stop Killing Games

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • You'd need to set up a firewall rule on your router to block that device from accessing the internet. If you've got a fancy enough router you could set up a VLAN and second SSID for all your IoT things and only whitelist connections and devices you want to allow. That can get a little tricky to set up though

  • More code = more better

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  • This is actually a valid brainf*ck program, but it results in 19, not 10.

  • what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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  • I've been working on my own game engine for years, and there's all sorts of cool stuff it can do, but recently I've been expanding the scripting to be capable of streaming images to the GPU.

    Today I got Doom running inside my engine as a hot-reloadable plugin script:Video: https://wednesdayos.sw0.com/share/2025-12-13_00-25-14.mp4

    The engine has real-time bounce lighting using a highly modified voxel cone tracing algorithm I developed (doesn't require ray tracing hardware), which I've been able to get running even on my Steam Deck!

    Video: https://wednesdayos.sw0.com/share/2025-03-21%2023-50-29.mp4

    The whole thing is open source here: https://github.com/frustra/strayphotons

  • What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be?

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  • I see, so you're talking about ISPs splitting up service into multiple packages like a cable company. I guess multiplying an existing subscription counts as a new subscription 👍

  • What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be?

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  • Your ISP and Netflix already charge subscriptions, what other "part of the internet" is left to charge for? There's several subscriptions for social media as well if you count blue checkmarks and the like.

  • Liberal vs leftist

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  • The free market will decide it's actually more profitable to shut down bus service entirely and pivot to helping ICE transport bus loads of "illegal immigrants".

  • RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage

    Lol, this is news? Where have they been the last 15 years?

    In other news, the sky is blue.

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • Call it survivorship/selection bias if you want, but basically every hack I've been exposed to is from centralized servers getting exploited that serve millions of people. Plex, along with any other public facing service with lots of users, receives targeted attacks constantly. All my server receives is automated bots looking for 10-year-old Wordpress .php exploits (I don't even run php on my server).

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • Yeah, I'm not really worried about it. I changed my password and moved on. It's just that hackers have every reason to try and exploit Plex, while individual servers are hardly worth someone's time and effort to go after when the payoff is maybe 1-2 usernames and emails

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • If you have a static IP, or dynamic DNS set up, you can set up your own remote access with a reverse proxy like nginx. The nice thing is I get to use my own SSL certificate and all the actual streaming goes directly to my server, not through their proxies.

    The only "hacky" part about it is that the Admin dashboard shows "Not available outside your network", even though everything works perfectly.

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • The security thing is ironic because my personal Jellyfin server (nor anything else on it) has been hacked, but Plex itself has had their database leaked recently. It's actually the main reason I switched because I don't like their auth servers being a giant common target. (Also, technically it theoretically means Plex employees can just let themselves in to people's private servers)

  • Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

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  • Those specs sound like HDMI 2 anyway. HDMI 2.1 can do 4K @ 144Hz with HDR. Or apparently even 10K @ 120Hz.

  • Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

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  • The adapters have circuity inside, they exist. It's small enough to still just look like a cable because they fit the chip in a plug end.

  • Beyond Steam Machine: Why Valve's New ARM Support Shouldn't Be Overlooked

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  • Haha, I didn't even realize but the resolution is actually identical. My first laptop was a min-spec Macbook gen 1 (first Intel CPU model). It's the same 1280x800. The modern LCD (or OLED) on a Steam Deck looks way better obviously, and they're different DPI, but the performance hit is identical.

  • The more you look, the worse this gets. I've been enjoying some lively Discord derision on a few servers, so I thought I'd share the pain.

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  • Considering the garage points that way, that might be the front? There's a problem with basically every part of it. The scale is completely off, since the common room looks more like a town hall.