It’s pretty spot on.

Most nerds I know (including sysadms) started out on Android because of all the reasons you’d expect. Most of them now use iOS / iPadOS because, at home, they want things to Just Work - and have the available income to throw at the problem. Desktop-wise many of them have used Macs on and off, but it seems like lately they trend Windows and Linux again. Probably because macOS has become more hassle than it’s worth with the continued locking down, increased paranoia, lower flexibility and ridiculous storage prices. It used to be that you could work around the storage prices, but these days it’s practically impossible to run programs from somewhere other than Applications if you want your system to stay up to date. Macs just aren’t the great *nix alternative that they used to be, and while Windows is still pretty awful for my use, Linux as a desktop/gaming system is getting better every day. At least so far. I miss when macOS became more useful for every release. The big releases these days break more than they fix for me.

Good thing some clients will remain incompatible with the new features, then. On the other hand, IRC clients have always been some of the most configurable pieces of software with lots of options to choose from, so I am sure it will be possible to avoid most of the nonsense even in v3 clients.

No reactions, emojis, previews of images and videos? Sounds like heaven.

Discord is creepy if you examine the information they like to collect. On Android, for example, there are 11 unique data points. That’s not just an email.

Personally, if I see a software project on Discord, I nope out. I have made very few exceptions and every time I have come to the conclusion that it is not worth it. Discord isn’t really good for anything other than what it was designed for: Persistent IRC - plus a voice chat option. It’s perfectly fine to chat with a bunch of friends and play some games together. But that is about it.

It is terrible for tracking subjects, for finding information, for storing information, and for engaging in chats across more than one instance. It is unintuitive to navigate, and while they have made improvements, it is up to the user to make a server bearable to navigate by hiding the flood of channels that the average instance contains. Even so, Discord will still try to show you things you have explicitly disabled as a “suggestion”. Discord is bloody intolerable.

So yes, you may grow a community quickly because the people who already use Discord can jump on there. You will, however, lose a bunch of users wiling and able to use a better option who are, most likely, more experienced web users - and sick of the Discord bullshit. While this certainly includes me, I have seen the same sentiment again and again in my feeds. Power users tend to loathe Discord.

Thanks for the heads-up on this. I was entirely oblivious to the existence of custom content.

These stunts should be ignored by the media now. Stop giving the clowns the attention they seek. It is every single bloody time. I’m not even American and still I’m sick of hearing about the idiocy of this small group of extremists.

Yes. A nice, brief history here: https://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/eric_graham/juggler.aviVE.html

There’s a huge difference between real-time ray-tracing and playing back ray-tracing. The fact that the whole Juggler demo was created and pre-rendered fully on an Amiga was impressive for sure, but that’s not what we mean today when we talk about ray-tracing.

It’s a little ridiculous how people misunderstand this issue. This is literally to do away with the extremely privacy-invasive tracking that has been done using cookies and telemetry for years. You will be tracked less in Chrome than you did before, because the browser will hand off less information to sites you visit and there will be a degree of randomisation. This is to get rid of cookies soon, and to randomise the information a site gets when you visit instead of the whole deal.

It is, of course, more personalised than blocking all cookies and randomising telemetry, but if you were doing that, I expect you weren’t using Chrome to begin with. Using a Chrome browser with Topics is inherently more privacy-forward than using Chrome as it has been so far. Honestly, I hope that the deprecation of cookies will even help *Fox users down the lines as they become irrelevant to a large part of the web users.

If you want a solid explanation of what is actually happening with Topics, Security Now episode 935 explains the details. The transcript dives into Topics on page 9, explains the technicalities on page 12 and if you just want the conclusion, you can skip to the penultimate page and read the last few paragraphs in here: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-935-notes.pdf (you can listen as well if you’d rather.)

Unlike Web Integrity Protection this is a reasonable step in the right direction. Can it break down the line? Sure. But then we’re back at where we were. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to use Firefox and Safari and hope that this will eventually help stop the cookie banner nightmare on those browsers as well (even if the cookies do nothing.)

I know this will probably be unpopular, but that’s part of why I’m throwing it in here. Microsoft ToDo started out as a hot pile of garbage after they took over a great to-do app. These days it’s genuinely pretty great, though. Especially if part of what you do involves Outlook or Exchange. You can flag mails and have them show up in a to-do section, it will semi-intelligently suggest things to do next based on things in your to do-list, if you use planner or tasks at work, your things will show up in ToDo as well. I don’t use it for personal stuff, because having the option to quickly have Siri add something in Reminders is super convenient, but other than that it’s definitely a useful option - especially if you don’t use a voice assistant.

Oh, no. The Wii U connection was far, far more responsive.

Check out NewsFlash https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk

It’s unified RAM on Xbox. And medium settings are 2165MB on PC.

Jeg synes også det tricky er, at man så skal stole på endnu mindre, ukendte udviklere. De har ikke længere Googles bevæggrunde til at snage, og de fleste er sikkert fine i kanten, men det er nærmest umuligt at sætte sig ind i som slutbruger - og relativt let at tage et build og tilføje noget, som kører under radaren og er en del af custom ROMen. Jeg er bange for, at de ikke får den samme opmærksomhed af sikkerhedsfolk som udgivelser fra Google/Apple/Samsung osv.

Very funny. Just saying that textures don’t seem to be the issue. Any number of other things might be from rendering methods to whatever.

I went back and had a look. It’s between 2165MB and 3720 MB based on settings. Doesn’t really seem problematic on the low end.

iOS. Så længe det varer. Det har været en dårligere og dårligere oplevelse de seneste år, selv om der på den anden side er låst mere op for ting som automatisering og sikkerheden er skruer yderligere i vejret. Jeg har været ved at kigge lidt på de forskellige alternativer som Linux og af-googlet Android, men umiddelbart har jeg ikke fundet en rigtig god løsning endnu. Jeg ville ønske, at de Linuxbaserede telefoner var lidt længere fremme i brugbarhed, men baseret på de oplevelser jeg læser om fra ejere af dem, virker de mere som devkits end produkter, der er klar til at køre.

There’s a difference between targeting 3-4 console SKUs and targeting 2. If you know what’s going to be your baseline from day 1, you test against that and scale up rather than the other way around. With a first party studio, this is a given.