Much like the way we were told for ages that a glass of wine every day was good for our health. I think the latest research is showing no evidence of that, but rather that any amount of alcohol raises the risk of cancer.

I continue to be impressed by how far we’ve come in algorithmically imitating forces of nature. If you like this stuff, have a look at the EmberGen demo clips

Whenever I see posts like this, I wonder if they cover manual loop unrolling, which these days is usually an optimization left to the compiler.

Control+F, Duff’s Device

Yep, this post mentions it. Good for them. :)

Good question. Please see my follow-up comment.

Friendly reminder that gaming console monitors, computer monitors, projectors, dumb TVs, and commercial displays exist.

Yes, I could hack a smart TV to disable its networking capabilities. (Merely withholding my wifi password is not reliable.) But that would still be showing the manufacturers that I find spyware TVs acceptable, and supporting the production of those models.

Also, this would be a good time to pressure our legislators into criminalizing this nonsense.

It’s disappointing to see that a dozen or so people decided to hit your post with drive-by downvotes, rather than using their words to express themselves in a way that actually contributes to this community.

Your question is a legitimate one, especially at a time when Windows is increasingly bloated and invasive, spyware is out of control, and Linux is increasingly a viable alternative even in certain tough areas like games. I just wish you had elaborated on why you singled out Ubuntu when several other widely-supported Linux distributions exist.

If those were my only two options, I would pick Ubuntu over Windows, no contest. I would replace its default desktop with KDE Plasma (or just choose the Kubuntu variant in the first place), rip out as much of Snap as I could, update the kernel, and migrate to a distro that I like better whenever I was able.

For what it’s worth, Debian Stable with a few hand-picked backports and flatpacks suits me well, mainly for gaming and software development. (I’m a bit of an outlier, though: having my system be low-maintenance is more important to me than always having the latest features in every app, and I’ve been known to make my own debian packages and flatpaks when something I want isn’t ready-made.) Linux Mint, Pop_OS, and Arch Linux are also popular. There are many more.

More power to them

:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

I didn’t know that; thanks for sharing.

(BTW, I think you meant wreaking havoc.)

I don’t care how they estimate their cost in dollars. I think the cost to all of us in environmental impact would be more interesting.

Even if the source is paywalled. Having the original source in the main URL field would have let apps immediately show what domain the article comes from, let the bot do its bias check, and let various spam control systems do their job.

It would be helpful if the main link was to the original source, and the archive link in the body.

Discord’s audio and video end-to-end encryption (“E2EE A/V” or “E2EE” for short)

That last bit is a little concerning. E2EE is widely understood to mean full end-to-end encryption of communications, not selective encryption of just the audio/video bits while passing the text around in the clear. If Discord starts writing “E2EE” for short when describing their partial solution, it is likely to mislead people into thinking their text chats are protected, or thinking that Discord is comparable to real E2EE systems. They aren’t, and it isn’t.

We want an E2EE A/V protocol that is publicly auditable

Their use of the word “auditable” here is also concerning. What does it mean for a protocol to be auditable? Sure, it’s nice that they’re publishing their design, but that doesn’t allow independent audit of the implementation that actually runs on their servers and (importantly) our devices. Without publicly auditable code that can be independently, built, run, and used instead of the binaries they provide, there’s no practical way to know that it matches the design that was reviewed. Without a way to verify that the code being run is the code that was inspected, claiming that the system was audited is misleading.

The protocol uses Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for group key exchange

Interesting. This makes me think their motivation for doing this might be compliance with the European Digital Markets Act. If that is the case, perhaps they also have a plan in the works for protecting text chats?

@latenightblog@procial.tchncs.de was created ~37 minutes ago.

Their only post violates rule 2, and looks likely to be violating lemmy.world rule 8 (misinformation).

Somebody please show them to the door.

I’m so sorry. I promise my laughter is not at you.

It’s funny how different scenes stand out to different people. If someone had asked me to list the most memorable bits of The Lighthouse, the scenes you mentioned wouldn’t have entered my mind. Dafoe’s monologue, on the other hand, will stick with me for a long time to come.

We could quibble about the details, but all of them are fundamentally last-man-standing competitions.

The Hunger Games was indeed one of them. I didn’t mention it because it’s probably the most obvious one in current cultural memory (no need for me to point it out) and because Battle Royale came a decade earlier, and Battle Royal half a century before that.

Even if a competitive game format was unique to the Hindi film, it would be tough to argue that nobody else could have thought of that detail when making their own variation of the same theme. Calling it a “blatant rip-off” is quite a stretch.

Breaking! Community rule 1 (points 3, 4, and 5).

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale

I wouldn’t be surprised if the theme also showed up in books that predate all of these films.

And it was composed by Quincy Jones, who has earned a small mountain of awards for his music over the years. Not many TV shows get a theme as good as that one.