Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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I wish War Thunder looked and felt less like dogshit.
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funny how troubleshooting any windows 10 problem involves spawning the modern UI pc settings window, clicking through to a legacy settings menu, then closing the useless modern one so it's not in your way
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I turn on my PC.
The local wildlife are immediately sterilised by the excessive output from my four exposed nuclear reactors running at a critically risky heat output.
The sound of 10,000 cooling fans deafens the city’s morning traffic as my warehouse of 500 parallel-chained AMD Razer Threadrippers bursts into life, forming the equivalent processing power of 2015 in one room.
Nearby, my cluster of Nvidia 5090 Test Cards begins to warp the local time continuum as they calculate answers man was never meant to know.
Very gently, I open Microsoft Teams.
Instantly, the already deafening noise of fans increases to a murderous wail as they try to keep my equipment at operating temperatures. A nuclear reactors’ fusion catches up with its cooling and explodes destroying the lives of millions. The floor begins to melt away as my processors over clocked ten-fold reach critical mass and descend directly into hell. My Nvidia cluster collapses into a singularity and begins to devour the planet.
Quickly now, I open a text chat, it’s a bit laggy.
The sheer struggle of loading some text destroys the remaining systems. Me and my equipment are deleted from reality by an unknown overseer.
Humanity is not ready for instant messaging
In the water, many organisms are broadcast spawners - instead of going through the whole finding a mate and mating business they just release massive clouds of sperm and leave it to chance.
Imagine if sentience evolved in such a species - instead of the gigantic mess that is our dating, people would just go to side, coom massively, and get back to whatever they were doing before, which is much more likely to involve curing cancer than styling their hair.
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yo wtf, apparently valve have sent steam decks to eroge developers and there are h-games being prepped for the deck
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How do applications tell the OS to not go idle during things like playing a video? On Linux or on Windows? Asking out of pure curiosity.
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@niconiconi@cybre.space @alexandra@mk.nixnet.social @Jaqueek@mastodon.social on windows, that machine runs in kernel space. this has funny security implications! there have been several RCE, DoS and privilege escalation vulnerabilities involving truetype fonts.
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@alexandra @Jaqueek Subpixel antialiasing and font hinting can have its own book (books?) too. To do that, TrueType uses a virtual machine and embeds bytecode in fonts.
This is the instruction set of the TrueType machine. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/RM05/Chap5.html
"What is your favorite CPU architecture?"
"TrueType."
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
