narc0tic_bird

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure how that would help in letting lost people go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Catppuccin Latte works well too!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, a big portion of the work that goes into Linux (at least the kernel) is done by paid developers working for big corporations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

More than enough for Apple to bend to pretty much everything the Chinese government is asking for.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The difference between H.265 and AV1 at the same bitrate (assuming both files were encoded with a good encoder) usually isn't huge.

AV1 is great, but the "hype" surrounding it is mostly comparing it to lowish-bitrate H.264 (live) streams.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If there's no setting in the iOS Settings app to take away the camera permission (which isn't even given by default and the app has to ask for it), it can't access the camera (unless it exploits a potential vulnerability in iOS, which I highly doubt).

It probably used data from motion sensors and the reason you saw your room was because of the glossy display. Or you have allowed the YouTube app to access your camera.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What I mean by that is that they will take a huge disservice to their customers over a slight financial inconvenience (packaging and validating an existing fix for different CPU series with the same architecture).

I don't classify fixing critical vulnerabilities from products as recent as the last decade as "goodwill", that's just what I'd expect to receive as a customer: a working product with no known vulnerabilities left open. I could've bought a Ryzen 3000 CPU (maybe as part of cheap office PCs or whatever) a few days ago, only to now know they have this severe vulnerability with the label WONTFIX on it. And even if I bought it 5 years ago: a fix exists, port it over!

I know some people say it's not that critical of a bug because an attacker needs kernel access, but it's a convenient part of a vulnerability chain for an attacker that once exploited is almost impossible to detect and remove.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (15 children)

That's so stupid, also because they have fixes for Zen and Zen 2 based Epyc CPUs available.

Intel vs. AMD isn't "bad guys" vs. "good guys". Either company will take every opportunity to screw their customers over. Sure, "don't buy Intel" holds true for 13th and 14th gen Core CPUs specifically, but other than that it's more of a pick your poison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"flavor of the month" browser

"flavor of the month" ~browser~ Chromium

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You're likely already paying for silicon you don't use. Take AVX512 instructions (or other more exotic instructions) for example, or unused PCIe lanes, certain encoders on your GPU etc.

Also, people thinking they have no use for an NPU are almost certainly already using them, for example when taking a photo with their phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is your typical noise floor even under 20 dB? HDDs are also a lot louder than 5-10 dB, and manufacturers usually list dBA in their spec sheets, not dB.

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