Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

I think I had one of the best dreams for a nerd.

I had gotten my hands on a vintage CPU, one that my cousin owned back in the day, an old AMD Duron 700mhz. Probably came out somewhere around 2000. But that's not the good part. The good part was that I put it as a secondary CPU in my system, and I could dualboot an old Windows on it and play old games perfectly.

This made me think, could this become a thing? People speculate a transition to ARM PCs, and while the idea seems decent, there's the problem of legacy x86 software, especially games, and how difficult it would be to attempt emulation for them. Sure, you can emulate Notepad without being bothered by the overhead, but something that is CPU bottlenecked is out of the question for many generations.

So what if instead, your ARM motherboard had the ability to attach a daughter board that contain a x86 CPU, that allowed your PC to boot into a x86 mode. Or maybe have the OS be smart enough to be able to use it for x86 programs directly, instead of sending them to an emulation layer.

When life gives you Trump, you make covfefe.
When life gives you Biden, you make badakathcare.

So we have confirmation that DXVK is much better at translating dx9 to vulkan than whatever translation layer Intel came up with for their ARC GPUs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktbj1dBPFY

This was a bit meta, but I love it.

Linux development still depending so much on Linus Torvalds' leadership scares me, even more than what Microsoft is doing with Windows.

With the current political environment, when Linus finally retires (or dies), if he's replacement isn't basically a clone of Torvalds himself, Linux is ripe for a potential collapse.

When NASA chose to use Linux and ffmpeg on the latest Mars mission, the open source community celebrated.

So here's something that came to my mind. If we found out the US military used Linux, or some other popular open source project, in the workings of the next-gen weapon of war, something that surpasses nukes in destruction ability, how would the community react?

Have you guys had any power outages yet? I had 2 so far this month. They didn't last long, just a couple of minutes.

Apple Privacy™

iCloud for Windows users are reportedly seeing random family photos from strangers https://www.xda-developers.com/icloud-windows-photos-from-strangers/

>You can't take this data as proof that X thing happens, because the data could be skewed from X happening.

I won't forget today easily.

Steamed hams, but it's the Bee Movie.

Populations aren't as simple as: this side just keeps increasing forever.
There are multiple forces at play that stabilizes things. You don't get to say "you don't understand statistics" because you limit yourself at a too basic level. From your understanding of population dynamics, the western world should have kept increasing its population, but reality has shown us that it not only stagnated, but it's actively decreasing in size.
Populations tend to stabilize themselves at healthy levels.

Muted. 7 days. Goodbye.

This thing reminded me just how much I miss the old Hanna-Barbera animation style.