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16bitvoid commented on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source   omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/g... · Posted by u/CharlesW
elevaet · 4 days ago
Are there any great variable and open serif web fonts around?
16bitvoid · 4 days ago
I don't really like serif fonts, but the two that immediately come to mind are Noto Serif and IBM Plex Serif. Both are open source. I know Noto Serif is variable, but not sure about IBM Plex.
16bitvoid commented on The Path to Mojo 1.0   modular.com/blog/the-path... · Posted by u/pritambarhate
bobajeff · 9 days ago
I've been keeping an eye on Mojo/Max as it's one of the only things out there that doesn't depend on the Cuda library.

Blockers for me right now, are:

1) still closed source

2) it doesn't support my low-end hardware (just because I don't have a 5090 or whatever doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to do GPU compute things)

I'm guessing if those barriers are ever removed it'll probably be years from now. But hopefully it'll inspire other languages/ecosystems to take on their own Cuda replacement.

16bitvoid · 7 days ago
1. It'll become open-source with 1.0, as the article mentions.

2. Just requires someone (or you) to write a kernel for your GPU, which is done in Mojo itself. I'd double check the supported GPUs or if someone else has already done it.

16bitvoid commented on California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom   politico.com/news/2025/09... · Posted by u/heavyset_go
jart · 3 months ago
Already happened with USG. You know who doesn't discriminate against my group? Big tech companies. If they can step up and take on more responsibility for identity verification in our society, then my social group will be less oppressed. The California Republic must lead the way.
16bitvoid · 3 months ago
They may not themselves, but they'll happily sell your info or give it up to avoid losing money to someone who would.
16bitvoid commented on How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method   yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to... · Posted by u/research_pie
socalgal2 · 4 months ago
My experience would be the opposite. I'm not goal oriented

> Instead I now just trust my instincts and follow what seems interesting or meaningful to me right now

for me that means watching anime, playing video games, reading HN and social media, and maybe writing small programs like solving S.O. questions, And now I look back, have accomplished nothing of significance, and have huge regrets. Regrets that I didn't set goals and work toward them so that I'd be in a better position in my life than I am now.

Not sure the OPs method will change that. In fact the OPs method sounds like using the waterfall method for life planning. That also doesn't sound like it would work for me

16bitvoid · 4 months ago
I think there's a middle ground between trying to follow a path you set for yourself and thoughtlessly wandering by gut feeling: set a direction you want to go, not a destination.

You'll find that it doesn't require much thought at decision points to choose the options (in aggregate) that push you in that direction. As they say, it's about the journey, not the destination.

With that said, it's still difficult because you have to learn to forego long term expectations and/or acquire discipline not to just "stay put" lest you fall back into the habit of stressing over end goals or the comfort of a stress coping loop (anime, video games, etc), respectively.

16bitvoid commented on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions   assemblingamerica.substac... · Posted by u/namlem
like_any_other · 5 months ago
> Juries, widely trusted to impartially deliver justice, are the most familiar instance.

Trusted by those that have not looked into whether this is actually the case. The first prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, was famously against trial by jury, because of how easily lawyers can abuse biases in multiracial societies, based on his first-hand experience [1].

A UK study found his experience is the norm, not the exception - Black and minority ethnic (BME) jurors vote guilty 73% of the time against White defendants, but only 24% of the time against BME defendants [2]. (White jurors vote 39% and 32% for convicting White and BME defendants, respectively. You read that correctly - Whites are also biased against other Whites, but to a much lesser degree)

Edit: To answer what is the alternative to juries: Not all countries use juries, in some the decision is up to the judge, and in some, like France, they use a mixed system of judges and jurors on a panel [3]. The French system would be my personal preference, with the classic jury system coming in second, despite my jury-critical post. Like democracy, it's perhaps the least bad system that we have, but we shouldn't be under any illusions about how impartial and perceptive a group of 12 people selected at random is.

[1] https://postcolonialweb.org/singapore/government/leekuanyew/...

[2] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-inst... - page 165 (182 by pdf reader numbering), figure 6.4

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury

16bitvoid · 5 months ago
In case I'm not the only ignorant one:

BME = black and minority ethnic

16bitvoid commented on 4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution   zju3dv.github.io/4k4d/... · Posted by u/georgehill
keras2 · 2 years ago
From the paper, it seems a 3060 is enough for 60FPS for the DNA-Rendering dataset. On the full-screen datasets it manages 25 fps. A 4090 might be needed to stay above 60 fps.

Still pretty heavy I’d say but it certainly came a long way and shows us real volumetric video is doable.

16bitvoid · 2 years ago
That's real-time rendering though, right? Is there anything preventing it from being pre-rendered in non-real-time first? Or does it have to be rendered in real-time?

I'm not familiar with any of this at all, so I'm genuinely curious.

16bitvoid commented on Sync for Lemmy   play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/sbt567
selflock · 2 years ago
I'd like to see Apollo for Lemmy
16bitvoid · 2 years ago
16bitvoid commented on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/jakobdabo
DropInIn · 2 years ago
So your argument is that as long as the harms are invisible enough to the consumer that no action should be taken?

May I introduce you to Tobacco?

16bitvoid · 2 years ago
No. They're just saying that if they're invisible, most people won't care. They're not saying anything about what should or shouldn't happen.
16bitvoid commented on ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense   forbes.com/sites/paultass... · Posted by u/mikhael
Arrath · 2 years ago
I mourn the lost era of GameFAQs and rad ASCII art at the head of pure text walkthroughs.

Now we have 45 minute youtube videos of "100 new player tips and tricks for Red Dead 2!"

16bitvoid · 2 years ago
I just checked to see if GameFAQs was still active and thought that Tears of the Kingdom would be a good game to see if there were any active users still making guides.

There's only one...for horse upgrade recipes. I also didn't know that GameSpot acquired them.

I too mourn the lost era of GameFAQs.

16bitvoid commented on Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative   anytype.io/?hn... · Posted by u/TTTZ
catapart · 2 years ago
This is awesome! Love to see more local-first, security-focused apps! Especially ones that are free.

Asking because I'm currently working on a local-first app that I am gaming out how to sync to non-local networks: The docs state that the app syncs to local P2P networks. Does that mean it doesn't sync across the internet? If so, is that because of the cost of maintaining/renting a TURN server? Or is there a technical limitation? If it does sync across the open internet, are there restrictions to that?

Sorry for the grilling! It's just an area of interest at the right time. In trying to come up with a WebRTC solution, I think I've settled on defeat. The local network syncing works like a charm, but I haven't had any luck in trying to get around a TURN server by using an API endpoint to provide routing data. It would be nice if there were other prebuilts than COTURN (something deployable to a deno/node server would be ideal), but with what we currently have, I think I've settled on just pushing the encrypted data through my api server, letting users encrypt and decrypt with well-known hashing, based on some key they provide in each client (exporting client and importing client; they never exchange keys).

Anyway, my pet projects aside, this thing looks really full-featured! Great work here. I use Notion, daily, and this could easily replace it for me. In fairness, I don't take full advantage of Notion, but I doubt most people do either. Seems like you've covered enough of the bases to provide a real product for all but some edge cases, so that's pretty awesome! I'll echo others in lamenting a web app; that's what will keep me from switching from Notion, because its just not portable enough for the work I do. But, otherwise, I'm happy with it so far. Gonna try to plan some stuff in it and see if there are any creaky wheels!

16bitvoid · 2 years ago
> Does that mean it doesn't sync across the internet?

They currently host their own backup node, so it does sync across the internet, but you only get 1GB of storage (or 10GB if you were in the alpha) on their backup node. Once that's exceeded, additional files are only synced P2P.

They're planning on providing extra storage for a cost and soon anyone will be able to self-host their own backup node.

u/16bitvoid

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