What is the actual objective of this, is it solving an issue or creating a solution to a problem, that is still to be determined?
It seems like a lot of energy to replicate a lidar mapping system. It's not like you can expect accurate dimensions from this approximate guess work, excluding the expected hallucinations adding to inaccuracy.
Readit NewsDead_Lemon commented on LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley) loger-project.github.io... · Posted by u/helloplanets
Having a trustworthy channel for verified app loading is a vital security tool. F-Droid is such a channel; the Google Play Store is not. F-Droid inspects the source code of the applications they build, removes malware and other antifeatures from them, and compiles them from source to ensure that the binaries they deliver correspond to the source code they've inspected. The Google Play Store doesn't do any of those things. Consequently it's full of malware.
The topic here is Google nuking F-Droid from orbit, probably because it has NewPipe.
I'm not sure about the NewPipe angle, as Grey Jay exists (Backed by FUTO/Louis Rossman) on the Play store, which has ad-block and sponsor block incorporated into it.
Google is just being malicious towards opensource and privacy, under the guise of security
Dead_Lemon commented on Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall polygon.com/counter-strik... · Posted by u/perihelions
They're running an online casino directed at children and have made specific adaptations to bypass legal regulations in several countries.
The game does have a mature rating, so parents should be vetting their activity.
I would still contend and say the gambling aspect, with real money, is a net negative to the community.
Dead_Lemon commented on Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=bwjML... · Posted by u/lrsjng
I don't think Ben would tell you to limit yourself. There are many fantastic people doing these kinds of things. James Sharman has been working on his system for years, and it is fantastic because he is also a programmer. https://www.youtube.com/@weirdboyjim
This is the exact channel that came to mind when I saw the headline, his work is fantastic.
Dead_Lemon commented on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement joindatacops.com/resource... · Posted by u/simul007
It makes the argument of the open internet being unable to function without advertising, quite hard to prop up. Especially when over 70% of traffic if just people gaming the system, to real users detriment.
sd card contact wear is pretty radical on constant insert/removal.
second: one of the things that made cartridges great was that they were human-sized. as were CDs. An sd card inserted into a more handle-able/human 'cartridge' would be cool, maybe gameboy sized was about perfect imo.
fiddling with sd cards and slots isn't great.
an snes/genesis cartridge falls into the thing, you can't miss or do it backwards without reeally trying to. They give an affirmative 'clunk' when fully engaged.
(also the contact wear on those was horrendous too.. maybe the SD card IS authentic..)
Replicating something like a form factor of a Gameboy cart is a cool idea, you could probably get away with a I2C EEEPROM of a size large enough for a single rom.
Dead_Lemon commented on Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 github.com/schlae/cm5-rev... · Posted by u/_Microft
The number of people who care is small enough not to affect any outcome.
The amount of people that design and repair electronics is significantly smaller than the people that use electronics, that doesn't mean RasPi should ignore them. They boast opensource development, but seem to be working counter to that.
It makes is substantially easier to work with known design docs, and RasPi want people to use their hardware in embedded applications.
It's not like you can replicate their hardware with just the schematic. Its awesome to see other filling the gap, but its a gap that has no need to exist.
Dead_Lemon commented on Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs pricingpages.design/... · Posted by u/finniansturdy
Good negotiator would need leverage and in most cases that won’t exist for a product that understands its own value well. These are priced on value, the call us definitely lowers the noise but it has more to do with the target demo being enterprise large customer deals. Not providing pricing gives sales the ability to try to price it for value to capture maximum margin.
It is most definitely about the products sales team sizing up the potential client and how much they can get the client to pay, based on the company size and turn over.
It's possible for the client to negotiate, but the product sales team have jack up the price way over their internal list price, so any client savings is only a fallacy
Dead_Lemon commented on FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs wiki.freebsd.org/Schedule... · Posted by u/fntlnz
Maybe its just me, but this P&E arch is underwhelming and screams similar issues AMD bulldozer again.
Claims of massive core counts with mediocre performance, and little control over how things are assigned to the cores.
Maybe that will improve over time with improved schedulers, but I doubt it. Its looks like an architectural issue.
The experience feels so inconstant, even ending up worse than the prior generations with all normal P cores with lower core counts.
I'm avoiding Intel P&E CPUs with anything that needs consistent performance, as my limited experience with the new Intel chips leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth, and a frustrating computing experience.
Dead_Lemon commented on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3
That would be a disaster. Or imagine what would happen if you just disabled secure boot, your computer will be infected with viruses and your bank account emptied instantly I reckon
Secure boot doesn't stop user-space malicious activity.
I'd argue that it only helps check a tick box on corporate security manifest, as it indicates the kernel being booted, is not tampered with.