FAANG has been replaced by Mag7: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
Does Broadcom do anything but get hate for their shitty decisions? They are becoming, if they aren't already, the new Oracle.
Readit NewsPokestarFan commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
And also pirated releases are super weird and all over the place with subtitles and video player compatibility
This could streamline things
This is because blurays ship their subtitles as a bunch of text images. So pirates have 3 options:
1. Just copy them over from the Bluray. This lacks support in most client players, so you'll either need to download a player that does, or use something like Plex/Jellyfin, which will run FFMpeg to transcode and burn the picture subtitles in before sending it to the client.
2. Run OCR on the Bluray subtitles. Not perfect.
3. Steal subtitles from a streaming service release (or multiple) if it exists.
Is anyone else on the opinion that ffmpeg now ranks 4th as the most used lib after ssl, zlib, and sqlite... given video is like omnipresent in 2025?
FFMpeg is probably not as up high since video processing only needs to be done on the servers that receive media. I doubt most phones are running FFMpeg on video.
PokestarFan commented on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) hillelwayne.com/post/pyth... · Posted by u/agluszak
I don't think I've written a match-case yet. Aside from not having a lot of use cases for it personally, I find that it's very strange-feeling syntax. It tries too hard to look right, with the consequence that it's sometimes quite hard to reason about.
I just use match case as a traditional switch statement.
PokestarFan commented on Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) hillelwayne.com/post/pyth... · Posted by u/agluszak
Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.:
~> cat semgrep.yaml
rules:
- id: no-pattern-matching
pattern: |
match ...:
message: |
I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
severity: ERROR
languages:
- python
~> cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
foo = 1
match foo:
case 1:
print("one")
~> semgrep --config semgrep.yaml test.py
no-pattern-matching
I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
4┆ match foo:
5┆ case 1:
6┆ print("one")
You need to make that exclude match = ... since match can also be a variable name. This is because people used to write code like match = re.search(...)
PokestarFan commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx
I love my ubiquity kit, but they annoy me with half finished stuff.
I upgraded my venerable USG with the new UXG as I have gig service now. The gear is great, even supports IPv6, and uses much less power. But… no internal DNS is enabled. So now, I ended up buying a thin client on eBay to roll my own DHCP/DNS. Not fun. It is baffling to me because there’s lots of complex new features in the Unifi stack, and they already had an interface to configure static names in dnsmasq.
I went the Eufy route for cameras as the batteries were a big draw for me.
Wait the UXG doesn't do DHCP/DNS? The UCGs all do those which is a weird design choice.
PokestarFan commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
Sure, but for those of us in North America, it's still a draw. That said, I can see that the consumer would potentially be better off if fees went down, prices dropped, and rewards went away. But that's probably not a realistic future.
The unfortunate reality is that even if fees disappeared tomorrow, most merchants would just keep the current price and pocket all the extra money as profit.
Why not just remove that one link/image?
The email said that removing the image was "not enough".
PokestarFan commented on The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly isomorphism.xyz/blog/2024... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
>If you're a game dev, small or big it doesn't matter, and your game isn't on Steam, it might as well not exist
That's an exaggeration.
World of Warcraft, COD, League of Legends, all exist just fine. For brand new games, The Bazaar is doing very well and they're using their own launcher.
(Slightly off-topic, but The Bazaar is really good, for anyone who likes card-based auto-battler games! Highly recommend.)
Also so far Riot's games don't require upfront purchases so that changes the equation a bit.
If not, why not hardware limit the power input to the machine, so even if the software completely failed, it would not be physically capable of delivering a fatal dose like this?