baroffoos (u/baroffoos)

baroffoos commented on Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android techcrunch.com/2019/12/19... · Posted by u/RmDen

mattynice · 6 years ago

All the more reason to consider the HTC Vive or Steam Index if interested in being an early adapter of VR where their achievements can be more collaborative.

Side note regarding Portal and other "social hardware", I can't imagine there being user-friendly privacy toggles when facebook owns the complete stack..

baroffoos · 6 years ago

Valve has done a pretty good job at standardizing VR tech with OpenVR/SteamVR. All of the headsets except the oculus seem to have really good hardware compatibility. The vive controllers can be used with the pimax hmd, etc.

Facebook seems to be trying really hard to create a lockin with the oculus, if you buy games on the oculus store, you are now forever locked in to only buying oculus hardware from now on.

baroffoos commented on The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game thehustle.co/worst-video-... · Posted by u/newest

sircastor · 6 years ago

Atari: Game Over made for a really interesting watch in explaining what the game was meant to be, and how it works

There's also this treatise on why people thought it was broken, and how to fix it: http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

baroffoos · 6 years ago

>It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints.

If only they had the ability to remotely update games back then.

baroffoos commented on The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf] bunniefoo.com/bunnie/esse... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

gowld · 6 years ago

It's great for operations but precludes major investment in new inventions.

baroffoos · 6 years ago

Unless the major investments are government funded. Last I heard, china was doing really well with quantum technology and maglev trains.

baroffoos commented on Best Single Board Computers of 2019 seeedstudio.com/blog/2019... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

ksaj · 6 years ago

To be fair, Linus, you and everyone who develops the board bitch about that same thing. Some people even parrot it without understanding the underlying issues at even a basic level. So let's see their models that compete with the rpi at the same price point. Until I see those, I am left to see a whole lot petty whining. The rpi is very much in front of the pack when it comes to their clearly stated mandate.

Remember the purpose, and not lean too heavily onto your personal ideology.

baroffoos · 6 years ago

I haven't used it personally but I was told that the RockPi (https://rockpi.org/) is similar to the rpi but runs on totally free drivers. Having a backdoor with full system access is just not acceptable in 2019.

baroffoos commented on DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/generalpass

PenguinCoder · 6 years ago

Spot on. This needs to be supported and implemented at the OS layer, not the application

baroffoos · 6 years ago

OSs didn't implement it though. And they never would unless browsers forced it on them. The right approach is for browsers to bring it in and then when the OS supports it, default to the OS version. But right now I don't know of any OS other than I think android that supports it.

baroffoos commented on DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/generalpass

the8472 · 6 years ago

> many will only allow captive DNS

That's an anti-feature, something one shouldn't even call internet access. Engineering entire protocol stacks around it sounds like enshrining it as if it were good practice.

It's reinforcing an inadequate equilibrium.

baroffoos · 6 years ago

So you are left with the choice of making something that works right now and will provide enhanced privacy for everyone or attempting to fight middleboxes and corporate configs and see a similar rate of adoption as ipv6.

Once absolutely everything is running through opaque https requests we might see middleboxes go away since they aren't able to do anything anymore.

baroffoos commented on Best Single Board Computers of 2019 seeedstudio.com/blog/2019... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

baroffoos · 6 years ago

Its a little disappointing that after all of the years and revisions of the rpi. It still requires untrusted proprietary drivers to simply turn on.

baroffoos commented on Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown blog.bolt.io/logitech-mx-... · Posted by u/Rondom

whalesalad · 6 years ago

Logitech software is a dumpster fire. For a while there it would start and go to 170-190% CPU and just burn until it was killed.

I share your experience and frustration.

baroffoos · 6 years ago

I'm so glad linux usually contains reverse engineered drivers that are open source so everything just works out of the box with logitech.

baroffoos commented on Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown blog.bolt.io/logitech-mx-... · Posted by u/Rondom

wolfgke · 6 years ago

Does Logitech meanwhile again excellent cables mice? I would love to get one of these superb Logitech mice in a cabled version.

baroffoos · 6 years ago

Their gaming mice have cabled versions which are really nice.

baroffoos commented on United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

rayiner · 6 years ago

Not only that, support for banning hand guns has collapsed: https://news.gallup.com/poll/150341/record-low-favor-handgun.... In 1959, 60% of people favored a handgun ban, to 36% opposed. By 2011 that had flipped to 73% opposed and just 26% in favor.

People focus on rifles, which are responsible for relatively few deaths, because banning handguns is wildly unpopular. (Heck Kamala Harris owns a handgun.)

baroffoos · 6 years ago

Rifles have none of the legitimate uses that gun advocates go on about so its a low reward but 0 loss situation to ban them.

Unless someone is proposing you need to defend your house against a zombie invasion.

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