chocalot (u/chocalot)

chocalot commented on I don’t need a Steam Machine brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/ingve

chocalot · 3 months ago

Fair reasons. I won't be getting one, because the Steam Deck is enough for me.

> It’s Steam, not Good Old Games. Sure it can run GOG games but the Machine is primarily designed to run Steam. You avoid purchasing from Steam like the plague, yet you’re willing to buy a Machine dedicated to it? Are you crazy?

I prioritise getting games on GOG, and the Steam Deck experience with it is good.

I use Heroic Launcher to install them, and Steam mode to play it.

> You don’t have time to fiddle with configuration. Button and trackpad mappings to get the controls just right enough to play strategy games designed to be played with keyboard and mouse will only leave you frustrated.

+1. I don't bother with configuration. If a game only supports keyboard and mouse I just play it when docked.

> Fuck it, I’m getting one.

Haha.

chocalot commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

mostly_harmless · 3 months ago

> you can wake your Steam Machine without leaving your couch. [using the built in steam controller wireless adapter].

This one simple thing is the only thing that makes my SteamDeck+Dock feel like a second class console. So far they only claim it's for the Steam Controller, but I'd be great if it worked with the handful of 8bitdo or Switch controllers I've been using.

chocalot · 3 months ago

I agree. It looks like it's in progress.

Earlier this month SteamOS had a release: "Temporarily re-disabled experimental wake-on-bluetooth support for Steam Deck LCD while issues with spurious wake-ups are investigated"

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news

chocalot commented on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k ntp.org/... · Posted by u/gastonmorixe

akerl_ · 3 months ago

Insofar as racism, homophobia, and sexism are unpopular political beliefs: yes.

Oh, also he doesn't really "contribute" to tech projects so much as "exists near/within them and writes long form ramblings".

chocalot · 3 months ago

Ah, the person I responded to suggests he runs the project.

If he just "exists near", I see even less of a case why someone should avoid it.

But horses for courses, people can choose to avoid for whatever reason.

chocalot commented on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k ntp.org/... · Posted by u/gastonmorixe

exasperaited · 3 months ago

At least in part, someone you really don't want to be running a fork of an important project: ESR.

chocalot · 3 months ago

I'm out of the loop. What's the issue with using a project that ESR contributes to?

I am vaguely aware he has some unpopular political beliefs (though exactly what I don't know). Is that it?

chocalot commented on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k ntp.org/... · Posted by u/gastonmorixe

tptacek · 3 months ago

Yeah the ntpsec story, not great. I don't believe they're taken especially seriously. There are people close to Harlan Stenn who believe the project is essentially fraudulent.

chocalot · 3 months ago

An ntpd-rs contributor elsewhere in the thread suggests ntpsec is used by many distributions, and suggests donating to ntpsec (amongst some other organisations).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900184

chocalot commented on Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

chocalot · 3 months ago

Yes, if the running government is seen to be anti-trans, it makes sense that trans supporters will show more support.

Likewise for every topic that is under contest, including right wing topics.

As an aside, I'd say calling it "the Streisand effect" could be seen to be hinting that if people just stopped support trans so strongly, there would be less backlash. That might be true, but given trans people have historically suffered abuse, it would be risky for trans supporters to let things settle and hope for the best.

chocalot commented on Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

ryan_lane · 3 months ago

This is why folks can't take yall seriously when discussing code of conduct. This person has a history of being shitty, and they used the CoC to enforce a (temporary!) ban, citing the rules he violated. If the CoC didn't exist, you'd be screaming "he didn't do anything wrong", but obviously, according to the well posted rules, he did, and they enforced those rules for the good of the community.

The reality of the situation is that yall don't want to be excluded from communities for being racist, misogynistic, or creepy.

chocalot · 3 months ago

I looked into the issues listed ( https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co... ) and the surrounding context, and they all looked tenuous. I'd expect to see at see at least some clear cases.

I think moderation and CoCs are needed, but this example looks to be an example of their misuse.

chocalot commented on Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing marineinsight.com/shippin... · Posted by u/defrost

ofalkaed · 3 months ago

As someone whose goal in life is to be blown about the oceans by the wind, I have mixed feelings about this. With the "traditional" freighter I would have the right of way, my being a sailboat under the wisdom of the wind, they have to make allowances for me and change course, but things are different when that freighter is also under the wisdom of the wind. The same goes for things like offshore wind power, my life is made more difficult because most people expect their home to be 70F when it is 60F outside and 60F when it is 70F outside, anything else would incur undue hardship.

It is a complex situation, should I be penalized for wanting to live a life that has little or no environmental impact at cost of those who want to live in reasonable comfort while being a part of/contributing to, society? Probably not but I can't help but wonder about what happened to the first 'R' of the three R's (reduce, reuse and recycle), no one seems to reduce anymore unless technology gives them a way to do it without any inconvenience no matter how small that inconvenience is.

chocalot · 3 months ago

> The same goes for things like offshore wind power, my life is made more difficult because most people expect their home to be 70F when it is 60F outside and 60F when it is 70F outside, anything else would incur undue hardship.

This is an overly simplistic view of demands on energy, but it might be one of the easiest for people decry. (As it happens, comfort is nice though.)

> should I be penalized for wanting to live a life that has little or no environmental impact at cost of those who want to live in reasonable comfort while being a part of/contributing to, society?

No, but it's also unrealistic to expect to be sheltered from all externalities of society.

After all, switching to sail cargo ships is itself reducing an externality incurred by others.

> what happened to the first 'R' of the three R's (reduce, reuse and recycle)

This is a good principle, but it's not universally accepted, and it still permits things that involve cargo via ocean.

As more and more people are pulled from poverty, they too will begin to use more energy to improve their lives, perhaps to the point that they can choose to follow their dreams upon retirement.

chocalot commented on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is heise.de/en/news/Archive-... · Posted by u/Projectiboga

joshmn · 3 months ago

The case study: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10628922/

chocalot · 3 months ago

I read this, and found it to be a disappointing read. It had few details, and instead was more of a social sciences paper, covering basic ideas in academic language.

Roughly it seemed to be suggesting that:

* It's easier to deceive someone if they first solicit for help on a forum

* You can trick someone into revealing sensitive info like which infrastructure provider is used by nerdsniping them: "My mate thinks you should just enable health checking on AWS ELB", and then they reply "Well actually I use Hetzner". Except I'm guessing it was more elaborate than that.

I guess I wasn't the target audience of the article though.

joshmn, what did you think of the article?

Do you find it difficult to trust random commenters online now?

I see you mentioned you can't discuss technical details, but if/whenever that expires (?), that'd be great to hear.

chocalot commented on Anonymous credentials: rate-limit bots and agents without compromising privacy blog.cloudflare.com/priva... · Posted by u/eleye

chocalot · 3 months ago

There's a few comments asking for further info on the motivation.

I'll explain my understanding.

Consider what problem CAPTCHA aims to solve (abuse) and how that's ineffective in an age of AI agents: it cannot distinguish "bot that is trying to buy a pizza" vs "bot that is trying to spider my site".

I don't understand Cloudflare's solution enough to explain that part.

I'm glad to see research here, because if we don't have innovation solutions, we might end up with microtransactions for browsing.