You could look into running a Tor bridge (not a normal relay). It generally uses little CPU so there's little concern about carbon emissions. You can also limit the amount of bandwidth the bridge uses.
Readit Newswaselighis commented on Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others? · Posted by u/puttycat
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
waselighis commented on Covid pandemic linked to surge in child and teen diabetes bbc.com/news/health-66054... · Posted by u/colinprince
I believe you are confusing Type I diabetes and Type II diabetes.
Type I diabetes your immune system destroys your insulin producing cells. You need to provided all of your insulin via injection/pump.
Type II diabetes is more akin to insulin resistance / inability to produce the correct amount of insulin. (It is more subtle then this in reality). Type II diabetes is tied to levels of activity and food (esp high sugar) intake.
In Type I diabetes, there is usually a genetic component as well as an environment event which causes the unfortunate autoimmune response. This article is talking specifically about a significant uptick in Type I diabetes cases.
Yep, I feel pretty dumb right now. Annoyingly I can't edit my comment now, but please disregard it.
waselighis commented on Covid pandemic linked to surge in child and teen diabetes bbc.com/news/health-66054... · Posted by u/colinprince
There's a couple interesting hypotheses in that article I wouldn't have thought of. However, I think they left out an obvious culprit, the lockdown meant that kids were home all day, which means less physical activity, and possibly a worse diet eating at home as well. One kid I know, used to be slim and running around all the time. I didn't see him for over a year after the pandemic began, gained 30 lbs and just played video games all day. His mom let him eat whatever he wanted, which was mostly junk food, and plenty of it.
Many children likely have a predisposition to developing diabetes, but they don't due to good diet and exercise. Take that away, and you'll see a significant rise in childhood diabetes. I'm not saying this is the sole cause of all these cases, but it also seems like a glaringly obvious omission.
waselighis commented on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers androidpolice.com/youtube... · Posted by u/prhrb
They definitely have had the idea for a long time. It is almost certainly a technical limitation stopping them. I'd guess that decoding, splicing, and then re-encoding is too compute intensive for it to be worth it.
No need to re-encode the video. Just split the video at a keyframe and inject an ad at that point, no re-encoding required. Most video files have keyframes every few seconds or so. The proper term is I-frames, though they're commonly known as keyframes as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_type...
waselighis commented on Every new DMD version breaks some of my code forum.dlang.org/thread/ij... · Posted by u/6581
I used D for a while several years ago. The language was always a huge mess. The compiler and standard library were riddled with bugs. D was the only language I ever used where it could actually be a compiler bug. D was a mess of features that didn't play well together; things were added with little thought or care given to they'll fit with existing language features. I speak in past-tense because I haven't paid close attention to D's development in several years, but it seems like every time D pops up in some news feed, it's never good. Seeing posts like this, it seems like things haven't improved much. I've seen a few posts like this over the years complaining about minor releases introducing breaking changes.
I understand building a language and compiler is hard. However, D is over 20 years old at this point. It's had plenty of time to mature despite being a small community project. There are much younger languages which are far more stable. Minor releases should not be introducing so many breaking changes, breaking backwards compatibility. D is actually a pretty nice language, has a lot of great features, but I would never recommend it to anybody.
waselighis commented on Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff theverge.com/2023/6/28/23... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
From my nieve point of view, I think, they made a mistake with the $100 lifetime fee (was that about a decade ago!). I paid that and have been using it since, and have never made another payment since.
Exactly. Even if the software is never updated with any new features or changes, it still requires constant maintenance to fix bugs, patch security vulnerabilities, support new hardware, and OS updates. It costs money to maintain software, and a lifetime license isn't going to pay for a lifetime of updates.
waselighis commented on Construct's New WebGPU Renderer construct.net/en/blogs/co... · Posted by u/AshleysBrain
Reads pretty much like an advertisement.
Nothing that interesting; 2D game engine Construct moved to WebGPU, and reaps some obvious performance benefits. Great.
It's an announcement for a major update with relevant benchmarks and some basic technical details. What more do you want?
You might find this older post more interesting, more technical. Just keep in mind this blog post is 3 years old:
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/webgl-webg...
But I have another theory. Maybe the ecosystem isn't doing all that well. It just appears so in comparison with conditions when human activity dominated. Compared to an uncontaminated, undisturbed ecosystem, it's just doing so-so. The theory being that the presence of human activity is worse for ecosystems than low-level radiation. James Lovelock argued that we could save the rain forests from the ravages of man by burying nuclear waste in them. [1] That implicitly suggests that a little radiation is better for wildlife than human presence, at least according to Lovelock.
1 https://www.wired.com/2011/04/ff-chernobyl/
> James Lovelock argued that we could save the rain forests from the ravages of man by burying nuclear waste in them.
Interesting thought, but would be a horrible thing to do to the indigenous peoples of the rain forests.