MentalEdge

MentalEdge , vor 25 Tagen an Europe in Client-Side-Scanning: 'Chat Control is Pure Surveillance State'

Well they'll go for the service providers, of course.

Signal would effectively have to leave the EU market and block any EU users to stay out of hot water.

The list of privacy-respecting chat apps would become real short real fast, and good luck getting everyone in your life to use one.

Yeah, I have my own matrix instance, but unless I want to cut off 90% of the people I want to have in my life, I can't not bridge it to at least telegram and whatsapp.

It doesn't matter that this is unenforceable, or that alternatives exists. That simply means that those of us who care will still be able to keep some of our communications secure. But this legal change will still make it impossible to keep all of our communications private. That's already the case, and this will make it orders of magnitude worse.

Unenforceable? On an individual level, yes. On a societal level? No. This absolutely can and will enable the monitoring of 99.99% of actual chat activity.

MentalEdge , vor 26 Tagen an Europe in Client-Side-Scanning: 'Chat Control is Pure Surveillance State'

Doing that, or operating such a service, will become a crime.

MentalEdge , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in Every time I boot up my computer

Which is why you reduce the frequency at which the system checks for updates.

Once I get notified it's irresistible.

MentalEdge , vor einem Monat an Europe in ‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]

And e2ee would also get fucked, whether you consent or not.

The problem is that by merely enabling the surveillance, security is already compromised, whether it's used to spy or not.

MentalEdge , vor einem Monat an linuxmemes in Every time I boot up my computer

I mean, I just set my system to only check for updates once a week.

There's no real reason to install every update, the second it's available. If there's a big security fix you should get asap, you'll hear about it.

MentalEdge , vor 2 Monaten an linuxmemes in Operating Systems for Different Life Stages

By an Index and get into VR gaming on Linux. We livin on the edge ovar her. Shit breaks every day and there's a wonky python script you have to use if you wanna be able to put the base stations into sleep mode 👍

MentalEdge , vor 2 Monaten an YUROP in Interesting split

Huh. TIL.

To me popcorn goes in the same category as potato chips, salty. Always salty. But apparently it lands with candy for a part of the world? I had no idea.

Do you sweet popcorn people get some other salty snack? Or are all your movie snacks sugary?

To me the ultimate combo is salty popcorn (maybe even buttery) and a sweet drink.

MentalEdge , vor 2 Monaten an Memes in Chad VLC

Followed by MPV doing the same

MentalEdge , vor 2 Monaten an Europe in EU parliament to back ban on forced labour with eye on China

All jobs, if you get really technical.

MentalEdge , vor 2 Monaten an linuxmemes in All I wanted to do was just watch pr0n...

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/c43b4b02-b359-48aa-ae4d-cdccde1bcfc3.webp

MentalEdge , vor 2 Monaten an Memes in Yeah I tried to access the app and checked downdetector it's down

That post will only exist on your instance. Federation out to other instances would have to happen via the instance that community is on.

MentalEdge , vor 3 Monaten an linuxmemes in We can't leave people on the dark side

And also on the posts about Linux. And the posts linking any tech-related news. And posts asking for any kind of tech support. And on...

MentalEdge , vor 3 Monaten an linuxmemes in What is the most difficult problem that you have fixed in linux?

I manage a machine that runs both media transcodes and some video game servers.

The video game servers have to run in real-time, or very close to it. Otherwise players using them suffer noticeable lag.

Achieving this at the same time that an ffmpeg process was running was completely impossible. No matter what I did to limit ffmpegs use of CPU time. Even when running it at lowest priority it impacted the game server processes running at top priority. Even if I limited it to one thread, it was affecting things.

I couldn't understand the problem. There was enough CPU time to go around to do both things, and the transcode wasn't even time sensitive, while the game server was, so why couldn't the Linux kernel just figure it out and schedule things in a way that made sense?

So, for the first time I read up on how computers actually handle processes, multi-tasking and CPU scheduling.

As FFMPEG is an application that uses ALL available CPU time until a task is done, I came to the conclusion that due to how context switching works (CPU cores can only do one thing, they just switch out what they do really fast, but this too takes time) it was causing the system to fall behind on the video game processes when the system was operating with zero processing headroom. The scheduler wasn't smart enough to maintain a real-time process in the face of FFMPEG, which would occupy ALL available cycles.

I learned the solution was core pinning. Manually setting processes to run on certain cores of the CPU. I set FFMPEG to use only one core, since it doesn't matter how fast it completes. And I set the game processes to use all but that one core, so they don't accidentally end up queueing for CPU time on a core that doesn't have the headroom to allow the task to run within a reasonable time range.

This has completely solved the problem, as the game processes and FFMPEG no longer wait for CPU cycles in the same queue.

MentalEdge , vor 4 Monaten an Memes in Antitheism

Are you saying anti-theists are in favor of eradicating religion from human memory?

If so, no. Wrong.

Simply not making decisions based on fictional fairy tales, doesn't require deleting those fairy tales from historical record or cultural memory.

Only religions obliterate other religions, atheists simply don't believe the stories to be true, and anti-theists simply want humanity to stop being controlled by things that aren't real.

MentalEdge , vor 6 Monaten an Memes in Never jammed out to an Adobe Pro patcher harder

If you had a MIDI sound-card, sure.

Of course you can use samples to play the notes in a MIDI, MIDI is just a digital standard for storing a sequence of notes. You can do whatever you want with those.

But now you're grasping at straws, trackers didn't use MIDI, and unlike MIDI, shipped the samples with the tracks, so they'd sound the same wherever they were played.

That there's a superficial similarity is inconsequential, and that you'd bring it up at all, just further crushes your previous claims that trackers were related to earlier 8-bit synth-based music.