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MHLoppy

@ MHLoppy @fedia.io

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Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE's community patch (CBP). He/him.

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  • What's the first thing you'd do with a Star Trek holodeck?

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  • Honestly once they made it clear that holo-Thatcher was giving consent I thought they'd be redeemed in other's eyes.

  • What's the first thing you'd do with a Star Trek holodeck?

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  • Science has gone too far

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • It's not the intended effect, but this just made me sad:

    That really matters. Not because the internet is the most important issue facing us today. Far from it. Compared with the climate emergency, genocide, inequality, corruption, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism and sustained racist, homophobic, misogynist and transphobic attacks, the internet is just a sideshow. But the internet is the terrain upon which these fights will be waged. It is the communications medium we will use to organise to save our species and planet from their imminent eradication. We can’t win these fights without a free, fair and open internet.

    It's become increasingly difficult to imagine the sort of wide-scale change needed to achieve that vision actually happening.

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Before posting I read the recent annual reports which she advertises having a hand in as part a push for greater transparency, but was still left very unsatisfied personally (half the budget -- over $90 mil -- just hand-waved away as "infrastructure" spending? Really?). So despite being an improvement, I didn't feel that the CEO change has had much effect on the scales of "donate vs not". Perhaps for others it might, but my comment still reflects my best judgement.

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • I simultaneously believe that Wikipedia is valuable and that it's not clear that WMF needed $185 million dollars.

    As far as I can tell the situation has not significantly changed since "the last time(s)" this was discussed. Wikipedia remains a valuable resource, and WMF continues to aggressively increase both spending and fundraising revenue. Whether you think that means you should donate or not is probably the same answer as it was several years ago for most individuals based on personal preferences.

    edit: typo

  • How do you call this in your langage?

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  • It's fine, it's mostly just a federated software problem. For people on lemmy they can see the image itself in the UI.

  • How do you call this in your langage?

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  • What are the largest PeerTube instances?

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    Alabaster Dawn demo trailer extended

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    A deal with the Devil | Chris & Jack

  • How much does storage speed affect your games?

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  • TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed did some tests (on Windows, where DirectStorage is available so this will alter some of the results compared to your own context) on this recently: https://www.techspot.com/article/3023-ssd-gaming-comparison-load-times/ (video form: YouTube)

    In their results (which again may not map 1:1 to your own environment given OS differences etc), there was some difference when moving from a SATA SSD to a "slow" (by current standards) PCIe gen 3 NVMe SSD, but pretty negligible difference beyond that within gaming contexts when moving from that to other, newer/faster NVMe SSDs.

    If I were to hazard a guess for your specific setup (assuming you're currently loading mostly from a SATA SSD), it sounds like you might eke out a small loading speed improvement with either a RAID0 (or similar) SATA SSD setup or by moving to an NVMe drive, but the gains are probably only going to be generally meaningful if you're able to somehow use DirectStorage (or a "Linux'd" version of it) somehow. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was the only game within the tested samples that saw meaningful improvements without using DirectStorage when moving to something faster than a single SATA SSD.

  • Your Lemmy/Reddit/Fetlife/etc profile is tied to your real name and browsable. How screwed are you?

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  • I used to believe in this (and to a degree still do), but the idea of increasing the attack surface of unreasonable people (who seem to have become increasingly common in the last 10 years) who will do insane things like SWAT you, or doxx your personal details (like home address), or even just follow you around online to harass you has made me have second thoughts about the tradeoffs involved in this approach 🫠

  • Best SSD for Gaming: PCIe 5.0 vs 4.0 vs 3.0 vs SATA vs HDD Comparison

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  • I honestly don't think any of this matters anymore. SSD in general is just good for gaming

    As the article shows, in some games it does matter enough to be probably something where you can "feel" the difference between a SATA vs NVMe SSD. There's no need to guess or speculate here, the article has several measurements with differences that I'd consider a non-trivial between SATA and NVMe SSD speeds:

    • 10 seconds difference (~50%) in first load time of Assassin's Creed Shadows
    • 10 seconds difference (~33%) in first load time of Black Myth Wukong
    • 3 seconds difference (>50%) in quick travel load time in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
    • 15 seconds difference (~33%) in first load time of Kingdom Come Deliverance II
    • 10 seconds difference (~50%) in load into game time of The Last of Us Part II
    • 8 seconds difference (~70%) in first load time of Spider-Man 2
    • 5 seconds difference (~80%) in first load time of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

    In several of these, the SATA SSD has performance similar to the hard drives, not to the NVMe SSDs. Of course, there are also many results where just having an SSD -- regardless of what type -- seems to be enough. Is it enough to justify upgrading an existing SATA SSD just for performance reasons? For most people, probably not - but it's worth knowing what real difference there can be in real-world situations. It's certainly nice to save a few minutes of cumulative load time every week if you play some of these types of games regularly though. (And for those with NVMe SSDs already, yeah, even in the above cases there seems to be only a trivial difference.)

    I assume there will be some non-zero number of new releases making good use of DirectStorage, so if for anyone who tends to play new releases then it may matter increasingly more too, though it of course depends on what a person plays.

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    I don't see color. | Wizards with Guns

  • Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit

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  • The short paragraphs thing predates smartphones and the collapse of print newspapers (here's a paper from 1996 that does it), so fwiw I don't think it's that. I assume it's some sort of stylistic / presentation thing that's just normalized in news reporting. Maybe it's an outdated holdover from print media somehow (where presumably more spacing = more expensive, so it presumably wasn't a financial motivation) but I think orgs would've moved on by now if it was purely done for unnecessary legacy reasons.

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  • Nonetheless, it's pretty common for news sources.

    E.g.:

    All use this style of paragraphs. It's not universal but I'm surprised that it's surprising anybody!

  • Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit

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  • That's.. pretty common for news sources?

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    Why do necklaces come off so easily in movies? | Chris & Jack

  • What brand are these utensils?

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  • Fwiw it looks like Cutipol is the brand and that Horne is just the retailer

  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • An empty stomachHungry for my beloved starchLife in Latvia

    Knock at door. "Who is?" "Free potato". Open door. Is secret police.

  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • Refactoring

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  • Tbh I thought it was a bunch of non-lemmy platforms (e.g., mbin which fedia.io runs - anecdotally it usually happens due to some types of edits not federating well), but if someone from infosec.pub (which runs lemmy) also had the problem then I'm actually not sure what the common factor is lol

    edit: the common factor might just be instances that have blocked lemmy.ml, which currently includes fedia.io (my instance) and infosec.pub (the other commenter's instance), though I'm surprised links to lemmy.ml's hosted images are included in the block

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    Vibe coding your MFA

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    Sci-Fi Movies never pick the right year | Chris & Jack (ft. Janet Varney)

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    isInHell = 'true'

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    Blackout poetry

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    Checking into the Heartbreak Hotel | Chris & Jack

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    Chainsaw. | Ahoy

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    Complicated lore

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    I command you to make me sad | Chris & Jack

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    Against the dark forest

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    I dare you to trick or treat here. | Wizards with Guns

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    Not in front of the babysitter | Almost Friday TV

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    Testing how racist Thomas Jefferson is. | Wizards with Guns

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    When the ADR is way too obvious | Chris & Jack

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    Peaked in High School

  • PC Gaming @kbin.social
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    Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary