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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • i can chime in with some actual experience!

    my current problems with KDE are

    • the greeter only accepts my password on the secondary monitor
    • the compositor shuts down whenever something uses the GPU even though the setting is off
    • my primary desktop randomly shunts itself to the right, plopping on top of the desktop on the secondary display and leaving a big black void on half my primary until plasmashell is restarted
    • my panels keep collapsing their content down to the width of a single pixel until i resize them
    • Wayland just crashloops and is completely unusable (no, i don’t have an nvidia card)
    • i still can’t get the acrylic transparency to work :(

    and what’s fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i’m going to get on a given day!






  • in the health sector specifically, IT is a mess because you can’t stop people from working or there will be deaths. one thing you should take away from this is that their jobs are important and it is crucial that they can do them. it is your job to support them; anything that stops them doing their job or makes it take longer, even once, is dangerous. improving infra for its own sake is not a good idea because it comes at the risk of peoples lives. the details don’t matter in the face of that.

    if this stresses you out, you can absolutely change jobs. i did.

    if you think you can work within those parameters, and you think you can find ways to improve the system in-place while mitigating the risks, then you will be highly respected.









  • if I’m reading this right, it’s a bit like ipfs+dht. is this a content-addressable system?

    anyway, you should probably have demos of

    • large files (like a Linux disk image), to demonstrate consistency in transfer.
    • Video stream, to demonstrate performance and low latency.
    • multiple files shared with many peers at once, to demonstrate scalability
    • sharing with low bandwidth and high latency, to demonstrate possible mobile use cases.

    thoughts:

    • the logo is very close to wireguard’s.
    • if the data is stored on peers, that means there must always be people with free storage online for it to work? how much storage is needed? is that data in plaintext? could a bad actor push illegal content to peers without them knowing?

    also, please convert the whitepaper to a format that is actually readable. rtf? really?




  • it’s a standout of its genre, definitely. i thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. i have no nostalgia for the apple ][ style it emulates but it really serves the art direction brilliantly.

    i had a discussion with a friend about the obra dinn a few weeks ago. i told him how i enjoyed the “hidden in plain sight” fact that the letter you get with the pocket watch is signed “Henry Evans” and he basically lit up. turns out he had been stuck on the two ladies that were passengers, and he connected in real-time what must have happened to them just because i mentioned the name. i love that it’s the sort of game that gives you epiphanies.


  • interesting perspective, because while i completed subnautica i got tired of pacific drive. mainly because subnautica is open and static. you can make your way around a problem area meaning you get by with less time scavenging, while pacific drive is relentless and random, and will absolutely fuck you up if you don’t have the right ingredients. it sells itself on its driving aesthetic, but you spend so little time actually in the car that it seems pointless. it’s all just digging through trash and crafting.