- DiabloD3Nice. That's a welcome change.
- When (not if) Ford goes under, it's not going to be overnight. I would be surprised if they don't have enough gas in the tank (ha) for another two decades, no matter how bad their decisions are; there's always customers willing to buy their products.
- Opus is the most used codec on the planet, currently.
Can't really get more popular than that.
I think you meant to say, "why didn't it get more popular for _pirates_"? Because pirates are purists and prefer lossless codecs (ie, FLAC), and even when they wish to use lossy, Opus being locked to 48khz (to reduce implementation overhead for low power SoCs) kind of pisses them off, even though Opus's reference impl includes a perceptually lossless resampler (ie, equivalent to SoX VHQ, the gold standard, and better than the one in Speex).
Examples of users: Discord, Whatsapp, Jitsi, Mumble, Teamspeak, Soundcloud, Vimeo, Youtube (but not Youtube Music), in-game voice chat on both the PS4/5 era PSN network and the Xbone/XSX era Xbox network, the new Switch 2 in-game voice chat, games that use Steam's in-game voice chat (ie, TF2), all browsers (required to impl webm and webrtc), most apps on Android that have their own sound files (incl. base apps in Android itself). Windows and OSX also have native OOTB support for Opus. Some "actual" VoIP platforms use Opus. Some phone calls routed over the LTE phone network use Opus.
It is also standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716, and most for-audio SoCs support Opus natively as part of their platform SDKs.
You're not going to find anything more popular than this.
- Weird way for Ford to announce they're going out of business.
- Speaking of the soundtrack, before Virt (Jake Kaufman) made it big (composer behind Shantae, Shovel Knight, Ducktales Remastered, a few others), he made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEUImofSms
"Bogey at your 6", the combat theme from the game, but remixed as if Konami had made it for the VRC6, the NES mapper chip that added 3 additional oscillators that made the Japanese release of Castlevania III what it was; he made this using Scream Tracker (or possibly a newer tracker, but its saved in S3M format), because tracker-like chip emulators didn't exist yet (Furnace, et al).
- They already have encrypted RAM because of this.
State actors can freeze machines, pull the sticks, and then clone their contents before the sticks warm up. We've had encrypted RAM on virtually all enterprise hardware for at least a decade, maybe closer to two at this point.
- This is kind of a shit article.
There is no "PCIe vulnerability" unless you think someone is shimming your PCIe devices on the data lines physically inside the machine.
The only people who need to consider this are people who think a state actor is putting trash chips on data lines in their expansion cards and mainboards just to perform the shim... which, yeah, encrypting it is a pretty decent way of stopping this, they already do it for both in-flight and at-rest data on SAS and NVMe drives, this just expands it to also cover everything that flows over PCIe; ex: exfiltrating unencrypted data inside a datacenter that is being sent to/from the HTTPS endpoint gateway via the NIC's unecrypted PCIe lanes.
- Coffee, the brew, is not a significant source of Quercetin. The grounds, the part you throw away, may be. But capers are like ~200mg per 100g, and outpaces all the other common sources of it, so if you were really big on Quercetin, you'd be looking at anything but coffee.
- Stonetoss is a well known comic by an alt-Right Neo-Nazi. He kept his identity secret for years (for obvious reasons), but was outed a few years back. He received a lot of hate over this, and got fired from his tech job over it.
The comic was antitrans, antisemitic (with full-on Holocaust denial), racist, and sexist... but Graebener himself is a Latino, so he gets hated on by both the Left and the Right.
Websites that cater to the alt-Right ban users for saying his real name and ban people who make Stonetoss memes that shit on Graebener for being a Nazi.
And you know why HN is actually a great place? dang isn't going to ban me for repeating verifiable facts.
- I wouldn't argue against that at all: OOBE is absolutely a feature.
Problem is, we don't all agree with what the OOBE should be. I, for example, always strip out menus, tabs, and other UI features. For me, the terminal that requires the least lines in the config file is probably going to be the winner (assuming no unfixable defects that effect me).
- You're confused and you're thinking of the LS-120 SuperDisk. On some machines, it could be setup to appear as A: or B: when a 3.5" floppy was inserted.
Zip drives were never compatible with 3.5" floppies, and always were enumerated using the first available external storage letter (ie, D: in typical machines).
- That actually pretty much is the ELI5. Its merely a different terminal that offers more features than iTerm2 and also runs on OSX.
Unless you actually need/want those features (which, although I am a terminal aficionado, I must admit are niche as fuck), pick whichever terminal makes you happy. Features that are important to some people are performance, Unicode support, and OS support.
The most decidedly non-ELI5 feature comparison: https://www.jeffquast.com/post/state-of-terminal-emulation-2... and https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/results.html
- Yes: stop using Windows.
- That line is wild, btw.
We've been paying less and actively avoiding lower quality Cherry branded MX compatible switches.
There is no reason to ever pay Cherry's pricing when Kalih and Gateron completely control that market now.
Also, the patent they're discussing, afaik, isn't MX specific, but more a specific thing in how Cherry's switches work (including the MX). Kalih and Gateron both built their businesses on making patent-avoiding designs that are superior.
- Dietary cholesterol amount is not indicative of risk, unfortunately. I don't know why people keep repeating this. The body produces almost a gram of cholesterol a day, dietary cholesterol is around a quarter of that (depending on the person); if you try interfering with cholesterol production and somehow halt it, you will die.
_Quality_ of dietary cholesterol is indicative of risk, but only a relatively small one, as the things that lead to damaged dietary lipoproteins also damages the endogenous ones as well (ie, ultra-processed foods, the chemicals in them try to ultra-process you too).
Eating less cholesterol doesn't magically make your food good for you, and the average public shouldn't be continually told this.
- No, PCI-E passthrough is not enabled on non-Server, and you arguably wouldn't do this on a Windows hypervisor. anyways, you'd do it with a Linux+KVM hypervisor for either Linux or Windows guests.
Using GPU passthrough, however, is allowed. WSL2 does this by using the existing Mesa/DRI/DRM open source stack, but instead of a GPU-specific DRM driver, it is one that speaks WDDM (the DRM equivalent in the Windows driver stack), and only requires a GPU-specific ennoblement package (provided by the vendor, and matches the Windows driver it is talking to; AMD, Nvidia, and Intel all ship one inside of WSL2).
- They have never offered them. I would assume the lack of them ever having existed would indicate they do not exist.
- Powertoys is open-source and a first-party project by Microsoft.
- But doesn't Powertoys already include something like this for free?