barsoap

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

They started the whole thing. They invented and implemented a whole programming language to implement the thing. Then they integrated Stylo (Servo's CSS engine) and a couple smaller bits into Firefox which made it a hell a lot faster. Then they set Rust free and shelved Servo because from the perspective of Firefox going forwards with rewriting more in Rust would've been a lot of investment for diminishing returns. Stylo was the big one, enabling before unseen parallelism in rendering.

Servo, even with FSFE funding, still has ways to go. Ladybird, I wonder why they even bother. If they want a C++ browser engine that hasn't been touched by big money then there's KHTML, Webkit/Chromium's direct ancestor. There's a reason KDE dropped development: It wasn't worth the effort. Qt wasn't willing to pick it up either.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Quoth Article 8:

  1. Where point (a) of Article 6(1) applies, in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child, the processing of the personal data of a child shall be lawful where the child is at least 16 years old.
    Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.
    Member States may provide by law for a lower age for those purposes provided that such lower age is not below 13 years.
  2. The controller shall make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child, taking into consideration available technology.
  3. Paragraph 1 shall not affect the general contract law of Member States such as the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract in relation to a child.

The referenced point (a) is in the conditions for data processing to be lawful:

the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

In essence: The age of consent is 16 when it comes to your personal data. A completely different question is whether lemm.ee even processes personal data, even more so in a matter that requires consent. Because unless you doxx yourself lemm.ee knows nothing more about you than your IP and, presuming best practices, only keeps limited logs around for strictly technical purposes which don't need consent. That point (a) is only one condition under which personal data can be processed, there's also b, c, d, e, and f.

...not that I'm saying that the legal notice is bad it's good. It's overzealous and overcautious going beyond the letter of the law and event intent, reaching into the fabled realms of actually giving a fuck. Like, if the law says "assault is bad" then this notice is saying "please all cuddle, ok?"

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

France has Helios, Germany SAR-Lupe (with the successor SARah in partial operation), Italy, COSMO-Skymed. The systems are integrated, I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine has pretty much full access. Has had, for ages.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Not a matter of instruction set, though. Current RISC-V designs are built from scratch by companies pretty much doing their first chip and/or design studios out of the microcontroller space, if say AMD would spend a year slapping a RISC-V insn decoder onto their existing designs that shit would fly.

I guess of the big performance vendors Quallcomm will be first, they have a bone to pick regarding ARM licensing.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

There's also a lot of efficiency in hardware-specific kernels. A generic rocm build vs. one with hand-written kernels (not even for the proper card just a close enough one to have the same instructions) is like a 10x performance drop. That's on the matrix multiply up to convolve these tensors level, on the layer above that you then have things like smart memory management and scheduling as well as minimising how much work needs to be done in the first place (re-ordering operations so tensors stay small) and stuff.

You can port cuda code to vulkan or opencl -- but you're going to have to reimplement all of that. Just getting the BLAS layer to not suck is a challenge.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Chakalaka.

Dice an onion and a bell pepper, throw it into plenty of fat, sizzle until the onions are glassy, add some chilli (pickled is fine the end result can use some acid), not too little English curry powder, mix well, making sure the powder is roasted (it changes taste quite drastically), top with a grated carrot or two (veggie proportions are up to taste), put on the lid and let steam on medium heat (err towards low), once steamed (the carrot shreds basically fall apart) add a can of baked beans. Those don't need to be cooked, just let the stuff stand for a bit until everything is at equal temperature.

Eat as-is or with whatever, rice works well. Probably works with any curry mix I just happen to be out of Thai for a surprising amount of time now so I didn't try yet. Size-wise I'd say that the onion should be cut about half the size the beans are, and the bell pepper pieces to be about twice as large as the beans. If you want carrot pieces you can do that but I'd still suggest shredding some so that it can dissolve some sweetness into the saucy part.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

Blahaj is also one of the most welcoming, warm communities I’ve ever seen. If you get banned from there you deserve it IME.

When the bear thing went around there was a tread made on 196 specifically to talk about not the content of the meme, but its impact. I argued that someone interpreting the thing as "would you rather choose me or a bear", and answering as such, instead of "would you rather choose a random man than a bear" should not be construed to be somehow misogynist or anything, really. I ate a permaban (on 196, not blahaj), reason "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN".

Mods with with giant chips on their shoulders exist also on blahaj.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago

The creator favoured speedy feedback on everything. And it's not like you can't make things look gorgeous in EEVEE, why go for fidelity when you can make things look nice.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

They also have warehouses in the EU which means that as a customer you don't have to deal with duties and import VAT at all.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

In Germany the threshold is around 200 Euro, more precisely up to an import VAT of 10 Euros, where the state can't even be bothered with the paperwork. 150 for import duties, though that doesn't apply to alcohol, tobacco and perfume, unless everything is under 45 Euros and both sender and recipient are natural persons and no money has been exchanged.

You don't want to completely abolish thresholds as you don't want to spend more money on collecting taxes and duties than you collect. The general strategy of the financial police seems to be to make paying duties as inconvenient for private citizens as possible, they'll hold back the parcel and you have to go to them, probably a couple of towns over, and fetch it in person. The smart thing to do when buying from alibaba or such is to choose shipping from a EU warehouse as then all the import stuff has been dealt with by the seller.

We still do have duties within the single market, btw, because different taxes on alcohol, tobacco, etc. Relevant mostly for ølvikingar.

 

So instead of my usual tube of store-brand I grabbed a tube of Pringles because they had fancy limited edition flavours.

They put the flavour on the wrong side of the crisps. If you put them, as is proper, into your mouth so that they actually fit, right-out embracing your tongue, the spice is on the top side. I don't have taste buds in the roof of my mouth. How can this kind of blatant incompetence exist in the world?

Also I would have expected more heat from something called "Thai Green Curry" but that's a whole another topic.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

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