bjoern_tantau

joined 2 years ago
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 13 hours ago

That's why Ukraine could never join the EU. They actually do something against corruption!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have the opposite problem, my immune system is in overdrive. I should get a tattoo to reign it in.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 2 days ago

Probably. I don't have the brains to keep track of everything, my wife and my father did all the paperwork. And we don't really know if and how taxes fit into everything. But especially thanks to my occupational disability insurance it should be enough.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to be lured into a false sense of anonymity. It's pretty easy to find a person if they post enough. Plus I'm using my own instance, which makes it trivial to find me.

On top of that it's a remnant from my Usenet days. In Germany it was expected to use your real name. Actually strange, considering Germany's hacker culture and strict sense of privacy.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Live. Can't work anymore thanks to !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone so now three different insurances are covering me and my family's expenses.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 21 points 2 days ago

Until the "voluntary" measures aren't voluntary anymore. Nobody is backing away from anything.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 4 days ago

Had a programmer like this when I was still an apprentice. He was so full of himself. Was originally a Java programmer but had to program in PHP because that was what ran on the server. I never found out why he couldn't just put Java on the server. We had full control.

All his variables were first names. Like $klaus and $grobi. Because he was afraid of clashing with reserved keywords. The thing is, in PHP all variables begin with $ exactly to prevent this issue. So he brought that habit over from Java which was far superior and not such a "Mickey Mouse language".

I mean, he wasn't totally wrong, especially back then PHP was awful. But he surrounded every function with <?php and ?> (PHP was designed to be combined with HTML output outside of these tags) and had plenty of whitespace between them and couldn't fathom why all his html files had huge swaths of whitespace at the start.

His way of preventing SQL injection was to look for SQL keywords in user input and then throwing an error in the log files.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 4 days ago

They've worked on anti cheat support before. It still depends on the devs actually activating that support. That will always be the case whatever they do.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Scratching or the German equivalent Kratzen. It fits the activity and the resulting noises perfectly.

 

On the plus side without the rest of Lemmy hammering my machine with constant updates it has never been snappier.

 
 
 

Edit: Running through Steam fixed it. I guess it pulled in some library that I had missed.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/4959667

I've got a strange problem that nobody else seems to have.

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All the small ability and item icons are missing. They don't show up at all.

Now, I have an unusual software combination running so it's probably because of that, but it's still a strange symptom. I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Steam Deck. I have BG3 from GOG and got the Linux binaries from a friend.

Apart from this bug the Linux version runs superbly. The bug shows up whether I have mods on or not, I have tried complete reinstalls and running with completely empty config directory. I can see the bug already in character creation. Icons from mods that would add new icons like Mystra's Spells don't show up either.

Anyone ever seen something like this?

 

winzige Hell Dunkel: Ausflug 33 Störklappe
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Keine Ahnung wie, aber die konnten sogar Köttbullar und Kartoffelbrei absolut ungenießbar machen. Essen die nicht ihr eigenes Produkt?

 

I had finally found a workaround to get Star Wars: Rebellion working perfectly. And not even a day later Alistair Leslie-Hughes had posted some patches to fix the bug correctly.

So don't despair about your decades old bugs. With the right conditions it can and will be fixed.

 
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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/linux@programming.dev
 

In my relentless pursuit of trying to coax more performance out of my Lemmy instance I read that PostgreSQL heavily relies on the OSs disk cache for read performance. I've got 16 GB of RAM and two hdds in RAID 1. I've PostgreSQL configured to use 12 GB of RAM and I've zram swap set up with 8 GB.

But according to htop PostgreSQL is using only about 4 GB. My swap gets hardly touched. And read performance is awful. Opening my profile regularly times out. Only when it's worked once does it load quickly until I don't touch it again for half an hour or so.

Now, my theory is that the zram actually takes available RAM away from the disk cache, thus slowing the whole system down. My googling couldn't bring me the answer because it only showed me how to set up zram in the first place.

Does anyone know if my theory is correct?

 

Or a sequel with Jojo as a grandpa who emigrated to the US.

 

It looks like all it took was for Israel to step up the war crimes. In a way Israel is now fighting for Palestine.

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