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MYEUHD

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Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not

hypha.pub
53 points·by MYEUHD·5 months ago·50 comments

Apple's SSL/TLS bug (2014)

imperialviolet.org
3 points·by MYEUHD·5 months ago·0 comments

Smartphone without a battery (2022)

yaky.dev
97 points·by MYEUHD·7 months ago·35 comments

The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy

backblaze.com
1 points·by MYEUHD·9 months ago·0 comments

comments

MYEUHD
·8 hours ago·discuss
> Steam is not an alternative if you hate digital only games.

GOG is the alternative. It sells DRM-free games
MYEUHD
·17 hours ago·discuss
Since 2018 they've been making two releases per year. One in March and one in September.
MYEUHD
·3 days ago·discuss
The stats collection is opt-in
MYEUHD
·3 days ago·discuss
> Also, the [Cyberpunk 2077] developer owns the GOG storefront and so 100% of your profits go directly to them.

That's no longer the case since a few months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422412
MYEUHD
·5 days ago·discuss
> You can doubt that they will, but that’s just hope rather than a legal or technical guarantee.

It's not based on a legal or technical guarantee. But it's based on what Sony did in the past:

P.T. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.T._(video_game) ) was pulled from the PS store. But Sony didn't make it unplayable if it was already installed. In fact, the wikipedia article says:

> After the cancellation, PlayStation 4 consoles with P.T. installed were listed on eBay for over $1,000
MYEUHD
·5 days ago·discuss
> 1. An Xbox Live/Playstation Plus is required for any online multiplayer functionality.

This is false. Free-to-Play titles like Fortnite don't require a subscription to play online.
MYEUHD
·5 days ago·discuss
Is there any evidence of this?

They can delist a game from the PS store, but I doubt they would make a game unplayable if it's already installed or if you own it physically.
MYEUHD
·10 days ago·discuss
It will probably have one for backwards compatibility with ps4 and ps5 disc games
MYEUHD
·10 days ago·discuss
Emulation requires the ability to dump games.

And dumping games requires a jailbreak.

That's why there's no switch 2 emulation as of now.
MYEUHD
·10 days ago·discuss
https://bullfincher.io/companies/apple/revenue-by-segment

iPhone: 50.4%

Mac: 8.1%

iPad: 6.7%

Wearables, home and accessories: 8.6%

Services: 26.2%

I assume that the majority of service revenue is App store revenue.

Other services they provide are iCloud and Apple care
MYEUHD
·10 days ago·discuss
linux-asahi is available in Void Linux:

https://voidlinux.org/download/#arm%20platforms

It's a regular package of linux in the distro: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcp...
MYEUHD
·16 days ago·discuss
I don't like that online play is gated behind a subscription. But you mentioned the wrong price and I was simply pointing that out.
MYEUHD
·17 days ago·discuss
A PS5 disk can hold as much as 100GB, and they could use multiple disks if necessary.
MYEUHD
·18 days ago·discuss
Playstation plus essential is $80 per year
MYEUHD
·18 days ago·discuss
Can you check how much that mini pc costs today?
MYEUHD
·20 days ago·discuss
Thread from two months ago (626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894
MYEUHD
·29 days ago·discuss
The PS5 does have a browser, used for the "User Guide" which can be opened from the settings.

If you change the PS5's DNS server in network settings, you can make the user guide open Google or Duckduckgo, from which you can browse to anywhere you want.
MYEUHD
·last month·discuss
> LLMs don’t seem like they will ever be reliable like that.

True. But you never know if / when there will be a new big breakthrough in AI, which will probably be based on a new architecture / paradigm, i.e. it won't be LLM-based
MYEUHD
·last month·discuss
I have already been using openrsync even before the recent AI drama.

Just like I have been using doas for several years.

All I need is `rsync -urvP` and I suspect the majority of users don't need the advanced features either.

The smaller code base also means less bugs and vulnerabilities. As an example doas is ~1k lines vs 160k for sudo. That surely means a smaller attack surface. The same is true for openrsync and rsync at approximately 18k vs 57k lines.
MYEUHD
·last month·discuss
There is openrsync, which the OpenBSD re-implementation of rsync

It's not a fork, but it's 8 years old, and is already shipped by default in OpenBSD and macOS.