scallisto

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[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 1 points 34 minutes ago

If you didn't know, CoMaps has a desktop Linux and macOS version! I believe GNOME Maps (also on Linux) recently got better offline maps support too

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 1 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

I would imagine that it's the easiest for the model to produce. Bold colours, clear and distinct shapes, that sort.

It doesn't help that the companies have scraped the entire internet (which is a can of worms in terms of both legality and ethics) and then some, so it will mimic the advertising strategies employed everywhere (again, bold colours, clear shapes, etc.)

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 5 points 3 hours ago

Honestly the actual hardware is very competent for the price, and a lot of the technologies Valve is showing off (foveated streaming, Windows PC games on ARM Linux VR, etc.) are awesome!

It's more how people are comparing the price to the heavily subsidised Meta doodad that is less open, has similar or worse specs (especially when it comes to streaming it seems), and is owned by Meta (selling your eyeballs to advertisers is not something I would like to do personally)

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

More people who kiss the toes of dictators. Those who ignore the atrocities of Stalin and similarly despicable figures, "tankie" as in the tanks used to silence civilian protests

Anarchists are far left, but they would be very insulted if you called them tankies (their whole thing is anti-authoritarianism!)

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 10 points 4 hours ago

People who love authoritarianism and intentionally skip over their atrocities, the term "tankie" refers to how the military (tanks) were used to crush the rebellions of many authoritarian regimes, notably, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 being crushed by the Warsaw Pact and the Tianamen square massacre in 1989 by the PRC.

It's usually used to refer to supporters of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc. who deny all the bad, inhuman things about those states.

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

If you define a stupid question as one where discussion is difficult or even impossible, then no, this is not a stupid question. Questions are meant to provoke debate and communication of differing ideas, and this is exactly what is happening now.

A true stupid question would be like asking if guns can kill people. Of course guns kill people, there is no discussion about this. A better question could be how we should regulate guns and ways to avoid placing them in the wrong hands.

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 11th of November is Remembrance day (the whole minute of silence on the 11th minute, hour, day, and month thing was a big thing at my old school)

11/11 is also a big holiday in East Asia, Pocky Day in Japan, Peppero Day in Korea (both because of the resemblance to the tasty stick biscuits), and Singles Day in China (the 1s represent unmarried individuals), all three of which are huge shopping days for Asian malls (similar to Black Friday, but combined with the hyper consumerism of the Asian markets)

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 2 points 1 day ago

Definitely in favour of abandoning the celebration of some old monarch's birthday.

 

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/p/2109773/what-are-your-ideas-for-public-holidays-that-can-be-celebrated-by-everybody

A lot of holidays are associated with religion and colonialism, but I think it would be a lot better if we had holidays that were universally recognised regardless of your beliefs.

Take my home country of Australia. You of course have the Christian originated holidays of Easter and Christmas, and Australia Day is awful (it's pretty much celebrating the colonialism and slaughter of the indigenous peoples of Australia).

New Years should stay, it's universally recognised for everybody using the Gregorian calendar, and memorial days for those who have died in war is also important to keep (like ANZAC day!), as well as the various independence days

Personally, I would propose the revival of the summer and winter solstices (the longest and shortest days of the year, reversed for the southern hemisphere), and May 8th as the new Australia Day (mate!)

What holidays do you think should be universally celebrated?

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 3 points 1 day ago

Fair enough. Good luck then!

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's not that "AI" is incorrect, more that it's way too broad. It's like how "leftism" is used to group social democracies, totalitarian dictatorships, and anarchism together, even though they are vastly different ideologies. For an example that is not based on politics, it's like how you need more information than just "fiction" and "non-fiction" to pick a book to read.

Good point on the cost of running a local model, but more efficient models exist that can run on memory capacities more typical for regular people (think 8-16GB of RAM). It doesn't help that all the memory has been bought out for the data centres...

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 8 points 1 day ago

It's 2160x2160, so less than 4K (which is 3840x2160) horizontally, since it's a different aspect ratio but it's still more pixels. About 8 million for a standard 4K display, while it's 9 million for the Frame. Even streaming games on such a high resolution display is performance intensive, plus you have the controller + eye tracking

[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

VR headsets effectively need to run two 4K displays, one for each eye, and you have all the processing for controller tracking too. You also have eye tracking, they're doing the whole foveated streaming thing everybody has been gushing over about (it's really cool tech!). The mobile chip they used is nothing special, it's a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a 3 year old smartphone processor (certainly powerful enough to run lighter PC games, but nothing more than that. It's kind of insane that a phone can even do that nowadays!)

 

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca/p/2087757/what-are-some-good-peertube-channels-also-issues-with-subscribing-to-channels-outside-ma

The search on Peertube is not great for finding what you're looking for, so what are some channels that you follow on Peertube? Right now I have Veronica Explains, themaritimegirl, and Ewen Bell (all from MakerTube, the instance I setup my account in). I'm interesting in technology, science (especially astronomy and physics-adjacent topics), photography, and that sort.

~~Also, dunno why, but I'm unable to subscribe to channels outside the MakerTube instance, like the Linux Experiment or Niccolò (KDE dev). Is this a Peertube-specific problem, something to do with the MakerTube instance, or something I can change in settings (is there a toggle that prevents subscribing to other instances?)~~

edit: It looks like I'm able to subscribe to other instances, I think it might be a network thing on my end? Not sure though, but it works now. Still interested in new Peertube channels to follow!

 

The search on Peertube is not great for finding what you're looking for, so what are some channels that you follow on Peertube? Right now I have Veronica Explains, themaritimegirl, and Ewen Bell (all from MakerTube, the instance I setup my account in). I'm interesting in technology, science (especially astronomy and physics-adjacent topics), photography, and that sort.

~~Also, dunno why, but I'm unable to subscribe to channels outside the MakerTube instance, like the Linux Experiment or Niccolò (KDE dev). Is this a Peertube-specific problem, something to do with the MakerTube instance, or something I can change in settings (is there a toggle that prevents subscribing to other instances?)~~

edit: It looks like I'm able to subscribe to other instances, I think it might be a network thing on my end? Not sure though, but it works now. Still interested in new Peertube channels to follow!

 

I know there are plenty of esoteric programming languages that are designed to be incredibly difficult to work with, like Malbolge, Brainfuck, and PikaLang, though programs written in them can still be compiled and run by a computer.

There are lots of constructed linguistic languages, like Esperanto and Toki Pona, but for most of those they are designed to be easier to learn or have other functional benefits. Are there any linguistic languages where the goal is to be difficult to speak, write, and understand, while still being actual languages?

 

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca/p/2071814/other-non-american-superhero-movie-franchises-besides-marvel-and-dc

I have watched all the Marvel movies and a lot of the DC ones too. Me and my siblings would like to watch something fresh, and I would love to explore some movies that aren't super U.S.-centric (American military this, CIA/FBI that, it gets kind of old)

Are there any superhero franchises that are not American, ~~or at least ones that aren't borderline propaganda for the U.S. military complex~~?

I would prefer English language options, but anything with good subtitles will work (it works for anime!)

edit: Amended the post, propaganda for the military is a bit of an exaggeration, given that the movies do sometimes criticise the U.S. army.

 

I have watched all the Marvel movies and a lot of the DC ones too. Me and my siblings would like to watch something fresh, and I would love to explore some movies that aren't super U.S.-centric (American military this, CIA/FBI that, it gets kind of old)

Are there any superhero franchises that are not American ~~, or at least ones that aren't borderline propaganda for the U.S. military complex~~?

I would prefer English language options, but anything with good subtitles will work (it works for anime!)

edit: Amended the post, propaganda for the military is a bit of an exaggeration, given that the movies do sometimes criticise the U.S. army.

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