Yeah this is a great writeup. First time I noticed it. I’d follow your blog on RSS for sure.

Open sourcing old games is awesome for video game preservation.

I agree. E-mail is the original federated service. And 50 years later e-mail spam remains a big problem. I hope Fedi projects can get spam mitigations on-par with email before spammers start getting serious about this place.

Moving from C to C++ would also not solve any real problem. C++ of course adds OOP which I think can be nice (not everyone agrees with this!) but it also adds an insane amount of language complexity and instability. Mentally reasoning about C code is hard, reasoning about C++ code is nearly impossible.

Rust however brings a novel solution to classes of problems like ownership and mutability with the borrow checker. It’s now accepted to be a great tool for writing high performance code while preventing a substantial amount of common, but often subtle, bugs from slipping through. It’s not arbitrarily the first non-C code to be accepted in the kernel. And it’s used in other operating systems like Android and Windows already.

Duh, I missed that it was under Steam Input. Yeah, most likely that’s just controller polling. Amazing that somehow saves 6% battery.

Oh, you refer only to this specific patch. I’m not 100% sure about this patch, but there are other kinds of polling rates, including a global kernel polling rate which greatly affects performance, and tweaking it might perhaps save battery life. And I just mean in general it appears Valve invests a lot of time into mobile power efficiency and I wonder if some makes it upstream.

It has been my experience, which seems generally accepted online, that Linux is greatly outclassed by Windows when it comes to power efficiency on laptops during normal usage. So contributions of new ways in which power efficiency could be improved would be great.

I wonder how many of these updates make it from Steam Deck into mainstream Linux. Because my Deck lasts a lot longer on battery power than my Linux laptop does.

Yeah, that must be it. It’s a real shame because the core technology seems to be solid. Streaming 1080p videos from other instances just works. But finding channels to follow seems impossible.

I was about to leave a snide “Eww, crypto” comment here, but this “Interledger Protocol” seems like the most good-faith approach to digital currency I’ve seen yet? I’m not knowledgeable enough to fully understand it, but I hope it will actually turn out to be a good thing.

I love Supcom, but haven’t played it in a few years. Gotta try this!

Ok, sounds cool. So I downloaded a .xdc file and… now what? I think they should’ve started with a paragraph on how to actually run one of these files.

inoreader seems very ergonomic, thanks!

I’ve been interested in trying out RSS again but I don’t want to self-host. Can anyone recommend a RSS client (hosted, local, or whatever) that they like?

I unfollowed Alec on Fedi because every other post would be him complaining about his interactions on there. Reply guys. Trolls. Lack of algorithms which raise some of the better comments out of the drek. Insufficient moderation. Etc. This got boring and depressing to read about honestly.

However I think he’s totally right. Mastodon/Fedi works well for certain kinds of people. People with limited engagement, people posting mostly uncontroversial things, and perhaps people who just don’t give a shit. But for high-visibility folks like Alec the old-school unfiltered discourse seems really uncomfortable.

It has little to do with federation itself, I think. But if Mastodon ever added the choice for users to enable “modern social media algorithms” for their view of their feed I suspect it would work a lot better for many people.

Companies use the same kind of systems to (poorly) automate the search for candidates, which is also spammy, inefficient, and wastes job-seekers time. This just levels the playing field.

It’s surprisingly calming to listen to Patrick cathartically vent, after what must’ve been a stressful education and career in finance.

Keep Lemmy small. Make the influence of conversation here uninteresting.

I’m doing my part!

I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works on Lemmy. For some reason “block” here is really what “mute” is everywhere else on fedi.

Guess I won’t meet the minimum requirements then. Oh well. Plenty of other games on my backlog.