Kissaki

joined 8 months ago
 

PresentMon is a set of tools to capture and analyze the high-level performance characteristics of graphics applications on Windows. PresentMon traces key performance metrics such as the CPU, GPU, and Display frame durations and latencies; and works across different graphics API such as DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan, different hardware configurations, and for both desktop and UWP applications.

[–] Kissaki 2 points 10 hours ago

Being the gateway, access point, and ad server of the internet certainly does not bode well for fairness or openness, or stability (in more ways than one).

I hope something comes out of it. I'll be interested to read the courts assessment and reasoning.

[–] Kissaki 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Finally, when something is hard to read because it's small I can stretch it!

[–] Kissaki 1 points 1 day ago

What's your problem with ADL? I'm not very familiar with them.

[–] Kissaki 2 points 3 days ago

but is US only

[–] Kissaki 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mentioned it in a comment in the last post.

Really cool gimmick. Especially that you can use the gravity gun not only on the can, but all the website elements.

[–] Kissaki 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The article is pretty bad.

It argues in bad faith against GitHub, conflates addressing the reader and their own community (suddenly "we …"), fails to see how despite not being FOSS you can be pro FOSS, names the vendor lock-in but fails to present advantages and disadvantages… I think the tone is pretty bad as well.

For the most part, I dislike when projects and people self-host. It's a barrier to me to read and participate. Different interface and UX, no account, different needs for registration, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, unclear long-term stability.

I like Forgejo and Codeberg. It has a good and well-known user interface, is fast to use, FOSS, and has a centralized platform., and is working on federation which could ease pain points of distributed and split hosting.

I find SourceHut UI unstructured; very confusing.

When GitLab came up, there was a time when I used it for my new projects, and moved some onto there, but eventually moved back to GitHub. Hosting it myself at work; self-hosting it is huge, heavy, bloated.

The main reasons I still use GitHub are that it is free, feature-rich, fast, familiar, and one platform. I much prefer a low barrier to entry and uniform between projects as long as GitHub acts well enough, even if it is not FOSS itself.

I would hate to see people follow this article and further spread out FOSS, increasing barriers to entry. I have left exploring projects and contributing because of that barrier on multiple occasions and projects.

I'm hopeful for Codeberg and Forgejo. Codeberg can serve as a centralized platform already. Should Federation land, it can serve as a base for self-hosted instances, reducing many pain points of a heterogeneous and self-hosted-distributed field.


Side story: When SourceForge became shit, I created and executed an issue ticket migration for a significant FOSS project. Thankfully we can change platforms like that when you're not fully locked in but have accessible or natively distributable data.

[–] Kissaki 9 points 4 days ago

yt-dlp has SponsorBlock support/integration. So if the community provided the information, it can be dropped.

[–] Kissaki 42 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The title made it sound like a full lock-in. But one survived.

Harper grabbed a bar from his truck and handed it to another bystander, who managed to break the back window and pull the young woman to safety.

Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.

[–] Kissaki 3 points 5 days ago

Huge update, with a lot of changes, and workshop support. Valve does it again. Quality update for a very "old" title.

[–] Kissaki 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Half-Life 2 is currently free on Steam

From now through the weekend (until November 18th at 10am Pacific) Half-Life 2 is free to own , so if you've never played before, grab it now and keep it forever.

[–] Kissaki 6 points 5 days ago

Haha, go to the bottom an grab the gravity gun - really cool gimmick

[–] Kissaki 6 points 5 days ago

IsThereAnyDeal link - if you want to check prices or against your owned, wishlisted or ignored games

 

Steam store pages received a new Anti-cheat field. Disclosure is mandatory for kernel-level anti-cheat solutions. And recommended for other anti-cheat solutions (like server-side or non-kernel-level client-side).

The field discloses the anti-cheat product, whether it is a kernel-level installation, and whether it uninstalls with the product or requires manual removal to remove.

Screenshot of anti-cheat indications

 

This game is so pointless and forgettable that I can't even be bothered to write a description. It sucks, don't play it. Watch my video instead!

#ubisoft #nft #garbage

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kissaki to c/technology
 

This GitHub repository has the technical details.

 

Abstract (added emphasis and paragraphing):

Anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions increases from the period 1850–1900 until 2019 are responsible for around 65% as much warming as carbon dioxide (CO2) has caused to date, and large reductions in methane emissions are required to limit global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C.

However, methane emissions have been increasing rapidly since ~2006. This study shows that emissions are expected to continue to increase over the remainder of the 2020s if no greater action is taken and that increases in atmospheric methane are thus far outpacing projected growth rates.

This increase has important implications for reaching net zero CO2 targets: every 50 Mt CH4 of the sustained large cuts envisioned under low-warming scenarios that are not realized would eliminate about 150 Gt of the remaining CO2 budget. Targeted methane reductions are therefore a critical component alongside decarbonization to minimize global warming.

We describe additional linkages between methane mitigation options and CO2, especially via land use, as well as their respective climate impacts and associated metrics. We explain why a net zero target specifically for methane is neither necessary nor plausible. Analyses show where reductions are most feasible at the national and sectoral levels given limited resources, for example, to meet the Global Methane Pledge target, but they also reveal large uncertainties.

Despite these uncertainties, many mitigation costs are clearly low relative to real-world financial instruments and very low compared with methane damage estimates, but legally binding regulations and methane pricing are needed to meet climate goals.

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Steam Families is here - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kissaki to c/gaming
 

Up to 6, sharing your shareable games library

Adult and child accounts, limit child accounts, approve and pay for child buy requests,

Intended for close household family; can't join a different one until one year after joining

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.

haha

 

researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship between AI disclosure and consumer behavior

The findings consistently showed products described as using artificial intelligence were less popular

“When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,”

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Kissaki to c/chat
 

Reading the post and comments on Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI made me think it could be an interesting topic to chat about.

I think the best support I received was in the chat application and service Slack. A competent, friendly human responds. I had two or three support inquiries with them.

The last issue I had in Slack was when I opened via try icon click my clipboard content was being pasted. I was surprised they were able to identify the issue which was due to a third-party application that had only just released with the issue a day earlier. Slack support was responsive with a first message before the solution, and fast to respond with the second message with the identified cause.

I'm not sure any stand out as particularly awful for me. [Kinda] Bad seems to be the norm. Sometimes bots sit in front of being able to write a message (my bank, I have to write the same inquiry a second time), sometimes the first response is automated or templated, sometimes the first response is automated and immediately but a human will follow up, sometimes you call and can hardly understand them because of accent or even awful intonation. Often you receive incompetent answers that don't respond to your message or issue. Sometimes they're unwilling or incapable of resolution or agreeable conclusions.

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