[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago

Hmm, for me it just says "This item is not available for purchase in your region", not sure I know that currency.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

There are different kinds of solar power generation, the photovoltaic panels that generate electricity directly that we all know and love, and thermal solar. You'll commonly see a small-scaled version of this used on homes as a hot water system.

Scale it up though and you've got a system that can generate energy 24/7, as long as you've got enough thermal mass, and sunlight.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Then don’t get me started about how the www subdomain itself no longer makes sense. I get that the system was designed long before HTTP and the WWW took over the internet as basically the default, but if we had known that in advance it would’ve made sense to not try to push www in front of all website domains throughout the 90"s and early 2000’s.

I have never understood why you can delegate a subdomain but not the root domain, I doubt it was a technical issue because they added support for it recently via SVCB records (But maybe technical concerns were actually fixed in the decades since)

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

RFC 3339 is a simplified profile of 8601 that only covers YYYY-MM-DD style formatting, if you only ever use that format and avoid the things like "2024-W36" they're mostly interchangeable.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

Plan 9 even extended the "everything is a file" philosophy to networking, unlike everybody else that used sockets instead.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Existing JPEG files (which are the vast, vast majority of images currently on the web and in people’s own libraries/catalogs) can be losslessly compressed even further with zero loss of quality. This alone means that there’s benefits to adoption, if nothing else for archival and serving old stuff.

Funny thing is, there was talk on the Chrome bug tracker of using just this ability transparently at the HTTP layer (like gzip/brotli compression), but they're so set on pushing their AVIF format that they backed away from it.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

For a game I don't think it's the end of the world, but you could end up in a situation where the first check passed, then you go to use the file and that fails, so you end up having to handle the "can't use file" case twice anyway. But for something like showing a "Continue" menu item you obviously need to check that there's an existing save to begin with before loading it.

In general checking first leads to race conditions known as "time-of-check to time-of-use", the pitfalls of which can vary greatly, but realistically aren't a problem for a lot of cases.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Yep, our center-left government recently announced plans to keep using natural gas for at least another 25 years

But it's ok, because we'll work out carbon capture in the future! Which is the exact same notion that our previous right wing government based their policy on.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago
  1. If your ISP doesn't do IPv6, then you're fine (But should look for a better ISP)
  2. If your ISP does do IPv6, then you should install the patch now (Unless you're not using IPv6 on the LAN, in which case you're fine but get a better router/sysadmin)
  3. If your ISP does do IPv6, but you can't install the patch for whatever reason, only then should you disable IPv6

The problem is people recommend disabling IPv6 for random unrelated reasons (Like gamers claiming it decreases your IPv4 latency), so yeah MS is going to be insistent that users not fiddle with things they don't understand because it's really unlikely they'll go back and restore that config when it doesn't actually help.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Ideally you don't directly ship the code it outputs, you use it instead of re-writing it from scratch and then slowly clean it up.

Like Mozilla used it for the initial port of qcms (the colour management library they wrote for Firefox), then slowly edited the code to be idiomatic rust code. Compare that to something like librsvg that did a function by function port

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 23 points 1 month ago

c2rust: Am I a joke to you?

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