stormeuh

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[–] stormeuh 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even if Tesla itself doesn't do that, it's something to be concerned about in case a vulnerability is found that allows remote access to the camera's (or worse any local video recordings that may exist).

[–] stormeuh 5 points 3 days ago

Yet, the Netherlands has its very own bible belt! There are quite a lot of conservative christians in the Netherlands, they just don't live in Amsterdam. I don't disagree though that religion is less at the forefront of public conversation than in the US.

[–] stormeuh 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not that familiar with WSL, can it interface with libraries like DirectX or Vulkan?

[–] stormeuh 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't know that, thanks! That's actually very impressive, and given how efficient qemu-style emulators are, I wouldn't be surprised to see near-native performance despite a little bit of overhead from emulating game logic.

[–] stormeuh 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No, not that much. The emulation of the syscalls are specific to Linux, so none of that is usable on Windows. They could reuse the emulator, but it seems likely they would write their own from scratch so they can keep everything closed source. Obligatory: fuck Microsoft.

[–] stormeuh 11 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Well, not exactly... WINE is a compatibility layer for syscalls between the x86 Windows API and (among others) the x86 Linux API, quite similar to how DXVK translates from DirectX to Vulkan.

What proton does is combine utilities like Wine and DXVK into a user friendly bundle, along with contributing substantially to the projects it bundles to make them interoperate well.

This looks to me like they want to bundle another utility, which does fast emulation of x86 user code on an ARM Linux system. Another commentator mentioned they are using FEX for this, which looks to me to do the same core task as qemu-user, but more focused on x86 to ARM and generally user-friendlier. That emulator could then be used to run x86 Wine on ARM.

The way qemu-user and FEX emulate one ISA on another is actually very cool btw. They realise massive speed gains by intercepting syscalls and executing them directly, instead of emulating a whole x86 Linux system.

[–] stormeuh 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not implying they are racist or partisan, are you? /s

[–] stormeuh 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you ask the supreme court, probably not.

[–] stormeuh 4 points 1 week ago

4K Ultra DLP LASER Projection®©™

[–] stormeuh 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, but it's also controlled and pretty well regulated in terms of what you can sell. E-cigs are not, or at least not enough, leading to the sale of devices which deliver nicotine in incredibly potent doses, which makes them very addictive (especially because nicotine is one of the most addictive substances in the world). Couple that with sleek packaging, and in some countries advertising which will be seen by kids, and you have a device which is creating a new generation of nicotine addicts.

Don't get me wrong, vaping is generally healthier than smoking, and thus better for existing nicotine addicts. We should, however, be doing everything to avoid creating new addicts.

[–] stormeuh 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't forget the garbage listicle websites which pollute every search for "the best x" where x is something like a vacuum cleaner. Judging by the utter uselessness of search engines these days, there must be A LOT of those sites...

[–] stormeuh 6 points 2 weeks ago

...dams, and despite that, they contribute 69% of cat and dog deaths in Springfield, Ohio. Why is that? Just asking questions...

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