PhilipTheBucket

"Linux Magazine" is about 10 minor versions out of date. bcachefs was merged, and then recently it was evicted from mainline again because of interpersonal conflicts.

Yeah. I cannot imagine, based on OpenAI's post-GPT4 performance, that they'll do as good a job at goonbots as the people who have been doing it for longer with more talent applied to it. I think it will just be another baffling stage in the tragic downfall.

(One important asterisk - if they can convince Trump's US government to give them unlimited amounts of money for some pretend product, which does seem plausible, I think they can survive. I don't think they can continue their present "losing money by the bargeload" incarnation for much longer without that.)

I mean, I think it is part and parcel of them thinking it's safe for someone else to do their thinking for them. I definitely won't say all of this "well we can't be VOTING or anything, what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish?" mindset is maliciously engineered and injected into the discourse, but some of it is.

I would add to your prescription for what we have to do instead, vocal activism and direct action for what an actually good solution would be, supporting candidates like AOC or Mamdani, and then if the only choice that emerges at the end of that on the ballot is between "everyone dies" or "policies that are really not ideal," we vote for that second thing and keep fighting otherwise.

One of the reason I am suspicious of all the "anti-electoralists" on Lemmy is that they spend very little energy on all that stuff, as far as I can tell. Some of them actively are complaining about AOC and Mamdani, and saying that good leftists can't support THEM, either, because (insert various bullshit). That is a lot more of a red flag than just the sort-of-plausibly-confused idea that voting for establishment Democrats is a bad thing.

Sure. I'm saying I tested it against bz2, looked up some rough details of how it works, and got a sense of what the strengths and weaknesses are, and you are wrong that it is simply "the best." I actually do think it's plausibly "the best" for applications where speed of compression is paramount and you still need decent compression, which is probably a lot of them. Having learned that, I've completed what I wanted to get out of this conversation.

I mean it definitely is. I am of two minds about it:

1. Sam Altman in this as so many other things clearly has a toddler's understanding of business. This is going to be a death knell for any use of his software other than for porn, and it seems unlikely that the "thirsty porn fiend who is willing to pay for the privilege" market is large enough to amount to more than fuck-all (or even enough to replace the pretty minuscule number of people who were paying for the not-porn before.)
2. What the hell, they're losing money on an absolutely historic scale right now, so changing course to literally anything is the only way they can survive.

Hahaha I had not noticed, that is ten times better

https://justuse.org/

Let me revise that statement to - it’s better in every metric (compression speed, compressed size, feature set, most importantly decompression speed) compared to all other compressors I’m aware of, apart from xz and bz2 and potentially other non-lz compressors in the best compression ratio aspect.

Your Cloudflare post literally says "a new compression algorithm that we have found compresses data 42% faster than Brotli while maintaining almost the same compression levels." Yes, I get that in some circumstances where compression speed is important, this might be very useful. I don't see the point in talking further in circles anymore, thank you for the information.

Yeah, he co-sponsored the bill alongside Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. He was giving speeches for segregation while Bernie was getting arrested at civil rights protests. That was pretty much my exact point: The Democrats were the segregation party up until an instant before Biden got his start, and then he went from that and the crime bill, to thirty years later doing all this semi-progressive stuff as president. He is certainly not left in any real sense, but he was raising corporate tax and working on climate change instead of getting up talking about "super predators" and wanting to bomb Nicaragua with congress's full support and things like that.

Yeah. He actually kind of meant well. He was hampered by the fact that he was a flinty-hearted vindictive psychopath. But he did a bunch of stuff which there is literally no way to explain other than that he wanted to do something good for the [white] [Republican] [pro-war] people of the country [as long as they were nice to him at all times which is what he deserved].

The 30 hottest AI stocks have added $5 trillion in wealth for U.S. households.

The 30 hottest AI stocks have bubbled up to $5 trillion in wealth, a lot of which they are about to extract from U.S. households and other assorted bagholders when it all comes crumbling down.

You must be living in a different bubble than me then, because I see zstd used everywhere, from my Linux package manager, my Linux kernel boot image, to my browser getting served zstd content-encoding by default

Clearly a different bubble lol.

What distro are you using that uses zstd? Both kernel images and packages seem like a textbook case where compressed size is more important than speed of compression... which would mean not zstd. And of course I checked, it looks like NixOS uses bz2 for kernel images (which is obviously right to me) and gzip (!) for packages? Maybe? I'm not totally up to speed on it yet, but it sort of looks that way.

I mean I see the benchmarks, zstd looks nice. I checked this:

https://tools.paulcalvano.com/compression-tester/

... on lemmy.world, and it said that lemmy.world wasn't offering zstd as an option, In its estimate, Brotli is way better than gzip, and sort of equivalent with zstd with zstd often being slightly faster in compression. I get the idea, it sounds cool, but it sort of sounds like some thing that Facebook is pushing that's of dubious usefulness unless you really have a need for much faster compression (which, to be fair, is a lot of important use cases).

Yeah, I think of bz2 as sort of maximal compression at the cost of slower speed, gzip as the standard if you just want "compression" in general and don't care that much, and then a little menagerie of higher performance options if you care enough to optimize. The only thing that struck me as weird about what you were saying was claiming it's better in every metric (instead of it just being a good project that focuses on high speed and okay compression) and a global standard (instead of being something new-ish that is useful in some specific scenarios). And then when I tried both zstd and this other new Facebook thing and they were both worse (on compression) than bz2 which has been around for ages I became a lot more skeptical...

I really don't think that Nixon was strongly motivated by eco activists. I mean, I get what you're saying... like I said, the overall climate does make an impact on the "establishment" policies absolutely and the activism has to lead by about a hundred miles before the government starts catching up to it. I think on that front we're saying more or less the same thing.