tatterdemalion

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For me, it was Microsoft Ants in c/gaming@lemmy.world
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Flash is actually coming back to life via WebAssembly of all things.

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher in c/philosophy@mander.xyz
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Please explain how my comment implied that in any way.

EDIT: So if I'm understanding you right, you're saying that you believe (even if only for the sake of argument) that other people are a "part of you" in such a way that you can't know things about them that they already know about themselves.

If so, I don't think that really changes the ethical problem. So what if you believe that you'd only be harming "yourself"? You still can't prove this, and so acting on that belief to do harm to others without guilt would be unjustified.

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher in c/philosophy@mander.xyz
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev -2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I mean, that's easy to disprove because I can tell you plenty of things you don't know about me.

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher in c/philosophy@mander.xyz
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

I disagree. You are assuming that everyone who harms someone else does not care whether they are conscious or not, but there are certainly people who reconsider their actions when given the opportunity to reflect about their victim's life. It's called empathy.

What do people love about Rust? in c/rust@programming.dev
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you read the post? It ends with several critiques of Rust.

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher in c/philosophy@mander.xyz
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And that makes it OK?

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher in c/philosophy@mander.xyz
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (10 children)

It's a dangerous belief from an ethical standpoint. You could use it to justify horrible acts against others without any proof about their sentience.

TIL that in the early 20th century there were clubs for fat men. You had to be over 200 lbs to join, pay one dollar for membership, and learn a secret handshake and a password. in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

No the dollar membership would be too expensive.

You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I guess I see what you mean if we want to get very technical about what a syntax extension is. But I think for the purpose of this discussion, it's reasonable to think of macro_rules! as a part of the Rust language. Practically speaking, it is syntax provided by the language team, not just users of the language who are free to extend the syntax by using macro_rules! to do so.

You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Enums are the best part of the Rust language IMO, so I'm not sure how you can view them as ugly. Having the choice to destructure something is fantastic. You generally aren't required to destructure every return value. Make sure you're using the ? operator as much as possible. If destructuring is getting in your way, it sounds like the code is not very idiomatic.

I can't really comment on your issue with nested if and match. Too much nesting is bad in any language; try extracting more functions and let bindings to make it more readable.

You can enable a clippy lint to deny .unwrap() if you're worried about it.

You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Sorry, I love Rust but I can't really agree with you here. They only showed a macro_rules! definition, which is definitely rust syntax. Lifetime annotations are relatively common.

I will concede that loop labels are incredibly rare though.

YouTuber Ms Rachel says LGBTQ+ allyship is important as a Christian: ‘No one is to be excluded’ in c/queer_defense_front@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The part where this connects to the bible and the afterlife is that Jesus attempted to give a compassionate moral framework to people who weren’t being taught that by any one at all. He’s the Louis Pasteur of the soul and you’re speaking as if the knowledge of bacteria was always self evident to anyone who cared to think about it for a minute.

If your point is that Jesus taught good morals to people, then I agree, assuming you can even trust that those stories from the Bible are true. Although I think it's wrong to assume Jesus was the first person to teach a similar moral framework. The Golden Rule existed and was taught broadly long before Jesus ever lived.

But I believe the point you are arguing is stronger than that. From your first comment, it sounded like your point is that believing in an afterlife is critical to discovering morality, and that is a teaching of the Bible (and Jesus?) which I disagree with.

The Golden Rule is a wonderful thing IMO, at least as a principle to be used with judgement. But the religious baggage can be shed without losing the value of that moral principle; I don't need to believe in Christianity or an afterlife to agree with the Golden Rule.

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Ripping Blu Rays is way deeper than I expected (programming.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I didn't think I'd spend hours reading about this today, but some things surprised me:

  1. Just using a Playstation sounds like it won't work or will be a huge time sink.
  2. Blu ray optical drives are way more expensive than I thought
  3. The copy protections on Blu rays are exceptionally annoying, to the extent where there is really only one closed source software -- MakeMKV -- that can work around them. This post goes into some interesting details.
  4. Finding a drive that is known to work with MakeMKV is a pain. There's a brand called Pioneer that seems promising but they have stopped producing bluray drives ~~went out of business last year~~. I have no idea which model works, and it's common that secondhand sellers will swap enclosures and pass it off as a different model.
  5. Sometimes you need to flash the firmware on the drive to make it work with 4K UHD discs.

I was going to try ripping a Blu-ray that I bought recently, since I couldn't find a quality rip anywhere, but I'm pretty turned off from the whole prospect at this point.

Anyway I'm not really asking for a specific reply, I just thought this topic was interesting and I'm curious what people think about Blu rays and optical media in general. Does the future seem bleak? Are we going to be stuck with shitty WebDLs for most new content? Or is physical media here to stay?

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Japanese novels? (programming.dev)
 

Struggling to find a particular book. I was going to buy it on Rakuten Kobo, but they literally won't sell it if you're not in Japan.

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What's your favorite android game? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I think like 98% of mobile games are pretty much trash, but there are some diamonds in the rough.

In the past I've enjoyed:

  • Monument Valley
  • 2048
  • Fruit Merge
  • Hashi
  • Papers Please
  • Baba is You
  • Balatro

I'm getting bored of my usual picks lately. I'm looking for something that's quick to jump in and out to pass the time, not something heavy. But hard puzzles or strategy totally fit!

Is the FF Tactics port good? Better alternatives?

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SQLite (programming.dev)
 
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Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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AFAICT, if a Netflix account owner sets up a VPN for their household, then anyone sharing the account who routes their Netflix traffic through that VPN would appear to be accessing Netflix from that household's WAN IP address.

Is anyone doing this? Is it really that simple or are there more challenges?

EDIT: We get it, you like torrenting. Let's keep comments on topic folks.

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Study: Experienced developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower (metr.org)
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A tail of the wizard Richard from my D&D campaign (programming.dev)
 

Richard once decided to read the mind of a hermit oracle who knew everything. This drove Richard insane.

I just had to act insane for multiple D&D sessions.

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if statement == false (i.imgflip.com)
 
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Possible to bind qbittorrent to separate interfaces for clearnet and I2P? (programming.dev)
 

I ask because it would be nice to use the "I2P mixed mode" features of qbittorrent, but I want to keep my clearnet traffic on the VPN.

Background

I have I2PD running only on my home gateway for better tunnel uptime.

To ensure that torrent traffic never escapes the VPN tunnel, I have configured qbittorrent to use only the VPN Wireguard interface.

Problem

I think this means qbittorrent I2P traffic will flow into the VPN tunnel, but then the VPN host won't know how to route back to my home gateway where the SAM bridge is running.

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Firefox is constantly changing "http" to "https" for i2p sites (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/i2p@lemmy.world
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I've configured my i2pd proxy correctly so things are somewhat working. I was able to visit notbob.i2p. But sometimes Firefox really likes to replace "http" with "https" when I click on a link or even enter the URL manually into the bar. I have "HTTPS-only mode" turned off, and I also have "browser.fixup.fallback-to-https" set to "false" and "network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist" to false.

I tried spying on the HTTP traffic in web dev tools, and I see the request gets NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_HOST. This does not happen when using the xh CLI HTTP client, so Firefox is doing something weird with name resolution. I made sure to turn off the Firefox DNS over HTTPs setting as well, but it didn't seem to make a difference.

I assume that name resolution needs to happen in i2pd. How can I force Firefox to let that happen?

Update: Chrome works fine.

Update: I started fresh and simplified the setup and it seems fixed. I'm not entirely sure why. The only things I've changed from default are DoH and the manual HTTP proxy.

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Is it possible to stay anonymous when joining a private tracker community? (programming.dev)
 

I was just reading through the interview process for RED, and they specifically forbid the use of VPN during the interview. I don't understand this requirement, and it seems like it would just leak your IP address to the IRC host, which could potentially be used against you in a honeypot scenario. Once they have your IP, they could link that with the credentials used with the tracker while you are torrenting, regardless of if you used VPN while torrenting.

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What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don't like running shell commands?

OK sorry for throwing shade. If you use one of these, honestly, what features do you use that make it worthwhile?

EDIT: Just to clarify, my point is I would almost always reach for fzf, fd, or rg before trying to manually search through a directory in a file manager.

EDIT2: A few people mentioned selecting files in a TUI. I don't find it any harder to select files using autocomplete. It might even be faster to start typing a name than it is it "scroll" through a list of files.

EDIT3: Here's a neat tool that can add some flexibility to your shell workflow: https://github.com/urbanogilson/lineselect

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