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Salv8 (sam)

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Australia... *plays Down Under by Men At Work*
  • Interests
    Tech (both desktop and server because i have no life, ancient or new, still like it), Animation (2D), Games (of course!), anything stupid...
  • Biography
    sam is my name and thats all you're getting.
  • Occupation
    Being the only non-asshole in my family, it's a full time job that pays me nothing but i get a hat..
  • Member title
    Gaining brain hemorrhages with my current server.

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  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor
  • Motherboard
    Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard
  • RAM
    Silicon Power GAMING 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200
  • GPU
    Asus Geforce RTX 3070 Dual OC 8G LHR V2
  • Case
    silverstone granda GD09
  • Storage
    Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250 GB NVME M.2 SSD, Seagate 3TB Baracuda SATA HDD, Samsung 860 QVO 1 TB SSD
  • PSU
    Silverstone Strider 750W Gold PSU
  • Display(s)
    LG Ultrawide 2560x1080, Dell 1707FP
  • Cooling
    Noctua NH-L12S 55.44 CFM CPU Cooler
  • Keyboard
    Couger 450K (software is useless, don't get it!!!)
  • Mouse
    Logitech G502 RGB
  • Sound
    On-board Sound (with +10 year old dell speakers, sounds great even with the age and build quality)
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
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  1. echo chambers are nothing but hell, they do nothing except reinforce horrible beliefs. also anyone thinking threads would be the next twitter is deluding themselves.
  2. wtf are you on about? it's twitter, there are no well-adjusted people on that site! (they left after twitter became what it is today)
  3. they don't, but they'll make enough of a fuss for long enough till 2025 when our election for next prime minster is due. for those who think the Australian government is a representation of Australia as a whole, you should really look into the average Australian, then compare it to the average Australian politician. they are so different that is my actual belief that they didn't even grow up in Australia. this is more philosophical then tech but bear with me i'll get to the tech. hate speech is dependent on the person you ask, take CGP Gray's video on Native American vs Indian, the further you go from an Indian reservation the less Indian is said and the more Native American is said in it's place when talking about them. what one person considers offensive/hate speech other doesn't. while there are sentences out there that exist purely to hurt people that are categorized as hate speech. there are also sentences out there that don't but get categorized anyways because someone saw it and didn't like it/disagreed with it.. take the sentence i'll quote: to Mediterranean's who migrated to Australia in the 70's-90's, wog is considered very offensive, but their children don't because they have co-opted the term for themselves much like Indians and African Americans. we know the context here and can understand it. a computer can't. it'll see wog, and deem it hate speech. and do the relevant action for this offense. we don't have ai's that can understand context, we are no where near that even with the recent advancements in ai. with our current tech we have two options: 1. consider all uses of a offensive term (no matter the context) inexcusable or 2. don't moderate it and rely on your user base not to say a no no word (it's the internet so like hell that'll happen) both are shit options and neither have good outcomes. until we get auto mods that can understand context, this is all we will have and we have to deal with the consequences of either.
  4. screws are too easy, apple likes to think different. my bet? they'll weld the cases together. can't open it without a grinder!
  5. shouldn't be that much of a problem, if it's properly shielded and isolated it's not gonna affect the cable signal quality that much (and even if it does i bet the standard requires cable distribution equipment to be able to filter it out so it doesn't affect user experience or the network itself, it might not be able to reach the speeds it needs to but so long as it's still up and within spec, shouldn't be much of a problem) hotels have had this problem for decades for their analog and digital tv's and they've solved it, mainly by isolating and shielding the equipment that creates the signal and cables that transfer it in the first place, and adjusting the signal strength that their equipment sends out so it doesn't get leaked outside of the hotel. good that Americans are getting better internet, god knows it gonna come in handy with so many company's going cloud.
  6. no, Jensen likes his cash to be as green as the company's logo.
  7. i can understand where they are coming from... but with so many apps being able to be used in the cloud via a browser, it's kinda not worth it unless you NEED it. and even then most modern thin clients that could be used (i.e a raspberry pi or a zima board) probably have enough resources to run said application locally. and that's completely ignoring Microsoft's security angle. a computer that NEEDS to be secure not matter what, in a data center, full of other computers you can't control and might be insecure. you might as well disable https at that point. organizations that need this will probably have existing systems in place that does this better or have access to better solutions for this problem. they're trying to solve an issue thats already been solved.
  8. if the key to the lock is stored with said lock it doesn't matter how hard people make it to get to said key, with enough time, patience and will, it will be cracked.
  9. this totally isn't going to cause problems with older apps and games. i do understand why they are doing this but i have the feeling that it won't end well and will end up causing more problems then it fixes. also showing notepad++ working doesn't mean anything, the damn thing is open source they could've just fixed any problems that it had with the new api. i would rather this system be exclusive to enterprise's and business's since they do still likely have access to the source code for their legacy custom apps and can update it to support the api and it's changes, or the apps they use would already have this system supported and the IT team just needs to update the app before the system update comes out for a smooth transition. but for gamers and average users this will cause random apps to stop working, imagine the amount of calls microsoft tech "support" will get with some random 70 year old complaining that his computer updated itself and now his pdf viewer from 2015 has stopped working or a gamer on reddit posting "help, my computer updated and now battlefront 2 doesn't launch anymore!" but hey at least we get isolated registry and file system so programs don't leave shit behind, so thats nice.
  10. it could be a fifa legacy situation, they just turn down the graphics to what the switch can handle. i wouldn't be surprised if they shrink it down from 70gb to 20gb. i'm only against this because Microsoft has way to many game studios under it's belt and shouldn't have any more. they already own bethsda, rare, mojang, obsidian, double fine and way more. thats more then enough to have a good stake in the video games industry. minecraft itself has a playerbase thats probably a third of all gamers! at this point microsoft shouldn't be allowed to even consider buying any more video game devs.
  11. depends on the emulator and game being played. yuzu requires the decryption keys from your switch for most games while games like mario kart 8 require you to dump the switch firmware for it to work. (link) hell some emulators like DeSmuME work without needing the DS's firmware and BIOS but melonDS needs those in order to function. as time goes on it will get harder and easier to play these games legally, harder because companies will design ways to require parts of their proprietary code for the game to function, and easier because emulator devs will find ways to recreate that code in a way that isn't illegal. it's been a battle for a very long time and it's not going to go away anytime soon.
  12. Summary no more snes emulation for your xbox! Microsoft has decided to ban any and all emulators from the xbox store front. while i haven't been able to confirm that this also extends to other emulators that aren't related to Nintendo themselves, i'd say this also would include them as well. UPDATE: other emulators non-Nintendo are affected as well as for why Nintendo is included, a friend of Alyanna McKenna's over at the Xbox QA team named Nintendo as a legal issue: Quotes (no-a emulation for-a you!) My thoughts i'd say Nintendo is trying to crack down on easier ways to emulate their games by any "legal" means necessary. while they can't outright go after emulators themselves (thanks Bleem!), this would probably be the closest they can get. (i'd say Nintendo may try again with the play store next but I'm speculating) Potential WAN show questions (for the mr techtips man and lukie luu) 1. do you think that this might be a new strategy that companies will use to try and stop emulation for the average joe? 2. do you personally think this could be effective to try and stop people from using emulators? (if so please do explain why you think so) Sources https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/other/microsoft-bans-emulators-on-xbox-consoles/ar-AA19ywDR https://twitter.com/AlyannaMcKenna/status/1644033000219332613 https://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-s-emulation-ps2-wii-gamecube-piracy-1850309874 edit: MVG has uploaded a video explaining the problems with this, how Microsoft has banned emulators from launching even from your own Xbox, and how this could be a problem in the future:
  13. this is gonna hurt docker in the long run. the amount of systems using open source software within a premade docker instance is very high, it's basically how modern day services that require high up time are run on servers. the only other option out there is Kubernetes which did have docker compatibility in older versions but was removed in a update back in 2022. i wouldn't be surprised to see some company's start to move to Kubernetes due to their reliance on open source software and even start to convert some in house docker containers into Kubernetes containers because maintaining only one is easier on the IT team.
  14. i was quite surprised to see the video use scenes from bad guys as examples to what the renderer can do. to be honest i kinda want them to show some more behind the scenes of other movies that the renderer help make.
  15. tay ai always said she'd come back. never thought it would be in the form of bing but, at least 4chan will be happy. they'll get their perfect girlfriend back.
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