Crestwave's recent activity
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Comment on Arch User Repository compromised, 1500+ packages affected in ~tech
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Comment on I'm ever more annoyed with Steam in ~games
Crestwave Link ParentUltimately, it depends on your use-case for it. Goldberg emu is awesome and super useful if you want to keep a working snapshot of the game forever. However, if you primarily use the latest...Ultimately, it depends on your use-case for it. Goldberg emu is awesome and super useful if you want to keep a working snapshot of the game forever.
However, if you primarily use the latest version and want to spin up old versions now and then while leveraging full Steam functionality, you can do this without offline mode. The modern copy of the game keeps the app manifest updated, which is what Steam uses to determine whether the installation is outdated.
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Comment on I'm ever more annoyed with Steam in ~games
Crestwave Link ParentYou can do this without either of those; you can simply use the download_depot command in the built-in Steam console and run it (with a bit of file fiddling). This gives you all the normal Steam...You can do this without either of those; you can simply use the
download_depotcommand in the built-in Steam console and run it (with a bit of file fiddling). This gives you all the normal Steam features, even online multiplayer works I believe. -
Comment on New York Times quiz: Who’s a better writer: AI or humans? in ~tech
Crestwave Link ParentWhile those human-written lines aren't exactly the pinnacle of artistry, I still think they demonstrate creativity and paint the picture the author intended. The second line clearly conveys how...While those human-written lines aren't exactly the pinnacle of artistry, I still think they demonstrate creativity and paint the picture the author intended. The second line clearly conveys how enamored (and flustered) the narrator is, getting lost in their train of thought.
AI writing lacks intention and typically fails to convey the same feeling to me. I'm open to recommendations for any AI pieces you think are particularly creative, though!
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Comment on New York Times quiz: Who’s a better writer: AI or humans? in ~tech
Crestwave LinkOpus did a good job of avoiding the typical AI "voice" here, but the main thing I noticed is that its writing fails to have underlying meaning. It's a bunch of strings that sound deep until you...Opus did a good job of avoiding the typical AI "voice" here, but the main thing I noticed is that its writing fails to have underlying meaning. It's a bunch of strings that sound deep until you read into it and realize it just... leads nowhere.
For several of them, I actually did not identify which was AI correctly, as I assumed the AI prose would flow perfectly as opposed to the human ones. I picked entries which I thought were AI because they made me feel something (e.g., the science one). Turns out they were human.
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Comment on Ghostty 1.3.0 has been released in ~comp
Crestwave Link ParentGhostty's main draw is its focus on good engineering in general. There's a big emphasis on having good defaults and maintaining high quality in multiple categories, i.e., fast and feature-rich and...Ghostty's main draw is its focus on good engineering in general. There's a big emphasis on having good defaults and maintaining high quality in multiple categories, i.e., fast and feature-rich and efficient and native.
E.g., see this comment thread for a random example of the little touches they do. The README also does a good job of selling the project's ethos.
That said, for most workflows, I don't really have a problem with the default terminal in whatever DE I'm using. xfce4-terminal, gnome-terminal, konsole, and st are all perfectly fine in their respective places if you're not running something very output-intensive.
The main place I've found a use for Ghostty is on macOS, as the default terminal emulator there leaves a lot to be desired. But I did also have to config Ghostty to get rid of the Shift+Enter/Control+Enter escape codes, as it was messing me up quite a lot when typing.
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Comment on Apple announces Macbook Neo, a new budget Mac in ~tech
Crestwave LinkThis would be a really good candidate for Asahi Linux if they manage to get it running—probably depends on whether it uses SPTM or not, as I believe that's the major roadblocker for M4/M5. The two...This would be a really good candidate for Asahi Linux if they manage to get it running—probably depends on whether it uses SPTM or not, as I believe that's the major roadblocker for M4/M5.
The two major features Asahi hasn't been able to support are touch ID and thunderbolt, which the base Neo simply doesn't have.
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Comment on Apple announces Macbook Neo, a new budget Mac in ~tech
Crestwave Link ParentIt's $499 with a student discount, which I think hits the sweet spot for the target market. Apple has a massive advantage since they can utilize parts and designs from their other products, along...$600 is still a bit high for that market, but I think they will get more than a few bites, especially because the MacBook Neo is a “real computer” that can run “real apps” such as the Adobe suite and Microsoft Office’s native apps.
It's $499 with a student discount, which I think hits the sweet spot for the target market. Apple has a massive advantage since they can utilize parts and designs from their other products, along with the huge incentive of indoctrinating students into their ecosystem (there's a very real chance that Neo users will upgrade to other Macbooks when they graduate, unlike with Chromebooks).
Having a more accessible model pricing-wise also makes it significantly more attractive for developers to support macOS (and in an optimized manner, too). Seems like a killer move overall if the hardware proves to be up for the task.
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Comment on A global explosion of absurdly spicy foods in ~food
Crestwave Link ParentIn Sichuan cuisine, it's common to use dried chili peppers whole (or chopped with the insides gutted out), which adds a lot of flavor without too much heat. You can then eat the chilis to add more...I love the stuff. I can handle a serious level of spicy, but I do think spicy needs to be tasty and a flavour enhancer more than it needs to be hot. Hot for hot sake is just a bit boring.
In Sichuan cuisine, it's common to use dried chili peppers whole (or chopped with the insides gutted out), which adds a lot of flavor without too much heat. You can then eat the chilis to add more spice if wanted. Incredibly tasty, unlike some super spicy food that almost taste bitter from how strong the capsicum is.
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Comment on Over 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage in ~tech
Crestwave (edited )Link ParentThere are features offered under the paid subscription, but the base service is free; you can do comprehensive searches and find open cameras without even logging in. Most of the results are...There are features offered under the paid subscription, but the base service is free; you can do comprehensive searches and find open cameras without even logging in. Most of the results are security cameras, but every now and then you stumble upon someone's bedroom. It's quite creepy.
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Comment on Over 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage in ~tech
Crestwave Link ParentThis is still a thing https://www.shodan.io/.This is still a thing https://www.shodan.io/.
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Comment on Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite in ~games
Crestwave Link ParentIt doesn't and neither does any other anticheat. All client-side ACs have working software cheats. I would guess that there are probably hardware solutions that are way cheaper than thousands of...I don't know how effective Easy, BattlEye and the likes are, but I'm more familiar with the Faceit's own AC and it's pretty good. You can still get past it but it requires hardware that costs thousands of dollars.
It doesn't and neither does any other anticheat. All client-side ACs have working software cheats. I would guess that there are probably hardware solutions that are way cheaper than thousands of dollars as well.
The main purpose of AC is to maintain the appearance of competitive integrity to keep players engaged in the game. Completely stopping cheating is out of scope, what's important is blocking obvious cheating such that cheaters have to resort to looking like skilled players.
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Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games
Crestwave Link ParentThere's a lot of talk about FEX, which can apparently translate x86 calls to ARM with very little overhead. Seems like Valve is planning to adopt it into Proton like they did with WINE....what compatibility layers in the future can put Windows games on arm and mobile hardware?
There's a lot of talk about FEX, which can apparently translate x86 calls to ARM with very little overhead. Seems like Valve is planning to adopt it into Proton like they did with WINE.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/steamos-launching-for-arm-fex-translation-layer/
Exciting to see development in the ARM Linux space, hopefully Valve will generalize whatever integration they have to other devices as well and not just the VR space.
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Comment on Overwatch 2 now: how does it look to you? in ~games
Crestwave Link ParentThe GP was referring to the Overwatch Classic mode where all gameplay is reverted to a specific OW1 patch, leading to DPS Doomfist dominating lobbies.The GP was referring to the Overwatch Classic mode where all gameplay is reverted to a specific OW1 patch, leading to DPS Doomfist dominating lobbies.
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Comment on Overwatch 2 now: how does it look to you? in ~games
Crestwave (edited )LinkI actually quite like OW2—the gameplay is tight and fast-paced, patches are quick, and they've been experimenting a ton with features like perks and the Stadium mode. 6v6 is even still...I actually quite like OW2—the gameplay is tight and fast-paced, patches are quick, and they've been experimenting a ton with features like perks and the Stadium mode.
6v6 is even still continuously supported as a mode and OW1 classic reappears as an event from time to time. I quite like 6v6, but classic is kind of a mess—everyone is much better at the game now, so it plays out quite differently despite being a fairly faithful recreation (minus some engine-specific techs like Mercy's OG superjump).
I'm pretty indifferent to the monetization—all heroes are free now so they only sell cosmetics, and I have several good skins for basically all characters so I have no reason to care about the existence of a skin, no matter how expensively priced it is. They could sell them for $2k and I would still be fine because it's keeping the game free. Lootboxes can't be bought anymore so it's arguably a significantly more ethical profit model without relying on gambling addiction.
It's also been revealed in recent years that the game's former director, Jeff Kaplan, was actually responsible for a lot of what went wrong with OW2. Rather than capitalize on their hit GOTY shooter, he wanted to gut it to transition it back to its MMO roots by first forcing it into a coop shooter (which would then be gutted to shift into an MMO). Unsurprisingly, the same things that went wrong during the development of the original MMO happened again and the team was left with a mess. It's only in the previous years with Kotick out of the picture that they've finally recovered and started delivering content at lightning speed.
Random side note: the free battle pass gives you premium currency and it's also extremely easy to complete compared to other live service games. Good stuff, although it would be better if you could progress bought passes at any time.
One thing I will say is worse is the sense of a community. It's in a similar vein to WoW where social interactions still happen all the time, but it's fairly surface-level as you're immediately shuttled off into the next match for maximum engagement and minimal confrontation. Bring back the post game screen!
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Comment on Amazon Web Services outage impacts in ~tech
Crestwave Link ParentIt's quite illuminating seeing how much infrastructure all over the world was affected from the outage of a single us-east-1 service. Hopefully some companies will consider lessening their...It's quite illuminating seeing how much infrastructure all over the world was affected from the outage of a single us-east-1 service. Hopefully some companies will consider lessening their dependency on a single region.
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Comment on What are some of your personal misheard lyrics? in ~music
Crestwave Link ParentStar-crossed is also a misheard lyric! The actual line is "got a long list of ex-lovers"Star-crossed is also a misheard lyric! The actual line is "got a long list of ex-lovers"
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Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games
Crestwave (edited )LinkThis was a fun one! I totally didn't need 6 queens to beat the bot! Spoilers Got the circle first try. This ain't my first rodeo :P For the Empire State Building, I zoomed out to have it all in...This was a fun one! I totally didn't need 6 queens to beat the bot!
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- Got the circle first try. This ain't my first rodeo :P
- For the Empire State Building, I zoomed out to have it all in frame and selected where I thought 64% of my screen would be. Got it on my second try!
- For the chatbot, I just typed out Taylor Swift lyrics and it worked weirdly well. I guess bots aren't swifties?
- Reverse image search helps for the AI-generated men, although I still did a bit of trial and error.
- I used stock photos for the emotion detector. You can skip it if you don't have a camera (or don't give it permission to access it), though! Just click Verify.
- You can use your touchpad to zoom in on Where's Waldo, since using the actual browser zoom just makes it scale proportionally. Or you can save the image, since the lines are kind of distracting.
- I used picture-in-picture mode to skip the final video. I can't tell if it was AI-generated or just overly processed satire, but it was weirding me out.
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Comment on Blizzard shuts down Project Epoch, another World of Warcraft private server in ~games
Crestwave Link ParentThat was how they generally worked—you would install retail WoW for a certain expansion, patch it up to a specific version, then edit reamlist.wtf to point to the private server. I remember using...That was how they generally worked—you would install retail WoW for a certain expansion, patch it up to a specific version, then edit
reamlist.wtfto point to the private server. I remember using the regular launcher and having to immediately press Play or it would automatically update to the latest retail patch (apparently I could have just launchedWow.exedirectly to bypass this, whoops).Nowadays all the popular private servers just distribute the entire modified client so that it's entirely click and run, because convenience attracts more players, of course. I do think there are still some old school servers doing it the traditional way, though, they just have a much more limited audience.
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Comment on The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia in ~health
Crestwave LinkNot surprised to see this, unfortunately. Banana Boat in particular has been failing independent tests (from Choice as well as from other groups like Consumer Reports) for well over a decade now,...Not surprised to see this, unfortunately. Banana Boat in particular has been failing independent tests (from Choice as well as from other groups like Consumer Reports) for well over a decade now, with copious customer complaints to back it up and yet they're still up and running.
Yes, this is exactly why Arch does not provide a package manager for the AUR; PKGBUILDs just provide a reference that you have to manually clone and build.
Notably, none of the "AUR helpers" are available in the official repositories, either; you have to manually build and install them, signifying how they are fundamentally unsupported and potentially insecure.
Back when I used Arch, I would avoid the AUR as much as possible and pin my packages to a specific version (there's no way I could properly vet a slew of random PKGBUILD updates).
I 100% support the need for sandboxed mechanisms for Linux distributions in general, though; it's horrifying how normalized
curl | bashscripts are. But this is a feature for a different distro, as Arch forgoing this and offloading it to the user is a core part of the distro's design. Every user is expected to be a sysadmin for their system. You are meant to review every PKGBUILD update and monitor the news feed for alerts.Unfortunately, this fact has been dismissed as performative elitism rather than the legitimate warning it is.