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Plorkyeran posted:x264 has a --tune placebo option and questions about why it doesn't compress any better than veryslow despite how much slower it is are much more common than they should be
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mystes posted:Maybe it would be more appropriate if there were instead lots of people claiming it was so much better than the other presets? —tune $40000AFootSpeakerCablesWithCrystalsTapedToThemAndPluggedIntoAnUpsideDownLaunchPlayStation1
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Plorkyeran posted:x264 has a --tune placebo option and questions about why it doesn't compress any better than veryslow despite how much slower it is are much more common than they should be hint: not even the difference between -O2 and -O3 matters
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oh wow i haven't thought about this article in years. an absolute classic of funy computer
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quote:To me, an extra 0.1% performance increase, even if I am only imagining it to be faster, is certainly worth one day a week recompiling all of the latest packages from source code. well at least it makes you happy i guess
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some people derive pleasure from meaningless numbers going up some people derive pleasure from meaningless numbers going down let us celebrate the diversity of the human race, friends
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Lutha Mahtin posted:oh wow i haven't thought about this article in years. an absolute classic of funy computer quote:"As has been pointed out to the author of the relevant "advisory" several times, Mozilla has neither a "local zone" nor "predictable cache file locations". The author assumed that the random string generated for his cache file location was the same as everyone else's. I wonder how Gentoo can have fixed, QAed and tested the fix for a vulnerability which doesn't exist?" god drat
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quote:Gentoo is more educational than mainstream distros. It encourages you to look under the hood and effectively turns a lot of n00bs into l33ts."
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Perhaps it is time for some secfuck? Zoom iOS app sends data to facebook even if you don't have a facebook account. Their statement makes it look like they care more about getting caught than having done it in the first place.
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D. Ebdrup posted:Perhaps it is time for some secfuck? Are you surprised?
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that the facebook sdk grabs a shitload of data it probably shouldn't? water: wet, etc.
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they've apologized and removed the facebook sdk: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebook-sdk-in-ios-client/ kinda impressed with their turnaround time on that change
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DuckConference posted:they've apologized and removed the facebook sdk: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebook-sdk-in-ios-client/
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quote:Zoom takes its users’ privacy extremely seriously.
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jre posted:god drat there was a lot of that —gently caress-upstream was a lifestyle, really
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I wonder if anyone has ever computed how much energy has been wasted by building all those duplicated bins.
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the few dozen people who kept up The Gentoo Way for long periods of time are currently holding bitcoin’s beer
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quote:It is time to take out the trash, and we need to stop supporting pay basis distros such as communist Red Hat. They are charging us for the stuff thats spose to be free. haha fuckin' communists, always trying to charge money for free things Subjunctive posted:the few dozen people who kept up The Gentoo Way for long periods of time are currently holding bitcoin’s beer yeah the whole time i was reading it i kept thinking "this is exactly that particular brand of coiner cognitive dissonance, i bet all these dudes are way into bitcoin now"
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I imagine there had been a time where you’d get some performance boost from building it yourself, but that probably went away as distro x86 builds finally dropped 486 support but idk if it was the case even then
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I switched from redhat and Slackware to gentoo in college (early 2000s) and the difference was amazing. not performance, but having a package manager that actually functioned. rpm hell was real and terrible, so I always ended up building from source anyway on redhat, and Slackware didn't do binaries in a meaningful way (they had a few packages but...yikes). being able to use emerge was like a whole new world if I were smarter I would've just started with Debian or something but 🤷♀️
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could have been worse, you could have been on suze
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I installed Stormix linux once cause there was a tornado on the cd it didnt work but the cd was cool
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Progressive JPEG posted:I imagine there had been a time where you’d get some performance boost from building it yourself, but that probably went away as distro x86 builds finally dropped 486 support compiling for i386 on linux assumed a really ancient minimum hardware target for a long time (and might still?), so just building for your actual cpu probably did get you some legitimate across-the-board speedups even if the abi was still hobbled the minimum hardware target for x86_64 is a lot better and the comparative advantages of e.g. having guaranteed sse3 support or having better bounds on instruction timings are just not that big for most software. the compiler backend folks at apple got really excited about haswell and made an optional slice that assumed it as a minimum and then were surprised that it wasn't even close to worthwhile to roll out system-wide
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rjmccall posted:compiling for i386 on linux assumed a really ancient minimum hardware target for a long time (and might still?), so just building for your actual cpu probably did get you some legitimate across-the-board speedups even if the abi was still hobbled i think the distros gradually dropped a 386 target for “i686” so it may have gotten better with that but thanks for the info
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Progressive JPEG posted:I imagine there had been a time where you’d get some performance boost from building it yourself, but that probably went away as distro x86 builds finally dropped 486 support
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Subjunctive posted:the few dozen people who kept up The Gentoo Way for long periods of time are currently holding bitcoin’s beer no, and gently caress you for making that connection you use gentoo because of customizability and dependency control, not because of ricing cflags. it's perfect for embedded work too gentoo with systemd is the best distro
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Tankakern posted:no, and gently caress you for making that connection Source your quotes
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D. Ebdrup posted:although it's not quite a distro, some haven't as there can be good reasons not to mess with the options if you only have a superficial understanding of them Is there an update to this from either last decade or this decade?
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Tankakern posted:no, and gently caress you for making that connection ! well gosh
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Subjunctive posted:! it's been a while since i've seen someone get flamed over a distro takes you back, doesn't it?
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Tankakern posted:no, and gently caress you for making that connection yeah i actually would like a version of kde plasma 5 with the file indexer (baloo) completely removed, but the file manager (dolphin) and other things link against it so it cant be uninstalled without pulling out a lot of other stuff this would be exactly the use (heh) case for gentoo for a desktop, but i havent done that since 2007 and the rest of the experience of using gentoo is not at all worth it
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Hollow Talk posted:Is there an update to this from either last decade or this decade? this was done because things like unifying PAE pmaps (giving the option of handling up to 24GB without PAE), i386 4/4G split (which gives 4GB addressable space for both the kernel and userspace per-process each), just like atomics were implemented to make sure 32bit platforms are still usable even for things like ZFS at least until the 19th of January, 2038 for now - but that'll be fixed too
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Lysidas posted:yeah i actually would like a version of kde plasma 5 with the file indexer (baloo) completely removed, but the file manager (dolphin) and other things link against it so it cant be uninstalled without pulling out a lot of other stuff the magic of gentoo is that you'll never feel the need to do a reinstall, so if you did bother to set up a kde system as you'd like, you're set for life kde has really good support on gentoo too, using it to write this post atm
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Tankakern posted:no, and gently caress you for making that connection lmfao
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Tankakern posted:the magic of gentoo is that you'll never feel the need to do a reinstall, so if you did bother to set up a kde system as you'd like, you're set for life not to mention that reinstalling would take 7 days and add $50 to your power bill
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computers are much faster nowadays than in 2007, just saying
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Tankakern posted:the magic of gentoo is that you'll never feel the need to do a reinstall, so if you did bother to set up a kde system as you'd like, you're set for life I've started my factorio games from scratch like a 100 times now because I felt it became a convoluted mess instead of a pretty base I fear what I would become if I tried to install gentoo
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are we really having the gentoo advocacy conversation? I apologize for my role in provoking this, the least interesting of all possible Linux conversations ebdrup, hit us with some cvsup nostalgia to change the topic
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I only recognize linux distros by the package management. So either yum, apt, brew or trash.
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