unperson [he/him]

excuse me the embargo has an exception for food and medicine

It’s really easy you see, you just need to pass an inspection and get a written permission from the President of the US, the payment must be made in cash in US dollars before shipment and through some non-American bank, and the shipping company must go straight from a US port to a Cuban port and back with no layovers.

This is not a joke, it’s what is actually written in the law.

I like it because it’s designed. It think it’s the only DE with actual designers continuously working on it. It has few options and doesn’t feel hacked together.

When that eucharist looks moldy

:dean-smile: I like the piracy comm and most of the db0 users I see coming here; they don’t deserve being thrown into the .world pit.

How are you decoding the H.264 MVC video?

I doubt they worried about being condescending, lots of people fear that the official documentation will be too difficult and never read it. The logic is that the docs are arcana written by witches that know how to write programming languages, and the tutorials are written by regular girls that had to struggle to understand the language instead of the syntax just appearing on their heads.

I pretty much learned how to program from the official Python tutorial. I had been struggling for years before that; I had some notions but I couldn’t put together anything really useful. The Python docs got me over the hump precisely because of what OP said: it starts from 0 and builds up until you have enough tools to write whatever project you have in mind. I imagine that having had to design and reason everything about the language actually gives the writer a great sense of how it fits together and what the logical increments are.

Since then I always go first to whatever the language designers wrote; for example K&R’s The C Programming Language, the Rust book, the Postgresql manual, etc, and only once I feel that I know enough I complement it with other sources.

This approach extends to libraries as well: first I read whatever official docs there are, then I search the source code for the functionality I need to learn about, and only if that fails I look elsewhere.

It seems like a slow method but it’s so reliable that it works out for me. After a while of doing this you become the reference and people come ask you questions.

Python in particular is very well documented. There are two levels, the official tutorial that glosses over stuff and presents things conceptually, and the reference that tells you exactly what is happening and what the syntax does.

That whole chapter about the data model is really useful when you try to do anything fancy with Python. It’s all in one page so you can Ctrl-F all the arcane definitions.

Of course you had to have something to drive the VGA outputs. Usually this meant a VIA, SiS, or Unichrome chip in the motherboard. Those chips often had no 3D acceleration at all, and a max resolution of 1280x1024. You were lucky to have shaders instead of fixed-function pipelines in 2008-era integrated graphics, and hardware accelerated video decoding was unheard of. The best integrated GPUs were collaborations with nVidia that basically bundled a GPU with the mainboard, but those mainboards were expensive.

Windows Vista did not run well at all on these integrated chips, but nobody liked Windows Vista so it didn’t matter. After Windows 7 was released, Intel started bundling their “HD Graphics” on CPUs and the on-die integrated GPU trend got started. The card in the picture belongs to the interim time where the software demanded pixel shaders and high-resolution video but hardware couldn’t deliver.

They left a lot of work for the CPU to do: if you try to browse hexbear on them you can see the repainting going from top bottom as you scroll. You can’t play 720p video and do anything else with the computer at the same time, because the CPU is pegged. But if you put the 9500 GT on them then suddenly you can use the computer as a HTPC. It was not an expensive card, it was 60-80 USD, and it was a logical upgrade to a tower PC you already have to make it more responsive and enable it to play HD video.

Yes, it was the cheapest graphics card that could decode 1080p H.264 video in real time (and the acceleration worked in the Flash player). The 8500 GT could also do it but it was never popular. It made a huge difference when youtube became a thing.

The card in the picture is of a kind that no longer exists: the basic, office computer GPU.

It got entirely displaced by integrated graphics.

So in a way they did get smaller, so small that they share a piece of silicon with the CPU. The only cards that remain are those that are so power hungry they can’t share power and cooling with the CPU.

I’ve got a hang-over pet policy from when I was a baby leftist to abolish rents on land, but with a twist: Any exchange of money for the use of a property is a sale. It’s absolutely financial neo bullshit but I can’t take it off my mind.

The idea being that if, over time, you pay the landlord for maintenance + the value of the house, you get the title for the house, and this is the law and you can go to court, prove that you’ve paid for rent over however many years, and get the title of the house.

If you leave before that there’d be some system where the “rent” payments are split equally and you get the value back from whoever is currently living there, because you’re selling your share to them. Since the payments are split equally minority “shareholders” leave first. If nobody lives there but you’re paying taxes and maintenance, you still paying for the house so you accrue shares of the house.

I think it might be palatable for neolibs, destroy the value of homes for rent-seeking, but preserve it for construction, which is what libs always complain about when you talk about abolishing rent.

It sounds exactly like that. Perhaps you ran firefox as root at some point?

I’d say:

• delete the cache:

rm -rf .cache/mozilla

• set yourself as the owner of everything under ~/.mozilla:

chown -Rc $(id -u):$(id -g) ~/.mozilla

• make sure you can write to everything under /.mozilla:

chmod -Rc u+w ~/.mozilla

If you get permissions errors, run them with sudo.

Another idea is to press F12 to open the dev tools, go to the network tab, and refresh the page. If something is not loading it will be highlighted in red and it will tell you the reason.

It might be some addon messing things up, you can launch firefox with no addons with firefox --safe-mode.

Does it happen in a “private” window?

Click the 🔒 icon in the address bar in front of the URL, clear cookies and site data.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

https://library.bz/main/upload/ anonymous username genesis password upload

Last time I checked, you could only unlock Huawei phones through exploits. And while you can re-lock Xiaomi phones, they will always show the screen telling you the system is corrupted on boot. They were having supply chain problems with resellers flashing malware to their phones.

I’m more partial to Xiaomi.

Sure it’s commendable that Huawei is a sanctioned Chinese cooperative with custom made CPUs pushing the boundary on 5G, but Xiaomi phones have very good specs for the price, big batteries, they are well constructed, easy to repair, the bootloader is unlockable, and they usually have snapdragon CPUs that work great with custom roms.

I like this dictionary for character breakdowns: https://www.dong-chinese.com/wiki/茶

According to this it’s ⿱艹余, where 余 is a pictogram of a small shelter, an old rendering of 舍 (example 宿舍, dormitory)

Gummo (1997)

You can’t go wrong with rutracker.

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6391420

You can either get the torrent or download the official image form the website and apply the perl patch at the end of the post.