black0ut

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Master/slave indicates a relationship between two things. You can have masters and slaves in mechanics, for example. We've also had masters and slaves for decades in the tech field. Drives and floppy readers used to be configured in a master/slave setting. And of course, you have masters and slaves in programming.

None of these examples have anything to do with race or human slavery. They're just a way to describe how two things interact with each other. Human slavery is called that way because the relationship between the slaves and the masters can be described by that word, not the other way around.

It's clear that we should stop using racist words with racist intentions. No-one argues that human slavery should be allowed. However, in this case, there's no intention of racism in the words, and we shouldn't stop using words just because they can be used in a racist setting. Same thing goes with black paint. It's clear that the word black is describing a color, and it is needed to correctly describe it.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what happened now? Do they want to ban Lemmy?

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Not in a game, but I've sometimes tried to Ctrl+F some text on a pile of papers.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

But it was supressed with tan-

"Individual found dead in his house after typing a comment on a social media. Allegedly he tried to kill himself with 2 shotgun rounds to the head"

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, where did you think square roots come from?

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

While the Windows implementation works, it's not the best one. Even WinRar will compress and uncompress faster, and 7Zip also beats WinRar. The compression ratios are also higher on 7Z, regardless of the file format (Rar, Zip, 7z).

Besides, 7Z can open other (arguably better) formats, like the aforementioned 7z or tar (tar, tar.gz, tar.7z, tar.zst, ...)

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Superior to 7Z?

I'm not especially informed about this, but wasn't 7Z better than any other alternative? I've seen some benchmarks and, while WinRar beats every Windows implementation of Zip files, 7Z is always faster and compresses more. Also, the 7Z file format is way more advanced than Zip, Rar or Tar, and it allows many forms of post-quantum encryption.

Maybe there's something I'm missing?

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Afaik, they are unblockable. They are served from the same domain as the video, so if you block them you can't see the video either.

Instead of blocking it at the domain level, you can install adblockers on almost any platform. I recommend uBlock for Firefox and ReVanced for Android. ReVanced is also supposed to work on Android TVs, iirc.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes others have already made a comment explaining your exact opinion of what you just downvoted, so instead of spamming more comments you can downvote one and upvote the other which explains your opinion.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing about parallel booting is it's only faster in systems with lots of cores, and the overhead of the parallelized code is sometimes enough to negate the benefits in older processors.

My machine is a Core 2 Duo lappy, which allows me to run most modern programs cheaply. However, it's slow (even though I don't use DEs either), and laptops are the kinds of computers you boot multiple times a day. That's why I care about boot times. And in this case, you can see that booting with a parallelized init system is slower than booting with a "regular" one.

Yeah, Systemd might be the new fad, but I still believe there are lots of things to learn from the simple init systems. After all, an init system should only focus on initializing a system, and it shouldn't be as complex and complicated as Systemd is.

I might be just another old man yelling at clouds. But hey, that makes two of us now.

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