Boomkop3 @ Boomkop3 @reddthat.com

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w9zz62ego

TikTok has called a report that China is considering allowing a sale of the social media company's US operations to...

Oh look, it's bullshit

Going to bed on time, and sleeping

Steam is terrified of the Microsoft store. It's part of why they're moving to linux

Going seagate is a great way to save cash and lose data

I'll be checking out pixelfed!

I'd have to dig down my pc files for details. But winrar and 7z we're at the top of the stack, and lzma was a surprising 3rd place. Apparently some updates were made to the algorithm

And happen to need exactly none of that, thank you very much. I pay the fee and forget about it

It definitely "just works" alright. And damn do I appreciate that on the machine I like to use to relax

winrar, (almost) all options available in peazip, I explore the options available in the then latest tar and zip commands under debian, and I look around to try some novelty stuff or if there's anything experimental.

I go one by one, setting up scripts to compress a directory with a particular algorithm and compression configuration. (and to record timstamps, check integrity, etc). Then collect a reasonably representative set of files from my ssd's.

Writing those scripts takes a few hours, but after that I hit run, and usually just screen record to a seperate ssd. After (usually) about a little over a day I can look back and see how long things took, and also have a video of all of them. I scrub it just to make sure nothing glitched out.

I have to say though, winrar's lead had shrunk a lot in my last test. Despite the new rar5 thing. Perhaps the next time will be different.

When is the next time? When I feel like it. After all, this is just a weird hobby I really enjoy.

I compare features, speed and compression ratio's of a bunch of options about twice a year. Up until now, winrar kept coming out on top, at least for my dataset

You can poison certain types of data. Like images. When an AI model is trained on it, it's results get worse. Some options are Glaze and Nightshade.

Now let's hope someone figures out how to do this to llm's

...Trump announces he made a peace deal with China

Also doesn't apply to wolves, the original researcher just mistook a parent protecting her kids for an aggressive male

yes

*you can't find it in the app store / apple safe space. If you're in Europe, you can sideload apps. Otherwise, you might need an upgrade

The maintainance and unreliability is annoying

You still listen to the radio?

It's more convenient to have a license. I only buy those when the developer is being scummy

So many people I know complain about windows having ads, that it's auto installing bloatware, has annoying checks, forces you to login...

I paid the full price about a decade ago and haven't been bothered by any of that. And yes, I've upgraded to windows 11

WinRAR is legitimately a great program and whomever made it deserves some compensation