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One exciting change to also note is the getrandom() system call may be a hell of a lot faster with the new kernel. The getrandom() call for obtaining random bytes is yielding much faster performance with the latest code in development. Intel's kernel test robot is seeing an 8450% improvement with the stress-ng getrandom() benchmark. Yes, an 8450% improvement.
What do you know, replacing the speedup loop with
return 4;
really helps with speed
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Even after and reading the article, I still have no idea what they think is so novel about their approach.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Even after and reading the article, I still have no idea what they think is so novel about their approach.
It can make life easier. I quite like Microsoft's way of doing it. But yeah, two big flies in the ointment.
Beyond just acclimating people, though, FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate. And the group has concluded that it all comes down to the procedure for switching or adding devices. If the process for setting up a new phone, say, is too complicated, and there’s no simple way to log in to all of your apps and accounts—or if you have to fall back to passwords to reestablish your ownership of those accounts—then most users will conclude that it’s too much of a hassle to change the status quo.
I change phones almost yearly. I currently have five or six accounts with OTP in the Microsoft auth app. There's no easy to set them all up again. There is no way that this will scale up to the thirty plus or so accounts unless we start storing this in the cloud. Behind a password and an SMS as the second factor. Oh wait! We're trying to phase that out.
To FIDO, the biggest priority is a paradigm shift in account security that will make phishing a thing of the past. Attackers have become masters at tricking users into unintentionally handing over their passwords, and even two-factor authentication codes or approval prompts can be exploited. Such scams facilitate criminal profit, but they have also played a role in espionage and destructive cyberattacks that have shaped geopolitics and global events.
This will always be the biggest problem. The technology really can't pave over a good conman turning a trick on a naive/flustered user.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
To FIDO, the biggest priority is a paradigm shift
Sounds like a dog of an idea.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
To FIDO, the biggest priority is a paradigm shift
Sounds like a dog of an idea.
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@hungrier do you want a $10 billion GDPR fine? Because that’s how you get a $10 billion GDPR fine.
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I don't see a general vidja game thread, but... This article's headline is . And no, I didn't read it. Do I look like I'm ? Please don't answer that...
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@Benjamin-Hall this is why I shave my head, it's a common problem for the supernaturally good-looking.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I don't see a general vidja game thread, but... This article's headline is . And no, I didn't read it. Do I look like I'm ? Please don't answer that...
To save anyone else from a horribly written article, in case their curiosity gets the best of them, here's the relevant bits:
a ton of models in the game are horribly optimised for performance
As Twitter user @AkiraJkr1 has discovered, hair and fur turn Stranger of Paradise into a PowerPoint presentation. An early character's fur-trimmed coat alone managed to drop the game down to 25 fps. With an RTX 3090. Another early cutscene with dark elf Astos—who's sporting a gorgeous layered hairdo—brings the whole thing down to a mere eight frames per second. A follow-up video shows the whole crew with a buzzcut and a far smoother average of 30 fps.
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@Benjamin-Hall the real question is: do people think that image looks good?
I'd say it's uncanney valley, but maybe that's not it and it just looks shit in general. Like, the beard doesn't fit on the face, the extremely glossy metal and leather (or whatever that red stuff is supposed to be) don't fit the cloth parts ...
It looks like it's several cut out pictures glued on top of each other.
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@topspin to me the title/onebox picture looks like it's drawn rather than screenshot from the actual game.
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@topspin Partly a cultural thing. Japanese cliches. A bit like Hollywood gun cliches, but Japanese and having to do with cartoon character anatomy.
And partly Japanese game budgeting. apparently they start with the most important bits, chiseling them out meticulously. But when the schedule or budget runs out, the rest gets slapped on from the nearest
dumpsterhandy library.
This is why Japanese games tend to have beautiful character models but half-baked world backgrounds.
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@acrow … apparently this time the budget ran out even sooner, because they didn't even get to optimizing the character models.
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Eh, hair is difficult. I've been waiting a long time for a day when somebody will have figured out how to put on a hat in-game without hair clipping or disappearing entirely. It appears I'll be waiting for a long time still.
I'm told, the issue is that if the hair is twisted, braided or otherwise heavily intersecting with itself or other geometry, the strand-based physics don't respond well to parallelism.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Plus, rendering hair isn't trivial either. Hair has a lot of self shadowing. is partially transparent, and other subtle (and not so subtle) interactions with light. Being able to pump out a few 10k-100k hair strands is one thing. Computing (or even just hacking up) something resembling light transport is another.
Probably still easier than collision detection + response for thousands of thin strands.
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@Bulb No. That's a separate matter entirely. Lemme quote from the article the relevant section on optimization issues:
Square Enix port
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todaytwo days ago (maybe; the date in the onebox says yesterday, but the article says day before ), criminals are still stupid.
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More, duh research:
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@Dragoon Only if it's the music I like.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Only if it's the music I like.
Baby Shark on endless loop?
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Only if it's the music I like.
Baby Shark on endless loop?
"Observe, though, the longer-term subjects. After a week, they do not hear it. After a month, they cannot sleep without it. After a year, they will die if deprived of it."
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
the morons might jump in front of a reindeer
What about the morons that jump behind them?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
allowed me to know which door held
This will simply lead to all the doors being opened regularly, thus running the cooling more and cost more. Or something.
Edit: shouldn't have replied...
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Good boy!
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Not sure yet if this is a good idea, but I guess it could be fine if it's just playing random recordings:
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status: yo pog, I heard you don't like JavaScript so I rewound time to bring back CGI ...
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General Francisco Franco is still dead.
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@JBert yeah... it is probably just recordings. Also it's not "when life gives you sanity-eroding arcana". Just lemons.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Hero dog
I seem to be confused by typical The Daily WTF topics: I read
Hetero dog
.
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Paging Capt. Obvious to the red courtesy phone
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
That moment when you realize you've brought a cock to a gunfight.
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@hungrier What type of cocks do Mexicans fight with?
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@BernieTheBernie These:
(don't bother clicking the link; it does not have any additional images)
Side-note: today is the day when safe search proved useful.
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@Luhmann your day will come. O, your day will come.
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Well, this sucks.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Well, this sucks.
I remember when someone proved that POTS dialup lines were incapable of transmitting data at anything above 2400 baud. Somehow they found a way around that "natural law".
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
one Petahertz
But can it run Crysis?
Efficiently? No.
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Could also fit into the "Things that remind you of..." threads:
https://www.science.org/content/article/early-mammals-got-big-they-got-smart
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Could also fit into the "Things that remind you of..." threads:
https://www.science.org/content/article/early-mammals-got-big-they-got-smartFrom my experience most mammals never get smart.