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True but this is likely less engaging for the audience, which has been my experience.
This is when I repeat my silly joke that I'd rather see Skeletor doing live coding than another anime girl with pitched upvoice. Enough furries and anime girls, people. They are cute, but there is more to animated art
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I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
But what about people that hate the "twitchification" of media? I don't like when youtubers I enjoy watching switch to streaming and then all their content is identical "poggers" chat and donation begging garbage. Streamers all feel the same, regardless of the content. I don't feel there's any value to a hundred instances of a stupid emoji streaming by in a """chat""" window, and everything just feels like attention…
Well, when those people put months of their lives into reverse-engineering a reliable stack of code for an undocumented platform, and want to do presentations and write-ups of their work, those people can decide to present however they want.
In the meantime maybe people who are contributing precisely nothing can STFU about the people who are.
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Isn’t the primary purpose of the ME to run DRM and back door the system? How would it be useful at all open source? People would just turn it off entirely.
I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks. And remote management isn't bad if it's entirely under my control. It's the closed nature that makes me distrust it.
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I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me. >In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome" or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS. from Johnny Mnemonic What can we do to make it more utopian?
> I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me. Is it? It's basically forums & avatars brought in the medium of audio and video communication.
OMG CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA PHILIP K DICK
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Which is what Zuck is trying to get us all into with the Meta, but the world is not ready yet.
Same thing was said about full touch screen iphones circa 2007. VR/AR just hasn't been done right as of now, but its getting close. Demand is there. Imagine virtual schooling during time like Covid, but instead of Zoom, kids actually see each other in VR and can interact with each other.
watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.
Can someone explain this vtoon trend to me? It doesn't seem to be driven by anonymity because their real name is easily findable, so I assume it's something else? It seems very common, especially in certain communities.
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Can someone explain this vtoon trend to me? It doesn't seem to be driven by anonymity because their real name is easily findable, so I assume it's something else? It seems very common, especially in certain communities.
Some people just prefer their public persona to be in the form of an avatar instead of their real face. They want to have something there to represent themselves instead of just streaming a screen and nothing else, but they would rather that representation be an avatar or character rather than their physical selves.
A persistent avatar/alias as an internet persona seems to match the real-life to internet-life relationship better. IE, for many, they’re different and rather separable aspects of life.
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The problem is that there's so much unexplored territory in operating system design. "Everything is a file" and the other *nix assumptions are too often just assumed to be normal. So much more is possible.
Curious student here, would you mind elaborating a bit on this unexplored territory?
To summarize:
> ITS (of PDP-10 hacker fame) - processes could debug and introspect their child processes. The debugger was always available, basically. The operating system provided support for breakpoints, single-stepping, examining process memory, etc.
> KeyKOS (developed by Tymshare for their commercial computing services in the 1970s) - A capability operating system. If everything in UNIX was a file, then everything in KeyKOS was a memory page, and capabilities (keys) to access those pages.
In every operating system, the basic unit of abstraction will be a process -- which necessitates a scheduler, some form of memory protection, some way for the process to interact with the kernel, and the notions of "kernel space" and "user space". There is a lot of room for innovation there (see ITS), but I suspect most of the room for innovation is in how an OS abstracts/refers to various parts of the system.
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I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks. And remote management isn't bad if it's entirely under my control. It's the closed nature that makes me distrust it.
This has already been solved. Modern devices come with low power general purpose cores and OSs can wake up briefly to check for new messages. I just can’t see why you would ever want to remote manage your own laptop where some software installed on the OS isn’t sufficient.
It's to remotely recover when Windows corrupts itself. (Which is far less common than it used to be.)
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Building an OS is hard. There's no way around its complexity. But closing your eyes and pretending everything is a file is a security disaster waiting to happen (actually, happening every day). And furthermore, OS research is not only about building Linux alternatives. There are a lot of operating systems that have a much narrower focus than full-blown multi-tenant GPOS. So building holistic systems with a narrower f…
> But closing your eyes and pretending everything is a file is a security disaster waiting to happen (actually, happening every day). How so? I can see the limited access control in Linux is an issue, and for this reason augmented security MAC (Mandatory Access Control) controls exist like SELinux and AppArmor. But I don't see how the nature of everything being a file is a vulnerability in itself. I'd be happy to lea…
In traditional unix-like systems, file descriptors are very close to capabilities. But the global filesystem namespace is a source of ambient authority.
There are a couple of ways to fix this issue: fine-grained per-process namespaces like Plan 9, so that the filesystem’s authority can be attenuated as necessary, so it becomes more like a capability. Or eliminate absolute pathnames from the API, so you have to use functions like openat() to get an fd relative to an existing fd.