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John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by zardo »

romwell wrote: post #217
tialaramex wrote: post #60

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Some people actually use those "takeout" features to collect archive data. So then you do get the archive, it's like having somebody's cuttings from a local newspaper rather than a complete set of local papers on microfiche. One reason I take these is that I have RAM and I have grep and apparently either the people who had the data don't have RAM or they don't have grep, and so while I can ask my local Facebook archi…

Facebook's search and suggestion engine is hilariously broken. Say, I am commenting in a thread trying to respond to John Smith. That's the only person whose name starts with a J. If I start typing @J..., the suggestions would be for literally anyone else but John Smith in the thread. On their mobile website (which lags behind the app), typing @John Smith will sometimes suggest a number of John Smiths, none of them b…

Once you do manage to tag @JohnSmith, he will get a notification that he has been tagged in the thread. One notification per thread, regardless of the number of individual posts he was tagged in.

The link on the notification will take him to the top of the thread.

Depending on the thread's popularity, John could have a very difficult time finding the posts he's tagged in.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by kingcharles »

dunnevens wrote: post #218
kingcharles wrote: post #159

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Yes, been a web developer since 1994. Framework churn is THE WORST. Ugh. Really, nothing in terms of outside appearance has changed. The web looks pretty much identical to when I was locked up in 2013. There are a lot more ads, and way more video ads. The Web uses up waaaay more RAM and CPU. Development, though, has been a bitch since I got out a couple of months ago. I want to use the latest frameworks, but I'm star…

Did you notice the reduction of information density on web pages? I think that would be the biggest immediate difference. Old Reddit vs. new Reddit as one prominent example. The dominance of responsive designs now, as compared to the old separation between main site and mobile site, as another example. I guess hamburger menus weren't a big thing in 2013? I honestly can't remember. Maybe time to hit the Internet Archi…

I actually like New Reddit, except for the advertising.

Design is much more responsive now, I'll give it that. Lots and lots of huge photographic headers. Hamburger menus? I'm guessing that is the name for the 3-line icon? They were pretty new in 2013 on mobile sites on my iPhone 5. And the 3-dot thing for "extra" options ... I don't remember that existing back then.

There is a reduction in information density.. some of it is warranted by an increase in white space which is good. A lot of sites now have super-intrusive advertising posted all the way through the copy, which wasn't common in 2013.

The sheer amount of data I burn through just browsing the Web.. that's a huge change. Even my mobile plan with 100GB of data gets burned in no time just browsing around. Sites are so, so heavy now. I saw that post yesterday about Discord having an enormous favicon file and so I can see that people just gave up trying to trim their code. I look at some HTML source now and I lose my shit because it is literally megabytes of bullshit. People were more careful with their code in my time.

One weird thing is that my brain doesn't know it is 2021 yet. I saw a show the other day where a woman said her son was born in 2011 and I did the maths and my brain said her son was two years old. This happens to me constantly. It's like my brain stopped counting time as soon as I entered the jail.

Re: John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

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Post by baby »

gokhan wrote: post #190
baby wrote: post #173

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VR is advancing at an incredible pace really, I don't think it's sad.

Can you give some examples? What was not possible and what's possible now?

It's honestly hard to describe to someone who's never tried modern VR, but it basically gives you full immersion. You can watch Netflix in VR, you can move around (if you have enough real-life space), you can grab and play with things surrounding you, it's just so close to real life it's mind blowing. I actually wrote about social experiences (specifically playing boardgames in VR!) within the Go[1], and you can imagine that it has evolved exponentially with the Quest and the Quest 2.

I'm not sure how easy it is to get a demo, but look around you maybe malls or some arcade places will have a headset you can try. Or you can spend the $300 to get the Quest 2 :) It's honestly not that much to get a taste of the future.

[1]: https://p1x3l.com/story/239/social-virtual-reality-and-the-o...

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Post by genewitch »

sosborn wrote: post #209
maximedupre wrote: post #144

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Haha well that just blew my mind xD I personally don't really care about achieving anything. Why is this such a big thing? Why would we want to achieve all the APKs? There are too many of them lol History? Memories? Who cares, we're all going to die lol And with the qty of APKs, only 0.00000001% of them will ever be dug out of the archives.

> Why would we want to archive all the APKs? It is hard to know what APKs (or anything really) will be interesting to people 30 years out. Archiving all of them gives our future selves a chance at finding what they want to see. Here is an example pulled from a discussion I once had. Someone was looking for a really obscure feature phone game from the late 90's. I had played the original game on original hardware and…

Was it E.T.?

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Post by touristtam »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #13
nicolaslem wrote: post #3

> allowing for a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now to be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down. This resonates so much with me. Each time I setup a new device that requires an Internet connection, I think about how we can enjoy booting 30 years old retro computers and how the next generation will not be able to do the sa…

This is why I still try so hard to buy physical copies of games, and if there is a GOTY Edition, to have the DLC be on-disk , as opposed to being a bunch of download vouchers. I wanna be able to play the freaking game in ten years without worrying about whether the game/console's online service is still available to do some mandatory authentication or version check.

I stopped this the day I had to try an emulate a DOS environment to run a simple game.

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Post by genewitch »

tenebrisalietum wrote: post #87
spicybright wrote: post #22

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Browsers evolve and break older pages. JS that requires requests as you interact with it will need an implementation of the server it uses (the subset and data of it's endpoints) How do you preserve that?

I've had some success in the past using a WARC proxy - it will basically record everything that traverses the browser and can "play it back" on demand. So while it won't automatically download everything on a site the idea is that whatever you visit with and interact with in a session can be "played back" in the future at some point.

I actually built a machine to do this, and wanted to use l my "old" spindle drives as storage, but I was and am unhappy with the offerings of replicated or raid like storage solutions. I keep waiting for ceph or something to have a better NFS layer, but I might just have to have scripts that balance/replicate the warc however many times based on usage.

For those interested I have 43TB, 210TB, 61-2TB, 212TB. The machine boots and sees all the spindles. ZFS would be ideal but cannot handle differing drive sizes I guess. JBOD misses the replication requirement. Just doing mdraid on all the similar drives and having different folders or JBOD "wastes" too many spindles (at least one per group, so 4-6 wasted spindles by size alone!).

So I'll probably handroll something with whatever that triggered rsync program is, or cronjobs. lsyncd, that's the one.

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Post by genewitch »

causi wrote: post #84
rchaud wrote: post #5

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The same is true of some of the best work being done on the web, such as the NYTimes interactive infographics. Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Heck, even Flash projects from 15 years ago still run fine when compiled on Ruffle…

Damn I miss being able to drop a URL into HTTRACK and then just having a whole website locally archived with everything working.

Could one argue that sites that can be backed up in this way (or via save site as: ) are probably worth being backed up, and sites that cannot, are not?

I'd be willing to hear counter-examples, for sure.

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

heavyset_go wrote: post #208
kingcharles wrote: post #175

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I was really suprised about TikTok. I did a lot of social media marketing for nonprofits before I was locked up, so I was very into social media. The thing with TikTok is that there are tons of videos helping, supporting and bringing awareness to issues such as ADHD, OCD, Tourettes, differing sexualities, gender identity etc, that are really refreshing and have really helped me to understand myself and my neuro-probl…

> Also, for the first five years I didn't have any access to the news, for security reasons, so I was very cut off. What did they get you for?

The War On Redemption sucks so much I don't even want to know anymore. The past was better when we left it in the past.

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Post by imron »

InitialLastName wrote: post #55
roody15 wrote: post #46

John Carmack is a living legend. Seriously impressive career!

He's truly had an incredible run, but it's a shame he's let the finale be "enabled Facebook to mix eyeball tracking with advertising".

Finale?

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Post by johannes1234321 »

KronisLV wrote: post #219
CarelessExpert wrote: post #41

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> Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback Machine. Welcome to the world of digital archiving. It's an enormously complicated space, and even for just my own personal projects and content, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to ensure…

> Welcome to the world of digital archiving. It's an enormously complicated space, and even for just my own personal projects and content, I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to ensure things are future proof and can be archived easily. For web content, in my eyes it's a pretty cut and dry example - if the authors of any piece of content don't want it to be archived and aren't forthcoming in making this archi…

If we had only things from ancient history which people wanted to be archived we'd have a very different view on history. True future historians will have a lot more material about our present, but that still shouldn't limit our intent for archival of as much as we can. Only future will know what is relevant
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