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New comment by Yokolos in "Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++"

Yokolos — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:24:36 +0000

Sorry, what? The benefit is that we have these games to play. That is the intrinsic benefit. Most of us don't care about the other things you listed when all we want to do is play old games. You're free to value those things in this context and that's fine, but it's weird to impose those values on others when they're providing what people want.

New comment by Yokolos in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

Yokolos — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:19:08 +0000

I suspect the improvements are even more dramatic going from Zen 1 through to Zen 5. AMD has really hit the jackpot with how scalable the Ryzen CPU is considering how they're able to improve the performance from year to year. This is a stark difference to the FX series during the 2010s, which saw very small YoY performance increases by comparison. Ryzen really is AMD's equivalent to what Nehalem/Core was for Intel back in the mid 2000s.

New comment by Yokolos in "I don't like passkeys"

Yokolos — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:46:40 +0000

Steam does this. If I want to login, it shows a barcode I can scan with the app and it logs me in without needing to enter my login information. Phone needs internet access, doesn't need to be on the same network as the device I'm logging in on.

I assume the QR code contains a token for the device, which is used by the app to authorize the login and the server automatically logs in the client on the device with the matching token.

Seems a lot safer to me than using my login credentials on a potentially unsafe device.

New comment by Yokolos in "Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years"

Yokolos — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:17:06 +0000

I don't know why this myth keeps getting perpetuated. It's simply not true. The countless game discs I own that let me install and play the game without internet access are proof of that. There are some games where the game acts as a key and doesn't contain the full game, but this isn't the rule.

New comment by Yokolos in "PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in"

Yokolos — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:19:20 +0000

What a shame too. Quake Wars on idTech performed incredibly well for such large maps and so many players. The vehicles were also fun to drive.

New comment by Yokolos in "GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all"

Yokolos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:29:48 +0000

I've read that there's a significant performance cost to MTE on Android (or on Tensor). It might just be that.

New comment by Yokolos in "Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination"

Yokolos — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:51:51 +0000

Even as imperfect as it is, it's infinitely better than the alternatives like belief in religion/religious texts/pastors or anybody else who is just making shit up based on whatever they think sounds good. None of that is falsifiable or makes any attempt to iteratively arrive at anything true or real.

There is literally nothing better that we have other than the scientific method. Yes, science is self-correcting, even if it is slow or whatever else. Nothing else that we have can approach even that bar.

New comment by Yokolos in "Matrox: Graphics for Professionals"

Yokolos — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:30:33 +0000

That's crazy. Apparently they still have at least 500 employees and make $500 million a year in revenue. Last time I encountered a Matrox was the G400 I had in my PC in 1999. It's no wonder they're talked about in the past tense when they exited the consumer hardware space over 20 years ago.

New comment by Yokolos in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

Yokolos — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:00:04 +0000

If you really think "everyone" gives a shit, you're incredibly naive. Don't mistake your bubble for a representative portion of everyone.

New comment by Yokolos in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

Yokolos — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:43:02 +0000

Probably the greatest achievement of modern society, a rebirth of the Library of Alexandria. Of course, only private for-business corporations are allowed to steal the world's knowledge, apparently, and only to be able to monetise it. There's something deeply wrong with our civilization that Anna's Archive is punished while companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, etc are just ... ignored when they do things like destructively digitise books or pirate things.

New comment by Yokolos in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

Yokolos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:44:47 +0000

Show multiple pages at once. Makes it easier to go back and forth. It's actually a huge QOL improvement such that I can't stand reading books on a normal phone anymore.

New comment by Yokolos in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

Yokolos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:43:01 +0000

The Google foldable seems to be the only one with dust and water protection. It has an IP68 rating. Which imo puts it above every other foldable.

New comment by Yokolos in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

Yokolos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:41:17 +0000

I read PDFs on my foldable phone.

New comment by Yokolos in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

Yokolos — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:37:59 +0000

What a colossal disaster. I was a huge Windows Phone fan, so their yearly missteps were quite painful to watch. I was especially annoyed when my first gen WP wasn't going to get an upgrade to WP8. My HTC 7 Pro is still my favourite phone I've ever owned, but after that I finally gave up and switched to Android.

New comment by Yokolos in "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX"

Yokolos — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:13:01 +0000

What makes you think Google is unable to buy Nvidia GPUs? They buy tons of them for their cloud infrastructure. Nvidia will sell to anybody with the money to pay.

New comment by Yokolos in "France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers"

Yokolos — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:16:20 +0000

Having worked in multiple EU companies that went to great effort to comply with GDPR and also had legitimate issues that needed to be resolved under threat of real fines, this is just an incorrect take.

New comment by Yokolos in "Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero"

Yokolos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:11:10 +0000

Not everybody wants to learn to play a real guitar though. I play Guitar Hero for fun and entertainment as she clearly states in her post. It's literally just a game and it never pretends to be a way to learn how to play a real guitar. And when I've played it for a few weeks, I can put it down and play another game from my massive collection without the guilt associated with buying a guitar and the USB interface needed for Rocksmith and feeling like I've abandoned yet another hobby. Guitar Hero is guilt-free fun. That's valuable in itself.

New comment by Yokolos in "Message your other Claude Code sessions"

Yokolos — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:04:53 +0000

Have you maybe documented this anywhere or do you have suggestions for repos to look at that do this? This sounds interesting and I'd like to look into this myself

New comment by Yokolos in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

Yokolos — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:43:12 +0000

Is this even feasible with our current sensor data?

New comment by Yokolos in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

Yokolos — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:33:47 +0000

Every time I see a new Microsoft domain I've never seen before, I have to double check that it's actually legit. Every time I realize anew why people still fall for phishing attempts, because all these legit domains look like phishing attempts.