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Producer of useless things. Way too soft. Probably left you unread. "basically shitposting with code" Fedi: @wamwoowam @snug .moe Bluesky: @wamwoowam .co.uk
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i found this fucker in phoenix park what am i meant to do with her
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@discord
THIS is why your software is slow. it's not "web tech" or "electron" or "JIT compilation" or any fucking sorting algorithm
it's boneheaded _design decisions_ made to avoid doing things properly in packages with 1,600,000 weekly downloads.
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oh my fucking god it's using a library called systeminformation that calls powershell like "Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk | select Access,Caption,FileSystem,FreeSpace,Size ${drive ? '| where -property Caption -eq ' + drive : ''} | fl" instead of doing anything properly.
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@discord
this code scans EIGHT HUNDRED different folders to try and find an nvidia-smi binary. what the ACTUAL fuck.
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@discord
holy fucking shit they're executing from DriverStore, assuming System32 AND hardcoding C:\Windows or depending on an environment variable
this person has never programmed on windows in their lives
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@rockibfdi
@discord
TL;DR discord is using a library to fetch system information that works in damn near the least efficient way possible on windows, it's very fragile, it's very slow, and it happens basically every time you launch discord
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@discord
ASSUMING CODEPAGE 437 IF YOU CAN'T EXECUTE A DOS COMMAND FROM THE 1980S WHEN GetACP IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE.
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HELLO CHAT,
TODAY I BRING YOU, UPDATED SONIC 4 IN BROWSER!
GO PLAY
(you may need to clear your cache)
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@endermanch
my entire PC blue screened because i moved my headphones outside bluetooth range.
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i posted this because i was impressed by how snappy this was on a CPU that can barely emulate genesis games at full speed.
no the machine doesn't have an SSD, it does have a somewhat non-contemporary 40GB 4200RPM drive i pulled from a late model ibook g4
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aight if y'all are gonna keep spreading misinfo about this being a virus or actively misunderstanding that task manager can only ever show an instance in time, better lock this shit down, nice going y'all
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aight so some people are getting this shit very wrong
no, this is not a cold launch, the point of this was never "old computers faster", i am very aware that this would've been much slower on this machine's original hard drive, i have it, it sounds very funny
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@sitnslay
jfc every single time
okay. i want you to point to me, which part of this interface is web based?
spoilers. literally none of it.
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@discord
here's a completely independent guy who reminded me that windows logs all powershell invocations:
@da_wamwoowam
@discord
Event Viewer does show entries of powershell on load of Discord -- i had 49 Entries after launching.
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@jlpmme
@endermanch
my brother in Christ you are literally looking at the bugcheck stack trace explicitly calling out btha2dp.sys, a windows built in driver.
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@DennisEspen
@discord
i did say that yes
@discord
oh my fucking god it's using a library called systeminformation that calls powershell like "Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk | select Access,Caption,FileSystem,FreeSpace,Size ${drive ? '| where -property Caption -eq ' + drive : ''} | fl" instead of doing anything properly.
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@discord
for extra resources and info, here's my digging:
@Kittenscorner
@rafusca_m
@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
this gets called via a function `getSystemInfo` which then calls the electron IPC mechanism with "PROCESS_UTILS_GET_SYSTEM_INFO" which runs this code, depends on your data sharing settings
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@discord
and here's a fresh download under windows sandbox showing the code is shipped with a clean install of the discord client:
@secondarysmiIe
and if it helps at all here's a screenshot of a fresh install of windows (through sandbox) which shows that this library discord is using is just calling powershell
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@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
i installed this from the discord setup binary literally this morning on a fresh copy of windows lmao
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@mSykeCodes
@discord
lotta people "hacked" then
@da_wamwoowam
@discord
Event Viewer does show entries of powershell on load of Discord -- i had 49 Entries after launching.
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@bluwolfblitz
i will never understand why they took the... colour out of the first stage in a game literally called colours
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@rafusca_m
@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
sweetie, relaunch the app, watch the processes during launch
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@GreenSwede_
@sitnslay
you understand that this comes up, every single time anyone ever talks about windows performance, no matter how unrelated to the point it actually is, right?
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@char_bun
just seems wild that a fault in an audio encoder can bring down my entire system ykyk
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the windows phone 7 port of sonic 4 removed an awful lot of visual effects for performance reasons, however all they actually removed was the code that initializes them
anyway totally unrelated i re-added the trail when you roll :3
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Seeing a common misconception that some surfaces in Windows 11 are using WebView2. They aren't. This caret browsing dialog is from UWP XAML, and shows in every UWP app.
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nobody:
not a soul:
absolutely nobody on planet earth:
sonic team:
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What's new?
- REAL TOUCH SUPPORT (it works on phones!)
- PERSISTENT INSTALLATION (faster to launch!)
- BETTER MUSIC (boss phase 2 plays correctly!)
- BETTER SFX (1-Up sounds actually work!)
- SAVE STATES (you can now resume from your last checkpoint!)
- & MORE
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y'all sat there waiting 15 seconds to load tropical resort act one when dolphin HAS NO LOAD TIMES AT ALL
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@char_bun
the moment i learnt about DDR4 memory training my perspective of technology fundamentally shifted
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@f4micom
why are people mad about this when the client regularly memory leaks, this way at least there's a fuckin limit
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@horsemankukka
@char_bun
preboot it takes a hot minute to "train the link" (figure out how quickly it can send/receive data)
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@Kittenscorner
@rafusca_m
@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
i've gone and dug through the discord asar code and found exactly where and why it gets called, but okay! a discord employee has confirmed the issue and passed it on to poeple, but alright!
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This kinda deign annoys me more than fucking anything else.
I already use your garbage ass service. Fucking everyone does. “Log in” should not be THE SMALLEST POSSIBLE OPTION.
DO BETTER.
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@Kittenscorner
@rafusca_m
@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
you can find it yourself if you'd like! or you can continue spreading misinformation and making a jackass out of yourself talking on something you know nothing about :)
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@Kittenscorner
@rafusca_m
@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
this gets called via a function `getSystemInfo` which then calls the electron IPC mechanism with "PROCESS_UTILS_GET_SYSTEM_INFO" which runs this code, depends on your data sharing settings
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@iownfivewiis
macOS has made "free space" a meaningless concept with like 3 different values depending on how you look at it and it's mental
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mfs when they learn what the public domain is
Fun Fact: For some reason, a lot of people have stolen Dolphin Emulator’s logo to use as their own.
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@iownfivewiis
i've had people come to me with E_CLASSNOTREG when trying to install unicord only then to tell me they removed the entire UWP app model only *then* to complain that they can't install my UWP app 🙃
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@StricklandRider
@discord
didn't click a link but go off
@secondarysmiIe
and if it helps at all here's a screenshot of a fresh install of windows (through sandbox) which shows that this library discord is using is just calling powershell
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@ItsKevWasTaken
yeah so here's macOS handling bluetooth audio mostly in userspace with generally less latency :)
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and this is why people are nervous about/when doing GDQ commentary. :)
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@luciascarlet
@fwjfiqwjiijqdqk
TIL people turn off mobile data manually when they're on wifi??
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small PSA no discord "verification" involves you scanning a QR code in the app, doing so will allow attackers complete access to your account
the app says this
read.
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@Kittenscorner
@secondarysmiIe
@discord
you're lying about *me* now, as well as spreading actual misinformation and refusing any attempt of mine to actually be civil and educate and ya know, not yell at each other? my ass "couldn't handle the truth" your ass couldn't handle being a decent person
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@SheriefFYI
i was scrolling some lists on a 333MHz pentium 2 running windows 2000 yesterday and it was silky smooth and it got me thinking about just how much worse that'd be today
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@Kittenscorner
@secondarysmiIe
@discord
let it be known i tried to be cordial, i really thought you were just misinformed but now you're actually just being an asshole, w/e i guess
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@DanNerdCubed
Well if we’re going for the full collectors edition experience:
- an art book
- 2-3 pointless bits of plastic
- something “iconic”
- a poster
- some stickers
- the soundtrack on CD
For extra AAA flare, don’t include the actual book.
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my internet died so hard task manager regressed by about 15 years
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need to bring this back
Ever wanted to use Discord on a J2ME feature phone? Thanks to gtrxAC, that's now possible!
I personally have wanted to see something like this for years - glad the same someone who ported a Game Boy emulator to
#MTK
MRE took on the challenge!
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so after almost exactly a month, twitch finally got around to... looking at why i was banned and realising it was in error.
a month
imagine i actually depended on this platform. imagine if this was my one source of revenue. and i just got shafted out of a month of revenue.
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@__alula
specifically in discord's case (i know this isn't discord's code but still) they are shipping so many node native modules already that there's really no excuse to depend on a library like this imo
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we sure have come a long way
I miiiight've ported Sonic 4: Episode 1 to run in the browser via web assembly....
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@budgtz
@Kittenscorner
@discord
yeah, because they're wrong, i reached out to try and clarify, they decided to be a jackass about it and start accusing me of lying when i have repeatedly shown evidence, cant win em all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@Kittenscorner
@rafusca_m
@vidxhere
@Lopmatus_Ventus
@discord
very quick to accuse someone of lying for someone with no skills to back up what they're saying :)
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@luciascarlet
especially in the early days with the light mode with super thin fonts on windows that were much more readable on macOS
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Hi.
I'm pan.
I'm pan because I say I'm pan.
Not because I fit your pre-described box of what you *think* being pan is.
:)
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