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RIP Steve Jobs, for all his failings, at least he fathomed that GPUs were not Apple's strong point and deferred to NVIDIA and others for such things while he was alive. ;(

Tim Crook, failed to get the memo that GPUs mostly win via brute force and massive parallelization; and Apple's "GPUs" do not cut the mustard, even slightly. e.g. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/llK3Dy

An old luggable I had with a GTX1080 with 8GB of VRAM, could churn through that at 4K 120Hz without the fans spinning up any harder.

Meanwhile, an M5 Pro? Can't even do full screen, 60FPS. ;( You might get slightly higher frame rates windowed, but only if you know how to turn off Safari's screen refresh locked to 60FPS in the Developer Mode settings.

smdh

I read somewhere that there's some company that is facilitating use of GPUs on Apple Silicon Macs more recently, but annoyingly: just for A"I" workloads, which is: kind of not what I want my GPU to be doing, ever.

CC: @petrillic@hachyderm.io

So that job to which I applied last week?

Yesterday I had an in person interview.

Before 19:00 local time? There was a voicemail claiming they want to move forward with the security background check part of the hiring process, which is a good sign?

Anyway, too soon to count any of those eggs as hatched, but perhaps, soonish, within the next several weeks to a month or so: maybe I will have TWO jobs!

And, presumably, still be below the poverty line and homeless and thousands in debt.

But y'know? Every little cent probably helps?

Tomorrow: I am checking out of the hostel which has been, cheap, but as with anything with shared bunk beds, kind of unfortunately reminiscent of being incarcerated. I'll then be renting a car, stopping by my mailbox for the first time in like a month, getting a haircut for the first time in maybe two months and, well other things too, before work on Thursday.

There's been a lot of other stuff going on personally. Not a whole lot exciting (other than having now taken 3 weeks of Introduction to Irish with 4th looming on Saturday) but I'll be driving to SoCal to see Suicide Commando on Saturday for what will, supposedly, be his last US tour! I'm definitely looking forward to that (the drive down and back before work Sunday morning? Less so, but music is at least something worthwhile in my existence.)

I am not really keen on XMPP for e2ee stuff.

For me? The high water mark was already set by SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) a long time ago.

Alas, so long ago that the silcnet.org domain seems dead.

The code is archived here: https://silc.github.io/

I think OpenBSD's ports still has it?

Other meaningful efforts in that space that I might have a shred of trust in exploring further:

PYSC2 (https://about.psyc.eu/PSYC2)

I haven't looked deeply into SimpleXChat (e.g. https://simplex.chat) but maybe that's a possibility for "mere mortals" (aka users who don't know how to compile code from source and aren't comfortable with TUIs/CLIs.)?

A lot of other stuff? (Wire, Telegram, Session, etc.) is just godawful.

Full disclosure: I know Moxie (and some other Signal devs) personally. I also know the lead dev of PSYC2 personally. If my life were on the line?

I would not trust a single one of the Signal devs I know, just the opposite. They have been absolutely awful to me.