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New comment by anthonj in "πFS"

anthonj — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:54:33 +0000

So does a random number generator

New comment by anthonj in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

anthonj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:40:25 +0000

Oh looks like there is. mkv does and looks like mpv and vlc will respect that flag. For other formats I'm not so sure

New comment by anthonj in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

anthonj — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:05:30 +0000

That's considered a feature in the community. Burning subs on the video trace is considered bad, but most video player will not automatically show any subtitle track.

New comment by anthonj in "Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC?"

anthonj — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:43:09 +0000

A lot of these higher-end sbc have been out-of-stock for a while now, I've been trying to find an o6 since a few months.

New comment by anthonj in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

anthonj — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:38:52 +0000

I will add to the list that for some weird reason in my country original language is not always available for all movies, and the subtitle experience in genenal is lacking.

New comment by anthonj in "NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era"

anthonj — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:21 +0000

That's the thing. You only have the cool factor, but that wears off very quickly when you are maintaining legacy code and tools and then your collegues are playing with the new hot and shiny toys.

I won't write about the projects I've been involved with for privacy, but to give you an idea some of my old team members were involved in ams-02 for example.

New comment by anthonj in "NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era"

anthonj — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:35:34 +0000

I am no longer a junior, but would have been upset to be tasked with refreshing the old historical obsolete laundry (no matter how sacred or distinguished), expecially when I already had experience delivering safety critical products packing much more modern technologies.

The opportunity they would be offering is not rare at all! The opportunity to research and design something truly new on the other way is very scarce.

New comment by anthonj in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

anthonj — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:12:01 +0000

Let it write unit tests for every single function in the codebase lol

I've chosen the wrong profession.

New comment by anthonj in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

anthonj — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:18:14 +0000

The implication that eu is (rightfully) butthurt and don't what to relay on usa if there is the risk of meddling of any kind or blackmailed with denial of service (regardless if it makes sense here or not, this is entirely political).

And there is also the darker side of some eu parties pushing for more surveillance, and in that case stuff like signal would be kind of a problem as well.

New comment by anthonj in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

anthonj — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:58:32 +0000

It's owned by an American no-prrofit with a dedicated subsidiary, so still a commercial product and (more relevant) usa-based with all the potential implications. Wire is for profit but german-swiss.

New comment by anthonj in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

anthonj — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:13:34 +0000

I'm trying to design my own, and this project has been of great inspiration.

But for mine I really would prefer to wait for the RK3668. My past experience with the current soc is that it's a tad too slow for many cases.

New comment by anthonj in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

anthonj — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:40:53 +0000

The title ie a bit misleading:

The study want to prove that cocaine is yet another polluter thar alters the fish behaviour even in the small quantities that can be found in the wild in polluted areas. Not that something is special or different about cocaine pollution.

So the control group in this case are fishes with an implant with no drug at all.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)...

New comment by anthonj in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

anthonj — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:10:17 +0000

I remember a lot of online servers from the Jedi Knight series where people would spend a lot of time talking (well.. writing in chat), messing around, making friendly duels or exploring weird custom mmaps.

It was kinda weird considering the game type.

New comment by anthonj in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

anthonj — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:21:37 +0000

Nasa CFS, is written is plain C (trying to follow MISRA C, etc). It's open on girhub abd used by many companies. It's typically run over freertos or RTEMS, not sure here.

Personally I find the project extremely messy, and kinda hate working with it.

New comment by anthonj in "WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations"

anthonj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:38:04 +0000

In my company we used their stuff often. They have an optional commercial license for basically all their products. The price was very reasonable as well.

New comment by anthonj in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

anthonj — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:21:15 +0000

Jesus christ man, you are pulling out a lot from a single typo, eh? English is just not my first language (and not the last either). Having an accent or the occasional misspelling on some forum has never impacted me professionally.

New comment by anthonj in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

anthonj — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:19:44 +0000

The transformation has been very slow I believe. They didn't really intrude too much the first few years. But maybe I remember wrong.

New comment by anthonj in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

anthonj — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:48 +0000

Well I am calling out an entire class of journalist. Every time I've made a similar statement I got some angry answer (or got my post hidden or removed).

New comment by anthonj in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

anthonj — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:43:51 +0000

I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy.

Ars writers used to be actual experts, sometimes even phd level, on technical fields. And they used to write fantastical and very informative articles. Who is left now?

There are still a couple of good writers from the old guard and the occasional good new one, but the website is flooded with "tech journalist", claiming to be "android or Apple product experts" or stuff like that, publishing articles that are 90% press material from some company and most of the times seems to have very little technical knowledge.

They also started writing product reviews that I would not be surprised to find out being sponsored, given their content.

Also what's the business with those weirdly formatted articles from wired?

Still a very good website but the quality is diving.

New comment by anthonj in "Something Big Is Happening"

anthonj — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:21:37 +0000

I'm not making a statement on his arguments (well I dont agree with it, but that was not in my post).

I posted that because I consider blogging a fringe form of journalism, and basic journalism ethics require clear disclosure of conflict of interests.

His entire blog is very self serving. Which doesn't mean his opinion is wrong, but potentially not "cold" or impartial. More like a sales pitch probably. He is also very trasparent about his business but the article is posted here without that context, and I think it's important to point it out given the era of sensationalized and fake news we live in.