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New comment by calmingsolitude in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:20:19 +0000

Well written post, really enjoyed reading it.

> A single Go process exclusively accesses that database, and serves the control plane for those tailnets. This single-writer design is exactly how SQLite is meant to be used.

This line led me to believe that the writer and checkpointing logic lived on the same database connection, so I was curious to find out how the data race occurred. However, the bug details on the SQLite page[0] outline that it can only ever occur if there are multiple connections open, so the writer and the checkpointer must have been on different threads.

[0] https://sqlite.org/wal.html#the_wal_reset_bug

New comment by calmingsolitude in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:20:37 +0000

The author has a point, but at the same time is overly complicating things. Seeing that it is already available via cargo, all that is left to do is offer a .tar.gz bundle as well. In the case that the software actually becomes popular, someone else will package it for the distros in question.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

calmingsolitude — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:44:34 +0000

> It may be that the 662 MB used by the "Renderer" is shared between many Windows components

From the screenshot in the article, this is the memory usage of the Renderer process spawned by the Weather App. I find it very unlikely that some other app (say, the Copilot app) can then piggyback on Weather Renderer process. Do you have a source for this?

> killing that Weather app may not reclaim as much space

Closing the weather app on my PC does in fact kill all child processes and frees up around 1GB of committed RAM. Are you not seeing the same?

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:37:17 +0000

Flora Incognita and PlantNet are not open source, so they cannot be published to F-Droid. However, iNaturalist is and the apk can be directly installed from the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/releases

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

calmingsolitude — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:56:45 +0000

No. I’ve heard this argument multiple times before - “let the human review and write tests” - and sure it might work, but this is almost never practiced. AI makes coding a lot faster, so no one is really ready to spend time on manual review and writing tests when LLMs can do that as well and take you most of the way.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Vaporlink – drop a folder or HTML file, get a shareable link that kills itself"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:18:25 +0000

How does this compare with solutions that currently exist to solve this problem, say for example ngrok?

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:59:35 +0000

Basically all of Graphene's RCS issues have been fixed[0]. Additionally, your stance seems somewhat unusual - GrapheneOS isn't only meant to be used by people that have "something to hide". As for explaining it to border guard - it's just Android - if you're unlocking your phone for them anyway, they definitely shouldn't care about what flavor of Android you're running, whether it's LineageOS, ColorOS, GrapheneOS, etc.

Of course, there might be more nuance to your situation than I am privy to, but almost everyone travels, and I'd heavily hope that being stopped at the border isn't the reason keeping them away from Graphene.

[0] stickied comment on https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1pceh1t/am_i_th...

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

calmingsolitude — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:59:42 +0000

I still use it because I like how easy it is to use extensions on iOS but definitely agree that there are a lot of UI bugs. Listing the most prominent ones just in case the dev is around:

- At times, the search bar text disappears and the "refresh page" icon is left aligned (instead of right aligned).

- When a link has an associated app that can open it, Orion opens a modal that asks whether you'd like to open it in-app or continue on the browser. However, sometimes it immediately opens the app and shows the modal once you navigate back.

- When using a custom search engine, you can no longer use the search bar to edit your query and it just shows the url.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker"

calmingsolitude — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:50:57 +0000

Have to agree. Unsure why the page is comparing with docker/cloud shell instead of jslinux/webvm.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices"

calmingsolitude — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:13:09 +0000

Eh, millions of households have a smart speaker that's constantly recording and I doubt that the majority of people that use one have truly internalized the ramifications of having such a device at home.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:54:14 +0000

If I were to hazard a guess, Valve was apprehensive about releasing the steam machine/frame this year because the high memory prices would mean that they'd have to price the steam machine/frame pretty high as well. However, once they saw how the steam deck was selling like hot cakes even after a $300 bump, they're deciding to go for it anyway.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:44:02 +0000

You've advertised twice on this thread about your site, but I personally find the UX to be worse, not to mention the phantom scroll issues and (imo) the tasteless animations.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "A few words on DS4"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:58:55 +0000

Parent is simply pointing out the incorrect usage of "empirically", which should typically only be mentioned when you've tested it yourself.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

calmingsolitude — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:23:50 +0000

Because he's paid to deliver code that works. Letting an AI agent do everything would be fine if it didn't make any mistakes, but that's far from reality.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Slop is text you haven't read, not text you haven't written"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:28:15 +0000

> if you edit those [LLM tropes] out, or ignore them, you can’t really argue that the writing produced by these models is objectively ‘bad’ any more.

Well, it isn't good either and that's the problem. It's just average.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:59:52 +0000

Although not disclosed on this page, the author's name is mentioned on their other projects[0].

> Our founder, Todd Bruss, is currently battling Cancer. Through it all, he continues to pour his heart into InkPen. Your support and encouragement mean the world.

The author has posted about their project on LinkedIn as well[1].

[0] https://inkpen.io/ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/principal-software-engineer-swif...

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

calmingsolitude — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:06:44 +0000

This was true a few years back, but in recent times Creality has fallen victim to quality control issues, a huge number of printer variants and generally having a not so great out of the box experience. You'll find this sentiment echoed in comments on any of the 3d printing subreddits as well.

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:19:28 +0000

Thanks for the update. The usage of an affiliate link feels quite dishonest here because the hyperlink says bunny.net but then opens up bunny.net/?ref=xxxx

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

calmingsolitude — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:33:55 +0000

What trust model? Is there anyway to verify that an app from the app store is the same as the one the developer uploaded?

New comment by calmingsolitude in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

calmingsolitude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:22:58 +0000

IMO closing issues via stale bot is fine, the problem is locking issues so that no further conversation is allowed on the issue. Multiple times, I've encountered multi-year old issues (which is usually not fixed due to the fix not being simple or compatible with the current architecture). There's usually a good amount of conversation between users offering workarounds (and those workarounds updated for newer versions) - till stale bot locks the issue.