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New comment by chlorion in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

chlorion — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:23:19 +0000

I'd like to know why I can't use arenas in rust? Especially considering that I have used them before in rust.

New comment by chlorion in "Protobuf has LSP support"

chlorion — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:31:39 +0000

Maybe if you have an extremely slow computer?

Even my little chromebook can provide completions and errors effectively instantly to me, even in medium sized rust projects.

Or are you saying (probably maximum) ~20ms delay is blocking your ability to code?

New comment by chlorion in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

chlorion — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:21:05 +0000

Huh I have had great luck with unsloth quants so far. What issues are you having?

New comment by chlorion in "Delta"

chlorion — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:50:03 +0000

Emacs then? :)

New comment by chlorion in "Rust SIMD on the GPU"

chlorion — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:23:01 +0000

GPUs work on vectors and matrices very often, that's what they are good at, so it makes a lot of sense that they can operate with SIMD I think!

New comment by chlorion in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

chlorion — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:15:39 +0000

Its baffling to me that people think the brain is somehow "outside" of the universe and somehow "magic" and not tied down by physics just like any other matter is. I don't understand how people come to this conclusion, except in the case of belief in magic or religion (which is belief in magic more or less).

New comment by chlorion in "How to Block Some of the Bots"

chlorion — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:44:32 +0000

My cgit instance gets hammered so hard that my CPU use is raised to 100% and the entire server grinds to a halt. I have to set a cgroups CPUQuota limit with systemd to make the server usable again.

Also, they hit so hard that nginx returns 502s and times out for real user half of the time, and when the site does load it takes a few seconds to load.

This is all on a high performance single core vultr server, not the cheapest vps but not the fastest, but should be plenty fast enough.

New comment by chlorion in "Systemd Linger"

chlorion — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:52:06 +0000

Having user processes killed upon log out seems pretty reasonable to me, and its a configurable option if you don't like it. I don't get the fuss here.

I think it's just popular to dislike systemd, some sort of echo chamber effect or something.

New comment by chlorion in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

chlorion — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:34:07 +0000

A little bit offtopic, but I spend 12 USD a month for a 1 high performance core, 2GB ram, 50GB NVME SSD VPS, and slap nginx and cgit config on there, and host my own git repos.

I realize this doesn't work for everyone, and not everyone has the money to spare, but it's really nice to be able to host your own stuff on your own website, and not be tied down to a forge like github or codeberg.

Bonus points if you have the hardware and network capacity to host this at home!

New comment by chlorion in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

chlorion — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:41:18 +0000

That's fair, I did not consider that.

New comment by chlorion in "Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:39:49 +0000

Apparently I'm not. Directly from andrewk himself:

    If you want to comment in this thread, please either have your open source zig project(s) visible on your codeberg profile, or be Fil Pizło, otherwise zig issue tracker is not interested in what you have to say

This itself is hostility towards anyone who isn't a zig expert pretty much.

New comment by chlorion in "Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:38:46 +0000

directly from the thread:

    If you want to comment in this thread, please either have your open source zig project(s) visible on your codeberg profile, or be Fil Pizło, otherwise zig issue tracker is not interested in what you have to say

Sadly I didn't get a chance to screenshot anything, but he's definitely not just deleting the toxic comments.

New comment by chlorion in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:03:47 +0000

How does that make sense? SDL is extremely portable?

New comment by chlorion in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:02:37 +0000

You can make an entire 3d game using SDL3 as well, without opengl or vulkan, using the new GPU API!

New comment by chlorion in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:00:37 +0000

SDL3 also includes a "GPU API", that allows low level programming of the GPU, similar to vulkan, though not quite as low level.

New comment by chlorion in "Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:22:01 +0000

Fwiw andrewk seems to be deleting comments that criticize this approach. Not a good look on his part.

New comment by chlorion in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

chlorion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:08:04 +0000

Just people like the linux kernel, all major browsers, most of our popular webservers, etc and basically all non-trivial software projects written in C.

The good news here is that we have more than just anecdotes to support this, we have empirical evidence.

New comment by chlorion in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

chlorion — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:05:56 +0000

This isn't accurate at all.

The reason people don't get malware on Linux is because they install software through the package manager, via trusted and reviewed repos. And drivers are all built-in to the operating system, not third party (with some exceptions, like nvidia).

On most Linux setups you aren't just downloading random junk from the internet and running it. Also the operating system won't install things automatically for you generally either. Even system updates are optional if you don't want them, and you won't be nagged for it.

Basically it comes down to a difference in culture.

New comment by chlorion in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

chlorion — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:25:34 +0000

The doctors will prescribe methadone or suboxone instead most likely, both of which are *massively* more powerful and addictive than kratom.

New comment by chlorion in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

chlorion — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:23:20 +0000

I have never used kratom, and I don't plan on it. But automatically assuming anyone who isn't hellbent against it is just a junkie "defending their addiction" is pretty close minded lol.