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New comment by damentz in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

damentz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:42:51 +0000

Unless you are running an ancient LTS distribution, you at least have fsync. But then also recognize, with the ancient LTS distribution not carrying any enhancements for the last few years, your drivers are also out of date and games will play terribly for unrelated reasons.

New comment by damentz in "Logging sucks"

damentz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:17:54 +0000

I'm pretty sure by verbose it's the realization you've wasted precious time reading AI bloat that you'll never get back. On top of that, now you need to reread the text for hallucinations or just take a loss and ignore any conclusions at risk that they came from bad data.

New comment by damentz in "Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia"

damentz — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:26:51 +0000

Correct, another way of looking at it is from a programming angle. If Debian fixes a bug that breaks your tool, then Debian is unstable. Therefore, to maintain stability, Debian must not fix bugs unless they threaten security.

The term "stable" is the most polluted term in Linux, it's not something to be proud of. Similar to how high uptime was a virtue, now it just means your system probably has been pwned at some point.

New comment by damentz in "U-Haul Growth Metros and Cities of 2024: Dallas Top Metro for In-Migration"

damentz — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 06:30:28 +0000

The list is for 25, not 10. Using just 10 over represents the top 10 out of 25.

New comment by damentz in "When do we stop finding new music?"

damentz — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:01:42 +0000

Ya you're not being honest in the slightest. The OP likes the music made by the group he mentions. You instead say he's being racist for liking music of that group. I'm having a hard time discerning if you're trolling or serious.

New comment by damentz in "Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the internet"

damentz — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:22:47 +0000

You're right, but yopass let's you send the link and decryption key separately. The link is only destroyed if the secret is decrypted, not if you just reach the prompt to supply the key.

New comment by damentz in "Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware"

damentz — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:29:15 +0000

What is "it"?

Stabilizing Per-VMA Locking

damentz — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/937943/ca1403f36a440249/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36710925

Points: 2

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New comment by damentz in "Liquorix Kernel"

damentz — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 03:17:39 +0000

I agree, I'll think of something more suitable to replace it. There's already good feedback in this thread I can work with.

New comment by damentz in "Liquorix Kernel"

damentz — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 02:57:56 +0000

For the most part, Liquorix should always lose on throughput benchmarks. Most of Phoronix's benchmarks focus on those.

You can check the comments regarding a discovery that certain sched_yield configurations destroy performance on out-of-tree schedulers and was amended post benchmarking.

This however was using MuQSS, which was notorious for poor single thread performance. Liquorix now uses PDS which attempts to use all physical cores before deferring to SMT threads. This completely changes performance for lightly threaded workloads.

There's been no news-worthy benchmarks since Liquorix switched from MuQSS to PDS.