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New comment by detuur in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

detuur — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:05:20 +0000

The answer to that reply is you don't need to explain it to your users. People are used to fuzzy/best-effort sort of matching, especially when it's specifically presented as a "matching algorithm" instead of a "filter".

New comment by detuur in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

detuur — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:30:09 +0000

I can't believe you're the first person I find in this conversation who raises this issue. This is the exact reason why Marcan flipped his lid. Linus publicly championed a very technically complex initiative and then left all those contributors to the wolves when things didn't progress without a hiccup. Especially damning when you consider that at every step, the fief lords in Linux have seemingly done everything in their power to set up the r4l people for failure and Linus hasn't so much as squeaked at them. He personally cut the knot and asserted that Rust is Linux's future, but he constantly allows those below him to relitigate the issue with new contributors (who can't fight back because even though they're contributing by the supposed rules, they don't have enough social buy-in).

New comment by detuur in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

detuur — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:10:05 +0000

I have a few projects that I've abandoned because they only made sense as a FOSS project, and I saw how FOSS maintainers were being treated. I love FOSS, I love the philosophy, and I would love to "give back" one day by making the ecosystem richer, but I've not yet found a project that I love enough to be abused over.

New comment by detuur in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"

detuur — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:23:06 +0000

Yes yes and a reminder that BSD Jails are better than anything Linux does and a bunch of other dead horses we like beating on the regular around here.

Which is a fanciful way of saying that I don't understand the relevance of your comment at all to the topic at hand, which is an interactive frontend.

New comment by detuur in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"

detuur — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:19:06 +0000

Ah yes, famously one can only be a sysadmin if they're unable to use a different cli verb order.

Come on now. Either present a real argument or accept the fact that tooling isn't forever going to be frozen to what you used in your 20's. Newer tooling uses newer best practices and the improved verb order is part of that.

New comment by detuur in "A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization"

detuur — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:48:19 +0000

I don't see how the real mode emulation on the 80386 (VM86) fails to meet the standard of the Popek and Goldberg definition. IA-32, yes, that took a while, but VM86 allowed 8086 (real mode) tasks to run as if they were running authentically in real mode while the 386 was in protected mode, and had all the features P&G describe in their definition. It runs natively, it runs with equivalent performance, and there's a VMM trapping privileged instructions to either emulate or arbitrate system resources. It's the full deal!

New comment by detuur in "No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4"

detuur — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:36:34 +0000

I looked right past `--resolve`, so yes that now makes sense.

New comment by detuur in "No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4"

detuur — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:56:15 +0000

    > one.one.one.one:443:64:ff9b::1.1.1.1

Is this a typo or a weird curl-specific address format I've never heard of?

New comment by detuur in "No NAT November: My month without IPv4"

detuur — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:46:01 +0000

NAT essentially has a "default deny" rule.

New comment by detuur in "Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz"

detuur — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:39:10 +0000

.de domains require a German postal address, so I would actually trust them more than the .ru equivalent. Plenty of other ccTLDs have even stricter nationality requirements for registration.

New comment by detuur in "FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU"

detuur — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:41:32 +0000

I can't believe that this is the closest we have to a compact, stand-alone GPU option. There's nothing like a M.2 format GPU out there. All I want is a stand-alone M.2 GPU with modest performance, something on the level of embedded GPUs like Intel UHD Graphics, AMD Radeon, or Qualcomm's Adreno.

I have an idea for a small embedded product which needs a lot of compute and networking, but only very modest graphical capabilities. The NXP Layerscape LX2160A [1] would be perfect, but I have to pass on it because it doesn't come with an embedded GPU. I just want a small GPU!

[1]: https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers...

New comment by detuur in "Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers"

detuur — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:10:30 +0000

The pricing is $20/year if I'm not mistaken.

New comment by detuur in "Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers"

detuur — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:05:10 +0000

Can we add jxl to that list? Doesn't have nearly as wide support but you could be part of a turning tide.

New comment by detuur in "Fedora Atomic Desktops"

detuur — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:41:14 +0000

Same. I can't be the only one who feels that Nix is doing the right thing the wrong way. The right thing being reproducible, declarative, composable environments; the wrong thing being its language and tooling. Too often I feel like serious Nix users spend a distressing amount of time manually doing package manager tasks, so the way forward is to stop doing exactly that. Going back to imperative composition is a step backward that will never help people free up time away from package management.

New comment by detuur in "4B If Statements"

detuur — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:37:59 +0000

Optimization was explicitly disabled by compiler flag for this experiment

New comment by detuur in "Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds"

detuur — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:07:56 +0000

One day I'll kids with phones, and I'll want to save their sanity. Does anybody know if MDM allows you to configure notifications? I'd enforce the same setting I have on my phone, which is Do Not Disturb past midnight until 7:30.

New comment by detuur in "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"

detuur — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:22:30 +0000

And to contrast, Godot's GDScript has been great for me so far. I've been hacking at a personal project for a couple of days now and I feel right at home in the language, which feels right at home in the engine.

New comment by detuur in "An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)"

detuur — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:35:39 +0000

None of the links here seem to be the one post that I found years ago, but this one in particular is pretty interesting.

I found this[1] one while looking around, the thread has some additional interesting remarks, including an LD_PRELOAD attack vector.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550944

New comment by detuur in "Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox"

detuur — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 11:44:38 +0000

The only way to hide the horizontal tab is with userChrome.css

New comment by detuur in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf"

detuur — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:21:02 +0000

I'm pretty sure they don't check certs. If they did, there would be many corporate networks and even entire countries where they wouldn't work, because they use DPI on all inbound/outbound connections with SSL stripping.