Hacker News: marwis

New comment by marwis in "Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts"

marwis — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:27:05 +0000

Isn't it easier to just backup via IMAP to maildir versioned with git?

Does takeout include any metadata not accessible via IMAP? Does it even include labels?

New comment by marwis in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

marwis — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:20:14 +0000

There were plenty of those, including commercial ones.

It's pretty hard to find but ~25 years ago I was using Xi Graphics Accelerated-X which had 3D acceleration long before Xfree86.

Update: but yes I imagine it had some code from original MIT release.

For completely independent one you can have a look at WeirdX/WiredX, which was written in Java and even supported antialiasing and transparency for core protocol (something that Xfree86 people claimed to be impossible to implement).

It's surprisingly hard to find this stuff today: https://web.archive.org/web/20250220140358/http://www.jcraft...

New comment by marwis in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

marwis — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:02:39 +0000

How come there are still no 4K 60fps KVM devices?

Software solutions like Moonlight/Sunshine have been able to do that with near-zero latency for a long time and they are not even the first. Phones have chips capable of capturing 4K 120fps. Why is it so hard for KVM devices?

New comment by marwis in "Show HN: Macscope – I decide to built a better Cmd-Tab replacement for macOS"

marwis — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:28:18 +0000

Can it help with the annoying macos bug that about half the time disconnecting and reconnecting external screen to my MacBook does not move windows back to external screen?

New comment by marwis in "Sequoia backs Zed"

marwis — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 22:37:53 +0000

The C++ plugin is included in Android Studio which is essentially a distribution of IntelliJ. There seems to be no technical reason for not allowing it in full IntelliJ.

New comment by marwis in "macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format"

marwis — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:39:03 +0000

There are tools like voidtools Everything2 and WizTree that directly read NTFS from disk device bypassing windows FS apis and are blazingly fast (faster than find/du on ext4 in Linux).

New comment by marwis in "Java 24"

marwis — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:41:06 +0000

With some work on better tooling it could've been used to detect and thwart supply chain attacks, which are a growing concern. Process level sandboxing is too coarse.

New comment by marwis in "Extensible WASM Applications with Go"

marwis — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:23:49 +0000

You can embed JVM with JNI_CreateJavaVM(): https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jni/s...

It is used used by projects like Postgres PL/Java, LibreOffice and various native Java launchers/wrappers

New comment by marwis in "Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years"

marwis — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:25:08 +0000

Sounds like the only way out of this is to design language agnostic tooling protocols that anybody can implement.

New comment by marwis in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

marwis — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:52:05 +0000

Where do you see pattern matching in Kotlin?

New comment by marwis in "Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web"

marwis — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:12:05 +0000

Worked fine in a window but too slow when fullscreen on my Surface Pro 8.

Should have dynamic resolution to maintain FPS.

New comment by marwis in "SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem"

marwis — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 20:28:39 +0000

So why is it still pretty slow for file operations on DevDrive (no filters, async antivirus)? I found the performance improvement not that significant.

New comment by marwis in "SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem"

marwis — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:45:53 +0000

Doesn't it (Windows VFS layer) also lack the equivalent of dentry cache, making all metadata lookups slow?

New comment by marwis in "Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire"

marwis — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:08:44 +0000

I meant to reply to GP about partial updates rather than parent post about keeping connection open.

New comment by marwis in "Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire"

marwis — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:10:20 +0000

This is how AJAX in Java Server Faces used to work nearly 2 decades ago. There were even more fancy technologies like https://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/ICE/Direct-to-DOM+Rende...

I bet ASP had something similar too around the same time

New comment by marwis in "Wine 9.9 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

marwis — Sat, 18 May 2024 00:51:45 +0000

It's not open source and hasn't been in a very long time.

Still very useful though.

New comment by marwis in "PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software"

marwis — Sun, 12 May 2024 20:10:48 +0000

Doesn't streaming architecture of libarchive make it a poor choice for working with random access archives?

New comment by marwis in "PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software"

marwis — Sun, 12 May 2024 20:09:17 +0000

The feature built into windows (even after recent update) is a lot slower

New comment by marwis in "Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit"

marwis — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:40:46 +0000

Lacks ferries and availability of e-bikes. Google maps has both.

New comment by marwis in "WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows"

marwis — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:13:02 +0000

It still sort of is but you can create Dev Drive which is based on ReFS