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New comment by notanote in "zlib-ng: zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems"

notanote — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:24:13 +0000

Fedora made the switch in F40. Arch has it as a todo.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ZlibNGTransition

https://archlinux.org/todo/zlib-ng-migration/

New comment by notanote in "Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre"

notanote — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:22:35 +0000

Same here.

I can imagine growers don’t like them as much though, despite the lack of patents and trademarks. In Europe they were abundant and amazing quality last year, lasting into February. This harvest their flavour wasn’t there, many were mealy, and they were unavailable within a month. Their worst year as far as I can remember.

New comment by notanote in "Charset="WTF-8""

notanote — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:37:03 +0000

That’s the best one of the lot. "Dein Name ist ungültig", "Your name is invalid", written with the informal word for "your".

New comment by notanote in "Charset="WTF-8""

notanote — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:29:05 +0000

L with stroke is the english name for it according to wikipedia by the way, not my choice of naming. The transliterated version is not great, considering how far removed from the proper pronunciation it is, but I’m sort of used to it. The almost correct one above was jarring enough that I wanted to point it out.

New comment by notanote in "Charset="WTF-8""

notanote — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:00:43 +0000

The name of the city has the L with stroke (pronounced as a W), so it’s Łódź.

New comment by notanote in "The Battle Line at Louvain"

notanote — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:03:29 +0000

I think the source of confusion is the use of “at the time” in your previous comment, which is talking about events in WW2, when the article discusses events in 1914 with no reference to 1940.

The cause in 1940 was apparently an artillery duel between German and British troops, which is on a different level from purposefully setting fire to a library within an occupied city, even if the result is equally terrible.

New comment by notanote in "The Battle Line at Louvain"

notanote — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:28:28 +0000

To be sure, the burning of the library happened during the early days of WW1, which had neither nazis, gestapo, nor Nuremberg trials.

New comment by notanote in "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache"

notanote — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:59:43 +0000

Hardware Unboxed has the interesting theory that the I/O die, which is unchanged between Zen4 and Zen5, is a significant bottleneck especially for the latter. The 3D v-cache would then ease the pressure there, and so see the cpu get an extra boost beyond that expected from increased cache.

New comment by notanote in "AMD's Zen 5 is a missed opportunity in messaging"

notanote — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:04:49 +0000

The SSL error happens because the server sends a certificate which is only valid for the www subdomain. So this link should work:

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2024/07/24/amds-zen-5-is-a-miss...

New comment by notanote in "Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study"

notanote — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:02:02 +0000

Agreed. Beekeepers have gathered a lot of experience. Is some of it based on incorrect understanding of science? Sure. Would they have noticed if insulation was a deciding factor in loss of colonies? Absolutely.

I will say that this article together with one from earlier this year [1] put into question the benefit of cold storage.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39095-5

New comment by notanote in "Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences"

notanote — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:56:53 +0000

The 2008 quench happened at the other side of the ring. (Sector 3-4 then, sector 7-8 now.) The physics run was going very smoothly up to now [0]. Last year part of the machine (RF) had to be brought to room temperature as well, after a cooling tower fault, and there was no beam for four weeks. I get the impression that this will take longer, but I hope not by much.

[0]https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/DATAPREPARATION/Publi...

New comment by notanote in "Being able to partially distrust a Certificate Authority is good"

notanote — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:53:28 +0000

The ability exists. Such constraints aren't used very often for root certificates though, as far as I can tell. The Japanese Government CA which was mentioned in the discussions around TrustCor was constrained to .go.jp.

New comment by notanote in "Where has the passive radar code gone?"

notanote — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:05:19 +0000

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333009

New comment by notanote in "PostScript Cartridge Plus for HP LaserJet III"

notanote — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:02:57 +0000

My parents used to own a LaserJet 4M plus, which had PostScript built in. I played around with it once I figured out the possibilities.

It had all of 2MB memory originally, which was a real bottleneck in its later days. I did add 16MB at some point, to increase its life. From then on, when using PostScript instead of PCL for printing, it was clearly CPU-bound.

I’m still conflicted about them taking it to recycling even though it worked reliably. It was over 20 years old.

New comment by notanote in "Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)"

notanote — Fri, 27 May 2022 12:00:50 +0000

OCSP is done over plain HTTP (for obvious reasons), so the OCSP provider doesn’t have exclusive access to this data. There is not much value there for DigiCert and others when every ISP can potentially sell the same data.

OCSP stapling helps maintain privacy, so eg. ESNI isn’t completely pointless when stapling is used.

New comment by notanote in "White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug"

notanote — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:07:26 +0000

I can confirm this issue. It’s related to Fedora’s crypto-policies which are more restrictive than Firefox. In this case it seems to be caused by the SHA1 DigiCert root in your cert chain, not by your nginx settings.

Edit to add: It’s possible to run update-crypto-policies --set=DEFAULT:SHA1 and avoid enabling the whole LEGACY policy

New comment by notanote in "Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?"

notanote — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:33:10 +0000

Or sea planes. That was what I was asked for most recently.

New comment by notanote in "One giant leap for tortoise-kind"

notanote — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:51:03 +0000

Interesting question, I did some searching. I guessed they might have done such research with fruit flies [1], but I can only find one plan to try it for nine generations [2]. I suspect that project never launched because of the end of the space shuttle program. I can’t find a relevant paper by the mentioned researchers in any case. All the other Drosophila research seems limited to a single generation in space.

(It seems like C. Elegans has not been studied in space to the same extent as fruit flies.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_flies_in_space

[2] https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/0...

New comment by notanote in "Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017)"

notanote — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:01:58 +0000

The Airbus factory has had a museum nearby since 2015, Aeroscopia [1]. It hosts two Concordes, among others (like the Super Guppy [2]). It has a pre-production Concorde (F-WTSB), used for test flights, and an Air France one (F-BVFC). It’s worth a visit for any aviation enthusiast.

You used to be able to go inside the test flight one, but it’s a cramped space, so things might be different while covid regulations are in force.

[1] https://www.toulouse-visit.com/aeroscopia-museum

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy

New comment by notanote in "The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (2012)"

notanote — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:01:49 +0000

I’d suggest using chronyd for anyone planning to set up a new time server this way. Unfortunately it’s not covered by guides as extensively as ntpd, but it’s less error prone in my experience.

I’ve had a buildroot image on a Pi 4 for over a year now, and it appears to be accurate to within 10 microseconds.