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New comment by nulld3v in "DIY Soft Drinks"

nulld3v — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:46:52 +0000

Boycotts definitely have their limitations, but the Sodastream boycott seems to have had some sort of effect: https://www.timesofisrael.com/victory-for-bds-as-sodastreams..., though whether the intended effect was achieved is debatable...

New comment by nulld3v in "DIY Soft Drinks"

nulld3v — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:35:06 +0000

I've also been dabbling in this recently in an attempt to avoid buying SodaStream syrups (which are on the BDS boycott list).

Tips for working on sugar-free recipes: In some countries (like Canada), soft-drink manufacturers are required to disclose the exact amount of each artificial sweetener they use in the drink. So you can easily grab those numbers from Canadian product listings for use in your own recipes. E.g. 355ml of Diet Coke contains 131 mg aspartame + 15mg ace-K.

Also, aspartame can be difficult/slow to dissolve. It dissolves better in solutions with a low pH and a warmer temperature.

New comment by nulld3v in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

nulld3v — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:39:52 +0000

I'm not sure I fully understand you. All those OSes try very, very hard to disambiguate between apps and the user itself?

New comment by nulld3v in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

nulld3v — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:24:08 +0000

They are constantly attacked because they prevent users from modifying the system configuration, not just app developers.

New comment by nulld3v in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

nulld3v — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:01:25 +0000

Sadly, this issue is systemic: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847

New comment by nulld3v in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

nulld3v — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:45:14 +0000

Thank you for putting in the time to do the research, this is incredibly helpful!

New comment by nulld3v in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

nulld3v — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:06:07 +0000

The current largest hydroelectric dam in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China. It can generate 22.5GW (40% more power than the dam in 2nd place, which is also Chinese).

Since Jan 2024, China has on average constructed 23GW of new solar power every month. So China has effectively been adding a "world's largest dam" worth of solar power, every single month for the last 24 months.

New comment by nulld3v in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

nulld3v — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:43:17 +0000

It's nice for extracting data from a page into some structured format (e.g. CSV). Much quicker than trying to whip up a JS script or something.

New comment by nulld3v in "Steam Machine"

nulld3v — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:34:23 +0000

There are already headsets with decent text fidelity, but IMO the problem is now on the host side. I tried to get an XR desktop env running (Stardust https://stardustxr.org/) on Linux but ran into graphical issues. The Windows ecosystem is much better though.

New comment by nulld3v in "ESP32 and Termux"

nulld3v — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:57:56 +0000

Yes, but the 'am' command is just a CLI Java program. At that point, it would be more efficient to just boot a JVM in the binary to avoid the JVM startup cost every time a Intent/Broadcast needs to be sent.

I believe the Termux API relies on a Java/app process that runs in the background to do stuff in response to API calls. Though I guess you get it for free if you already have the API running for other reasons.

New comment by nulld3v in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

nulld3v — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:39:52 +0000

I don't really care about the notifications. I just want to read what's in the servers. Lots of communities post their announcements/links/resources in their Discord servers.

It is sometimes possible to view a Discord server without joining it, but it is painful compared to just joining the server.

New comment by nulld3v in "ESP32 and Termux"

nulld3v — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:34:18 +0000

> the android development kit really is very heavy. compared to `gcc -o main main.cpp && ./main`, it is several orders of magnitude away.

> the jetpack stuff and whatnot - the big android app shops probably do actually appreciate that stuff. but i wish the dev env 'scaled to zero' as they say, but in the sense of cognitive overload.

I tried to build a small binary that listens for events and launches/wakes an app to do some automation. But apparently there's no way to send Intents or Broadcasts from native code? So I need to boot a JVM in the binary if I want it to communicate with anything else on the system!

Of course, you can always communicate via stdio, but that's useless because everything in Android speaks Intents/Broadcasts. Native code can also do raw Binder calls, but nothing on the system speaks raw Binder.

New comment by nulld3v in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

nulld3v — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:38:41 +0000

I also wish open-source communities would move off of Discord for another reason: Users are limited to joining a maximum of 100 servers.

I've hit the cap and it's driving me crazy. It's really easy to hit it since each friend group, hobby group, gaming community, and open-source community often all have their own servers.

New comment by nulld3v in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

nulld3v — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:47:09 +0000

Obviously you can find quotes to support such a position. Just like I can run around quoting Israeli PMs about how Palestinians are rats and how they must all be killed. You have to look at the whole of the evidence, not individual quotes.

New comment by nulld3v in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

nulld3v — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:51:57 +0000

> But you are aware that the Israeli side states that the Arabs who left Israel in 1948 did so at the beheast of Arab politicians requets - and there is ample evidence of this. Yet, many didn't leave and Israel became 20% Arab.

Bro really said: "the Palestinians did the nakba to themselves"...

New comment by nulld3v in "Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

nulld3v — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:41:28 +0000

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/pull/7298#discussion_r...

> By disassembly of ptxas, it is indeed hard-coded that they have logic like: strstr(kernel_name, "cutlass").

> it is likely that, this is an unstable, experimental, aggressive optimization by NVIDIA, and blindly always enabling it may produce some elusive bugs.

New comment by nulld3v in "Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU"

nulld3v — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:51:11 +0000

There are also some architectural differences between mobile & desktop GPUs which may impact games that are not optimized for the platform: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/the-snapdragon-x-elites-adreno-...

New comment by nulld3v in "Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU"

nulld3v — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:43:10 +0000

Yeah, I too was surprised to find the dev experience very good: all JetBrains IDEs work well, Visual Studio appears to work fine, and most language toolchains seem well supported.

New comment by nulld3v in "Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU"

nulld3v — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:34:06 +0000

I suspect that's due to the GPU and not due to Prism, because they basically just took a mobile GPU and stuffed it into a laptop chip. Generally performance seems to be on par with whatever a typical flagship Android devices can do.

Desktop games that have mobile ports generally seem to run well, emulation is pretty solid too (e.g. Dolphin). Warcraft III runs OK-ish.

New comment by nulld3v in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

nulld3v — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:45:23 +0000

Are you using a non-default theme or are you using custom KWin scripts (e.g. to enable "window gaps")? Both my laptop & desktop run near-default KDE and moving the mouse to the top-right + clicking always closes the maximized window.