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New comment by random29ah in "Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE"

random29ah — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:05:36 +0000

Meanwhile, slackware-current has the good old gtk1 and I believe it's only for xmms.

New comment by random29ah in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

random29ah — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:27:24 +0000

"Welcome to iammarkzuckerg.com"

Okay, the site needs a little revision =p

New comment by random29ah in "Introducing architecture variants"

random29ah — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:28:04 +0000

I'm really "new" to x64 (I only migrated from 32-bit in 2020...) and the difference I noticed between x86-64-v1 and x86-64-v3 was only with video (with ffmpeg), audio (mp3/ogg/mp4...) and encryption; the rest remains practically the same.

Naively, I believe it might be more appropriate to have x86-64-v1 and x86-64-vN options only for specific software and leave the rest as x86-64-v1.

AVX seemed to give the biggest boost to things.

Regarding those who are making fun of Gentoo users, it really did make a bigger difference in the past, but with the refinement of compilers, the difference has diminished. Today, for me, who still uses Gentoo/CRUX for some specific tasks, what matters is the flexibility to enable or disable what I want in the software, and not so much the extra speed anymore.

As an example, currently I use -Os (x86-64-v1) for everything, and only for things related to video/sound/cryptography (I believe for things related to mathematics in general?) I use -O2 (x86-64-v3) with other flags to get a little more out of it.

Interestingly, in many cases -Os with -mtune=nocona generates faster binaries even though I'm only using hardware from Haswell to today's hardware (who can understand the reason for this?).

New comment by random29ah in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

random29ah — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:47:36 +0000

It's sad that no one has commented about Ultimate++ ( https://www.ultimatepp.org ).

I believe it's the easiest way (at least for me) to quickly create GUI programs.

But of course, nothing beats Borland's interface from the DOS era.

New comment by random29ah in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

random29ah — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:07:59 +0000

It's almost funny, not to mention sad, that their player/page has been changed, filling it with tons of JS that makes less powerful machines lag.

For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU.

However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvFZjo5PgG0

While they worsen the user experience, other sites optimize their players and don't seem to care about downloaders (pr0n sites, for example).