5-

14 ms·

151.
by 5- 3y ago
interestingly, of the applications whose authors have signed, i only ever tried geary some time ago and concluded it was way too feature-poor and inconvenient in terms of the user interface to serve as a mail client. never had an incentive
152.
by 5- 3y ago
- don't fight evil with evil - two wrongs don't make a right - can't put out fire with more fire etc. sorry for the lazy response, but too many exactly fitting idioms to resist.
153.
by 5- 3y ago
most of that market share will go away the moment google is allowed to push chrome on ios.
154.
by 5- 3y ago
all the twitter crap makes ios safari crash. looks like the author put up a cleaned up version, linked (but good luck clicking the link): https://qntm.org/perso
155.
by 5- 3y ago
i currently use x2100 (x200 with 10th gen motherboard and a 3000x2000 13" ips) https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/ (note: the seller is awol) would be happy to upgrade to a similar x220 mod with e.g. amd zen
156.
by 5- 3y ago
you can also get up to 2k screen: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x230/#x230-display note: the author of the site has been awol for a while
157.
by 5- 3y ago
> Following process/thread creation is done via netlink(7). shouldn't ptrace with PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (etc.) be enough (and much easier)? the high overhead of strace the author notes is due to it doing PTRACE_SYSCALL, which is n
158.
by 5- 3y ago
incidentally: what's the term for a foreign-language word creation in a different culture? as far as i can tell, "highload" (typically spelt in english) exists only in the russian-speaking communities and means "high per
159.
by 5- 3y ago
plan9 mk⁰ is a simplified and improved make derivative (the same is true for other components, and the entirety of the system, of plan9 in relation to unix). mk is generally available in modern systems' package repositories through pla
160.
by 5- 3y ago
this is welcome news, and i will likely reinstate my subscription. however, i'd like to point out that in my understanding, most of my $10 will go to google, in kagi's payment for their search service, rather than support kagi or
161.
by 5- 3y ago
the keyword you're looking for might be 'kiosk'. nowadays https://porteus-kiosk.org seems to be recommended (but i haven't used it).
162.
by 5- 3y ago
vcmi has seen a lot of progress recently. the goal has also changed from mostly wog-related functionality (which thankfully has fallen out of fashion) towards recreating the original game+expansions+hota (+better mod support).
163.
by 5- 3y ago
crossover (the commercial wine release) still supports macos: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover#mac through a pretty cool technology: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jschmid/2019/9/1
164.
by 5- 3y ago
to echo some other points in this thread -- i used to be very much in favour of linux ports / recreations, actively supporting them with my wallet. but even without switching away from x86, the linux userland churn (64bit, and lately a
165.
by 5- 3y ago
of course. please donate (money or effort) to these important preservation projects!
166.
by 5- 3y ago
> People think of the PC as this completely invincible platform where once you get a PC version it lives forever that's true -- thanks to the free win32 api implementation wine, x86 userspace emulators like qemu or box86, and piracy
167.
by 5- 3y ago
indeed! i do miss the old newsletter that had random curious bits and links. anything similar nowadays? https://tinyletter.com/resobscura/archive
168.
by 5- 3y ago
> how this link ended up in HN the submitter writes https://resobscura.substack.com/ which is also occasionally featured on hn and is generally well received.
169.
by 5- 3y ago
risc-v is an instruction set specification. it doesn't concern much beyond that, so there is nothing special about "risc-v hardware ", which contains many other components at vendor's discretion.
170.
by 5- 3y ago
obligatory pbf: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/magic-eyes/
171.
by 5- 3y ago
> Firefox should be able to just use the mozilla's official build which comes with an auto-updater (and it implements the sandbox itself, so no need for another one on top). > Zotero > Joplin both electron shells. also come wi
172.
by 5- 3y ago
you jest, but in fact you could. https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_ShowSimpleMessageBox
173.
by 5- 3y ago
x86_64 assembly, gtk3, 21 lines / 19 instructions build with e.g. gcc hw.s `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0` .globl main;main: push %rbx xor %esi, %esi xor %edi, %edi call gtk_init@PLT lea .HW(%rip), %r8 xor %edx, %edx xor
174.
by 5- 3y ago
the winning 48-byte entry isn't really snake (nibbles), as the length of the snake grows with every move, rather than with every bit of food consumed. looks more like tron.
175.
by 5- 3y ago
speaking of passive screens on indiegogo, this launched recently: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/world-s-first-color-rlcd-... in theory this should be much more interesting than e-ink (lcd refresh rates, similar to
176.
by 5- 3y ago
neat! note that gcc's default optimisation level is 0, which really isn't what people normally want. adding -O2 to the gcc command line should improve performance quite a bit.
177.
by 5- 3y ago
> but the stack manipulation quickly gets tedious it might just be that you (and i) are not chuck moore. his code generally has very little stack shuffling. e.g. http://www.merlintec.com/download/color.html
178.
by 5- 3y ago
current pidgin lead developer has been writing rather entertaining posts on pidgin and generally im history: https://dev.to/grim e.g. https://dev.to/grim/where-did-the-name-libpurple-come-from-4...
179.
by 5- 3y ago
drug dealers shall not get high on their own supply.
180.
by 5- 3y ago
all kaios 2.5.1 phones should have whatsapp. https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sOSes=10&sOSversions=1... https://www.kaiostech.com/help-center/whatsapp-on-kaios/

More ›