FrostKiwi

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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
First time hearing about it, looks good but first impressions are mixed. - Start out subscribed to spam, first messages are - `A “Tiny Old Cave” Kitchen Got a $1,221 Makeover That “Feels 10 Times Cozier”` - `My Mom Has Been Buying Th
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
> They've purposefully underinvested in Safari to force developers to create native apps for their platforms where Apple makes a sizeable cut Can't speak to how accurate this is, but for WebXR, this hits the nail on the head. P
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
FINALLY! You can do borderline insane single-vdev setups like RAID-Z3 with 4 disks (3 Disks worth of redundancy) of the most expensive and highest density hard drives money can buy right now, for an initial effective space usage of 25% and
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Have my server infrastructure on NixOS. Huge boost in productivity and stability, would never go back to standard linux. But man if something breaks it's a nuke going off. Sry for the long post, but thought I share my experience: Mass
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Self-hosted Nextcloud + Nextcloud's auto-upload feature. Works on non-media as well. Used to do complete system mirrors with lower level backup solutions, but gave up, when I realized, that I won't be restoring it to a phone anywa
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
It escaped [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382017
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words <3 Implemented the opening of links in new tabs. Turns out there was a package for that [1]. Will go to good use in up-coming articles. [1] https://github.com/crookedneighbor/markdown-it-lin
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
> Now, if all the landlords in an entire city or community is using RealPage, then it should be illegal. Exactly this is the monopoly that people are worried about and why there is strong push back.
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
That's excellent! You guys should interact with Nextcloud or someone should try their hand at a Nextcloud App [1]. Nextcloud's solution to Google Docs & friends is via the integration of OnlyOffice[2], which requires a Documen
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
That's awesome! Added this as an addendum to the post.
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
> Do you have advice on linear vs srgb space antialiasing? Unfortunately, this is completely context dependent. One central point is, whether or not the graphics pipeline is instructed to perform corrections (GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB in OpenG
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
What happens during overlap, is something you control fully, at every step. (Except when using this with MSAA, as that is implementation defined) How intersections happen when blending shapes of multiple draw calls or multiple quads is defi
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Yes, on high density displays this is very much possible. Eye based SSAA, the worse your prescription the better the quality. On my Pixel 9 Pro, the no AA circle demo is perfect on native 1440p resolution without AA. But dense foliage in 3D
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Yes, that also surprised me and I tested it on multiple mobile Apple devices. It's not really a mistake per se, the implementation is free to do what it wants. Selecting MSAAx2 on these types of mobile GPUs simply has no upside and isn
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
The blog is built with eleventy https://www.11ty.dev/ and as the previous reply already mentioned, the source code is on GitHub [2]. All posts are single Markdown file each with HTML inserted where I need it. The javascript
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
True, this is something I struggled with writing and ended up with just a small note commenting that this is not widely applicable. Will clarify more in coming posts. It's all incredibly context specific. The reason for this order, is
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Ohh right! I'm sure the must be an Eleventy setting for that...
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
The commit history [1] reveals that, took a while. I don't write professionally, something I do in lunch breaks from time to time. Thanks for the kind words. [1] https://github.com/FrostKiwi/treasurechest/comm
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! Author here, happy to answer any questions.
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
As a daily Firefox on Android user, not catching up on standards is what hurts the most. Most painfully to me, all the WebGL stuff like [1] and some minor annoyances like [2]. Still, having uBlock origin among other extensions is a killer f
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
First time hearing about Sky before screens. Lifestyle advice that would work well with software as a profession, I imagine. > i wake up every morning and look at my girlfriends face, hopefully that does not subconsciously trigger the sa
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
It's part of the no more third party cookies thing and not iOS specific. Scenario where this matters: If you do Login based on sessions + cookies (eg. Django's default authentication method) you won't be able to have the back
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
It's makes so the frame pacing fits the display refresh rate, making viewing a lot more pleasant and smoother. Eg.: Your Screen is 60hz, but the video is 59.97hz, then there will be a dropped frame. `--video-sync=display-resample` spee
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
It's makes so the frame pacing fits the display refresh rate, making viewing a lot more pleasant and smoother. Eg.: Your Screen is 60hz, but the video is 59.97hz, then there will be a dropped frame. `--video-sync=display-resample` spee
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
It's makes so the frame pacing fits the display refresh rate, making viewing a lot more pleasant and smoother. Eg.: Your Screen is 60hz, but the video is 59.97hz, then there will be a dropped frame. `--video-sync=display-resample` spee
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Cannot recommend --video-sync=display-resample enough. The one reason I use mpv on every OS over every other media player
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
> Good luck finding your way out of that mirrorball, FrostKiwi; I hear it reflects every bad life choice you've ever made. OMG, I am impressed and humbled. I fully submit to our new AI overlords.
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
Super excited on what this means for Mixed Reality tech by extension. Right now Optical see-through AR glasses can show information via a mirror / transparent screen. It's additive so, similar to a projector cannot show things dar
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
> Quantization creates some brain damage. Love the wording.
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by FrostKiwi 2y ago
In both cases, yes and there are multiple projects able to reverse it for both the pixelation case [1] Blurring is like a hashing algorithm. If you know the font, size and placement that was used, you can try out reblurring and Thus brute f

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