eqvinox

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by eqvinox 8mo ago
As a German: Merz is a fucking idiot, the first genuinely incompetent chancellor we've elected in a long time. Kohl, Schröder, Merkel, Scholz… you could disagree with their politics, but they weren't stupid. Merz is. (Of course if
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
> From what I know all modern terminal emulators in all operating systems support it now. urxvt prominently doesn't (fully)
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
The problem with this change is that it breaks setups for people who have already adjusted their color schemes to work with the 256-color palette as it is. It's now essentially double-adjusted. (…and people wonder why I use gvim rather
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
> Security comes before a lot of things but not before accidental breakage. It didn't really sound accidental, though the bugzilla report sounds like they underestimated the impact. But I'm quite sure they were aware this woul
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
Why? Is it not normal to have a first priority and a second priority? Does it not make sense for security to come before other things?
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
I was talking about glibc; none of the things you mention relate to that. (Note glibc is not used on Windows.) I'm painfully aware of some of the breakage GCC occasionally causes (the atomics fall into that — but to be fair ARMv6 is a
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
You'd probably get much more multiprocessor stuff much earlier. There's probably 2 or 3 really good interfaces to wire an almost arbitrary number of CPUs together and run some software across all of them (AMP not SMP).
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32653 dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared library requires it I'm not counting intentional breakage to improve system security.
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
> glibc dependencies that can't be resolved because you need two different versions simultaneously in the same build somehow... If you somehow experience an actual dependency issue that involves glibc itself, I'd like to hear a
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
It actually looks like they're getting better, if the changes from last year to this year are any indication.
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
I can tell you the feature of Meta/Super¹+L/R click to move/resize windows has existed on Linux long before UI in the window titlebar became a thing. ¹ aka Windows key
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by eqvinox 8mo ago
> If we are to consider them truly intelligent We aren't, and intelligence isn't the question, actual agency (in the psychological sense) is. If you install some fancy model but don't give it anything to do, it won't
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
I think the key thing here is the context and size; the searchable content of even a lot of e-mails is quite dense and small. I'm not a search expert but I'd look at precalculated indexes on very short substrings (3-4 characters
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
Containers themselves don't, but a lot of the ecosystem structures around them do. Like having reverse proxies (or even just piles of ethernet bridges) in front of everything. Or if you go ping pong across containers to handle a single
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
You could probably serve it from the quad-core ARM64 inside the SSD controller, if you were trying "for the lulz".
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
I'm not sure I would describe the discourse around Vercel and its CEO as "relatively chill and nice". Things are perceived in context.
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
With a 2025 tech stack, yes. With a 2005 tech stack, no. Don't use any containers, no[/limited] server-side dynamic script languages, no microservices or anything like that. Considering the content is essentially static, this is
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> And they still improve. But what asymptote are they approaching? Average code? Good code? Great code?
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> Sorry but a 99.999% of developers could not have built Unix. Or Winamp. > Managers are crossing their fingers that devs they hire are no worse than average, and average isn't very good. The problem is that that's the same
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
Why is it a new surface? Either you can run UEFI code, or you can't. Attacking the JS interpreter itself is unrealistic IMHO, it's the poorly written JavaScript running on top of this that might open new surfaces of attack. But
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> If this makes you grin, you are probably holding the torch. What if it makes me recoil in horror? screams into the void
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> LLMs will be better than humans in learning new frameworks. I don't see a base for that assumption. They're good at things like Django because there is a metric fuckton of existing open-source code out there that they can be
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> any use of AI, or indeed, any form of outsourcing Oh that's a good analogy/categorization, I hadn't thought about it in those terms yet. AI is just the next cheaper thing down from the current southeast asian sweatshop
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> What’s gone is the tearing, exhausting manual labour of typing every single line of code. Do I live in a different engineering world? Because that's so much not the exhausting labour part of my work, it's not even the same u
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
The fact that this is simultaneously a joke yet also has to be realistically considered is… alarming.
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
> I don't think the lack of a durable chain of custody really provides any protection - that protection needs to come from a strong legal system and social contract to protect whistleblowers. That social contract is quite a bit of a
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
"can't easily be extracted" = "the number of people who can extract it is small but still non-zero" And those people now have the power to put you in jail, by putting your camera's signature on illegal content.
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
Only indirectly related, but it's mildly amusing to see UART backpressure addressed when most serial ports these days are wired up without CTS/RTS, and no XON/XOFF either. (I break out CTS&RTS whenever I can, & so sho
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
Don't beat a dead horse, that's rude ;). They did kinda try to market it as good for everything though, didn't they.
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by eqvinox 9mo ago
I heard there's some people working on a system that allows you to use names, but it seems to be very poorly designed and cause of a lot of outages.

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