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by ethin 1y ago
For some weird reason I can't access it, it just redirects me to this image about hacker news. Did he just configure his webserver to just universally display that image? Even if I manually enter the address into my address bar it does
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by ethin 1y ago
> If I have a kiosk terminal, why would I want the overhead of, say, screensharing? Also, isn't this the point of libraries, so that you only have to implement stuff once, and you can reuse it in different projects? Like you can bui
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by ethin 1y ago
And that is exactly the problem. Now things like accessibility (or, really, any feature that the maintainers of the core protocol didn't think were "necessary" because they like minimalism) have to be implemented by each and
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by ethin 1y ago
Wayland devs for the longest time thought implementing what was needed for accessibility (mainly, global keyboard hooks for Orca to work) was a security problem. Nevermind the fact that nobody hacks X servers, or your wayland compositor, be
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by ethin 1y ago
Uh... Yes, yes we do. You do realize that adding accessibility features (and I mean actually high quality versions of said features) helps everybody, right? It isn't a low-priority item. To pretend like it is just shows your ignorance.
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by ethin 1y ago
I really would like to not depend on AI to resolve accessibility problems in Linux. That seems like a really, really bad idea.
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by ethin 1y ago
If only. Accessibility on Linux isn't as good as it is on Windows. It's getting better, but there are so few people actually working on it that it will take quite a while to get there. Which results in anyone who uses Linux who ne
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by ethin 1y ago
Eh, I tend to do the same (significantly over-estimate RAM requirements) since it's hard to know just how much RAM you'll need to begin with. Though usually for something like the stack I start with 256-512K.
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by ethin 1y ago
I did this (worked on an OS) from 2019-2022 or so, during college. Didn't get to user mode sadly. Did it in Rust because back then Rust was what I was really into. It was really fun! :) OS dev has always been fun/interesting :)
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by ethin 1y ago
Definitely fascinating to me, like I said I didn't even know rseq was a thing until today.
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by ethin 1y ago
This was a fun read, I didn't know about rseq until today! And before this I reasonably assumed that the naive busy-wait thing would typically be what you'd do in a thread in most circumstances. Or that at least most threads do lo
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by ethin 1y ago
Is this really something new? If memory serves, Telegram has had it's own crypto since the beginning, and I don't remember anything about it ever being audited by... Well, anybody? Granted, I don't know how MTProto actually w
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by ethin 1y ago
I've always wanted to learn Cobol. So, I of course did what I sometimes do and bought the standard. Of course, it then turned out that the standard used inaccessible diagrams instead of any kind of decently modern syntax notation like
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by ethin 1y ago
Isn't this also a problem given that ChatGPT at least is bad a summarizing scientific papers[1]? Idk about Claude or Gemenai with that though. Still a problem. Edit: spelling. [1]: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025&#
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by ethin 1y ago
This is utter nonsense. The "technology and encryption make law enforcement harder" narrative is pushed by people to gain power. That's all there is to it. Technology has, if anything, made surveillance and law enforcement so
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by ethin 1y ago
Yep, agreed. Don't get me wrong, the Intel/AMD docs are amazing. But even getting the hardware to a usable state (where I define usable as "something that can enumerate PCI devices on the system, even without PCIe") is a
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by ethin 1y ago
Funnily enough, when I was writing one in Zig for x86 I actually was the one who found a bug in (I think) 0.11/0.12 where packed structs broke when you assigned to their fields (and I also found that the `.interrupt` calling convention
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by ethin 1y ago
You still have to set up the GDT, TSS, all that other legacy stuff that isn't actually used but it's still there. And if you set it up incorrectly, your punished for it with triple faults and the like, even if nobody even uses any
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by ethin 1y ago
I agree quite strongly with this article. I've used AI for some thing,s but when it comes to productivity I don't use it in big codebases I contribute to or code which I want to put into production. I've mainly only used it t
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by ethin 1y ago
My (personal) problem with Nim is that it assumes a Unix universe for everything. Which is good until (1) you want to do something on Windows and (2) you want to use other Nim libraries from Nimble. Nim will happily allow you to use the MSV
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by ethin 1y ago
But if your in C...
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by ethin 1y ago
The only thing I use Adobe Reader/Acrobat for is converting PDFs to text. Literally that's it, and that's only because, for some PDFs, it's much better than pdftotext is.
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by ethin 1y ago
I am of the opinion that LLMs do not, at all, belong in something as critical or as monumentally complicated as the kernel of an operating system. IMO that is just as stupid as using an LLM in a cryptographic library/implementation. Th
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by ethin 1y ago
> Ironically, if you value your freedoms as a resident, you should value restricting freedoms at the border. Can you clarify this? This doesn't make any sense to me. Freedoms like those granted in the US bill of rights are specifica
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by ethin 1y ago
This. I will continue maintaining the opinion that the US needs to just stop supporting Israel. Seriously. Israel can fight it's own religious wars and I see no reason for us to be backing that when our very constitution says "Hey
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by ethin 1y ago
The problem is that customs officials (and immigration officers) are granted an extreme amount of power through discretionary authority. Congress has yet to actually constrain this, and from my understanding the statutory language is so bro
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by ethin 1y ago
As a citizen of the US I hate how SCOTUS has ground the fourth amendment down to practically nothing. It's absurd how people want the constitution to only apply to citizens, when IMO what makes the US unique is that it's constitut
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by ethin 1y ago
It does this to me too. I have to add instructions like "Do not hesitate to push back or challenge me. Be cold, logical, direct, and engage in debate with me." to actually get it to act like something I'd want to interact wit
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by ethin 1y ago
I thought that was sad too, this company sounds amazing but I'm not really a designer... At least, probably not the kind of designer they want.
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by ethin 1y ago
I very strongly oppose this because Visa and MC are payment processors: their jobs are to (1) ensure money gets from points A to B and (2) protect consumers from fraud and other malicious practices (I know that's very vague here but...

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