karteum

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by karteum 1y ago
> Usually, what you want is either the byte or the grapheme cluster. Exactly ! That's what I understood after reading this great post https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/ "Even in the widest encoding, UTF
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by karteum 1y ago
UCB-C headphones use the same USB-C connector as the charging one (there are no smartphone with 2 usb-C connectors), therefore increasing the wear every time you plug/unplug. When using USB headphones you cannot charge at the same time
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by karteum 1y ago
I also love Typst and use it regularly. But just to note it : there is also https://weasyprint.org that takes HTML as input
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by karteum 1y ago
FWIW, I used gmvault a long time ago (N.B. I typically deactivated individual .eml.gz compression in favor of a more global compression with a squashfs archive of the gmvault backup). Since I found not very practical to search through that
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by karteum 2y ago
It's 12 years old now, but I am still extremely impressed by this 64k intro https://geidav.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/making-of-turtles-al... and also by this 4k intro https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by karteum 2y ago
Google Pixels are the few devices that enable not only to unlock the bootloader but also the ability to flash your own keys and still have secure boot together with full kernel sources availability (which is why Grapheneos only support them
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by karteum 2y ago
I discovered JSON Binpack recently, which works either schemaless (like msgpack) or - supposedly more efficiently - with a schema. I haven't tried the codebase yet but it looks interesting. https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com
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by karteum 2y ago
Beware when relying on Google Takeout for e-mail backup if you have old e-mails in other encodings than utf-8 : it permanently breaks some characters, which are replaced by 0xEFBFBD (that issue does not occur when doing backup with IMAP or
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by karteum 2y ago
> Also, given that this is the author's work laptop, what's the economic justification for not investing in the primary tool you use for work? The author explains that there are motivations not related to money (we live on a
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by karteum 2y ago
Python may not be the best example, but some other languages also exist and are both less "weird" than https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs and fast (e.g. see http://luajit.org/ which is far
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by karteum 2y ago
If you want vertical tabs, built-in adblocker, and more generally are looking for a lightweight and free (as in free speech and as in free beer) browser, you may look at https://www.falkon.org/ (made with QTwebengine i.e. B
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by karteum 2y ago
I was also thinking about extracting the MPQ on-disk e.g. "foo.mpq" -> ".foo.mpq.extracted/..." (which - to my understanding - would lead to a lot of deduplication even just with jdupes). N.B. depending on the r
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by karteum 2y ago
> But for a curious hacker getting at the internals of how something works, the first instinct is to turn it up. That's their learning path. It's natural curiosity. More must be better. Louder must be better. If you increase th
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by karteum 2y ago
> the only real limit is until you start interfering with other people to the point they notice and complain. it's not like the FCC has vans roving the streets looking for unlicensed TV usage like the BBC but for wifi In the area
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by karteum 2y ago
I am happily experimenting with Typst right now ( https://typst.app/ ), which compiles much faster than LaTeX and with a syntax very similar to md, together with nice support for math, figures and advanced settings.
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by karteum 2y ago
> Amiga was a lot like DOS/Classic Mac OS, single user, unprotected memory AmigaOS was actually implementing real preemptive multitasking and was much more "modern" than MacOS and Windows from the same era, and a lot of th
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by karteum 2y ago
There are aspects I didn't fully understand, maybe someone can explain : on one hand I understand that Object arrays were very slow and raised issues, that PyArrow strings solved the issue (how ?) at the expense of a huge dependency, a
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by karteum 2y ago
There are aspects I didn't fully understand, maybe someone can explain : on one hand I understand that Object arrays were very slow and raised issues, that PyArrow strings solved the issue (how ?) at the expense of a huge dependency, a
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by karteum 2y ago
If you only care about music (not videos) then you might also have a look at https://webamp.org/ You don't even need to "compile" or do anything fancy to "integrate" it : just include it (of course
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by karteum 2y ago
Reminds me of Razer project Linda ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKu-T13vXs )
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by karteum 2y ago
See also https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir
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by karteum 3y ago
I guess it's without the pictures then ? Because if I compare with the zim file format (which is optimized for this use-case) https://kiwix.org/en/what-is-the-size-of-wikipedia/ I read "As of October 202
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by karteum 3y ago
Thanks ! One question though : why do you say "as it's pretty obvious that the domains in which EROFS and DwarFS are being used have extremely little overlap. DwarFS will likely never be able to run on embedded devices" ? (I
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by karteum 3y ago
I would love to see a comparison with EroFS ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROFS )
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by karteum 3y ago
Last time I tried to install Rocky/Alma Linux on my mum's laptop (Core 2 Duo T5600) it miserably failed because the OS required x86_64_v2 (I didn't even know this existed: I thought all x86_84 linux OS would boot on that mach
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by karteum 3y ago
Some people might be interested in https://weasyprint.org/
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by karteum 3y ago
> The only block of countries reducing it are the EU (making our life miserable), the USA at most is maintaining it, and China, India, all of Africa and mostly all others, are pumping out more and more of it US is a large country with co
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by karteum 3y ago
fdupes is really nice and fast, but (as far as I remember) it was lacking two features that I needed for my use case, which were 1°/ list duplicate dirs (without listing all of the duplicate sub-contents), and 2°/ being able to id
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by karteum 3y ago
"for windows" only ? then it's a no-go for me...
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by karteum 3y ago
therefore for consistency I assume you expect the same behavior for "taiwan" ?

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