The_Decryptor

She was pushing for Trump to have it since it was first announced she won it. It’s got nothing to do with her wanting to protect her country or whatever, she’s got a terminal case of Trump brainworms.

What they’re saying is that a web server can create a traditional jpeg file from a jpeg xl to send to a client as needed.

Other way around, you can convert a “web safe” JPEG file into a JXL one (and back again), but you can’t turn any random JXL file into a JPEG file.

But yeah, something like Lemmy could recompress uploaded JPEG images as JXL on the server, serving them at JXL to updated clients, and converting back to JPEG as needed, saving server storage and bandwidth with no quality loss.

I’ve seen zero RISC devices in the wild

Ever seen an Nvidia GPU? They’ve been using them for years. One estimate is they shipped 1 billion cores in 2024.

Not as end user programmable chips of course, but the “end user devices” market is only a small part of the total industry.

Can you explains the knitpicking? They specifically decided that only objects orbiting our star can be Planets. It wasn’t an oversight but intentional. How can that be explained? Why do that?

Because we’re not going to be visiting any exoplanets anytime soon, so it’s not like we can actually check how much they’ve cleared their orbits.

Really good network stack. Linux is catching up surely but places like Netflix run a ton of stuff on BSD simply for that stack.

Depends on the specific BSD, OpenBSD for example is only just now catching up to Linux.

Edit: Slide 28 for a graph

No, MS has been “shipping” curl with Windows for ages, it’s just that legacy powershell has an alias for curl to their internal download module that predates the bundling. And they won’t change that because it has backwards compatibility risks.

Upside is, it’s a literal alias. “curl” uses the internal module while “curl.exe” uses the normal app.

Further upside, if you use the up to date version of powershell, that alias is gone as they removed it during the transition.

if you want it to go away, everyone who is working on it and making it work right now disagrees with you

I’m sure most people wouldn’t like losing their jobs.

They’re called “selections”, the main ones being PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD, and it’s effectively a form of IPC mediated by X. When you select something, that goes into the PRIMARY selection, while when you copy something, it goes into both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD.

The problem is that “middle mouse click” isn’t actually paste, it’s “insert primary selection”. As long as they’re in sync you won’t notice any issue (Ctrl+V and MMB will both insert the same content), as soon as they’re out of sync you’re suddenly exposed to an implementation detail of the X11 protocol.

And it’s easy to go out of sync, simply copy something and then select unrelated text, now Ctrl+V and MMB will output different things. It can be useful, e.g. if you’re having to copy a bunch of different pieces of text from one window to another, you can simply select and MMB, no keyboard needed, but it’s not intuitive IMO, and conflicts with modern usage of the middle mouse button (Get it wrong when trying to open a link in a new tab and you’ll dump whatever text you last selected into the site instantly)

Also, these selections aren’t a thing under Wayland, it’s been re-implemented as a normal paste operation there. The question is actually whether the middle mouse button should be treated like any other mouse button or have this special behaviour by default. My vote is to expose it via the mouse settings applet and leave it up to users, like any other special mouse button.

These days there’s scdoc, you can see the source for a man page written in it here, and the output here.

Yep, same way people block all ICMP and then wonder why stuff breaks.

AMD did nothing to make their drivers better, Vale did.

That’s literally the point of open source though, both AMD and Intel rely on open source drivers, so anybody can fix a flaw they encounter without having to rely on the company to “consider allocating resources towards a fix for legacy hardware”

It can help with logic bugs (e.g. by encoding the state machine logic directly in the type system, so an invalid transition won’t compile), and things like data sharing issues (Again, type system, tracks sharable objects vs. those that aren’t), but none of those are as “impervious” as the memory safety stuff.

But that all still requires rearchitecting, because if the existing code already follows those rules, it already probably doesn’t suffer from those issues (e.g. I know you can do the state machine type stuff in C# at least)

I loved carob as a kid, tried some recently and it was pretty bad.

I assume it’s something to do with how it’s processed, since it’s not like raw cocoa beans are very nice either.

But I’m assuming even that is bad to you because ChatGPT was involved.

I think it’s bad because it’s a waste of power, unreliable, and would be much slower than an actual deterministic code formatters that already exist.

Ahh, yeah that’s a bit harder, CSS multiline stuff is pretty flaky from what I can recall. You need to drop down to block layout, e.g. making the containing element a flex parent (Better term than that?) and then making the icon centered within that can work, but then we’re back to square one with sizing the icon.

<p><svg class="icon">...</svg> Text</p>

p .icon {
    --size: 1.25em;
    vertical-align: calc(0.5cap - 0.5 * var(--size));
    height: var(--size);
    width: var(--size);
}

Done.

KHTML and WebKit is a historic mess but it’s debatable at best if Apple actually violated license terms.

There’s no requirement that a downstream fork needs to contribute their code back to upstream, they just need to release it, and they always did that.

The lead developer of systemd has said multiple times that we should be fine with break POSIX if it means developing faster.

I mean, so does GNU.

A lot of this is also a post-hoc justification, UNIX didn’t get shared libraries until some point in the 80s (Can’t find an exact year), so before that your options were to either statically compile the needed functionality into your program or keep it as an entirely separate program and call out to that.

It’s a perfect mix, in a time where enterprise storage was measured in single digit megabytes, and the only efficient way to created shared functionality was via separate programs, and you’ve got an OS that happens to have “easily pass data between programs” as a core paradigm.

And now people invoke it to attack an init program for also monitoring the programs it starts and not just spawning them.

Ehh, I’d pass on Ladybird. I’ve been donating to Servo myself.