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Asmod4n··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
Will be removed from the next release. Then you can’t connect to your own exchange server anymore and are forced into 365 when you want a desktop app.
Asmod4n··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
You mean dos games, just run them under a dos emulator then.
Asmod4n··on Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
The temps don’t affect your range that much, it’s mostly the tires.

I got a heat pump and using the heater or AC only needs around 1 kWh during the winter or when it’s hot.

But winter tires increase the power consumption by 30%, just like with a diesel.

Asmod4n··on Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
Seams to be a non issue in the south, I can charge near my house, everywhere I have to do something and at work.

Aka, every super market has at least one charger. Most parking spaces have 2-3 chargers. From various vendors. Some even for less money then you can get for your own house per kWh.

I also had no issues in the north east so far or in north rein westfalia.

Chargers usually don’t break but get shut down when the grid can’t handle their load currently.

Asmod4n··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
Depends on the field you are in. There are jobs where you can’t get apps that run on anything but windows.
Asmod4n··on RX – a new random-access JSON alternative
The cost of using a textual format is that floats become so slow to parse, that it’s a factor of over 14 times slower than parsing a normal integer. Even with the fastest simd algos we have right now.
Asmod4n··on FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall
There is no taste difference, it’s just cheaper to produce since you can skip heating it for a few minutes.
Asmod4n··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
Apple already sells that, it’s called MacBook Air.
Asmod4n··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
law enforcement.
Asmod4n··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
you could sell physical items at any store where you have to show your ID and you get one for the age group you are.

that kills two birds with one stone, you can then show everywhere online you are human and how old you are without the services needing any personal information about you, and the sellers don't know what you use that id tag for.

Asmod4n··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026
So some future generations might get 23 hour days? That’s gonna be an interesting problem to solve for calendar implementations
Asmod4n··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I’ve written a CBOR implementation as a mruby c extension in an afternoon and am about to officially release it soon.

It’s my first project where I’ve worked with claude: https://github.com/Asmod4n/mruby-cbor

Asmod4n··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
So you get the sunlight when you are about to go to sleep and none when you wake up. That doesn’t sound healthy.
Asmod4n··on What your Bluetooth devices reveal
In Europe and the US all new vehicles now have a visible ID under their front window glass, it’s called a VIN. It’s even standardized where it must be.
Asmod4n··on More Mac malware from Google search
Win32 Apps can access anything you can access and also read out some text fields from apps you have running, via accessibility APIs.
Asmod4n··on More Mac malware from Google search
You have to consider your machine and all others you connected to to be compromised. Time to reinstall every device with new accounts and passwords. With unused usb sticks and images downloaded from another network you were never connected to.
Asmod4n··on Intel will start making GPUs
AMD is doing that for their next gen, no idea if khronos is involved.
Asmod4n··on Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
Mruby has something like that build in, you can create a VM which only has basic data types and control flow, no i/o, rng, time, meta programming or any host access possible simply because most functionality is only available as gems and they simply aren’t loaded. Everything you can do with it should be fully deterministic.
Asmod4n··on Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet
but the fun thing about them is, they allow you to impersonate any mail address you want with their smtp server.

Aka, when you are a customer of them you get a @t-online.de address and login data for their smtp server.

You can just login into that server and set the From: Header to anything, they don't check.

Asmod4n··on Banned C++ features in Chromium
char on linux arm is unsigned, makes for fun surprises when you only ever dealt with x86 and assumed char to be signed everywhere.
Asmod4n··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
Yup, by default a Linux based router won’t forward any traffic to a IPv6 host unless you explicitly have a program running which keeps on telling the kernel you want that.
Asmod4n··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
All LG OLED tv at least can be controlled via an http API. So you don’t need a remote for them. You can turn them on and have them select any input.

That way you can completely use it like a monitor instead of a TV.

Asmod4n··on Steam Machine price leak shakes the console market
When you look what 24gb of ram costs right now it’s about 60% of that leaked price.

I’ve just bought a brand new Ryzen 5950x and will probably skip am5 altogether :|

Asmod4n··on High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it
Ain’t eBPF hooks there so you can limit what a cgroup/process can do, not matter what API it’s calling. Like disallowing opening files or connecting sockets altogether.
Asmod4n··on High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it
It’s manageable with eBPF instead of seccomp so one has to adapt to that. Should be doable.
Asmod4n··on Clock synchronization is a nightmare
We could use some made up „time“ for that since it’s not made for human consumption just sync between different systems.
Asmod4n··on Clock synchronization is a nightmare
Does wall clock time matter for anything but logging? For everything else one could just create any form „time“ to keep stuff in sync, no?
Asmod4n··on Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems
The one thing I like the most about mruby is the way you can ship apps.

When you normally want to ship apps which are written in Java, C#, python etc. you have to tell your users they have to download that runtime and your deps and how to start the runtime and which args to start your app from the command line.

With mruby you can just ship one file and everything is self contained.

Asmod4n··on Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers
There are some situations where you can somewhat handle malloc returning NULL.

One would be where you have frequent large mallocs which get freed fast. Another would be where you have written a garbage collected language in C/C++.

When calling free, delete or letting your GC do that for you the memory isn't actually given back immediately, glibc has malloc_trim(0) for that, which tries it's best to give back as much unused memory to the OS as possible.

Then you can retry your call to malloc and see if it fails and then just let your supervisor restart your service/host/whatever or not.

Asmod4n··on AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4
in the main capital, yes. but even in raids i hit 120 fps in 4k with my 5800x.
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