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Raymonf··on Cloudflare is now powering Microsoft Edge Secure Network
Maybe eventually?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/russia-is-trying-...

Raymonf··on Make JDK source code UTF-8
é is a valid character in latin-1, the current encoding in "many cases".
Raymonf··on Localizing Unity games as an indie dev
> One for Japanese and Chinese

Please don't do this! Han Unification causes your Japanese text look weird when displayed with a Simplified Chinese font, likewise with a Traditional Chinese or Korean font.

https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

Raymonf··on Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account
Yes, unless you run OOBE\BypassNRO.cmd from cmd to bypass the network connection step, since there's no "skip" button anymore.

Even this is somewhat broken. If you run this after connecting to the Internet then it doesn't do anything and still forces you to use a Microsoft account (unless you somehow get it to throw you back to that page).

Raymonf··on VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs
Other than Hyper-V, what hypervisor can paravirtualize DirectX 12?
Raymonf··on Tailwind CSS v3.2: revisiting my “feature creep” warning
By "base CSS" are you referring to using @apply? That's generally not recommended from what I understand, with componentization and reuse being preferred over most usages of @apply for this purpose.
Raymonf··on Why HTTP without encryption and self-signed sertificates are OK
> Showing the user nonsensical warnings like "Someone is trying to steal your credit card information!!!!11" only creates confusion and misconceptions about security.

So is this suggesting that browsers should automatically trust all certificates? The Kazakh government sure would like that to happen.

Raymonf··on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
I found that my Discourse instance consistently took ~250 milliseconds to display the forum post list (according to the little box at the top left corner). After getting annoyed with Discourse, I went back to Invision Forum and I see about ~95 ms for the same thing, including sending the response to my browser.
Raymonf··on TikTok Is Reportedly an 'Essential' App for Some Samsung Installs
Android's app optimization process is AOT compilation of apps, not "a ploy to foist more unnecessary and unwanted apps"...
Raymonf··on Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
#6: These are full-width brackets. Most Chinese input method editors will output full-width characters by default instead of the half-width ones that you're accustomed to.

For example: ,。;:【】

If you ever see an Amazon listing have full-width characters, they're almost certainly either Chinese sellers or sellers that are really good a copying and pasting from Chinese sellers.

Raymonf··on Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
What? The "majority of Android users" are Samsung users, where Samsung Internet is the default. Sure, it's Chromium-based, but not Chrome.
Raymonf··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
That's about 5 minutes of "normal" scrolling on Tumblr and Twitter.

I don't think you're in the target audience of Tumblr, which is fine.

Raymonf··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
I just made a brand new account to try it.

On M1 Max with Safari 15.5, it took me about 40 seconds of fast scrolling to get it to start stuttering occasionally. Then, another 30 seconds to get it to start blanking out for a second at a time. And finally, another 30 seconds to get it to start taking seconds to render. I won't give the number of posts before it started lagging because I don't know the exact number.

On my phone (iPhone 13 Pro Max, albeit on the iOS 16 beta), it takes Safari about 15 seconds of scrolling before the scrolling drops to around 40fps from what looked close to 120fps. Then, another 20 seconds to start seeing things rendering halfway before jumping around and then rendering the correct post. This isn't necessarily a fair comparison due to the usage of beta software, but even on an M1 on production OS software it doesn't seem to be much better. Chrome 102 on macOS handles the exact thing that I did without any problem at all.

It's especially bad when you have a lot of videos on your dashboard. If you only have image posts, it might take a bit longer to start stuttering.

This has been the case for years, so it's nothing new. I remember this being a problem almost a decade ago, on an 4th generation iPad with the A6X SoC. Things have improved since then for sure, but those it's probably mostly hardware improvements that's helping.

I'll accept blaming Twitter's horrible performance on its use of React Native Web, but not Tumblr.

Raymonf··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
If I understand what you're trying to say correctly, I need to say that I'm speaking fully from a user experience standpoint as an end user. I am not a Tumblr engineer. Anecdotally, out of the few people I know that still use Tumblr, they use desktop and mobile Chrome to access the website. I don't have any statistics on how many people use the apps.

So, to me, Tumblr's website is already the main point of access, and these performance problems don't exist on Firefox or Chrome. I'm not talking about server-side response times, I'm talking about the time to render posts on the client. I find that a lot of times, after scrolling, you have to wait a few seconds before you see anything but the blue background that Tumblr has.

So, no, I'm going to pin it on Safari if (even) Firefox can deal with it.

Raymonf··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
Sure, if you've got a tumblr.com account just start scrolling on your dashboard and have fun.

You'll be able to see it take seconds to render at a time. This is true on an M1 Mac, as it is true on an A15 iPhone and M1 iPad.

Raymonf··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
Because of Safari.

Safari works amazingly for small websites, but for websites with infinite scrolling like Tumblr and Twitter, it becomes unbearably slow after the first hundred or so posts. Historically, Safari is slow to adopt new web features, and it STILL doesn't have web push notifications (and more).

You can run these same websites on Android Chrome just fine, even on a lower-powered Android phone. I'm not sure if they're using APIs that need to be polyfilled on Safari, or if Safari is just trash.

At this time, I'm convinced that if Apple allowed other browser engines on the App Store, this would not be a problem at all, not that I can test it out anyways.

So, yes, Apple still has a say.

Raymonf··on I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
That's not even close to what they said.

They said, you can do it "if you have the skills" and that "the large majority of humanity does not" have these skills.

Raymonf··on Running PyTorch on the M1 GPU
Then what API are you going to use on macOS?
Raymonf··on Running PyTorch on the M1 GPU
Why wouldn't GPU support for the M1 GPU require Metal? You should be able to run PyTorch on the CPU of a Pi?
Raymonf··on Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells
It's even worse than that. Right before that, the article claims that the Chinese language is "almost the same as the first inscriptions from nearly 3,200 years ago".
Raymonf··on Asahi Linux alpha release
Come on, it's the first alpha. If you _need_ it, I'm sure they wouldn't mind you contributing a driver to check it off this page: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Tasks
Raymonf··on How UTF-8 Works
Yes, Windows 10 has continually improved UTF-8 support. You can even set applications to use it by default now.
Raymonf··on Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers
Use a Windows VM? x86(_64)->ARM64 is not going away on Windows anytime soon.
Raymonf··on Luau goes open-source
The VM still has a lot of Lua 5.1 code. It's definitely a fork.
Raymonf··on Interest in Switching to iPhone Drops Among Android Users
Masks.
Raymonf··on Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers
Yes, you can spend it in-game at the full value.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but it's also important to note that not all Robux is equal. There's more information at https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005718246 under section 3.B.

Raymonf··on 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]
In order:

1. Free Hong Kong, revolution of our times

2. Hong Kong people, add oil (basically a statement of encouragement)

3. Five demands, not one less

4. There are no rioters, only tyranny

5. The Hong Kong Police know the law, yet break the law (I haven't seen this one around in many English-speaking circles so I can't really give an accurate translation from the eyes of HKers)

These were basically the slogans used by the protestors back in 2019. Unfortunately, saying any of these is now considered an "act of sedition" by the Hong Kong government, after the passing of the National Security Law last year.

Raymonf··on Show HN: Learn Japanese Vocabulary Visually
Do you think it would be possible to vectorize the cards? Zooming in to read them makes them quite blurry as-is.
Raymonf··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
What browser are you on? The navigation issues don't happen for me on Chrome.
Raymonf··on Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share a Core
Android is now developed with the mainline kernel: https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/andro...

Android has been Linux, and it's even more Linux now than before.

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