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dingdingdang··on XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support
Genuinely find XFCE the only pragmatic option when it comes to "no-fiddling-just-working-and-lightweight" WMs in Linux/BSD land - it's basically like a better Windows 2000 UI with sane defaults throughout. Thanks so much to the devs involved in keeping XFCE up to date. This is major good news.
dingdingdang··on PSA: SQLite WAL corruption silently loses committed entries
Welcome to the sqlite project being on top of things as always: https://sqlite.org/cksumvfs.html
dingdingdang··on PSA: SQLite WAL corruption silently loses committed entries
Good catch, I think there are many applications that would enjoy a "error-correction-enabled" flag. It would never be the default due to the slowdown likely incurred but depending on the criticality of the data (vs speed consideration) it may well be massive win in a number of scenarios.
dingdingdang··on Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
Absolutely. Thanks for the highlighting! Edit: It's a two-in-one good news afaiac: China withdrawing funding(/influence) and some sort of accountability applied to mega projects rather than just throwing (and eventually devaluing) more and more money at things.
dingdingdang··on Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years
Very good to hear about upskilling taking place but also immensely sobering numbers (i.e. 1300 apprentices is seen a big uplift) for a country the size of the UK.
dingdingdang··on Llama 3.1 Omni Model
Does any of the model-runners support this? Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp?
dingdingdang··on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
LibreWolf is my only installed edition of Firefox, similar to Brave in place of Chrome.
dingdingdang··on Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition
I tend to agree here, judiciously used json (these days often running under zstd compression) is seldomly the bottleneck on anything and allows immediate human debugging if need be.
dingdingdang··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Thanks for the clarification. Still a rather horrifying effect for me given that I was trying to take in the content of the article and not the latency-ridden odd movements of other people's cursors, am I missing something (more!) here in terms of the why?
dingdingdang··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
What really drives me insane is the animated mouse cursors on the left and right that sometimes move and sometimes don't in this article..
dingdingdang··on Show HN: Neco – Coroutine Library for C
Can someone help elucidate why "It's a non-goal for Neco to provide a scalable multithreaded runtime, where the coroutine scheduler is shared among multiple cpu cores [...]" this library even makes sense then? When I use coroutines in Go it is invariably in order to make use of more CPU cores when extra performance needs to be extracted.
dingdingdang··on ChrysaLisp GUI Demo [video]
Very impressive indeed, perhaps the authors should contact Andreas Kling (of SerenityOS/Ladybird fame) for hints on how to help community grow stronger.. (if that is wanted!)
dingdingdang··on Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
Come on, no one is running all their private data through the website. But I do agree that the web should not be browsed without ublock as is at the moment - there's something fundamentally wrong with the current approach
dingdingdang··on Stop Killing Games
That summarises nicely how I feel about it as well, I've got nothing against shooting games but I would love to see the tech used for building and exploration games or simulators.. why not a proper "real" minecraft clone based off some of the modern FPS engines for example: build bridges where reasonable physics applies..etc!
dingdingdang··on Stop Killing Games
I thought this was going to be commentary on how a disproportionate amount of AAA games are focused on killing and shooting; thus (figuratively) murdering the potential that games have for conveying all sorts of human experiences. It was a bit more literal.
dingdingdang··on Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux
The unaligned popup selectors scared me too... hope it won't be added to "get off my lawn"-faq ;)
dingdingdang··on Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code
Nature does not refactor, except when it does as in the case of going from 48 to 46 chromosomes (great apes->humans). Nice write-up and slightly novel hypothesis at: https://molecularcytogenetics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
dingdingdang··on JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
Dear lord.. despite browsing and using github on a daily basis I still miss releases section sometimes! Before I saw your reply I checked the Scoop repos and sure enough, on Windows this will get you latest cjpegli version installed and added to path in one go:

scoop install main/libjxl

Note.. now that I tried it: that is really next level for an old format..!

dingdingdang··on JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
Excellent run-through of jpegli encoder here: https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/jpegli/ - wish I could find a pre-compiled terminal utility for cjpegli!
dingdingdang··on Can we get more decentralised than the Fediverse?
I echo your sentiment about bittorrent and p2p swarm protocols. Seeing the current fediverse emerge has felt almost anachronistic to me - the tech put to use is, at baseline, older and less resilient than the p2p protocols from the late 1990s and early 2000s. There may or may not be milage in the Matrix protocol...
dingdingdang··on Deno in 2023
Tuned I am, happy to hear this is getting attention. Improvements in this domain would also enable Deno to be a more serious contender in the App space opened up via https://github.com/webui-dev/deno-webui and others.
dingdingdang··on Deno in 2023
Would love to see the compile situation fixed - the generated executables are ~90MB+ at this stage and do now allow compression without erroring out. Deploying ala Golang is not feasible at that level but could well be down the line if this dev branch is picked up again!

The exe output grew from from ~50MB to plus ~90MB from 2021 to 2024: https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/9811 which mean Deno is worse than Node.js's pkg solution by a decent margin.

dingdingdang··on Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)
This needs upvoting, could well be that this is a life saver for your typical WP install based on 3 competing CSS frameworks and about half a meg of bunged together styles that was once generated by some forgotten Node.js script that has now vacated the premises. Bookmarked.
dingdingdang··on RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
I for one will not be running this sort of low performance setup when PhpWM would obviously be an order of magnitude faster.

*it really would though

dingdingdang··on Losing my son
Thanks a lot for that write-up. Sent a very heartfelt prayer for your son. Life is hard beyond measure sometimes. Will give my daughter an extra hug when she is done with kindergarten later today; that much is for sure.
dingdingdang··on Best 7B LLM on leaderboards made by an amateur following a medium tutorial
Using Mistral ft optimized 1218 7b q5km - very useful for basic queries/creative input. Often just as useful as ChatGPT and feels far more "real" to have it fully local, don't want to depend fully on one proprietary service for something as fundamentally useful as this!
dingdingdang··on Plan for Windows 10 End of Support
Can vouch for this option. Works reliably but still worth disconnecting internet to make sure local account creation is easily available.
dingdingdang··on Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
Ah, Lonely Island ... been years since anything that good/hilarious came out!
dingdingdang··on Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
Same, ran very (technically speaking) clean MiAB setup for local business and after 2 years we had to drop it due to delivery issues with MS business accounts. Invoices missed, etc. - a royal pain in the arse. Only a full migration to gmail biz domain fixed things fully. Email. Yikes.
dingdingdang··on Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
What could be a exercise in improving and vetting an international brand of "healthy" Scottish farmed salmon instead becomes a class in "how to make people stop eating farmed salmon at all". Pathetic levels of short sightedness.
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