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donio··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
I have a solution for this problem: just delete the fucking account anyway.
donio··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
In 2026 instead of "Here's some stuff we wrote that you won't read." it's "Here's some slop we couldn't be bothered to write but why don't you read it."
donio··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
I gave it a quick go and very few things work at the moment. None of the programs you listed do.

From the README:

  At the moment it can render simple applications that do GLX, EGL or Vulkan graphics (fully hardware accelerated) nested in an existing X server.
And that sounds about right. As far as I can tell it doesn't yet have a lot of the core X11 stuff that "normal" clients expect. For example xterm doesn't start because requests like X_AllocColor, X_OpenFont, X_PutImage (a few picked at random from the error output) are not implemented yet.

glxgears on the other hand does work :)

donio··on I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
It's the opposite for me for one reason: hashtag follows!

There are very few people I want to follow for everything they have to say. I am interested in subjects, topics. Mastodon's hashtag follow feature gives me this. It's not perfect, you need to be on a relatively large instance to take full advantage of it (since it only picks up toots that make it to the instance) but it's still much, much better than no hashtag follow at all.

donio··on Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client
The extensive IRCv3 support for one thing. chathistory support in particular is a big one for me since we rely on it on my personal server.

If you scroll down to the Features section on the linked page that gives a good overview.

donio··on Self-hosting email like it's 1984
Not even that, Postfix didn't exist in 1994. This is a 2025 mail server setup and about as vanilla as it gets.
donio··on Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
Easy to see for yourself using the throttling option in the developer tools of popular browsers.
donio··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
Datahand user, for me switching back and forth between the DH and a regular keyboard (a Thinkpad for the most part) is not a problem at all. It doesn't even feel particularly annoying, I think it's because it almost feels like a different input device category. Kind of like playing the same game on the Steamdeck with controller input and then later on the desktop with keyboard and mouse. I might prefer one but I am fine with the other too.

BTW, I've played about 15K matches of my favorite MOBA on the Datahand, works surprisingly well for that, I imagine the Svalboard would too.

donio··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
I am a longtime (25+ years) Datahand user. I have converted my units to a USB capable controller long ago and I have some extra ones as spares/parts but it might be difficult to get another 25 years out of them.

Haven't tried the Svalboard yet but it's the only obvious way forward that I know of so happy to see any new information about it. I'd be especially interested in the opinion of other Datahand users regarding the Svalboard, specifically the hardware, the switches and overall feel.

donio··on New Aarch64 Back End
> Is that building Go with Go? Or actual bootstrapping?

Normally it's just Go with Go. Besides the Go compiler you need bash if you want to use the normal bootstrap script but not much else. You can build your way up from C by building an old enough version of Go that was still C based but that's not usually done these days.

> Executed in 11.67 secs

Nice!

donio··on New Aarch64 Back End
The Go toolchain is a nice illustration of this approach working in practice. It fully bootstraps in 90 seconds on my aging laptop and since it's fully self-hosted it doesn't even need a C compiler unless you want cgo support.

LLVM takes 2 hours to build on the same host and zig (with the LLVM backend) is another 20 minutes. It will be awesome if that can be brought down to 2 minutes or less.

donio··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
> Gentoo linux is essentially made specifically for people like this, to be able to optimize one’s own linux rig for one’s specific usecase.

That's true but worth noting that "optimize" here doesn't necessarily refer to performance.

I've been using Gentoo for 20 years and performance was never the reason. Gentoo is great if you know how you want things to work. Gentoo helps you get there.

donio··on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS

  curl -s https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/example.com|jq -r '.events[] | select(.eventAction == "expiration") | .eventDate'
And https://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json to find the endpoints for TLDs.
donio··on Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server
Haven't used Mox yet but Chasquid is great if you want something that's focused on being a streamlined modern MTA rather than "all-in-one". So kind of the opposite of the Mox approach.

I like Chasquid for its straightforward codebase and the hook system that you can use to customize it further.

donio··on Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
Do the two sides communicate with each other or do they act as independent devices?
donio··on Recurring checklists using Org Mode in Emacs
There is also M-x org-reset-checkbox-state-subtree

Another list/checkbox related package I use is org-autolist, it saves a lot of typing when adding many list items or checkboxes at once. There is currently an issue that keeps it working quite right with current Org versions and a PR with a fix.

https://github.com/calvinwyoung/org-autolist

https://github.com/calvinwyoung/org-autolist/pull/26

donio··on Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/block-autoplay has some more additional information in particular about the media.autoplay.blocking_policy pref which allows restoring the older behavior of the play intent not being sticky.
donio··on The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter
https://virtualtabletop.io/ is another option for this, web based. It's sort of like a 2D Tabletop Simulator.

Source: https://github.com/ArnoldSmith86/virtualtabletop

donio··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
I've never seen any distributions enable ForwardX11Trusted by default. Do you have any examples? It seems very unlikely to me that a distribution would do this for a relatively niche use case.
donio··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
They can only do those things if the X11 security extension restrictions are disabled with ForwardX11Trusted=yes or by using -Y rather than -X. This has been the case for the past 20 years.
donio··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
The extension situation is already much worse in Wayland than in X11. In my X11 server there are about 25 extensions and only a handful are required for modern desktop functionality. Wayland already has well over a hundred extensions (protocols) and dozens of them have to be implemented by each compositor just to get basic stuff working.

https://wayland.app/protocols/

donio··on All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly
You are right, I made the classic mistake of doing the percentage backwards. Once properly formatted I am counting 16 lines and it goes up to 25 so it's a 56% increase.
donio··on All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly
For Lisp users this is 35% extra vertical space for zero readability benefit. Or negative readability rather. When I see this formatting style I have to fix it before I can read it. It's like trying to read C code with an extra blank line after every single closing brace.
donio··on F-Droid Fake Signer PoC
Not the parent and I will continue to use F-Droid but Obtanium is a popular alternative. It allows you to install apks directly from various supported sources (forges, F-Droid repos etc) so you typically use the apk that the app maintainer has produced in their CI pipeline rather than F-Droid's reproducible builds.
donio··on Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
Maybe but by that argument 99% of the affected Pentium users could have happily used their computers until they became obsolete. The bug went completely unnoticed for over a year with millions of units in use.

The media coverage and the fact that "computer can't divide" is something that the public could wrap their heads around is what made the recall unavoidable.

Intel's own marketing hype around the Pentium has played into it too. It would have been a smaller deal during the 486 era.

donio··on Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
The Kindle and AirPod cases are not really comparable since those are relatively minor products for the respective companies.

On the Apple side the iPhone 4 antennagate is a better comparison since the equivalent fix there would have involved free replacements for a flagship and revenue-critical product which Apple did not offer.

Intel on the other hand did eventually offer free replacements for anybody who asked and took a major financial hit.

donio··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
Nobody is on a single messaging platform these days they also use other stuff of course. They look at it as a simple way to reach this group of people.
donio··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
https://codeberg.org/emersion/gamja is probably what you want, the repo above seems like a local branch and it's a few months behind.
donio··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
This explains the notification options with Goguma, the mobile client we use: https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma/src/branch/master/doc/n...

I didn't bother setting up proper push notification so we use the "Servers supporting chathistory" mode. This means that when the app is not in the foreground a workmanager task polls every few minutes. So in this mode notifications can be delayed by a few minutes which is fine for our use case.

donio··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
> Didn't know there was such a thing as "always-on" on IRC tho.

It's a server feature and might be unique to Ergo. It's a per-user setting (with a global default) and when it's on the user always appears to be online so you can type at them any time like you would with other DM systems. The v3 chathistory support ensures that they don't miss messages. For clients that don't support chathistory the server can replay any unseen messages.

It's a lot like what bouncers provide but integrated and very easy to enable for everybody so no extra steps required for my users.

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