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hxorr··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
With Tauri you have to support multiple web engines. It uses webkitgtk on linux - which has its own set of issues, including being somewhat behind chromium/firefox in terms of stability/security/performance/features...
hxorr··on A thousand fewer paths to root
You are confusing mean and median
hxorr··on Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64
Great read, thanks!

Pardon my ignorance but one thing I'm curious about, if the decoder fills almost the entire 4k RSP instruction memory (IMEM) - wouldn't that be something games need for graphics? If so, then is this still usable for say a game?

hxorr··on Infinite Mac: BeOS
Gee, maybe Linux devs could learn something from them...
hxorr··on NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto
Same here...

My favourite editor is mcedit, which you get by installing mc (midnight commander)

Like nano but (IMO) easier to use with a lot more features

hxorr··on Major Memory Vendor: We're Basically Sold Out Through 2029
Well, DDR3 is (still) cheap...
hxorr··on BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox
Try MiDesktop (modern port of KDE 1.x/QT 2.x) - had the same experience, everything is LIGHTNING fast, going back to standard xfce/plasma/whatever feels glacial
hxorr··on Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
> They actively remove features and technically break standards to reduce surface.

Curious - what standards do they break, and why, in order to reduce attack surface?

hxorr··on Paternal metformin use associated with major birth defects (2022)
From my reading of various research etc, metformin has some marginal beneficial effect to blood sugar levels, but it is not clear cut as perhaps you might think. In comparison, what IS undeniably effective is making simple lifestyle changes like going for a walk after a meal, not eating right before bedtime, doing some simple resistance training etc. These have much more measurable effects than metformin, with none of the potential downsides.
hxorr··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
I believe one of Graphene OS's main features is that they allow you to run google play services in a sandboxed environment, so you can run your standard google apps but without the standard android deal where google play services has unfetteted access to all your phone's location/data/etc info
hxorr··on Just How Much Should You Worry About Eating That Burnt Toast?
The much greater risk is burnt meat like chargrilled chicken etc. Yes sure, burnt toast is carcinogenic, but relatively speaking it's not going to cause much harm.
hxorr··on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
What ddr5 speed are you running? 6000 is technically an over clock, AMD only guarantees being able to run at something like 4800 or 5200.

You may need to bump up voltages slightly for your CPU's IMC (I needed to on my ryzen 8700F to run 6000 stable). Its CPU sample dependant.

Also as other commenter pointed out, typically 4 sticks will achieve lower stable clocks

hxorr··on Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?
Some people simply have better hearing than others.

Also, you can train yourself for what to listen for, to a point.

hxorr··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
ReactOS also deserves an honorary mention. A lot of knowledge from that project feeds into Wine.
hxorr··on OpenBSD.Amsterdam
I heard BSD is dying?
hxorr··on Windows native app development is a mess
Qt is arguably the best cross platform toolkit to target when writing big/complex apps
hxorr··on Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights
This sounds like a USA problem..
hxorr··on Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
You're absolutely right.
hxorr··on GIMP 3.2 released
When opening a jpg, it literally says "importing pic.jpg" when opening a jpg
hxorr··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
What about microplastics?
hxorr··on FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
Not until Netcraft confirms.
hxorr··on The Cost of 'Lightweight' Frameworks: From Tauri to Native Rust
Unfortunately it's the only viable (if only somewhat) non-blink web engine that is designed to be easily embedded in other software.

I don't know why, but architecturally Mozilla has gone down the route of making gecko tied to Firefox, and not easily embeddable.

hxorr··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
But is it illegal to own a car that someone else parked in the wrong pkace?
hxorr··on Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
This is compounded by modern lifestyle factors such as staying indoors more, keeping the windows closed to help the aircon/heating be more efficient, etc.

I think a lot of people would be surprised at the CO2 level in different indoor environments they spend time in each day.

hxorr··on Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
It's not just an assumption, there is research that shows this.

For example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-co2-levels-ris...

More specifically, yes, protein content decreases with rising CO2 levels. Maybe not enough to cause obesity on its own, but enough to be a compounding factor. Especially when your staple is, say, rice -- which is what the paper linked above looks at.

hxorr··on Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features
I think for Firefox to be successful in breaking free from google funding is to make gecko easily embeddable in other apps, ala WebKit / electron / etc. I think it would get more funding from a wider variety of independent parties that way. Unfortunately they seem to have gone in the opposite direction... Although I am sure they have their reasons.
hxorr··on Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
You could run in a VM - check out WinBoat which allows individual apos in a containerised Windows install to integrate seamlessly with your linux desktop environment
hxorr··on Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
Yes, and not all Asians are chinese
hxorr··on Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3
I remember a 1D roguelike someone made for a 24h competition, was surprisingly fun
hxorr··on Xfce is great
Are there any themes that allow changing window border size, title bar size, scrollbar width etc, like win 9x?
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