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mscrivo

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Software Developer.

Side Project: https://outlookonthedesktop.com

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mscrivo··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
yes but this announcement is presumably about it being ungated for `do-release-upgrade` commands from existing 24.04 LTS installations.
mscrivo··on Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic
split the project into disparate but logical pieces, such that each group (ie. agent) doesn't know what the other is working on, or why. Then put it all together and tada, you have a nuke!
mscrivo··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
This is exactly my experience as well.
mscrivo··on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
WPA3 support for one would be nice, so I don't have to create a separate, insecure, SSID just for it.
mscrivo··on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
To expand on this, CircleCI lets you easily ssh into a run so you can debug it as if you were debugging it on your own machine. I cannot tell you how many times this has saved me countless hours because you don't need to wait for your changes to build and then subsequently fail repeatedly, drastically shortening the iteration cycle.
mscrivo··on A brief history of code signing at Mozilla
I've actually got an action for this (based on fork, so can't take full credit): https://github.com/mscrivo/signtool-code-sign

you can see a usage example here: https://github.com/mscrivo/OotD/blob/main/.github/workflows/...

mscrivo··on Intel-undervolt: CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool for Linux
I was directly replying to the parent's question of whether there were any uses of SGX that were not anti-consumer. Signal's use of it, is very much in line with my thinking of what constitutes pro-consumer.

I agree though, we're all getting slightly off topic

mscrivo··on Intel-undervolt: CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool for Linux
Here's one: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
mscrivo··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
not sure "non-apple watches" is accurate here. I can do all of those things with my Pixel watch

edit: as comment below points out, I was missing the obvious context of paired with an iPhone.

mscrivo··on PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
Application level connection pools are not enough if you're using something like k8s and have your "application" running across hundreds of pods, each with their own application level connection pool. pgBouncer helps tremendously in that situation because all those pods will use a single pool. We cut down avg open connections dramatically by doing that from over 1000 to less than 400.
mscrivo··on Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?
Italy's obesity rate is not 42%. That's the rate for 2 year olds, which is bad in and if itself. The obesity rate overall is about 10% though, which is amongst the lowest in oecd counties.
mscrivo··on Zeroing in on Decarbonization
Ontario, Canada is even further ahead, having eliminated coal completed by 2014. They botched much of it, with setting up bad contracts, which led to a lot of wasted taxpayer dollars. Even still, it shows it's possible and the outcome was fantastic. Complete elimination of smog days and far lower incidence of asthma cases.
mscrivo··on New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
Why are they still using Killer WiFi NIC's on these things. They are absolutely terrible. We have a bunch of XPS 13 and 15's at our office (9360's up to 9570's) and every single one of them has random connectivity problems on our office WiFi and people's home networks.

We've had to replace all of them with Intel 9260's and the problems instantly disappear. I don't know how this is not a customer support nightmare for them, and why they continue using them given the relatively low cost of the Intel cards.

mscrivo··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
This is not much of an issue with newer versions of Android. see Tim Sweeney's tweet about the situation: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/102553539172465049...
mscrivo··on Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes
They put "suggestions" for 3rd party apps right in the start menu. There's no way they're intelligently suggesting those apps either because they pop up almost immediately after a fresh install, and are often about games.
mscrivo··on Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories
Not sure that's quite right either. I have no recollection of any events before the age of 10 or so.
mscrivo··on Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic
Magisk (Android root utility) has the ability to hide itself very well. Google Pay and most, if not all, banking apps are not able to detect it. It is a cat and mouse game for sure, but so far the Magisk developers are keeping ahead of that curve.
mscrivo··on How to sell a $300 chocolate bar
So disappointed Videri doesn't ship to Canada, it looks very good.
mscrivo··on Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack
Why not just keep it connected to your headphones/earbuds wire all the time? Clunky, I admit, but at least you won't lose it.
mscrivo··on AVX-512, what’s useful for us
AVX code is known to make the CPU run way hotter than usual. Perhaps that caused throttling that made general code running at the same time, or within a short span thereafter, perform worse?
mscrivo··on Docker for Windows 17.11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Windows 10 or Server 2016 1709 or higher.
mscrivo··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
That's still not clear. It doesn't say they will start charging for original quality shots taken before 2020. To me it just seems like if you want to keep storing original quality shots taken AFTER 2020, then you will have to pay for that going forward.
mscrivo··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
That's insidious if that's the case. I (and probably) many others took it to mean that photos taken through that date would enjoy unlimited storage permanently, not that they would start charging after that date. Would be nice if we could get some clarification.
mscrivo··on Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time
There are transistor densities for each of the manufacturer's processes here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11850/intel-displays-10nm-waf...
mscrivo··on Why I am not a fan of Apache Kafka
FWIW, I've used your client and it's quite good. Thank you!
mscrivo··on Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
I guess, but I prefer the wireless charging of the Nexus 5 to the USB-C connector of the 5x. Of course it would be nice to have both. Hopefully this year's versions bring back the wireless charging.
mscrivo··on Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
The only thing I'd add here is that unfortunately the Nexus 5x is not an upgrade over the 5 in terms of performance. It might even be a downgrade (I own both). Because the 5x uses a 64-bit arch, it uses more RAM than the 5x (and both only have 2GB). Also, the SD808 (2GHz) cores in the 5x are hardly a step up from the SD800 (2.2GHz) cores. The only real upgrade the 5x gives you is the camera.
mscrivo··on Intel's Kaby Lake CPU: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
You forgot HEVC 10-bit hardware decode, VP9 10-bit hardware decode
mscrivo··on The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain
Even their SUVs are fun to drive. Haven't yet tired of our cx-5 after 3 years of owning it.
mscrivo··on F# Not just for finance
We have an almost identical setup to yours. How do you manage the long build chains in team city with the number of nuget packages you have? It's something we are grappling with and are considering moving everything back into a single repo with no nuget packages as a result.
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