netule

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LLAP, baby.

netuleon Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

I still keep Chrome installed for some sites that are just excruciatingly slow on FF like FoundryVTT and some video sites.

netuleon Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After 30 Years

The only reason I still have a Windows partition at all is for games that I can’t run on Linux yet like Valorant. Nearly everything else runs perfectly on Ubuntu thanks to Proton.

This, and the occasional firmware flash utility that only has a Windows or MacOS build.

netuleon Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down Hollywood

This is great, thanks!

netuleon Why use Pascal?

Turbo Pascal and later Delphi were the first time when a programming language really spoke to me. Eventually, I went the C and C++ route, but I’ve always had a desire to return to more expressive languages.

I had no idea that there was still a modern Pascal implementation, so I may just have to get reacquainted with my first love.

netuleon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://luten.dev/

I've recently compiled all of my blog posts from the various blogs I've owned since 2006. It really is a personal blog since I don't stick to a particular topic, but most of it is tech related.

netuleon Against Alcohol (2022)

> Asphyxiation is very unpleasant.

Nitpicking, but tell that to the asphyxiophilia crowd.

netuleon Louisiana porn ID: how Act 440 is wrecking perfectly normal adult sex lives

Yeah, I'm not really sure why my submission was flagged. This is related to internet freedom and laws surrounding that. Maybe it's a taboo subject?

netuleon Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?

Thank you, I've starred the repo!

netuleon Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video]

It's strange, but you must be able to identify yourself if you're over the age of 14 [1] in The Netherlands. Having lived in the US for 20 years now, this also seems a bit draconian to me, but I didn't think much of it while growing up over there.

[1]: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/paspoort-en-identit...

netuleon Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?

Let me know if you want a beta reader with no exposure to sed. I’ve always wanted to learn the tool, but never got around to it.

netuleon Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?

Working on some ideas for a visual novel and the companion technology to easily create branching narrative structures.

netuleon Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

I missed this story earlier today. I appreciate it popping up even if it is a dupe.

Guess I'll have to transfer a bunch of domains now.

netuleon Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

Yup, and installing Firefox via apt installs a snap as well. I manually had to add a separate apt repo for Firefox alone. I seem to have to do this more and more for things that just can't be slow on my machine.

netuleon Leaked source – CS:GO

Valve has been relatively permissive regarding open-sourcing and liberally licensing some of its properties under the right conditions. See its push for SteamOS and allowing Black Mesa to be sold for profit. However, it might have been a good idea to contact them about this before hosting modified stolen property, even if it was with good intentions. I've got a feeling that this repo won't last too long.

netuleon Neverflow: C macros that guard against buffer overflows

I wonder if Linus it taking the time to teach himself Rust.

netuleon I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to

Unrelated to the article, but it looks like the Twitter embed at the bottom of the article breaks the back button by adding another entry to the browser history.

netuleon Zig is hard but worth it

Zig's in the process of getting added to the mainline Debian repositories: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995670

Hopefully, this process will continue soon as the bug seems to be getting a bit stale.

netuleon Mojo Dojo: Unofficial Learning Resource for Mojo

I was intrigued by this new language, but couldn't find any information on if this - once released - compiles down to a binary and if it would have an embedded runtime. It's worth perusing the "Team Answers" section and checking out the "Compilation" header.

netuleon We Need To Talk About Vercel

I hope this doesn't come off as snarky, but after researching Vercel and its competitors I decided that the iffiness around billing for these services wasn't worth it. I would mostly use it as Infrastructure as a Service anyway. It took me about a night to learn the ins and outs of AWS CloudFormation. Now I know exactly what my stack looks like and I can more easily estimate my end-of-month costs -- plus I can stay in the free tier wherever possible.

netuleon Floppydisk.com – Recycle 3.5“ Floppy Disks

AFAIK, there is no new production. Everything listed as "new" is New Old Stock, which is what I get.

netuleon Floppydisk.com – Recycle 3.5“ Floppy Disks

I get mine off eBay with varying success rates. It really is hit or miss. I suggest sticking with the ones that have a metal slide on them rather than the later, cheaper, plastic slides which tend to disintegrate over time.

netuleon Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein

I'm sure there are plenty of other Italian artists named Michelangelo, but you know who I'm referring to by just using his first name.

netuleon Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA

If you use the old/classic Reddit experience and you can't find the option to enable 2FA in your profile, use this URL directly instead: https://www.reddit.com/2fa/enable/

netuleon How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

A bit off-topic, but thanks for linking that breakdown. I would never have thought that a chess website would cost $400k/y to operate.

netuleon GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve used

This is different, though named after the original chatbot.

netuleon The X500 Plus computer case (2013)

Nice, but the keyboard doesn't look quite right.

Personally, I would love to have my PC housed in an IBM 5150-style case with a big red power switch.

netuleon Rust 1.65.0

You can skip over the paragraph and get to the meat of it. If you don't like it, don't read it.

netuleon Firefox 106

> It is now possible to edit PDFs: including writing text, drawing, and adding signatures.

That's a fantastic feature. No more Adobe Acrobat for me!

netuleon Bash one-liner to produce a list of HEX color codes that read like English words

Reminds me of debugging pointer values in C with 0xDEADBEEF.

netuleon Select * from cloud

It's also the simplest use case of INSERT imaginable and fails to be applicable with a slightly more complex one:

  INSERT INTO table1 (col_1, col_2, col3)
  SELECT COUNT(col_6), col_4, col_5 FROM table2 INNER JOIN...