Simran-B

Remote attestation?

… and let's not forget about Iran's Lego videos!

Motivation: […] After spending several hackathons making things like "Uber for dogs with hearing loss"…

A perfectly normal thing to do.

I suppose it's not about patents or copyright but rather the fear that a re-submitted patch can't be trusted because the original patch is considered not trustworthy, or that the resubmission is carried out by the sanction person itself or a friend under an email address that doesn't fall under the sanctions. Either way, it could be seen as a liability.

Certainly the most fun website about a security vulnerability

In what general direction would the innovation be?

I'm not sure if it's actually needed - a lot of things have been tried and the paradigms that persisted you can choose between but it seems to be a matter of taste. I often feel that the real issue is the lack of maturity and stability. I rather want a complete UI toolkit including learning resources (not reference docs!), no matter how boring, instead of super clever implementation that is never in a usable state.

Wondering if it's just the marketing that Noctua did, and the actual mold and process engineering left to some fab in China?

Isn't it a dumbed down version of Azure Pipelines?

A fork of OnlyOffice with some big names behind it who want to make it easier to build and contribute to, great. Yet LibreOffice seems to remain the only FOSS office solution with native apps (although they aren't particularly good).

My dog doesn't react to familiar voices over the phone at all. The compression and reproduction of audio, while fine for humans, definitely doesn't work for her animal ears.

No image in the readme, bummer.

Classic - brand new blog post:

We’re hiring engineers.

Careers page:

Sorry, no job openings at the moment.

Zig has the concept of illegal behavior, of which a subset is unchecked illegal behavior - basically undefined behavior, but if evaluated at comptime, it results in a compile error. The documentation also states that most illegal behavior is safety-checked unless you use the ReleaseFast or ReleaseSmall optimization modes (and don't enable safety checks for individual blocks).

Generics though

I'm sensing a pinch of sarcasm

How does Zig's compilation and codegen compare to TPDE? The claim is that it's 10-20x faster than LLVM with -O0 but with limitations.

Maybe a good use case for AI to help with a quick transition?

I liked Zulip a lot until that Flutter rewrite. Maybe it's more accessible now but the new look is not for me. I believe the app navigation is largely unchanged, and still doesn't quite feel right. I love the topic-based model nonetheless.

I'm pretty sure they want to lose all of the non-lucrative customers.

Funny you would mention GitLab - I find it extremely clunky, especially compared to GitHub. Maybe GitHub is primitive in comparison, but it never makes me hunt for basic functionality and the search just works for about everything.

Did they drop support for the YouTube app on very old TVs or ban a bunch of those cheap Android TV boxes with a lot of spyware on them by any chance?

My first thought when I read AI search was that people might use it for instructions rather than tutorials and troubleshooting videos.

Everyone keeps bringing up the YAML Norway bug but it has been addressed by the YAML 1.2.0 spec in 2009 (!). Blame the implementors that stuck to the 1.1 spec

Archived blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20240719152109/https://www.prime...

Thanks a lot, this was quite enlightening, like what "buffering in the interface" really means. A follow-up post would nice!

I'm also curious what preserve in rebase is used for in practice. Prevent drain from writing buffered bytes too eagerly? But if it can write more data in a single syscall, what benefits does it give you? If the end of the buffer could still change, then you wouldn't want to write it yet, but then drain would need a similar parameter to not touch the bytes at the end (and therefore write none of the data). But the bytes in the buffer would still move towards the front, so this makes no sense.

Then captions that are somewhat believable? "Abstract digital art piece by F. U. Botts resembling wide landscapes in vibrant colors"

Flatpak considers to move from OSTree to containers, citing the well-maintained tooling as a major plus point. How would that differ from Apptainers?

I doubt it can get anywhere near. What is even the point of a new PNG version if there's something as advanced as JXL that is also royalty-free?

Another entertaining piece by the Lego Island guy!

My takeaway is that you should choose a passion project as your hobby and put in the time to learn and do whatever is necessary to achieve your goal on your own or together with similarly motivated people rather than relying on anyone external you have to pay - things go downhill fairly often and quickly it seems. Is any business a scam to some degree nowadays?

I would argue that it's not meaningful to do so for larger files with comptime as there doesn't seem to be a need for parsing JSON like the target platform would (comptime emulates it) - I expect it to be independent. You're also not supposed to do I/O using comptime, and @embedFile kind of falls under that. I suppose it would be better to write a build.zig for this particularly use case, which I think would then also be able to run fast native code?