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Svenstaro

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Freelance consultant, Arch Linux developer, hobbyist game and graphics programmer. I really like real time path tracing.
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Svenstaro··on Brood War Bench
I'm trying to play but it says "another match is already active". Can only a single player play on your system at the same time?

EDIT: Nevermind, seems to work now. Watching a local qwen3.8-flash-next play this.

Svenstaro··on Simple Web Server
Thanks for posting miniserve <3
Svenstaro··on Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd
I used to do that but I find the UX of that quite annoying because before you can do: systemctl status and see what's up with all the system services. Now you have to do systemctl status -M <user-for-that-stack> for every stack that you're running to get a complete picture.

I haven't found a way around that and would be very thankful for pointers.

Svenstaro··on Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
This is cool! I once made a project very much like this: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact

Check it out if you like this kind of thing.

Svenstaro··on Git without a forge
We do this in Arch Linux. It requires someone handling the registrations which isn't great either.
Svenstaro··on Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim
Sadly it has no good ollama support: https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim/issues/1149
Svenstaro··on Goose – an open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
I tried to find out what this actually does but apart from a video that is very hard to watch on mobile, there's really nothing there that tries to sell me on this. Why not use the readme to do your elevator pitch?
Svenstaro··on Make your QEMU faster (2022)
Oh cool!
Svenstaro··on Make your QEMU faster (2022)
I've recently deep-dived into QEMU performance especially in order to cut down boot/bootstrapping times for quickly running tests and I'd like to share some tricks:

- Templating: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/v9.1.0/system/vm-templating.h... - virtio-fs: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ - Overlay storage images: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#Overlay_storage_images

Svenstaro··on Make your QEMU faster (2022)
Is there a reason to use 9p over virtiofs in this case? It looks to me as though virtiofs was made exactly with the idea to deal good performance.
Svenstaro··on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
I made a thing called genact that pretends to be useful but actually isn't doing anything at all: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact

There's also a web version! https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/

Svenstaro··on Restic: Backups done right
You could try running rustic on your repository. It should be a drop-in for restic and maybe it's faster? I would actually be very interested in this. Would be great if you could do that and report back.
Svenstaro··on Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH
No. :(
Svenstaro··on Restic – Simple Backups
Since this is HN, we also need to mention [Rustic](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic) which is better since it's in Rust.
Svenstaro··on Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed
We're using GitLab EE in Arch.
Svenstaro··on PAROL6 Desktop Robot Arm
Are you maintaining that list?
Svenstaro··on New LoRa RF distance record
I did this once as a small experiment. Basically use a small TCP stack with LoRa as layer 1 and then expose the whole thing as a Linux kernel module. It was a bit shitty but it seemed promising.

For some reason, I don't find LoRaWan at all alluring. As far as I can tell, in the end it's in the hands of one company and that really defeats the spirit for me. I mostly just use LoRa for point-to-point connections with my own shitty networking stack.

Svenstaro··on New LoRa RF distance record
You're looking LoRaWan which is not the same as LoRa. In fact I believe web browsing to be quite feasible if you just use LoRa with your own network stack.
Svenstaro··on OpenTelemetry in 2023
Haven't used it yet, I'm a bit too scared to put something like this into production anywhere. I might do a small installation with a toy project somewhere, though. Seems easy enough to set up.
Svenstaro··on OpenTelemetry in 2023
I guess you could take a look at this: https://openobserve.ai/

It's in Rust to add some HN catnip.

Svenstaro··on Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
Glad you like it. :)
Svenstaro··on Storing dead people at -196°C [video]
You might like Permutation City by Greg Egan.
Svenstaro··on WebRTC support being added to FFmpeg
389-ds does the latter more or less as far as I can tell.
Svenstaro··on The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023
Sadly their enclosure isn't open source. I asked the support for technical details and apparently they are not allowed to share them. It's a bit weird that their open hardware policy doesn't extend to all their stuff.
Svenstaro··on CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d
I think some interesting developments are made in that sector in the form of https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot and https://github.com/ricosjp/truck. Let's see whether one of those will actually get anywhere near a usable level. Fornjot in particular is shaping up really well.
Svenstaro··on Vramfs – GPU VRAM based file system for Linux
I once posted memefs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17799547

I didn't get picked up very much, though.

Svenstaro··on Wine 8.0
Please make a bug report about how we can improve the package if you have the time. I'll see that it's taken care of, then.
Svenstaro··on Odroid-H3
I'm running the H3+ right now and I can tell you that I'm booting plain UEFI with a plain Arch Linux and no special stuff required at all. The firmware received 2 updates so far in 3 months.
Svenstaro··on Use one big server
I found this approach pretty cool in that regard: https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
Svenstaro··on Off the Grid
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. How do you receive government documents or other things which are often delivered via snail mail?
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