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aaptelon GitHub Publishes IPv6 Addresses for Git SSH remotes

I know it's a typo but guthub is a hilarious name.

aaptelon The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

space farts

aaptelon The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]

This is great! You should make a web version or add it to the wiki.

I started the Hacker's guide on the emacs wiki many years back. I think this doc was much needed.

aaptelon Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

I thought the same but they used chicks that just hatched with zero world experience.

aaptelon Google to pay $68M over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users

So wait, the "phones are listening to us" urban myth turned out to be true? People getting ads about thing they recently talked about was a genuine concern?

I'm dreading the "I told ya so" from relatives.

aaptelon Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://bellard.org/qemacs/

Bellard wrote an emacs-type text editor, with full html rendering support, Unicode, X11 GUI, ... in the early 2000s!

aaptelon Perfetto: Swiss army knife for Linux client tracing

How much overhead does the recording have?

I want to debug custom kernel filesystem issues on a 96 CPUs machine. My benchmark is building the Linux Kernel def config with make -j96. I have tried ftrace before but it's making everything 100x slower...

aaptelon How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)

This whole problem wouldn't exist if we used distributed chat protocols which have been around for over 40 years (IRC). With the added benefit of having an open specification and multiple implementations. No walled gardens.

And if you think IRC is too old for the modern world take a look at matrix or xmpp.

How did we let discord take over is a mystery to me, or rather a tragedy.

aaptelon What We're Working on in Firefox

Vertical tabs are coming back, finally... I still miss this tree tab extension I was using maybe 7 years ago.

aaptelon IDEs we had 30 years ago

Looks pretty similar to C# WinForms that ships with Visual Studio. https://youtu.be/n5WneLo6vOY?si=maped85dMX90KIn1

aaptelon How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time

So much misinformation on the article and in the comments...

1) The academy doesn't make laws, they just make recommendations that anyone is free to follow or ignore.

2) there are laws regarding the amount of french-spoken media being broadcasted but nothing is said about which word is accepted or not you can use as much foreign slang as you want.

3) the academy does not make an official dictionary. There is no official dictionary. There are multiple private entities editing dictionaries. These companies have their own authority on what makes it in the dictionary.

3) the academy suggest new words when none exist in French to avoid using too many English ones. Again it's perfectly fine to ignore them if you don't like them. Some works (eg logiciel for software) some don't (eg courriel for email).

Other french speaking nations have their own academy and that's also fine. There are no academy wars lol.

I'm also surprised at the reactions regarding Quebecers. Most french people are delighted to hear that accent. It's very rare to hear it in France. We are mostly used to accents from north and sub-saharian African regions, or bordering neighbors. When I fist heard it I couldn't help but say I loved their accent. In a genuine, wholesome way... It is sad that it's often taken the wrong way.

aaptelon Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

Yes it seems to be missing the rendering code. game.h defines a generic list of imported function pointers which have no implementation in the repo.

aaptelon Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

No openGL/Vulkan/whatever. Why are the renderers missing?

aaptelon Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

I'd say its unlikely to happen as they are aiming for bug-for-bug compatibility.

aaptelon GNU Coreutils Gotchas

xargs can consume multiple files at once. I'd say less forking/execv, better perf.

aaptelon Emulating the Gamecube audio processing in Dolphin (2012)

Pierre Bourdon is delroth

aaptelon Emacs maintainer steps down

Donate to the FSF! :)

(I mean you don't have to obviously, but I think it's a good remainder for all of us that Emacs wouldn't exist without it. I've just bought a shirt myself!)