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ac130kz··on Hyprland is now independent, dropping wlroots
I've given hyprland two tries. The first time it was exceptionally laggy and crashed all the time. The second time (earlier this year) hyprland was performing better, but it still had enormous CPU power draw, lagged with disabled animations, for whatever reason had terrible font anti-aliasing (with the same font-config settings as sway). Maybe a full rewrite to this new stack will help, but I doubt it.
ac130kz··on Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
Seems to be a middleground between doing certs on a small scale with cronjobs and a fully fledged automated Kubernetes cluster.
ac130kz··on Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
Garbage collection pauses might have something to do with that.
ac130kz··on Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
From the first glance it doesn't look convincingly better than a generic and manually polished nginx configuration. Are there any other benefits to Caddy?
ac130kz··on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
There is a limited number of cases, where unencrypted http is still applicable, e.g. verifiable packages. In general though, it feels wrong even to think about putting such a glaring useless hole.
ac130kz··on We need 70% less coders as the AI handles most of the coding
GPT 4 Turbo can't even write good automations most of the time, these companies absolutely don't care about the quality of their product.
ac130kz··on Israel seizes Associated Press equipment, shuts down Gaza video feed
Go look at their official publications and live streams, it couldn't be easier than that.
ac130kz··on Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
Those were too naive to believe some tectonic changes are possible in a dictatorship, where the overwhelming majority at least passively supports the regime. Meanwhile, the "Zelensky was evacuated by Polish forces" is a narrative that was pushed by the Kremlin during the initial months.

A ceasefire is feasible, but given that both sides have unsatisfied medium sized goals in mind, I don't think that it will hold for long.

ac130kz··on Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
That's what you want, not what is going to happen. I've seen an uncountable number of similar "predictions" in 2022. Where are those trolls now?
ac130kz··on Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
The entire congress itself has been holding back budget actions, including aid to Ukraine this year. The lend lease act has started May 2022, when it was too late to punch back hard. It ended in Q3 2023 without bringing tanks, pcs on time in 2022.
ac130kz··on Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
I don't see them as right wing really, they act the exact opposite of what they should do. There are no rapid actions performed, every bit is very slow and delayed.
ac130kz··on Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
You know that these KAB bombs are launched from airplanes that are directly countered by these exact propositions, right?
ac130kz··on Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
Lefties proactively (sometimes even get paid with Moscow's bloody money directly or serve as "useful idiots") oppose help to Ukraine.
ac130kz··on BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
Too expensive for a low refresh IPS, which is not covering full 100% DCI-P3.
ac130kz··on The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
>$500

>Terrible in-house vendor locked Tensor CPU

>8GB RAM + 128GB combo in the EU

>Huge bezels

>8W wireless charging, are they for real

>Same camera setup on an "AI-powered Amazing Camera"

I don't know how to describe it, mediocre, I guess? Don't get me wrong, they surely did polish the phone, but apart from its out-of-the-box tuned camera, it has no value beyond actually mid-range phones in $300-400 range with a tuned GCam loaded on them.

ac130kz··on Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut down channel
Finally, there won't be direct propaganda. Freedom should be available to those, who value it, not those who actively promote terrorism and cover it up with lies.
ac130kz··on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
Windows 11 was a medium update (XP SP3 like) package to Windows 10, which mostly includes quality of life improvements without breaking everything else. There was no "complete overhaul" jump as it was with 7->8 or 8->10.
ac130kz··on 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server
There's XWayland rootfull mode, it will probably work just fine.
ac130kz··on 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server
One can run an XWayland container transparently. Broadcasting keypresses is forbidden due to security reasons, nobody forbids patching it in as an extension. Setting keyboard layout dynamically is as easy as calling swaymsg with the required parameters, if a particular window is required instead, there's a protocol for that in hyprland. It all depends whether a particular window manager does it or not. Finally, I get that accessibility isn't best with Wayland, but it was not ideal with X11 either.
ac130kz··on 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server
The better question is why keep using X11, if XWayland works just fine.
ac130kz··on Banned in the U.S.: Healthy Light Bulbs
Research suggests that the color/temperature of light doesn't cause sleep issues, rather its brightness.
ac130kz··on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
I've seen evidence of Hetzner banning people for no reasons, they also seem shady about their hardware access, not a good sign. It also seems about as expensive as running just Google Drive for my purposes (at least 2 TB with plans to expand further).

PS using E2E encryption on their Storage Box solution seems to be a decent alternative though.

ac130kz··on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
Which makes me wonder, it seems creating your own paid backup storage provider is still viable in 2024.
ac130kz··on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
I wasn't able to run Nextcloud without Docker (to save compute power on a tiny VPS), there were so many setup issues that I've run into, and the docs were terrible (undocumented folder permissions, no proper nginx configs). As an alternative, I use Google Drive through rclone drive mount (there was also their own drive mounter, which is dead now, I think), works fine, but it's not fast, and kinda pricy for my 1.5TB.
ac130kz··on AI Has Made Google Search So Bad People Are Moving to TikTok and Reddit
Yet it wasn't that bad, all they had to do is use machine learning for obvious clones and malware detection.
ac130kz··on Ask HN: What tool(s) do you use to code review and deploy SQL scripts?
Alembic or Django native migrations for typical Postgres migrations, I prefer the first to second, because I can configure so much more. As for Clickhouse, it's been a wild manual migration ride, we are questioning ourselves whether to use Flyway, because being a tiny startup we don't have enough time to port the entire thing.
ac130kz··on The rise and impending fall of the dental cavity
Manual cleaning is still required for it to apply properly, same with usual toothpaste.
ac130kz··on A primer on x86 by Casey Muratori and The Primeagen [video]
I've read the article itself, and have to disagree with the author on speculative vulnerabilities, ARM chips got a ton of them too.
ac130kz··on YouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about it
In a week they are going to change the design two times, this A/B testing on their side in the last 3 months has been crazy.
ac130kz··on Trying Out Rye
I've replaced every bit of poetry and pdm with uv, which is clean, really fast and uses pyproject.toml and requirements.txt files. I don't get why one would want to use rye.
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