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chlorion··on Goodbye Google
For me? When I see it. And not a moment sooner.

There are trillions of dollars at stake here, do you think getting 1000 people on board is that difficult with this level of money? lol

chlorion··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
No, with TRAMP its a one way thing. The remote side can't wander around the local side at all, at least from my understanding of TRAMP. So it's no the same at all.
chlorion··on How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
Yeah but we are talking about the IPhone not the mac mini!

>Single core performance still worse than an iPhone.

I can believe the core with active cooling can sustain good performance at least, but not in the IPhone.

chlorion··on How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
The IPhone runs on a battery, with no active cooling.

There is no chance the sustained single core perf is better than a 150=200+w ryzen with a big noctua cooler on it. The power draw alone would kill the battery in a few minutes(?), and the heat would make it catch fire. lol

chlorion··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Then explain how equal parameter size models can grow in capability every few months or year?
chlorion··on Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
I'd like to know why I can't use arenas in rust? Especially considering that I have used them before in rust.
chlorion··on Protobuf has LSP support
Maybe if you have an extremely slow computer?

Even my little chromebook can provide completions and errors effectively instantly to me, even in medium sized rust projects.

Or are you saying (probably maximum) ~20ms delay is blocking your ability to code?

chlorion··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
Huh I have had great luck with unsloth quants so far. What issues are you having?
chlorion··on Delta
Emacs then? :)
chlorion··on Rust SIMD on the GPU
GPUs work on vectors and matrices very often, that's what they are good at, so it makes a lot of sense that they can operate with SIMD I think!
chlorion··on SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
Its baffling to me that people think the brain is somehow "outside" of the universe and somehow "magic" and not tied down by physics just like any other matter is. I don't understand how people come to this conclusion, except in the case of belief in magic or religion (which is belief in magic more or less).
chlorion··on How to Block Some of the Bots
My cgit instance gets hammered so hard that my CPU use is raised to 100% and the entire server grinds to a halt. I have to set a cgroups CPUQuota limit with systemd to make the server usable again.

Also, they hit so hard that nginx returns 502s and times out for real user half of the time, and when the site does load it takes a few seconds to load.

This is all on a high performance single core vultr server, not the cheapest vps but not the fastest, but should be plenty fast enough.

chlorion··on Systemd Linger
Having user processes killed upon log out seems pretty reasonable to me, and its a configurable option if you don't like it. I don't get the fuss here.

I think it's just popular to dislike systemd, some sort of echo chamber effect or something.

chlorion··on I regret migrating to Codeberg
A little bit offtopic, but I spend 12 USD a month for a 1 high performance core, 2GB ram, 50GB NVME SSD VPS, and slap nginx and cgit config on there, and host my own git repos.

I realize this doesn't work for everyone, and not everyone has the money to spare, but it's really nice to be able to host your own stuff on your own website, and not be tied down to a forge like github or codeberg.

Bonus points if you have the hardware and network capacity to host this at home!

chlorion··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
That's fair, I did not consider that.
chlorion··on Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C
Apparently I'm not. Directly from andrewk himself:

    If you want to comment in this thread, please either have your open source zig project(s) visible on your codeberg profile, or be Fil Pizło, otherwise zig issue tracker is not interested in what you have to say
This itself is hostility towards anyone who isn't a zig expert pretty much.
chlorion··on Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C
directly from the thread:

    If you want to comment in this thread, please either have your open source zig project(s) visible on your codeberg profile, or be Fil Pizło, otherwise zig issue tracker is not interested in what you have to say
Sadly I didn't get a chance to screenshot anything, but he's definitely not just deleting the toxic comments.
chlorion··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
How does that make sense? SDL is extremely portable?
chlorion··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
You can make an entire 3d game using SDL3 as well, without opengl or vulkan, using the new GPU API!
chlorion··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
SDL3 also includes a "GPU API", that allows low level programming of the GPU, similar to vulkan, though not quite as low level.
chlorion··on Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C
Fwiw andrewk seems to be deleting comments that criticize this approach. Not a good look on his part.
chlorion··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Just people like the linux kernel, all major browsers, most of our popular webservers, etc and basically all non-trivial software projects written in C.

The good news here is that we have more than just anecdotes to support this, we have empirical evidence.

chlorion··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
This isn't accurate at all.

The reason people don't get malware on Linux is because they install software through the package manager, via trusted and reviewed repos. And drivers are all built-in to the operating system, not third party (with some exceptions, like nvidia).

On most Linux setups you aren't just downloading random junk from the internet and running it. Also the operating system won't install things automatically for you generally either. Even system updates are optional if you don't want them, and you won't be nagged for it.

Basically it comes down to a difference in culture.

chlorion··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
The doctors will prescribe methadone or suboxone instead most likely, both of which are *massively* more powerful and addictive than kratom.
chlorion··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
I have never used kratom, and I don't plan on it. But automatically assuming anyone who isn't hellbent against it is just a junkie "defending their addiction" is pretty close minded lol.
chlorion··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
At least podman does if running rootless, I assume docker supports rootless operation as well.

Not sure about running rootful though. I don't really use rootful containers personally.

chlorion··on How we can reduce traffic congestion
Yeah I definitely need driving to be more expensive. That's a great idea!
chlorion··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
No.

The "root" you get in docker is not actually root outside of the namespace the container in running in.

Assuming no bugs in the kernel, it should not be able to do anything more than the UID that it's mapped from.

chlorion··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
Rusts memory safety is enforced via type safety. You can enforce more than just memory safety related invariants with the same type system?

I've seen many people make this claim and it's wrong but also silly. How do you think type systems work?

chlorion··on OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root
Yes, you know that because of their marketing.
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