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You might be interested in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZpJvpm1Ris (title: Does UniFi FINALLY support IPv6 Properly? State of IPv6 with Unifi Network v9). The video is about a year old, but from the looks it's not terribly outdated.
Since Windows 11 24H2, with the new color management feature turned on, I can get correct colors on the monitor in both SDR and HDR modes. So it ends up with HDR on at all times, and mpv can play HDR videos with no color or brightness issues.
GNOME, on the other hand, is stuck with sRGB output in SDR mode, so you get oversaturated colors. With HDR on, SDR content will no longer be oversaturated, but if you play HDR videos with mpv, the image looks darkened and wrong. I've tried setting target-peak and target-contrast to match the auto-detected values on Windows, but the video still looks off.
Are you using GNOME? mutter has this problem where it does not retry commit on the next CRTC: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3833. If this is actually what's happening on your system, switching to KDE should solve it.
> HDR on Wayland is barely functional (in my experience)
This also sounds specific to GNOME, as mutter still doesn't have color management. You'll get a better HDR experience with KDE.
Yes, there are people who don't work for Google and can +2 on changes, but you still need 2 Google employees to at least +1 on your change before it can be submitted. This is mentioned in the Contribution Guide [0] and is enforced by Gerrit.
> Finally, to be submitted, a change must have the involvement of two Google employees, either as the uploader of the change or as a reviewer voting at least Code-Review +1. This requirement is for compliance and supply chain security reasons.
Using full-blown VPNs under such environments has the disadvantage of affecting your use of domestic web services. You might want to try something like https://github.com/database64128/shadowsocks-go, which allows you to route traffic based on domain and IP geolocation rules.
Go has an experimental arena package [0], but the proposal is on hold and the code may be removed in the future.
C# does not support arenas. But it does provide the stackalloc keyword, whereas in Go you kind of need the compiler's blessing for avoiding heap allocations.
> Another problem is relatively high cost of FFI interop with C. It's gotten better, but Go still needs to switch stacks, etc. How is C#?
Async in C# is implemented as stackless coroutines. Calling into FFI is cheap.
> How does C# compilation speed compare?
In my experience, release builds are a bit slower than Go.
> Does the compiler optimize more aggressively than Go (which does very little optimization)? I've heard the C# AOT compiler is lacking, but it's not clear in what way.
Not much to say on this, but with each new .NET release, a core .NET team member posts a blog post about performance improvements in the new release. The most recent one: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
> Does C# have the equivalent of "go run"?
dotnet run
NuGet Gallery [1] is like a centralized DLL registry. Definitely not as good as Go.
> Can you use LINQ against databases like Postgres on Linux, without having to buy into a lot of Microsoft/.NET stuff?
Probably not. This is usually done with EF Core and the Postgres provider.
[0] https://github.com/database64128/ddns-go
[1] https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/sys/+/597915
I doubt the kernel would actually allocate the resource space upfront. Like SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF, it's probably only allocated when it's actually needed.
close(2) does not "commit". You have to call v.Sync() (i.e. fsync(2)) for that.
From man 2 close:
A successful close does not guarantee that the data has been successfully saved to disk, as the kernel uses the buffer cache to defer writes. Typi‐
cally, filesystems do not flush buffers when a file is closed. If you need to be sure that the data is physically stored on the underlying disk, use
fsync(2). (It will depend on the disk hardware at this point.)https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go
For those who don't know, UDP Generic Receive Offload and Generic Segmentation Offload allow you to receive and send multiple same-sized UDP packets coalesced in a single buffer (or many in an iovec but you really shouldn't). Compared to calling sendmsg(2) on individual packets, sending them coalesced in one call traverses the kernel network stack exactly once, thus has significantly lower overhead.
wireguard-go and many QUIC implementations use the same trick to improve throughput. Unfortunately the in-kernel WireGuard driver does not take advantage of UDP GSO, and swgp-go had to cope with that by attempting to coalesce multiple unsegmented messages received in a single recvmmsg(2) call.
It's mostly just some useless commands that say stupid things, and stats collection for earning "achievements" and displaying leaderboards.
The bot was written in C# and seriously over-engineered to be completely modular. Every command and stats collector can be turned on or off in config. A running instance with all features turned on is available as https://t.me/Cubic0Bot.
> First of all, thank you for your support...$blah_blah_blah
> Unfortunately, I have to say no to some of your requests. $project is just a small side project of mine. My approach to its development will always be to prioritize my own use cases, while also catering to the community as much as I can. As you may have noticed, I have already implemented a bunch of new features and made quite a few changes based on community feedback. Decisions on whether to adopt a proposal from the community are made by evaluating the usefulness of the proposed feature or change for me and the wider community, and the feasibility of implementing it in my limited spare time.
> Now that I have explained my ways of doing side projects to you, let's go through your proposals:
If you set up your own VPN server on popular cloud platforms, you'll notice that almost all Cloud platforms face the same issue. Basically this is what you get when you use a data center IP for Internet browsing.
It uses WPF so it can only run on Windows though.
And there's the hostility throughout the conversation from the MultiMC maintainers.
https://github.com/database64128/youtube-dl-wpf
Currently it's WPF based and therefore only supports Windows. I'm considering porting it to Avalonia so I can also use it on my Linux desktop.
The reason I made this GUI is mostly for manual format selection. The automatic 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best' doesn't always result in the best format combination. So I always select AV1 + Opus manually and use the WebM container. The GUI also includes some opinionated defaults like embedding metadata, thumbnail, subtitles.