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dvdplm··on Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
Thank you. I’m constantly baffled by the terrible quality of Logitech’s software. Such great hardware and such horrible software. Very much needed an oss alternative.
dvdplm··on Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler
This is very cool. Do you have any advice on papers to read to understand the details of search based compilation a bit more?
dvdplm··on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers
I like the idea of llms collaborating like this a lot; planning, critiquing, verifying, coding etc. I think that’s a very general and powerful approach. How did you end up with that structure and what did you try first? What are the downsides? How do the component agents communicate, just json?
dvdplm··on Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS
Does it have FLAC support (or other high res audio formats)?
dvdplm··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
Sadism for some, sure. For most IDF personnel I guess it’s more about “operational expediency”: if the population is terrified they’ll listen to your evacuation orders and show up to your aid distribution/killing fields on time. Finding terrorists one by one is hard work; tossing a bomb on a whole building is quicker and safer.

Terror is just a tool in the end.

dvdplm··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
This is the kind of comment that at first glance seems measured and well-phrased. I’m sure it depicts a common situation in journalism too, after all they’re just humans like the rest of us.

The problem here is the enormity of what is actually going on in Gaza: a slaughter and a terror campaign we haven’t seen the likes of since Pol Pot. It is not two sides in disagreement, each jostling for attention on roughly equal terms, each somewhat right and somewhat wrong. Two years in, we’re well beyond that and the only thing that matters is that one side is sadistically slaughtering the other and the world is pretending it’s not happening.

dvdplm··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
The Palestinian dead have names too, and it doesn’t take much to verify them. Beyond the deaths, the hostages taken by both sides are exactly that: hostages. Why do you suggest Palestinian prisoners are not? What makes you think anything akin to “due process” is happening in Gaza right now?
dvdplm··on A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Why do you need pictures of camp inmates to believe that the Gulag was an integral part of the system?

And (Nial?) Ferguson seems to be alive and well and speaking his mind freely, like wut? Was he de-banked recently?

dvdplm··on London–Calcutta Bus Service
Isn’t it a bit sad to think that trips like these are pretty much impossible to make these days? The number of countries I would consider safe to live in and raise my children in is much lower today than it was in the seventies. On that metric, things have only gone in the wrong direction for the duration of my life.
dvdplm··on Earth Online: non-stop satellite monitoring platform
Why is this provided for free?
dvdplm··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
CI/CD workflows most likely. And devshops that have standadised on docker containers for their stacks (mac-based devs in such places suffer a fair amount of papercuts today). Then I guess there are people that are very security minded that might want to run all userland executables in containers (although this project here is not for them I'd say).
dvdplm··on Running Postgres as a Unikernel
So what would be the reasons to run pg as a unikernel? To get max performance on bare metal? Smaller attack surface? Or?
dvdplm··on Rsync.net warrant canary
If a government agency issues a secret warrant, doesn’t that imply rsync.net has to provide a valid canary at the right time as well? I don’t get how this is useful.
dvdplm··on Rust and Elixir libraries for end-to-end encrypted secure communication
What is the business model for this? The enterprise addons?
dvdplm··on Et Tu, Signal?
...and SGX, which is very interesting and a choice worthy of scrutiny imo.
dvdplm··on Et Tu, Signal?
There’s no dancing going on. He said he doesn’t know the exact numbers but is asking the engineers to dig it up for you. Please don’t be rude and please don’t put words in other people’s mouth.
dvdplm··on ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Due to His ‘Background’
> he concealed criminal history.

But he didn't. The box on the form said "Have you been convicted for fraud?". He hasn't, so he didn't check the box.

Maybe the ICANN-we-dont-want-to-police-the-internet-but-then-we-do-it-anyway-people need more boxes on their forms.

dvdplm··on AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
Indeed. And for rust compilation, good single threaded performance can have a significant impact on that last annoyingly slow linking step (at least when building executables).
dvdplm··on Actix Web 3.0
AFAIK the Sentry people are big on Rust and very responsive. I’m sure they’d react well to a bug report. :)
dvdplm··on Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains
This is exactly what needed to be done, in Sweden and elsewhere. Pay staff triple and have them stay with the old folks and get everything delivered by externals with as little contact as possible. And no new admissions into the care homes.
dvdplm··on Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains
So if I pay your govt 3 million (or 3 billion (or 3 trillion)) in exchange I get to deport you, your family and everyone you know to wherever I want? Legal yeah?
dvdplm··on Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust
This uses the Nettle crypto library under the hood. Does anyone know how well viewed (or reviewed) it is? I'm curious to hear more from the devs on their reasoning for picking it (maybe it was the only one with the features needed and a suitable license?)

https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/

dvdplm··on The Missing Fundamental
I like the writing a lot, perfect balance for people without musical training (and an interest for sound). Well done!

Side note: the JS to play sounds throws an error in Safari TP, works fine in FF.

dvdplm··on Tinn: A tiny neural network library written in C99
What exactly is the output of the example in `test.c`? I.e. what do the numbers mean? The error in the prediction I guess, but the prediction of what? What is the first entry in the semion data set? a "0"?
dvdplm··on Ixy – a userspace network driver in 1000 lines of code
Is it possible to try this out in a VM? I.e. are there any VMs out there that emulates the hardware well enough to be usable with Ixy?
dvdplm··on Show HN: Sandglass – Distributed, scalable, persistent time-sorted message queue
What does Sandglass use for persistence? Is it using something like Rocksdb under the hood or is the WAL and VL "homegrown"?
dvdplm··on The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Do you have high blood pressure?
dvdplm··on Experiment with particles using WebAssembly and WebGL
No kidding! It took them all of 24h to get it sorted, impressive. :)
dvdplm··on Experiment with particles using WebAssembly and WebGL
It worked on yesterday's Nightly, then I updated to today's and it crashed immediately.
dvdplm··on Experiment with particles using WebAssembly and WebGL
Crashes on Safari Nightly and Firefox Nightly, but very neat when it works! :)
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