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eliteplebon Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

excited to see a work of zutty lineage, it's a massively underrated terminal, but please clank something meaner and leaner that an agent can manage to get built in less than 128k tokens, x11 would be appreciated too

eliteplebon Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/blob/deluge/libpas/src/l...

eliteplebon Social Animus

this plead somehow hits all the wrong notes and reinforces why they're in this situation to begin with, i still hope the author finds their footing, but it won't come without some soul searching

eliteplebon Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

that's easy with https://hexdocs.pm/pythonx/Pythonx.html and https://hexdocs.pm/lua/Lua.html and works well too

eliteplebon Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

it has a feature to output such files, see https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake?tab=readme-ov-file#generat...

eliteplebon Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

the command file generator is usually last to blame for a slow compile, making it output a cmake/ninja/make project would not speed up a poorly structured compilation tree at all

eliteplebon WebDAV isn't dead yet

consider versitygw or s3proxy

eliteplebon Forth: The programming language that writes itself

frankly it's a miracle any of them scaled at all, such popularity mostly comes down to an arbitrary choice made decades ago by a lucky vendor instead of some grand overarching design

eliteplebon How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

Any of them will work just as well, but only with many datacenters worth of drives, which very few deployments can target.

It's the classic horizontal/vertical scaling trade off, that's why flash tends to be more space/cost efficient for speedy access.

eliteplebon About the BLOBs in Ventoy

citation needed

eliteplebon Welcome to the IPv4 Games

a simple proof of the opposite is that no one's yet to exploit any of the untaken ranges that way

eliteplebon Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

queued messages stay around in the mailboxes, so no state is lost, but don't get migrated/transformed/versioned via the appup mechanism, unless you opt back into it via libraries for it like https://github.com/ausimian/castle

eliteplebon Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

Elixir removed a jankier https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/appup.html mechanism that defined how state is upgraded or downgraded, while watching a directory and recompiling a module automatically or manually from the repl is still common

eliteplebon Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers

This Nil is not a Null, and is only used as a sentinel value to return an error value. And unlike lua, indexing into an unasigned value will not return nil, but throw an exception like index_error.

eliteplebon Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers

Running arbitrary user code in IOT systems safely like https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Berry/#rules

It's still receiving maintenance from contributors, but these sort projects reach a stable maturity and stay there for years fulfilling their use case.

eliteplebon Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice

There's fewer games to vote on every year, as conglomerates like Microsoft out vote your wallet a billion times over every time they buy a game studio to embrace, extend and then extinguish.

eliteplebon Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface

eliteplebon IETF setting standards for AI preferences

DNT: AI

eliteplebon Migrating Away from Bcachefs

Debian would compile dependencies with versions lower than specified in the project, reintroducing bugs that users would blame upstream for, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Orphans-Bcachefs-Tools

eliteplebon Button Stealer

reminds me of https://adnauseam.io/ 's clicked ad view https://adnauseam.io/img/adnauseam_vault.png

eliteplebon Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11

https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled

eliteplebon FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server

this runs caddy (another famous reverse proxy) for you

eliteplebon Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs

not too dissimilar an idea from Tom Duff's com executable https://web.archive.org/web/20210204050841/http://www.iq0.co...

eliteplebon OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi

using Qualcomm for wifi6 is mainly the reason why, their SDK is very picky, and kept out of tree on purpose

eliteplebon Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

and https://maddy.email/ is built with a similar spirit

eliteplebon Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious

A/B updates as implemented in android, https://bootlin.com/pub/conferences/2022/elce/opdenacker-imp...

eliteplebon TCP-brutal: Congestion control algorithm that increase speed on packet lost

>it should be able to do that job just fine even if you keep throwing lots of packets at it, right?

there's circumvention techniques that abuse the fact that they can't: https://upb-syssec.github.io/blog/2023/record-fragmentation

the intentionally terrible speeds are decided by software heuristics, so antisocial limits are fought with antisocial techniques, with continued brutality being enough to skip the slow deep packet inspection path via force

eliteplebon TCP-brutal: Congestion control algorithm that increase speed on packet lost

it's main use is in censorship resistant proxies, where the network at large does not have a good quadrant.

https://hysteria.network/