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glandium··on What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
Fun fact. Just as this story was unfolding, I was installing a Debian system on an Acer desktop machine. The Debian installer wouldn't start with secure boot enabled because of this, but also, once I fixed up things, I couldn't get the firmware to recognize any entry added by Debian. It would hide and deactivate them on its own. I ultimately had to use a copy of the EFI partition on a USB key for it to work.
glandium··on Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
From the novel by Umberto Eco. With a French director, Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Ron Perlman and more. Great movie.
glandium··on Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M
Does Temu count as a scam, though?
glandium··on Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos
Implementation-wise, didn't Solaris adopt dtruss (dtrace-based truss) as truss at some point (and thus Illumos)?
glandium··on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Here's a sentence I would understand: > We extend SAM to video and retrofit support for images by considering images as a video with a single frame.

As it is written, I don't see the link between "We extend SAM to video" and "by considering images as a video with a single frame".

glandium··on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
> We extend SAM to video by considering images as a video with a single frame.

I can't make sense of this sentence. Is there some mistake?

glandium··on Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodules
I'm on mobile, so I don't have that, but search for submodule in the git-config manual page.
glandium··on Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodules
Probably unpopular opinion: git submodules are just fine. They're "just" lacking a consistent UI. They have improved over the years, but the default config sucks because the defaults emulate the original, awful, UX. With proper configuration, it's much better, although there are still pain points (like rebase conflicts in non-submodule parts messing things up if you don't git submodule update)
glandium··on tolower() with AVX-512
Did you file bugs with testcases?
glandium··on Every company should be owned by its employees
> if the company lays you off, the stock may be down too

Don't most layoffs make the stock go up?

glandium··on Large Enough
Your function returns 3, and I don't see how it can return 2.
glandium··on [dead]
The journey of strace begins with its predecessor, dtrace

Huh... strace was created in the 90s and dtrace in the mid 2000s.

glandium··on Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
I was like "how the f* is a website builder possibly worth $23B" and then I realized Wiz is not Wix. And then I realized Wix has a market capitalization of $9B, and I'm still WTF.
glandium··on Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii
I would have gone with Kawawii, which would sound like Fujimori Shinjo's かわうぃーねー
glandium··on Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
This is where an azerty keyboard shines.
glandium··on SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
Also, of an input method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Common_Input_Method
glandium··on What scripting languages come out of the box on Debian 12?
Linking does not expect a full and complete so. That's what it's currently fed, but it's not a requirement. You could just as well have "import libs" in ELF too.
glandium··on Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers (2009)
And then an earthquake moves the location 4 meters east.
glandium··on Swift Static Linux SDK
The keyword is "arbitrary". Say you have dependencies on reqwest and clap, want to dynamically link against them? Not gonna happen. That's what people talk about most of the time for static vs. dynamic linking, at least in my circles.
glandium··on Wipeout XL/2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack [video]
Not related to the soundtrack, but has anyone else experienced Wipeout with the NeGcon controller? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeGcon

It worked so well for Wipeout...

glandium··on Swift Static Linux SDK
That's kind of a disingenuous take. Rust supports producing dynamically loadable libraries. It doesn't support dynamically linking arbitrary dependencies, which is what most people would understand from "Rust supports dynamic linking" in a discussion about static linking.
glandium··on POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)
I didn't. I was too busy rendering that sample POV Ray scene with a sunset.
glandium··on Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the website from the zip
In many cases, 403 is really 404 on things like S3.
glandium··on Compilers are too smart
On top of what sibling comments mention, another common problem is that the STL has many different implementations with different/inconsistent performance profiles. If you want containers with guaranteed performance characteristics, you're better off using your own or a third party.
glandium··on I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke
The largest unknown is what even IS simple?

Here's a story from more than 25 years ago. A user couldn't print a document and calls local support. After they try several things remotely to no avail, the support person comes to the user's desk. Turns out there was a popup window asking the user to put paper in the printer and press ok to retry. How they missed this obvious thing (it was even a MODAL window) is a mystery.

glandium··on Make your program slower with threads (2014)
At least in glibc, errno is thread local.
glandium··on Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)
I guess you're being downvoted because of how you said it, but you're not wrong. I have a Japanese keyboard too, albeit not a Mac one, and the underscore needs shift (without shift, it's backslash, which means that yes, I don't need to use M-¥). Caps lock is also under tab, and Control on the bottom left.
glandium··on Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago
I guess that means Hulu doesn't have Tropic Thunder?
glandium··on Japanese 'My Number Card' Digital IDs Coming to Apple's Wallet App
Where I lived in France before moving to Japan, there were 24/7 indoors ATMs, locked, that you could unlock with your card.
glandium··on Japanese 'My Number Card' Digital IDs Coming to Apple's Wallet App
Okazaki?

Edit: damn, there are many more Porsche center in Aichi than I thought there were. I'll keep this guess, though.

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