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Browsers being broken is very closely related to Google/search being broken.

-current is ok with the caveat that you have to be pretty engaged with the development process, ideally having developers employed (or be one yourself)

I was a committer long ago, these days sticking to latest releases on my boxes

Desktop is a moving target and modern hardware usually requires -current, but I wouldn’t call it “production”

The most jarring effect is to look at incomes in ounces of gold before and after 1971. Explains a lot of things.

Incidentally, just replaced batteries in my Apple Watch S6, MBP M1 2020, and iPhone 12 Pro Max during a one-day visit to Shenzhen. A dude in Huaqiangbei did everything in two hours for a small fraction of what Apple would charge.

ECG stopped working reliably after the battery replacement, but otherwise the watch should be good for another few years (stuck on watchOS 26.x)

They don't need to know that. Your low-entropy seed / private key will be compromised in the brute force enumeration.

A lot of smaller chores look trivial when considered in isolation, but have disproportionate time and mental cost because of how they fit in the flow of life. Sometimes the effect is similar to interrupting an engineer for a couple of minutes.

Yeah, I measured over 5000ppm in a taxi with two passengers. Showed the driver how to enable air intake (he didn’t know about the feature) and tried to explain this is deadly. Pretty sure this is commonplace globally.

Generally it’s a miracle to me so many people survive traffic on public roads, statistically.

Exacerbated by astonishing overuse for anything from a 2-minute endoscopy to a 15-minute hand surgery. The pursuit of “comfort” at the cost of fractional lobotomy.

Obviously an LLM and sad Carmack engages with slop to normalize it.

to be pedantic, a maxed out MBP is 90200 BRL in Brazil now before AC+ and software, around 16777 USD

Holding Fallout 1/2 as the best gaming experiences of my life for a long time, just recently discovered Fallout Nevada and Sonora that some kind talent also ported to WASM/Web — and it finally hit the spot for me after ~25 years.

decoding state can be bulkier than a key frame and opaque to the CPU if hardware acceleration is used

I wonder if caching semi-compressed frames would be more efficient in either case (CPU or GPU)

you'd have to "rebase" all the other frames to be derived from those

search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions

somewhat related: /rescue/* on every FreeBSD system since 5.2 (2004) — a single statically linked ~17MB binary combining ~150 critical tools, hardlinked under their usual names

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rescue https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/rescue/resc...

once you actually need to configure Caddy, it is an abomination beyond imagination — the docs, Caddyfile, JSON config — all of them lack coherence or sensible design

never touching it again

good defaults matter; nginx configs were very concise and readable in 2005-2015 when I was using it heavily; http/3, ws, acme — perhaps new tech is yet to be incorporated properly (and maybe it never will)

Lithium is <10% cost of a battery. Presumably much less now. Doesn't affect the price of EVs that much yet.

discussed here a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424150

oh, interesting; it was ipfilter for ages, and suddenly pf-only now

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60993/pfovw-compa...

Happily running FreeBSD 13 on Hetzner CAX11 since April [1] [2]

Great to see OpenBSD is now available as well!

[1] https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1649020655558336514

[2] https://gist.github.com/pandrewhk/2d62664bfb74a504b7f4a894fc...

Any of the three major branches are the first choice for lean, bespoke network appliances. For Mullvad in particular OpenBSD or FreeBSD would be the obvious choice.

Not sure the actual authors of the various overlapping Linux network subsystems even know the comprehensive picture "inside and out" for chronic lack of consistent documentation.

Last time I managed a small «supercomputer», 50x IBM blades running Suse, it wouldn't support PXE/NFS without kernel customization, but that would void support contracts and finicky third-party software. Made a switch to FreeBSD, where everything worked out of the box one hour later. That was over 15 years ago, I have no idea how much the situation changed.

Not to provoke predictable responses, but I find it interesting that the tech-talented VPN providers are not using BSD in favor of Linux, especially with requirements like diskless operation, kernel customization, and tighter security.

If you check the profile of the author, Jon Brodkin, https://arstechnica.com/author/jon-brodkin/ — roughly 100% of his headlines are political: anti-Musk, anti-GOP, pro-Biden, pro-gov. Disgusting how this goes under the once-respected brand of Ars.

Without looking, chances are Apple is using the FreeBSD fork of pf, that diverged long ago (mostly to implement SMP to handle much more traffic).

The OpenBSD OS is roughly as relevant today as it ever were. The OpenBSD project has significantly grown in relevance since inception through OpenSSH, LibreSSL and dozens of other high-quality implementations.

Layman thoughts:

(1) with enough high-quality training data, «AI» models should be able to output H265 / H266 / AV1 directly, can achieve simplicity and reduce artifacts by skipping an inferior compression step and leveraging temporal elements

(2) if AI video compression (as demoed by nvidia) becomes standard, the training data and generated data will become [more] «AI-native», boosting these efforts by miles

As the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.

For the record, I'm currently in Saigon, and whenever I order delivery from the local Tops Market (around USD 1.5 fee, within two hours from order placement) they call me to say that bananas are either too ripe or too green and confirm if I still want them. Would love them to digitize this interaction.

In response to another comment, the pickers have access to the backroom and frequently deliver better produce than would be available in-store.

A quick search says it's actually ticks, which is OS and machine dependent (kernel tunable). Nanosecond resolution is not enough for a seed if it's a real datetime, so the 32-bit truncation is a separate problem.