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kvemkon··on The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]
And now their ghosts continue to live and serve in virtual machines like QEMU.
kvemkon··on Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Delphi - almost effortless programming memories.

> ... native Delphi apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

In early 2000s there was Borland Kylix for Linux. Thus today (25 years later), if I'd use Object Pascal, then with Lazarus.

kvemkon··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least.

Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux):

  GTK2 14 MB
  GTK3 24 MB
Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) and be rendered completely on GPU things got very different:

  GTK4 98 MB
kvemkon··on Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
> bought myself a mini pc with an Intel N100

Instead of Raspi I've got a N100 uATX mainboard with N100 (120 EUR). Fortunately it does work with normal 32GB DIMM (55 EUR, those were the days!). But I'm still missing a pico-PSU, which can be powered directly from 220V (for reasonable costs).

kvemkon··on Fastmail offers EU data region
> Take Hetzner as an example.

Similar happened already with OVH Canada vs France.

> In an affidavit, Xavier Barriere, corporate counsel at OVH in Paris, describes the dramatic situation: If the important proponent of European data sovereignty were to comply with the Canadian order, those responsible in France would be committing a criminal offense. They face up to six months in prison and fines of up to 90,000 euros per violation. However, if OVH ignores the Canadian court, it faces contempt of court proceedings in Ontario, which can also lead to severe sanctions.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Canadian-Court-OVHcloud-from-Fr...

And one comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060903

kvemkon··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
GTK4 is 98 MB RSS on Linux. Or just 24 MB for GTK3.

example-0.c (fits both GTK3 and GTK4) from https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html

kvemkon··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
On news there was a message from Siemens about 500 t turbines, which can be transported best only by Rhine.
kvemkon··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
Ah, that's great! I remember, conditions somewhere were you receive the "treue" bonus after the first year for a 2 year contract.

I'm watching how with more sun, oeko-energy price keeps growing (despite every summer before it was cheaper):

https://www.naturstrom.de/privatkunden/oekostrom/naturstrom-...

> image

> Energiepreise der letzten 12 Monate

kvemkon··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
I see only basis (without any kWh consumed) costs:

> Grundpreis: 15,54 € / Monat

kvemkon··on A simplified model of Fil-C
> it slows programs down

Interesting, how costly would be hardware acceleration support for Fil-C code.

kvemkon··on Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples
> i.MX8 is not realtime and the support for running bare metal code is very much non existent.

Looking at e.g. STM32H755: 1x Cortex-M7 480 MHz, 1x Cortex-M4 240 MHz, USB2, 100 Mbit Ethernet, DAC.

Comparing to AM6421: 1x Cortex-A53 1GHz, 2x Cortex-R5F 800MHz, 1x Cortex-M4F 400MHz, 2x PRU, USB3, 1 Gbit Ethernet, PCIe Gen2.

I can hardly believe STM32H755 microcontroller is almost so costly as AM6421 SoC.

kvemkon··on Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples
> Cortex-M is determinism in hard real-time systems

> or your real-time deadlines are so tight an FPGA would be a better choice

That's why I'd say Cortex-M fits well for a very-very good soft real-time (99.99+%). But for hard real-time (100%) you need an FPGA.

kvemkon··on Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance
I'm missing comparison of FL2 on Gen13 vs Gen12, since this would be a real win (or loss?) from the hardware upgrade. How can they justify the upgrade without this data?
kvemkon··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
> usually in the lower single percentage range

Is it worth to compare Wayland vs X11?

kvemkon··on Our commitment to Windows quality
> meld and kdiff3

When I need to compare large text files I use diffuse instead of meld.

kvemkon··on DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration
> environmental conditions

Shouldn't it be: no more negligible manufacturing / assembly tolerances instead? I mean, when I turn PC on, the temperature of all components is 20 C, the training is done at almost this temperature. But then the PC can work for months with much more higher memory controller and DRAM chips temperatures.

kvemkon··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
> apple's relatively long OS update period

For a 127 EUR Samsung A17 up to 6 OS and security updates (6 years) are advertised. For a Google Pixel up to 7 updates. How long is it for Apple?

kvemkon··on Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE
This has been reported here but got not enough attention:

"Debian GNOME team announces intent to remove GTK 2 in Debian 14" (08.01.2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548257

P.S. Still hope GNOME maintainers let other volunteers maintain GTK 2.

kvemkon··on Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov
> That and ...

lenta.ru ? (aha, management personnel has been replaced 2014 [1])

[1] https://t.me/systemasystema/89 [RU]

kvemkon··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
But since when? There are public announcements about new energy deals since summer 2024. But I'm missing any information about similar RAM/NAND/HDD deals back then, so that corresponding shortages could be only for short time until, say, summer 2026.
kvemkon··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
> add more channels

and unfortunately increase latency even more with registered DIMMs. Comparing bandwidth increase (50 GB/s) to the stagnated latency (~80..120 ns total, less than ~0.1 GB/s) over last decades, I'm wondering, whether one still can call today's RAM random memory (though sure it can be accessed randomly). Similar to hard disk drives. Up to 300 MB/s sequentially but only up to less than 1 MB/s 4KB random (read).

kvemkon··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
> It's like ...

Considering the level of the API. But it is total opposite comparing a bit deeper. Linux has a famous rule "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!" e.g. [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611692

kvemkon··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
> optimizations aren't as good as the 40 year gcc project

with all optimizations disabled:

> Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.

kvemkon··on Ardour 9.0
Good to know, thanks!
kvemkon··on Ardour 9.0
> custom widgets

Implemented like any custom GTK+ 2 widget?

kvemkon··on Ardour 9.0
Very nice looking UI! Powered by forked GTK+ 2 [1]. (First release almost 24 years ago [2]).

[1] https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tree/9.0/libs/tk/ytk

[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2002-March/msg00136...

kvemkon··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
> You can’t be against the Ukraine war in Russia

I was glad after discovering [1]. In one of the videos the interviewer explains, why he was not arrested. The channel is for English-speaking auditory outside of Russia. It was enough to "close eyes" for some openly expressed critiques. Though it was painfully to listen to some people who were not against the war.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@1420channel/videos

kvemkon··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
> You can totally say ...

"Say" in the sense of demonstrate peacefully for this? Then I'm impressed. If someone else can confirm this? Is this because of USA being a federal union? Before Ukraine declared independence, there were voices to make Ukraine a federal state, so that people in the West part of Ukraine can live their way of life and people living 1600 km (!) away in the East and Southern parts would be not much affected from that and vice versa. Voices for the unitary state were stronger because of stability of the state. Would be interesting to see some documentary "what if", whether a federal state would be more stable against pulling from the west (Europe, US) and the east (Russia).

kvemkon··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
I'm referring to (if we would continue with the list):

- Ukraine for Donbas

Which is so much weaker than all others. There are Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, Tibetans. But there is no such ethnicity as People of Donbas.

OTOH in a democratic state you're still have the right to demonstrate peacefully for whatever you want, even if it doesn't make much sense. But would you allowed to demonstrate in Ukraine for Donbas independence if they are considered separatists according to the law?

kvemkon··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
> would such free protest be allowed if the developers of Notepad++ were based in

- US arguing for independence of any of the States for whatever reasons?

- Spain for Catalonia?

- France for Basque?

and many more just in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_move...

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