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naitgacem··on Reading the news is the new smoking
Exactly my thoughts. I thought it was going to suggest something better, but it was really just suggesting ignorance is bliss.
naitgacem··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
On Firefox Windows I see the number 4 with some line over it.
naitgacem··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
There are indeed no emojis on that comment for me, are you using a different client?
naitgacem··on Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
LineageOS, the "successor" to CyanogenMod of the day
naitgacem··on Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
I'm running a custom ROM on a Galaxy S8 (so without project treble) and I've been pleasantly surprised!

Even something as niche as the swipe on fingerprint sensor to pull notifications drawer down still works!

Everything from phone calls, camera, fingerprint, all the essentials work pretty much flawlessly.

naitgacem··on Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++
I have been always stuck with C99, what is the "post" C23 way that will zero initialize a full union?

Or am I misunderstanding this?

naitgacem··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
IANAL stands for "I am not a lawyer"

This reminded me of this one time my father used the term "annales" which in french apparently means "past exams" or something :P

naitgacem··on Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)
I this this ought to be an iterative process, such as study principles so that you don't start from absolute scratch, then make a wheel that sucks, study some more and do more resarch yourself, rince and repeat until satisfied.

There is so much nuance that doesn't get captured in all the study you can do about how a certain thing is made.

naitgacem··on Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)
Even with numbers, some locales use a comma `,` as the decimal seperator, and some use the dot `.` so that can cause headaches out of the box.
naitgacem··on DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
Can someone point to where i can read some context?
naitgacem··on Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel
Did you perhaps forgot to edit and add the link? I'm interested in hearing about that
naitgacem··on SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer
Hi. Care to share the source code perhaps?
naitgacem··on I Sent an Ethernet Packet
I think the middle ground of generating code using MX and taking it from there using cmake is a really good place to start.
naitgacem··on I sent an Ethernet packet
Renode offers a similar approach, one could even route all stimulated packets into Wireshark. It's really powerful when it works
naitgacem··on I Sent an Ethernet Packet
I've done a similar thing with the exact same microcontroller! However it was on the "Black pill" board.

It was really fun and surprisingly helped me get ahead in the networking class I'm taking.

naitgacem··on Accountability sinks
In my country they enacted this system for student management that is national.

It handles signups, restauration and housing services, grades, everything.

One example is that the grades are entered by professors and mistakes happen all the time, for everyone, due to the insane server load.

There's no one to complain to, because the excuse is always "it's the system, not us"

naitgacem··on Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
Unfortunately once one company does something and gets away with it, or makes even more money, everyone will follow.

I was looking at Thinkpads and was somewhat shocked to see they started doing that too!

naitgacem··on The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t
Android adopted an approach in a similar spirit.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab

naitgacem··on Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
Upon reading the title at first glance, I thought this was going to be how "effecient" computers nowadays. Such as MacBooks and such, who started this efficient computers thing in the recent times. And they are, but as a result computers are all worse off for it. I mean soldered RAMs and everything is a system on a chip.
naitgacem··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
I commented asking them politely to rephrase in better English since it was uncomprehensible, or at least append what they intended to say in their preferred language. They didn't like it...
naitgacem··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
I think this sounds reasonable. This is based on an anecdotal where my university page blocked me on Facebook. And for some reason everything is posted there, schedules, announcements, exam schedules, important sign-up procedures...

I rely solely on accessing the page without logging in in incognito mode. Or people screenshot/forwarding relevant links and announcements.

naitgacem··on Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice
Fish can be prohibitively expensive even in parts of the world with access to large amounts of seashorres. Think: North Africa.
naitgacem··on Why R8 (Android Compiler) Preferred BMW over Audi?
This was an interesting read. I dread the long development sprints that end with crashes on release mode :P
naitgacem··on Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish
144L * 4 people * 365 days = 210240 L per house per year

which is around 210 cubic meters. Is my math off?

naitgacem··on Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish
This is about ~ 190 cubic meters of water! This is close to the average water usge of a european household of 4 people [1].

[1]

    household use, which accounts for around 12 %. On average, 144 litres of water per person per day is supplied to households in Europe.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/signals-archived/signals-2018-cont...
naitgacem··on Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
I do something similar with Google search results. I hide results from Pinterest, Quora, TikTok, ...
naitgacem··on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Anyone managed to get this to work on Google collab? I am having trouble with the imports and not sure what is going on.
naitgacem··on Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040
Working with Android app developement has got me spoiled in this area. One needs to just run a command and everything is set up and works the exact same way whether be it locally or on CI with the same version of both build tools and the libraries. It still pains me when I go back to dealing with CMake and Make and trying to get libraries installed, as opposed to say, compile 'library-name-here'.
naitgacem··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
I might understand polished, but no issues sounds odd. What about the abysmal performance? Also most folks building things do not have the resources that Microsoft has, so I believe VSCode is not a good represantative of most Electron software.
naitgacem··on Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
Nowadays it's like every single blog and website will "popup" something everytime i select text. It annoys me to no end, because I select text as I read along and it's incredibly annoying.

Whether be it ChatGPT, medium articles, and recently even Google search!

UBlock Origin allows you to block JavaScript by default on all websites, and it's what I do. And Firefox has something called reader mode. Absolutely fantastic tools.

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