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nekiwoon Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools

Communicating with adults and handling the friction of conversing with others is a skill students need to gain, especially at this age. Talking to a machine that will always suit your style of talking isn't always good.

nekiwoon Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

The voters here are people active on the mailing list, not general users of Debian or LLM automated PR contributors.

nekiwoon There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

The bird scene at the end where it repeatedly smashes into the window really hit me... something this version does better than the original.

nekiwoon There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Reminded me of how deadmau5 named his track The Veldt after the homonymous story by Ray Bradbury.

nekiwoon Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

osu (the rhythm game) also recently switched to SDL3, from SDL2, and it came with significant performance/latency improvements. SDL3 adoption is a bit slow it seems. Though, I'm surprised Minecraft used GLFW all this time.

One notable thing is that switching to SDL3 eliminated lag from having Discord client open while playing osu. Pretty sure this was from their devlog on YouTube.

nekiwoon Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

never expected valadaptive to be on front page of HN

nekiwoon ESP32-S31

ESP32-S3 already had SIMD, but Xtensa wasn't quite friendly about it.

https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2024/01/surprise-esp32-...

nekiwoon Is my blue your blue? (2024)

blank black screen on firefox android

nekiwoon DaVinci Resolve – Photo

Now we just need a proper replacement for After Effects on Linux and I will stop dualbooting.

nekiwoon FrameBook

for cool framework thinkpad project, see https://github.com/Maglev-Rabbit/702_Project_Public.

nekiwoon What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

Unrelated to the language debate, but it seems a lot of people here missed the fact that Rust Coreutils project is licensed under MIT, and I am not sure if I feel that it is the appropriate license for such project. As much as FSF's philosophy has bad PR at times with Stallman, the GPL licenses really do protect open source. Who knows what Canonical would do when all parts of Ubuntu become MIT...

nekiwoon Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

Discord certainly supports it (on web and desktop client). I've been able to upload high resolution WebP images for at least a year now.

nekiwoon Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

nmtui? it should be installed already if you have network manager

nekiwoon The demo scene is dying, but that's alright

Attiny85 with 512 bytes of ram and eeprom is perfect for this! You can get like five of these on AliExpress for a couple USD/EUR.