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tux1968on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

He's no doubt a talented young man as well. Google Gemini would be much less helpful in many other people's hands; kudos to him. That said, at some point the people so dismissive about the capabilities of current AI systems, will have to admit that they're quite powerful indeed, even with their limitations.

tux1968on Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives

They mention in the article that some people don't want to install the full Plakar backup software just to read and write ptar archives; so a dedicated open-source tool is offered for download as of yesterday:

https://plakar.io/posts/2025-07-07/kapsul-a-tool-to-create-a...

tux1968on What a Hacker Stole from Me

> gather them all up and send them to another planet...

Has been tried before, they started with telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, and advertising account executives

tux1968on New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros

> reliant upon PAM for authentication and don't support shadow passwords

PAM supports a shadow password file as its default configuration. Did you mean something else?

tux1968on Learn Makefiles

make --help

Will give you the command line options. And GNU make has decent documentation online for everything else:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/index.htm...

tux1968on Extracting memorized pieces of books from open-weight language models

Not OP, but I would say the answer is the same as it would be if you substitute the LLM with a live human person who has memorized a section of a book and can recall it perfectly when asked.

tux1968on Why do we need DNSSEC?

> possible for DNSSEC if people who want to solve the problem

But for several decades, DNSSEC proponents have been complaining about the vocal detractors, rather than actually addressing the problems that have been identified. That's a pretty significant track record on which to make a fair judgment about who is making the strongest case.

Someone above offered a link [1] that gives some pretty good reasons why nobody is stepping up to fix the problems.

[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/28/calling-time-on-dnssec/

tux1968on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git

Thanks for the recommendation! I was just about to reread "Soul Of A New Machine", but will try Showstopper instead, since it sounds to be the same genre.

tux1968on How we reduced the impact of zombie clients

Why do you think that this indicates a problem in identifying zombies? The pause may have simply been the reason that someone became aware there was even a problem. The zombie might have persisted, if it hadn't been paused.

tux1968on DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently

That's brilliant. Thanks for the link.

tux1968on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over

Consumers willing to engage in any specific tech, enough to trigger network effects.

tux1968on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale

It's worth blocking shorts alone, they're the worst culprit. Letting kids still access long form videos.

tux1968on How University Students Use Claude

Indeed. More people need to grow their own vegetables. AI may undermine our ability for high level abstract thought, but industrial agriculture already represents an existential threat, should it be interrupted for any reason.

tux1968on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Well, that's an embarrassing mistake.

Thanks.

tux1968on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Hi, Same Tom Howard from osnews.com ??

tux1968on Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-riscv.html

tux1968on Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing

https://milkv.io/duo

Gives you something to play around with, very inexpensively.

But really, virtual machines may be preferable; at least to get started.

tux1968on How Core Git Developers Configure Git

It would be nice to have modern defaults protected behind a single option.

defaults = 2025.01

Or whatever.

tux1968on Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it

That's up to the maintainer; if they don't have any knowledge of Rust, then it's better they don't get involved anyway. They're still responsible for designing the best C interface to their subsystem as possible, which is what most of the kernel will be interacting with. It puts the burden firmly on the shoulders of the Rust advocates; who believe the task is manageable.

As for your concern about code quality, it's the exact same situation that already exists today. The maintainer is responsible for his code, not for the code that calls it. And the Rust code, is just another user.

tux1968on Gnome 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

> The latest version of Gtk 4 will also remove OpenGL support

That doesn't sound right.

tux1968on Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

We need an LSP like protocol for AI, so that we can amortize the configuration over every place we want such an integration. AISP?

tux1968on Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch

Author just did a podcast about Uscope a few minutes ago, where they mention this HN post:

https://youtu.be/stWBTv6grBc

Mentioned at : https://youtu.be/stWBTv6grBc?t=456

tux1968on Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch

This is great to see. It'd be lovely if Linux gets a decent debugger. Another project to keep an eye on is https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger Although, they haven't expanded much beyond Windows, yet.

tux1968on Ghostty 1.0

They should work if you exit and restart ghostty.

tux1968on MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

That should be amenable to mechanical translation, even if perhaps it would need to be guided by the user a bit to confirm context. Since there are very specific meanings, they should each be equally expressible in less terse, but more understandable prose.

tux1968on Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance

> Viture XR pro

What is the experience like? Could you spend time programming in the terminal? Would it be comfortable for several hours?

tux1968on Waiting for many things at once with io_uring

For c there is :

https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/liburing/tree/examples

There's also a minimal Rust example for tokio:

https://github.com/tokio-rs/io-uring/tree/master/examples

tux1968on Nixie Tubes (2015)

Their youtube channel is well worth checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/@daliborfarny/videos

tux1968on AI makes tech debt more expensive

This type of analysis is a mirror of the early days of chess "AI". All kinds of commentary explaining the weaknesses of the engines, and extolling the impossible-to-reproduce capabilities of human players. But while they may have been correct in the moment, they didn't really appreciate the march toward utter dominance and supremacy of the machines over human players.

While there is no guarantee that the same trajectory is true for programming, we need to heed how emotionally attached we can be to denying the possibility.

tux1968on Trump wins presidency for second time

Sometimes security and integrity matter more than convenience.