I don’t have a link or full context, but it turned out that the dev of tessaract (open source program for fediverse sites, involving at least spam and blocking tools) had a functionality in the program that fetched their own block list from their site. But this blocksite was blocking a huge amount of users, fediverse domains, and anything with any keywords which would be anything political, some porn/sexual terms like Yuri, and lots more. This block was completely invisible the ones running the program and would also give fediverse instances that were blocked a generic failed to connect error instead of saying blocked, preventing the fediverse instances from talking.

Seeing the above, it seems like the dev didn’t handle this discovery in any good way either and retaliated but doing this ddos thing.

I support knowing SIMD, but I think it’s worth mentioning that with good design depending on language and compiler you can get SIMD for free by auto vectorization.

At least Rust does this, and let’s you get away not touching explicit SIMD at all. It’s of course more fragile since you don’t always know if it’s done or not, and they can be skipped for minor changes in code and a, but with good loop hygiene you’ll get a lot of it for free.

For truly fast implementations though, handmade SIMDis usually better and faster if done correctly. And can do much more than auto vectorization can.

Honestly there’s so many weird flowers out there it can be hard to tell truth from fiction. Yeah these are AI generated, but look at all the other flowers that are real:

• Lambs ear
• Sea holly
• Teddy Bear sunflowers are real even
• Protea “Little Prince”
• Hoya Multiflora

Lots of very interesting flowers out there.

Lumine(boot manager) on my PC remembers the last boot choice, so when I choose windows it keep going to that until I choose Linux again. Have about 5 seconds to press a button before it auto starts. Seems like the most sane alternative here.

Adversarial reviews are also great ways to prune bad ideas and assumptions from plans. Have helped me out greatly and made the better LLMs often go “plan said do X, but doing that is a unknown huge risk that may take longer then the rest of the plan”.

The superpowers plugin does the brainstorm, qa, design plan, implementation plan, implement, review quite well. It should aid the process of actually doing feature type work. I also add adversarial reviews into the process, saves a lot of time debugging what went wrong after implementation.

I have shitty music taste, and ended up downloading nightcore songs from YouTube. And the videos were usually named “Nightcore - song title”. So chances of duplicate songs end up a lot higher when the only unique thing is the title of the song…

They had different names like (1) if they were duplicates. But all my files were named something like “Artist - title.mp3”, and the Metadata tag for artist and title were generated based on the filename. I don’t know how they would look after being synced over to my phone from Spotify though, but it is probably how Spotify names the files that broke it on my phone.

All the files were in the same folder on my pc too, for reference. So they have unique filenames, but two files could have the exact same artist and song title. I give that’s it’s an obscure edge case, but really frustrating.

Not sure if it fully fits, but one of my old HTC android phones has a bug where it would randomly fail any network request, by just never finishing it. No timeouts either.

It never got fixed. Loading a page in the browser, got stuck, and would need a new refresh. Some apps like Baconreader would get stuck doing the same, any app could have it happen. But sometimes the stars align, Facebooks Messenger had (has? don’t see it anymore) the chat bubbles that showed over whatever else on the screen. And i clicked one of those, and they got stuck loading. And there was literally no way to close it. There was no timeouts, so i eventually had to hold the power button and reboot…

Other notable mentions, Spotify on android did not handle duplicated files (since you could add your own music to it) with the same filename or at least artist - title metadata. It would always only play one of them. It was very interesting because Spotify on pc worked, so i could play the second track fine there, but if i told it to continue play through my phone then it would continue form the same timestamp on other track… Might be related to my phone being stupid, but there was a whole range of infuriating spotify issues. So i just moved to use poweramp and store and sync local music since i had a lot there to begin with .

I’m going to second the ffmpeg answers, they do the job but won’t be completely accurate to timestamps due to cutting at key frames. That’s how you persevere original quality though, and it’s fastest.

If you need to reencode to fit a target size as well, there exists tools for that too. I made my own for cutting shadowplay recordings by selecting start and stop points in the video and encoding them to fit the discord 8MB limit back in the day. My version is not exactly user friendly to get going though, and not updated for the last 5 years or so. Should still work though.

Fork it so i have my version, regardless if the original goes away. (Assuming Github doesn’t nuke all repos of course like they did with youtube-dl for a while)

We got solid state to come challenge the car market in a few years. Supposedly both safer and bigger capacity. Just remains to be seen when it actually arrives in the average car. It’s a tech that hasn’t quite managed to get out of laboratories.

It’s not helping unfortunately, it’s just a blanket change in colors by some filter. The taskbar highlight is bad to begin with. Ideally the should use red/orange for warning highlights and used bright white. But a weak pink isn’t going to be more visible even if it was turned redish. It’ll still be weak.

And it does change every other thing on screen, which won’t be good for me since colors aren’t an issue normally, and even worse if it affect screen sharing. Taskbar changes is just straight up bad UX that tries to look good.

My experience with W11 on the work laptop.

Taskbar sucks, maybe because I’m colorblind but I can te what my selected program is and programs with notifications (Teams) look like the focused program. Apparently notification boxes there are pink now. Can’t find any accessibility setting but fuck the colorblind I guess. It feels wrong to click the highlighted icon I for years have learned will mean that I minimize it…

And why all the dots? And why is the notification dot the largest, so I can even tell which window is actually focused?

Outlook doesn’t open with focus, especially the window that is supposed to pop up and warn me of upcoming meetings. Really annoying.

Teams notifications just don’t show if you are in a meeting and that is focused, they used to do that on W10.

Might be a Firefox bug, but there’s a lot of new visual bugs. Github diff view is randomly strongly colored, and randomly changes to the old weaker background colors when scrolling/resizing the windows. And a surprising amount of scrollbars in grids that weren’t there before.

I just wish W11 at least worked with the regular features of W10.

I’m no expert on the grain side, but Netflix had a nice writeup about its power.

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-film-grain-synthesis-the-awakening-ee09cfdff40b

I also heard that when you use film grain, you should disable the denoising done on the output to properly preserve detail in the encoding. Which depends on the encoder, but should generally be possible on the ones that do film grain.

But it might not be as good for artistic film grain that doesn’t fit normal “grain” in videos.

Tesla somehow manages to do well(at least prior to the nazi events). Still at a good price in Norway.

But all other manufacturers have dragged their feet with EVs, and that price cost of starting is large enough that they are in trouble. I’m not a huge fan of China, but they did the investment and are ahead exactly because of that (and crazy subsidies). Being left behind is their own fault imo, and I think that applies a lot to EU as well. Eg. WV.

The article goes into the first point though.

Using those services on your behalf is, potentially (in a legal sense) use of your data. By providing some information to a third party, even if Firefox itself doesn’t itself use it. This may come from the fact that you don’t directly agree to terms with the third parties when you start using the browser, with safe browsing for example. So Firefox is in a sense using/sharing private information. And in the changing legal landscape this usage may fall under modern privacy laws, such as the one mentioned in the article.

I agree the old wording was bad, but I do see the reasoning behind the new one.

Github actually does that too, in some cases at least.

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

My solution to most things, make it a chore.

Like, if you don’t buy it, you can’t drink it. If you have it, put it in an inconvenient place so you you won’t see it or bother getting it.

Try making a list without copying every time you add something. Mutability matters then. Imagine copying 10000 elements, or copying 10000 references to items every time something were to be added or changed.

I’m still a windows pleb, so no Zed for me. Fleet I haven’t heard of before.

I’m also very much one that likes a lot of convenience. RustRover is know from experience with both pycharm and Rider. But my main points are convenient functionality, autocomplete, debugger, code navigation, formatting and cleanup and git diff readily available. RustRover might be big and heavy, but it let’s me focus on writing and running my code without much issues.