Freaky

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by Freaky 7d ago
The description of STABLE as a development branch to be followed with caveats, and that using it is an active process with risks you need to mitigate has been in the handbook since at least 1996 ( https://freshbsd.org/freebsd
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by Freaky 1mo ago
How about accommodating basic fundamentals like file change notifications not being universally reliable? All my code lives on the other end of a Samba share. Guess what doesn't work reliably.
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by Freaky 4mo ago
Ooh, awesome. I was literally just thinking the other day that it was a shame on-foot head tracking games pretty much started and ended with ArmA 3, because it's great both for situational awareness, and for just plain gawping at stuf
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by Freaky 4mo ago
I guess so, given I have my TrackIR in a box! That said, I have had issues with opentrack that involved some mildly irritating troubleshooting. Namely X4: Foundations didn't work properly with the standard freetrack output regardless o
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by Freaky 4mo ago
opentrack would be the one to beat these days: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack It's completely replaced my TrackIR 5, since it averts the need to wear headphones and dig out the tracking bracket every time
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by Freaky 2y ago
I too have the previous generation Paperwhite and it's a laggy piece of junk. About the only thing it's even remotely zippy at is flicking through pages rapidly when I accidentally brush my wet hand against the stupid touchscreen
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by Freaky 3y ago
Looks like my fix for CPU feature detection under clang made it in, so such builds should now have much faster addslashes/base64/etc. They're still disabled by default on FreeBSD - my PR is pending, and the patch has been in
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by Freaky 3y ago
It appears to have a cool-sounding JIT server mode, allowing multiple clients to share a caching JIT compiler which does most of the heavy-lifting: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/khrabro.
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by Freaky 3y ago
In addition to being a great game, I also find Syx technically impressive - in a genre where it's so common to start running into serious performance problems with just two or three digit populations, Syx still zooms along effortlessly
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by Freaky 3y ago
> We were very generous in terms of warm-up time. Each benchmark was run for 1000 iterations, and the first half of all the iterations were discarded as warm-up time, giving each JIT a more than fair chance to reach peak performance. 1,0
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by Freaky 3y ago
I encountered a weird bug with deserializing JSON in a JRuby app during an OpenJDK upgrade - it would sporadically throw a parse error for no apparent reason. I was upgrading to OpenJDK 15, but another user experienced the same regression
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by Freaky 3y ago
FreeBSD had a pretty decent option in the base system two decades ago - FFS snapshots and a stock backup tool that would use them automatically with minimal effort, dump(8). Just chuck `-L` at it and your backups are consistent. Now of cou
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by Freaky 3y ago
> Unfortunately, this is not true. You need to grab all the DB files (WAL, etc.) in a consistent manner. You can't grab them while writes are in progress. Perhaps you could be more specific, because the former is exactly what a file
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by Freaky 3y ago
They insist on adding it to the standard response path, but they're happy for you to remove it: header -Server However as this isn't global configuration it'll tend to pop back up in implicit configs like HTTP redire
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by Freaky 3y ago
I'll see about getting it made the default for the FreeBSD port at least.
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by Freaky 3y ago
Caddy also supports Unix sockets, which should be rather more difficult to smuggle requests to, and can be protected by file permissions: admin listen unix//var/run/caddy/admin.sock
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by Freaky 3y ago
I make remote snapshot backups with Borg using this: https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr zfsnapr mounts recursive snapshots on a target directory so you can just point whatever backup tool you like at a normal directory
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by Freaky 3y ago
Nice, you reminded me of my own incomplete Rust rewrite of the Ruby ZFS snapshot script I wrote about a decade ago, and this bit of yak shaving that ended up derailing me: https://github.com/Freaky/command-limits I e
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by Freaky 3y ago
SMS 2FA was put behind the paywall - ostensibly because they saw "bad actors" abusing it, but more likely because it costs money to send text messages and they're bleeding like a stuck pig thanks to Musk. App and keyfob-based
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by Freaky 3y ago
https://twitter.com/jeremyvaught/status/1687444457837187072 > Oh wow, I didn't even think to look up the alternatives they were offering. THEY ARE ALREADY USED AS WELL! So if I choose one, I'll be com
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by Freaky 3y ago
> Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had f
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by Freaky 3y ago
https://freshbsd.org/freebsd?q=%22Sponsored+by+Netflix%22 3,975 commits.
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by Freaky 3y ago
C and Python have adaptive buffering for stdout: if the output is a terminal they flush on newlines, otherwise they only flush when their internal buffer is full. Here's a C program counting, with a 1ms delay between lines. The second
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by Freaky 3y ago
OpenBSD is unique amongst the BSDs in that its halt(8) and reboot(8) commands use the rc(8) system to shut down services gracefully, so the only thing you're missing is scheduling and shutdown message broadcasts. Elsewhere those comman
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by Freaky 3y ago
Is this not just a cosmetic thing? Xfce wants to know if you have shutdown permissions so it can render the right buttons for what you can do, but so long as the code isn't running privileged it's not actually going to let you do
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by Freaky 3y ago
block out quick on egress from any to <reddit> It's for your own good.
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by Freaky 3y ago
.each_codepoint.size is more efficient than .codepoints.size, as it creates a sized Enumerator that avoids needing to build an intermediate Array. For strings with only single-byte characters it reduces to returning the already-stored stor
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by Freaky 3y ago
I can find SIGINFO all the way back to 4.3BSD-Reno, released in 1990.
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by Freaky 3y ago
> Dear ImGui has a special 'ListClipper' class which allows to iterate over the visible 'slots' of a list, so that the code which describes the list UI can skip clipped items early. Not sure if egui has something simi
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by Freaky 3y ago
Reflinks are basically CoW hardlinks — supported on Linux by btrfs, XFS, and I've seen some effort to bring it to ZFS. DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER filesystem supports on-demand/scheduled dedup using the hammer(8) command, with conf

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