OmarAssadi

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by OmarAssadi 11mo ago
Yeah, I haven't yet taken a serious look into it from that perspective yet, but similar came to mind; while, outside of bootstrapping the JDK from GCJ, Boehm GC hasn't been super relevant to me for "release" builds of an
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by OmarAssadi 1y ago
Nothing stopping you from using one with totally modern systems as well, except for the ever increasing prices, I guess. Anyway, yeah, same as some of the others already mentioned, but I don't think I actually owned any sort of standal
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by OmarAssadi 1y ago
Do you happen to have any examples, if you're allowed to share and comfortable doing so? Always found differences in teaching styles and curriculum interesting as is, but I am curious about how others are balancing the new additional c
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by OmarAssadi 1y ago
I mean, I agree that you should be able to avoid things like Netflix and make use of libraries and other archives, but that's sort of the point; there is a ton of media that never even gets a physical release anymore; once one of the
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by OmarAssadi 1y ago
Sure, Netflix may not be as important as, say, housing, food, or whatever else, but I think there is something to be said about the cultural importance of [at the very least some] film and television. There's a lot of media worth study
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by OmarAssadi 1y ago
Personally, it is one of the flags, yeah. It's been a while since I've tried ChatGPT or some of the others, but the structure and particular usage felt a lot like what I'd have gotten out of deepseek. It's not a binary t
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by OmarAssadi 1y ago
Early into high school, I needed something to take to class, but since I already had a decent desktop at home, plus we were broke, I picked up some cheap Asus K55N; AMD A8-4500M, 4GB DDR3, etc -- nothing particularly fancy; only upgrade I d
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
Oops, realized too late that I deleted a sentence by accident; I gave the GPU to my younger brother.
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
I feel that. It's difficult to justify any new hardware until I'm in a better place; while it'd be nice, I'm not suffering enough to /need/ a new system. Until the beginning of 2020, during university, I was st
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
There is something beautiful about how U.S. news outlets were always going on about how Russia is a dictatorship, with rigged elections, where you'll be beaten, arrested or killed for protesting or speaking out--Russians supposedly hav
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
I did already write my own comment trying to ask about the goals and state of Anvil when compared to Acme. That said, RE: "Emacs/Vim on one end and VS Code on the other" and "... you need to come up with something totall
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
While looking into Acme several months back, I actually bumped into this; there just don't seem to be many editors that draw inspiration from Acme's workflow rather than borrowing from things like Vim, Emacs, or more traditional m
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
> Bear in mind that "invasive tracking" is also used for protection of the vulnerable. If we're going to go down the "think of the children" path, I'd argue invasive tracking is used far more often for perse
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
I was right about to go to another site and had to do a double-take when my eyes caught the title; I hadn't thought about her in YEARS. I hope it's boxxy on purpose.
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by OmarAssadi 2y ago
I don't reject HTML email, but I always have my client set to read plaintext. 99% of the time, the worst thing that occurs is simply some garbled hyperlinks for a verification email or similar. Personally, I don't have any need
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Tangent, but out of curiosity, what was the more important goal in your mind/whoever else was involved? The ability to relink with newer/patched libraries, or simply the ability to inspect/modify the LGPLed code? I have a lov
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
You could still do mostly non-harmful no-JS PoW captchas by making some sort of FOSS external generator executable. Of course, this would be annoying to an extent, require mult-tasking for the user everytime, or custom keybinds, etc. You co
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
It's been mostly fine for me as well, but that has only been the case because of things like Xwayland; there are a large number of styles of program that are either really difficult reimplement or simply can't work without it. Mul
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
As noted by other commenters, there are several compositors available for Wayland (essentially the bit that actually implements Wayland). Some are developed independently of any particular desktop environment--like wlroots, labwc, hikari, e
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
It's not usually hard to do, no, but it is >130K of C alone, excluding whitespace, comments, tests, examples, etc. I don't want it on my system from a security perspective alone. Add in the bootstrapping pain it imposes due to
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
> Always use [[ While zsh, bash, mksh, ksh93, probably others have it, sure. But many don't -- and not totally irrelevant ones either. Debian's default, dash, for example, does not support `[[`. IMO, unless you're writing
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
> I’m interested how you handle verbally communicating an address? It depends on how off-guard I'm caught and how important it is to me. I usually have my phone, which has my KeePass and email salt inside, and I usually have at leas
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
> I think since I use a password manager anyway, I could just generate a random 6-8 character prefix when signing up for a new account, and since it's saved in my password manager it's easy to look up again later (no need for a
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
While it doesn't stop spam, I have been using a catch-all email system for a while now. The benefit is that I know where someone got my email from, and I can then try to figure out whether the place has been compromised, or whether the
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
> The whole thing runs on regular servers. Hetzner has become our cloud of choice, along with Backblaze B2 and SQS. It is written in Go. From an architecture perspective I try to keep things simple - want folks to make economical use of
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Probably fair about SPARC. I'm not familiar enough to have any real informed opinions about it. I've heard a fair bit of complaints about painful quirks, though. I guess one cool thing SPARC has had for a long time is memory taggi
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
I haven't found a system with multiple Pentium 4s (but I think NetBurst Xeons were literally pretty much Pentium 4s without disabled SMP?). That said, who knows, I almost wouldn't be surprised; there's been loads of weird uni
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Too new can be problematic sometimes. For pure performance per dollar, and even in terms of energy consumption, AMD64 CPUs are still doing great, and you don't have to worry about something not being ported yet because it's the de
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Beat me to it. More often than not, every time I run into the run-of-the-mill booter or other super blatantly illegal things, at least some portion of the infrastructure is behind CloudFlare. I don't have enough fingers and toes to cou
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Do tell, please; stories about "interesting characters" are often the best.

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