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I used to be an open-source developer like you, but then I took a promotion to the knee and now I just whine on the internet. Certified by Reddit to have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to computer chess.
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lichess.org/lag "Lichess developers cannot ... make light go faster."

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

www.neowin.net/news/microso... Firefox already implemented this security feature over 7 years ago: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

We noticed a CPU bug on Raptor Lake because the bounds checking in our Rust zlib implementation was hitting "impossible" bounds checks: github.com/trifectatech... The Oodle devs noticed similar issues in their decompressors and managed to root cause it: fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/o...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

OH: "Here we see the seething neckbeard in its natural environment" (Warhammer World Championships thread in /r/belgium)

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

File -> Open is just not something you can expect to work on a modern Linux desktop. github.com/microsoft/vs...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

linux folks: just use your distro's package manager! me this morning: 1. <package> is 6 versions out of date, doesn't work 2. add upstream package server 3. oops! was built in a way that doesn't fucking work 4. download their script to do something to add it anyway 5. okay cool it works. i guess.

submitted 48 days ago • 19 comments

Different tests generate the exact opposite conclusion, e.g. github.com/lechmazur/co... "Reasoning appears to help. For example, DeepSeek R1 performs better than DeepSeek-V3 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp 01-21 performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash."

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

OH: "we have colleagues who are younger than this file"

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

In Ubuntu 24.04 "perf top" now requires selecting which PMU type to monitor (P and E core types), and will then only list that one. This is an extremely crippling regression for me. Any idea how to get rid of it? Is this a regression in the kernel itself?

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Ubuntu 24.04 wrecked my LVM+LUKS install upon upgrading from 22.04. After a few days of fighting with it, key tricks were to add "initramfs" flags for all LVM drives to the crypttab and finally "keyscript=decrypt_keyctl" to avoid having the reenter the password. All of this just worked in 22.04 🤷

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

"The amount of electricity required to train DeepSeek-V3 would power the Bitcoin network for all of 5 minutes." Random claim on an evil site but I'm totally willing to believe this.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

National news reporting on the Hegseth gaffe: "US adversaries now know which chat service to attack...Signal may encrypt messages but it is not secure" Time for my daily dose of Gell-Mann amnesia.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Because of being tied to Electron, and thus to Chrome, Visual Studio Code on Linux has two modes: you can choose between "missing window borders" github.com/microsoft/vs... or "context menus don't work" (github.com/microsoft/vs... but really issues.chromium.org/issues/33037...).

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

"However, C++ bindings have different semantics than value assignment ... only destructed at the end of the enclosing scope, even though the mapping wasn't bound to an identifier." bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... Because of course C++ didn't have enough footguns yet.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

"The exact format of the id string is left unspecified." aka you must return exactly the same thing as Chrome does.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-... "Rust may present a steeper learning curve than C in some ways" I wonder how true that actually is for writing/enhancing a production-level core util.

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu... This is really nice. The old way definitely had issues like limiting a single Firefox process to about 32GB of RAM. And yeah, most of us wouldn't want the browser to take 32GB of RAM, but if you *need* that for some purpose, then it's a silly limitation to have.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

"Allow edits from maintainers" is a really nice small feature and we're jealous at not having it.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

23 years after the initial release, and 12 years after it has been deprecated, Apple adds support for patent free audio codec.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment