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ValdikSS
1,246karma·370submissions·December 29, 2014
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Libtorrent 2.0 switched exclusively to mmaped read/writes for torrent downloads, which resulted in various performance and especially memory consumption issues on ALL platforms. For some reason W…
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If it weren't mmaped files, I would use strace/gdb, or even fuse proxy file system. But these are mmaped, I don't know any easy debugging or monitoring solution besides writing kprobes&…
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I don't have experience with xfs or zfs, and I don't have a free stand for experiments right now unfortunately.
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>This issue report feels like it ought to be accompanied by a fix. systemd is a stewarded FOSS, which means there's a team behind it, who are getting paid, and develop this software with relea…
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journald uses hash tables, I think it update it on every new log line, although I didn't debug it in depth yet. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/199f75205b9c…
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Many applications hammer the disk even if the developers don't believe this is an issue, not only journald, unfortunately. It's my third attempt to make my regular Linux desktop less disk-ch…
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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40262#issuecomment... …
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Latest Worms Armageddon (released in 1999) patch from December 2020 still supports Windows 95 (and Windows 11). When I asked CyberShadow why, he replied that CD-ROM case claims Win9x compatibility, th…
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… as well as for iOS, and Android, and web! https://www.embarcadero.com/starthere/seattle/mobdevsetup/io... https://www.embarcadero.com/products/de…
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You can create chess with Delphi in a matter of literally 30 seconds. Just install "Chess VCL" component, drop it onto the form, compile, and you're ready to go!
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https://github.com/armbian/configng/pull/965
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>Maybe it'll make the SBC market get its stuff together and start actually doing UEFI instead of every board needing a custom build. If your board needs custom build, it's probably beca…
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I sell free software of others as an appliance, as a hardware device. Nobody of original authors complained so far, quite the contrary. I don't get it when the software author choses the license …
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>Unfortunately, someone might instead take it, start making profit out of it, and never giving anything back to me or the community. >you can do whatever you want with my work except profit. GPL…
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>How to Personalize Software I've seen https://v-it.org/ here on hackernews. Same idea, different wording.
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Xiaomi Mi Band 6 and 7 support NFC card emulation for payments, issued by Visa/MC.
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Yes, Russian MIR system works this way. https://glenbrook.com/payments_news/russias-mir-domestic-pay... Just an application which emulates the card over NFC. No need to Google Pl…
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Right now the same situation happens with CMP 170HX. These GPUs physically have 64GB RAM but locked to 8GB RAM. You can unlock all 64GB RAM with a patched driver. They used to cost $200-250 but now co…
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There's a mercurial, a very similar idea built in a very similar times. It was supported by BitBucket until recently.
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I've recently seen https://v-it.org/ , although the naming ("social software") is strange, the idea seems to be great: automatically maintain your own feature set of the…
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In the early days of github, it offered private repositories only for paid users. Bitbucket allowed private repositories for free.
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It has an example on both the website and in SSH.
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Will shamelessly promote my thing: https://ssh-j.com No applications except regular ssh client. Needs an SSH connection on the client as well though.…
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In the world of auto-updates of software and firmware, even the hardware which is now completely legal and crap-free, could convert itself to a proxy or ad network later any time. And don't forge…
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>No one is writing purely for themselves Every time I see posts like this one and go into comments, everyone in the comments treat writing as a hobby which they would like to turn into work and ear…
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If you write news, posts that needs discussion, information that relatively quickly becomes obsolete, then probably yes, you won't want a website because few people will search for it deliberatel…
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This is what several cellular ISP to (block ports <1024 and 5555) to protect the users on IPv6. You can unlock it with additional free option.
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Lots of dumb phones are trojaned on a firmware level. Trojans are different, but in general they allow the third-party (malware author) to accept SMS and forward them over internet. This is used to re…