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dochtman
8,644karma·837submissions·August 2, 2010
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Professional Rust maintainer.
https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/ https://github.com/djc https://xavamedia.nl/
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Typst is the modern LaTeX. https://typst.app/
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Async is a language feature to enable scalability, but an alternative approach is just to spawn a bunch of threads and block threads when waiting for I/O to happen. That is the approach used by t…
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Part of the fingerprint is stuff like the ordering of extensions, which Chrome could easily do but AFAIK doesn’t. (AIUI Google’s Play Store is one of the biggest TLS fingerprinting culprits.)
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But the difference is that Signal has been architected from the start to retain much less (meta)data on the server, so that even if the Signal Foundation is compelled to share the data they have, that…
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How does performance compare to running native code?
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zlib-rs is faster than C: https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/ …
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Makes sense that this is the only way to compete with Microsoft. (See also how MS attacked Slack by including Teams for “free”.)
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git absorb is great, use it all the time.
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How so? What standards do you need support for?
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Although at the very end that AI gave up control in favor of some kind of shared consciousness approach.
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Passkeys might provide a decent middle ground here, assuming current UX issues can be improved upon.
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The post actually contains some references to what he’s working on next, some kind of LLM agent to facilitate software development processes?
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Making something like CRLite more like a standard seems worthwhile. I looked at the Mozilla bits but AFAICT there’s not much if any documentation of the low-level bits and pieces.
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macFUSE discussion: https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/1025
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I remember when it was still called Phoenix — the lean pure-browser reborn “from the ashes” of the Mozilla Suite (SeaMonkey). Amazing run…
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Here in NL it is quite common for grandparents to help parents out with day care on their workdays. School pickup is rife with grandparents…
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I’m confused — with TLS 1.3 Server Name Indication is still usually sent in the clear, unless you’re also using Encrypted ClientHello, right?
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This is in pretty early stages. Might consider instant-distance which I wrote a few years ago and which is in production use at instantdomainsearch.com: https://github.com/instant-labs…
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Software doesn’t have to be open source in order to provide good “customer support” with tracking and responding to issues. However, most non-source available projects don’t make it possible to public…
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No dark mode on GMail is… the worst.