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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 wo…

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 sit…

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 p…

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…

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…

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 -…

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/conferenc…

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 thre…

> 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 J…

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 Op…

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 c…

> 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…

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 …

I'll see about getting it made the default for the FreeBSD port at least.

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.soc…

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 backu…

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://…

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 s…

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 cho…

> 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…

https://freshbsd.org/freebsd?q=%22Sponsored+by+Netflix%22 3,975 commits.

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 progra…

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 …

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…

block out quick on egress from any to It's for your own good.