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Just today I've used this in a Windows 11 QEMU VM to fix rekordbox (it failed to start about 4 out of 5 tries). rekordbox uses Unity with OpenGL for the UI and I guess the devs nev…

What stops a scraper from detecting Anubis and just removing "Mozilla" from the user-agent string?

I wonder how they deal with multi-threading. Forking a multi-threaded process is very error-prone (e.g. allocator locks can remain orphaned).

Proton uses esync or fsync which (from what I've read) are on-par with ntsync. However, esync and fsync can't be merged into upstream wine because they can't properly emulate some …

A big issue with IPC is thread scheduling. Thread B needs to get scheduled to see the request from thread A and thread A needs to get scheduled to see the response from thread B. I…

I found squashfs to be a great archive format. It preserves Linux file ownership and permissions, you can extract individual files without parsing the entire archive like tar and i…

Why doesn't USA pass a law that enforces data on US citizens to be stored in the US, like GDPR does in EU?

Errant Signal's analysis is also really good: https://youtu.be/wlBrenhzMZI

No, the entire point of those vulkan extensions is to use the hardware-accelerated video processing units. You can use computer shaders for software decoding on the GPU, there is n…

Isn't inverse transform sampling even faster than ziggurat? Most languages have an approximate erf^-1 implementation, everything is straight forward from there. I needed to generat…

I think the people who say the Pixel 8 slow are gamers. Even a cheap phone is fast enough for the vast majority of people unless they play 3D games on it.

Someone is trying to game on them, or at least run DirectX apps in Linux, based on this PR: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/3795

"The internet has been broken in a fundamental way. It is no longer a repository of people communicating with people" But the examples given are... google search results and articl…

I wonder what forests looked back then. Trees going through and on piles of dead trees?

Thank you, makes sense now

> Note that an acquire load of p would have prohibited this reordering, since acquire loads block all future memory access, even if unrelated to the value being acquired. I don't r…

Saving a few ms during decompression actually matters when the game streams data from the disk in real time. People also hate loading screens and objects popping-in because the str…

Well yes, because on Linux you use mmap to reserve virtual memory. I wouldn't say that tooling is not aware of all that. For example, top and htop display virtual memory and reside…

That's most likely reserved virtual memory. It's not committed, meaning it's not backed by physical memory.

I don't really get the point of the article. You can opt out of the privacy sandbox and block interests you don't want apps to see. The biggest change seems to be that chrome cand …

https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Programming_Guides/HIP-po...