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cwizou

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About cwizou

Former hardware reviewer, I make the Aerial screensaver for mac https://aerialscreensaver.github.io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48401157

    I missed that part, and since it's a newly delivered plane (this January), it's safe to assume the mitigation was in place. Preliminary report will be interesting here.

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    Comment #48400714

    Same thing happened to British Airways a few years ago on a 787, a misplaced security pin that was inserted in the wrong place during a maintenance operation. There are two very si…

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    Comment #48222096

    As far as I can tell this is for WallpaperAgent, an extension to `com.apple.wallpaper` that are ran by WallpaperAgent on the desktop. For screensavers check my other post, I posted…

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    Comment #48222009

    Oh wow, that's seriously awesome. I did manage to reverse engineer the private screensaver `.appex` framework and make it work for Aerial 4 (I released a sample project/documentati…

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    Comment #47721624

    I didn't talk to him to verify, but at the very least it's his username (and the account is old enough at this point : https://www.reddit.com/user/Doc_TB/comments/ ), and his very …

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    Comment #47721388

    For what it's worth - I used to write CPU reviews a while back - I can vouch for both Sam and Franck. Franck is the guy behind CPUID and Sam is a close friend of his, who was known…

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    Comment #46960560

    Maybe there was an edit but it's the opposite, 66% disobeyed.

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    Comment #45773990

    According to an AMD engineer I asked at the time, when they evaluated Ryzen/K12, it was "maybe" a 15% advantage for ARM depending on scenarios. The efficiency came solely from the …

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    Comment #45696658

    So fyi, the way you hook it there is what makes the preview flicker in System Settings. You check if the screen is locked, and if not, kill the host. But screen is not locked in Sy…

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    Comment #45696172

    Ha, you do the exit trick too then, I just missed it. FYI that works 99% of the time, but for some people it sometimes crashes (because we exit our host container - legacyScreenSav…

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    Comment #45695940

    That's super cool, congrats on releasing it ! It's a feature that some people periodically ask me to add in Aerial, but I never got to it. Piping from yt-dlp to AVFoundation is def…

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    Comment #45668817

    Interestingly in french we use "condamné" for sentenced, and for any kind of sentence (even a fine). We don't ever use "sentence" in a legal context (it still exists but is old fas…

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    Comment #45387568

    It was the name of Intel's x86 64bit flavor : https://www.edn.com/intel-working-on-yamhill-technology-says...

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    Comment #45251353

    Awesome stuff ! I've been trying to make a library/cli to set the wallpaper/screensaver to use in the next version of Aerial ( https://github.com/AerialScreensaver/PaperSaver ) on …

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    Comment #44848847

    My point was, a lot of the early corporate support were smallish companies built specifically around Linux. RedHat is the perfect example of that, it started as a university projec…

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    Comment #44825753

    > You can't just say "Linux appeared out of thin air", because that's not what happened. It kinda did though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Creation ! The corporate support yo…

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    Comment #44318899

    Definitely a cool idea ! Some feedback on your page : The "See it in action" section doesn't really show it in action ? There's a picture but it's abstract, is it representative ? …

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    Comment #44238036

    About the swap, I can see how it happened with the new design code, make layers, put the transparent one below, and they didn't want to have the left side higher than the right one…

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    Comment #44236583

    Installed iOS, iPad and macOS yesterday, some things are quickly obvious : - In general, it always looks worse on dark mode - The glass transparency effect is too local. It looks o…

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    Comment #43871059

    Not op but having played Rebirth, while overall very good, it suffers from the classic case nowadays of adding repetitive "chores" to do around maps, to artificially increase the l…

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    Comment #43290790

    > But at what cost? Arianespace hasn't publicly disclosed the cost for an Ariane 6 launch, although it's likely somewhere in the range of 80 million to 100 million euros, about 40 …

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    Comment #43196251

    > It's a comfort game. A pasttime rather than an addiction. Balatro is a stress reliever for me and I can jump in, play, and jump out and it's fine. Exactly. To me there are two sp…

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    Comment #43196081

    > including bundled games on what was at the time primarily a business OS was bold, controversial, and brilliant. Brillant, sure, but not completely sure it was controversial or bo…

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    Comment #43186535

    There are a few others yes, most are selected/adapted from original MC to be made more practical. A lot are around sous-vide (braised short ribs, potato purée, etc) so be aware of …

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    Comment #43185811

    Yes and the app wasn't even that great in the beginning, trying to put you into a "flow" where you have to pick a recipe, pick the width of your food, pick doneness from pictures, …