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przemoc

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About przemoc

Cross-site thinking SW engineer.

Realist, pragmatist, strong-willed, strong-minded. Sometimes taciturn, sometimes loquacious. FLOSS enthusiast but still using Windows. Alpine Linux advocator.

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    Comment #18480525

    True, but even though you can set: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation] "RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001 It isn't flawless in practice, unf…

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    Comment #15848341

    ~8 years ago I was using LD_PRELOAD to be able to (s)fdisk fixed-size VDI image (VirtualBox Disk Image) outside of virtual machine. https://gist.github.com/przemoc/571086 Don't kno…

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    Comment #15241649

    NetEm seems to be rarely known and used traffic control feature available on Linux. The linked script allows you to delay sending DNS requests (IP packets with destination port set…

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    Comment #14102176

    Just out of curiosity (it's not my field), what are those 3 renderers that matter right now? Somehow I read your comment as V-Ray is not among them as being last-gen. I remember th…

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    Comment #13060177

    Somehow title lost @ at the end. Is it some kind of forbidden character?

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    Comment #12042331

    Can be useful. Thanks for sharing! I usually used sxc.hu so far, which became FreeImages.com some time ago.

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    Comment #11423214

    Similar thoughts. :) He's author of great stuff out there, but I think his works should be treated more as showing the way of doing this or that than making you stick to his partic…

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    Comment #11071670

    It's MLT, not MELT. And it's a base for other video editor, which is getting stronger each year, seems more stable than the others and already looks IMHO the best among FOSS video …

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    Comment #11029044

    I think that metastore will become much more valuable tool, when some planned stuff will be implemented. https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/6 https://github.com/przemoc/me…

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    Comment #11028903

    Let me quote README file first: It was originally written as a supplement to git, which does not store all metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a repository. met…

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    Comment #11028391

    metastore was used in etckeeper in the past. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/announcing_etckeeper/ In less than half a year it was replaced with find scripts. http://git.joeyh.name/?…

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    Comment #11028143

    I guess that some mod intervened here (by bringing this closer to the front page), because even a few hours after posting there were only a few points and it was rather deep in HN.…

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    Comment #11021492

    Code::Blocks was definitely better than horrendously buggy Dev-C++, but since Qt Creator I never looked back (ok, I do use vim very often, but it's a different thing). To be fair I…

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    Comment #11018824

    There was another mail sent to ML regarding v1.1.0: https://www.freelists.org/post/metastore-announce/metastore-...

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    Comment #10791037

    Changing topcolor in settings from ff6600 to something else (like ff6601) brings back the right^TM color.

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    Comment #10209582

    Far Manager is the first application I run in Windows. Always. Lately I've noticed that my Far and plugins set diverged slightly on different computers, so I decided today to creat…

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    Comment #9950969

    While it's true that Michael generates lots of merge commits, if you click the link in LWN article to Andreas Cadhalpun's mail [1], then you can read that following commands were u…

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    Comment #9940353

    About what "Lossy FLAC" you're talking about? Do you mean perhaps [1]? If FLAC would ever gain a lossy mode, it would be a disaster, because it would be instantly (ab)used and it w…

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    Comment #9883622

    FWIW, Google Maps are generally noticeably slower and laggier in Firefox when compared to Chrome.