How is it supposed to be pronounced? Is it just gratuitous diacritics? Or should I pronounce it in my native Swedish (where the names makes me think of leaves rather than love)?
(Throwing diacritics on English words look extremely silly to me, since I know how åäö are supposed to be pronounced. It makes something like Motorhead just sound laughable rather than metal.)
The project was started by Norwegians. So I feel like you should apply juuuust the right amount of cheesiness and sort of push that Ø-vowel looong. Not sure if Ruud would agree, though.
Exactly. The exact opposite of the people flogging internet widgets running on a bunch of AWS instances running Arch/Ubuntu/Cheap distro of the week. Unfortunately that contingent is massively over-represented here on HN.
As an European, the political situation in US has never seemed reasonable to me, and been on a mostly downhill slope for a long time. It has certainly gotten way way worse with the current administration though.
Terminus TTF[1] is my favorite monospace font. The key thing for me is that it is actually a bitmap font, which means it is sharp and crisp. I get headaches from most types of anti-aliasing on traditional low DPI monitors. The colour bleed from subpixel AA is awful, but even most grey scale AA (except when using full hinting as well) is just so blurry.
Unfortunately they seem to have missed it on this page.
Looks like a cool search engine! Hadn't heard about it before.
But the search page says "Simple technology, no AI". With this change, that is no longer true though, is it? Of course the definition of "AI" is extremely vague. Once upon a time, A-star search was considered AI after all.
The 'No AI' statement is about gen AI, which is I think what most people think of when you say AI.
But sure if I was looking for government or research funding, then for sure this would be AI. Not just AI, but the literal state of the art AI. Dario wakes in a flop sweat every night, terrified of my breakneck advances in single hidden layer classifiers that are probably at least 30% sentient. It would be so much AI I can't even hold all this AI.
Pfsense/opnsense would be one option (based on FreeBSD). For Linux there is OpenWRT, which you can either run as an alternative firmware on quite a few consumer routers/access points, or install on a PC or Pi or similar.
Caveat: I have only used OpenWRT on a high end consumer router (GL.inet MT6000) out of those. That works well, anything else is based on reading about people using those options.
For all of those, once you set it up you don't really need to do much except install updates a couple of times per year, or if you want to forward a new port or such.
Unix permissions is not a capability system though. Capabilities are more like "here is a file descriptor pointing to a directory, you are not capable of referring to anything outside it". So closer to chroot, except you can have several such directory references at the same time.
You can always narrow down a capability (get a new capability pointing to a subdirectory or file, or remove the writing capability so it is read only) but never make it more broad.
In a system designed for this it will be used for everything, not just file system. You might have capabilities related to network connections, or IPC to other processes, etc. The latter is especially attractive in microkernel based OSes. (Speaking of which, Redox OS seems to be experimenting with this, just saw an article today about that.)
I too wonder that. And it is true on an OS level as well. The only worthwhile change in desktop environments since the early 2000s has been search as you type launchers. Other than that I would happily use something equivalent to Windows XP or (more likely) Linux with KDE 3. It seems everything else since then has mostly been bloat and stylistic design changes. The latter being a waste of time in my opinion.
Of course, some software other than desktop environments have seen important innovation, such as LSPs in IDEs which allows avoiding every IDE implementing support for every language. And SSDs were truly revolutionary in hardware, in making computers feel faster. Modern GPUs can push a lot more advanced graphics as well in games. And so on. My point above was just about your basic desktop environment. Unless you use a tiling window manager (which I tried but never liked) nothing much has happened for a very long time. So just leave it alone please.
>The only worthwhile change in desktop environments since the early 2000s has been search as you type launchers.
Add to that: unicode handling, support for bigger displays, mixed-DPI, networking and device discovery is much less of a faff, sound mixing is better, power management and sleep modes much improved. And some other things I'm forgetting.
There are some people who would exclude all of those an enhancements because they don't care about them (yes, even Unicode, I've seen some people on here argue against supporting anything other than ASCII)
Unicode is a fair point, I do speak a language that has a couple of letters that are affected. And of course many many more people across the world are way more affected by that. I didn't really consider that part of the desktop environment though, but I could see the argument for why it might (the file manager for example will need to deal with it, as would translations in the menus etc).
I was primarily thinking about enhancements in the user interactions. Things you see on a day to day basis. You really don't see if you use unicode, ASCII, ISO-somenumbers, ShiftJIS etc (except when transferring information between systems).
Native code usually refers to code which is compiled to machine code (for the CPU it will run on) ahead of time, as opposed to code running in a byte code VM (possibly with JIT).
I would consider all of C, C++, Zig, Rust, Fortran etc to produce native binaries. While things like Cython exist, that wasn't what was used here (and for various reasons would likely still have more overhead than those I mentioned).
(Throwing diacritics on English words look extremely silly to me, since I know how åäö are supposed to be pronounced. It makes something like Motorhead just sound laughable rather than metal.)
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