Around 108% speed-up parsing many large hexadecimal numbers:
original speed:
120000000 nums in 10.56473 secs, 88.0 ns/nums, 11358547.605 nums/sec
patched speed:
120000000 nums in 5.06768 secs, 42.2...
The other secret trick is to pick the right definition of "performance" -- improve performance by 108% is much more impressive than reduce execution time by 55% 😉
@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/…. Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.
Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers.
it's been nearly 15 years, and these people are still absolutely obsessed with the 3.0 release. It's hilarious how much we live rent free in their head.
@ebassi Oh there are so many wonderful hilarious quotes from that thread. Makes me laugh. "MATE and XFCE are fine for the vast majority of users. For everyone else who needs that last 3% of functionality there's KDE. GNOME has run its course and should be allowed to die in irrelevance for what it did to us regarding systemd."
KDE is only worth 3% over the functionality of MATE and XFCE.
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OK, #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today once more brought you no new apps – but 25 updated ones, 13 of them (so every second one) RB. Numbers getting closer together now with ever more apps covered by #reproducibleBuilds at #IzzyOnDroid – our status currently is
457 apps (36.8%)
and counting. Let's see if we can make it to 40% …
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Thing I want to exist but don't want to build: a #mud that does pretty much the same thing as #SillyTavern or #agnaistic, intended for selfhosting. A MUD would be an excellent interface for #AI assisted #roleplay. With #Evennia and #OpenRouter, this honestly wouldn't be that hard. I just hate #Python and don't wanna.
The way to do it would be: 1. Set up a #docker#Evennia environment, to make distribution easy. 2. Add an attribute on Evennia accounts to hold an openrouter API key, and a userflow to get a users key via OAuth: openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/oauth-pkce3. Use the #OpenAI Python API and hook it up to NPC's to let them chat, generating responses with the user's API key. Figure out function calling and hook it into the various creation functions of Evennia for extra fun. Probably need to store attributes for what models and parameters to use on each NPC, with global defaults probably from the user's account. 4. Dump the room name and desc, the player desc, and chat history into the AI context. 5. Something something MSP/MXP and ElevenLabs for sound effects and music. 6. Something Something MXP for images. 7. Dockerize the thing and upload it to let users run there own muds for AI roleplay for themselves and their friends.
If I either liked Python or was unemployed, I would do this. If only AI coding was good enough to just make the thing based on my design skeleton above.
Stuff for later in the roadmap: 1. Group rooms, objects, and npcs into worlds. Add a keyword attribute on rooms, objects, and npcs. Scan input for keywords and dump matching objects, names, and descriptions from the current world into AI context. Now we have lorebooks. 2. Figure out how to import and export worlds (with all npcs/objects/rooms). Now we can build a world hub to give people starting worlds like AI dungeon does. Maybe have worlds marked public or private? Public worlds can be accessed by all accounts on the server? Copy the world on modify I guess. 3. Some kind of time based trigger system or fuses or something? That way AI NPCs can act automatically to feel more alive. 4. Some sort of method for players to upload images and files? Maybe it just follows and ingests URLs. 5. Some way to have a global OpenRouter token and resell credits? Tie into squarespace? I dunno. But that's the way to make money for people who want to support the project and/or not sign up for openrouter themselves. Also quota for storage or number of worlds?
I don't know none of this is happening anyway so it doesn't matter. I just can't stop thinking about it so I'm getting the ideas out of my head.
Something something Vector embeddings with ollama? For urls and long chats? How to clear and start fresh? When to vectorize? Maybe there's a public API for this that users can provide a token for. OpenRouter doesn't do it. But maybe middle-out transform means it's not needed anyway. I dunno.
Da der Staat sowieso kaum mehr als eine Exekutivgewalt für Big Business ist und der Staatsapparat sowieso längst mit Konzernen verschmolzen ist, ist es nur konsequent, dass ein Organ namens Staatsschutz tätig wird, um Konzerne wie Tesla und Elon Musk gegen lästigen Aktivismus zu verteidigen.
Noch ermittelt der Staatsschutz gegen unbekannt. Doch Aktivisten geben sich bereits als Urheber einer Protestaktion gegen die viel diskutierte Gruß-Geste von Elon Musk zu erkennen.
TFW you love the content and the formatting and the presentation and the story and then you open up devtools and realise it's *so much more*. People talk about "software craftsmanship", but nobody does actual craft like Marcin.
`view-source` and you'll see what I mean. Absolute beauty.
Spent a couple hours playing the visual novel Pizza Game. If you're the kind of person who finds bad My Immortal style #fanfic funny, this will work for you. It's fully #screenreader#accessible in the standard #renpy way, but also has descriptions of the visual jokes; the developer spent time thinking about #A11y, and it didn't just happen thanks to the engine. store.steampowered.com/app/710710/Pizza_Game/#visualnovel
Also, the silly voice acting and humorous sound effects are almost worth the price of admission all on their own. Tip for #screenreader players: press zed to advance. The game does tell you that, but it tells you just one screen too late. When it's showing a picture, pressing enter will activate one of the menu options like pause or save or whatever, instead of advancing. Pressing the letter z will always advance. I don't actually know if that's just a standard #renpy thing I didn't know and never needed before in other games? It would make sense; in Infocom and other z-machine parser games, "z" is the standard "do nothing and wait" shortcut. So it might be a standard shortcut I just didn't know. But anyway, if you're stuck on advancing past the second thing after new game, z is what you need.
Finally getting around to re-posting my 3rd Rock Radar #mixtape, which I originally created in 2023. Still, welcome back to the best new music you’ve (mostly) never heard! This collection represents music that resonated strongly with me during my last few months in Croatia.
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First of all, great timing because I was planning to use a tool like this and it's pretty neat ❤. However, the suggestion popover has some issues. What I would expect the popover to do is: Switch s...
Ran into that too after initial excitement. A lot of wild tapping sometimes works. Even without suggestions it's still helpful - it's not like we have much else with a similar feature set on Linux that's mobile friendly. 🙂
Amazing app! The LangTool abilities compares to Grammarly is slightly below average, but it has added value. Any chance for a GTK/GNOME-wide integration with text fields?
Providing a stable(r) ecosystem, such that libraries thanklessley maintained by random persons and which the whole world builds on are actually stable, and safe
I see the following issue: One of the main motivations for free software / open source was to give users freedom to change the software according to their needs and in this way making sure that technological evolution takes their interests into account. But this is increasingly not feasible anymore because of the high complexity of many /not all) projects where only full-time developers can meaningfully contribute.
Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Lagos, Nigeria, and I spend my time dabbling into user experience design with research, although these days, I’m diving deeper into research. I’m a big fan of books, especially well-written fiction.
These are related concerns about petty people in power.
“Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS” wapo.st/3QizwcN (gift link)
“Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work.” wapo.st/42Z9d2F (gift link) “One person even called for posters to surface Hedtler-Gaudette’s bank account.”
Phew, after my recent survey about code editors for screen reader users on the Mac, I just now installed VS Code on my current Macs and started with a fresh install. And wow, in the over two years I hadn't used it, because I wasn't doing any coding, a lot has changed! Announcement sounds, signal sounds, accessibility help, hover support, viewing everything in an accessibility view, which is essentially a plain text view, and some other new features are really making this a joy to use. And the accessibility documentation alone is quite massive now. Of course, with new editor features there will also be new accessibility challenges, but the overall consistent system of mechanisms is quite nice to use. Here's the documentation for your enjoyment: code.visualstudio.com/docs/edi…
Two things that confuse me in Visual Studio Code to this day are, for one, the tabs versus editor groups concept. Are the tabs purely a visual thing, and each file gets its own editor group automatically? Or can an editor group have multiple open files, AKA multiple tabs? Somehow these seem very closely related and overlapping, but somehow also confusing if you can't see things visually.
The second concept: Multiple Cursors. Can I even use these as a blind person, and if so, what would I use them for? And how would I use them with the keyboard? Replies welcome.
If you're still recommending #Signal, you may have missed the tech oligarchs' takeover of the US government. The best time to recommend European alternatives was 8 years ago; the second best is now.
the only part of XMPP I am nervous about is security. Signal's marketing is quite open in how the communication is secured and how they are improving it over time. For example they already use ML-KEM for key exchange? Algorithm that should withstand quantum computing. In XMPP we have years old OMEMO and no info about future extensions. And I really don't know where we stand. 🤷♂️
Hi Daniel, It's not a matter of government, many european government are shit like US government. As almost always are governments. Anyway, XMPP at the moment I think is the best choice that a person can make to chat.
I'm sure your message is well-intentioned but this is a dangerous and misguided suggestion.
For now @signalapp remains the best option for accessible secure messaging. Right now - especially with the US government being completely rogue - we need secure, vetted, private means to communicate and organize.
When there is a company that provides Signal's guarantees based in the EU, I will gladly use it. Until then, Signal is your best bet for private communications with others.
Are you joking? XMPP is cool, but it's nowhere near to Signal in terms of security. Signal's security model is so tight that it does not really matter from which country main servers are provided, as it was proven to court Signal has minimal info about your metadata, let alone message contents. Please do not mislead people and talk shit about Signal.
XMPP is a messaging protocol (among other things) that needs no introduction to any technical audience. Its various implementations have proliferated through technical communities for decades. Many…
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is now blocking links to "Signal.me," a URL used by the Signal encrypted messaging to share your account info with another person.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.
@debacle wrench is cheaper now, but will it be cheaper in 5 years? Messages can be collected now and cracked later but data in those messages can still be relevant for the attacker then. Plus you have to add the new tech adoption speed, which seems especially slow in XMPP. That's why ML-KEM was standardized now and that's why I am asking.
@norbert If you’re still recommending #Signal you know that it is still the best choice for secure messaging for a wide range of users. Takeover of the government doesn’t change anything about how Signal operates.
Still unclear what's happening in June, around The European Accessibility Act for websites and apps? Martijn Hols wrote a great summary, what accessibility is and who it is for, who is targeted by the new EAA and who is exempt (microenterprises). How to be compliant? Well, you must mostly follow WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines (for now, expect and update to WCAG 2.2 late 2025), and publish an accessibility statement. martijnhols.nl/blog/the-europe…
Learn how the European Accessibility Act (EAA) impacts websites and apps, key accessibility requirements, deadlines, and tips to prepare for compliance.
The 2 deadlines to remembers: - June 28, 2025: all new developments must comply (yes, even if it’s as small as changing a button). - June 28, 2027: existing services must comply (so you have 2 more years to make your whole current site/app compliant).
Learn how the European Accessibility Act (EAA) impacts websites and apps, key accessibility requirements, deadlines, and tips to prepare for compliance.
Hey all, just a quick note to let you know that Notey-Project is going away in 6 days. Feel free to go download whatever you need from the site in the mean time! Thanks for your support!!
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git needs support for merging into history.