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I manage my legally obtained content using a media server. Over the years, both hardware and software on the server went through a bunch of transformations which I find interesting. In order to not look at ads on my Samsung TV, I view all of my content through NVIDIA Shield. It is connected to the TV through HDMI and has a working implementation of HDMI eARC that my TV responds to. Because of that, whether NVIDIA Shield turns on or turns off, TV follows suit, which is very convenient.
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the number of clicks at all. If you really want to express your view on the pineapple pizza or just love to click stuff - I encourage you to click multiple times!
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t have any support you can appeal to. If your Google account is blocked, that’s it. Maybe you know someone from Google and they can help you, but for most of us mortals that’s not an option.
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences. Previously, I didn’t have any luck of becoming a speaker at non-Russian conferences - all of my talk proposals were rejected (with a notable exception of Handmade Seattle, which happened late 2023).
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very stressful! The final result was a talk about my work on elfo with the following abstract: Type-safe and fault-tolerant mesh services with Rust
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New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent via DDE can take arguments, the same as in custom shortcuts (#5383). Loading message in tab While a document loads, its tab shows a “loading” message instead of the home page (#5385). Install 32-bit on 64-bit Windows The installer lets you install the 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows (#5379). Changes for this day · Full changelog
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and more capable.
A clip of me singing a funny song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore back in 2013
In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a memory usage problem that Instagram encountered with Python.
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