If the performance of a DOM API improves but Speedometer 3.1 doesn’t measure it, does it make a sound?

DuckDuckGo’s AI summary told me that “disassemble --all” will disassemble the whole target binary in lldb. lldb told me that “disassemble” does not have “--all”.

I've stumbled upon Marginalia Search, a non-commercial search engine for text-oriented websites. "Indexing the small, old and weird web" in their own words. A useful and pleasant discovery! https://marginalia-search.com/

Latest distraction from meaningful work: figuring out what makes BeOS icons look like BeOS icons and how to draw pixel art in that style

Luulin että Pahkasika on aloittanut uudestaan ja luin sitä, mutta tarkistuksen perusteella tämä olikin Yle. 🤔 #luotto #usa "Oikeusministeriön vaalijohtajan Arto Jääskeläisen mukaan Amazon on paras, mitä valmistelussa löytyi. Vaalidatan pitäisi pysyä Ruotsissa eikä kopioitua esimerkiksi Amazonin […]

I was in a meeting where adding kilowatt-hour to the list of “units sanctioned for use in ECMAScript” was discussed and the reason for having the list (keeping the size of Web browsers under control) was discussed. This made me think of mile-scandinavian already being on the list even though […]

Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia. (Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)

A more positive view is that Apple adding an option to do Tinted Liquid Glass and Firaxis announcing the intent to add an option not to switch civilizations during a game of Civ VII mean that sometimes user feedback that goes against the designer vision can have some effect on the product.

A friend needed a new laptop and was about to buy some consumer-grade garbage for ~500-600€. Fortunately he asked me before committing to it, and we found a second-hand AMD-based Thinkpad T14 for 300€. It's stupidly powerful for what he does, has much better connectivity and a much sturdier case […]

I dislike framing current Linux system on hppa, alpha, or m68k as reducing e-waste. If that was true, current Linux system on i386 (non-SSE) would be about reducing e-waste, but https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/11/msg00459.html is the realistic take about that: There’s so much x86_64 […]

Reminder to put things in perspective: People are all worried if Rust categorizes a target as tier 2, but all GCC targets for C and C++ are tier 3 in Rust terms: https://lobste.rs/s/xj4ncv/hard_rust_requirements_from_may_onward#c_o8yhjt

A major distro compiling packages fir x86_64-v3: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-25-10/71312 Together with the Windows 11 baseline and x86_64 macOS going away, this is going to allow SIMD is places where it currently doesn’t work […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115464776039444369 This “quality indicator” is based on opinions like “The continue statement shall not be used.” 🤡

Old compilers are such a time sink. Today’s case: GCC 10 and 11. Firefox is supposed to be buildable with GCC 10. Presumably to accommodate some Linux distro. I don’t know which one.

idna_adapter has been available for a year now. It allows the top level of Rust compilation to choose the Unicode back end for the idna crate that the popular url crate depends on. I created it, because the switch from unicode-rs to ICU4X as the back end was initially backed out due to […]

On this day, 56 years ago: "At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute." https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969 #arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology

Samalla kun THL mainostaa ilmaisia influenssarokotuksia, jotka suojaavat influenssan jälkitaudeilta, THL on... eh... keventänyt koronarokotesuositusta. TL;DR: Yksi rokote perusterveille 18-75-vuotiaille. Tämä ei ole tehoste, vaan siis yhteensä yksi rokote, piste. thl.fi/aiheet/infek...

TIL: The aarch64 default ABI treats the floating-point part of some NEON registers as callee-save, but the full 128-bit SIMD registers are all caller-save. I find this baffling and disappointing, since the same reasons why you want both caller-save and callee-save scalar registers apply to SIMD […]

Dealing with Intel instruction set extensions continues to be bad. This week I learned that while Firefox supports x86_64 CPUs back to the original (only reachable via desktop Linux; other OSs don’t even run on the original), Firefox CI doesn’t intentionally test that that’s true. It turns out […]

llvm has some incredible option names disable arm... lol, oops

Reminder that if you are calling into North American time zone-anchored meetings from Europe, the meetings are an hour early this week. (Unusually only for one week this time.)

Someone thought iOS Live Photos were gen AI, hated it, and got a lot of boosts by fedi standards. There are at least two levels of evidence about negative user sentiment towards putting gen AI in all the things in this incident.

Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.

The closest to “smart home” stuff that I have is that I relocated a couple of light switches by getting Plejd receivers and on-the-waal Plejd buttons. These use Bluetooth Low Energy and are not Internet-connected. As a side effect of this, I got a phone app to control the lights, but I use it […]

If cotton didn’t predate the EU and was introduced today as a plant-based alternative to wool, would the EU ban marketing it as Baumwolle?

Earlier, I helped someone move from a Windows 10 box to a higher-spec but abandoned by Apple iMac running Ubuntu. Wifi worked. Then wifi stopped working with home router while working with phone hotspot. It seems that the ISP (or router vendor?) reconfigured the wifi router to change the default […]

Do the investors feel that this delivers on what they thought they were funding? https://www.theverge.com/news/799312/openai-chatgpt-erotica-sam-altman-verified-adults

I helped a Samsung Galaxy user set up a Galaxy SmartTag 2, and immediately after helped an iPhone user set up an AirTag. Samsung lawyers and product managers should do this once in a while and think if their flow really needs so bad compared to Apple’s. Part of it is that Samsung’s account and […]

Toivoisi, että Hesari kokisi tehtäväkseen tarjota ratkaisuja, eikä vain levittää tätä Microsoftia miellyttävää satua siitä, että koneet olisi laitettava romuksi ja hankittava uusi. Jokainen muka romuksi menevä kone on käyttökelpoinen käytännössä niin pitkään […] [Original post on suomi.social]

TIL that in Photoshop Save As… and Save a Copy… offer different sets of output formats. This was not how I expected Save a Copy… to relate to Save As….

Theft of #crypto accounts for 13% of #NorthKorea’s GDP! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy8z7wxe03o

On Lobsters, https://gem.coop/ is the top item on the front page. Apparently it got flagged off HN.

The Indian national calendar is my new go-to example of intrinsic technology value vs. network effects. It takes the good parts of the Gregorian and Persian calendars while avoiding the bad parts. Yet, CLDR documents the Gregorian calendar as more used than the Indian national calendar in India […]

When people post about a bad thing their smart TV did, I wish they included the make and model and the region of purchase. (I suspect that EEA+UK versions are less terrible than US version.)

Big-endian RISC-V looks like a terrible idea. Good to see Linus is against adding kernel support. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%3DwgYcOiFvsJzFb%[email protected]/t/#m2fcaa49a910fec7475d313f01abfc861bd588ad5

Distro BigCo ended up as the most popular choice, but I find it interesting how common it is, both in the votes here and in various posts, to hold the opinion that the bug-finding BigCo should do the ABI compat engineering despite the software not being properly designed for ABI stability […]

How surprising that an MEP of Farage’s “admitted to taking bribes in exchange for making pro-Kremlin statements while he was a member of the European Parliament”. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-ex-brexit-party-mep-nathan-gill-pleads-guilty-in-russia-bribe-case/

Turns out that when running creduce on nested loops in the hope of finding out what makes LICM not happen, creduce can more likely defeat looping than terminate due to looping becoming simple enough for LICM to happen.

Kun kuulet jonkun sanovan, että on pakko sopeuttaa, on pakko leikata Kysy miksi on pakko ajaa yli 30 000 lasta köyhyyteen Kysy miksi on pakko antaa yrityksille miljardiluokan veroale Kysy miksi on pakko maksaa miljardeja yritystukia vakavaraisille pörssiyhtiöille yle.fi/a/74-2018449...

To me, it looks like https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/140 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/139 tell a different story than the adjacent items from the same Gitlab instance that have been posted around more.

I run into LLVM issues too often. Today’s case: Constants are hoisted out of a loop on Godbolt but not in real usage: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/is-there-a-function-size-limit-for-licm/88355

Pro tip: Have an Apple Silicon Mac _without_ Rosetta 2 for perf testing so that it’s obvious if CI accidentally makes an Intel-only build.

@hsivonen my Pixel 6a got a software update that intentionally reduced the battery life to avoid some catastrophic failure case. Google actually gave me a $100 credit as a result: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/16340779?hl=en If Google can't source reliable batteries for their […]

My unexpired browser history now contains 5 distinct The Verge articles about Anker battery recalls. And mostly for product where the battery is the core function of the product. If it’s this hard for a known name with products where the battery is the core part of the product, what does it […]

Suomessa voi nyt ostaa RokoteNytiltä päivitetyn koronarokotteen, kunhan on vähintään 12-vuotias ja edellisestä annoksesta yli 3 kk. https://rokotenyt.fi/koronarokokote/

Less than a month to (non-ESU) Windows 10 EOL and I am not seeing the consimer ESU enrollment UI. Judging from comments on the Internet, many other folks aren’t seeing it, either. Clearly, Microsoft does not want users to actually enroll devices into ESU, but if ESU is supposed to be real, it […]

TIL: Until June 2019, Mac Pro was stuck on Ivy Bridge-EP without AVX2. Haswell launched in 2013 and made into iMac the same year.

You know what kinds of images look especially good in the new Photos app design on iOS 26? Screenshots.

An older man complained at me on public transit about my pram placement and acknowledged that he had the courage to go against the cultural norm of not speaking to strangers. I rather like the Finnish cultural norm of not speaking to strangers on public transit (unless the speaker is drunk) […]

Is Nintendo trolling the EU to get the EU to write more USB-C regulation?