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HackingWizard commented on We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/rajeshrajappan
wjnc · 3 months ago
My parents once took a struggling man in. I think he stayed with them for about three years, up until the moment I was conceived and my mom started planning for a future for our family and helped him get into a housing project. For all of my life before adulthood this man would show up once in a while on his racing bike for coffee, talk and proceed to stay for dinner. He was kind, funny and a tidbit strange. His life's story had more drama than a soap opera, but you wouldn't know it. After my father died I proceeded to look for him, but never found him. I still search online for him once in a while, fully knowing he probably isn't alive anymore and probably wouldn't use online anyways. There is some story in my head that he probably showed up to my dads doorstep once on his racing bike to find other people living there, but was too shy to ask for details. A trace lost.
HackingWizard · 3 months ago
You could always ask the police to see if they anything about. Or Hire a detective if you want closure.
HackingWizard commented on Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5   qualcomm.com/developer/bl... · Posted by u/mfilion
hypercube33 · 3 months ago
Snapdragon does poorly I think because it's a bet if it works or not. Windows runs things seamlessly other than OpenGL (it can run that too but it's not anything strait forward - needs the gl to dx store app thing) but the other reason is cost. for the premium business laptop most buyers (business) won't budge off Intel even because of the "no one got fired for buying IBM" mentality at the big Enterprises Ive been at.

I will say with my 8 gen 3 snapdragon I'm impressed and also disappointed - stupid thing needs active cooling and I'm pretty sure it's bad enough that it's desoldered or damaged the core or something from heat but also you can't get driver updates for the GPU if you wanted because Qualcomm be the way it do.

HackingWizard · 3 months ago
Driver update depends on your OEM. Both ARM and Qualcomm send driver updates for their premium and upper highend Socs. The support reaching your phone is on the OEM. Google has started to push direct GPU driver updates starting with Pixel 10. So, hopefully others may follow too.
HackingWizard commented on A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)   benjoffe.com/fast-date-64... · Posted by u/benjoffe
swiftcoder · 4 months ago
Nice to see the micro-optimising folks are still making progress on really foundational pieces of the programming stack
HackingWizard · 4 months ago
Yes, some sharing Vibe coded slop.
HackingWizard commented on Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good   kristofferbalintona.me/po... · Posted by u/harryday
rmunn · 4 months ago
What's the experience like pressing Ctrl+Shift+Meta+key shortcuts with those virtual keyboard apps? I assume they turn Ctrl, Shift, etc. into toggles so that you tap Ctrl, tap Shift, tap Meta, tap the shortcut key. But that's still four taps. (I know many of Emacs's commands have fewer modifiers than that, but I don't know which ones since even on a full keyboard I prefer the Vim control scheme so I never learned Emacs in much depth at all). Is that annoying, or is it easy enough to do that the annoyance fades into the background?

Also, is there a preconfigured config for Android that can be downloaded so that you don't have to spend too much time in the Customize mode to get started? (I'm assuming, though the article didn't go into detail, that much of the reason for spending time in Customize would be to remap some of those shortcuts to be easier to type on a virtual keyboard, e.g. fewer modifiers).

HackingWizard · 4 months ago
I primarily use Hacker's keyboard to use Emacs in Termux. Bluetooth keyboard is also an option. But, for some text editing sessions software keyboard is sufficient.
HackingWizard commented on Firefox Android to scrap URL from new address bar   connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/montroser
1oooqooq · 2 years ago
anyone still using Firefox from the play store is a fool.

the fdroid build removed a lot of insanity Mozilla puts on the Android build for no reason other than being idiots and pleasing shady deals with google

HackingWizard · 2 years ago
Can you share some examples?
HackingWizard commented on uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview   github.com/uBlockOrigin/u... · Posted by u/surround
surround · 6 years ago
I’m curious - why use uMatrix over uBo’s medium mode? I feel like it’s a lot more effort for only a small benefit in privacy.
HackingWizard · 6 years ago
Mainly block css. But, a better way to block media, CSS, scripts, frames in a fine grained domain basis--more complicated in ublock. Also, limit cookies by domain. Certain websites(extremely rare ones) need 3rd party cookies to function.
HackingWizard commented on User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment   userinyerface.com... · Posted by u/maxime_
maemilius · 7 years ago
Same! Until I found the "Unselect All" box and was happy again.
HackingWizard · 7 years ago
Well, for me unselect doesn't actually work. To top it of I can't deselect some choices and no matter what it won't work. Stuck here.

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