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gmokki commented on GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code linuxiac.com/gnome-50-end... · Posted by u/upofadown

kalterdev · a month ago

Mouse warping does not work in XWayland. Thus, I still use X11.

David (UI details) beats Goliath.

gmokki · a month ago

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Lands-Wayland-Pointer-Warp

Wayland and SDL got support this summer.

And Xwayland has had support for past 10 years: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Pointer-Confinement

gmokki commented on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres topicpartition.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/enether

saberience · 2 months ago

Yes but the practical reality of it is it can be used exactly the same way as you would do a queue and you can make it work just as well as any MQ based system. I know this as I moved from a RabbitMQ system to Kafka for additionally scalability requirements and it worked perfectly.

So sure "technically" it's not a queue, but in reality its used as a queue for 1000s of companies around the world for huge production workloads which no MQ system can support.

gmokki · 2 months ago

Don't you always need a database after reading events from Kafka to deduplication?

So the competing solutions are: PostgreSQL or Kafka+PostgreSQL

Kafka does provide some extrs there, handling load spikes, more clients that PG can handle natively and resilience to some DB downtime. But is it worth the complexity, in most cases no.

gmokki commented on Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update iverify.io/blog/key-iocs-... · Posted by u/transpute

rkomorn · 2 months ago

I didn't know about this and it sounds interesting, so I've been trying to google how shortcodes can lead to theft as you describe and I think I just don't have the right terms for it because I'm getting results that match my terms but not the topic.

Any chance you'd have article links?

gmokki · 2 months ago

I think he was trying to say that phone theft can benefit the same way as credit card theft. The thief uses the phone to buy stuff before the user reports it stolen. In this case the stuff that is bought is mobile services that are billed for example 100€ for each SMS message. The victims mobile subscription plan gets the bill and the associates of the thief get the money.

gmokki commented on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image bitbytebit.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/recroad

kevin_thibedeau · 3 months ago

If you want to do manual updates you do it in play store rather than the OS settings utility. That is buried under your account settings which isn't logically related.

gmokki · 3 months ago

I have bookmarked the play store update view as separate icon by long pressing the play store icon, then long pressing/dragging the my apps section to an own "app".

That way I can skip the store garbage and directly go click update all apps button.

I just tried on apple device s few weeks ago and it took me many minutes to find the listing where I can update installed apps and it was missing the update all button...

gmokki commented on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2... · Posted by u/renameme

rrsp · 4 months ago

Why does psychiatry need to have an ‘equivalent’ of a sprained ankle?

Most people recognise a sprained ankle, at least mild ones, as a self limiting illness. An issue with psychiatric diagnoses is that they are often not taken to be self limiting and often become a large part of a patients self image. While sometimes this can be helpful and help inform treatment it can also be harmful and I have seen this harm first hand in patients I see.

gmokki · 4 months ago

If there is no sprained ankle diagnostics and doctors just tell you to ignore not being well: just jump and run around as normal there is nothing seriously wrong.

And doctors only react when you can no longer use your legs for a year, otherwise they must be amputated.

Or would you rather have an earlier disgnostic with instructions to reduce extreme loads and try to take it easy. Let's check again in a week.

gmokki commented on Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement codemia.io/blog/path/NUMA... · Posted by u/signa11

bboreham · 4 months ago

Very detailed and accurate description. The author clearly knows way more than I do, but I would venture a few notes:

1. In the cloud, it can be difficult to know the NUMA characteristics of your VMs. AWS, Google, etc., do not publish it. I found the ‘lscpu’ command helpful.

2. Tools like https://github.com/SoilRos/cpu-latency plot the core-to-core latency on a 2d grid. There are many example visualisations on that page; maybe you can find the chip you are using.

3. If you get to pick VM sizes, pick ones the same size as a NUMA node on the underlying hardware. Eg prefer 64-core m8g.16xlarge over 96-core m8g.24xlarge which will span two nodes.

gmokki · 4 months ago

I've used https://instaguide.io/info.html?type=c5a.24xlarge#tab=lstopo

to browse the info. It is getting a bit old though.

gmokki commented on The future of large files in Git is Git tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/thcipriani

dazzawazza · 4 months ago

> People should use the VCS that's appropriate for their project rather than insist on git everywhere.

A lot of people don't seem to realise this. I work in game dev and SVN or Perforce are far far better than Git for source control in this space.

In AA game dev a checkout (not the complete history, not the source art files) can easily get to 300GB of binary data. This is really pushing Subversion to it's limits.

In AAA gamedev you are looking at a full checkout of the latest assets (not the complete history, not the source art files) of at least 1TB and 2TB is becoming more and more common. The whole repo can easily come in at 100 TB. At this scale Perforce is really the only game in town (and they know this and charge through the nose for it).

In the movie industry you can multiply AAA gamedev by ~10.

Git has no hope of working at this scale as much as I'd like it to.

gmokki · 4 months ago

I've been thinking of using git filter to split the huge asset files (that are just internally a collection of assets bundler to 200M-1GB files) into smaller ones. That way when artist modifies one sub-asset in a huge file only the small change is recorded in history. There is an example filter for doing this with zip files.

The above should work. But does git support multiple filters for a file? For example first the above asset split filter and then store the files in LFS which is another filter.

gmokki commented on You're Wrong About Dates – and Your Code Is Lying to You metaduck.com/youre-wrong-... · Posted by u/pgte

01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 4 months ago

> midnight to 23:59:59 that day.

What day is it at 23:59:59.500 then?

You're wrong about intervals! </jk only serious>

gmokki · 4 months ago

There are occasionally 61 seconds in a minute when they insert leap seconds - or did they stop that to avoid crashing millions of computer systems?

gmokki commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev

wkat4242 · 4 months ago

Yeah Microsoft is so annoying. It's also kicking me out every day now (with this passive aggressive "hang on while we're signing you out" message). On M365 business with Firefox on Linux with adblocker. I hate using their stuff so much.

gmokki · 4 months ago

Same has been happening for for a few months. I get thrown out of all o365 services multiple times each day.

gmokki commented on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors” twitter.com/_ZachGriff/st... · Posted by u/RebeccaTheDev

ericmay · 5 months ago

I think maybe what happens is they tap your cards fully possible authorization limit and if you end up trying to get gas multiple times in a short time period (24/48 hours) you can't use your card because they can't hit it for the full limit.

gmokki · 5 months ago

The gas station is supposed to release the authorization after the real payment clears when you stop the pump. So they should not pile up even if you do many visits in short period of time.

In Finland the has pump firsts ask you to choose how big an authorization you want to do when you enter your card to the slot. It will not allow you to pump more than that and the authorization is then replaced by real charge before you enter you car.