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pixelbeat__ commented on Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers phoronix.com/news/Meta-SC... · Posted by u/yellow_lead

tayo42 · 5 days ago

If you have 50,000 servers for your service, and you can reduce that by 1 percent, you save 50 servers. Multiply that by maybe $8k per server and you have saved $400k,you just paid for your self for a year. With meta the numbers are probably a bit bigger.

pixelbeat__ · 5 days ago

LOL (I used to work for Meta, so appreciate the facetious understatement)

pixelbeat__ commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

pixelbeat__ · 2 months ago

It seems dotslash would complement uv well

https://dotslash-cli.com/docs/

DotSlash to get the interpreter for your platform, and uv to get the dependencies.

Perfect for corporate setups with custom mirrors etc.

pixelbeat__ commented on The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel 0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/... · Posted by u/0xkato

pixelbeat__ · 2 months ago

GRUB is mentioned but not detailed.

Here are some details: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/

pixelbeat__ commented on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates lwn.net/Articles/1043103/... · Posted by u/blueflow

johnny22 · 2 months ago

It's supposed to pass the coreutils upstream tests. If it does, then that would mean the upstream tests still need work

pixelbeat__ · 2 months ago

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/14d24f7a5

That bring GNU date(1) line coverage from 79.8% to 87.1%

pixelbeat__ commented on Blockdiff: We built our own file format for VM disk snapshots cognition.ai/blog/blockdi... · Posted by u/cyanf

pixelbeat__ · 3 months ago

I see you use flags to determine if a file needs syncing. When we used fiemap within GNU cp we required FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC to get robust operation.

(We have since removed the fiemap code from cp, and replaced it with LSEEK_DATA, LSEEK_HOLE)

pixelbeat__ commented on The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving dayvster.com/blog/are-we-... · Posted by u/ibobev

theryangeary · 3 months ago

In the past few days I've been benchmarking my own tool `choose` against BSD cut, GNU cut, and uutils cut and the uutils cut is certainly faster than BSD or GNU versions: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose/blob/master/benchmark...

pixelbeat__ · 3 months ago

The benchmark is against unibyte text. You would get more accurate results by doing `export LC_ALL=C` in your benchmark script

pixelbeat__ commented on Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service github.com/chubin/wttr.in... · Posted by u/saikatsg

pixelbeat__ · 5 months ago

Note the terminal -> HTML conversion used to serve wttr.in is based on https://github.com/pixelb/scripts/blob/master/scripts/ansi2h...

pixelbeat__ commented on Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV github.com/TomWright/dase... · Posted by u/edward

pixelbeat__ · a year ago

A similar tool for ini files https://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/crudini/

pixelbeat__ commented on The Elegance of the ASCII Table danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/... · Posted by u/thewub

pixelbeat__ · a year ago

I wrote about ASCII and UTF-8 elegance at:

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html

pixelbeat__ commented on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." bsky.app/profile/filippo.... · Posted by u/junon

pcthrowaway · 2 years ago

Has anyone proposed a name for this exploit yet?

pixelbeat__ · 2 years ago

rxzec