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ratatoskrt commented on ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine   thorvg.org/about... · Posted by u/elcritch
jitl · 3 months ago
Is this in the same space as Skia? I wonder what the differences in code size and performance are.
ratatoskrt · 3 months ago
Interested in this as well. I'm currenlty using Skia (through skia-safe) but I'd be quite open to try another renderer if there are performance improvments.
ratatoskrt commented on German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal   politico.eu/article/germa... · Posted by u/Tomte
bhelkey · 3 months ago
The VX emission cheating scandal came to light a decade ago in 2015. If a 78 year old is too old to prosecute, Germany should have prosecuted him a decade ago when he was 68.

Instead, Germany refused to extradite him to the US to stand trial in 2017 [1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-ceo-volkswage...

ratatoskrt · 3 months ago
Many countries do not legally permit the extradition of their own citizens. In Germany, extradition is generally only allowed to other EU countries, which meant the German government’s options were quite limited.
ratatoskrt commented on How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip   ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-... · Posted by u/rcarmo
HPsquared · 3 months ago
Surely it's possible to maintain control over that while still publishing the source code? Seems like security by obscurity.
ratatoskrt · 3 months ago
I don't know, I don't think there are many open-source third-party firmware implementations for these kinds of chipsets out there, so it seems pretty well obscured.
ratatoskrt commented on How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip   ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-... · Posted by u/rcarmo
archi42 · 3 months ago
The BT blob (or WiFi blob, or general radio blob) often controls low level aspects of the actual RF device. So you can often alter frequencies, power levels and other parameters. This results in the device acting out of spec.

Now one might say that's the fault of the person doing the modifications/manipulations, but regulations in various countries require the device to prevent these manipulations.

(N.B. I'm not in the exact business, but that's my take away from looking into the topic some time ago)

ratatoskrt · 3 months ago
I think often it's also a combination of what you described and big companies being super risk-averse. Why risk breaking regulations if you can just say no?

Then again, lots of Wi-Fi-enabled devices support simply changing their region setting and will happily let you use different Wi-Fi bands or increase signal power.

ratatoskrt commented on Odin: A programming language made for me   zylinski.se/posts/a-progr... · Posted by u/gingerBill
mrkeen · 4 months ago
> In Odin all variables are automatically zero initialized. Not just integers and floats. But all structs as well. Their memory is filled with zeroes when those variables are created.

> This makes ZII extra powerful! There is little risk of variables accidentally being uninitialized.

The cure is worse than the problem. I don't want to 'safely' propagate my incorrect value throughout the program.

If we're in the business of making new languages, why not compile-time error for reading memory that hasn't been written? Even a runtime crash would be preferable.

ratatoskrt · 4 months ago
> why not compile-time error for reading memory that hasn't been written?

so... like Rust?

ratatoskrt commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo   github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore
bandrami · 4 months ago
Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.
ratatoskrt · 4 months ago
To be fair, Git itself is a bit of a pain, and GitHub's main achievement is/was to make it somewhat bearable.
ratatoskrt commented on A community-led fork of Organic Maps   comaps.app/news/2025-05-1... · Posted by u/maelito
vng_me · 4 months ago
Well, the code still belongs to the author, who was paid by the Organic company. It is not even merged and the DCO is not signed.

Even legally, there are questions here, not to mention the "high community principles".

ratatoskrt · 4 months ago
The changes have been committed and pushed to a branch of the main (Apache-licensed) repo, with the clear intention of eventually being merged into the main branch. So it’s hard to argue the code isn’t published under the same licence as everything else. Still, I think they should have created their own website.
ratatoskrt commented on A community-led fork of Organic Maps   comaps.app/news/2025-05-1... · Posted by u/maelito
ratatoskrt · 4 months ago
Ugh... I guess legally it's okay (as the whole code including the website seems to be Apache-licensed) but the optics are not great...
ratatoskrt commented on Just use HTML   justfuckingusehtml.com... · Posted by u/kyrylo
ratatoskrt · 4 months ago
Why does this feel like an LLM's attempt at satire?
ratatoskrt commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war   insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
paulddraper · 4 months ago
> required

That’s…terrible

ratatoskrt · 4 months ago
...why? Seems pretty sensible to me?
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