Readit Newswezm commented on The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/jgruber
> What bothers me isn’t so much that Daring Fireball is shitlisted at Hacker News — even though I really did enjoy reading the commentary on my posts back when they regularly surfaced there, and still do when one slips through the cracks.
Did DF ever allow comments on its own website? I vaguely remember gruber once saying: “If you want to comment on my blog, write your own blog.”
> What bothers me is that it’s unexplained. Which, ultimately, seems not so much censorial as just cowardly.
Huh.
> Did DF ever allow comments on its own website?
Not that I'm aware. There's some discussion about it in this post from 2010:
Might be worth giving these posts a read when thinking about a lightweight Rust:
- https://without.boats/blog/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/ - https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/
It's also niche, but https://gleam.run/ might be a candidate alternate language, depending on your use-case.
wezm commented on A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/yo... · Posted by u/wezm
Thank you for the article, very interesting!
How is the copilot key recognized on OpenBSD? Does it appear like an extra Function key?
I haven't tried it in OpenBSD but this article claims that it's mapped to Super+LShift+F23: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-copilo...
wezm commented on A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/yo... · Posted by u/wezm
Thanks for sharing the experience! At Rustup we're also getting ARM64 Windows-related requests recently, so I'm very curious about how well these machines actually do as a daily dev workstation. Looks like your Yoga 7x performs even better than I thought it would!
I'd like to add that actually there is an official prebuilt Rustup binary available for you at https://win.rustup.rs/aarch64, maybe that will lead to less translation overhead for your Rust workflow :)
Thanks for the pointer to the aarch64 build of rustup. Are there plans to update this bit of the website to point at that version in the future? https://files.wezm.net/forums/Screenshot%202024-07-16%20at%2...
Although I wish the author commented about the experiences around the unique (administrative) bits of Chimera itself, such as:
- What's the package manager like, and how does it compare to say, pacman (especially in terms of update speeds and dependency handling)?
- What's it like working with dinit as opposed to systemd? Any annoyances, any compatibility issues with packages that expect systemd?
- Similarly, what's it like working with the FreeBSD userland, as opposed to GNU? Any script breakages due to differences in the switches? Because virtually every other distro ships with GNU coreutils, I would expect a decent chunk of popular scripts to fail on Chimera, if they weren't writen with BSD in mind. This is currently my biggest concern with Chimera. I also wonder if I can replace the BSD utils with the Rust uutils and without breaking things...
It's apk, so well known through Alpine Linux already. Dependency handling is elegant: https://chimera-linux.org/docs/apk/world
> - What's it like working with dinit as opposed to systemd? Any annoyances, any compatibility issues with packages that expect systemd?
It's unremarkable in a good way. It works and I've not encountered any issues as a user. I've not run into any compatibility issues, most systemd units are usually easily translated. I kinda miss having a centralised journal. I think that's something q66 wants to address at some point.
> - Similarly, what's it like working with the FreeBSD userland, as opposed to GNU? Any script breakages due to differences in the switches? Because virtually every other distro ships with GNU coreutils, I would expect a decent chunk of popular scripts to fail on Chimera, if they weren't writen with BSD in mind. This is currently my biggest concern with Chimera. I also wonder if I can replace the BSD utils with the Rust uutils and without breaking things...
Aside from the diff issue it's a non-issue. The Mac OS X userland is/was derived from them too, so there's already a lot of compatibility work been done. Most scripts that are intended to be run by a broad audience already stick to POSIX features.