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zeratax commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

menaerus · 23 days ago

Too flawed? Did you miss that tiny detail that MR fixes a long time issue for ocaml? This is exactly political because there's no legal or technical issue. Only fluff by scared developers. I have no stakes in this but I'm sincerely surprised by the amount of unreasonable and unsubstantiated claims and explanations given in this thread and MR

zeratax · 17 days ago

I don't get why you do not understand why nobody wants to waste time on a MR where the author didn't even themselves have any interest on looking over it even once. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03... also all the unused functions...

did it fix a long time issue? maybe, but 9 tests for 13k lines doesnt give much confidence in that

and even if it worked perfectly, who will maintain this?

zeratax commented on When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/jazzypants

flohofwoe · 5 months ago

Tbh I would be surprised if converting between UTF-8 and JS strings is the performance bottleneck when calling into JS code snippets which manipulate the DOM.

In any case, I would probably define a system which doesn't simply map the DOM API (objects and properties) into a granular set of functions on the WASM side (e.g. granular setters and getters for each DOM object property).

Instead I'd move one level up and build a UI framework where the DOM is abstracted away (quite similar to all those JS frameworks), and where most of the actual DOM work happens in sufficiently "juicy" JS functions (e.g. not just one line of code to set a property).

zeratax · 5 months ago

idk looking at what the creator of leptos talks about it seems to be very significant: https://youtu.be/4KtotxNAwME?si=e_xwqo5gopKDlOtK

zeratax commented on Winamp Legacy player source code github.com/WinampDesktop/... · Posted by u/gjvc

lacedeconstruct · a year ago

The author justin frankel (also wrote reaper the DAW absolute legend) had this to say about it

> Question: Now that WinAMP's source has been officially released, do you have any desire to hack new badass features in?

Answer: If I did have any desire, it would be extinguished by the license terms, lol. The terms are completely absurd in the way they are written, e.g. "You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software." So arguably making any changes would be considered "creating a forked version." But even taking these terms as they are likely intended (which is slightly more permissive than how they are written), they are terrible. No thank you.

zeratax · a year ago

where is this quote from?

zeratax commented on iOS 17 Is a Prude old.reddit.com/r/iphone/c... · Posted by u/grupthink

zeratax · 2 years ago

optional things like this are fine. preventing me from joining e.g. NSFW discord servers wholesale is not imo. As an adult I should be able to use my phone however I want

zeratax commented on Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel theverge.com/2023/8/22/23... · Posted by u/Xeophon

localhost · 2 years ago

Dependency hell may be an issue if you install arbitrary libraries into the container at runtime. Note that this feature isn't currently available in the preview.

On versioning: we freeze the container image that your Workbook was authored against. You need to manually accept (and validate things continue to work) updates to that container image as we roll forward.

zeratax · 2 years ago

I don't really understand what stops this from happening locally?

zeratax commented on Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel theverge.com/2023/8/22/23... · Posted by u/Xeophon

darkarmani · 2 years ago

It's the dependency hell problem as packages are added to the sandbox environment. If they were just shipping python (standard library), it would be fine, but all of the useful libraries have large numbers of dependencies.

zeratax · 2 years ago

doesn't this dependency hell still exist, but just in the cloud?

zeratax commented on Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App matrix.org/blog/2018/04/2... · Posted by u/arctux

majewsky · 8 years ago

Work is underway to rewrite Synapse (the Python server implementation) in Go: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

zeratax · 8 years ago

there was also work being done to port to python3 https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/2539

but it looks like this hasn't been worked on since october last year.

zeratax commented on Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App matrix.org/blog/2018/04/2... · Posted by u/arctux

lucb1e · 8 years ago

If polish is broadly defined as "something that was hitherto still missing in (claimed-to-be) end to end encrypted chat applications", then open source and a decent profit model are definitely features lacking from WhatsApp. Telegram is open source, but one has to consciously turn on encryption and it doesn't work on the web or desktop clients (and the profit model is non-existent). Signal doesn't work without Google services and requires a phone number and turned-on phone iirc (and their profit model seems to be extorting companies like Wire and helping closed source software like Whatsapp advertise with Signal-level encryption). Wire is the best of all, but the Android app drains battery and everything is web (slow, bulky; Electron). None of the above work in a decentralized manner, either.

I don't know much about Matrix or Riot.im (from what I remembered, it was a implemented IRC alternative), but if it delivers on all of the above (and the article sure sounds like it), then it's definitely polishing up some final features that were still missing!

zeratax · 8 years ago

you can use signal without any google services though, for more than a year now even.

pretty difficult to find the raw apk though: https://signal.org/android/apk/

about matrix:

you will probably end up having to use the electron riot app for a while, but the community is working hard on native clients, but afaik no client has e2ee in any usable state implemented yet (but a lot of progress is being made).

I think the matrix.org team acts as a non-profit organisation, but most of the core team is also hired by New Vector where, I think the planned profit model is to run matrix instances as a service.

there's some stuff about the funding in the faq: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-kind-of-company...

zeratax commented on Telegram Isn't for Sale bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/kaiyi

herogreen · 8 years ago

If you want to use one on your Android phone without Google apps, then only Telegram will work.

I use Tox with my geek friends and Telegram with my less geek friends. I also plan to give a try to ring.cx

zeratax · 8 years ago

This is just wrong, pls stop spreading misinformation.

The gcm dependency was removed 10 months ago: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/1669...

You can get the apk outside of gplay on their website: https://signal.org/android/apk/

zeratax commented on YouTube monetization analysis docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/m0ck

petercooper · 8 years ago

Does YouTube let sponsors/advertisers opt-in to advertising on "demonetized" videos at all? For example, let's say I really want to advertise on all of a certain channel's videos.. can I do that? Surely if I'm happy to pay money to do so, they should allow that to happen regardless of if big-name brands like it or not.

zeratax · 8 years ago

Somewhat...

https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/10/16453306/youtube-monetiza...

>A YouTube representative confirmed to Polygon that there are a number of “whitelisted” partners who are allowed to run partner-run ads on the website.

>That means they aren’t flagged by YouTube and used external sale forces to sell the advertisement for them.