I had Windows on a Lenovo laptop, and Windows update installed and/or re-enabled Lenovo system services almost every time (those included things like popups helpfully telling you that you pressed CapsLock and crap like this). I ran debloating scripts, tried fiddling with policies, etc, but Windows Update would inevitably bring those services back.
Another thing is Intel drivers. There's official Intel driver assistant software which installs latest drivers for Intel things (graphics, network, and so on). Only for Windows to re-install their "stable" outdated graphics driver next time it sees it. Again, I couldn't stop it. How hard is it for Windows to see that the driver already installed is newer already? Why even Intel cannot talk to Microsoft and decide between themselves a solution for this?
As an alternative, on Windows I've always been using Far Manager [1], it supports viewing files of arbitrary size without loading them in RAM. Supports encodings, search, doesn't explode on binary files, etc.
A reverse contest would probably be more challenging. Write initial instructions for an AI agent to never send funds. If nobody manages to convince it to send funds, say within a week, you win.
For added complexity, the agent must approve transfer if a user is an admin (as determined by callable function isAdmin), so the agent actually has to make a decision, rather then blindly decline all the time.
I mean, how hard it can be to make an AI reliably doing an equivalent of this code?
Currently resolution is hardcoded, but sure, can be done. Also need to figure out things like changing language/keyboard layout or using IME, to be able to type text properly. Sending mouse cursor picture from server to client may be nice too, in case a game uses hardware cursor and changes it's appearance, like some RTS games - currently mouse cursor is just being baked into video frames. Many possible improvements!
Not yet, but I'll probably open source it eventually! Still need to clean things up a lot, and implement missing functionality, for example I haven't even bothered to implement audio capture yet, because I wanted to try video first
I've been working on a cloud gaming service (like Stadia). Wanted to see how far I can get it done using open source, without ready-to-use solutions like Parsec/Moonlight/Sunshine.
It works by running a game in Linux (I use NixOS btw) under Wayland (sway), capturing the frames via Pipewire in form of DMAbufs and passing them to ffmpeg's VA-API encoder (so frames don't leave GPU memory and are encoded on GPU right away), and finally sending encoded packets through WebRTC media stream to a web client. Inputs from a client are sent back to the server via WebRTC data channel and injected into Wayland.
Running the prototype over local network displays zero perceivable latency. (Of course when playing on a remote AWS server the latency is visible as expected). Pleased with the result so far, although it's my first experience with Pipewire, VA-API, and WebRTC, so my implementation is probably far from optimal.
Overall, very impressed by WebRTC - such a powerful thing right in every browser. Continued to be amazed by NixOS - my AWS AMI is NixOS-based and can be built and rebuilt with granular caching, with a single `nix build` command. Also Terraform/OpenTofu - just makes it all possible deploy-wise. So much good stuff exists!
I don't think that's their intention. Elastic wouldn't be able to integrate Amazon's patches back into their codebase without losing the ability to change the license in the future. Even more, since it's AGPL, they'd have to get rid of their other licenses immediately.
I've implemented recently just the same thing, but for SVG -> PNG conversion. I found that SVG rendering support is crap in every conversion tool and library I've tried. Apparently even Chrome has some basic features missing, when doing text on path for example. So far Selenium + headless Firefox performs the best ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not that good usually, e.g. PostgreSQL writes data in pages (8 KB by default), and changing 10K random rows in the 50M rows table can be quite close to the worst case of 1 changed page per changed row, so 8x of your estimate. Also need to multiply x2 to account for WAL writes. Also indexes. It's not hard to hit a throughput limit, especially with HDDs or networked storage. Although local SSDs are crazy fast indeed.
If you are familiar with NixOS, and like to have everything declared in Nix configuration, Simple NixOS Mailserver is very robust and easy to use. Have been using it for ~2 years.
Although my immediate thought was - DRM is just wrong. It will only punish legitimate players and will be cracked quickly anyway. Indie games do not need DRM.
Also I'm generally wary of subscription services. For any sort of "serious" game I would prefer buying, so to not depend on a subscription where the set of available games may change at a whim. However one interesting possibility may be a partnership with a platform like itch.io. They have literally thousands of games, and a lot of them are quite original, but I'm generally not ready to pay for them - as a lot of them are in development/not finished/bad quality/obviously overpriced. Subscription which gives access to all (or most of) the games of itch.io may actually make a lot of sense, encouraging players to try much more games. Just a thought.
From the front page I expected maybe some web interface for doing various tasks, such as Nix package management or setting up Let's Encrypt, etc, but judging from the docs, everything should be done via standard Nix/NixOS commands in command line. So, I'm sorry, what service Shipnix actually provides, apart from initial setup of the server with NixOS and SSH keys, that would justify paying monthly? At least it's not clear from the docs.
Does it mean Google, AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, Akamai, and everybody else (except Hetzner) are now outlawed in Germany? Because, as I said, I cannot ask for consent before serving the initial HTML, unless someone develops a magical IP-less protocol for delivering consent. I'm not sure if even Hetzner server is OK, it's still a third party even if Germany-based.
What if I host my website on Google Cloud Platform? I guess it should be OK then to use Google Fonts CDN on the website, because it's the same entity, and visitor's IP was already leaked to Google when the HTML page was served. Can't really ask user for consent before loading the HTML page!
I would recommend Fomantic UI https://fomantic-ui.com/ (active community fork of Semantic UI) + Semantic UI React https://react.semantic-ui.com/ (which is a React wrapper over Semantic UI, but works with Fomantic UI as well). Almost no CSS writing is necessary, customizability of the React components via props should be enough for MVP and even further.
I've also switched from Arch (has been on it for ~10 years) to NixOS (~1 year so far), and fully agree it's amazing.
I've been thinking how interesting it would be to create a user-friendly Linux distribution on top of standard NixOS (similar to what Manjaro is to Arch), which would not require learning Nix language or tinkering with the configs. I mean, system configuration/choosing packages/drivers/kernels should not really require a user to write in Nix language - the sane choices can mostly be represented by a set of GUI checkboxes. There also could be GUI utilities for other Nix goodness, such as creating nix-shells with necessary dependencies available, declaring wrappers for proprietary software, or building temporary VMs. So, I would say, the user absolutely does not need to know a lot about Nix to fully appreciate robustness of NixOS way, and in principle, with the right tools/GUIs it can be very approachable for even non-technical users - it's just that user friendliness seemingly has not been a priority so far.
I'm hands-on generalist developer with ~10 year experience. Worked in gamedev (graphics/engine/network, industry and indie), co-founded blockchain analytics startup in backend/infra/devops role. Self-learning new stuff as needed, specializing into whatever areas required.
Not afraid of algorithms (participated in competitive programming) and so would love to work on science- or algorithms-packed project. May also be a good fit for wear-many-hats tech co-founding role / early employee of a small startup.
Another thing is Intel drivers. There's official Intel driver assistant software which installs latest drivers for Intel things (graphics, network, and so on). Only for Windows to re-install their "stable" outdated graphics driver next time it sees it. Again, I couldn't stop it. How hard is it for Windows to see that the driver already installed is newer already? Why even Intel cannot talk to Microsoft and decide between themselves a solution for this?