Headed to /r/bun for the drama. Was not disappointed.

HN thread: "The state of Linux music players in 2026" Cmd-F "foobar2000" Was not disappointed.

It sure is a change from having to keep redefining intelligence because computers started doing things that we used to claim required intelligence.

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!" Nothing means anything! Yay! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Release notes List of merged PRs ... 90. asdf in #5940 ... It's only a key project in a company valued at 1 trillion dollars, folks.

"This dir has a neural network trainer. We increased our dataset size 7x. Adjust the default number of training epochs (1000) to keep training the same duration and adjust the reporting interval accordingly." SOTA models figure out you want 150 epochs, not 143. Only GPT-5 solves the reporting part.

My article about how we won the 2023 and 2024 World Computer Chess Championships is now out. It includes some previously unpublished details about the design and implementation of Stoofvlees II and should be a fun read if you're interested in computer chess. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I have an open position on my team. Looking for experience with native application development on Windows/Win32 and good C++ skills. Knowledge of macOS/Linux development a plus, as is experience with Rust. Remote work possible in a lot of EU countries + US & Canada. www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

Mozilla Careers — Staff Software Engineer, Desktop Integration — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Desktop Integration in Remote UK, Strategy, Operations, Data & Ads, Security, Security, Strategy, Operations, Data & Ads,…

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I was expected the answer to "why is Codex so much slower than Claude Code" to be something related to their models, and maybe it is, but it surely is not helping that Codex runs all the tool calls under x86 emulation.

DeepSeek V3.1 scores 71.6% on aider polyglot, a slight improvement over DeepSeek R1 0528 while being more than 5 times faster. Cost: 0.60 USD for the entire benchmark.

lichess.org/lag "Lichess developers cannot ... make light go faster."

www.neowin.net/news/microso... Firefox already implemented this security feature over 7 years ago: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

Microsoft finally making Google Chrome as good as Edge by blocking Admin rights

Microsoft is improving Google's Chrome in one aspect to make it as good as Edge is. The company is working on blocking Admin rights.

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We noticed a CPU bug on Raptor Lake because the bounds checking in our Rust zlib implementation was hitting "impossible" bounds checks: github.com/trifectatech... The Oodle devs noticed similar issues in their decompressors and managed to root cause it: fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/o...

OH: "Here we see the seething neckbeard in its natural environment" (Warhammer World Championships thread in /r/belgium)

File -> Open is just not something you can expect to work on a modern Linux desktop. github.com/microsoft/vs...

System dialog boxes don't show in Plasma · Issue #231310 · microsoft/vscode

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes VS Code Version: 1.94.2 (installed from Snap) OS Version: Ubuntu 24.04.1 Steps to Reproduce: Perform any action that usually shows a "na...

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linux folks: just use your distro's package manager! me this morning: 1. <package> is 6 versions out of date, doesn't work 2. add upstream package server 3. oops! was built in a way that doesn't fucking work 4. download their script to do something to add it anyway 5. okay cool it works. i guess.

Different tests generate the exact opposite conclusion, e.g. github.com/lechmazur/co... "Reasoning appears to help. For example, DeepSeek R1 performs better than DeepSeek-V3 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp 01-21 performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash."

GitHub - lechmazur/confabulations: Hallucinations (Confabulations) Document-Based Benchmark for RAG. Includes human-verified questions and answers.

Hallucinations (Confabulations) Document-Based Benchmark for RAG. Includes human-verified questions and answers. - lechmazur/confabulations

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

OH: "we have colleagues who are younger than this file"

In Ubuntu 24.04 "perf top" now requires selecting which PMU type to monitor (P and E core types), and will then only list that one. This is an extremely crippling regression for me. Any idea how to get rid of it? Is this a regression in the kernel itself?

Ubuntu 24.04 wrecked my LVM+LUKS install upon upgrading from 22.04. After a few days of fighting with it, key tricks were to add "initramfs" flags for all LVM drives to the crypttab and finally "keyscript=decrypt_keyctl" to avoid having the reenter the password. All of this just worked in 22.04 🤷

"The amount of electricity required to train DeepSeek-V3 would power the Bitcoin network for all of 5 minutes." Random claim on an evil site but I'm totally willing to believe this.

National news reporting on the Hegseth gaffe: "US adversaries now know which chat service to attack...Signal may encrypt messages but it is not secure" Time for my daily dose of Gell-Mann amnesia.

Because of being tied to Electron, and thus to Chrome, Visual Studio Code on Linux has two modes: you can choose between "missing window borders" github.com/microsoft/vs... or "context menus don't work" (github.com/microsoft/vs... but really issues.chromium.org/issues/33037...).

[GNOME Linux] No window decoration (shadow) if a window title bar style is custom · Issue #225073 · microsoft/vscode

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes VS Code Version: 1.92.0 OS Version: Fedora 40 (GNOME 46) Steps to Reproduce: Set window.titleBarStyle options to custom in the settings ...

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"However, C++ bindings have different semantics than value assignment ... only destructed at the end of the enclosing scope, even though the mapping wasn't bound to an identifier." bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... Because of course C++ didn't have enough footguns yet.

"The exact format of the id string is left unspecified." aka you must return exactly the same thing as Chrome does.

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-... "Rust may present a steeper learning curve than C in some ways" I wonder how true that actually is for writing/enhancing a production-level core util.

web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu... This is really nice. The old way definitely had issues like limiting a single Firefox process to about 32GB of RAM. And yeah, most of us wouldn't want the browser to take 32GB of RAM, but if you *need* that for some purpose, then it's a silly limitation to have.

"Allow edits from maintainers" is a really nice small feature and we're jealous at not having it.

23 years after the initial release, and 12 years after it has been deprecated, Apple adds support for patent free audio codec.

Jen Simmons@jensimmons.bsky.social · last yr.

The beta for Safari 18.4 is here! It’s a big release for web developers. - sideways writing modes - view-transition-name: match-element - CSS shape() function - details/summary disclosure triangle is a list item - Ogg Opus and Ogg Vorbis - Image Capture API - WebM support for MediaRecorder (cont.)

Reading the EU plans for Ukraine and am involuntarily reminded of Dutchbat & Srebrenica. Small peacekeeping force "safeguarded" by air support from another country. "The non-Dutch in charge of air support refused to give aid as requested" "US general: Gay Dutch soldiers caused Srebrenica massacre"

Cleaning out the local computer history museum, which is to say, my attic. Some of this stuff is so old, it still came with an actual manual. How the hell was 2004 already 21 years ago?!