Something built with Hyphanet, maybe?

The signal to noise ratio on Stack Overflow has been low for a long time now, even before LLMs showed up. I was once a high-rep contributor there. Nowadays, I usually won’t even bother clicking web search results that lead there, let alone share my knowledge with them. (And with Cloudflare, which is now a man-in-the-middle between the site and its users.)

IMHO, the community could use a distributed Q&A network, with no instance able to interfere with anyone’s access to our accumulated knowledge.

Without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250710141152/https://www.404media.co/trump-mobile-keeps-charging-my-credit-card-and-i-have-no-idea-why/

I would be interested in a project like this if it were a distributed network.

It’s important to ensure that accumulated community knowledge will survive, and conversations can continue, when an instance dies or becomes intolerable. (Reddit and Stack Exchange have recently brought this into sharp focus.) It’s so important that I no longer contribute to sites like this unless they provide those assurances.

So I hope this one develops into something that meets that need.

Inability to learn from your mistakes is nothing to be proud of. Delete this

Someone misinterpreting what I wrote because they only paid attention to part of it does not make it a mistake.

When they follow up by trying to re-frame the topic that I started into a different one, and then criticize me for not having addressed their pet topic, and furthermore tell me I should have used different words so that they can avoid admitting their misunderstanding… well, that’s just willful aggression.

Much like your comment to me is aggressive, and rude. You are now blocked.

You also said “feel” not “look”.

I did, in order to express that I was thinking of overall sense conveyed by the visuals, rather than whether differences in frame rate could be noticed under scrutiny. Words often have multiple meanings depending on context.

[Edit: I also said “choppy”, referring to the slide-show-like visual effect that most of us have seen at very low frame rates. I also described animation mechanics that are obviously about the appearance of motion. So there was no reason to assume that I was talking about the inter-frame input lag on which you are so fixated.]

you should clarify it in your own comment.

I could, but I won’t. I already clarified for you twice. I’m not interested in further indulging your combative insistence on misinterpretating what I wrote, and nobody else seems to have had trouble understanding me. Bye bye.

Yes but frame rate is primarily about responsiveness, not aesthetics,

In games that tie physics and inputs to frame rate, 25-30 fps is about a 30-40 millisecond response in the worst case; usually less. That’s plenty fast enough in most games I’ve played. And not all games do that anyway. So I can’t say I agree with your statement as a general rule.

What game do you play where that’s not fast enough?

In any case, it’s irrelevant to my point. The comment you responded to is explicitly about the frame rates feeling choppy. Meaning visual effect.

Because the distance (and the angle subtended within your field of vision) traveled by a moving object from one frame to the next is shorter.

The shorter the distance, the more it looks like smooth movement vs. sudden jumping.

Does anyone notice much difference between 25 fps and 30 fps at these screen sizes?

I don’t have one these handhelds, but in general, I’ve found that smaller screens make lower frame rates feel a lot less choppy.

If this news gets enough traction at Hacker News to reach the front page, you might have better luck asking your question there.

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SimonSays make me a sandwich

I wonder if a personalized reputation system based on your votes of other people’s comments, and influenced by votes from folks who have earned enough upvotes from you, could be developed without turning your feed into an echo chamber like Facebook.

Sort of like PageRank, but for fediverse users instead of web pages, and with each user keeping (and seeing) their own rankings of everyone else.

I just checked that 32GiB system that runs zramswap at PERCENT=50, and free -h is reporting 27GiB available. I think that confirms my suspicion.

So, I don’t think there’s any significant down side to running zramswap even if your system never needs to swap. :)

Interesting. Judging by that option’s name, it seems to refer to use of the HTML <meta> tag to refresh a page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/http-equiv

Neither this tag nor using it for refresh is new at all. I don’t think I’ve seen it used to detect bots, though. I wonder what Anubis is doing here.

Archived and readable without whitelisting apnews in your script blocker:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250707190710/https://apnews.com/article/lawsuit-vaccines-kennedy-95a1aa23c3f015f7a35a570f5ef8da36

Geany is excellent. It’s a lightweight programmer’s editor with enough features and configurable hooks to provide the important parts of a full-blown IDE. It renders text clearly, never feels laggy, and doesn’t get greedy with your RAM. I recommend it to people who can’t stand the bloat that’s often seen elsewhere these days, but would rather have a GUI than resort to vim.

A couple minor annoyances to me:

• It doesn’t yet support the Language Server Protocol, so any language that it doesn’t understand will be left without syntax and context-sensitive features. (On the other hand, it does support a lot of languages.)
• It inherits Scintilla’s use of Gtk for its GUI, so it’s an alien app on Qt-based desktops.

I use it anyway, because I find it easier / more comfortable to use than Kate.

I suspect zram’s swap device only consumes RAM when it actually contains swapped pages, but I don’t know for sure. Can anyone link an authoritative statement on this?

I use it on a 32 GiB workstation, also with PERCENT=50 and ALGO=zstd in Debian’s /etc/default/zramswap, and vm.swappiness=60. This is its only swap device. I like that it avoids needless SSD wear and painfully slow interactivity during large compile and compression jobs.

Is it worth it on your system, which has only 2 CPU cores? If your memory-intensive workloads compress well, then I would think yes, for the same reasons that I like it. If you find your CPU struggling with it, you could always change to a lighter compression algorithm.

On the other hand, if your memory-intensive tasks don’t compress well, then no, I would not expect it to be a good use of your CPU.

You’ll never know until you try it. I suggest checking the output of zramctl when running tasks that create memory pressure.

For anyone else curious about the relationship to ICE, here is what I found on Wikipedia, with each → pointing to a parent agency:

US Border Patrol → US Customs and Border Protection → US Department of Homeland Security

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) → US Department of Homeland Security

Sorry; I shouldn’t have written Cloudflare specifically. Their CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.

How do you know this?

Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won’t enable, so I can’t read the archived articles.

What about https://ghostarchive.org/?

I haven’t used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it’s doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall when trying to submit an article, but not when searching for an archived article. I’ll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.