Upgraded my phone to CyanogenMod 14 (Android 7.1). Dirty flashed over CM13, everything went smoothly. Using Tingle to apply the signature spoofing patch for microG now, instead of Xposed.
If youโre going to do the same: the first boot after an upgrade โ including a Tingle patch โ takes some time, donโt panic. Also, Wi-Fi only started connecting correctly after a reboot.
So Android NDK now supports CMake. Thatโs certainly cleaner than the Android.mk, uh, solution. (Also, more importantly, externalNativeBuild in Gradle is now a thing โ no more manual ndk-build calls.)
Moved my code directory ~/src, which contains Vim plugins, to a NAS mounted over NFS (so now itโs the same on my desktop PC, the VMs running on it, and my Raspberry Pi).
Neovim became very slow, with starting, opening files or even switching buffers taking 50 seconds.
So I ran the profiler andโฆ it was the EditorConfig plugin! Even with the external C core.
โLiterally writing shellcode by placing shellsโ O M G
Got Webrender running on FreeBSD. In particular, this sample of standalone usage works!
Made possible by a linking fix in x11-rs, a linking fix in gleam and support in ipc-channel that someone already made. UPDATE: forgot to send a PR to webrender itself :D
I canโt believe NO ONE made a rewrite of VisualSearch.js / Search.js without all the dependencies (jQuery, jQuery UI, Backbone and Underscore!)
Nintendo Switch? What next, Nintendo Router? :D
Qt Quick 2โs high DPI scaling is utterly ridiculous. Automatic scaling only uses integer factors, which means comically huge UI elements on a 4K desktop monitor where 150% is the appropriate factor โ it literally gets rounded to 200%. The weirdest thing though: fonts sized in points are scaled to the exact DPI of the monitor, ignoring the rounded UI scaling factor. Which means that the UI elements on my desktop are bigger than on a low DPI monitor, relative to the text inside of them. What were they thinking?!
When will UI toolkit developers STOP believing that non-integer scaling is bad?
Linux people are reinventing wpa_supplicant. Apparently itโs not lightweight enough. I think theyโre just continuing to reinvent literally everything for no good reason :P
So itโs possible to control an external monitorโs brightness over DDC/CI. Thereโs e.g. ClickMonitorDDC for Windows. Why the hell doesnโt Windows support this natively?! It shows the native brightness slider for laptops, but not for desktops!?
PSA: if youโre using VirtualBox on Windows and you need USB passthrough, do not install usbpcap when installing Wireshark.
Back in the mid-2000s, people worked on writing operating systems in Haskell! Even with GUIs.
Thereโs also a Squeak/Pharo Smalltalk on bare x86 project, last updated in 2011.
I guess all we have now is Redox. I hope it will become a truly successful operating system not written in C.
Saw a Twitter ad (okay โpromoted tweetโ) for Google AdWords. Weโve reached peak meta-advertising.
Wow, the MINIX 3 cross-compiling guide already includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Also FreeBSD, which is nice. Funny how it doesnโt include NetBSD, the OS they took their current userspace from.
The chipKIT WiFire board that runs LiteBSD is more expensive than the Raspberry Pi, an actual powerful computer, capable of running FreeBSD. Other boards listed on the LiteBSD wiki arenโt even available on eBay. :(