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Getting it directly from IANA is always the best approach.

Here is a "simplified" version in various formats.

https://github.com/HotCakeX/Official-IANA-IP-blocks

Re:Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:05PM (#47185596)
Meanwhile, slackware-current has the good old gtk1 and I believe it's only for xmms.
Re:I Am Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday November 09, 2025 @09:27AM (#45865820)
"Welcome to iammarkzuckerg.com"

Okay, the site needs a little revision =p

Re:Architecture Variants in Ubuntu on Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:28AM (#45790987)
I'm really "new" to x64 (I only migrated from 32-bit in 2020...) and the difference I noticed between x86-64-v1 and x86-64-v3 was only with video (with ffmpeg), audio (mp3/ogg/mp4...) and encryption; the rest remains practically the same.

Naively, I believe it might be more appropriate to have x86-64-v1 and x86-64-vN options only for specific software and leave the rest as x86-64-v1.

AVX seemed to give the biggest boost to things.

Regarding those who are making fun of Gentoo users, it really did make a bigger difference in the past, but with the refinement of compilers, the difference has diminished. Today, for me, who still uses Gentoo/CRUX for some specific tasks, what matters is the flexibility to enable or disable what I want in the software, and not so much the extra speed anymore.

As an example, currently I use -Os (x86-64-v1) for everything, and only for things related to video/sound/cryptography (I believe for things related to mathematics in general?) I use -O2 (x86-64-v3) with other flags to get a little more out of it.

Interestingly, in many cases -Os with -mtune=nocona generates faster binaries even though I'm only using hardware from Haswell to today's hardware (who can understand the reason for this?).

Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:47AM (#45643890)
It's sad that no one has commented about Ultimate++ ( https://www.ultimatepp.org ).

I believe it's the easiest way (at least for me) to quickly create GUI programs.

But of course, nothing beats Borland's interface from the DOS era.

Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:07AM (#45360629)
It's almost funny, not to mention sad, that their player/page has been changed, filling it with tons of JS that makes less powerful machines lag.

For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU.

However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvFZjo5PgG0

While they worsen the user experience, other sites optimize their players and don't seem to care about downloaders (pr0n sites, for example).