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What method/software did you use for the ear training?

Lack of IPv6 is especially disappointing. Means you'll need IPv4 connectivity for your CI servers and other such infrastructure. :(

Meanwhile there's unfortunately still plenty of maintainers refusing to use version control systems...

Does anybody know of a feasible alternative to Google Timeline?

Access to the private video doesn't sound necessary. The AI seemingly runs in a context where it sees the private videos so comments on public videos can instruct it to generate links containing such info.

Fair enough, I'm not from the US. Globally they're at a roughly 10% market share and where I'm from closer to just 5%. It's a rarity to see any here and I've never gotten to try macOS outside a shop.

> I know Clang struggled to ship improved sorts for their C++ implementation

Clang has no built-in sorting algorithms. I imagine you're referring to the LLVM project's libc++? Though all common distributions of LLVM default to GCC's libstdc++.

Gnome has a "Always on Top" toggle for each window. I imagine there's a protocol for an application to set it by default but the OP's window manager might not implement it or there might be an incompatibility.

Did you report it and did it ever get fixed?

It's in experimental only, not unstable or testing. That said I'm surprised it hasn't even caused discussion on debian-devel (sans [0]). I would've thought that at least enough Debian developers run experimental to have noticed and raise the issue, but no. I thought about starting a thread myself but couldn't be bothered.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/04/msg00004.html

Worth noting is that in Debian experimental coreutils defaults to coreutils-from-uutils [0]. This came as a big surprise and as far as I can tell there's been no discussion. A Canonical developer seems to have unilaterally overwritten the coreutils package without discussing with the maintainer. All the package renames that are in Ubuntu aren't in Debian so you can't switch to GNU utils either without deep trickery in a separate recovery environment.

I'm used to running experimental software but I wasn't ready for my computer to not boot one day because of uutils. The `-Z` flag for `cp` wasn't implemented in the 9 month old version shipped in Debian at that time so initramfs creation failed...

[0] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/coreutils

While I understand that by making the quiz app the author had learned everything and had no use afterwards, it's unfortunate to see it not published. My friend is learning Latvian and it would be perfect for her!

You mean fusion splicing? That's common knowledge to anyone that's done any professional fibre cabling and you can easily find reading on it. The specifics of subsea cables however are much more elusive so it makes sense the article focuses on that.

Seems @zorked is correct about some POPs simply lacking IPv6. I simply happened to hit one of those. Quite disappointing but I guess Bunny is on the cheap side and doesn't actually own or manage their network like big CDNs do.

Seemingly lacks IPv6 though? Cloudflare requires you to pay them and make an explicit effort to disable IPv6. Sad to see it not enabled by default on Bunny.

I've found inverter microwaves for example useful when making porridge. A traditional one at 50% power blasting at full for 5 seconds makes it boil over, but on an inverter microwave 50% continuous heats it evenly and consistently such that it doesn't boil over. Sure you may be able to lower the traditional one so it does it even shorter steps but then it takes longer to get done or the result might be rather poor due to the inconsistent heating steps.

I also could never get traditional ones to heat potatoes well. Scalding hot on the outside, cold on the inside. With inverter ones it's simpler: just a lower power setting for longer.

Unless you have an inverter microwave it simply adjusts the % of the time that the magnetron is turned on. So at 50% you will have the magnetron at full blast 700W for 5 seconds and then 5 seconds off (or similar timestemps). On older microwaves you may be able to hear the magnetron cycling between being on and off.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned inverter microwaves. Unlike plain old regular microwaves where power settings just adjust the time that the magnetron is running at full blast the inverter ones can actually change the power of the magnetron. Makes it tons easier to cook food evenly and calmly. Never am I buying again one without.

It's kinda hard to find them though. Most manufacturers hardly list this but Bosch seems to have inverters in most of their mid and higher-end ones. My favourite is the Bosch BFL634GB1. Bosch BFL7221B1 was a huge downgrade due to the shitty touch screen and wheel along with a multi-second boot time.

> My understanding with Mesa is that it has very few dependencies

Some of the shader compilers require LLVM which is a giant dependency to say the least. But with Valve's ACO for RADV I think that could technically be omitted.

The difference probably is that GCC extensions have been stable for decades. Meanwhile Rust experimental features have breaking changes between versions. So a Rust version 6 months from now likely won't be able to compile the kernel we have today, but a GCC version in a decade will still work.

Seemingly lacking IPv6 support?

Not that you'd usually need this if you have IPv6 but might still be useful to bypass firewalls or forward access for IPv4 clients from your newer IPv6-only resources.

Owning your IP space and using Anycast.

I was considering CBOR+CDDL heavily for a project a while so they're a tad intertwined in my head. I very much liked CBOR's capability of being able to define wholly new types and describe them neatly in CDDL. You could even add some basic value constraints (less than, greater equal, etc.). That seemed really powerful and lacking ASN.1 experience it sounds like a very lite JSON-like subset of that.

How do you feel about something like CBOR? In which stage would you say it's stuck in evolution compared to ASN.1 (since you said Protobuf is still TLV)?

> This also sounds specific to GNOME, as mutter still doesn't have color management.

Gnome 49 should've solved that. [0]

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4102

Anybody know if it supports IPv6?

I recently wanted to do point-to-point Wi-Fi for transferring some data but apparently support for the ad-hoc IBSS mode wasn't available on my MT7925. Wi-Fi Aware is completely new to me and didn't come up while searching on the topic at all. I can't find anything about using it on Linux now either. Anybody have any references on its support?

There's a single kernel commit referencing Wi-Fi Aware from 2023 [0]. iw supposedly supports a few commands pertaining to it [1].

  [0] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.14&id=9b89495e479c5fedbf3f2eca4f1c4e9dd481265e
  [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53594406/implementing-a-wifi-aware-application-outside-android

The explicitly includes Cloudflare as one of the big services they currently used and needed to excise from their life as part of this move. Promoting consolidation from many providers to one while also switching from a generic solution to a vendor locked-in one would probably be a downgrade in their book.

Side note: the site has an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address as its AAAA record. Surprisingly this actually works. Unfortunately there's no way to contact them over email to let them know that it's wrong/useless.