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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Yeah no, the experience really is ass.
    We use Lenovo IdeaPads at work, a model with an i7 and a Nvidia GPU, and Windows constantly chugs and has weird UI issues, even though the machines are not running heavy software and are on a pretty fresh install.

    • Sometimes when I wake the laptop from sleep, it sits and the lock screen showing my wallpaper and NOTHING else.
      Clicking, typing does nothing, I just have to sit there and wait like 2 minutes until it finally decides to show the input field and let me login again.

    • The Network/Sound/Battery tray flyout frequently stops responding. Only goes back to normal after restarting explorer.exe

    • The internal display has scaling while the external doesn’t. So every time you drag a window across it “snags” in between them while the application flickers and struggles to switch the scaling.

    • Switching between virtual desktops is so sloooow, if you use a different wallpaper on each you can literally see Windows struggling to swap the wallpapers in time.
      It’s impressive how a native OS feature feels like a third-party kludge.

    Great work Microsoft.











  • While Linux can’t mix page sizes between processes, it can virtualize another Arm Linux kernel with a different page size. So we run games inside a tiny virtual machine using muvm, passing through devices like the GPU and game controllers. The hardware is happy because the system is 16K, the game is happy because the virtual machine is 4K

    Insane work, holy shit



  • When someone asked the group who claimed responsibility on Twitter, they said this:

    They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.

    Later they made a long Tweet saying even more.

    I’ll be fully honest, I do not get it. At all.
    You’d think they’d be attacking some government website or even FAANG if they really wanted to say something.
    Looking through their feed, seems like most of their attacks are DDOS. Guess IA was one of the few they actually managed to breach.

    Picking on easy targets is lame.