Notes for December 23-29

WINE Is Not an Emulator. It’s an application loader and a set of runtimes that allow you to run COFF Windows binaries in Linux (or other Intel-based UNIX variants, but with lesser success), without performing any CPU emulation. What it “emulates” is the runtime environment for Windows applications by mapping Windows system calls to its own. So,...

The “not (quite) ready for primetime” tag is eminently applicable here. As someone who logs in to my corporate environment daily (sometimes more than once) using passkeys, I can certainly say that they are borderline usable in very specific contexts, but a complete mess where it regards interoperability. For instance, I can’t get my...

It’s been two years since I tried my hand at this, and looking back, I don’t think I was too off the mark, so I thought… why not try my hand at it again? AI and IndustryI expect 2025 to herald the start of a second AI winter, as both hype and somewhat misguided discussions about scaling laws converge into pointlessness. The way I see it, there...

The native feel and feature set is nice and all, but breaking ssh sessions because of reporting itself as xterm-ghostty and hoping it will be fixed by updating terminfo (which will never happen on 99% of current systems) is not something that seems like a good idea. My immediate workaround was to set term=xterm-256color in the config file (there...

Here’s a funny story: Some time ago, I contacted TerraMaster to inquire if they were interested in having me review their products, but they declined. And then, unexpectedly, I got my hands on one – in particular, I got a F4-424 Max, which is currently one of their most interesting SOHO products due to its dual 10GbE ports and a powerful CPU....