Improved GPU Reset Recovery For AMD Kaveri, Hawaii & Other GFX7 GPUs With Linux 7.3
In addition to the AMDGPU feature pull request to DRM-Next last week that landed DRM format modifiers for old AMD GPUs and a variety of other improvements, a secondary set of AMDGPU feature work followed that last week in preparation for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window… ⌘ Read more

Is There a Way to Promote Open Document Formats Instead of ‘MS Office’ Format?
The Register looks at exactly why “It is practically impossible to move any non-trivial Word document out of MS Office to a non-MS suite and back again without it being more trouble than it’s worth.”

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DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve
Sent out today was another week’s worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month’s Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week… ⌘ Read more

Okay I’m fixing this in lextwt, yarnd and twtxt.app (takes a different path). Soon you’ll be able to write shit™ like (<this>) and it’ll get escaped and rendered correctly on the page. Basically you are really writing HTML here, but not intending to do so, Twtxt never supported HTML, and I don’t think it ever should. We extended the format to support basic Markdown, and I think that’s where it should end.

Probably time we wrote a Spec for this really.

Wine 11.14 Released
Wine 11.14 is out with initial WoW64 mode support on FreeBSD, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run on a 64-bit system without relying on 32-bit multilib support. The release also adds Start Menu icon support in Wine Explorer, 7.1 format conversions in DirectSound, AES-GMAC support in BCrypt, and 21 bug fixes affecting apps and games including Adobe Reader, Heroes of the Storm, and Age of Empires I and II. Additional details can b … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Finally, your software is just perfect and finished by now, no need to report non-existing bugs or send in code changes. :-) How many tickets and merge requests did you get before moving to your own server?

I have to admit that I use git format-patch so rarely, I always have to pull it up from my shell history. Haven’t used git send-email even once. I definitely have to look into that soon. Wanted to do that for several years. I typically upload the patch to my server and send a link via IRC.

Maybe I was just very unlucky, but my experience is that you can perfectly ignore people and their work who only do it for the “fame”. It’s almost always been from inferior quality to say the least.

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmmm, I have no idea how to solve that problem. 😅 Some jenny stuff aside, I received zero bug reports or code contributions since leaving GitHub in 2018.

I thought I had made that super easy, because you can just send me an email – no sign-up process, nothing. But that’s way too old-school, people don’t know how to use git format-patch (let alone git send-email) and they also don’t understand that they can just send me a link to their forked Git repo (which can be hosted anywhere). Git is super flexible and powerful, but those features are hardly ever used.

Maybe people even need some kind “reward”, or “fame”. Like those “achievements” that you can unlock on GitHub. (Something to put in their CV … ?)

After many months of hard™ work, I’ve finally been able to get Mu (µ) lang to a point where the duplication of machine code / assembly between the ARM64/AMD64 and Mach-O and ELF formats are not all eliminated. This now means that writing a new backend target os/arch for Mu is now relatively simple to do, or far less duplicated work/effort.

@david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net No worries, I was just trying it on for size.

I played it again today (10/12 on first try), but I can’t say that I love the format of the “share link” (the unnecessary yellow and green circles).

I think if I did want to post daily scores or something (for posterity), I’d likely setup a separate feed just for my “achievements”. 😁

@prologic@twtxt.net For what it’s worth, the twt hash extension is specifically modeled after yarnd’s implementation with all the quirks coming from Go’s stdlib: https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html#timestamp-format

“All timezones representing UTC must be formatted using the designated Zulu indicator Z rather than the numeric offsets +00:00 or -00:00. If the timestamp does not explicitly include any timezone information, it must be assumed to be in UTC.”

Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP’s Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it’s interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project’s Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM “Color Format” Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more

Academy Software Foundation Announces The “Wayland For Artists Working Group”
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists… ⌘ Read more

I now decided to include the alternatives: https://lyse.isobeef.org/code-readability/#alternative-timestamp-formattings

Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, great timing! :-D I love your article and agree with almost all your points.

On the AI changelog part, though, I’d rather recommend to just not have a changelog at all.

Another important thing for me is the deprecation notice section. What do I need to look out for in the future? Should I start to migrate to another API soon? Even right now? Or does it have time?

While going through these terrible GitHub release pages, I also found these “New Project Contributors” sections (yeah, for that, they found the time to make a section) annoying. Don’t get me wrong, sure, credit where credit is due. But come on. Soooooo much space for an inefficiently formatted (and also unsorted) list. At least it was easy enough to skip over it.

And then, there are also these changelogs or rather notice documents in general that are infested with multicolored emojis all over the place. My brain’s spam filter kicks in and shoves everything to /dev/null immediately. It’s especially a thing at work.

In my previous work project, we also used the Keep A Changelog Format. That was great. You wouldn’t believe how often I resorted back to that document. At least twice a week, often several times a day. I was very glad that we put in this effort. Of course, writing the changelog took its time, but it was worth every minute and more. Reading a many months old item, it was immediately clear. I was our best customer in that regard.

Now, it’s just the same auto shitshow with MR titles in a rolling date-versioned release scheme. It’s just our team who has to deal with that, though. I think I’m the only one who is not a fan of it.

Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes
It’s crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification… ⌘ Read more

HTML is a native image format, hear me out
Article URL: https://hmml.eddocu.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488553

Points: 7

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New-look Brisbane Times Quiz: What was the mystery light in the sky above Queensland?
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House of the Dragon Star Shares Hopeful Update on Another GOT Prequel Series
A new update suggests HBO has not abandoned plans for another Game of Thrones prequel. Steve Toussaint, who plays Corlys Velaryon in House of the Dragon, recently addressed the status of the long-rumored Sea Snake spin-off. He indicated that development is still ongoing and shared new details about the format. However, as of now, the […]

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Julia Roberts & Hugh Grant’s Notting Hill Gets New 4K UHD & Blu-ray Release
The beloved Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant rom-com just got the upgrade fans have been waiting for. Notting Hill arrives in a brand-new home release format with plenty of bonus content for longtime viewers. What to know about the new Notting Hill 4K UHD and Blu-ray release Variety reported that Notting Hill is getting a new 4K UHD, Blu-ray and […]

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Kosovo: la formation d’Albin Kurti remporte les législatives, mais en recul
Le score en recul du premier ministre laisse présager des négociations compliquées sur la nouvelle majorité, alors que le petit pays des Balkans est confronté depuis seize mois à une paralysie institutionnelle. ⌘ Read more

Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428796

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The Odyssey’s MPA Rating Isn’t as Risky as Its High Budget Seems
The MPA rating for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey has been revealed. Despite the large scale of the movie, its surprising rating as risky as some might think it is. With premium format showings of The Odyssey officially going on sale this week, theaters began showcasing full profiles for the film. This means we also learned the […]

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The Odyssey: Which Version of Christopher Nolan Movie Should You Watch? Premium Formats Explained
Tickets for The Odyssey in IMAX and premium large formats have gone on sale ahead of it’s release next month. The demand was so high that ticketing services like AMC and Fandango experienced massive disruptions, leading to long wait times. You might be asking, “What is the best way to watch The Odyssey?” As an […]

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The Odyssey Website Lets Fans Compare How Different Each Format Looks
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is giving fans a closer look at how the film will appear across different theatrical formats before its release. The movie’s official website now includes an interactive feature that lets visitors compare aspect ratios and image presentation in real time. The Odyssey website reveals how different the movie looks across formats […]

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[$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata
Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been
around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format,
has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing
need to make use of package metadata for more than software management: for
example, in vulnerability scans, software bills of materials (SBOMs), and more. On
May 19, Damián Vicino spoke at the [Open Source Summit North America](https://events.linux … ⌘ Read more

Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source)
Article URL: https://github.com/arunkatherashala/Kore

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340528

Points: 4

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Aha, yesterday’s newly added support for LC_TIME to render localized timestamps also broke the feed parsing with my LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 environment. :-)

Atom feeds make use of RFC 3339 timestamps. They are first converted into RFC 882 timestamp representation, which is the one that RSS feeds use. However, this conversion now results in localized RFC 882 timestamps, which cannot be parsed into Unix timestamp numbers via curl_getdate(…). I bet that it doesn’t know about the localization at all and expects English month and weekday names. Looking at its docs, I reckon that function was selected because of its myriad of supported timestamp formats: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_getdate.html RFC 3339 is not included, though, hence the transformation up front.

The intermediate Item objects in the parser domain use std::string for the timestamp representation. This isn’t all that silly, because Newsboat supports all sorts of different feed formats with different timestamp formats. These RFC 883 timestamps are centrally parsed into time_t.

Speaking of time: It’s time to go to bed after this late bug hunting fun. :-)

Webb Discovers One of the Universe’s First Galaxies
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy contains almost no heavy elements, shows signs of intense early stellar radiation, and could offer a rare glimpse into the first stages of galaxy formation. Phys.org reports: In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team o … ⌘ Read more

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Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers
Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux open-source graphics driver team isn’t done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that w … ⌘ Read more

Face au RN, le Crif veut contenir la tentation de la communauté juive
En interne, certaines voix du Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France militent pour accepter de dialoguer avec la formation d’extrême droite. Une majorité de ses membres refuse toutefois d’offrir ce trophée au RN, tout en renvoyant dos à dos le parti avec La France insoumise. ⌘ Read more

OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta’s Content-Aware Compression Software
Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there’s finally a new OpenZL software release available… ⌘ Read more

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems
The Flattened Image Tree “FIT” 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file… ⌘ Read more

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@bender@twtxt.net Glad you like it. At least it’s in landscape format. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Really depends on the genre, I guess. 🤔 Quite a lot of “non-pop” music still uses the format “concept album”, I think. 🤔 But don’t ask me for any solid statistics. 😅

Opera GX Browser Gets Flatpak’ed & Snap’ed On Linux
Last month Opera released the Opera GX gaming-focused web browser for Linux. It rolled out in RPM and Debian package format support while now for those interested is also available via Flatpak and Snap sandboxed app formats… ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image
Robin Candau has announced
the availability of a bit-for-bit reproducible container image for
Arch Linux:

The bit-for-bit reproducibility of the image is confirmed by digest
equality across builds ( podman inspect --format '{{.Digest}}' <image>) and by running diffoci
to compare builds. We provide d … ⌘ Read more

Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”

Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got “superfloppy” formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those w … ⌘ Read more

PEP 829: Structured Startup Configuration via .site.toml Files
This PEP proposes a TOML-based configuration file format to replace the .pth file mechanism used by site.py during interpreter startup. The new format, using files named .site.toml, provides structured configuration for extending sys.path and executing package initialization code, replacing the current ad-hoc .pth format that conflates path configuration with arbitrary code execution. ⌘ Read more

GIMP 3.2.2 Released With Minor UI/UX Updates & Bug Fixes
It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work… ⌘ Read more

I’m supporting incremental SQLite schema changes to just upgrade from an older database version to whatever the current software version supports. In the past, I already noticed that this is quite expensive in unit tests when each test case runs through the entire schema patches and applies them one by one.

To speed up test execution I now decided that I finally go through the troubles of maintaining both a set of incremental patches and a full schema setup in one go. A unit test verifies that both ways end up with the same structure. This gives me a set of SQLs to check the structures:

SELECT type, name, tbl_name, sql
FROM sqlite_schema
ORDER BY type, name, tbl_name

Unfortunately, the resulting CREATE TABLE SQL queries are formatted differently, depending on whether the full schema was set up in one big step or the structure had been modified with ALTER TABLE. Mainly, added columns are not on their own lines but appended in one physical line. That’s why I wanted an SQL formatting tool. Since I didn’t find one that works decently, I’m now doing some simple string manipulation. Joining consecutive whitespace into a single space character, removing spaces before commas and closing parentheses and spaces after opening parentheses. This works surpringly good enough. Of course, if it fails, the “diff” is absolutely horrendous.

Now for the cool part, my test execution dropped from around 5:05 minutes to just 1:32 minutes! I call that a win.

I just stumbled across PRAGMA table_info('tablename') https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_table_info, PRAGMA foreign_key_list('tablename') and friends. I guess, I have to play with that, now. It’s probably much better to use than the SQL text approach.

AMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium… ⌘ Read more

Nice cloud formations this evening. Obviously, they looked much cooler in person. https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-03-09/

The National Videogame Museum Acquires the Mythical Nintendo Playstation
The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF-1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the canceled Nintendo PlayStation. Engadget reports: Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resultin … ⌘ Read more

LibreOffice Says Its UI Is Way Better Than Microsoft Office’s
darwinmac writes: While many users choose Microsoft Office over LibreOffice because of its support for the proprietary formats (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx), others prefer Office for its “better” ribbon interface. These users often criticize LibreOffice for having a “clunky” UI instead of the “standard” ribbon interface you would find in Word, Excel, and ot … ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me You need to use the RFC3339 format. I would recommend you read the specs at https://twtxt.dev – This is what is used by many moden clients these days 😅