Zlib-rs 0.5.3 Expands AVX-512 Usage For Faster Performance
The Trifecta Tech Foundation today released zlib-rs 0.5.3 as the newest version of this Zlib implementation written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety. Zlib-rs is advertised as “a safer Zlib” for use by both C and Rust projects while delivering competitive performance to the C-based zlib-ng… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support
Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when building the kernel. Linus Torvalds today merged that support without objections… ⌘ Read more

Watch the Fun Apple Holiday 2025 Commercial: A Critter Carol
Apple has launched their official 2025 holiday advertisement for the season. This years commercial comes in at 2 minutes and features two friends taking a snowy hike, one of whom drops their iPhone into the snow, which is soon picked up by a forest creature, who proceeds to gather even more forest creatures to use … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/12/02/watch-the-fun-apple-holiday-2025-commercial-a-critter-c … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Think They’ve Solved Why One of History’s Most Advanced Civilizations Vanished
A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has reconstructed the climate conditions of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization between 3000 and 1000 B.C., finding that four intense droughts – each lasting more than 85 years – likely drove the gradual decline of one of the w … ⌘ Read more

cat /etc/mokou/yarnd.conf
exec=/usr/pkg/sbin/daemonize -c/var/db/yarnd -u www -p /var/run/yarnd.pid /usr/pkg/sbin/chpst -e /usr/local/etc/yarnd /usr/local/sbin/yarnd -b 127.0.0.1:[classified information]

I know this might seem a bit overengineered, but the previous command until now had the secrets exposed on the process list

GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default
Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code… ⌘ Read more

GNU C Library Sees Up To 12.9x Improvement With New Generic FMA Implementation
Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3… ⌘ Read more

China’s Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Releases Its First Results
China’s new JUNO neutrino observatory has delivered world-leading measurements after just 59 days, offering the most precise readings yet of two key neutrino oscillation parameters. “The physics result is already world-leading in the areas that it touches,” says particle physicist Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux of the University of C … ⌘ Read more

Le Breaking Bad de l’État français
Pour lutter pied à pied contre contre le crime organisé, quoi de mieux que l’État, le crime désorganisé, piloté par Macron et sa clique ? C’est en tout cas la direction que prend la nouvelle gesticulation du locataire de l’Élysée : pour le frétillant chef de l’État, la place de la drogue dans le pays devient préoccupante […] ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Discounts USB-C AirPods Max to $399.99
Amazon today has the USB-C AirPods Max on sale for $399.99 in Starlight, down from $549.00. This is a match of the best price we’ve ever seen on the AirPods Max, and we expect more colors to match this price soon.

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Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation
Merged this week to the GNU C Library “glibc” code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware… ⌘ Read more

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still…). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

GCC Steering Committee Allows New Language Front-End To Land For GCC 16
Joining Ada, C/C++, COBOL, D, Fortran, Go, Modula-2, Objective-C/Objective-C++ and Rust is now another programming language expected to be added for the GCC 16 compiler release due out in the new year… ⌘ Read more

La croissance revient ! Zut, c’est celle des prix et des taxes !
Surprise : l’État français décide, au pied levé, de moderniser l’un de ses calculs. Pas de bol : c’est celui de la taxe foncière. Encore moins de pot : cela va se traduire par une augmentation poivrée. On apprend en effet que le ministère de ce qui reste d’Économie va mettre à jour les fichiers de logements qui […] ⌘ Read more

Saudi Makes Big Bet On AI Films As Hollywood Moves From Studios To Datacenters
pbahra writes: Saudi Arabia is betting that the future of Hollywood won’t be built in physical stages but in datacenters. In a push to anchor itself in next-generation film production, Riyadh-based Humain has led Luma AI’s latest Series C round, backing the shift towards cloud-based, AI-generated video rather … ⌘ Read more

I had no meetings this arvo, so I made an appointment with the woods in my extended lunch break. The 6°C warm sun was out all day long and there was only a very light breeze. So, a very nice autumn day.

When I stopped to take a photo in the forest, a deer behind me took off into the woodland. I didn’t see it before. Also, I came across one or the other clearing. Sadly, it’s all commercial timberland here. Luckily, in a year or so, when nature slowly took over and reclaimed some spots, the apocalyptic sites are then looking a bit more decent again.

Cleaning of the ruin walls on my backyard mountain slowly takes shape. They made some progress and moved on to the other section. The flag on top is halfway disintegrated again, all the yellow half is completely gone. I’m wondering if they just stop replacing it at some point in time. But probably not.

Enjoy! https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-11-19/

Finances publiques : quand les clowns pondent des chiffres au hasard
Youpi, c’est une nouvelle pirouette budgétaire pour les artistes de la scène politico-économique française dont la réputation n’est plus à faire en matière de spectacle burlesque : il manque 10 milliards d’euros de TVA. Et paf, la réalité vient de claquer avec le bruit sec et cinglant d’un chèque en bois cognant contre le marbre froid […] ⌘ Read more

Electric Vehicle Sales Are Booming In South America
Chinese automakers are rapidly expanding across South America, boosted by the new Chinese-built Port of Chancay, aggressive pricing, local partnerships, and growing regional demand. Reuters reports: China has been ramping up sales since the opening last year of the Port of Chancay, north of Lima. The Chinese-built megaport has halved trans-Pacific shipping times just as C … ⌘ Read more

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systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc
Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think I now remember having similar problems back then. I’m pretty sure I typically consulted the Qt C++ documentation and only very rarely looked at the Python one. It was easy enough to translate the C++ code to Python.

Yeah, the GIL can be problematic at times. I’m glad it wasn’t an issue for my application.

FTR, I see one (two) issues with PyQt6, sadly:

1. The PyQt6 docs appear to be mostly auto-generated from the C++ docs. And they contain many errors or broken examples (due to the auto-conversion). I found this relatively unpleasent to work with.
   
2. (Until Python finally gets rid of the Global Interpreter Lock properly, it’s not really suited for GUI programs anyway – in my opinion. You can’t offload anything to a second thread, because the whole program is still single-threaded. This would have made my fractal rendering program impossible, for example.)

Could C# Overtake Java in TIOBE’s Programming Language Popularity Rankings?
It’s been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And “The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python’s familiar lead,” writes TechRepublic. “C solidifies its position as runner-up, C++ and Java lose … ⌘ Read more

Slovensko bez hraníc č. 8
Úrad pre Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí (ÚSŽZ) predstavil nové, novembrové vydanie spravodajcu Slovensko bez hraníc, ktoré prináša aktuálne informácie o činnosti úradu, významných udalostiach a aktivitách krajanov na všetkých kontinentoch. Najnovšie číslo (8/2025) je dostupné vo formáte pdf na webovej stránke ÚSŽZ. ⌘ Read more

GNU C Library Adds Linux “mseal” Function For Memory Sealing
Introduced last year in the Linux 6.10 kernel was the mseal system call for memory sealing to protect the memory mapping against modifications to seal non-writable memory segments or better protecting sensitive data structures. The GNU C Library has finally introduced its mseal function making use of this modern Linux kernel functionality… ⌘ Read more

GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default
Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified… ⌘ Read more

Parsing Integers in C
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Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
MARK SHERMAN,  Supreme Court Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Epstein Trump pedophilia story has taken over the media, so I want to focus on some other major stories getting very little media attention. This is some good news, surprising in a way, given the MAGAt majority that dominates the Supreme Court. The good news is that the C … ⌘ Read more

Chine/US : quand l’éléphant républicain aime la porcelaine chinoise
Si l’actualité française a surtout été marquée récemment par les délires budgétaires des différents partis tous résolument pro-dépense, le reste du monde, indifférent aux gesticulations françaises, continue d’avancer. C’est ainsi qu’au milieu de ce qui ressemble à une guerre commerciale, Donald Trump a rencontré son homologue chinois Xi Jinping. Et alors que beaucoup pariaient, à […] ⌘ Read more

Visual Studio 2026 Released
Dave Knott writes: Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2026, the first major version of their flagship compiler in almost four years. Release notes are available here. The compiler has also been updated, including improved (but not yet 100%) C++23 core language and standard library implementations.

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Trump Quietly Dishes Out More Tax Breaks to Rich Investors While Slashing Food Aid for Millions
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: While American children are facing food shortages, elderly and low income Americans are losing healthcare, and on and on, “king” Trump is giving further tax cuts to his oligarch supporters. It is just another step in the trend that is converting America from a dominantly middle-c … ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Looks To ‘Bite the Bullet’ In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
Linux kernel developers are moving toward enabling Microsoft C Extensions (-fms-extensions) by default in Linux 6.19, with Linus Torvalds signaling no objection. While some dislike relying on Microsoft-style behavior, the patches in kbuild-next suggest the project is ready to “bite the bullet” and adopt the extensi … ⌘ Read more

PDF Will Support JPEG XL Format As ‘Preferred Solution’
The PDF Association is adding JPEG XL (JXL) support to the PDF specification, giving the advanced image format a new path to relevance despite Google’s decision to declare it obsolete and remove it from Chromium. The Register reports: Peter Wyatt, CTO of the PDF Association, said: “We need to adopt a new image [format] that can support HDR [High Dynamic Range] c … ⌘ Read more

Deals: AirPods 4 from $85
AirPods 4 feature the iconic earbud design, and have many great features like gesture support, spatial audio, voice isolation, water and sweat resistance, Siri support, and USB-C charging. Get AirPods 4 for $85 (down 30% from $129) Apple Watch Series 10 from $279 You can get Apple Watch Series 10 for $279 at $120 off, … Read More ⌘ Read more

‘Not gonna happen!’ Trump official says Thanksgiving travel about to ‘slow to a trickle’
Alexander Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been thinking about what is coming in Thanksgiving, unless major good news changes occur in the next few days. Families will not be able to gather together because air travel, as described in this article, declines “to a trickle.” And what where will millions of Americans get the food for a c … ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
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Affaire Gannat : caméra interdite au rayon migrants
La France aime la liberté mais elle a récemment décidé de se l’administrer en doses de plus en plus homéopathiques. C’est en tout cas ce que laisse entrevoir l’expérience de Jean-Eudes Gannat : choisissant d’audacieusement se filmer le 5 novembre devant l’entrée d’un supermarché Leclerc à Segré, petite ville de 7000 âmes en Maine-et-Loire, il rapporte […] ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
Two patches queued into the Linux kernel’s build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel. Being in kbuild-next these patches will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window next month but remains to be seen if there will be any last minute objections to this c … ⌘ Read more

The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
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Lenovo IdeaPad Linux Driver Adding Support For Rapid Charge Mode
Queued into the platform-drivers-x86 “for-next” Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window is introducing the handling for the “Rapid Charge” USB-C charging mode to the Lenovo IdeaPad laptop driver… ⌘ Read more

R1 Neo leverages GPS & compact rugged design for Meshtastic networks
The R1 Neo is a compact, water-resistant Meshtastic device for off-grid communication and navigation. Developed by Muzi, it features an aircraft-grade aluminum base with a carbon-fiber PETG shell, offering a 16% reduction in size compared to the previous R1. The enclosure includes O-ring and compression gaskets, an IP68-rated USB-C port, and a battery capable of […] ⌘ Read more

James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead At 97
ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: James D. Watson, who entered the pantheon of science at age 25 when he joined in the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science, died on Thursday in East Northport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 97. His death, in a hospice, was c … ⌘ Read more

Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20
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Intel’s Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD
Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development c … ⌘ Read more

Intel’s Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD
Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development c … ⌘ Read more

Problems With Move Semantics in C++
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A note on Fil-C
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Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)
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TIL on my bike
Today, with the weather at a nice 19 °C, I took the chance for another bike tour. I had tried out my new, warmer cycling clothes yesterday during a long break from work, but since the weather will be much colder soon, I really wanted to get this second ride in. ⌘ Read more