How paranoid should I be about routers from companies like Cudy that I’m not familiar with? My intuition is “very paranoid, even if I replace the firmware with OpenWRT”.
wxWidgets uses native controls, so just compiling to "WebAssembly" (I'm assuming it's compiled to WebAssembly, plus some JavaScript for DOM manipulation) was probably a significant amount of work. I'm actually curious how it was done!
> I have a machine with 2GB of ram and a single core CPU. It's a low power rig. But cannot run Windows 10, it just about did when I first installed it. Debian runs better, but a browser kills it. It's a one app only.
I put Alpine Linux on my laptop that has 1 GB of RAM and I can actually have a lot of stuff running at once, especially in the terminal (Emacs, SBCL, w3m, Deno).
But yes, opening Firefox consumes all available RAM until I have to power off the machine, sadly. The lightest weight, but functional browser, I've found is Midori, but I probably wouldn't trust it for, say, accessing my bank account.
It's depressing because I was initially blown away at how fast (and productive) old hardware can be... until I tried to use the web.
Is this on real hardware? And does “boot” mean to a login prompt?
I ask because I’ve never had a computer (no matter how fast) boot in less than 10 seconds on Windows or Linux. Just getting to the boot loader takes a good 3 seconds or more. If I have to FreeBSD to get a fast boot, I’ll do it! (On an old laptop, at least).
md2blog: creates a tiny (a few kilobytes per page, with no JavaScript) blog from Markdown files, with two features that I couldn’t find elsewhere:
* Links between Markdown files “just work” (both when viewing the Markdown source on GitHub and in the final HTML version of the site), including anchors
* Posts are automatically tagged based on directory structure (e.g. all files in “posts/linux” are tagged with “linux”)
Bonus: my entire site hot-rebuilds on my 12 year-old netbook in under a second (with a few tweaks that I should probably publish a new build for).
Just yesterday I was remembering visiting this museum, and I decided to start making plans to go back. I didn’t realize it had shut down. That’s very sad news…
For what it's worth, my understanding is that the 0BSD license was similarly not authored at Berkeley [1] and, more confusingly, was derived from the ISC license (not the BSD licenses) [2].
Trust seems like the fundamental problem. I used to trust the people writing Amazon reviews but now I don’t. If I could filter reviews to those written by people I trust, then those reviews would still be valuable.
It’s not a comprehensive solution since I probably don’t trust enough people to cover the range of products I’m interested in, but it could be better than the current mess.
The limited scale might even be beneficial because I wouldn’t have to wade through hundreds of nearly identical products.
Am I being too paranoid?