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627 | 19,127 | |
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8.7 | 9.1 | |
2 months ago | 4 days ago | |
C++ | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Quaternion
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OpenSUSE Linux Gains Momentum: A Look at Its Growing Popularity
> Meanwhile there have been exactly zero new F/OSS desktop apps for over a decade except IDEs and even those are mostly Electron-based. What a mess.
Er, that's just objectively not true. Here's exactly one new FOSS desktop app: https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion - I don't know how old it is, but it's a Matrix client and Matrix is only 8 years old so less than a decade.
- Haiku R1/beta4 has been released
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Notes on Concurrency Bugs
In terms of shared-memory threading concurrency, Send and Sync, and the distinction between &T and &Mutex and &mut T, were a revelation when I first learned them. It was a principled approach to shared-memory threading, with Send/Sync banning nearly all of the confusing and buggy entangled-state codebases I've seen and continue to see in C++ (much to my frustration and exasperation), and &Mutex providing a cleaner alternative design (there's an excellent article on its design at http://cliffle.com/blog/rust-mutexes/).
My favorite simple concurrent data structure is https://docs.rs/triple_buffer/latest/triple_buffer/struct.Tr.... It beautifully demonstrates how you can achieve principled shared mutability, by defining two "handle" types (living on different threads), each carrying thread-local state (not TLS) and a pointer to shared memory, and only allowing each handle to access shared memory in a particular way. This statically prevents one thread from calling a method intended to run on another thread, or accessing fields local to another thread (since the methods and fields now live on the other handle). It also demonstrates the complexity of reasoning about lock-free algorithms (https://github.com/HadrienG2/triple-buffer/issues/14).
I suppose &/&mut is also a safeguard against event-loop and reentrancy bugs (like https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion/issues/702). I don't think Rust solves the general problem of preventing deadlocks within and between processes (which often cross organizational boundaries between projects and distinct codebases, with no clear contract on allowed behavior and which party in a deadlock is at fault), and non-atomicity between processes on a single machine (see my PipeWire criticism at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31519951). File saving is also difficult (https://danluu.com/file-consistency/), though I find that fsync-then-rename works well enough if you don't need to preserve metadata or write through file (not folder) symlinks.
v86
- Run Windows on the browser with WASM power
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WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
> As a thought experiment, we're almost there! We could technically have `win95.img + bochs86vm.wasm + autorun.inf + msword.exe` wrapped in a "browser evaluator"
I looked into this and... holy crap! We are there. Not for modern programs quite yet, sure, but this is amazing. You can use Windows 2000 from your browser.
https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000
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Is offline-first not enough? Do we need "serverfree"?
I think you are looking for Shadow.
https://shadow.goose.icu
Or just the whole kitchen sink. Why not?
http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
- Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems
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Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
Also: https://github.com/copy/v86 - more productized browser x86 runtime, used by eg https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm
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Show HN: SQL Polyglot
Wonder if you could put all those databases in a Linux image and boot it using v86 [0], eliminating the need for a server.
[0] https://github.com/copy/v86
- Hot Dog Linux
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Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts
Trying it out in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=kolibrios , it's also clearly a love letter to Windows 95 in particular. That could be an unstated goal here, create a very particular PC experience under very particular constraints. I don't know anything about the creator but it's very possible that this kind of work was actually their career in the 90s.
It's incredible how much work was done. Maybe this should be an internet curiosity like how TempleOS has become, though Terry's personality was a unique factor.
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VMware is now part of Broadcom
hmm, why would people still use VMWare? Isn't vbox open source, or even things such as https://copy.sh/v86/ would do most virtualization trick now days?
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Running Windows 98 on the Browser
Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:
https://copy.sh/v86/
My highlights:
- First version of Windows (1.01)
- SerenityOS <3
- and even ReactOS
What are some alternatives?
diffractsim - ✨ A flexible diffraction simulator for exploring and visualizing physical optics.
Chicago95 - A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
fdtd - A 3D electromagnetic FDTD simulator written in Python with optional GPU support
webvm - Virtual Machine for the Web
haiku - The Haiku operating system. (Pull requests will be ignored; patches may be sent to https://review.haiku-os.org).
yoroi-frontend - Yoroi Wallet - Cardano ADA Wallet - Your gateway to the financial world (extension frontend)
pgadmin3 - PgAdmin3 с поддержкой PostgreSQL 16
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
clientpp - Krunker client written in C++ and powered by WebView2
macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
triple-buffer - Implementation of triple buffering in Rust
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin