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chrono | mpv | |
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23 | 830 | |
3,085 | 25,602 | |
2.3% | 2.5% | |
9.7 | 9.9 | |
3 days ago | about 15 hours ago | |
Rust | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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chrono
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Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
The problem is that this effects higher languages too, because they often build on libc. And on some OSes, they don't have a choice, because the system call interface is unstable and/or undocumented).
For example in rust, multiple time libraries were found to be unsound if `std::env::set_env` was ever called from a multi-threaded program. See:
https://github.com/time-rs/time/issues/293 and https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/499
- Choosing the Right Rust Web Framework: An Overview
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ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning
> I think library authors should be more relentless and break compatibility every few years. We just need some conventions to not do so very often.
I indeed did this years ago---I'm the original author of Chrono [1]---and it wasn't well received [2] [3] [4]. To be fair, I knew it was a clear violation of semantic versioning but I didn't see any point of obeying that until we've reached 1.0 so I went ahead. People complained a lot and I had to yank the problematic release. By then I realized many enough people religiously expect semantic versioning (for good reasons though) and it's wiser to avoid useless conflict.
[1] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono
[2] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/146#issuecomment...
[3] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/156
[4] https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#...
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Simple, fast and safety alternative for unzip
On that note, it would also be good to configure cargo-deny so that a CI pipeline and any maintainer can easily audit the current dependency versions. Sometimes CVEs require a new major semver (looking at you, time 0.1.x and thus chrono 0.4.x), so it's not enough to rely on people installing the tool with semver-compatible updates. Automatically auditing dependencies is really important, and given how easy cargo-deny makes it, I don't think many projects have any excuse not to configure it.
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Will Rust drop dependency on libc and make direct system calls? when ? (Please don't mention no_std case)
libc isn't "just a wrapper". Is a massive legacy codebase filled with hacks, UBs and bugs: https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/499
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chrono 0.4.20-rc.1 has just been released!!
Would love to have people test this, you can leave feedback here: https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/674.
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`chrono` or `time` 0.3 ?
Is it this issue? Any idea what can be done to move this along?
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Some Mistakes Rust Doesn't Catch
In C, I've had afternoons wasted again and again by the lack of thread-safety invariant in various libraries. I've found countless bugs in Win32 APIs related to them not being thread-safe despite the documentation making no mention of that whatsoever. Including stuff that really, really ought to be thread-safe. We had the recent debacle with localtime_r in chrono which is not thread-safe due to it calling setenv. And you'd think man setenv would tell you that it's not thread-safe? Hah! Perish the thought.
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First Impressions of Rust
https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/339 for a big breaking issue I came across when using it to process some data at work. Ended up having to use python as it behaved "properly" there.
mpv
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Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers
https://mpv.io/ has yt-dlp support, if yt-dlp is installed you just need to throw the URL at it and it plays the video (without download).
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Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift}
Author of ripgrep here.
Like automatic encoding detection and transparently searching UTF-16?
Or simple ways for composing character classes, e.g., `[\pL&&\p{Greek}]` for all codepoints in the Greek script that are letters. Another favorite of mine is `\P{ascii}`, which will search for any codepoint that isn't in the ASCII subset.
Or more sophisticated filtering features that let you automatically respect things like gitignore rules.
Those are all things that ripgrep does that grep does not. So I do not favor this explanation personally.
ripgrep has just about all of the functionality that GNU grep does. I would say the two biggest missing pieces at this point are:
* POSIX locale support. (But this might be a feature[1].)
* Support for "basic" regexes or some equivalent that flips the escaping rules around. i.e., You need to write `\+` to match 1 or more things, where as `+` will just match `+ literally.
Otherwise, ripgrep has unfortunately grown just about as many flags as GNU grep.
[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
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PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support
As noted by other commenters, there are several compositors available for Wayland (essentially the bit that actually implements Wayland) -- some are developed independently of any particular DE wlroots, labwc, hikari, etc, and some are part of a larger project like mutter and kwin (GNOME and KDE, respectively).
GNOME's implementation in particular has historically caused a lot of drama relative to some of the others. MPV used to have a pretty spicy wiki section dedicated to GNOME (it still kind of exists, though has been toned down a fair bit and addresses NVidia and some other specific issues more directly [1]):
- https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ/ddcbe1b88a99d2568... (2020)
[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ/a70c96040ad4fa374...
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Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific simulations
https://mpv.io played it without fuss.
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When does autoload.lua activate?
I'm trying to make autoload.lua compatible with a script keep-session.lua.
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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
One example is a script to quickly grab the URL of the current tab and send it to mpv¹ for playing or yt-dlp² for downloading. Or send some JavaScript to that same tab. Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen in a brand new window. Alfred³ has a ton of automations that allow you to do that without having to code it yourself.
- Video Player with Shader support.
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Subtitle's color not changing.
YouTube's VTT subtitle styling is not supported currently, see https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7214
- what is the best still maintained front end for mpv?
What are some alternatives?
GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv
FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
glsl-shaders - This repo is for glsl shaders converted by hand from libretro's common-shaders repo, since some don't play nicely with the cg2glsl script.
VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
mpv.net - 🎞 mpv.net is a modern media player for Windows that works just like mpv. [Moved to: https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net]
Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video
iina - The modern video player for macOS.
time - The most used Rust library for date and time handling.
mpv.net - 🎞 mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI.
libVLC