Wow - bonkers to have a warship that might not be able to feed its crew should it be in a war situation when they can’t get the approved contractors onboard.

VirtIO was originally developed as a device para-virtualization as part of KVM but it is now an OASIS standard: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.3/virtio-v1.3.html which a number of hypervisors/VMM’s support.

The line between what a hypervisor (like KVM) does and what is delegated to a Virtual Machine Monitor - VMM (like QEMU) is fairly blurry. There is always an additional cost to leaving the hypervisor to the VMM so it tends to be for configuration and lifetime management. However VirtIO is fairly well designed so the bulk of VirtIO data transactions can be processed by a dedicated thread which just gets nudged by the kernel when it needs to do stuff leaving the VM cores to just continue running.

I should add HVF tends to delegate most things to the VMM rather than deal with things in the hypervisor. It makes for a simpler hypervisor interface although not quite as performance tuned as KVM can be for big servers.

No the Apple hypervisor is called hvf, but projects like rust-vmm and QEMU can control and service guests run on that hypervisor. No KVM required.

virtio-gpu with Vulkan pass through for the VM with a Vulkan to Metal translator in host user space. There are various talks about this including at KVM forum: https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2024/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.pdf

Did Wordpress ever fork our have people just been migrating to alternatives?

Basically you need to hook into decryption engine being used and copy the unencrypted data before it gets sent to the hardware to play. I assume something like Widevine sends the data directly to the system codec for playback so you could look at the syscalls it makes for that.

It’s an ongoing debate in one of the projects I work with if we should move to a more forge oriented development process. For all it’s faults email does provide a good record of discussion as well as evidence of review.

The other option is to use VirtIO with Native Context support as a software based partitioning scheme that is relatively lightweight compared to the mdev approach.

The kernel on GitHub is just a mirror - the primary source is on kernel.org

I suspect we don’t know enough about the mechanics of consciousness yet to determine what free will really means. We certainly know enough about psychology to understand predispositions to make certain choices and humans as a group are fairly predictable.

I think the most useful thing for this is hosting repos that suffer from constant DMCA takedowns. Emulators, ad-blockers, site revancers etc.

It used to slowly drive haters insane, hence mad haters. There was a theory Napoleon was exposed to excess levels of Arsenic over time although that might have well been background exposure. Nevertheless over time it’s not good for you. Neither is lead.

Can those handle the meta data for the track name, artist and release date. Assuming you want a portable playlist that can then find the track on the recipients preferred platform (streaming provider or self hosting). Given that a lot of tagging is trash maybe also included an audio fingerprint for validation?

You need to pair 1984 with Huxley’s Brave New World to see where we actually ended up.

Your build artefacts will already be in RAM as the kernel will utilise any spare for the block cache. The block cache is evicted using a least recently used (LRU) basis when the system is under memory pressure. Using ram based filesystems is basically bypassing the kernel and reducing it’s flexibility to make the best use of spare RAM in the system.

Yep I’ve been a happy Antenna Pod user for years. A double tap of my headphones skips 30s forward, triple 10s back and makes skipping past the ads easy.

Writing floating point emulation code?

I’d pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.

I guess these batteries are going into buffers rather than cars. How do they compare work energy density and cost to the liquid sodium batteries?

There is a very large corpus of FLOSS software out there serving everything from individual itches to whole industries. Any project that is important to someone’s bottom line is likely to have paid developers working on it but often alongside hobbyists.

The project I predominately work on is about 90% paid developers but from lots of different companies and organisations. Practically though the developers don’t care about the affiliation of the other developers they work with but the ideas and patches they bring to the project.

So the entire article basically comes down to democracy is messy and with PR you can’t necessarily predict who you are going to get in coalitions.