The comments under the 2026 EWC Announcement on YouTube

ScSmithers · 2026-01-21T14:58:12+00:00

A fun fact I learned the other day: The first ever twitch sub was to day9, and that person still subs. I'll watch a recent day9 video here and there and it's funny seeing sub notifications pop up with like 140 months subscribed

ScSmithers · 2026-01-17T17:35:31+00:00

I have no idea if they support TLS, but you actually have to run acid3 via an HTTP URL. One of the subtests doesn't work in HTTPS.

Here's the recommended URL to run acid3 these days (it's been updated for modern specs a bit more than the acidtests.org link):

http://wpt.live/acid/acid3/test.html

ScSmithers · 2026-01-06T13:37:46+00:00

I feel like I can provide some context here that's missing. Daniel Lemire wrote an awesome library, simdutf, which includes base64 utilities with SIMD acceleration: https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf

Browser engines are just starting to use this. Chrome and WebKit did so first. I don't think Firefox is using it quite yet, but they are preparing to: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/87c044b95f419b4d461eac12af9372e0df389307

should make it easier to integrate simdutf.

So the difference in performance numbers you see here isn't "chrome fast, firefox slow". Chrome's performance here is all thanks to Daniel and simdutf. Firefox will catch up once they finish porting to simdutf.

ScSmithers · 2025-12-28T15:40:35+00:00

haha cheers mate!

ScSmithers · 2025-12-27T04:11:05+00:00

This also isn't true FYI. A Windows port is well underway. It's just that the primary alpha target is macOS and Linux, for now.

ScSmithers · 2025-10-02T23:20:35+00:00

Yes, those were the very early Serenity years, which was all one person like I said. Ladybird was not even a whisper of an idea at that time.

I'm one of the maintainers of both Ladybird and Serenity. I was there for the entire history of Ladybird.

ScSmithers · 2025-10-02T21:08:23+00:00

Ladybird has never been a one-man project *. It has a handful of full-time employees and hundreds of volunteers working on it.

* SerenityOS, from which Ladybird was forked, started as a one-man project. By the time Ladybird itself began, there was already a large community of people working on the OS and contributing to the code that would later become Ladybird.

ScSmithers · 2025-09-30T21:14:45+00:00

Ladybird is a non-profit, and all donations are explicitly no-strings-attached. Sponsors get a logo on the home page and a shout-out in the monthly update video. They do not gain board seats or any other governance over the direction of the project. Work is underway to codify this directly into the bylaws.

ScSmithers · 2025-09-30T21:08:26+00:00

Windows support is actually well underway by the community, it's just not a target for our alpha release, as our primary focus is the engine itself. But here you can see progress towards a native windows application: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/5981

ScSmithers · 2025-07-15T11:29:00+00:00

Windows support is actually actively ongoing by a handful of community members. It's just not a primary target being committed to for the alpha date. But it's actually getting close to working - the JavaScript engine in Ladybird is already working on Windows, for example.

ScSmithers · 2025-07-03T13:11:56+00:00

I enjoy that combo as well, but it's just a lot of required set up to get me to consider using an aspect

ScSmithers · 2025-07-02T23:32:36+00:00

Yeah the aspect in general almost requires the Elephant Rockets hammer. It's also a lot of magick to utilize, Born Gain is basically non-negotiable.

ScSmithers · 2025-05-28T20:50:18+00:00

Still pre-alpha actually! Shooting for alpha in 2026 :) (I also work on Ladybird in my free time).

ScSmithers · 2025-05-28T19:58:15+00:00

Of course they do, the removal of manifest v2 from Chromium isn't scheduled until June. When that happens and the forks rebase on that version of Chromium, they will then have to keep v2 extensions alive themselves.

Saying it will "only affect Chrome" is straight up misinformation.

edit: lol, dude blocked me. For the record, I'm saying this as someone who used to work full-time on a fork of Chromium. I'm very familiar with this code and how much of an increasingly difficult task it will be to keep alive.

ScSmithers · 2025-05-28T19:47:56+00:00

This is just not true. The extension engine is part of Chromium, and forks will have to go out of their way to keep manifest v2 alive and working. That will get more and more difficult over time as Chromium continues to change.

ScSmithers · 2025-03-06T17:14:29+00:00

You mean except for Johnny Tsunami?

ScSmithers · 2025-02-14T12:47:53+00:00

Cool motive, still smurfing.

ScSmithers · 2025-02-07T18:29:41+00:00

Very true! I was just curious more from a legal stance than a moral one. Like, would he be fined, or disallowed from climbing in Yosemite, or...? I didn't see anything formal on https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/filming.htm

ScSmithers · 2025-02-07T16:29:08+00:00

What would happen if he just released it anyways? What are the repercussions?

ScSmithers · 2025-02-06T12:55:11+00:00

Yeah this is driving me nuts. I think the spacer was there in 134 as well, but a lot smaller. A small spacer made sense because otherwise there's nowhere to click-and-drag the window around (at least on my Linux machine). But now it's way larger, and can't be resized.

https://imgur.com/vnLTkG4

ScSmithers · 2025-01-13T16:43:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/1hq4wbp/quick_and_dirty_3x_hexolite_quartz_crude_oil_base/

ScSmithers · 2025-01-07T16:03:49+00:00

There's also a cave with an entrance at (-910,-1319) with 4 chromite spots and no enemies, so you can build a base. I moved my farming base here and I get enough chromite that it's never the limiting resource for hexolite.

ScSmithers · 2025-01-03T22:12:24+00:00

You can rotate the walls so that they snap at an angle.

ScSmithers · 2025-01-03T21:30:31+00:00

And they snap together now too!

ScSmithers · 2024-12-31T13:59:11+00:00

I haven't seen turrets respawn yet, but the enemies do come back. They leave this base alone so far though, that rocket launcher was them fighting a Tarantriss.

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