Edinbruh

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Just some CS graduate trying some platforms
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to the idiots using xlibre: this is the code quality of the changes

Achievement Unlocked!

I have now reached the "telling people at NVIDIA how their hardware works" level.

First time travelling overseas #Canada
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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It Is Now or It Is Never
L: https://kottke.org/25/03/it-is-now-or-it-is-never
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436754
posted on 2025.03.21 at 11:21:47 (c=1, p=4)
It Is Now or It Is Never

There鈥檚 a letter at the end of this post that鈥檚 very much worth the read, but I have to explain some context first bec

kottke.org

Alex Deucher (one of the main amdgpu developers) posted some patches to get the "OEM I2C bus" working, which is the I2C bus used by the board vendors to control their various RGB controllers. I tested it on my Sapphire Nitro RX580 and my ASUS TUF RX7800XT and can control both with #OpenRGB! This is something we've been needing for years!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/commits/oem_i2c

Commits 路 oem_i2c 路 Alex Deucher / linux 路 GitLab

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My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup's Recent Memory Safety Comments

The NSA recently published a Cybersecurity Information Sheet about the importance of memory safety, where they recommended moving from memory-unsafe programming languages (like C and C++) to memory-safe ones (like Rust). Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, the original creator of C++, has made some waves with his response. To be honest, I was disappointed. As a current die-hard Rustacean and former die-hard C++ programmer, I have thought (and blogged) quite a bit about the topic of Rust vs C++.

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