OPAW: Fuzzy Extractors are Practical

I miss Adrian Colyer's "The Morning Paper" where he discussed one research paper per day - it was a great read and I learned a lot. I'll probably never be able to match his quality and throughput, but I actually do read papers (or, more lazily, watch their presentations) and wanted to keep up Adrian's … Continue reading OPAW: Fuzzy Extractors are Practical →

Docker, Ollama, Ubuntu & Radeon GPU

Just a quickie: this is the command I'm using on my Acer Nitro latop to run Ollama in Docker with GPU acceleration: group_id_video=$(getent group video | cut -d: -f3) group_id_render=$(getent group render | cut -d: -f3) docker run -d \ --privileged \ --device /dev/kfd \ --device /dev/dri \ --volume ollama:/root/.ollama \ --volume "/some/path/ollama:/images" \ --group-add … Continue reading Docker, Ollama, Ubuntu & Radeon GPU →

Open Watcom C/C++ Compiler: 16-bit 8086 Optimisations Report

A while back I picked up retro programming as a hobby. When programming for the 8086 DOS platform, Open Watcom is indispensable. It runs on both Linux and Windows, produces DOS binaries, has detailed documentation and a whole arsenal of tools. It's also rather fast and produces performant code. Unfortunately there isn't much documentation about … Continue reading Open Watcom C/C++ Compiler: 16-bit 8086 Optimisations Report →

Adding an entry to Nautilus’ context menu

I'm missing, dearly, the "Play with VLC" context menu entry in Ubuntu 24.04. There's a cumbersome workaround(open -> with -> *scroll scroll scroll* -> VLC), but I want something faster. What started as a side quest for some convenience eventually taught me how to add arbitrary functionality to Ubuntu's file manager context menus. Step 1: … Continue reading Adding an entry to Nautilus’ context menu →

Automated regression testing DOS programs with DOSBox-X

Developing for retro platforms like DOS doesn't mean you have to abandon modern development practices. In this post, I'll share how to implement a robust end-to-end regression testing for DOS programs, eg. tools or games. There's also some code [git]. Bill of materials Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 (other distros probably work as well) awk, bash (should … Continue reading Automated regression testing DOS programs with DOSBox-X →