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  • V2/V3/V4 are the microarchitectures to enable e.g. glibc to search for optimum libraries for the target platform.

    x86-64 was drafted in 2000 and up until like 2020 or something, there was no way to discern microarchitecture differences to optimise compilation. So v2 is basically just anything since 2008.

    Why Red Hat are moving on from “v1” - likely because they’re spending huge amount of resources maintaining binaries for that old microarchitecture and the cost dwarfs the revenue they’re making from continuing to support it.

    With the security vulnerabilities found in older chips that require either a revised architecture or otherwise take huge performance penalties to mitigate (e.g. Meltdown and Spectre), most enterprise customers upgraded their hardware older than 2008 in recent years.

    Thankfully this is Linux so while RHEL is moving on, Debian are still maintaining support for old architectures!

    Whereas Windows 11 23H2 onwards killed x86-64-v1 support entirely.
















  • If this is the actual extension by Raymond Hill, it’s pretty trustworthy. They’ve been committed to keeping uBlock Origin open source, won’t sell data, and has stated they’ll never hand the project over, but simply archive the repo and let someone fork.

    Ray got stung years ago when they tried to step away from uBlock (the original project, before uBlock Origin) and uBlock ended up getting taken over by the AdblockPlus lot. Ray doesn’t want to go through that again.

    They’ve previously archived projects like uMatrix too, an example that they’re not looking to hand over projects to anyone again and leave it to the community to fork and maintain if they want to keep it alive without Ray.

    If you’re concerned, fork the repo and maintain your own version so you can be sure it’s trustable.



  • Know that if you break your streak, no one will be upset. You can post even without it being related to “Day 999 of…”.

    Your health and wellbeing always come first. I read these posts every time and I do hope you’re not stressing yourself over them. They’re super fun but you owe the community nothing.

    Have fun, enjoy yourself, and don’t worry if/when you miss a day/week/month/year/decade/century.

    We’ll all be here to enjoy whatever you share, and if you decide to stop, please just let us know you’re okay since that is all that will be on our minds if you do decide to stop or take a break.

    Happy gaming <3