Free Software, Events, and the Web
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Tom's Hardware ☛ FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code
Contemporary high-level programming languages and advanced compilers greatly simplify software development and lower its costs. However, this way of programming can hide the performance capabilities of modern hardware, partly due to inefficiencies of application programming interfaces (APIs). Apparently, a good old assembly code path can improve performance by between three and 94 times, depending on the workload, according to FFmpeg. The hardware this multiplied performance was achieved on was not disclosed.
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Events
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David Revoy ☛ A free Krita workshop at Capitole du Libre 2024
In just two weeks, I’ll be offering a free Krita workshop (in French) at Capitole du Libre 2024. This session will be a perfect blend of exploring Krita’s features and sharing valuable drawing tips.
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LibreOffice
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Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2024
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks...
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Data Swamp ☛ Self-hosted web browser bookmarks syncing
This blog post is about Floccus, a self-hosting web browser bookmarks and tabs syncing software.
What is cool with Floccus is that it works on major web browsers (Chromium, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge), allowing sharing bookmarks/tabs without depending on the web browser integrated feature, but it also supports multiple backends and also allow the sync file to be encrypted.
Floccus official project website
The project is actively developed and maintained.
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Help us improve our alt text generation model [Ed: Mozilla is quitting the Web and messing about with hype, scam]
Image generated by DALL-E in response to a request for a photorealistic image of a fox standing in a grassy landscape.
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