Phoronix do test BSDs from time to time. But for different reasons I think OpenBSd missed twice. I hope to see the performance gap being close enough we can stop thinking it is very slow.
> see the pace of Java development pick up so much over the past few years.
I don't think that is a fair assessment. Java / JVM has been steadily progressing in the past 10 - 15 years. From languages to different part of JVM. It is only getting the sense development being picked up because HN and other social media are finally getting the clicks and interest again. The pendulum swing back because of all of different reasons.
And in reality a lot of these recent landed improvement were 5 - 10 years in the making.
I still don't like its syntax though. But I am not even sure if it is even an issue in AI driven development era.
While all my day to day browsing annoyance were all gone by Safari 18.x, there are still bugs or rendering issues that i had to use Chrome now and then. Safari needs to keep grinding for the next 2-3 years and not cut any resources. I am not even asking for Safari on Windows, but Apple needs to up or sustain its current development and give it more time. Especially memory resources usage and multi tab operations.
20 years later they are finally taking Enterprise seriously. I still remember how hard it was to push Mozilla just to support Windows Group Policy along with other enterprise requirements and they were simply not interested in enterprise. Even though later they did some bare minimum to support it.
China themselves could have installed all of that capacity. But they are limited by batteries and other infrastructure and are catching up to those while planning a bigger play in the dessert solar farm.
They plan to increase 50% for Wind and Solar in 5 years, and possibly double in 10 years. Since 80%+ of all future planned Nuclear reactor are also in China, they would have more than double their renewable energy in 10 years. China is the number one in electricity production and usage, more than twice the size of US and 33%+ of the world. Given the size of China this is both exciting and scary.
If China has decided to save the world from climate change as a second order effect from keeping their deflationary manufacturing system operating and for national energy security reasons, I have no complaints. I do not care why, it is immaterial, just keep the solar, wind, batteries, and EVs printing as fast as possible to the world. We have to get to net zero as fast as possible, and then sequester all of the carbon emissions emitted as climate carbon debt since the Industrial Revolution started. That’s a lot of work left to go.
- Official curtailment figures — effectively, the share of renewable energy that could have been generated but was never sent out into the world, because of insufficient grid capacity or demand — suggest about 9% of wind and solar energy was wasted in the first half of this year. That almost certainly underestimates the problem, given the scale of green production.
- China could have generated an extra 401 terawatt-hours of power in the first six months alone, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a nonprofit supporting efforts to curb pollution — nearly as much as Spain and the Philippines’ combined annual generation. [My note: !!!]
Ember Energy: China Energy Transition Review 2026:
China’s energy transition is moving toward “building while breaking,” as its clean energy system begins assuming functions long performed by fossil fuels - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi... - September 2026
> China set a 2020 wind target of 210 GW and finished the year with about 282 GW. Its solar target was 110 GW, while delivery reached roughly 253 GW. The later commitment to reach at least 1,200 GW of combined wind and solar by 2030 was crossed in 2024, six years early. By the end of 2025, China had about 640 GW of wind and 1,202 GW of solar, for a combined 1,842 GW. Nuclear moved in the other direction: about 50 GW against a 58 GW target in 2020, and about 62 GW against a 70 GW target in 2025. The current goal of 110 GW by 2030 may still be achieved, but the previous record gives no reason to convert it directly into a forecast.
> If China maintains expansion at the 430-gigawatt-per-year level, installed wind and solar capacity would reach roughly 2,700 gigawatts by 2027. That would be more than five times the entire wind and solar capacity in the EU. Whether this value is realistic depends mainly on two factors: expansion of high-voltage transmission lines connecting generation and consumption regions, and political will to actually decommission the coal power plant fleet.
Every year renewables consume another ~10% of fossil generation in China, and should push out almost all fossil generation in the next 5-10 years, at current deployment rates. China is relying on coal for peaking until their battery deployment rates catch up to negate the need for coal generators.
- "As the power system integrates more renewables, the true value of batteries to China’s energy transition is becoming undeniable," Yang said. China added a record amount of new battery storage facilities in 2025, ending the year with more than half of global capacity. Growth has continued this year, with installed lithium-ion battery storage reaching almost 150 gigawatts by the end of the first quarter, according to Ember. The country is targeting 300 gigawatts of battery storage capacity by 2030, up from 136 at the end of 2025, in addition to expanding its fleet of longer-duration pumped hydro storage to around 160 gigawatts from 66.
- The government ended co-location requirements last year and most new battery storage projects are now standalone systems that can earn revenue through a variety of ways, such as by purchasing electricity when prices are low and selling it when they rise.
- Still, China can do more to improve utilization as its systems still fall short of the internationally recognized benchmark of about 350 cycles a year, Yang said. If they had reached that level last year, they could have captured and stored an additional 23 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity, enough to power Singapore for about five months.
- BNEF analysts attribute China’s lead in the sector largely to policy support. Beijing identified LDES as a crucial component of its net-zero roadmap in 2023. The following year, China’s energy regulator launched 56 pilot projects, which helped launch the current boom. The country has built a massive lead in other climate tech sectors as well, from solar panels to hydrogen.
>now there are comparisons popping up showing how AVIF actually compresses better.
You perfectly summarise how I felt as well. The revisionist also tries to paint the story as JPEG XL was first banned due to security issues which is again not true.
But that is OK. Since JPEG XL has finally and rightfully won its place, mostly thanks for Safari. We can now hopefully wait for better encoder.
Or even better, participate in improving it. The reference encoder is, I believe, in the libjxl repository[1].
Much of the recent effort seems to be focused on the performance of the Rust version of the decoding library[2], which is quite understandable because of the fresh browser adoption.
It wasn't always the case with software, before the internet era and updates. Software were done with a lot more cares because burning discs and distribution were costly. Exactly the same reason why Hardware put a lot of thoughts into it for failure because recalling product is expensive.
I think you just happen to have the worst era in MacBook hardware. Happening 2015 - 2020. It has gotten better or back on track since then.
Keyboard is finally back to semi decent now. The old scissor is still better. But I think 2024 or 2025 they finally make some minor changes that is closer to old scissors.
Concrete example. Let's say GitHub will add AVIF support at some point (it's not yet handled well by the site as you can notice[1].
You as user can then upload AVIF images to wherever images on the site are processed. And after that, let's say when newer codec inside AVIF will get a good browser coverage, you'll be able to start using it without waiting another decade for GitHub to pipe it through their site code.
For formats without a container, it's always a two step process. Browser coverage first, then another huge period of sites support catching up.
> You as user can then upload AVIF images to wherever images on the site are processed
Those image upload pipelines almost always process the image in some way (downscaling, compressing). So a new codec in the same file format can only break them.
But even if it didn’t, I can’t help but view this as a dependency hell. Somebody uploads a version of AVIF not yet supported everywhere. Things break. User doesn’t understand why, because user doesn’t understand that .avif != .avif. Developers have a hard time figuring out why, because they have to check all software touching those files and check what specific codecs or version those support for AVIF. And all they can do anyway is to wait for all affected libraries or software to roll out the new codec.
So I guess in other words, the codec is the file format.
It might break or it might not. If it breaks - things can be figured out as you said. But the alternative is to wait on the site for who knows how long and in the end - it's not usable during that time anyway. I'd say not waiting just gives you more options.
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