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  1. #aarch64 builds of @binjr are coming, and I have proof!

    But the amusing fact(*) about that screenshot, is that it shows an aarch64 Linux Java Virtual Machine running on an x64 Windows host and ultimately rendering in a native window on the host's desktop.
    It's not very fast, obviously, but given the amount of layers it has to go through, it is kind of mind blowing that it actually works pretty much seamlessly:
    Windows 11 ➡️ WSL ➡️ Debian bookworm ➡️ qemu ➡️ OpenJDK-24 JVM ➡️ JavaFX ➡️ GTK3 ➡️ X11 ➡️ RemoteDesktop ➡️ GDI ➡️ Windows.

    And why would you want to do that, I hear you ask? Well, that's the neat part: you don't! (Seriously it's pretty daft. Don't do that).

    (*) It has been brought to my attention before that my personal notion of what constitutes an "amusing fact" isn't wildly shared amongst the general public. You have been warned.

    #ForScience #qemu #windows #debian #aarch64 #x64

  2. Liebe Tröties,

    Heute bin ich darüber gestolpert, dass eine umgangssprachliche Bezeichnung für einen Teil des Körpers offensichtlich nicht ganz so eindeutig besetzt ist wie ich immer dachte.

    Daher die Frage an euch mit Bitte um fleißiges Bossten wegen Sichtbarkeit:

    Welches Körperteil ist gemeint, wenn von jemandes "Fahrgestell" die Rede ist?

    #forscience #wasmitsprache #pragmatik