"Welcome to iammarkzuckerg.com"

Okay, the site needs a little revision =p

Yes I also spotted that and wondered if it was intentional or not

I'm really "new" to x64 (I only migrated from 32-bit in 2020...) and the difference I noticed between x86-64-v1 and x86-64-v3 was only with video (with ffmpeg), audio (mp3/ogg/mp4...) and encryption; the rest remains practically the same.

Naively, I believe it might be more appropriate to have x86-64-v1 and x86-64-vN options only for specific software and leave the rest as x86-64-v1.

AVX seemed to give the biggest boost to things.

Regarding those who are making fun of Gentoo users, it really did make a bigger difference in the past, but with the refinement of compilers, the difference has diminished. Today, for me, who still uses Gentoo/CRUX for some specific tasks, what matters is the flexibility to enable or disable what I want in the software, and not so much the extra speed anymore.

As an example, currently I use -Os (x86-64-v1) for everything, and only for things related to video/sound/cryptography (I believe for things related to mathematics in general?) I use -O2 (x86-64-v3) with other flags to get a little more out of it.

Interestingly, in many cases -Os with -mtune=nocona generates faster binaries even though I'm only using hardware from Haswell to today's hardware (who can understand the reason for this?).

It's sad that no one has commented about Ultimate++ ( https://www.ultimatepp.org ).

I believe it's the easiest way (at least for me) to quickly create GUI programs.

But of course, nothing beats Borland's interface from the DOS era.

It's almost funny, not to mention sad, that their player/page has been changed, filling it with tons of JS that makes less powerful machines lag.

For a while now, I've been forced to change "watch?v=" to "/embed/" to watch something in 480p on an i3 Gen 4, where the same video, when downloaded, uses ~3% of the CPU.

However, unfortunately, it doesn't always work anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvFZjo5PgG0

While they worsen the user experience, other sites optimize their players and don't seem to care about downloaders (pr0n sites, for example).

Many performance problems on YouTube are because they now force everyone to use the latest heavy codecs, even when your hardware does not have acceleration for it. I have a laptop that is plenty powerful for everything else and plays 4K h264 no problem. 720p on YouTube on the other hand turns it into a hot slate after a minute and grinds everything to a halt.

There are browser extensions like h264ify that block newer codecs but WHY??? Is nobody at YouTube caring about the user experience? It’s easier and more reliable to just download the videos.

Nah, their page and player are ridiculously heavy and slow regardless of the video codec.

Put that next to GitHub. The app is nearly unusable on an i5 8th, often I just download a snapshot to browse locally.

You are not alone. In Q1 2025 I was forced to adopt the embed player. In Q3 2025, google intentionally broke the embed player. Now the only youtube access I have is via yt-dlp. Long live yt-dlp and its developers

Personally I am looking to get away from Youtube and looking towards some form of PeerTube/peer-based platform.