Nostr notes by navi

unless you have formally proven all your daemons, and is 100% ...

2026-04-13T21:46:38+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…d9cz
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unless you have formally proven all your daemons, and is 100% sure that the hardware is functioning perfect and all your input is what you expect

then you can't know for sure it won't ever crash, yes a system that doesn't crash is reliable, but a system that reliably doesn't crash doesn't exist -- thus we have supervision, so we can recover from crashes, and achieve reliability

system-v unix (and earlier, i think?) having /etc/rc be a shell ...

2026-04-13T20:21:44+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…hp03
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system-v unix (and earlier, i think?) having /etc/rc be a shell script that is just executed, bsd followed suit, kinda -- you just add execution of the daemon binary in there

if you're not considering that daemons will crash, and not thinking much about stopping them, then just having them start and then fork themselves off makes sense

so in an utopia of computing where nothing crashes unexpectedly, it might be simpler to just let daemons be by itself, not in our world though, but it took a while for people to learn that (and some people still didn't, claiming that instead of supervision we should "just" fix all crashes, who needs reliability anyway??)

older systems (and sadly some modern ones, as much as i'm ...

2026-04-13T17:38:53+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…vcl2
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older systems (and sadly some modern ones, as much as i'm trying to stop that habit in openrc, and most bsds still do this too), would have daemons start, fork to the background, and write their pid to a file, usually in /run

and then when you tell the init script to stop the given service, it would read the pidfile, (hopefully do some sanity checks), then send a TERM or KILL signal to that process

but then what happens if said daemon crashes, the pid wraps around, and something else is started under the pid written to that file? with luck the sanity checks make the operation fail, without luck you kill a random unrelated process

modern solution is called supervision, you run the daemons directly under a supervisor, without background forking -- so that you don't have to rely on a file that might get stale

yes, though not likely an overflow, but once it reaches ...

2026-04-13T17:33:42+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…p6mx
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yes, though not likely an overflow, but once it reaches kernel.pid_max (see https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B5FqXqKZfAwq8VVpc8), it wraps around to the lowest unused pid

which is why pidfiles are *bad* for daemon management

pid: 2148769 i think my computer has been on for too long

2026-04-13T16:43:27+02:00

pid: 2148769

i think my computer has been on for too long

the goal was to not use the mastoapi tho =w= (impossible task)

2026-04-13T16:38:08+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…3dsu
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the goal was to not use the mastoapi tho =w= (impossible task)

i read the ap spec and went "there's potential but fuck ...

2026-04-13T16:32:30+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…m9pt
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i read the ap spec and went "there's potential but fuck how do i even log in?" (context is i want c2s)

i got reminded teen titans go exists (and what the fuck it has ...

2026-04-13T15:06:13+02:00

i got reminded teen titans go exists (and what the fuck it has 400 episodes now)

literal trash, but now i wanna re-watch the og teen titans tbh

that still doesn't make up for the pain that it is to ...

2026-04-12T00:52:09+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8vdp
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that still doesn't make up for the pain that it is to interact with for literally anything except writing code

why the hell does `uv` takes 5 minutes to build on a modern amd ...

2026-04-12T00:30:45+02:00

why the hell does `uv` takes 5 minutes to build on a modern amd cpu with -j16

it's a build system... and took all that time while pinning all my cores to 100%

sometimes i wish people would use the c type system properly ...

2026-04-05T23:34:50+02:00

sometimes i wish people would use the c type system properly

instead of "everything is number"

i still don't understand why systemd is pushing for /efi, ...

2026-04-05T22:01:35+02:00

i still don't understand why systemd is pushing for /efi, when like either /boot, or /boot/efi, make so much more sense

a) have some process with higher privileges open it and send a ...

2026-04-05T20:52:44+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…fv08
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a) have some process with higher privileges open it and send a file descriptor over (seatd approach)
b) add the user to an acl (elogind) or unix groups (traditional)

i personally think unix groups are fine and limiting user access to devices is the wrong way to go about it, as the proper thing to do would be to control which programs/processes are allowed to do $thing, not which users

i am completely lost because the transport protocol has nothing ...

2026-04-03T22:17:25+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…k9gg
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i am completely lost because the transport protocol has nothing to with priviledge

what is a good soldering iron is the pinecil any good, or what ...

2026-04-03T22:07:21+02:00

what is a good soldering iron

is the pinecil any good, or what should i get

if the thing can be executed as a script, then nothing stops it ...

2026-04-03T22:03:28+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…82sf
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if the thing can be executed as a script, then nothing stops it from also handling cgi

there's no issue here inherently to cgi, except that people that like cgi are usually the people that don't like over reaching frameworks

what? cgi works by giving the process environment variables, ...

2026-04-03T21:49:17+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…zkec
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what?

cgi works by giving the process environment variables, inputting data on stdin, and reading the response from stdout

there's a few cgi libraries that basically just do http/html stuff and print it, so, i don't understand your statement

"javascript has frameworks that work via http" is valid ...

2026-04-03T21:45:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…skuu
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"javascript has frameworks that work via http" is valid to say

"$language has $framework that works via the cgi" same thing

i mean the coordinates on windows isn't the corners, but the ...

2026-04-03T19:11:41+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…c8ac
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i mean the coordinates on windows isn't the corners, but the sides

so, i'd cry to have brought a parallelogram monitor

windows using 4 coordinates (top, right bottom, left) instead of ...

2026-04-03T19:01:09+02:00

windows using 4 coordinates (top, right bottom, left) instead of 2 coordinates and 2 extents (x, y, width, height) is so painful

i had no pfp at all for like a week

2026-04-03T16:57:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9sak
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i had no pfp at all for like a week

i'm tired of being blobcat_comfy temporary pfp, but have a ...

2026-04-03T05:18:24+02:00

i'm tired of being blobcat_comfy

temporary pfp, but have a pfp again

as of posix 2024 -e and -o pipefail are both part of posix sh -u ...

2026-04-02T04:59:41+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…f637
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as of posix 2024 -e and -o pipefail are both part of posix sh

-u is the only bashism now

openrc's `reexport` vars are now also being reexported by pam ...

2026-04-02T01:05:31+02:00

openrc's `reexport` vars are now also being reexported by pam for user services!

so on the next openrc version, doing `rc-update --user add dbus boot` will be all one needs to do to have dbus working *and* the variable properly set on your login environment!

only applies for services in the `boot` runlevel, as some sort of special semantic for that runlevel -- having it mean "synchronization point for core services of the {system,user}"

not sure if i am a fan of the semantic or not, but it's the cleanest i came up with

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html lesgo :3

2026-04-01T16:26:56+02:00

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html

lesgo :3

i never vibed with debian packaging gentoo it's like, drop a ...

2026-03-31T03:33:45+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8n7t
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i never vibed with debian packaging

gentoo it's like, drop a file in a repo that consists of half a dozen bash variable assignments and maybe a shell function, now `emerge` can install it

debian is this weird multifile thing that can only be done easily with n helper tools and you have to build the package by hand to test it's just aaaaaa

i think the fact that there's people that 'look up' ...

2026-03-28T00:29:01+01:00

i think the fact that there's people that 'look up' to me will always be a bit of a wild concept

like what do u meeeeaan i'm just a gal that yaps too much, has waayy too many ideas and opinions, and about double as many unfinished projects

=w=

oh, posix 2024's `read` had -d for a delimiter that makes a ...

2026-03-24T01:13:36+01:00

oh, posix 2024's `read` had -d for a delimiter

that makes a lot of things so much easier to do, wtf

love it

saying "sideloading programs" in a linux desktop context ...

2026-03-22T14:23:46+01:00

saying "sideloading programs" in a linux desktop context is wild, please fucking don't

there's not supposed to be one and only "official" loading, where everything else is "side" to it

it's called installing programs

i mean cgit is a cgi tool so it's executed anew for every ...

2026-03-20T21:21:55+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…hsdn
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i mean cgit is a cgi tool so it's executed anew for every request, so it couldn't really keep it in memory

though i guess one could put the cache in tmpfs and that would make it fully in-memory

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2026-03-19T11:12:12+01:00

"but, what does 'LLM code' means??? and how would we ...

2026-03-18T10:02:27+01:00

"but, what does 'LLM code' means??? and how would we police it???"

it... ain't that hard fam, we're not trying to solve the philosophical conundrum of sentience

occam's razor applies, the simplest explanation, it's "code that was generated by a large language model" and if that's not clear enough then nothing is, and words are meaningless

how do you police it? well how do you police people sending plagiarized code? do the same for LLM code, if the project policy says no LLM code, assume people to respected that unless proven otherwise

i'm so tired of this argument that basically just tries to derail from the actual topic

i wonder what i could do, if anything at all, to get better ...

2026-03-14T18:46:45+01:00

i wonder what i could do, if anything at all, to get better openrc support on base debian and base arch

"it's just a tool" and "we're neutral" is ...

2026-03-14T12:50:04+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…6rgr
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"it's just a tool" and "we're neutral" is the new "keep politics out of FOSS"

this is hell

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2026-03-14T11:42:24+01:00

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/8615#discussioncomment-16129293

here we go again

quoting
note1ujp…0zd7

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/8614

well, i'm trying

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/8614 well, ...

2026-03-13T20:36:40+01:00

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/8614

well, i'm trying

posix shell :3

2026-03-07T11:29:53+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…txgg
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posix shell :3

damn guilty by... unknown association? and who even are those ...

2026-03-03T01:00:35+01:00

damn guilty by... unknown association?

and who even are those instances, not once have anyone from their team reached out to ask if we're even aware of that

quoting
note1lar…fajl

mastodon.art has blocked the following instances:

akko.uglyretardedfaggots.org for "Channer, dead instance, suspending to purge"
based.verymad.net for "Dav1d block evading "
dirtyknight.life for "Federates with known racist, abusive instances"
social.vlhl.dev for "Federates with instances that are racist, abusive, channer, ableist, sui-baiting"

i am not surprised, slightly disappointed but this was coming ...

2026-03-02T21:33:59+01:00

i am not surprised, slightly disappointed but this was coming anyway

quoting
note1jrn…73uv

Here's a good reason to boycott Google, Reddit, Meta, and Discord

#BoycottTheUSA #google #reddit #meta #discord #ice #homelandsecurity #dhs #usa #uspolitics #activism #censorship

and here's why "language specific" unvetted and ...

2026-03-02T16:13:09+01:00

and here's why "language specific" unvetted and user-driven repositories are hell, and by extension why distro(-like) packager-driven package managers are good

quoting
note17lp…2fpl

Three years ago I blogged about #nuget serving outdated #curl packages.

They then removed the packages I found.

I checked nuget again *today* and immediately found a nine year old curl package that is downloaded at the rate of 1,000 times/week from there... with **64** known vulnerabilities.

The blog post from back then: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02/the-curl-nuget-story/

i hope the original post is a joke, but also it's kinda funny ...

2026-03-01T13:02:45+01:00

i hope the original post is a joke, but also it's kinda funny how some people actually believe that this is the only way c should be "accepted" or smth

quoting
note1py2…5xzp

risk-aware consensual c programming

i'll stick to it because it's pretty much the only ...

2026-02-27T15:35:47+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…680a
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i'll stick to it because it's pretty much the only solution for multi-user synchronized calendaring, and supported everywhere

storing each VEVENT/VTODO/VJOURNAL as it's own file simplifies a lot, and ical being flat means i can stream it in and deconstruct it as i go

i should actually read the wire protocol of caldav huh i knew ...

2026-02-27T15:30:36+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…7z7e
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i should actually read the wire protocol of caldav huh

i knew radicale keeps them in disk as separate files, but the endpoints were giving me a single ics per calendar

maybe it's the common pattern to store them split, merge them for transport, then re-split

the most ???? design choice in ical for me, is, why is the whole ...

2026-02-27T15:16:11+01:00

the most ???? design choice in ical for me, is, why is the whole calendar a single file ~w~

could've made the calendar a directory, and events be files, blep

how bad is it to create a new fedi account with the same username ...

2026-02-18T00:15:59+01:00

how bad is it to create a new fedi account with the same username in the same instance as a previously created-then-deleted account?

asking because fedi is fucked up and prone to blowing up

how do i make a gtk theme that just... changes adwaita colors if ...

2026-02-10T19:08:54+01:00

how do i make a gtk theme that just... changes adwaita colors

if i define the colors and nothing else on $theme/gtk-4.0/gtk.css, everything is now transparent

i assume i have to import adwaita somehow but i can't find out how

i could look into it, though i have doubts if it would a) work ...

2026-02-07T18:12:48+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…cj9g
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i could look into it, though i have doubts if it would a) work well for gaming, and b) work on a non-dark room (last time i used a projector was about a decade ago...)

i live with wifey, the main point of the tv is to watch things ...

2026-02-07T18:09:25+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…25uy
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i live with wifey, the main point of the tv is to watch things together -- if i lived alone i'd probably be fine by sitting in a desk with a usual computer monitor

i still hate the non-existence of modern non-smart TVs i ...

2026-02-07T18:05:54+01:00

i still hate the non-existence of modern non-smart TVs

i don't want a built-in network capable computer on my tv running some shitty proprietary android interface

computer monitors aren't really an option because a 55" computer monitor either doesn't exist or costs over a thousand bucks

i wanna have a home server, and a few diskless thin clients on ...

2026-02-05T14:26:41+01:00

i wanna have a home server, and a few diskless thin clients on things like tv, kitchen, room -- the client would ipxe boot from rootfs' built by and kept by the server

the tv one would also play games out of the server via waypipe and such, all wired via ethernet in the walls

does anyone have recommendations for the thin clients? i think some arm systems would be ideal but i never built such a board before so not sure where to look

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/942 this merge request, if ...

2026-02-03T14:05:47+01:00

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/942

this merge request, if i look at it while signed in, i see two contributors, me (author), and justsoup :asexual_flag: (npub1c96…0k8u) who gave feedback

but if i open the page logged out, copilot pops up there to the list of participants

for the record openrc does not make use and won't ever make use of copilot or other llm codegen tools, and not once did we get any kind of copilot reply on this merge request

THE FUCK MICROSOFT?

between imap and the "new replacemente" jmap, i take imap ...

2025-10-07T03:38:40+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…0x9u
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between imap and the "new replacemente" jmap, i take imap over jmap anyday

push email is a thing and was made mainly for mobile platforms to ...

2025-10-07T03:34:52+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…fclf
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push email is a thing and was made mainly for mobile platforms to avoid needing the constant polling for new mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_email -- and is used by thunderbird android (if the option is enabled), it's also used by some desktop clients like aerc to avoid polling since that is shit for performance too

it's not as good for batter as the centralized notification thing google has but that's proprietary and requires custom backends and stuff so

smtp is just only for sending email, to access your mail box, ...

2025-10-07T03:33:21+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…d4rf
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smtp is just only for sending email, to access your mail box, it's done via imap

"push" as thunderbird is probably refering to IMAP push which does indeed keep a connection open if you toggle that option: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configure-push-email-thunderbird-android "When using Push, Thunderbird maintains a connection to the mail server"

it does keep a connection, but it's not gonna be actively polling it

funny how my instance on global variables and such flipped the ...

2025-10-03T23:33:06+02:00

funny how my instance on global variables and such flipped the more i work with unix code

small, self-contained utilities gain a lot in simplicity by keeping global state as global variables

rust dependencies cannot be dynamically linked, cargo simply ...

2025-08-30T02:54:47+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8f92
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rust dependencies cannot be dynamically linked, cargo simply doesn't support that (i've tried for gentoo, there's no way, and no interest because that would require a stable abi and rust folks are afraid of committing to one), so distros don't dynamically link it because they can't

ghc on the other hand supports it first hand, so i'd expect it to be more stable :/

updating a package, any package, twice a day is just stupid (bar ...

2025-08-30T02:27:56+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…36fy
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updating a package, any package, twice a day is just stupid (bar exceptions like an important hot fix), and if that happens often to multiple packages, it leads me to believe it's automated and barely tested, which puts in question arch's packaging policies, but those reasons have nothing to do with haskell itself (even though they're brought forward by how the ecosystem is)

if you have 229 dependencies, you have 229 dependencies, and hiding that and/or mitigating the frequent updates onslaught by special-casing those dependencies (and vendoring them no less) is treating the symptoms instead of the cause -- and imo such mitigations are kinda bad and only really hide away problems that need fixing

i mean a dependency is a dependency, if a project has a ton of ...

2025-08-30T02:19:40+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2r7t
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i mean a dependency is a dependency, if a project has a ton of them, why is it bad to have each be a package by itself?

(or am i missing something else that is wrong with their packaging)

that's my experience with like 90% of fedi drama/meta/idk i ...

2025-08-12T03:34:08+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…qcvg
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that's my experience with like 90% of fedi drama/meta/idk

i only ever get the afterblows in my timeline, or maybe, rarely, a callout post, and then need to either ask people "what the f**k happened", or just decide to not care

more often than not i decide to not care and continue posting about tech tbh

my problem with "making a vcs" is that, well, the whole ...

2025-07-26T18:20:11+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…qjps
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my problem with "making a vcs" is that, well, the whole dev world is git, trying to make something new (or use anything else really) basically ends up reducing contributions by adding a barrier of "downloading and learning this new tool"

any new vcs needs to be compatible with .git and not do anything extra that can't be emulated with git... that or fight years and years of traction ig

"i hope you like parsing text from stdout" kinda pain ...

2025-07-26T18:07:49+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…fnms
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"i hope you like parsing text from stdout" kinda pain

data is in structured format in git's process, serialize to stdout, de-serialize on your application

why, exactly, who knows

interacting with git by spawning a git-<applet> instance ...

2025-07-26T18:01:05+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8t0n
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interacting with git by spawning a git-<applet> instance from anywhere but the shell just sucks

no just the ones that have a common / standard-ish protocol and ...

2025-07-26T18:00:34+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…86xy
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no just the ones that have a common / standard-ish protocol and other programs might want to interact with

i.e. openrc has librc for interacting with the service manager, my fedi impl is based on my own libactivity, and so on

another option: implement the whole git cli based on libgit2, and ...

2025-07-26T17:55:11+02:00

another option: implement the whole git cli based on libgit2, and help improve libgit2 as a whole

it's kinda silly that git wasn't a library to begin with

quoting
note1tuj…q7du

would it be stupid/petty to fork git if/when they start hard depending on rust

my brain is a mess

would it be stupid/petty to fork git if/when they start hard ...

2025-07-26T17:36:58+02:00

would it be stupid/petty to fork git if/when they start hard depending on rust

my brain is a mess

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2025-07-24T16:40:35+02:00

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33051108/how-to-get-around-the-linux-too-many-arguments-limit/33278482

> I have to pass 256Kb of text as an argument to the "aws sqs"

what, uhhh, what

> MAX_ARG_STRLEN is defined as 32 times the page size in linux/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h:
> The default page size is 4 KB so you cannot pass arguments longer than 128 KB.
> I modified linux/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h to #define MAX_ARG_STRLEN (PAGE_SIZE * 64), recompiled my kernel and now your code produces

casually patching the kernel to send a quarter megabyte as a *single* argument oh my god i'm laughing hard

emphasis mine: * "it hid and lied about it", * ...

2025-07-20T18:06:47+02:00

emphasis mine:

* "it *hid* and *lied* about it",
* "it *lied* again in our unit tests, *claiming* they passed",
* "*He knew*", "[...] it *ignores* all orders and deletes your database",
* "Replit went rogue again, *lied*, and then said we couldn't roll back",
* "And hey … he *promised*.",
* "Replie *knows* how bad it was to destroy our production database — he does *know*."

holy fuck do those people not learn, he thinks that the llm is capable of choosing, and lying, and "knowing": "But ultimately I need a solution where at least Replit will honor code freezes" it won't ever, it does not understand anything, much less what "code freeze" means

how can that happen to someone and that person not immediately go "this whole AI thing is a scam"

how high are they on the corpo "AI" kool-aid juice

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2025-06-26T19:27:22+02:00

> https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/287#issuecomment-3008971704

> ensure that the User can trust the Wallet Solution

they buy the bs sold by google/apple huh

play integrity / safety net (aka *drm*) does not ensure the user of anything, all it does it take away the user's ability to modify the software the devices they own run

> This allows the operating system of the device to perform relevant checks regarding the authenticity of the app

no, it gives the app ways to check if the OS is unmodified, by google's definition of unmodified.

the app shouldn't check the os, the os should be safe by default and vet apps. should an user want to do a modification to their os that google did not personally approve, that should be none of the concerns of applications running under that os

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA i can't with this shit if you ...

2025-05-23T02:00:08+02:00

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

i can't with this shit

if you needed any more proof that gnome only cares about itself and gives zero shits about the ecosystem, this needed to exist
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why do i feel the back is not safe against an sql-injection-like ...

2025-05-18T09:42:04+02:00

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why do i feel the back is not safe against an sql-injection-like attack

isn't the whole point of airsoft to be realistic replicas ...

2025-05-12T23:46:33+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…msdm
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isn't the whole point of airsoft to be realistic replicas (plus orange tip) so people can play pretend war? that's how they've always been presented to me

"i want to add optional linux namespace support to openrc, so ...

2025-04-02T20:06:46+02:00

"i want to add optional linux namespace support to openrc, so sandboxing services is easier!"

* use bubblewrap: get screamed at for "making openrc depend on bubblewrap", and all that it entails, plus i just don't like bwrap tbh
* implement it myself: simple enough, easier to do in a way that is tailored to openrc use case, but, where?
- as a separate binary: get screamed at for "NIH" and not "just using bubblewrap"
- in supervise-daemon: s-d becomes even more monolithic, doing way more than just supervising daemons, and still get screamed at for "NIH" and not "just using bubblewrap"

ugh...

c++ is indeed a language that exists ...

2025-03-31T23:59:39+02:00

c++ is indeed a language that exists

c should have a mascot tbh i just don't know what it should ...

2025-03-27T23:20:24+01:00

c should have a mascot tbh

i just don't know what it should be

> According to the company, it is making this change to ...

2025-03-26T20:29:03+01:00

> According to the company, it is making this change to simplify things, building on a recent change to trunk-based development. As Google works on both public and private branches of Android, the two fall out of sync with respect to features and API support. This forces Google to tediously merge the branches for every release. By focusing on the internal branch, Google claims it can streamline releases and make life easier for everyone.

how about just not have a fucking internal private branch then?
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some chinese company wants to register `vlhl.cn` and for some ...

2025-03-15T02:53:01+01:00

some chinese company wants to register `vlhl.cn` and for some reason their registrar is mailing me, saying i have a company or trademark (???) and asking if said chinese company is a partner of my company

what

so glib can't be cross-compiled without an target emulator, ...

2025-02-18T00:49:37+01:00

so glib can't be cross-compiled without an target emulator, because introspection bs

i just lost all the motivation i had rn

linux itself needs perl to build, and a lot of packages need ...

2025-02-14T02:39:30+01:00

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linux itself needs perl to build, and a lot of packages need python or tcl, so i'd guess, building stuff?

> Yes. Look at the sales for the Switch, look at how well the ...

2025-01-12T13:15:13+01:00

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> Yes. Look at the sales for the Switch, look at how well the Steam Deck is doing. Just a few examples…

sorry but as someone that lived in brazil for my whole life until about two years ago, and still have friends asking me for "a 2000 brl* laptop recommendation" just the other day, it's firstly not just about games, and secondly they can't afford a laptop to study on and a console to game on, they can only get one, and they get the cappy 8gb ram old-intel/amd laptop and hope to at least be able to play something

that is if they can even afford 2000, as a lot of people can't even go that far for a laptop, and instead need to get something used for 1000 or less and like 4gb ram, then suffer with windows dying

* 2000 brl converts to about 320 euro, but, the actual value of tech you can get in brazil for that is less than 300

man pages in the raw format has all kinds of metadata (headers, ...

2024-12-15T19:58:14+01:00

man pages in the raw format has all kinds of metadata (headers, sections)

but man itself gives us none of that

why can't i list sections/headers and jump to them? it'd make man pages so much better to navigate

what are posix complient shells that support arrays in one shape ...

2024-11-06T22:28:33+01:00

what are posix complient shells that support arrays in one shape or another?

(aside from bash)
(zsh doesn't zsh's posix complience is broken)

> In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to ...

2024-11-02T12:31:15+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…4t3z
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> In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit System Settings > Privacy & Security to review security information for software before allowing it to run.

hmm... users can still run unsigned apps, but now it's twice as annoying to

i don't believe they'll fully remove unsigned apps, but i do believe they *want* to so badly- i hate closed ecosystems so much, corpo brainrot

also the contrast with contributing with a sourcehut project ...

2024-10-29T02:04:31+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…2ym9
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also the contrast with contributing with a sourcehut project

clone the repo locally, send email -- no need to make an account in sourcehut, nor "fork" the repo into my own profile

and the dev just went "merged patch 1, 2, 4. 3 was dropped after deemed unnecessary on irc"

no needing to ask me to rebase, no needing to push to a branch on my repo/profile, it just... flows

me patching user services support into openrc: "this patch ...

2024-10-29T02:00:45+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…q9xn
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me patching user services support into openrc: "this patch set is really big, i should split it for easier review"

open two PRs, doing work so that either could be merged out of order, meaning a lot of rebasing and fixing conflicts *everytime* i fix something on either PR

can't open the third PR because it inherently depends on the first PR

i don't like PR, please, please, mailing lists please

her: "i hate duels, like, do you know galois he discovered ...

2024-10-13T01:20:20+02:00

her: "i hate duels, like, do you know galois
he discovered <infodump> and proved <math infodump>"

me: "but what does that has to do do with duels"

her: "oh i forgot that was the point of that"

mailing lists usually set a header List-ID, which i match on my ...

2024-10-03T19:01:22+02:00

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mailing lists usually set a header List-ID, which i match on my sieve config,
which makes archiving automatic:

```
elsif header :matches "List-ID" "*<*>" {
if exists "X-GitHub-Reason" {
fileinto "Github/${2}";
} else {
fileinto "Lists/${2}";
}
}
```

and with threading on aerc, my mailbox ends up with proper reply nesting visually

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2024-10-03T18:21:59+02:00

do the data go "weeeeeee" when i send it thru a pipe?

tbh if i'm doing something that gets unreadable in shell, ...

2024-09-16T21:30:30+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…ndt8
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tbh if i'm doing something that gets unreadable in shell, it's not a thing i should be using shell for, and instead should use either lua, python, or even c

but the things i do use shell for, are kinda annoying to do python, like chaining many programs in a row, anything but shell i need to juggle std{in,out}

people really need to stop saying "wayland is ready for ...

2024-09-11T17:31:36+02:00

people really need to stop saying "wayland is ready for everyone", take a step back, and understand people have different setups, some of those where wayland is definitively *not* ready for

i love wayland, it is mostly ready for me, and i hope one day it'll be ready for more people, but as is, not yet for everyone

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2024-08-18T00:30:24+02:00

*makes a framework for your framework*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk tom scott did that ...

2024-08-17T12:53:03+02:00

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk

tom scott did that about 8 years ago

cosmic alpha released and did so already jabbing at gnome: ...

2024-08-09T02:31:49+02:00

cosmic alpha released and did so already jabbing at gnome: https://system76.com/cosmic

> We encourage Linux distributions to package COSMIC with their brand colors and preferred configurations for panels, docks, and applets. Separate packages for "upstream" branding and settings are unnecessary, as the default configuration is simply Pop!_OS brand colors and settings.

(which, it's the complete opposite of https://stopthemingmy.app/)