Nostr notes by LisPi

In addition to that... > Use an app That depends on the ...

2026-10-12T03:08:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…6vqv
_________________________

In addition to that...

> Use an app

That depends on the goodwill of two USA companies to keep working and could get bricked at any time if it decides to escalate that way.

> While still not having repealed the DMCA-related anticompetition agreements with the USA for widespread breaches leading to no alternatives existing locally

I'm sure there is no way that could go wrong⸮

They are indeed scams. For a subset of those cases there are ...

2026-10-11T21:17:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ru7
_________________________

They are indeed scams.

For a subset of those cases there *are* relevant legal mechanisms & standards they can use to provide those services (but not for the service itself). They very much cannot provide them as a general rule.

Nostr event nevent1qqsruxlrzkw93regmpzpfn7ll8epeuv8vz2x0vkk3wym34glj5a0f3czyz9tgj5yld6hl63unqlx32duer3nr7jfakvuln7sdfzfn42zat5ncpuythg

2026-10-11T18:47:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…rlw3
_________________________

https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/products/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/surge-protection/how-many-joules-does-my-surge-protector-need-.html

I'm kind of annoyed at this article.

They *sell* [AVR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_regulator)s and [SM protectors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_protector#Series_mode_(SM)_surge_suppressors), they should know better than to oversimplify (and should also be adding links plugging that line of product at the end).

The amount of disgust I feel for people gleefully sharing ...

2026-10-11T18:39:45Z

The amount of disgust I feel for people gleefully sharing electrical disinformation probably approaches something like hate.

If you have no idea how electrical grid lightning protection works, you are *not* qualified to make *any* statement on domestic surge protection that involves in any way lightning (especially dramatically implying it's useless) and I hate when people take those buffoons seriously.

Besides, there are all sorts of other failure scenarios that can induce surges of much lesser magnitude.

Localized conditions like the prevalence of copper theft also become quite relevant.

---

And then that particular one annoying me right now demonstrates no understanding of what ground return path through earth actually *does* and the fact that lightning *differs* from the norm in that aspect.

Or what GFCIs do. Will the digging oneself deeper continue?

---

The very documentation they linked to justify their bullshit says they're wrong about surge tolerance in power supplies too (though it also fails to account for several cases I know). :facepalm_cirno:

> do you want CL to be completely eaten by LLMs > \*does ...

2026-10-11T17:22:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…h7fp
_________________________

> do you want CL to be completely eaten by LLMs

> \*does his utmost best to ensure it's the case\*

>> He shows an impressive lack of self-awareness.

I stand by my previous statement.

> Wouldn't be surprised if he misgendered me on purpose, too.

Probably, he seems very rude and apparently touchy about his covert worship being disdained.

> how we get people hating on optimizing compilers I do ...

2026-10-11T09:50:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…htn4
_________________________

> how we get people hating on optimizing compilers

I do dislike how the reliance on a few specific optimizing compilers has considerably magnified our vulnerability to ensloppification since those few compilers have now being slopped and reimplementing them is a nontrivial task.

I was thinking of a more local cleanup, rather than just jumping ...

2026-10-11T09:30:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…7gtf
_________________________

I was thinking of a more local cleanup, rather than just jumping to a function that (hopefully) checks for every possible failure case on every call.

That implicitly constrains how various structures can work and be ...

2026-10-11T09:08:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…609d
_________________________

That implicitly constrains how various structures can work and be used.

With C++ destructors would handle that, but not here.

So at best it's analogous to consecutive `unwind-protect` wrapping, which is rather limited. `GOTO`s aren't a very good approximation of the condition system, but they're still considerably more versatile than the prior.

Given the captures are most of the point of lambdas, I'd say ...

2026-10-11T08:36:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…vn0g
_________________________

Given the captures are most of the point of lambdas, I'd say that function pointers probably cover most practical cases for C.

The yeah is 2026 2nd part, I am now figuring out how to write ...

2026-10-11T06:14:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…4s04
_________________________

The yeah is 2026 2nd part, I am now figuring out how to write Motif apps on NetBSD :cirno_thinking:

Except that now that I think about it, I wouldn't be able to ...

2026-10-11T02:23:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…cafe
_________________________

Except that now that I think about it, I wouldn't be able to just chroot into Gentoo if I did that.

Bleh. Maybe just replacing that Arch with Alpine I guess.

I should probably shrink that btrfs filesystem, add yet another ...

2026-10-11T02:22:32Z

I should probably shrink that btrfs filesystem, add yet another partition and install something other than Arch.

Does any of the BSDs cope well with some sort of RAID (on partitions) and UEFI?

Of course my post be ignored because I was muted at some point I ...

2026-10-10T21:43:02Z

Of course my post be ignored because I was muted at some point I can't recall.

It wouldn't be that hard to have such tests provide an NFC ...

2026-10-10T21:23:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…t8m0
_________________________

It wouldn't be that hard to have such tests provide an NFC interface (many of the fancier tests already involve computerized components) a standard reader could then read out as text-to-speech, or as vibration pulses, or braille or whatever (according to the user's needs).

That it doesn't exist is indicative of a lack of goodwill, far more so than lack of feasibility.

I think old admiralty law has reasonable takes about slavery.

2026-10-10T06:14:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…svr2
_________________________

I think old admiralty law has reasonable takes about slavery.

Did NixOS get bit by its acceptance of blobs again?

2026-10-09T18:40:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…dzyy
_________________________

Did NixOS get bit by its acceptance of blobs again?

I'm unfamiliar with 413 & 1738. I chose 67 of course.

2026-10-09T10:18:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…ky00
_________________________

I'm unfamiliar with 413 & 1738.

I chose 67 of course.

I am somewhat glad others do too, as it has less to ChiPass being ...

2026-10-09T10:17:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…rpch
_________________________

I am somewhat glad others do too, as it has less to ChiPass being a thing.

Lucky Chen.

2026-10-09T10:09:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…myx0
_________________________

Lucky Chen.

Driver's on the wrong side though.

2026-10-09T10:08:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…gucl
_________________________

Driver's on the wrong side though.

Treating them as slavers should be would be satisfying, but ...

2026-10-09T10:04:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…awt6
_________________________

Treating them as slavers should be would be satisfying, but unfortunately would make a silly precedent.

Sounds fun, what is it?

2026-10-09T04:31:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…hmx7
_________________________

Sounds fun, what is it?

source: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117408460313244772 ...

2026-10-09T04:21:41Z

source: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117408460313244772
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

Even just the arrangement of that Ikea furniture, or the specific ...

2026-10-09T02:18:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…v605
_________________________

Even just the arrangement of that Ikea furniture, or the specific choice of resorting to it in the first place, can be an artistic statement.

Who is Brey, chat? Is it another version of saying chat?

2026-10-09T00:29:57Z

Who is Brey, chat?

Is it another version of saying chat?

An upside in others is that pruning an obsolete dataset is fast. ...

2026-10-09T00:29:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…yyfm
_________________________

An upside in others is that pruning an obsolete dataset is fast. Literally just delete the whole thing.

No. A bit like giving them passwords connect to a Tahoe-LAFS ...

2026-10-09T00:05:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…5za7
_________________________

No.

A bit like giving them passwords connect to a Tahoe-LAFS instance I would host but without the data being redundantly copied thrice (since I only have one machine).

The server is completely unaware of the contents, and only people who are explicitly given the capability/link will reasonably find it.

And if I enabled data expiration, then one would have a rather limited window before the data is just entirely gone whatever it may have been.

One thing I'll miss from borgbackup is the repository ...

2026-10-08T21:53:34Z

One thing I'll miss from borgbackup is the repository approach. It enabled deduplication across datasets.

Most others are dataset-specific so one mostly gets differential backups and no dedupe.

Is the hardware itself fucked or is it at least plausibly fixable ...

2026-09-27T06:37:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…5gzc
_________________________

Is the hardware itself fucked or is it at least plausibly fixable software stuff?

Backups are not a solution that allows you to not waste hours ...

2026-09-27T03:18:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…hhru
_________________________

Backups are not a solution that allows you to not waste hours recovering stuff.

Not to mention that such breakage *usually* doesn't require resorting to backup if you partitioned your system properly, you usually just need to chroot and reinstall whatever went wrong.

As I look upon `@world` `emerge` updates sometimes taking a ...

2026-09-27T03:11:41Z

As I look upon `@world` `emerge` updates sometimes taking a while, I think that `btrfs` and/or `zfs` snapshots sure are convenient and necessary for such systems.

After all, what if the power went out for [20ms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinking#Central_nervous_system's_control) (long past what any ATX power supply is designed to cope with) while it's overwriting something important?

Then of course I remember that question isn't hypothetical and I did break an Arch Linux system in that exact way in the past. Binary packages may be faster, but they're nowhere near fast enough (<=11ms commit should work on compliant ATX supplies).

One could then think, okay, but before `btrfs` and `zfs` there were [LVM snapshots](https://web.archive.org/web/20260801154104/https://linux.die.net/man/8/lvcreate), right? Possibly, the feature was documented even back in 2007. Barely anyone talked about it though.

So what's with unix-likes mostly not having transactional updates (not that other OSes do much better, but it was expected for Windows to brick itself for basically no reason)? Is the expectation just that all users are privileged-enough to afford a UPS? Or to cope with arbitrary breakage when the power network has so much as a hiccup (or to be so privileged as to have reliable infrastructure)?

One of the many silly things about NFS is that most server ...

2026-09-26T07:39:14Z

One of the many silly things about NFS is that most server implementations keep no host-wise monitoring on the underlying exports, so if one modifies the underlying filesystem without redundantly mounting it from NFS localhost as well, all sorts of unpleasant things happen.

> 1. On Linux, watching a readable directory reports every ...

2026-09-25T21:26:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…28mf
_________________________

> 1. On Linux, watching a readable directory reports every event on a file inside it, even one the attacker cannot read directly. The most severe case of this is with /dev/input, discussed in Inter-Keystroke Timing below.

The consequences of "everything is a file" coupled with not thinking about it enough.

While `ValorLang (name pending)` doesn't exist, one could ...

2026-09-23T00:08:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…4vgm
_________________________

While `ValorLang (name pending)` doesn't exist, one could accomplish similar things with MOP & metaclasses

It wouldn't cover *everything*, necessarily, but it could be used for relevant cases.

One can also do some things with lambdas as capabilities.

(And then we loop back to macros & MOP for `funcallable-standard-class` because why not?)

That's the secret Initial D ending, when the drifting goes ...

2026-09-22T02:48:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…3vn2
_________________________

That's the secret Initial D ending, when the drifting goes wrong.

It does. And no, it isn't in part because Linux is a ...

2026-08-30T22:15:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…cqrd
_________________________

It does.

And no, it isn't in part because Linux is a monolithic abomination deliberately made to be harder to maintain and fork. That lack of modularity, isolation and separation of concern has been responsible for a *lot* of exploitable bugs over the years.

There's a reason I'm so troubled by this. The one vaguely sane filesystem I found is stuck on a system being slopped, and the filesystem implementation is *also* being slopped. I lack viable alternatives. What am I to do?

Okay but seriously at this point, Debian going to shit with ...

2026-08-30T22:07:38Z

Okay but seriously at this point, Debian going to shit with "AI" (and that ridiculous constitution document)...

Running Gentoo on *one* server is a big "maybe" proposition with the finicky aspects, but on all my VMs?

Is there any suitable other Linux (LTS) system that banned "AI"? Or something else with adequate btrfs support (or ZFS with AnyRaid or some other equivalent filesystem with hetereogenous drives and redundancy chunking)?

> Solar is good during the day, but it doesn't work at ...

2026-08-29T17:22:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…wy42
_________________________

> Solar is good during the day, but it doesn't work at night.

That old phrase about the sun never setting on the empire or whatever comes to mind.

Grid interconnection can in fact provide solar energy all day.

And storage's insufficency back then is debatable. Sure the batteries were less volume-efficient but that just means more of them. However, electrical demand was both lower than now, and suddenly investing a lot into both solar and storage would *also* have led to improvements we've since seen, except much faster since there would have been a meaningful amount of investment in the matter by someone other than random companies and the odd university.

> GNUclear reactor in my backyard was practical prior to the 1980s, but nuclear isn't allowed?

Transport of nuclear fuel is needlessly hazardous (great opportunity for theft and misuse) and compromises eventual autarky (so long as fusion isn't figured out) as it cannot be found everywhere in sufficient quantities (encourages foreign capitalist abusers).

> baseload

That is based on an obsolete view of grid production that is largely due to the fact that several non-solar/storage technologies *cannot* be shutdown or brought back up quickly, reasonably, safely or cost effectively so they have to *always* be working to at least some degree. It's a way to cope with technological limitations, not an inherently necessary or good way to meet energy demand.

Even hydro-electric dams/storage demonstrate some inflexibility in requiring minutes to adjust product or turn off.

> And the trick is to replace like-for-like unless the size ...

2026-08-24T23:34:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…7gt6
_________________________

> And the trick is to replace like-for-like unless the size isn't really manufactured anymore

Which is ridiculous. "Don't upgrade or become rich, these are your two choices".

> (which still doesn't have a journal for raid5/6, so you're stuck with an inefficient raid1 if you don't want to risk parity corruption that's quite hard to detect until it bites you on the junk)

Said inefficiency *still* costs considerably less than upgrading all the drives at once to be able to use ZFS.

> The only filesystems I know that actually support mixed-size drives

Yes, it's a problem that there are so few options.

Hammer2 will *eventually* be a contender but the relevant features aren't ready for this generation of it.

Which is terribly unfortunate, as everything else fails to ...

2026-08-22T22:28:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…c88a
_________________________

Which is terribly unfortunate, as everything else fails to provide the same features as PostgreSQL even just on transactionality.

One basically has to implement silly things like IO journal queues in databases just for a second job to then eventually pick-up the word and set the intended storage in the right state. Thing the database's guarantees just gave for free and effectively-synchronously prior.

It's annoying that a recent project of mine stalled. Object ...

2026-08-22T20:19:14Z

It's annoying that a recent project of mine stalled.

Object Storage is all too often those huge ridiculous unwieldy codebases hard to audit or investigate properly.

So some people on some blogs say "why not use webdav, it should be more than enough for most small use-cases", which, indeed, on paper it should. So one goes to investigate, and finds that a lot of webdav servers are plainly broken and so are many of the clients, many failing something as basic as properly doing non-broken percent-encoding of paths & filenames (some of the servers fail too).

At this point the most reasonable option is probably writing a 9p client library or something. [diod](https://github.com/chaos/diod) at least works properly, even in unprivileged user mode.

No, there are various mitigations possible. Mostly it highlighted ...

2026-08-15T19:48:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…kujx
_________________________

No, there are various mitigations possible.

Mostly it highlighted major issues with both the current hardware design process (they absolutely can do better) and inherent flaws in the architecture designs themselves (that it's possible at all for it to come up is from such a flaw).

Emacs but I've been procrastinating on setting up the LSP ...

2026-08-11T02:57:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…69g6
_________________________

Emacs but I've been procrastinating on setting up the LSP stuff so same difference.

Nostr event nevent1qqstvd8g6u3kc8gftqku3mmdh5qenlttw9a773f2x28evxtczktgxzqzyz9tgj5yld6hl63unqlx32duer3nr7jfakvuln7sdfzfn42zat5nc88z8gx

2026-08-06T19:53:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…8wvd
_________________________

[Example article](https://dumbphone.fr/blog/banque-et-paiement-sans-smartphone).

tl;dr There are other options than mobile applications, but some banks are assholes and only offer that option.

> I always found this confusing, because I just ignore the app ...

2026-08-06T19:19:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…psnl
_________________________

> I always found this confusing, because I just ignore the app and use the bank's website, but I learned recently that most Europeans aren't allowed to do that. The app is mandatory.

I think that would be where.

Just because you created something does not ethically grant you ...

2026-07-24T05:09:33Z

Just because you created something does not ethically grant you the right to ensure its death or destruction.

Copyright was a (deliberate) mistake.

The one on the side is more commonly used for "bird" type ...

2026-06-19T17:41:05Z

The one on the side is more commonly used for "bird" type girls, while amusingly having almost nothing in common with actual bird ears.

知空 (shia-nya) :neobot_upside_down: (npub1dyg…a2tx)

quoting
note1vuf…xhsr

Catgirl archetypes
https://pika.moe/files/8930815d-a267-407e-9200-3e77bf1fea37

I just feel like there was once creativity in the design of ...

2026-05-19T00:00:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…l8u2
_________________________

I just feel like there was once creativity in the design of controllers and now they all just look like PS2 controllers with barely any variation.

I'd rather they didn't. The homogenization of controllers ...

2026-05-18T22:20:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…9wn5
_________________________

I'd rather they didn't.

The homogenization of controllers has been something of a disappointment over the last few years.

Besides this is what firmware/software remapping is for.

If they don't support syncthing, you are going to have a bad ...

2026-05-15T01:16:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…534p
_________________________

If they don't support syncthing, you are going to have a bad time with `pass`.

I *think* some WebUIs exist for it, though so maybe not.

Would it really be wrong if two or more parties could safely ...

2026-05-14T20:12:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…zcdt
_________________________

Would it really be wrong if two or more parties could safely consent to such practice and indulge in it?

Bizarre, certainly, but there are a lot of much more bizarre or gross practices that come to mind that are perfectly legal due to being less acutely dangerous.

Yes. Namespacing tags would also help in this (one of the major ...

2026-05-14T18:41:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…fdcl
_________________________

Yes.

Namespacing tags would also help in this (one of the major e621-like contributions).

There is a visible difference between blood from horror depictions and blood of similar depictions but clearly intended for eroguro.

So that should be represented.

It's not just undesirable though, it's also desirable for others. Negative & positive tag filtering without stupid limits like danbooru's is essential.

It's kind of the *entire point* of a booru. It's an index first, image host second if at all.

`pass` is adequate.

2026-05-14T17:21:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…qk02
_________________________

`pass` is adequate.

This is getting stupid. Do we have a decentralized or distributed ...

2026-05-13T05:48:51Z

This is getting stupid.

Do we have a decentralized or distributed alternative to gelbooru?

Or at least something updated more than once every few years (such as some I2P boorus).

Sankaku is "AI" slop garbage to an even greater extent than it was a few years ago, to the point it's no longer even functional.

Danbooru has stupid tag limitations.

The others have users that don't seem to understand tags are supposed to be used.

> using up all the sand Yeah uh... we're going to be at it ...

2026-05-13T03:09:28Z

> using up all the sand

Yeah uh... we're going to be at it for a *while* if that's the idea. There is a *lot* of sand on this planet.

Think of all the fascinating bacterial cultures living in the ...

2026-05-12T17:58:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…rl7l
_________________________

Think of all the fascinating bacterial cultures living in the skin sores you'll eventually get.

Sometimes my brain has funny ideas. For about half an hour the ...

2026-04-22T01:24:47Z

Sometimes my brain has funny ideas.

For about half an hour the other day I had the amusing misconception switching endianness would require full mirroring of the bytes.

I'm also almost certain I've either posted or read something similar (of someone having this experience) on Fedi.

Whatever would the point of IPv8 even be anyway? I'm not ...

2026-04-17T08:07:48Z

Whatever would the point of IPv8 even be anyway?

I'm not aware of any major fuckups in IPv6 like there were in IPv4.

From the sound of that blogpost, "IPv8" is filled with inane bullshit.

Odd. Here I reliably get 404s if I visit the URL in a browser.

2026-04-16T07:11:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…x9dl
_________________________

Odd. Here I reliably get 404s if I visit the URL in a browser.

Now you're one bitflip away from failing. Or any number of ...

2026-04-13T20:46:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…hvle
_________________________

Now you're one bitflip away from failing.

Or any number of filesystem-related failures.

That has considerable false positives if you speak to anyone but ...

2026-04-08T20:45:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…7f8t
_________________________

That has considerable false positives if you speak to anyone but white Americans online.

English was enforced in very weird ways in colonial era and the scars of that persist to this day. Then one can add that such people are the primary underpaid workforce being used to feed the training models more.

Between the [explanation of the ...

2026-03-28T23:10:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…rk7k
_________________________

Between the [explanation of the differences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%2B_tree) and [conventional computer science books on data structures](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/171) one can probably enough of a good idea.

The specifics of how you implement it depend very much of the specifics of the problem domain.

"Futarchy" fails to address basically all the criticism ...

2025-09-27T05:14:50Z

"Futarchy" fails to address basically all the criticism anarchism has for states.

What a complete failure.

Truly, it is unsurprising I first heard of it (today) from a Reddit post.

Was that not immediately obvious with all the ramming attacks a ...

2025-07-20T21:08:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…m70t
_________________________

Was that not immediately obvious with all the ramming attacks a few years back?

RJ11 is only used by those few that still have landlines or can ...

2025-05-13T09:47:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…pup2
_________________________

RJ11 is only used by those few that still have landlines or can only get dialup.

Basically, we who care about Free Software have to unfortunately ...

2024-09-30T23:57:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…592d
_________________________

Basically, we who care about Free Software have to unfortunately care /somewhat/ about copyright to cover our asses and those of users.

We certainly have no moral approval of copyright. At least, the sane ones among us don't.

> i don't have a lot of experience with that, it seems ...

2024-09-04T22:02:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…s8kw
_________________________

> i don't have a lot of experience with that, it seems like a cool thing but it still feels uncommon for gui to be interoperable or for graphical windows to communicate with each other.

It is, it's a common flaw of modern systems for it to not be a thing by default. BeOS had it as a thing by default.

> i've noticed that often gui programs change how they process input or stop responding to outside input altogether once the main window has been launched. maybe i'd attribute that to bad development though.

In some cases that's bad frameworks, in many other cases it's bad programming.

Part of the issue with GUI frameworks on UNIX-likes is that they adopt a view of a hard division between GUI & /somewhat/ interoperable POSIX CLI.

> meanwhile with cli scriptability is the default and expected behavior. in gui it's still very lacking.

I would say that CLI scriptability in UNIX-likes are also uniquely awful.

PowerShell did it better. Unstructured pipes simply shouldn't be a thing.

Ideally, programs would have mailboxes capable of receiving dynamically-typed messages with proper structure.

(And then of course LispMs didn't need pipes because the Listener allowed simply using Lisp.)

Consider BeOS/Haiku BMessages. There is no reason for GUIs not to ...

2024-09-04T21:43:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…wmnx
_________________________

Consider BeOS/Haiku BMessages.

There is no reason for GUIs not to be scriptable or interoperable.

There are a lot of other ways for systems to share data through messaging & capabilities. Lisp Machines had their own take on that.

Even Microsoft Windows has its own paltry imitation in COM.