Nostr notes by wicked witch of the unix

having two dozen services go through the same multiplexed socket ...

2026-10-30T08:30:30Z

having two dozen services go through the same multiplexed socket has always been a mistake

2022: lula wins, bolsonaro attempts a coup and becomes a fugitive ...

2026-10-27T18:10:06Z

2022: lula wins, bolsonaro attempts a coup and becomes a fugitive
2026: lula wins, bolsonaro attempts a coup and becomes a fugitive

AND IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES, DOES IT ALMOST FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE?

i mean no wonder the laptop doesn't turn on now i'm ...

2026-10-27T14:41:07Z

i mean no wonder the laptop doesn't turn on

now i'm hoping replacing this component fixes it

(the scratches on the solder mask were my doing, unsteady hands are fuck)

ok so, fine tips for the pinecil (it's temp control is good ...

2026-10-26T20:37:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…qf86
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ok so, fine tips for the pinecil (it's temp control is good iirc), flux, alcohol, new solder probs, i have tweezers meant for phone repair so they should work, and watching videos as homework

thanks a lot

asking since you might know, but do i need something special, or ...

2026-10-26T20:30:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…ttuz
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asking since you might know, but do i need something special, or just a soldering iron with fine tips + microscope + solder with flux? (and maybe a hot air gun if i need to do anything with BGA chips but gah i hope i don't) (asking w.r.t to microsoldering in general, not specifically for this repair)

i already have a pinecil and pine64 does sell a set of fine tips so i might just preemptively nab that

i don't think i have the room space for that on my (quite ...

2026-10-26T20:23:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…cfx5
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i don't think i have the room space for that on my (quite small) home

i was planning to mostly open up the two huge windows i have right to the side of my desk, and worry about a proper exhaust thing if i ever have to do this again

no...t yet i suppose i just ordered a microscope today cuz my ...

2026-10-26T20:20:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…fp3f
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no...t yet i suppose

i just ordered a microscope today cuz my eyes were giving out, soldering stuff would come next after i can identify and locate replacements

navi with quite a lot of knowhow but almost no experience with ...

2026-10-26T20:16:57Z

navi with quite a lot of knowhow but almost no experience with pcb/hw repair:

yes i can fix this modern high end laptop from water damage surely i'll be able to locate and replace every busted component

---

surely

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2026-10-26T00:15:05Z

BRASILSILSILSIL

considering it doesn't turn on at all, that'd take weeks ...

2026-10-25T20:07:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…v2je
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considering it doesn't turn on at all, that'd take weeks i think

the fw 16 isn't booting and i have no idea of what to even ...

2026-10-25T20:03:11Z

the fw 16 isn't booting and i have no idea of what to even try anymore

some water got in, very little
shut it off, opened, dried everything (hours ago)
charging led works, battery is feeding 15.5v which seems correct
nothing looks nor smells burnt
but trying to boot it does either nothing (on battery), or causes the charging led to turn off then on again

oh yeah right, most people don't count seconds for runtime, ...

2026-10-24T23:28:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…np4y
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oh yeah right, most people don't count seconds for runtime, too small of a unit

here it would be a coulomb tho, or not? tho i suppose it's ...

2026-10-24T23:07:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…sckc
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here it would be a coulomb tho, or not?

tho i suppose it's the same as joule vs watthour, the unit per second gets awkwardly small and we lose like over half the common SI scale (modifiers?) because any practical use would be on the kJ (or here, kC) range at minimum

"10000mAh" companies will do anything but use metric ...

2026-10-24T22:42:58Z

"10000mAh" companies will do anything but use metric units properly

the whole point is to make values easier to read and convert! just write 10Ah ffs

defer and named loops the later means you don't need goto to ...

2026-10-22T08:29:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…6jt2
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defer and named loops

the later means you don't need goto to break out of nested loops/switches anymore

the food is self serve but not the coffee i guess?

2026-10-20T07:00:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…7n35
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the food is self serve but not the coffee i guess?

i got yelled at for trying to pour my own coffee this sucks lol

2026-10-20T06:56:01Z

i got yelled at for trying to pour my own coffee

this sucks lol

do third party repos ship signatures for gemato at all? i doubt ...

2026-10-19T19:46:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…8265
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do third party repos ship signatures for gemato at all? i doubt most even sign git commits tbh

it always had a cult following, better features than ext4, ...

2026-10-19T07:34:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…6gxu
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it always had a cult following, better features than ext4, historically more stable than btrfs

and now that people wanna leave linux, a non-linux first feature full fs is attractive ig

holy body horror i wasn't expecting that much banger tho, ...

2026-10-17T20:22:02Z

holy body horror i wasn't expecting that much

banger tho, i'm even more hyped now

waiting over 10 minutes for anubis on winehq on my phone ...

2026-10-16T20:58:27Z

waiting over 10 minutes for anubis on winehq on my phone

wonderful

i guess my question is, how exactly does remote attestation for ...

2026-10-15T16:23:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…5h52
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i guess my question is, how exactly does remote attestation for programs (which is the major problem, not attestation itself) protects people? it's not stopping people from phishing or installing malware

a device/os/platform/idk for non-technical people by default throwing an error when attestation fails at boot is, completely fine to me

but why does any arbitrary program has the ability to judge that for themselves? protection and trust has to go top down, from hardware, to os, to userspace, to end user programs; each trusting the layer above that started it

attestation apis flip that upside down, allowing programs to verify the os and userspace, but still i have never heard what's more secure about that that strictly needs it

when playing on public servers, a few minigame servers, sometimes ...

2026-10-15T10:51:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…gzd8
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when playing on public servers, a few minigame servers, sometimes the big ones (mineplex at the time i think?), and sometimes survival servers, the ones you could claim land and stuff

all kinda just casually though

yet when i played it often (though, years ago) i never saw the ...

2026-10-15T10:47:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…thu5
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yet when i played it often (though, years ago) i never saw the community at large complain about cheating much?

and that's why structuring the game around community servers ...

2026-10-15T10:43:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…2993
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and that's why structuring the game around community servers is equally important

there'll still be cheating (like everywhere, there will always be cheating) but it's a lot less, spread apart, and thus easier for moderators to catch

plus i can always spin up my own mc server and play with friends while not caring about whatever the main official servers require

improving server side anti-cheats and bring back community ...

2026-10-15T10:36:47Z

improving server side anti-cheats and bring back community servers, making it so that stakes for cheating are a lot smaller and easier for people to just catch and ban?

nah, restrict player's machines instead, keep the centralized model so our battle passes and ranked matches are not obsolete!

"my microwave isn't spinning anymore" is one of the ...

2026-10-15T08:43:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…6zx7
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"my microwave isn't spinning anymore" is one of the most common failure points of microwaves, though

a glass cover on the bottom and under that it's something ...

2026-10-15T08:39:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…kexj
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a glass cover on the bottom and under that it's something called "wave stirrer" which well, does what the name says, reflecting waves all about so that the food itself doesn't have to spin

parent's microwave doesn't have the spinny thing at the ...

2026-10-15T08:32:58Z

parent's microwave doesn't have the spinny thing at the bottom and it always perplexes me

like i know it has some reflective thing instead but comeon a microwave that doesn't spin

parent's house has the whole kitchen wired to a single ...

2026-10-13T18:22:13Z

parent's house has the whole kitchen wired to a single circuit

and turning on too many things at once one too many times, has one of the wires almost melted

wonderful

thus why os level, then i can pick a os that doesn't, but ...

2026-10-12T09:40:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…d64f
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thus why os level, then i can pick a os that doesn't, but someone that wants a full chain from their image builds or smth, can do so

but after i've booted, applications shouldn't be able to query that, shouldn't be able to question the os they're running on

aka attestation should be user controlled and top down, hw verifies the os, os verifies programs, and so on, but giving programs unprivileged attestation apis flips it over into a bottom up flow

https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/117425605598388134 this post ...

2026-10-12T09:35:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…hz00
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https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/117425605598388134

this post poped up and lines up with the discussion on my tl

and while i hate application-level attestation (attestation should be os-level only), they way it's written out is pure passkey fud to me

oh so what's why everyone's talking about passkeys and no ...

2026-10-12T09:29:24Z

oh so what's why everyone's talking about passkeys

and no that's too much fud for me on the broad sense

disliking that there's only two of those is valid i'm ...

2026-10-11T09:52:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…2cax
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disliking that there's only two of those is valid

i'm talking more about the people that go "no but this code i wrote shouldn't do this bc x86 asm works like this! the compiler is wrong for optimizing this!" when the abstract machine, in fact, never allowed what they're trying to do

but instead of learning, they blame the concept of optimizations

as in like: ``` type foo; foo.nya = ...; foo.mew = ...; defer { ...

2026-10-11T09:42:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…83th
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as in like:

```
type foo;
foo.nya = ...;
foo.mew = ...;
defer {
free(foo.nya);
free(foo.mew);
}
```

or? i'm not sure what "more local cleanup" would mean

i'm going by the most common api pattern i see out there, that is, if `make_foo()` returns success, it means the struct was fully allocated, and free_foo() deallocates all it needs

if make_foo() can fail, then i'd be something more like:

```c
type foo;
if ((err = make_foo(&foo)))
return err;
defer free_foo(foo);
...;
type nya;
if ((err = make_nya(&nya, &foo)))
return err;
defer free_nya(nya);
```

(defer could also help inside those constructors, by a pattern like

```c
enum myerr err = OK;
struct foo *foo = ...;

defer if (err != OK) free_foo(foo);
...;
if (some_cond() == FAIL)
return (err = COND_FAILED);
```

ofc this also depends on your data structure for foo

as a side note, for "handle every kind of failure":

it's a lot better if you employ some sort of zii (zero is initialization), since then you can calloc() foo, (or for a stack structure, `foo = {};`) to zero it out; have free_foo cleanup when non-0 where possible, it's one of the reasons `free(NULL);` is a noop

i don't have to care much *where* something failed and the destructor got called, since everything that wasn't allocated would be a zero or some other value that can either be checked or noops (the only exception is usually fds where you have to assign -1, for this you can use a `foo = FOO_INIT;` macro, or just assign by hand, `foo = { .myfd = -1 }`, it's annoying but works)

i don't see how that constrains anything? deferred blocks ...

2026-10-11T09:23:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…ewvu
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i don't see how that constrains anything? deferred blocks would be called on basically the same order as c++ destructors, plus you can defer whole blocks if you need more at cleanup time

and i take

```c
type *foo = make_foo();
defer free_foo(foo);
// ...;
if ((err = some_call()))
return err;
type *nya = make_nya(&foo);
defer free_nya(nya);

if ((err = some_other_call()))
return err;
//...;
```

over

```c
type *foo = make_foo();
// ...;
if ((err = some_call()))
goto cleanup_foo;
// ...;
type *nya = make_nya(&foo);

if ((err = some_other_call()))
goto cleanup_nya;
// ...;
cleanup_nya:
free_nya(nya);
cleanup_foo:
free_foo(foo);
return err;
```

for the defer example, i see foo, i see deferring it's cleanup, i don't think about foo's resources on exit anymore

on the goto example, i constantly have to think about it, if i change some calls around i gotta double check which labels it's jumping to, it's a lot easier to make a mistake refactoring and get a double-free or leak

and to me, defer is not any less explicit, for the goto example if i'm looking at the cleanup at the end i have to be aware of every single point in the function that jumps to it, i have to personally keep track of allocation order to make sure cleanup order is correct (nya takes a foo, so foo *has* to be cleaned up later)

defer just handles all that by design, all i have to do is keep the defer close to the allocation and now i don't have to worry much about ordering on the 99% of common cases; it's still explicit, it's still there in the function telling me the flow, it's not like destructors living in another file completely and being called implicitly

(and sure defer isn't idea on every case, it's made to avoid common mistakes, just like we have `for (init; cond; end) body;` loops instead of `init; again: if (cond) goto over; body; end; goto again; over:`)

i just kind of agree on the sentiment that IRs in general have a ...

2026-10-11T08:59:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…j6nc
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i just kind of agree on the sentiment that IRs in general have a better case to make for claiming "being portable assembly" than c, just in general tbh

reverse order when scope ends, it's not much more confusing ...

2026-10-11T08:47:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…zx2k
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reverse order when scope ends, it's not much more confusing than the last expression in a for loop, imo

(i also find it often clear than a sequence of goto cleanup_N; when you're dealing with more than one exit point)

that would be an improvement lol though if you want a more ...

2026-10-11T08:46:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…xpse
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that would be an improvement lol

though if you want a more serious answer, c targets the abstract machine defined on the standard

it's close to most real machines, but not quite. and thinking that c *has* to map to assembly 1:1 is how we get people hating on optimizing compilers or not understanding what stuff is doing

one example i remember, the "stack" isn't a thing; c just defines "automatic storage" variables whose storage is cleaned up when scope exits; a c implementation is free to implement those variables with things other than a stack if they'd want to

when's this whole "c is portable assembly" thing ...

2026-10-11T08:39:35Z

when's this whole "c is portable assembly" thing gonna end

it's just not

c is very much not a high level assembler, the abstract machine ...

2026-10-11T08:38:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…ljsk
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c is very much not a high level assembler, the abstract machine exists for a reason

plus, defer is as much idiomatic to c as for/while loops are over `if (cond) goto again;`

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2026-10-06T21:57:27Z

smartcard reader framework 13 "expansion card"

is there any docs on the app of, or guides on writing, a browser ...

2026-10-05T21:27:29Z

is there any docs on the app of, or guides on writing, a browser extension that *provides* the public key auth for passkeys / webauthn?

i can't find anything that makes sense from a provider side instead of client side

what're ya' buyin' what're ya' sellin'

2026-10-05T08:02:14Z

what're ya' buyin'

what're ya' sellin'

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2026-10-05T07:20:41Z

we hav silent hill where's loud annoying hill

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2026-10-03T08:40:37Z

gooooooooooooooood morning night city

for now i think anything above 2048 is fine with 4096 being okay, ...

2026-09-30T16:41:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…wulu
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for now i think anything above 2048 is fine with 4096 being okay, iirc

but like, ed25519 is right there so why not

now that i'm reminded to look at it, my pgp key is still ...

2026-09-30T15:00:20Z

now that i'm reminded to look at it, my pgp key is still rsa4096

i wanna change it to ed25519, but gotta find out how to do that with the minimal breakage as possible, hmm

someone at work suggested a company-wide pgp keysigning over the ...

2026-09-30T14:52:58Z

someone at work suggested a company-wide pgp keysigning over the next irl company meeting

i did not expect that but, neat, i like that

tbh using \n is often preferable, i've actually seen c++ ...

2026-09-28T20:32:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…cuxs
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tbh using \n is often preferable, i've actually seen c++ programs that slow down because every log printed would std::endl which means flushing at every single line

though i don't know the particulars of copy fail (and i'm ...

2026-09-24T23:31:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…tjky
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though i don't know the particulars of copy fail (and i'm curious what c type changes would've avoided it), the more i learn about c and safety with c, the more i realized the kernel isn't really good c most of the time...

just -- ...

2026-09-23T18:46:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…538h
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just -- https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/INSTALL.md#terminfo
install it -- https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/INSTALL.md#manual-page
by hand -- https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/INSTALL.md#shell-completions

*isn't this lovely?*

speaking of cargo and manpages, it's lovely that this issue ...

2026-09-23T18:24:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…8vzx
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speaking of cargo and manpages, it's lovely that this issue is still open: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2729

build system that has no ability of... installing arbitrary files... like seriously

> someone made a nix-based distro that uses openrc ...

2026-09-23T10:28:51Z

> someone made a nix-based distro that uses openrc
:blobfoxaww:

> "i used llms to build the initial framework"
:haggard:

> the two are completely separate but, they're not? ...

2026-09-21T21:00:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…lrdj
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> the two are completely separate

but, they're not? translations need to be version tracked with the code that uses it, when i check out an old tag, and i build that, i expect the translations to match

if they're completely separate, then i'd be building against newer translations for a version of the code that might've dropped or changed translation lines the version i'm building needs

changes in UI code reflects changes in translation, and sometimes changes in translation (e.g. adding RLT support where none existed before) can reflect in needed code changes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888 they did trusting trust on nixos ...

2026-09-19T18:55:22Z

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888

they did trusting trust on nixos via strip(1)

huh

i mean at least on linux, glibc has _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, and musl ...

2026-09-19T18:42:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…74cu
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i mean at least on linux, glibc has _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, and musl straight up defines off_t as 64bits always (afaict), and off64_t is just macro'd back into off_t

i think we'd gain more by making off_t 64bit in posix (like it was done with time_t) than making mmap64 and all the other *64 functions standard

i dunno if openrc messing with package manage'd files in /usr ...

2026-09-15T20:39:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…rjy0
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i dunno if openrc messing with package manage'd files in /usr is a good idea at all

specially since immutable systems with ro /usr are a thing now

alpine already merged support for /usr/libexec/rc onto abuild, ...

2026-09-15T20:32:04Z

alpine already merged support for /usr/libexec/rc onto abuild, yay

still a bit anxious, specially if we end up renaming stuff to /openrc, now that $libexec/rc and /etc/rc are somewhat public ($libexec/rc already existed but it was fully internal)

it's probably not that big of a deal if a year or more from now we change that, keep the old paths around, etc

but bweeh the anxiety

one day i'm not gonna be so anxious about stuff, one day

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2026-09-15T18:08:08Z

POSIXLY_CORRECT

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/releases/tag/0.64 openrc 0.64 ...

2026-09-15T17:47:55Z

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/releases/tag/0.64

openrc 0.64 out, highlights being RC_PATH and reexport dependencies

it installs lesspipe and sets LESSOPEN="|lesspipe %s" by ...

2026-09-13T08:30:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…h2uu
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it installs lesspipe and sets LESSOPEN="|lesspipe %s" by default

you can then look at the the lesspipe script to see all it does, there's a bunch of helpers, listing out tar or zip files, for example

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2026-09-07T18:44:46Z

https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/commit/e877fe9f5d6ce238862516ce84a405a12fd721a2

writing this out took me too long for no reason, i'm navi, the procrastinator

okay i think the enter key is a bit better on ansi than iso ...

2026-09-04T10:44:03Z

okay i think the enter key is a bit better on ansi than iso layout tbh

TIL when i said "mini-split AC" a while ago i was kind of ...

2026-09-02T12:51:00Z

TIL when i said "mini-split AC" a while ago i was kind of off

in brasil at least the vast majority of ACs are minisplits, so to me they were just, ACs

and thus assumed minisplit was specifically the portable minisplit that doesn't require installation, just a window -- they're small, but look like a "normal" split system, thus "minisplit", was my logic

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2026-09-01T07:39:14Z

is usenet used for anything but piracy these days?

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2026-09-01T06:58:41Z

wake me up when september ends

uni hw question: RPC is a technology that enables the execution ...

2026-08-30T19:23:32Z

uni hw question: RPC is a technology that enables the execution of a remote procedure. Which of the following options does *not* fit this definition?

me: selects "RPC works only in Java applications."

uni: marks it wrong

eh? sorry folks, rpc is java only now

goated response #note1hta…9r0s

2026-08-21T15:12:34Z

goated response

quoting
note1hta…9r0s

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2026-08-19T16:14:41Z

why have beef with someone when you can have tofu with someone

imo using ioctl() directly should be seen the same as using ...

2026-08-10T18:15:27Z

imo using ioctl() directly should be seen the same as using syscall() directly, aka, "don't do it and make/use a type safe wrapper instead"

it's honestly weird to me that new syscalls get new libc wrappers, but ioctls just don't¹ considering both have the same limitations, ioctls just feel like "syscalls scoped for a specific device via it's fd"

1: i mean it doesn't *have* to be on libc, libdrm is a nice wrapper for drm ioctls

is it... expected for glasses frames (not including the lens) to ...

2026-07-06T09:01:39Z

is it... expected for glasses frames (not including the lens) to be 200~300 euros?

it do be quite hard to emulate a lower level api on a higher ...

2026-06-26T07:48:08Z

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it do be quite hard to emulate a lower level api on a higher level one, heuristics galore

i know that e.g. wine struggles on mac quite a bit due to moltenvk being unfun on some edge cases (which is really sad to me as someone that works on vkd3d)

fwiw webgpu.h exists doing the same for any ffi-capable language, ...

2026-06-26T07:28:28Z

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fwiw webgpu.h exists doing the same for any ffi-capable language, iirc w/ 3 impls one of them being wgpu-native itself

those are called digraphs and together with trigraphs, they were ...

2026-06-20T21:04:39Z

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those are called digraphs and together with trigraphs, they were meant for people back in the 80s whose keyboards literally didn't have keys for symbols like (){}[]|\^#~

c removed trigraphs in c23, idk if digraphs are still in or not

if i got this right, usb-4 can do 120 gbps transfers while ...

2026-06-10T19:00:57Z

if i got this right, usb-4 can do 120 gbps transfers while driving four 2560x1600 display port monitors, at the same time, over a single cable...?

this is insanity lol like what

they might've genuinely believed that they were only joking, ...

2026-06-01T19:07:25Z

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they might've genuinely believed that they were only joking, or maybe they didn't but are lying that they did

now take out the, accidental or not, malice, and /hj in my experience, is people that more often than not don't want other people to know if they're serious, or joking

"it could be a joke" is the point, being able to maybe deny it as a joke or not, is the point

"but that's not a joke! why use the word joke!" well, is it a joke? do you know them well enough to tell if they're serious or joking?

so yes, it's confusing, often on purpose, arguably a huge misuse of "tone indicators", but it is what it is and there's no real alternative that i know of

rephrasing, are people joking when they say "calm down, it ...

2026-06-01T19:00:03Z

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rephrasing, are people joking when they say "calm down, it was just a joke"?

usually not, it's usually something really mean, and they want to not feel guilty of it, excuse themselves of having said/done it

but instead of something mean, what if instead it was just, an excuse to say something, anything really, seriously or not, and have plausible deniability that it could've been a joke?

"jk jk unless" gives the listener an option to either ...

2026-06-01T18:56:33Z

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"jk jk unless" gives the listener an option to either engage with it or disregard it "as a joke"

it uses the word joke, it's not always a joke, sometimes it's just a escape goat

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so why? as i've mentioned, i don't know, repeating the question won't help

if i had to guess, i'd say because "it's just a joke" was often used as excuses for things that were not jokes, and if you water that down enough you get to "jk jk unless" or "half-joke"

that's my guess, and again, i only used it because nothing else gives me a "i want to mention this thing, it could be read as i kind of funny i guess? but please don't take it seriously and start discussions" peace of mind

i don't know and honestly just refer back to ...

2026-06-01T18:51:55Z

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i don't know and honestly just refer back to https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B6tjSjUOf7F5NatLU0

i already mentioned why it's not /j up there, i'm not ...

2026-06-01T18:47:44Z

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i already mentioned why it's not /j up there, i'm not aiming to be funny, it's somewhat serious, but if taken as fully serious it could start discussions that i wouldn't want to be in

it's like "<thing>, LOL, LMAO" vs "<thing>, jk jk, unless..." (but without the flerty undertones that "jk jk unless" has)

well > i know this doesn't help, but ig i just don't ...

2026-06-01T18:44:11Z

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well

> i know this doesn't help, but ig i just don't really know what else to do on that scenario

/lh doesn't really help i don't think, /s would imply that i'm speaking the opposite, anything else is unrelated

/hj ends up being somewhat like "jk jk, unless"

but i suppose i didn't want it to be completely funny, just ...

2026-06-01T18:41:20Z

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but i suppose i didn't want it to be completely funny, just *not* serious

ig in my head /j is for funny things that aim to get laughs, while /hj is more like i'm kinda properly talking about it, but in a kind of silly way, i'm not trying to get people to laugh but i also don't want to it to be taken completely seriously

and ig that's where the plausible deniability comes in, if someone does takes it completely seriously then, it was a joke, but only kinda

i know this doesn't help, but ig i just don't really know what else to do on that scenario -- specially with how much people online take random statements as completely seriously and start discussions whenever they can

honestly the few times i used /hj, i just didn't want the ...

2026-06-01T18:34:07Z

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honestly the few times i used /hj, i just didn't want the risk of the message being interpreted as completely seriously because otherwise it kinda sounded like it was

so ig it wasn't to indicate what it was, but to kind of indicate what it wasn't? idk

i'm pretty sure a lot of rust's internal IR, depends on ...

2026-05-25T16:07:29Z

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i'm pretty sure a lot of rust's internal IR, depends on the final abi -- so a whole new IR would need to be implemented

and i don't know how much impact that'd have in optimization steps, which afaik are one of the steps that takes the longest next to typechecking, and may require abi info asw

they have precompiled static libs in target/**/*.rlib for each ...

2026-05-25T15:58:39Z

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they have precompiled static libs in target/**/*.rlib for each project

the reason we can't ship that or even reuse it across projects, is because rustc refuses to adopt a stable ABI, so an rlib compiled with rustc N may-or-may-not work with rustc N+1 or N-1

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2026-05-25T15:03:06Z

Since I'm the mad scientist, proclaimed by myself

HOLY this is working holy ...

2026-05-25T02:00:35Z

HOLY

this is working

holy

some people are really dead set on saying basically nobody uses ...

2026-05-24T08:15:49Z

some people are *really* dead set on saying basically nobody uses non-systemd distros huh

can that stop, please

> Why does the player have the information necessary to see ...

2026-05-19T00:17:22Z

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> Why does the player have the information necessary to see through a wall if it should be impossible from their position?

sound effects, which need a source position to be simulated properly, and lag/high-ping mitigations

modern games don't send info when it's impossible for any interaction to happen, but they do send it earlier than strictly necessary so that gameplay experience isn't broken by network latency spikes

the best solution for this though, imo, are small to medium community servers like we had before -- in those, cheaters are much more easily caught by people and kicked out

wayland has a WIP gamepad protocol that would not only let the ...

2026-05-19T00:11:40Z

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wayland has a WIP gamepad protocol that would not only let the compositor tell the program what kind of gamepad layout to display on the ui, but also allow the program to be none the wiser wrt to remaps (as they don't see hardware button ids, just button press events)

so in general newer apis are doing it right

only valve and nintendo are trying new things with controllers, ...

2026-05-19T00:06:05Z

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only valve and nintendo are trying new things with controllers, tbh -- and valve is hitting it spot on with gyro and dual touchpads

i'm not a fan of a law requiring a specific controller layout at all, everything would become an xbox controller

if we have to have it, then i'd rather it be at most require adaptive icons in the ui like how steam does it, changing the displayed layout based on the controller being used, and nothing else

password store android is a client made specifically for pass, ...

2026-05-15T01:26:46Z

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password store android is a client made specifically for pass, https://f-droid.org/packages/app.passwordstore.agrahn/ -- git, ssh, gpg (via OpenKeychain) and all

pass' major issue is this generic ass name ngl

password store on android works well ime and has ssh/git support ...

2026-05-15T01:23:10Z

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password store on android works well ime and has ssh/git support

so any platform with git works (aka all of them), the main issue is probably just an economic ui, which idk if one exists for windows or mac

overwriting one entry in the array as a whole seems to be the ...

2026-05-08T11:13:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…nkdw
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overwriting one entry in the array as a whole seems to be the goal here though?

i think you got the question confused a bit

posix goes beyond just linux though? that's the whole point, ...

2026-05-08T01:11:07Z

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posix goes beyond just linux though?

that's the whole point, software targeting posix means you don't have to rewrite every bit of software just to use it in a different os

if you want a world where you have more than one option of OS to run your programs on, then improving posix is the way to go, as the alternative is rewriting everything for every new exotic system interface

as long as it's still posix compliant, i'm all for ...

2026-05-08T00:58:05Z

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as long as it's still posix compliant, i'm all for redoing stuff

problem with most osdev things is that they come up with 100% better than before trust me interfaces, and slap a posix compat layer, and things just break or get awkward

iirc those vulns could be used to corrupt any page, so i think ...

2026-05-08T00:36:33Z

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iirc those vulns could be used to corrupt any page, so i think they could've been used against preexisting privileged processes too? not sure

but yeah setuid sucks

gentoo is currently also experimenting with gentoo/hurd, it's ...

2026-05-07T01:48:52Z

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gentoo is currently also experimenting with gentoo/hurd, it's going well

service namespacing (or sandboxing i guess) is planned for openrc ...

2026-05-06T01:40:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…sk67
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service namespacing (or sandboxing i guess) is planned for openrc

i've learnt a lot about it lately so eventually i'll take a stab at that