Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)

Silly kernel patch idea:

You know how on Linux you can't kill init?

What if instead, you can kill init, but if you do, you become the pid 1?

You know, the Dutchman needs a captain, and all that?

@mntmn shiny! Can you use backlight as indication? Eg. '#' turns red if you have unread messages on IRC, and green when someone DMs/pings you?

I've said this before but

Software freedom is not when the source code for the program you use is somewhere on github, has 5000 dependencies and doesn't build outside of CI

Software freedom is when you have the source on your computer, modify it, build it, and run a modified version

How much of the software you use on a daily basis would you be able to build from source? How many urls does that require fetching, and how many of these can stop working any time without prior notice?
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@mntmn do you enjoy it?

@Meemoo looks very spacious

is there a book in which fantasy tropes like blue-glowing magical water or trolls turning into stone turn out to be explainable with modern-day physics?

@foone hmm maybe there are two types of fun: the relaxing fun and the thrilling fun? After all, people do all kinds of dangerous things for fun and I don't thimk those are low-stress or low-attention situations...

@mntmn after 50 hours you get used to it

@mntmn is this a fix or an introduction of the bug?

@mntmn i2c good or bad?

@kuba when you see someone do things wrong, you can say "see that person doing things wrong? don't be like that person" but that's a very exhausting way of saying it, it's much easier to say "see this idiotic code? don't be like the idiot who wrote it". And then build a culture of people who are feeling superior by not being the idiot who wrote that particular idiotic code.

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@kuba

But if you don't tell people that it's ok to be the person doing things wrong, then they'll do things wrong, and you can encourage them to make things a bit better, but as soon as there's pressure, everyone will be ok with delivering a subpar solution "because we don't have time", since it's ok to do things wrong...

How to hold each other to a high standard without contempt?

@mntmn why not just make a manjaro chroot and then extract all the missing libraries from there?

@WPalant arguably, it shouldn't matter how strong the protection was. The purpose of security research is to find flaws in protections, the same flaws that could be used to do something malicious. That's the whole point. The differemce between a security researcher and a cybercriminal isn't what protections they bypass, it's what they do after they find out that they can bypass a protection.

Do they report it to the vendor? Or exfiltrate data and sell it on black market?
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@WPalant Which is why I think for laws concerning this to be reasonable, they must make it legal to bypass all protection mechanisms as long as you report your findings to the vendor and don't use the bypass to cause harm or for personal gain.

It seems like 10 years ago, finding a community which specializes in some niche subject was easy on the internet, and nowadays it's hard....

How to buy an SSD (not an advice, just my experience):

method A: just buy Samsung EVO

method B:
1. look up a few SSDs in your price range
2. notice how vendor specs are useless
3. look up specs on techpowerup
4. figure out the only good choices are Crucial and Samsung
5. notice how Crucial is doing funny things with model number
6. buy Samsung EVO

ffs can at least one other company get their shit together?

> How many different products with different performance do you sell under the same name?
> Nvidia: 2, maybe 3
> SSD manufacturers: oh, you sweet summer child, watch this

@piggo selfhosting live video streams is the most expensive thing to do. With pre-recorded videos you can use torrent or webtorrent like peertube does, and if multiple people are watching the same video at the same time, they'll only use as much of your bw as one person watching. In theory.

That's a big if tho.