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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

2026-05-15 01:26:46 GMT

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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

2026-05-15 01:23:10 GMT

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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

2026-05-08 11:13:39 GMT

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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

2026-05-08 00:36:33 GMT

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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

2026-05-07 01:48:52 GMT

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

2026-05-06 01:40:33 GMT

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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

2026-05-03 13:11:30 GMT

the point where that's needed is the point i'd say the tool shouldn't be written in shell, or should be simplified over multiple tools and then those go in a shell script
#note1axt…3yf2

2026-04-13 15:38:53 GMT

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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

2026-04-13 15:33:42 GMT

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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

2026-04-13 14:43:27 GMT

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

2026-04-13 14:32:30 GMT

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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)

2026-04-03 20:03:28 GMT

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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

2026-04-03 19:49:17 GMT

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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

2026-04-03 17:01:09 GMT

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

2026-03-14 10:42:24 GMT

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/8615#discussioncomment-16129293
here we go again
#note1ujp…0zd7

2026-03-03 00:00:35 GMT

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
#note1lar…fajl

2026-03-02 20:33:59 GMT

i am not surprised, slightly disappointed but this was coming anyway
#note1jrn…73uv

2026-03-02 15:13:09 GMT

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
#note17lp…2fpl

2026-03-01 12:02:45 GMT

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
#note1py2…5xzp

2026-02-27 14:35:47 GMT

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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

2026-02-27 14:30:36 GMT

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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

2026-02-27 14:16:11 GMT

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

2026-02-17 23:15:59 GMT

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

2026-02-10 18:08:54 GMT

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

2026-02-07 17:12:48 GMT

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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...)

2026-02-07 17:09:25 GMT

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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

2026-02-07 17:05:54 GMT

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

2026-02-05 13:26:41 GMT

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

2026-02-03 13:05:47 GMT

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 @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?
https://social.vlhl.dev/media/6f1da9a085f914f1543b6f14f7c72bc972f414be481ef4e6155994c37fd653c1.png
https://social.vlhl.dev/media/8ebd322962430da5905636afa0d7795d8acda8f2f6ff99ce9fdda8e8189a2705.png

2025-10-07 01:38:40 GMT

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between imap and the "new replacemente" jmap, i take imap over jmap anyday

2025-10-07 01:34:52 GMT

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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

2025-10-07 01:33:21 GMT

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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

2025-10-03 21:33:06 GMT

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

2025-08-30 00:54:47 GMT

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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 :/

2025-08-30 00:27:56 GMT

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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

2025-08-30 00:19:40 GMT

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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)

2025-08-12 01:34:08 GMT

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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

2025-07-26 16:20:11 GMT

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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

2025-07-26 16:07:49 GMT

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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

2025-07-26 16:01:05 GMT

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interacting with git by spawning a git-<applet> instance from anywhere but the shell just sucks

2025-07-26 16:00:34 GMT

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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

2025-07-26 15:55:11 GMT

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
#note1tuj…q7du

2025-07-26 15:36:58 GMT

would it be stupid/petty to fork git if/when they start hard depending on rust
my brain is a mess

2025-07-24 14:40:35 GMT

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

2025-07-20 16:06:47 GMT

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

2025-06-26 17:27:22 GMT

> 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

2025-05-23 00:00:08 GMT

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
#note13lr…h4rs

2025-05-18 07:42:04 GMT

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

2025-05-12 21:46:33 GMT

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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

2025-04-02 18:06:46 GMT

"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...

2025-03-31 21:59:39 GMT

c++ is indeed a language that exists
https://social.vlhl.dev/media/ac1435c692c6a75434a7edaf99b54d8aefe53fc58e2b3366780becd8c2a87cdc.png

2025-03-27 22:20:24 GMT

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

2025-03-26 19:29:03 GMT

> 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?
#note138l…c7a7

2025-03-15 01:53:01 GMT

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

2025-02-17 23:49:37 GMT

so glib can't be cross-compiled without an target emulator, because introspection bs
i just lost all the motivation i had rn

2025-02-14 01:39:30 GMT

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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?

2025-01-12 12:15:13 GMT

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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

2024-12-15 18:58:14 GMT

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

2024-11-06 21:28:33 GMT

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)

2024-11-02 11:31:15 GMT

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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

2024-10-29 01:04:31 GMT

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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

2024-10-29 01:00:45 GMT

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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

2024-10-12 23:20:20 GMT

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"

2024-10-03 17:01:22 GMT

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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

2024-10-03 16:21:59 GMT

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

2024-09-16 19:30:30 GMT

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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}

2024-09-11 15:31:36 GMT

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

2024-08-17 22:30:24 GMT

*makes a framework for your framework*

2024-08-17 10:53:03 GMT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk
tom scott did that about 8 years ago

2024-08-09 00:31:49 GMT

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/)