Grumpy Frenchman, C/Unix addict, author of s6 and other software at skarnet.org.
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Last Notes npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 FWIW, my sysdeps test for timer_create() correctly fails on OpenBSD: https://git.skarnet.org/cgit/skalibs/tree/src/sysdeps/trytimer.c npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 I kinda disagree with that. You could write a C compiler, down to the asm generation, in any existing language (that themselves would likely need a C compiler to bootstrap, but that's not the point). The really interesting part is the assembler. Once you have asm, you need to translate it into machine language, and although you could write an assembler in any language, you really want to be able to bootstrap one, so ideally you'd have a micro-asm hand-written in machine language to build your assembler with. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 Yeah this is an ideological pursuit. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 wait rsync is slop now? 😭 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…9xcl @nprofile…nmr0 Oh, don't worry, if we protest in France they will also teargas us and beat us. It's been like that for 10 years now, because Macron is such a socially liberal president 🤡 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 It's difficult to express my hatred and disgust for people who offer death to disabled people rather than, oh I don't know, work towards creating a better social assistance network. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 Cancel culture is bullshit when it targets me. Well, not me exactly, because I have no artistic skill or talent whatsoever that would result in me getting famous in the first place, but people who look like me and whom I can identify with. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…aasw I said satisfying. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…aasw that's a part of why I'm generally not a fan of Eastern fiction: they seem to hate fully satisfying endings. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 the only acceptable large lunch masher is my teeth npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 Processing your breakfast through an LLM may be hazardous to your health. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 remind me never to get anywhere near webkit-gtk. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 Is that a gcc build? there's an automatically generated file that lists all the codegen instructions for the target architecture and it's huge and has made my toolchain builds oom until I added several gigabytes of swap. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 To this European, what you say here is very enlightening. It makes perfect sense that the fervent, unshakable American patriotism would be manufactured to override (if not silence) whatever questioning there might be about the actual history of the country, i.e. settler colonialism and the Native American genocide. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 Jesus would make a kickass feditooter. 😁 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 and that is why I watch Kyle Kulinski or equivalent popularization channel, carefully curated and validated to the point I trust their analysis. They do the work of watching the whole SOTU (and ingesting whatever drivel Trump or others spout on any given day) so I don't have to, and can break down what happened and give me the important points so I can be informed without losing too many brain cells. 😅 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 Je cite souvent Rabelais "Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme", des siècles avant le Dr. Ian Malcolm "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should". npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 a fucking 36% increase?? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 is that you defending some kind of Protestant work ethic? 😜 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…zvpj It's funny no doubt, but, really? tcc doesn't use unsigned int? doesn't take addresses of local variables? doesn't allocate a structure in the stack? never uses a switch fallthrough? what is it doing? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 since 2013 if you're using the right software, hint, hint npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 So... what's the advantage in not buffering? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 Isn't that why Go programs are distributed statically linked? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 The Unix diety has, by its name, no divine powers, it can only submit you to a regimen of broken arrow keys handling in your shell and unsupported options in POSIX utilities. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 I think it's one of the most insidiously damaging things that the alt-right (as it was named back then) has done for the past 13 years or so: use "debates" to argue in bad faith, nuance troll, and waste their interlocutors' time to the point that most people gave up on discussions and reasonable disagreements, especially online, because 99% of that was worthless. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…aasw That's the main reason why I'm a musl advocate. I can read and understand musl's code, and modify it if I have to. It's much more difficult with glibc. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 Oh, the terrible dilemmas people have when they can afford more than one room 😜 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 To me it's a question of accountability. The French government may do survelllance, but we the people are supposed to be able to hold it accountable. What is on US (or whatever foreign) servers is entirely out of our control. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 That only works when the GDPR is actually enforced. Has Apple paid the fine imposed on them by the EU yet? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 Oh, we can have our own sovereign surveillance system, that's for sure. That is a completely orthogonal issue. 😅 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 No, sovereignty in the recent context is used as a euphemism for independence from the US, which I'm sure you'll agree is a pretty reasonable goal. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…zaxj clout is an imperfect proxy as well. systemd interfaces have a lot of clout, doesn't mean they're good. (Sure, systemd was propelled by capital, but it's not technically a product that comes directly out of megacorporations, so, what would you do about it? this shows the limit of the reasoning tbh, it's really difficult to draw a line in the grey area) npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nmr0 Artists in general are not very representative of the average person. Very few people are artists! npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 It's definitely tacky and lazy. Hollywood has (kinda) eventually heard that fridging a woman was bad, so they can't rely that much on that motivation to get a (male) hero going anymore; so, what's the next easy victim? A child, of course! That's by definition a powerless creature, it's not sexist or otherwise offensive to depict a child as unable to care for themself, so, children are perfect targets for a villain. Yay, problem solved! npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 is it bash or /bin/echo that fails? The error message is unclear. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 it's the only sensible way to keep spam out. I also require a subscription to my ML. It's not a big ask (and worst case you can unsubscribe afterwards). npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 didn't you get the memo? finding the correct syntax for all the special characters with all the needed levels of quoting is supposed to be an expression of programmer skill! 🙄 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 it works with sed! 😅 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I watched it, and I loved it! 😊 It definitely puts the focus back on kindness and compassion like the first Knives Out did. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I fully agree with you, and do not discount any of that; though I have not seen it as directly and painfully as you have, I am aware of it and have also experienced a (tiny) part of it. I was only providing a tentative explanation of why people perceive the Catholic Church as less harmful than it is. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I think most people just don't have the abuses of the Catholic Church in mind. It rarely makes news. Most of its crimes are in the past (though I'm not denying it hosts a pedophilia ring to this day, and the whole concept of church is a brainwashing operation) - whereas the consequences of misuse of excess wealth is made overt and obvious by secular individuals every day. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 Curate, curate, curate. It's the only sane way to use social media, no matter what it is - even the fediverse, though here there's already a partial vetting pre-done by your server's admins. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 When the time comes, this link may prove useful: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/where-do-i-start npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 If you like this style of storytelling, and if you like fantasy (which, as a Guillermo del Toro fan, you probably do!) then I really recommend looking at Brandon Sanderson's books. Telling stories where every scene is purposeful, making promises at the beginning of the book and fulfilling them later in an epic way, putting foreshadowing right in front of your face that you cannot see, making rereads at least as enjoyable as the first read... it's all in there. 🤩 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 Oh, I wasn't aware that Wake Up Dead Man was Knives Out 3! I know it was in the pipe, but didn't know it was out. Little publicity has been made of it in France. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I agree that the first Knives Out is full of compassion, but I did not feel the same from Glass Onion, which I saw as an unabashed, direct attack on techbros and billionaires in general, and Elon in particular. Absolutely deserved, overdue, on point and hilarious, but with much less focus on the little people and on being a decent human being than in the first movie. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 thanks to you, I now realize that a part (a minor one, but still, it's there) of the reason why I dislike material gifts in general, and the holiday season in particular, is that I hate the system way more than I like to express my love through gifts. And one of the reasons why I tend to stay away from most celebrations is that I don't want to feed the machine. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…uf6v npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I just want to say that I love what you write, and the way you write it. Very often, it's like you are reaching into my heart and pulling things out that I know and feel very acutely but never tried to work into a form that could be conveyed to others; and you shape them into words and put them on the page with more emotional power than I ever could; the power of raw truth and wounded souls. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 EBCDICK npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I loved the costumes in Crimson Peak. I didn't pay attention to them in Pacific Rim, but maybe it's a good excuse to watch the film again… npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 pas clair. Et j'ai toujours trouvé le site perso bien plus léché, ergonomique et stable que le site pro. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 c'est étrange, en général impots.gouv.fr est plutôt bien géré, je l'ai rarement vu planter. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 I would not be surprised if a lot of comments or criticism or praise we see online, about anything, was astroturfed. Seeing the scale of astroturf in the political world has made me very suspicious of everything. The Dead Internet Theory might be closer to the truth than we want to admit it is. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 Brandon Sanderson, my favorite fantasy writer, gave a speech yesterday on the same topic; and like everything he does, it is insightful and entertaining at the same time. The man knows how to write nonfiction just as well as he does fiction. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 it's funnier when your font does keming and "clipboard" reads as "cupboard" 😁 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 I personally find beds more comfortable for this than clipboards, but you do you npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 where the heck did you see that npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 I would have, like, a tetrahedron made of four stones, not even enough to cover my body npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 no, it's a popularity contest and well-known tyrant and genocidal maniacs are more popular than a lot of good people. Not the metric you want. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 it rather gives me US Democratic party vibes "we are the only rampart against evil, you have to support us even if you don't like what we're doing". npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr "Believing that we can create better software is a slippery slope to fascism" npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr I think you are putting a lot of effort into equating "fighting Nazis" with "being pro-systemd", which conveniently is the system you have chosen to use. Your arguments about "supremacy in software" feel sophistic to me, and could easily be reversed: what piece of software, if any, could be described as hegemonic in the Linux userspace today? 🤔 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr The point that I'm trying to convey here is that the characteristics I'm talking about are not artificial. They have real consequences on how software evolves, from a technical standpoint and also a political standpoint: who wields the power? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr To be very blunt, I don't give a flying fuck what alt-right people are drawn to. I'm not using that metric as any kind of indicator for software quality, and I don't think anyone should. And if you insist, my personal interpretation of their motives, for most of them, is not "follow a supremacy mindset", it's "be an edgy contrarian and trigger the libs", and for now that means opposing systemd. If s6 was the most deployed init system worldwide, they would probably oppose s6 instead. It doesn't mean anything, I don't care about these people, and you shouldn't either. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr If you don't see modularity as a goal, then it's fine, but it must also come with the expectation and acceptance that systemd cannot be universal. It should not try to target embedded devices. It should not try to target containers. etc. It cannot have it both ways. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr "systemd sucks because it's monolithic" is an oversimplification, but there is some truth to it - it depends on what exactly is meant by "monolithic", a term vague enough that you can attribute a meaning to it and dismiss all the criticism as invalid, when there is a perfectly good argument if we try and define "monolithic" more accurately. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 For some reason I cannot read the posts from this @[email protected] person, but feld, please be assured that when I rant against the BSDs, it is from decades of experience as a programmer trying to write portable code following the standards and experimentally witnessing that the BSDs often make it difficult; this thread is only one of countless examples. It's not an a priori, it's an a posteriori, and I don't hate for the sake of hating, I want BSDs to improve and play nicer with the rest of the ecosystem. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 I dislike sigwait anyway, if anything I will use sigsuspend but these functions are part of a pattern that I don't find particularly good and it has only been the optimal way of coding something once. Most of the time a selfpipe is the right way to go, just because you have other events to listen to than just signals. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 That's very interesting, and it indeed sounds debatable whether it is conforming, but it... looks like it kinda is? POSIX says: npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 It looks like a race. My interpretation is that the posix_spawn() implementation of the BSDs is low-quality and does not block until the child has successfully execve()'d. So the child runs true and exits before the parent even knows, and you never get your SIGCHLD. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…4zgr Sorry, but no, you are being dishonest here. You are purposefully conflating 1. contrarianism and "divide and conquer" tactics in the service of a harmful ideology with 2. legitimate technical and political criticism of your chosen technology, political being defined here as "the way a project spreads and impacts the community". These are not the same. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…rppp AFAIK that is the story. They're getting rid of their French infrastructure because they don't believe it's possible to operate securely, conforming to their mission statement, in France. Then some shit-stirrers see that and say they're helping terrorist networks, and all the French shit-licker media doubles down and it all becomes a shit-burger. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…n7x3 On a completely unrelated note, I found this aphorism in several places on the 'net, including around here: "If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing." npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 We need an anime studio in Brest doing Breton-native blockbusters, that will fix all the weebs npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 Les conjugaisons... encore eût-il fallu que tu les apprisses. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 I thought you were a native French speaker? Don't you like it? or are you a native Breton speaker? 😅 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 answer them in French and watch them seethe npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 I actually never thought about that detail, but I'm glad you found it, because it illustrates the flexibility I wanted to give users with execline 😃 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 The most baffling part of that postmortem is: they're not canarying their changes, especially when there are several levels of automation-produced configuration? 😱 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 Mode on corporate software like "cease to exist and be replaced with user-respecting FOSS" npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…nydn npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 I first ran Linux on a 486 DX at 33 MHz with 8 MB or RAM. It worked well. Can you imagine that today? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…uf6v politics is a shortcut for "expression of opinions I don't like", I'm sure they would listen to white supremacist punk (if that was a thing) without batting an eyelash. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 Debian has been a threat since they forced systemd in despite it not having the majority vote. I do not forget, and I do not forgive. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot When will they shove AI into it? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…a9du I tried porting skalibs to AIX once. I made an honest, serious effort. I eventually had to give up because too many very reasonable things weren't working. For instance, gcc -o /dev/null failed, and it was one of the least egregious failures. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 yeah, it's old. If you can spelunk out a rationale somewhere, I'm interested - but I'm not interested enough to do the archaeological work myself. To me it's yet another OpenBSD quirk that I may write a workaround for in the future if I have nothing better to do. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot POSIX allows an implementation of getpgid (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/getpgid.html) to fail when the process calling getpgid() is not in the same session as the process it wants the pgid of. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 Eh, I would argue something like NetBSD does provide an alternative for hacking, given the spread of hardware it supports. (It's also a lot easier to port software to than the other BSDs.) I'm not saying other Unix-like OSes are comfortable, compared to what Linux has become, but they do still exist, for the hipsters who hate anything remotely close to mainstream. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 Yes, I agree! But then I don't understand your initial post: you wish you were using a BSD or Illumos rather than Linux? Why do you wish that, if you recognize that for all its flaws, Linux still provides the better environment? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 spoken like a true user who has never done any C development ever 😝 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 it being called Andros doesn't mean much - Sappho's island is named Lesbos, not Gynos. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 your IP isn't in my blocklist. Can you ping skarnet.org? npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…uf6v LSB is a terrible "standard" and it's a good thing that nobody follows it. You don't need to read it, it should be forgotten. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot So, like everyone who hosts a website, I have been spammed by LLM crawlers, and though it hasn't been showing externally - the skarnet.org site was always responsive, which I want to attribute to the light weight of its web stack - it has been significantly annoying for me personally: the server also serves as my development machine, and my builds had slowed down to a crawl. The load average hovered around 26 and could spike to 33 or more. skarnet.org is the smallest possible VPS I could register; it's supposed to be cheap, not powerful - it wasn't meant to support this kind of abusive load. Last month, I decided to finally do something about it. 1/8 npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…2shs npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…m3qg like computer science, law is its own domain, and you need to be a geek of the domain to have a cursory understanding of all of it and an in-depth understanding of a narrow part of it. npub159hszcevh2weft57h8qt8h04sjl4d2ms445l3w7c5w6pghpu9vhq2n9fnz Laurent Bercot @nprofile…m3qg There is a fundamental difference! tcpserver processes connections (at creation and deletion time) in O(n^2) time, whereas s6-tcpserver processes them in O(n log n).
