Red Rozenglass

a young man from a far away land.
corposlave ("software engineering consultant" lol).

GNU/Linux (Slackware). Programming (asm, C, sh, Lisp, Lua, Web, JS, etc.). Likes writing documentation, understanding & maintaining systems, archiving, organization. Interested in paper machines, books, visual novels, writing, drawing, anime. EN/AR fluent, TR can order food, JP early learnings.

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2026-07-21 22:48:58 GMT

@nprofile…n8dl @nprofile…f4gg @nprofile…anf7 @nprofile…k7fy @nprofile…et7q @nprofile…4j2l @nprofile…jz4n who hurt you, little elves of northern woods? can't handle telling your friend of a decade that they look good without having intrusive sexual thoughts? may the lord speed your relief, and grant you the peace you seek, in this world and beyond.
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2026-04-09 10:59:17 GMT

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@nprofile…hm02 My personal solution to this, when I want to slow my brain down, is to utilize those rare abilities to get myself intentionally stuck in thought loops, for example, every thought that comes to me, I imagine I put it in a box or book and line it perfectly next to the other boxes and books, and I keep doing that for dozens of times until I start running out of thoughts, at which I start focusing on just staring at those imaginary lined up books or boxes in an imaginary empty room lit only by candles. I never run out of random thoughts to be fair, and many of them re-appear again and again, but sitting there just repeating those cycles long enough (up to an hour or two sometimes) allows them to slow down a little, and I usually feel better afterwards. If some thoughts are relevant to my life I may write them in a real notebook or text file to soothe myself into knowing that I won't miss that thing, I'll just come back to it later.
This is what works for me, sometimes, each mind is unique so your mileage may vary.

2026-02-27 15:17:31 GMT

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@[email protected] @[email protected] if your use-case includes storing all agenda items, tasks, and journal entries, for many people for years to come, then inode exhaustion and space overhead due to mostly-empty allocated file-system pages can be a pain, and of course slower directory access once you have a few tens of thousands of files unless you split them into many directories for balance. perhaps, ical used one file because they expect a person to potentially generate thousands of items per-year, and over a couple of decades. if you want to search all journal entries by some criteria, you will have to open() thousands of files just to look something up, which is much slower than grep'ing through a single file a few megabytes in size.
a multi-file setup makes multi-user work much easier of course, saves a lot of locking and synchronization headaches, since mv/rename() are atomic, and that's very nice.
random fresh thought, not well-explored: what if each user client would have a single file owned by them, so no need for complicated locking and synchronization, and then a shared space exists for many users to communicate where every object is a single file, and every operation is atomic. a user then appends their "inbox" of temporary single-file objects into their homefile in which everything else they own exists. this way, multi-user operations would still be relatively easy, but the final data storage does not have issues with page overhead, inode usage, or slow access and search. i wonder if some system exists that uses something like that already.

2026-02-21 21:42:41 GMT

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@nprofile…hhty It is very good indeed.

2026-02-21 12:25:46 GMT

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@nprofile…8pxw I would keep two remotes locally, one is pointing to the original project repo, and one to my own GitHub fork. When I want to make a contribution, I first stash my local changes, fetch upstream, create a new local branch from upstream's latest HEAD, then apply my stash, resolve any conflicts, do any additional changes and fixes, commit, then push that branch to my GitHub fork, and create a pull request from the new branch. That branch can then be deleted once the pull-request is merged, but you can also just leave it for posterity. Next time I have something else, I just create a new branch for the new contribution (you can have a unified prefix for all such branches, to taste, so you can ignore them later, something like contribution/2026/fix-missing-like-button). I used to do reset --hard and push --force to my GitHub fork to have a clean-slate, but I remember that confused their pull-request system, so I stopped doing it.
(I hope I understood what you're asking correctly, my knowledge of French is limited, and I used the help of a software translator).

2026-02-21 11:47:46 GMT

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@nprofile…6w8j
This is what Twitter/X and Facebook are doing, AKA "the algorithm".
I want to see the n most likely posts to interest me /based on my scoring/
Sorting my timeline locally to de-prioritize posts from people I follow to a thread I don't care much about is not equivalent to centralized social media corpos using machine learning models trained on everyone's online behavior and data to pick and choose what I and everyone else get to see to maximize profit and minimize dissent. My goal is to cope with large numbers of posts from people I follow, not be mind controlled.

2026-02-20 12:39:22 GMT

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@nprofile…6w8j Not sure what that means. Do you mean extend the AP protocol with support for groups? To me, I'd be fine with one group per tag and per user, further sorting is done by my news client which allows me to split articles into virtual groups based on any criteria I want. To me, the most important features I want is to track what I've read or not, instead of having everything evaporate into the ether, and I want to be able to use Gnus's scoring feature to prioritize posts. In other words, instead of seeing the latest n posts that just happened to be there when I open fedi, I want to see the n most likely posts to interest me based on my scoring. If I down-score a heated thread, I don't want its replies to keep being in my face, and if I up-score posts from someone doing a cool project recently, I want their new posts to be higher in the order of posts I see. This is achievable, I think, by providing an NNTP transformation interface without having to actually change the underlying data models.

2026-02-19 08:38:06 GMT

I wish #snac had an NNTP or mail interface so I can use fedi from my Emacs Gnus just like I use #Usenet; with adaptive scoring and good threading ergonomics. Maybe I should build it myself at some point. I wonder if transforming snac's JSON files to news spool files is enough to have some kind of reading support. Posting will probably be a bit more involved.

2026-02-13 03:47:07 GMT

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@nprofile…8pu2 I escaped my country during the civil war; I decided not to fight for anyone. I despised all sides of the conflict, and I evaded working for any of them for a while until my conscription by central government became all but an inevitability, at which point I escaped to a neighboring country, because I'd rather be called a coward by all sides than be a murderous slave to any of them. I spent the next decade supporting 10+ family members and friends who also escaped the country. I see a lot more honor in protecting and feeding my little sister, than in blowing things up for some fake ideals sold by a bunch of guys who are getting paid and ordered around by secret agents of this super power or that super power.
Now, to answer your question from a utilitarian perspective: different people have different skills, and are thus suited for different situations and times. Some have the courage and ability to become warriors, some don't. This does not make them "cowards", it simply makes them "not a warrior". The most useful placement for a brilliant logistics guy, or a surgeon, or a salesman, is not in a fight, but outside of it. They can be most helpful to the fight when they are not fighting, and can potentially be a net negative if they are thrust into the fight due to their natural personality inclinations. I know there are people who left my country and still contributed to the war through informational and logistic resources from outside.

2025-12-08 22:06:09 GMT

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@nprofile…tu8r Try using the last few characters as the names of directories. When using the first few characters, all files in a dir have the same prefix, but when using the last few characters, then the distribution of the files in the dir is essentially random. The later has been some 30% faster for our use case. LMDB has been pretty good and reliable too, for our rare-writes but lots-of-reads work-load.

2025-12-04 05:26:23 GMT

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@nprofile…d97z ba[dataloss] an^@ [dataloss]pilled. Do you basically use one base wine prefix and then COW stuff on top? Does it work acceptably? I use squashfs and unionfs for build machines, and I was thinking of doing that to wine prefixes, but haven't gotten around to that yet.

2025-08-26 10:28:16 GMT

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@nprofile…agan I struggle with something like this. My mood baseline tends to be low unless I'm solving someone else's issues, usually with my tech skills or intellectual abilities somehow. I live disaster to disaster, whether its my work clients or family or friends. Only when people come for my help, and I manage to help them, do I feel like "huh, I'm kinda good eh?". I wish my brain would learn to just accept that using the proof that I've done things and helped people thousands of times before, but no, it might do that on an intellectual logical level, but not on an innate feeling level; if it's not high on a recent triumph, then I'm just a useless nobody who's letting humanity and the whole world down, withering his life away without aim or purpose.

2025-08-26 09:03:09 GMT

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@nprofile…4zca aww what a global-good-mode! headpats headpats

2025-08-26 08:58:36 GMT

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@nprofile…x2k3 I haven't been carrying a smart phone for a year or so now[1]. I keep a smart phone with a broken blank screen and LineageOS on my desk at home, and use it like a land-line phone basically, if people call me and I'm not there, I'm not answering. In the few cases where there's a bank or government process that requires a smart phone app, I use scrcpy over adb to control the phone from my desktop computer. Away from my desk, I'm 100% offline. I plan my trips before hand, use pencil and paper to draw rough maps and take notes, and carry a little notebook with important names and phone numbers in it in case of an emergency. If I'm lost I roam and use my intuition to explore, or, as a last resort I ask people for directions.
[1]: and for three or four years before that too, but I did carry a phone for five years or so in between.

2025-08-25 09:42:03 GMT

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@nprofile…agan Safe travels~

2025-08-24 10:39:48 GMT

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@nprofile…6yr6 @nprofile…mj4q Oh, I just noticed that you suggested the universe's expansion as centrifugal force here too. Apologies, I came back to read the whole thread just now :>

2025-08-24 10:33:35 GMT

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@nprofile…6yr6 @nprofile…mj4q Thank you for entertaining the random thought. Thinking out loud still, perhaps incoherently: if the rotation of our world is around an axis that is "outside" the world, say, we live in a two-dimensional world, hanging from a thread rotating around a pole somewhere above in the third dimension, then we'd see the centrifugal force applying in one direction in our 2D world, but, if the axis of rotation goes /through/ our world, then we'd see centrifugal force going in all directions away from one "center" point in our world.
Now I can't claim to know intuitively what "spinning" means in a 4th dimension, let alone spinning in a 13th one, looking at a projection of a hypercube spinning confuses me, but gives me more ideas.
What if it's not gravity, what if the "center" point we're all going away from is the point of the big bang, and the edges we're going towards in all directions are... I don't know? But perhaps this explains dark energy and somehow the accelerated expansion of the universe.
Another idea, perhaps, when considering time as one of the dimensions, the one direction we're all going away from is the "past", and towards the edges of the "future" (hence perhaps why the past is "one" and the future feels somehow like multitudes?) The beginning of the universe being the center, again is perhaps the big bang, and the "end" of the universe being the edges. Now if we assume the end of the universe being all the black holes that swallowed all matter, then the closer you are to becoming a black hole, the closer you are to the edge, hence, you are pulled towards all directions that are closer to being black holes. Whenever any matter is pulled towards any other matter, it is going in the direction of becoming black holes, hence "gravity".
Of course the big issue with this "assumption" that black holes are the "end" is that it is wrong as far as we know. Firstly, because space is expanding, matter is less likely to become black holes over time, and secondly, because Hawking radiation indicates that black holes are not the end state for matter as they seem to evaporate over time (unless Hawking radiation comes from "somewhere else" and does not result in mass reduction of black holes, but that's not what we collectively think for now (as far as I know)).
https://fedi.dreamscape.link/rozenglass/s/post-b3e46864ea9391205e5bdf57eb11ae30.gif

2025-08-23 20:52:20 GMT

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@nprofile…6yr6 @nprofile…mj4q random sleepy bordering-on-high passer-by without-context fantasy comment: what if we do see a weird centrifugal force, say, gravity, and due to some spinning of the universe in some higher dimension in which we get farther from the "center" by getting closer to higher concentrations of mass. The edges of the universe being walls of highest concentrations of mass, i.e. blackholes, and the center of the universe being somehow somewhere as far as you can get from any mass at all.

2025-08-23 14:50:52 GMT

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@nprofile…sw55 You can define this as a shell function; paste the following into your shell:
min () { if [ "$1" -lt "$2" ]; then echo "$1"; else echo "$2"; fi; }
Then use it like this:
echo "$(min $COLUMNS 80)"
You can also add that min function to your .bashrc or .profile to persist it.

2025-08-22 21:56:49 GMT

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@nprofile…ak3x wah! potions were good, mixing and cooking them was fun, they have a strong counter-fatigue effect from what I see, and as a bonus, taste really good!
https://fedi.dreamscape.link/rozenglass/s/post-f08c1212e85e70cbf3b0ede695188e04.jpg

2025-08-22 15:28:09 GMT

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@nprofile…ak3x @nprofile…w8cy whoops, time to visit the currency exchange market; need to stock up on apples for good luck and blessings.

2025-08-22 14:58:50 GMT

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@nprofile…ak3x Good morning friend, how do you do? The weather is nice today. I went foraging for some Zucchinis and spice, I think my secret potion will come out great >:3
https://fedi.dreamscape.link/rozenglass/s/post-e2a490ee3d3f870450ce163b874366bb.jpg

2025-07-05 08:29:12 GMT

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@nprofile…glsq I just watched all your videos, and enjoyed it much, especially the vid above, and "The Cult of Hard Mode". Added your channel to my RSS reader :3
Regarding the second brain, I've been experiencing a similar sentiment once I started using only simple blank paper, ruler, and a pencil for my "productivity", in place of the thousands of files and links and tags and hundreds of thousands of words that are all over my digital systems (including multiple systems I programmed myself).
Slowness and deliberation when writing things down by hand! The slowness of it left me many free brain cycles while writing, brain cycles that are passively spent actually making connections, coming out with new ideas, and further integrating what I'm writing about as I /sit/ with it. And then the deliberation; mindlessly copying a link to a trip on Google Maps to my "Knowledge Management System" and referencing it later from my phone on the way, it all passed through my brain like gentle wind, without a thought, without a trace, leaving me like a fumbling perpetual amnesiac, powerless without the guidance of the machine, even for a trip that I took dozens of times. But writing down directions on a slip of paper before going out, because I know I will need them, leaving my phone home, I didn't even need to reference the paper slip anymore! The directions were now stored in my brain instead.
The slowness also forces me to be extremely selective with what I collect, because I know I will be sitting there writing it letter by letter, not a simple copy-paste anymore, no massive dumps of information I never get to really process; much less clutter even after months of doing this, than when I used "optimized" collect-everything digital systems, but much more is done. I have a suspicion this might be a clue to why all those "Digital Zettelkasten" productivity cults never seem to be full of creatives as prolific as Luhmann was :)
Way I think about it, we have a very powerful special computer in our heads, and instead of further pushing it to its limits, improving its abilities, and practicing its skills, I tried to outsource it to the flashes in the silicon machines. I no longer want a second brain! I want to master the first!

2025-07-02 12:25:16 GMT

@nprofile…94wz
Hello, I just finished reading both of your blog posts, I like your writing! I'm now an RSS subscriber :)
Regarding the "Destructive Convenience" post, some related thoughts follow:
You attributed to convince people's mass move to Discord and Microblogging, away from forums and small community websites. But I suspect another big factor is at play here, something more sociological perhaps. There have been many platforms allowing convenient creation of forums and topic-focused discussion boards, Reddit being the biggest perhaps of such platforms, but the lack of depth, quality, and persistence of discussion; the ephemeral effect, still persists, and with it, people's inability to form deep relationships too.
I have a working hypothesis that what we're seeing here is more like some kind of a negative race-to-the-bottom unintended social effect caused by the loudness of the "global namespaces" and the real-time chat-like platforms, than it is a tendency of people towards convince. Something motivated more by anxiety and fear of missing out than it is by laziness and ease of use. I think this might be different platforms "selecting for" different personalities somehow. The story in my mind goes something like this:
Some people are perhaps more extroverted and novelty-seeking people, they enjoy "laid back" time-killing, but they are also loud and extremely social. Such people, when presented by a platform where the social expectation is to write a lot and follow rules and think deep about a limited topic, get intimidated, or perhaps feel mental-overload when trying to contribute. Those people are more interested in having fun and socializing, but the platforms demands they limit their socialization and spend a lot of introverted time contemplating, writing, and editing.
On the other hand, they are also presented with platforms that are shallow, low-expectation, barely have any rules, and most importantly, socialization-centered. Such people, trying to spend their free time, will almost always choose platforms that allow them to just drop a "whassup gaaaang" and get immediate social engagement and feedback, they will be attracted to platforms where there's always /something/ happening to feed their high-novelty cravings, and they will be able to effortlessly contribute to that everlasting extroverted party due to their own personality tendencies.
Now the real effect comes when the majority of people, who are less extroverted, lean slightly more towards deep thinking (but perhaps are not aware of it), but also perhaps lonely, /observe/ the landscape of platforms. Those people also crave social connection, and so they get attracted /anxiously/ to the ever lasting party, hovering on its sidelines, usually thinking that the issue is /with them/ for not being able to make friends or engage like "everyone" seems to do. The super-extroverts are a minority, but their activity and eventfulness result in them being perceived as the "everyone"; whenever you hear "everyone is doing x" or "everyone knows y" on the modern web, it almost always actually means "the socially extroverted loud minority is doing x", and we all think those people are /everyone/.
Finally, comes the contrast: The less extroverted people look at the loud shallow extroverts, and compare the amount of social interaction they see around the extroverts, with the amount they see in traditional forum-like deeper-thinking platforms. The tens of thousands of shallow messages a day, all day, on a Discord channel make a forum of 10 deep thoughtful posts a day seem /dead/. The forum is perhaps not really dead if we compare the amount of mental effort expended, or even the number of people involved, in some cases, but that's not what people tend to compare. They only compare the frequency of perceived social feedback. Now a vicious loop starts, where the hovering of the less extroverted masses around the major loud extroverts, because they think their deeper platforms are "dead", results in actual reduction of engagement in the deeper-thinking platforms, and the prophecy thus is self-fulfilling.
Put in an extremely simplified short way: platforms good for extroverts, attract the extroverts, and the introverts timidly follow, while platforms good for introverts repulse the extroverts, and the introverts think them thus dead and abandoned. What I'm describing is a version of: "Person wants to make friends, goes to loud extroverts party, feels lonely and sidelined, thinks something is wrong with themself, doesn't get to make friends, retreats away into a shell, and is even more anxious and lonely, all the while the library where like-minded people they could have loved, would have gathered, lies empty and dormant, because all such people are making the same mistake, seeking to be included in super-extroverted circles by super-extroverted people, because that's what 'socialization' looks like in their minds"; a version of this that's happening at a massive societal scale, skyrocketing our collective loneliness, anxiety, and social frustration. The entire bell-curve of extroversion and intellectual depth being dominated by the minority of top fast eventful extroverts, because the platforms unintentionally center them as the main players; the perceived social "everyone".
Something like that.
It feels to me that, hypothetically, if we take the majority, the sidelined lurkers from Discord and X, who wish they could have a genuine human connection, but instead just end up watching others /appear/ to have it, and we make them all aware of the difference in personality between them and the people they are seeing on those platforms, if we help them realize that social /filters are good/, that perhaps you want your forum to not attract engagement, and not have the loud and fast people in it (they can still hangout happily at their loud parties), that it is okay that it only has 10 deep posts a day, that the potential of meeting friends who would alleviate the loneliness is higher still on a forum of 10 posts a day, than on a Discord channel of a 10,000 messages a day, simply due to the different types of people those environments select for, and because you're surrounded by "your own people", quite as they may be. That those people would gladly leave Discord and X and opt-out for a less-convenient platforms instead. They simply don't know, because as a society, we're not very aware of collective personality differences, and the social categories they create, and what good socialization actually looks like for those different personalities.
This is further complicated by randomness too, like a casino that keeps you there because you win /sometimes/, less extroverted people still manage to get a smidgen of social interaction from other less extroverted people who are all flocking around the super-extroverted people, and thus, increasing the likelihood that they would stick around in the quicksands, in hopes of that one more addictive hit.
I have no idea how to game-theoretically solve this issue though, not yet in the answers stage; still trying to formulate the question :)

2025-06-26 14:47:51 GMT

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@nprofile…xvh7 good morning, may you age well ^-^

2025-06-26 14:27:04 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy rooted head.

2025-06-26 14:26:49 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy oh no which head?

2025-06-26 14:18:00 GMT

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@nprofile…hmwk @nprofile…vqps Played supertuxkart with my family recently, it was a lot of fun.

2025-06-26 12:28:11 GMT

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@nprofile…9kfu I would guess the surrounding community matters, Plan9 was being made at Bell Labs, Go at Google, the same people may have produced wildly different products given the different environments and different goals. I don't claim strong familiarity with either, but Plan9 seemed to be heading towards an interesting alternate tech-tree path. But yeah, I would choose Lisp machines over another Unix-like world any day. But I wonder, has there been any parallels in the Lisp machines world to the distributed OS resources paradigm of Plan9?

2025-06-26 10:45:02 GMT

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@nprofile…9kfu plan9 could have saved us, but the world is cruel.

2025-06-22 13:14:56 GMT

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@nprofile…x2k3 ssl was a mistake :p

2025-06-19 21:46:34 GMT

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@nprofile…5x7c @nprofile…twtf The entire internet is suffering a massive DDoS attack it seems, most attribute it to mindless attempts at gathering all kinds of data for the latest AI craze. Hence why so many free software projects are installing proof-of-work protection layers, like Anubis and such. The Arch wiki, the Gnome project, among many others, are implementing such measures. It sucks greatly that this means requiring JavaScript for access, to run the proof-of-work algorithms, and it's also usually terrible for mobile devices. But I'd take something like that any day over Cloudflare, which requires TLS termination on Cloudflare's side, i.e. a MitM attack on all users of the service, /and/ requires JS anyway.

2025-05-30 17:57:45 GMT

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@nprofile…d7f0 If I was to guess, considering this question mostly comes up in context of anti-trans sentiments. I'd say it's because the opposition and hostility towards male-to-female transition is way more pronounced than female-to-male transition. A biological female assuming male gender roles and joining male spaces, does not trigger people as much as a biological male assuming female gender roles and joining female spaces. This means rhetoric against MtF people is more likely to be produced and propagated. But what do I know~

2025-05-30 17:46:39 GMT

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@nprofile…6yr6 @nprofile…g37f @nprofile…vqps I enjoy freedom, and I'm grateful for the work of GNU volunteers, but the number of instructions executed to run true is 146,925 instructions, doing 39 syscalls. To be fair, a lot of this is due to dynamic linking and glibc C runtime initialization, which is standard on most GNU systems.
https://fedi.dreamscape.link/rozenglass/s/18bde242e101c0f32fedb1fc2a017621.png

2025-05-20 10:07:47 GMT

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@nprofile…gucf @nprofile…7sks I think scrcpy[1] provides that too, since Android 12.
[1]: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

2025-05-20 10:05:34 GMT

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@nprofile…ul3x
Never heard of it, seems interesting, and relatively minimal, which I like. Thanks for the hint.
The reason I rolled my own RSS reader is because I already had a feed system I wrote, so just tuck another plugin into it. My feed client takes many "loaders" as plugins, and uses those to generate the feeds. I have RSS and Atom, but also various hand-written website-specific HTML parsing thingies for some software, some security advisory "feeds", and other things where I want to check a place regularly. Basically any string of shell commands that generates the expected tab-separated files, works. Helps me a lot with staying on top of news related to packages I maintain in some Linux distros, and security announcements for clients I do consulting for, etc.
I could have hacked on some existing feed software, but I would have probably wasted way more time getting into their code-base and whatnot; my core feed checker is 70 lines of shell, and my reader client is another 70 lines.

2025-05-20 09:36:38 GMT

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@nprofile…ul3x I wrote some shell scripts that use curl to get the RSS feeds of all the channels I care about, transform them using xslt-proc, storing them into new plain-text files in per-channel folders, then loop over them, listing them, with a prompt. I can see the titles of Youtube videos form all channels I subscribed to, then type the number of the one I want to watch, or just press enter to open the latest video, and it will play it in mpv with some yt-dlp options to choose a reasonable resolution, moving that entry to an old text file. If it's a big video, like a podcast or a talk or something, I have another option to download the video locally first, then I can watch it offline with mpv whenever time permits.

2025-05-10 22:19:30 GMT

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@nprofile…8ayu @nprofile…5dmj Opening it in mupdf, scrolling the first 500 pages, then going to the end of the document, it takes 50MiB of resident memory, and each extra mupdf instance seems to take 30MiB of additional memory (so 20MiB is shared between the instances, could be the PDF file, memory mapped, which is almost 20MiB, or could be some memory mappings of some shared libraries, not sure). The experience is very snappy (but my machine is relatively stronk).

2025-05-10 03:05:05 GMT

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@nprofile…msu3 free headpats from random internet passerby ^-^

2025-05-09 21:53:40 GMT

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@nprofile…73zh @nprofile…w8cy The scope hasn't been "HTTP library" for more than 25 years. I assume it's "overarching" for the same reason why most big "evolved" software are; things just got piled up over time, as the shared infrastructure makes adding new things to the same application faster than building new "do one thing and do it well" tools.
cURL started as an HTTP client in 1996, it was called httpget at the time, and then it got FTP support in 1997, changing the scope of the library to something like "transfer data to and from any URL", hence it was renamed the same year to urlget. In 1998 it was renamed to cURL because too many projects were called urlget. From there onward, more protocols were added because the scope of the library became "Any protocol with a URL". SMTP support was added in 2010, in the same borg spirit :)
By now cURL has some 30 protocols or so.
It's been a long time of course, and that's all I could piece from the changelogs. I wonder if @nprofile…rhzs would kindly chime in more on whether there was any discussions of splitting cURL into separate per-protocol applications, advantages of the current design, or more on the philosophy behind this architecture.

2025-05-09 11:01:23 GMT

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@nprofile…v27d Calm your cocks (chickens), calm your tits (birds[1]).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)

2025-05-07 11:03:07 GMT

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@nprofile…jxjc never mind me, I misunderstood what you're talking about; too sleepy >.<

2025-05-07 10:12:05 GMT

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@nprofile…0znl
playing windows #games under #linux
Wine
Wine but corporate
Wine stuff downloader
Wine but modern wrapper
Wine but classic wrapper
Wine but hip wrapper
:3

2025-05-07 09:49:33 GMT

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@nprofile…jqwa gcc -S pr something instead of godbolt for the love of god ;-; in other cursed thoughts, maybe write an ed script to translate your language to C "automatically".

2025-05-07 09:47:10 GMT

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@nprofile…jxjc so kinda like pushd and popd?

2025-05-07 09:32:24 GMT

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@nprofile…8pe4 @nprofile…yr9m @nprofile…377v An institution is a big word for a dozen people who are just kinda friends and who negotiated some deals with their bosses, in companies of 20 to 50 people or so. It is not policy, not rights, it's business. Had they taken our rights forcibly we would sue them. So, I don't think you and I are talking about the same thing here :)
If I was dealing with Amazon or something, where things are too big, and run all on policies and rules, and it's easy for workers' rights to be crushed between the cogs of the massive machine, then I would agree, it is a political issue, and you likely need a large-scale organization to form an institution to protect rights.
I come from a very different background (see sibling post perhaps),
so words might be messy and imprecise. Apologies :)

2025-05-06 06:12:28 GMT

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@nprofile…vu2g I first visited your website around 10 years ago, on a laptop that was at the time around 10 years old too, with less than 1GiB of RAM. I was new to the internet, in a poor country at civil war with international sanctions, so having that laptop was already a near miracle. I didn't know what software updates even meant, and I doubt any of the people around me did either, we shared some old computers, and later on got hold of some no-name Chinese tablets. Pretty sure I showed your site to my siblings and friends because I thought it looked really cool. I'm no longer there, but I know from family that to this day, getting a few unreliable kilobytes per-second is very hard to come by, downloading updates sometimes takes days.
Being on the log-reading side I know that most such "weird" traffic are botnets nowadays, seeing them participate in attacks on some hospitals I was contracted to protect, but I still wonder about all the people who might be in a similar situation to what I was in, they are drowned in bot traffic, but some of those, some of them, are real humans. After all, hundreds of millions of people live in environments where keeping Chrome updated is literally something they cannot afford, and sits as perhaps number million on their priority list, that is if they even knew about it in the first place.

2025-05-05 21:08:32 GMT

Hando's block list is beautifully diverse. People from all over the world, of all countries and all backgrounds, from the most radical leftist to the most radical rightist, and from the most radical third-positionist to the most radical inter-dimensionalist, furry lovers, trad-wife lovers, the ultra gay and the ultra just-a-little-bit-gay, all united in being blocked for loli.
Ah fedi, you never disappoint.

2025-05-05 20:44:21 GMT

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@nprofile…hmru I tried to carry a wallet because the wife got me one, I then proceeded to lose it within a few weeks, with IDs and money and other important stuff. I think the wallet most likely fell off my pocket in a park. Never lost stuff before a wallet, never lost again after a wallet. Wallet bad.
I instead put things in different pockets in my pants and jacket, based on importance and access frequency. Small money bills, note-paper, pen, to low importance pockets, IDs or big money, in high importance pocket. Almost never touch high importance pockets, so things in them never get lost.
Wallet made me practically pull out every important thing I'm carrying when all I wanted was small change. Maybe the solution is to carry multiple wallets, but I'm too traumatized to even try again.

2025-05-05 20:29:04 GMT

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@nprofile…8pe4 @nprofile…yr9m You don't need a union to do collective bargaining. The idea of unions is too politically charged, and some people who would have benefited from a union fight against it because they think of the worst of unions when they do; becoming part of a power-group that "fights on your behalf" while you're rarely involved, and ends up distracting everyone from getting work done, and forcing you to become part of fights you never wanted to be part of.
My experience in tech (not in the US thought), is that you can recruit people for specific well-bounded bargains, if you have a good argument they can stand behind, and then bargain collectively. At previous jobs we bargained for more reasonable time off, we bargained for collective raises when appropriate, we ensured overtime payment, we blocked a shady attempt to sell user data to a third-party company, and it worked in all cases. It requires building a lot of direct inter-personal relationships though, which is a bit hard, but ends up being good all around for the long-term.
Turning the loose free-association case-oriented alliances of employees, into generic antagonistic "workers vs. management" organizations with memberships and politics and power dynamics, sounds "distasteful" to many, especially in IT where people make a lot of money already.
My opinion is that, just like every organization, there could be successful unions, there could be disastrous unions, and people will fight over which is which, and what models to follow, just circumvent the whole thing and build friendships, and talk to people about things; if they want it bad enough, and believe strong enough, they will stand up, if not, then what right does anyone have to use their voices for causes they're not ready to defend themselves.
Oh, and one minor tip, have the best engineers you can recruit lead the presentation of demands, because it's much harder for management to fire all the best engineers in one go. They can play on fear, so your tool is to play on inspiration; inspiration for the employees, and inspiration for management even. And as long as work is actually getting done, management usually goes with it, just make sure the optics of the managers remain shiny; touch their egos, and the game may turn ugly fast.
Anyway, I come from another world, so I don't know if the word "union" has the same meaning in your mind as in mine. So, just some random thoughts ^-^

2025-05-05 00:45:13 GMT

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@nprofile…5dmj You can hook it up with OpenXR, which is an equally verbose API, for triple the torture, and then you have cubes in VR instead of triangles on your desktop. Did it in C89 once, pretty fun, recommended for fellow masochists.

2025-05-04 14:12:35 GMT

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@nprofile…unmd @nprofile…ej9r @nprofile…vqps
The USA is the land of the nonfree.
It could be worse, trust me.
Big yikes. I would leave or overthrow the government in such situation.
It is not my government :)
I escaped mine around a decade ago, in my teens with my family, due to conscription where they wanted me and my brothers to kill people they didn't like, which I didn't, so I became wanted there. Now in my neighboring host country I can't even move from town to town without a travel permit, a permit is also required to do any work, and the government decides what city districts I'm allowed to reside in, and I have to register that, and people suspected of not abiding are frequently required to do fingerprint submissions every few weeks, or detained in camps. And while this sounds like hell, it is a great improvement over running across streets under sniper fire, artillery exploding all around, 7 car bombings in my street, bullets coming through the windows, and all that fun stuff. And I understand why they tighten their grip, they are in hostile tension with my old government, so every person like me is a potential enemy element trying to do some terror around to destabilize the country.
So yeah, I'm grateful. it could always be worse~
At least I'm in a situation where I could think silly thoughts like what American copyright license hurts my imaginary software freedom less, and would ensure Americans would not sue me or something, first world problems and all that. Back there in my country, copyright didn't exist, proprietary software didn't exist, anything you could download, torrent, sneak in, hack or hijack, patch the binaries of, etc. was "free software", who's going to sue? Twist it and shape it to fit whatever need you have. Even Nvidia drivers and Unity game engines were blocked in my country because apparently encryption software in Unity can be used for terrorism or something, and the US doesn't like that. Even some "free-software" blocked us from downloading, for the same reason (no one wants to go to prison over providing "free-software" encryption to "terrorists").
So believe you me;
The rules are social contracts.
You are already free, friend.
The shackles are imaginary.
But still we fight for freedom,
and the fight is good,
hopefully.

2025-05-04 01:51:36 GMT

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@nprofile…n6js I'm interop-paranoid too, so I don't use markdown either. Plain-text only. No need to depend on a markdown renderer at all, with all the "flavors" and the "styling". Most formatting can be done with simple good old ascii characters. Spaces, dashes, good old reference[1] links. Check out the textfiles archive[2] to see numerous beautiful files, all still rendered exactly as their authors intended them to. Even old HTML websites don't look the same as they looked back when they were created. If you work with plain-text a lot, then a few macros in whatever text editor or text snippets software you like, can make it all a breeze.
You /can/ write markdown in a very conservative way, to ensure it's always readable without a markdown renderer, but in my experience, most markdown documentation ends up being ugly and unreadable without a renderer, because other devs don't share the same interop-paranoia I have.
[1]: https://example.com
[2]: http://textfiles.com

2025-05-04 01:22:29 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l @nprofile…dklr thanks~

2025-05-04 01:14:39 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l I see this sigil sometimes, but I don't know what it signifies. Any hints? o.o

2025-05-04 01:13:09 GMT

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@nprofile…q046 it's like uber but with quantum.

2025-05-04 01:00:43 GMT

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@nprofile…q046 can't wait to see thousands of new quantum startups that don't have any quantum hardware and don't even know what quantum computing is, to develop their revolutionary paradigm-shifting industry-disrupting "apps" on quantum CPUs emulated in the "cloud", with devs that have "10 years experience in quantum" but can't install npm, and then proceed to collectively lose tens of billions of dollars every month to shovel sellers, all while being touted as the most important age-defining achievements of human history.
The future is truly different.

2025-05-03 21:26:03 GMT

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@nprofile…unmd @nprofile…ej9r @nprofile…vqps
I use a GNU/Phone.
I use paper, it's more than enough. I used to hack around Android ROMs, trying to get more freedom, but I realized that it's a fool's errand, we're tracked and spied on anyway, no matter what ROM you use. I haven't used Android for years, then I used it again a bit more, but then dropped it again for almost a year now, and I'm very content. Peace of mind is worth all the "features". I have a device with a free-ish ROM that I don't take with me anywhere, and access only through adb / scrcpy, to do some government / bank related stuff that can't be done without a stupid phone. And people's expectations around me (family and work) are adjusted by now, they know I don't respond if I'm not at home (using my computer).

2025-05-03 05:41:24 GMT

@nprofile…03vn heya~ Just finished reading devlogs 8[1] and 12, tried to subscribe to your website's feed[2] but got a 404.
[1]: registered my visit, yay! https://kiesel.dev/cgi-bin/db.js
[2]: https://linus.dev/feed.xml

2025-04-26 15:27:34 GMT

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@nprofile…tlv3 @nprofile…u6pm Instances go up and down, and defederation happens all the time everywhere. It's almost impossible to be on a public registration instances without being defederated by some parts of the fedi. I recommend hosting your own single-user instance if you can, and be done with all that headache.
I use #snac, but it's very minimalist, not very "user-friendly", but pretty sure it can import data from a previous Mastodon account, so, I assume other fedi software would probably support that too (but I haven't looked into it). I hear good things about GoSocial for single-user instances too, but I haven't tried it.

2025-04-21 00:49:35 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l owe, hope it doesn't hurt too much :<

2025-04-20 18:54:40 GMT

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@nprofile…hmru arabic spotted. may allah cure your soul and your nose.

2025-04-19 03:41:39 GMT

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@nprofile…j3wk suggestion to also look up demisexual, seen people who thought they're asexuals before, who were demisexuals but never developed a relationship deep enough to trigger their interest, until they did, and then it clicked.

2025-04-18 16:53:01 GMT

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@nprofile…vqps Likely mmap. Mapping a range of addresses is not really allocating the memory. For example, using the LMDB C library, if you create a 20GiB database file, it appears that your processes is using 20GiB of memory, but that's just virtual memory addresses, being backed by a file on disk, not RAM.
20TiB still sounds ridiculous, it's usually a case of "I'll map 1TiB here, because we'll never need 1TiB of addresses", and then that thing gets called 20 times, and you get 20TiBs of virtual memory.

2025-04-18 12:46:49 GMT

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@nprofile…kn2q Probably, like we do. Manufacturing, mining, transportation, construction, food production, and of course, consumer use.
Manufacturing fleets of massive ships for military or commerce, possibly every "middle-class family" would have a couple of interstellar space ships parked outside the "house" at that point, expending massive energy each, multiplied by the millions of trillions of individuals all over the galaxy, then consider how much police and security ships do you need to keep all of that in order across the vast space, and the fleets to protect every single planet of the perhaps tens of thousands of inhabited ones.
Mining, terraforming, and even building entire artificial planets or moons, all over the galaxy, would also require energy. Take half of this lithium rich planet to this side of the galaxy, and the other half to the other side of the galaxy "quick the deadline is getting close!" doesn't sound energy cheap. And a super rich man of today might want to build a fancy vacation island, but a super rich man of theirs might want to build a fancy vacation solar system :)
(All the most important and powerful people seem to love visiting Epstein's solar system for some reason O.o).
Consider that a planet can be gone in a flash with one near-light-speed accelerated object, you might want a dense network of sensors and automated detection and interception systems, stretching for light-years around every inhabited planet. The manufacturing and powering of such vast networks would also need energy. Not to mention other computing needs, all over the galaxy. Perhaps by then people would simulate every particle in an entire moon on one planet-sized super computer. Today, people think of deploying nuclear power plants to power data-centers, how much would you need to power the computing of such a civilization.
Food production is a big user of energy in our age, but I have doubts that it would be so for such a civilization. It would be dwarfed by constructing new planets. Or maybe not, maybe you don't build a new planet every day, but you do eat every day, and that builds up fast.
But all of this assumes that you will need the energy to want to get it. That's not necessarily true. There might be game-theoretical reasons for doing so, especially if galactic civilization is not a single unity. Perhaps the space communists and the space capitalists get themselves into a cold war that forces them to race towards harnessing more and more energy, because if the other side gains too much advantage they might wipe us out, or build bigger alliances against us until we just fade into irrelevancy. Hence all sides keep going towards more and more energy harvesting, just to keep up. Or it could be space IBM vs space Microsoft competing for bigger, faster, drone-manufactured automatically-deployed planetary data-centers, because then they could get that government contract by presenting a "cheaper solution". Or heck, maybe the danger is from outside; another civilization from another galaxy that already has such power, and we need to match them to ensure mutually-assured destruction, thus protecting ourselves from them. You get the idea.
Or maybe, the sole purpose of that concept, is fun :p So silly ones like me might think it over, and write stuff, and maybe somewhere someone makes a new video game or writes a new novel that incorporates the idea, or is inspired by it, somehow.

2025-04-17 21:44:53 GMT

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@nprofile…j3wk based, bless your heart :3

2025-04-17 21:41:41 GMT

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@nprofile…f88t @nprofile…dklr My wife saw the original, and didn't get it, then she saw your improved version, and she said she got it immediately. Thank you for contributing greatly to the amazing body of educational materials available on the fediverse.

2025-04-16 23:35:21 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 I'm running Slackware stable on 20+ machines and VMs for work clients, plus all my personal work machines. But anyway, use whatever tool you need for the job. I've used an Ubuntu machine recently for some AI GPU experiments, because I didn't know if I wanted to spend the effort to port it to Slackware yet.
Good luck with the job :)

2025-04-16 21:29:28 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 I use multilib on this machine too, and runc built fine. You are supposed to have both Go compilers, only one of them would take precedence. Did you try running: "source /etc/profile" in the root shell before installing runc, and after installing google-go-lang?
I use Slackware because I want to take control (and responsibility) over things working and breaking, manual dependency management is a feature that makes my life easier; it exposes to me what things depend on what other things, and I get familiar with all software working on the machines I administer. I never use tools that take that hide or automate things from me like sbopkg and slapt-get and such. I like doing it my way, with some shallow quality of life scripts that I wrote myself.
Like I said, if it still doesn't work, and you want to investigate further, build runc yourself without SlackBuilds, and go from there. Another route is to replicate your environment slowly in a chroot. Apologies if this sounds like too much, I come from a mindset of "every user is also a maintainer / developer". Not sure how to help otherwise, because the issue does not replicate on my machines.

2025-04-16 14:12:41 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…enrd @nprofile…6yr6 I'm not saying someone must review the CVEs, I'm saying someone must ensure they're fixed in important running systems. The easy bar I'm talking about is doing "apt upgrade" on Debian stable, or "npm audit fix" in a Node project.
CVEs are not for me to review in detail, they are a communication system for the developers and upstream maintainers, who write them, to notify me (downstream), and perhaps tell me their expert opinion about the issue, to help prioritize my work. I assume package X maintainers know their package well enough, so when my RSS feed says they published a severity 9 remote-execution CVE, I immediately contact every client I have to coordinate sessions for reviewing their situation and whether it affects them, and to coordinate upgrading their package X installations as needed. But if a CVE has a severity 2 of barely anything, I don't have to even look at it until next maintenance cycle, if ever really. I just assume it will be fixed next time I upgrade X whenever. It is not a perfect system, a severity 2 might actually cause damage, and a severity 9 might actually not apply in a specific context. But it is an important tool nonetheless.
In this context though, I don't care much about the US gov CVE central DBs. Those are, like I said, are just to scare business people. What I care about is upstream security advisories, published when important issues crop up, I RSS/Atom/curl-script subscribe to them, to get notifications when things require my attention. Automatic scanners can be helpful though, when we get thrown into a project that doesn't have due process in place already, and automatic scanners depend on said central CVE database sometimes.
As for the Linux Kernel, no, it does not need thousands of CVEs for a few weeks. There are a few hundreds published per-year[1], most years, and a much smaller number demand immediate emergency attention. Still, for my current clients and personal needs at least, listening for Linux Kernel advisories from Debian / Gentoo / Slackware is enough. Those come usually in batches, unless something major came up.
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html?vendor_id=33

2025-04-16 13:43:39 GMT

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@nprofile…enrd @nprofile…6yr6 @nprofile…m3qg
cut costs by getting away with ignoring security, why not us too?
Because the competitor can then pay hackers to attack us, and take us out of the market, and it would be almost impossible for us to prove they did it. I used that argument before. That business guy's response was "can we hire attacks against our competitors then? we've been DDoSed before, maybe it was them!" lol
Had to remind him it's illegal, and might come back to bite us, remember to fear God or Satan or whatever something you worship, dear brother! I thought I came here to make a case for a better security posture, not to teach basic morality.
Thankfully, as far as I know, we didn't end up attacking anyone.

2025-04-16 01:42:46 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 It is GCC Go, and not Google's Go. Install or reinstall development/google-go-lang from SlackBuilds, then log-out and log-in again :) My version currently is: "go version go1.22.9 linux/amd64", and the latest version is 1.24.1.

2025-04-16 00:07:13 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…enrd @nprofile…6yr6 Running at zero published CVEs should be a really low-bar to clear, unless the project has 1200 NPM dependencies, none of which care about backward compatibility, so patching them up implies a dozen breaking changes, and thus code changes, to make it compatible. Of course, most projects nowadays seem to be built up of 32 micro-services each of which has a 1000 NPM transitive dependencies, or 500 Pip packages for aRtIfIcIaL iNtElLiGeNcE, or at least 200 NuGet packages for "Enterprise Integration", plus 3 different types of databases, and two queuing / message busses platforms (throw one extra an external "PaaS"), and four different OSes, and two Kubernetes cluster providers, and 50 docker container images with 13 different bases...
CVE reports will not save them, nothing will save them. No system is safe.
Hand-writing plain assembly is safer at that point.
But the world goes on i guess ^-^

2025-04-15 23:53:22 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 Also, what does running "go version" show for you?

2025-04-15 23:52:04 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 I tried building runc on my Slackware 15.0 64bit installation, and it built successfully. In your case, the next thing I would try to do is to build it without sbopkg, and then perhaps unpack the runc tar.gz file and try to build it myself without the SlackBuild at all. This might help you find the source of the error.

2025-04-15 22:49:26 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…enrd @nprofile…6yr6 The real use for US-gov-backed CVE public databases is to scare business and project management people into allocating resources for maintenance of critical already running systems. You bring them a fancy PDF report with a formatted list of 50 CVEs, 7 of which are "Critical" severity (make sure to color them red), links to scary official-looking .gov website, and tell them it must be fixed now or they get to take responsibility for what happens if they say no. Make sure to CC the whole accessible chain of command to keep records. This necessary evil saves many organizations filled with idiots from getting hacked, and leaking confidential medical (or otherwise) data for the stupidest things. Especially when you discover, while going over their system patching CVEs one by one, that they have a publicly exposed database with a password of (concat organization-name "abc"). This "tactic" is used (and misused) in countless organizations and government agencies the world all over.
I wish this was sarcasm...

2025-04-15 22:18:45 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 The easiest and most reliable way is to logout and login again. Otherwise, it will probably work by running the following command:
. /etc/profile
Note the period. The period is a shell command to source a file.
Also, try go --version and go version, to see which one you're running by default.

2025-04-15 21:06:30 GMT

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@nprofile…vdk4 Make sure, if you just installed Google's Go Lang package, to source the shell profile to make the new compiler as the default one. Not sure if this is the issue you're facing, but I've seen others tumble with this before. If you don't source the newly installed shell profile stuff then the GCC Go compiler that ships with Slackware will be used instead, which is not 100% compatible with the Google one.

2025-04-12 00:35:54 GMT

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@nprofile…xy93 I used Common-Lisp on a few professional production projects; a data transformation system for moving data between two companys' different systems. An event processing engine that applies weird complex rules to GPS tracking locations. A web micro-service or two to support some mobile apps. All of those services, except maybe the first, are still running in production. Plus, of course, a few personal projects here and there.

2025-04-08 14:37:09 GMT

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@nprofile…phyv @nprofile…6myz Understandable. There's a place for tools that "evolve to solve problems". But there's also value in tools /not/ evolving. "unix-ish" is always the right tool for /some people/, because that's how they chose to practice their craft. I want my chisel to remain a chisel. A chisel one thousand years old is not too different from the one I got down the street today, and I would probably be able to use either. Because it is, to me, not about the chisel, but my own expression, and mastery of wood.
For example, It sounds absurd to me to campaign for the evolution of chisels because we don't want every single chisel user to have the responsibility of using one correctly in their workflow. Excessive portability arguments, another example, sound to me like "I want the same chisel to work for all wood types and in all situations", and my response is /why/? I want to chisel differently on Windows than on Linux than on OpenBSD than on an ESP32 chip. If I wanted the portability, I can chisel that in myself too. I don't want the same-size glove everyone else got. Solving "exercises to the reader" is my joy and pleasure.
My wish is for people to realize that the development world is a "commons" area, and people in it are extremely diverse, in goals, personality, talents, and faults. If you want to not solve a "solved" problem ever again; if you want to have a motorized chainsaw that cuts wood as fast as possible, is 100% safe, and can't be misused, or a CNC cutter than can produce a thousand ornate planks a day, then your interests are welcome, all power to you. I just want a chisel thank you very much.
I know some other chisel users can be elitist and obnoxious, but I don't care what they do either; they don't define me, I'm not on "their team". All I care about is my craft. Let the world create a new C standard or not, rewrite everything in Rust or not, I'll be in my corner, doing what I like doing, for me and my clients. And in my own little world, every tool that's not a chisel is bloat until proven otherwise :)

2025-04-08 13:23:54 GMT

@nprofile…wane your website is cool ^-^

2025-04-08 12:23:45 GMT

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@nprofile…phyv @nprofile…6myz an optimized #embed is definitely orders of magnitude more "system complexity" than the simple ad-hoc xxd "unix-ish" way (especially if you write your own xxd replacement). but apparently #embed is also orders of magnitude more efficient, which is important.
note that #embed is a preprocessor directive that's also supposed to be replaced with a comma-separated hexified integers, but the compiler can then evaluate whether or not it's being used as a simple array literal that doesn't interact with anything else, and only in that case it can, as an optimization, skip the preprocessor, and go directly to reading the bytes in the linking stage. the only thing that #embed helps with is informing the compiler about the existence of the file being read, and thus allowing optimizations, if the compiler supports it.
plus, what about compilation caching and distributed compilations (ccache and distcc) and how they might interact with #embed, i haven't thought it through yet, but it sounds like a can of worms.
anyway, thanks for the silly sarcasm :] it sent me on a useful and educational exploration trip down the #embed rabbit hole. some useful links for any onlookers from the future:
https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/30/how-implement-c23-embed-gcc-15

2025-04-08 12:11:07 GMT

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@nprofile…phyv don't use xxd, the required functionality can be implemented in a dozen lines of portable C. But you're right about embedding large files; I did some experiments, and most compilers seem to choke hard on very large array literals, upwards of 8GiB of memory usage and minutes of time to compile in 1GiB of video data. GCC 15 is supposedly coming up with optimizations for reading array literals, but it seems to still be far from optimized #embed.
Apparently, the #embed preprocessor directive has the job of doing exactly the same thing; the preprocessor replaces it with the content of the file as comma-separated integers. But, since modern compilers can do weird shenanigans in the compilation pipeline, they can check around to see that the literals are being embedded as an array literal, and that they're not interacting with anything else (simple multiplications or additions for example), and then the compiler can in that case optimize the whole thing by skipping the preprocessor stage and just slurp the whole binary file directly at linking stage. That #embed gives the compiler this crucial metadata about what those integers are is what makes it fast, and is a valuable feature. As far as I understand at least.
I still can't shake off the sense that this feature's place is not the C language standard though, but some third-party cross-platform tool of some-kind, or some pre-packaged build-system macro package, or something. It feels weird to require it of every compiler, including the compiler of an embedded platform that barely has 32KiBs of memory.
But anyway, that might be just me and my temperament; I still use C89, POSIX sh, and Common Lisp for my personal projects after all, and only occasionally, and reluctantly, might use C99 when it's absolutely uncomfy to do otherwise :)

2025-04-07 20:43:10 GMT

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@nprofile…p8s4 But we have a Framework laptop at home points at the entirety of Shenzhen.

2025-04-07 17:14:32 GMT

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@nprofile…hr2w @nprofile…6t9y
Ah, yes, GNU ed on my machine supports UTF8.
as long as your terminal supports it.
This is the part that Emacs as a host for ed would specifically solve; being a glorified terminal emulator. The ed editor itself doesn't support RTL, Bidi (Bi-directional), or shaping of Arabic script. It can be argued that it's not its job to do so, because those are display issues and not byte-level data issue. The whole thing is a mess, and different terminal editors support some requirements, while assuming other things to be done by the terminal emulator, and the result is that none of them "just work" for editing Arabic text in a terminal.
Emacs for example, running in the urxvt or st terminals, does render the text starting at the right and going left, and does correctly switch the direction of rendering when mixing LTR and RTL scripts (English and Arabic) in the same line (Bidi support), but fails when it comes to text shaping (connecting and positioning Arabic letters correctly, etc.). On the VTE-based XFCE4 terminal it succeeds in shaping the text but fails to RTL.
Text shaping is another very complex subject, and involves replacing glyphs of text with other glyphs in certain situations, and moving the letter positions slightly, morphing them a bit sometimes, and other shenanigans. Understandable that an editor might not want to do that when running in a terminal, and leave it instead to the terminal itself. Arabic is nearly unreadable without text shaping. The Emacs GUI does well on all those points (it uses the Harfbuzz[1] library to do that).
Gnome's VTE engine doesn't work correctly, it fails to do RTL or Bidi automatically in any editor. Urxvt, xterm, and st don't work correctly either, they all fail to do text shaping. The only terminal I've seen that comes close to supporting all requirements is mlterm[2], and still, it looks broken because of some letter positioning issues, but at least it is readable. Editing Arabic script is possible in ed on mlterm :D
[1]: https://harfbuzz.github.io/
[2]: https://mlterm.sourceforge.net/

2025-04-07 15:14:53 GMT

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@nprofile…6t9y @nprofile…hr2w I always wanted an ed that supported unicode and right-to-left languages, so that doesn't sounds like a bad idea. Plus, we get graphics support thrown in, and a shared server between instances. Sounds like a pleasant ed experience, the amount of complexity not withstanding.

2025-04-06 14:05:17 GMT

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@nprofile…kaam I use fakeroot to build as a normal user, almost all SlackBuilds work when built this way, in my experience. Alternatively, sometimes I use a build chroot, check the results, then copy and install the package to the target machine.
@nprofile…dxfh I know many people don't read SlackBuilds, especially beginners using helper package management tools. I do read almost all SlackBuilds I install. At the very least, I read the info and README and such, but do a quick glance at the SlackBuild itself.

2025-04-05 17:25:20 GMT

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@nprofile…kz2s @nprofile…xvh7 I rent a $5 VPS with Monero somewhere (on incognet nowadays, Netherlands region) install Wireguard on it, use linux network namespaces locally to have rtorrent sandboxed to see that VPN as the only available network (you can probably do something similar using docker or lxc containers), then forget about it for many years, it just works, as long as you don't forget to pay. I pay for the VPS for 1 year in advance for less hassle.

2025-04-04 19:41:14 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy hypothesis: all sane people, who are really trying to figure whatever /this/ is, would sound schizo. if they don't sound schizo, then either they're not sane, or they're not really trying to figure this out. kek

2025-04-04 19:37:46 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy
systems such as buddhism/hinduism because they at least attempt to delve deeper than just psychology.
i've been looking into zen recently, I read a few books: /Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind/ by Shunryu Suzuki, and /An Introduction to Zen Buddhism/ by D.T. Suzuki (which incidentally has a length introduction by Carl Jung). and since zen is strongly connected to daoism too, i've been reading the Tao Te Ching; half way through it or so. i started /The Way of Zen/ by Alan W. Watts, a few dozen pages in, but i'm not liking it so far; the way he writes is... too western minded, somehow, and feels like he misses the point intentionally, even though he maybe gets it, in an obnoxious attempt at "bridging" zen to the western analytical mind. i'm probably going to drop this book, i still enjoy some of Watts's lectures.
i don't claim to be much better though, for i'm still reading books on zen, which is not the way of zen :p
i practice zazen intermittently, but i do it for upward of an hour when i do. my experience is that 1 hour of sitting, for a few days in a row, definitely leaves a completely different taste than 5 or 10 minutes sessions. i crave the feeling, now that i've tasted it; the calmness of waves, the freedom from focus and mind, the removal of nouns, the peeling of concepts, the grounding, the lightness, it feels like getting in touch with /something/, but i don't know what it is. it feels familiar, like i'm already connected to it, like home, like mother, but also like calling, like yearning, like a floating island i was once on, but is now lost to fog, storms, and hurricanes. but for a moment or two, i get to reminisce of it, its ghostly outline is slightly more visible against the now slightly calmer ocean.
or something like that...

2025-04-04 18:50:57 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy
to me the rest is extra personification shit
islam is a bit schizo about this. they use words like "hand" and "eye" of god, but then they claim that he has no hand and has no eye. you try to dig deeper and then it's more like he can act, hence the hand, and he can see, hence the eye, but they are not a hand nor an eye you can understand, and it's not action nor sight that you would understand either; we are taught that anything that a human mind can come up with to conceptualize or describe god, or parts of him, is not god, and is not part of him. the shortest statement of it translates to something like "he is nothing like anything; not like an eye can see, nor an ear can hear, nor what can come to man's mind (heart?)".
and to enforce the idea that god is nothing like anything man could think of, islam considers the mere attempt at drawing what god looks like, or personifying him, or making up stories in which he acts like humans, to be heresy. hence why you see no images of islam's god created by muslims.
he do[es]n't like
good catch :)
i already got onto islam for personification so now it's funny to see you turn that almost the other way around.
yes, it's complicated, i'm mirroring the internal conflict in islam itself i think, people killed each other over this before. god is personified, but not anthropomorphized, he is a "he", a will, an attention, yet his attention is on all things at all times, and his will extends to all that was and will be, with no bounds or change of mind, he is somewhere, but you can't point where, he never sleeps or needs or feels too strongly about anything.
islam has no (substantial) lesser deities
if you ask most muslims, there are none.
so it isn't just a psychological mapping as you claim
of course. i didn't mean to reduce religion itself to one simple thing, but to point what i think is the main driving mechanism behind its propagation. it is most likely that some religions emerge due to something "more" than just mere psychology, but i suspect that a lot of what causes them to expand and become billions of humans strong are things on the psychological level. but i don't believe what i'm saying, i give it a 15% chance to be something close to true.
on a bit of a tangent: i struggle to understand how people can just "believe" things. i'm in the minority of people, it seems, who hold a dozen potentially opposing possibilities at the same time, keeping them "up in the air" at the same time, with some kind of probability assignment to each of them. i never think anything to be "true", i just don't get the idea somehow; it's counter-productive to being an "observer" of this life. the closest i came to a semi-formal description of whatever this is, was the Jungian psychology concept of having a "preference towards using the /intuition/ as a perception function over the /senses/" and a "preference towards using the irrational /perception/ functions over the rational /judgement/ functions". but this doesn't help much because in Jungian psychology all of those terms are overloaded, and it's a near-dead research field anyway, despite me finding it very curious (reminds me, i should finish Jung's Red Book sometimes, i stopped reading it a couple of years ago because i got too scared of my own mind kek).
that's because these deities maintain a very real presence if you take patience to search for them
yes; that i see. i'm in a superposition state in regards to religion. i used to be a fundamentalist muslim, deep in religious studies, for more than 20 years of my life; lead prayers, and was consulted on islamic rulings and legalisms among friends and family, admired for my skill in reciting scripture. it's been more than a decade since i stopped "believing" in islam and "god" in the popular mainstream sense, in the shadows of the religion-driven atrocities i witnessed in my country during the civil war.
i'm not an atheist, but you won't find me advocating any worldly religion either. my connection with the spirit world is fundamentally near impossible to convey in words, because it does not come from the realm of words. and perhaps that's deeply true of every human too. somehow the religions we exchange among us are merely the echos of those attempts to verbalize that which cannot be put into words.
or maybe i just need to think harder and get good or something...
haha cumming
never mind, who needs thinking!
cum, let the mind be truly free!

2025-04-02 20:13:29 GMT

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@nprofile…jgyg That is not lisp. You lost homoiconicity, and you're introducing large amounts of syntax. That is not the lisp way. A lispy implementation, I would argue, would look something like this:
<list>
<atom>defun</atom>
<atom>frob</atom>
<list><atom>x</atom></list>
<list>
<atom>+</atom>
<atom>2</atom>
<atom>x</atom>
</list>
</list>
This way, if you write macros to manipulate code, you don't care that the lists are function calls or arglists or defuns, they're just lists and atoms, which is an important property of lisp languages; homoiconicity. A minor concession might be made perhaps for strings:
(setq name "John Smith")
<list>
<atom>setq</atom>
<atom>name</atom>
<string><![CDATA[John Smith]]></string>
</list>
Macro stuff, special forms, quoting and unquoting (i.e. ` and , ) might need their own elements too, stuff like:
`(set-age user ,(1+ old-age))
becomes:
<quote>
<list>
<atom>set-age</atom>
<atom>user</atom>
<unquote>
<list>
<atom>1+</atom>
<atom>old-age</atom>
</list>
</unquote>
</list>
</quote>

2025-04-01 20:29:49 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy
names are integral to any level of magickal work in the world
yup, curious they thought only man and god had the ability to name, not even angels did.
personification of the devil
simply the necessary opposite (or shadow) of god
in islam, satan and his jin followers play the main role of psychically "whispering" to people. the human soul is capable of evil will on its own, but satan's jin guide mankind towards temptations and evil, they can enact almost nothing in the physical realm, but every day and at all time they inspire the thoughts in the minds of men, eternal whisperers, kept at bay only through man's fasting and prays in remembrance of god.
iirc muhammad said that satan sits "in imitation of god" on a throne floating over water, and his legions of jin come to report to him, one says "i convinced man to follow his greed today! he stole!" and satan says "go away, you have done nothing!", another comes and says "i made man so angry and resentful he killed another!", satan tells him "go away! you have done nothing!", then another comes to him and says "i never left him, until he separated from those he belonged to!", satan is like you're the goodest boy! and orders him closer to sit by his side, cause he "gets it".
i wonder if his throne is floating over water because god promises a fire below to those he don't like. not sure.
i prefer revering rather than worshipping
not sure what you mean by reverence vs worship.
is it about an internal feeling vs external motions?
deities exist simply to be worshipped
my current think is that deities exist to personify psychological patterns that already exist in humans, because somehow making them into personalities, instead of explaining and discussing them intellectually, inspires more action and understanding in people, and, in a slightly magical way "amplifies" those spirits projected by the human into the world around them.
so it makes sense that a selfish abrahamic god would exhibit much of the same desire
islam god says he don't really care and don't need anyone or anything, plays the tsundere card basically, it's not like i like you or anything, silly baka slave, i just love you, but you're nothing to me! slightly curios that the "tester" god, e.g. in islam, sounds more like someone training neural networks, generations of random "try everything" churn, to pick models that most closely align with whatever the trainer wants. the trained wouldn't see the purpose, nothing would make sense, and to them life would feel extremely oppressive, where you work and work only to be punished continuously and die, but hopefully you managed to exploit the genetic algorithm to replicate parts of yourself into the next generation of sufferers.
just like "to know" in the bible is euphemistic of sex
in quran, the specific act of sex is referred to as "coming unto your tilth", or just "coming unto" women, in general. quran also mentions sperm (or a drop of cum) sometimes, women's period, not sure he'd be shy of saying penis if women were made of it. plus, in arabic the word rib also means "foundation", or the "diagonal" in geometric shapes...
wait... i see what you mean; all of those can easily translate to penis too actually...
you're coming unto something here, more than just tilth i think O.o

2025-04-01 19:10:30 GMT

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@nprofile…4duy That bureaucracy sure was a ride, phew~ Congratulations! ^-^

2025-04-01 09:53:52 GMT

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@nprofile…w8cy in islam, god made adam to be his "successor" in earth, the angels objected that adam is the kinda creature that will destroy the earth and desecrate it with spilled blood, god basically says "i know what you don't know" and continues anyway. he seems to want "companions" or something, and through the suffering of life he will test the decedents of adam, to find ones who he will enjoy being around. before sending adam to earth, he teaches him the "names of all things", or maybe, /how to/ give things names, which is apparently something crazy cool for all other creatures made by god, including the angels. god tells the angels to name a bunch of things, and they say lord we only know what you taught us, and then he asks adam to name them, and he does, and all the angels are shocked in awe and bow down to adam, except satan, who objects i'm still better than him i'm made of fire! he's made of dirt! i'm most loyal to you but he will be the biggest jerk of all and will do all the bad things and if not you know what i will make sure he will! and god is like okie imma make you immortal until the end of time and you will guide the children of man away from the path to me, except the ones of them who will actually be my most loyal slaves/worshipers (slaves and worshiper is the same word in arabic kek), i will take those, and burn the rest.
so i guess, in islam god doesn't want peasants, he wants slave companions or something.
eve? god just thought adam would feel lonely so he took a chunk of his rib (ouch) and created eve out of it so adam can have some company XD

2025-04-01 09:31:46 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l also, "White Woman Melty Blood" XD

2025-04-01 09:30:26 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l Arcuied in EYE Divine Cybermancy. Massive fanfiction potential there o.o
https://fedi.dreamscape.link/rozenglass/s/160a4cccd885b29113a4f207d9dfb543.png

2025-04-01 09:10:19 GMT

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@[email protected] the lawful neutral police; 'blkid' and 'mount'.

2025-04-01 09:03:48 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l Tsukihime L4D mod sounds like something the world needs indeed. Thank you for your service~

2025-04-01 09:01:31 GMT

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@nprofile…dp7l this has been an account of man. with the rise of man, man had nearly lost his sanity. man realized in that split second, he had made a mistake. man forever will symbolize world war 2 looming.