wolf480pl

wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@takao @icedquinn
ok but like

When the European Commission proposes an idiotic bill

(and it does it with surprising regularity)

how come we never hear of EU Parliament stopping it?

why is this always a game between the European Comission and the European Council, and the parliament in the middle seems powerless?

wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@takao @icedquinn
Oh, ok, a feedback loop.

EU parliament is useless -> use it as retirement for poloticians who fucked up

EU parliament is full of politicians who fucked up -> EU parliament is useless

?

wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@takao @icedquinn
what if EP was allowed to propose amendments?

(let's for a moment ignore whether such a change would pass and pretend it magically passed, would it make things better?)

wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@takao @icedquinn
that'd require caring...

Maybe if the media started highlighting who voted for some bill, instead of letting the blame fall for "the EU", "the European Commision", "Ursula", and "Germans"

18+ wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@icedquinn you have sales tax tho?

18+ wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@icedquinn by "your business" do you mean the buyer or the seller?

18+ wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@icedquinn @arcana
are you saying in US, the sales tax is also paid on business-to-business transaction?

18+ wolf480pl, 2 months ago

@icedquinn @arcana
is it designed such that you don't know what tax you're supposed to pay, so you have to pay a tax company to calculate that for you?

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@katt does he do nothing because if he moves, the turret will shoot him?

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@dragoonaethis that's just one person from the Alpine dev team right?

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
In practice systemd is pretty good.

I think its design is bad in principle, but the only practical concer I see is that a lot of software will start relying on its APIs. Judging by the postmarketOS blogpost, that ship has already sailed.

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan pipewire is trash, have you seen the sourcecode?

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
clarification: I don't actually think pipewire is trash.

It's quite impressive what it can do, and I'm sure a lot of work went into it.

Still, the code is full of weird object-oriented boilerplate with factories and stuff, which I find painful to read. I'm told people who are used to reading gstreamer source code find this easier. Still, pulseaudio code is way more readable in comparison.

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
Ok, now look at Linux kernel. Or wlroots. Or something from OpenBSD, eg. OpenSMTPD.

They have some objects, with some inheritance, and and some of those have virtual methods.

They also have generic collection types.

And you know what? There's nowhere near as much boilerplate as there's with gobject.

Because they have a few macros.

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
Well, and a lot of good judgement on what macros to make.

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
WDYM?
No container_of?

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
ok but like

did you have a double-linked-list anywhere in the code?

Normally in Linux kernel when you need a list, you include struct list_head inside your struct that you want to keep on the list.

Then when you retrieve something from the list, you get a pointer to the struct list_head, and you use container_of to get at your own struct that contains the list_head

wolf480pl, 3 months ago

@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
like, how do you write a driver without using this: https://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists

wolf480pl, 4 months ago

@GNUxeava oooh so that's what I'm doing wrong! I was trying to read those papers and I was angry that I was able to find mistakes... so what you're saying is they're meant to be hoarded, not read?

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr damn, those robots have great camo, they blend in so well in the environment

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr does it fit in a 3.5" floppy bay?

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr are they arcs? or glows?

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr option C?

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr shouldn't white be green + purple?

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr no no, looking at the schematic, there's:

GND <- LED <- probeA <- CAP <- probe B

you said:
green is probe A
white is probe B

so purple is B - A
a.k.a. white - green

but if you look at the graphs:

white spikes
purple: saw
green: spikes on top of saw

so it'd appear that green = purple + white, IOW:

purple = green - white

something's backwards

wolf480pl, 5 months ago

@RueNahcMohr ok but are you sure green is just the LED?

(I was trying to make sense of why this oscilltaor works and failed, so idk which way the data makes sense)

wolf480pl, 1 month ago

@koakuma the key problem is that most people can't do ECDSA in their head

wolf480pl, 1 month ago

@icedquinn @koakuma
it's a bit long, so can you point me to the chapter that talks about the user verifying that the monitor they're looking at has not been replaced with a fake one?