zev
honked back 27 Aug 2025 15:32 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/115103071359429017
zev rss
Hoo boy...what have I gotten myself into?
zev
honked back 27 Aug 2025 15:32 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/115103071359429017
zev
honked back 21 Aug 2025 22:38 -0700
in reply to: https://social.treehouse.systems/users/mxshift/statuses/115070758021494902
@mxshift The amount of murder that can be gotten away with in software is one of the most depressing aspects of computing as a whole.
zev
honked back 21 Aug 2025 22:03 -0700
in reply to: https://social.treehouse.systems/users/mxshift/statuses/115070070648054088
Nice. The vendored PNG library, in-kernel file access, misunderstanding of the linux/list.h API, and passing kernel pointers to and from userspace are all very confidence-inspiring too.
$ head -n6 src/sources/avstream/capture.c
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CONFIDENTIAL and PROPRIETARY software of Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd.
// Copyright (c) 2011-2024 Magewell Electronics Co., Ltd. (Nanjing)
// All rights reserved.
// This copyright notice MUST be reproduced on all authorized copies.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$ tail -n3 src/sources/avstream/capture.c | head -n1
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
zev
honked back 18 Aug 2025 11:52 -0700
in reply to: https://social.v.st/users/th/statuses/115048545609179164
@th @dashdsrdash @gvwilson I had the exact same thought, and figured this one could do with the graphical treatment as well.
zev
honked back 15 Aug 2025 14:48 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/115034902808315797
@rk Likewise for right-clicking. And scrolling. And text selection & copy/paste. (Okay, maybe github specifically isn't guilty of doing all of these, but I really think browsers should have a stricter, more aggressive demarcation of what is native browser UI that will be consistent no matter what jervascrapt fuckery is going on.)
@tedu, a #honkpatch for Attachment: honk-backup-attachmentpath.patch honk patch to handle -datadir in svalbard() (1611)
honk backup
to handle non-default -datadir
locations (existing code appears to be hardwired for "."
AFAICT) -- I'm not sure if it's necessarily 100% correct in all cases, but maybe mostly so?
zev
honked back 13 Aug 2025 18:49 -0700
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/cliffle/statuses/115024578398185623
I came very close to implementing that at my last job: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/HW2GcrgzthGts7DXR8
(...omg I should try to modulate the data _onto the fans_)
I wish more people on the internet were dogs.
zev
honked back 13 Aug 2025 12:40 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jzb/statuses/115022599478619655
Breaking out the old hits in solidarity with Texas.
zev
honked back 06 Aug 2025 17:31 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/regehr/statuses/114983330992013893
zev
honked back 04 Aug 2025 19:25 -0700
in reply to: https://infosec.exchange/users/kevinrothrock/statuses/114973735307778574
@kevinrothrock It's probably these same teens from 2014 now of drinking age: https://theonion.com/teens-migrating-from-facebook-to-comments-section-of-sl-1819595619/
$50 craigslist rotohammer getting toasty, but definitely sped up the brick-removal process as compared to the manual minisledge-and-chisel.
zev
honked back 04 Aug 2025 18:29 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/339m3XqTQ5DSGNr59Z
@arj @acsawdey Hmm, actually on further investigation it looks like that actually sorts via gnulib's filevercmp, which apparently has some additional smarts to make it slightly more DWIM-y. So, perhaps subtly different, but similar in spirit.
Moodlit dog.
zev
honked back 04 Aug 2025 01:59 -0700
in reply to: https://fosstodon.org/users/acsawdey/statuses/114968724528512633
zev
honked back 31 Jul 2025 10:35 -0700
in reply to: https://social.kernel.org/objects/b5763d84-5e83-4ae2-a49f-8cda173b9f43
@corbet @lwn LWN is indeed an absolute gem; and while all the other topics the site covers are generally quite well done too, I would point to your kernel articles in particular as an exemplary job of combining both technical depth and remarkable accessibility despite the nature of the material (and yes, likewise something my own career has also benefited enormously from). Bravo, and I will remain doggedly subscribed even as the scraper bots and LLM slop are busily trying to suffocate the last bits of useful life on the web.
zev
honked back 29 Jul 2025 15:22 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/114938633857089656
@rk @RikerGoogling Little do we realize it, but as we enter commands at our shell prompts, we are also in the background composing...the greatest shell script in history.
zev
honked back 29 Jul 2025 11:15 -0700
in reply to: https://social.tchncs.de/users/arj/statuses/114936371479894271
zev
honked back 28 Jul 2025 18:33 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/74SX43q5yQdD5Pntnn
It still happens; I still love it.
zev
honked back 26 Jul 2025 23:37 -0700
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/27rW19jf1QL318LDTt
@benjojo Well, it does appear that they had the foresight to allow multiple (up to 255?) content tags, so you can encode things like "adult (general) + gardening + team sports (excluding football)" and cover a decently broad array of niches.
zev
honked back 21 Jul 2025 10:48 -0700
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/mxey/statuses/114891832892422661
@mxey @brauner @monsieuricon Someone by the same name used to pester comp.arch (and probably other newsgroups) with reams of similar blather; looks like the demise of usenet has forced them to find a new outlet, though now sadly they have much more powerful tools at their disposal for generating voluminous drivel.
zev
honked back 19 Jul 2025 13:13 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/114881623260640448
We put a chip in it!
It was a dumb thing. Then we put a chip in it. Now it's a smart thing.
zev
honked back 18 Jul 2025 11:32 -0700
in reply to: https://social.tchncs.de/users/arj/statuses/114874264444070525
zev
honked back 15 Jul 2025 11:56 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jzb/statuses/114856236000176838
@jzb Yes, though pretty much exclusively only when seeing ligatures (or worse, but much more rarely, variable width fonts). Absolute madness. Otherwise...meh.
zev
honked back 14 Jul 2025 19:22 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/87614sY25lRRP586k1
...but only if separated by a space! Commas don't get the same treatment.
$ ps -fp $$,$PPID
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
zev 3199 1638 1 19:21 pts/41 00:00:00 -bash
zev 1638 1 0 Jun29 tty1 00:13:52 urxvtd -q -f -o
zev
honked back 10 Jul 2025 17:50 -0700
in reply to: https://masto.hackers.town/users/GeoffWozniak/statuses/114831756640892207
@GeoffWozniak My particular condolences if you happen to be at the intersection of the two (i.e. gdb's remote protocol). That protocol...would probably need to be published on April 1 if it were ever written up as an RFC.
zev
honked back 09 Jul 2025 12:12 -0700
in reply to: https://typo.social/users/drj/statuses/114811472099631648
@swetland @drj I'm an aficionado of neither fonts nor typewriters, but I found TT2020 to be an interesting one: https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/ (I used it for the signage at my wedding.)
zev
honked back 08 Jul 2025 22:54 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/9psdL7dTx47VhBqQP1
@tedu whaddya suppose the odds are this ultimately boils down to php's famously robust, meticulous data type coercions?
It seems like While there are plenty of other examples of its weirdness, the one I've just tripped over is this: Why on earth does adding a second PID change the output format?
tar
is the usual go-to case of weird, inconsistent, hard-to-remember command-line flags, but I think ps
is far more bizarre and unpredictable.$ ps -fp $$
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
zev 10079 1638 0 11:04 pts/29 00:00:00 -bash
$ ps -fp $$ $PPID
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
zev 1638 1 0 Jun29 tty1 S 7:49 urxvtd -q -f -o
zev 10079 1638 0 11:04 pts/29 Ss 0:00 -bash
Where once there was a stovepipe, now there is a hole. And miraculously, I managed to do it without dropping any tools into the attic (though there was a close call or two), and ended up with only a very mild case of fiberglass itch!
zev
honked back 01 Jul 2025 14:53 -0700
in reply to: https://tech.lgbt/users/fay59/statuses/114780125584927396
zev
honked back 25 Jun 2025 13:02 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/114745236375503041
@rk @cks ext4 on Linux still does!
$ man mke2fs
...
-m reserved-blocks-percentage
Specify the percentage of the file system blocks reserved for
the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-
owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function
correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from
writing to the file system. The default percentage is 5%.
zev
honked back 24 Jun 2025 21:53 -0700
in reply to: https://social.tchncs.de/users/arj/statuses/114741953321719053
@arj Hah -- what project is that from? (And I'm assuming it is in fact accurate and not an artifact of github language misidentification.)
zev
honked back 23 Jun 2025 12:05 -0700
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/xb5wSS8wBNpx1m1NGx
@benjojo Fun that it's almost always length-preserving (single bit flips in most of the cases shown), but occasionally (e.g.
beljjo
) drops a whole byte...wonder what's going on there?
zev
honked back 18 Jun 2025 12:50 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.novalis.org/u/novalis/h/mds3xBcRJFd8zG13sd
zev
honked back 15 Jun 2025 00:02 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/3Smj35VCP2ZNyWFz23
And the encouraging honks from the monorail drivers going by overhead downtown were a crowd-pleaser too.
zev
honked back 15 Jun 2025 00:00 -0700
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/hQj52rQjchgPb3cSt3
Also my dear wife leading a nice hearty round of ¡chinga la migra!, despite only having learned the phrase the night before.
Among the highlights from today's No Kings in Seattle...
Okay iproute2, what fun do you have in store for me tonight... Uhm...is this man page I'm looking at unofficial? If so, where is the official documentation? My dogged searching culminated in...a yacc grammar. Which yes, I can read, but...I was sort of hoping for something in a natural language, not a collage-like mixture of C and EBNF.
$ man ss
...
FILTER := [ state STATE-FILTER ] [ EXPRESSION ]
Please take a look at the official documentation for details regarding filters.
...
zev
honked back 03 Jun 2025 10:23 -0700
in reply to: https://mastodon.well.com/users/rk/statuses/114620572254693098
@rk The strongest argument against creationism/"intelligent design" is the absolute idiocy of the design.