Notices by 🐧sima🐧 (sima@chaos.social)

reading a cv ...

"Error free coding in C"

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that's really not a thing, I'm sorry

@mekkaokereke I threw a big donation at the local trans* support group this morning

they're ramping up a program to support trans/queer immigrants and asylum seekers, so I'm hoping this is the place my money will be most effective

@mekkaokereke I really hope I don't have to read your threads again in 4 years

but realistically I think I need to hope that I read your threads again in 4 years. because the more likely alternative is that there's going to be even less of an election than now or 4 years ago, with even more tricks to make sure only the right (well, white) people can vote

kangrejos in copenhagen was great, but the absolute 🤯 moment was when I learned that GFP_ stands for get_free_pages

I had no idea. and @gregkh next to me had the same https://xkcd.com/1053/ experience

#kernel

@lina @gregkh I just thought it's general protection fault, misspelled, and made no sense. not the first acronym I'll never understand, so just shrugged for the past few decades of looking at kernel code

sometimes I wonder whether people genuinely believe you can be a complete asshole in one place and totally friendly in another, with some of the same people in both places, and then expect that your bad reputation doesn't transfer ...

sometimes I have regrets about drm having so much driver specific uapi

it's worse when the it's driver specific values in a generic api like the drm format specificiers consisting of a fourcc format code and an opaque 64bit layout modifier. yup someone designed a modifier that's not opaque to generic userspace like compositors

#kernel

result of the croissant baking course

#food

@linear I'm on the board of that org, and we shouldn't have this. but it's a bit complicated

1. drm subsystem never enforced the real name policy, and @airlied and me as subsystem maintainers put that on record https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CAKMK7uG+TeATXctJaXBgSRxpinDdtOhGa+o2CMPaPtO1QyHtJA@mail.gmail.com/

it's now also officially fixed for the kernel overall https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330

2. some projects require the https://www.developercertificate.com/ and there's the common misconception that this requires a "real name". it doesn't, and never has

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@linear @airlied

3. if we do have projects that have a real name policy in their docs or require it, we need to fix it because that just flat out violates our CoC and values as an org. I'd much appreciate if you can reach out (in private if you prefer) so we can sort this out

will the real X please stand up, please stand up, please stand up

lol my dear employer's IT departement telling me to order a new laptop because windows 10 is eol and apparently they can't upgrade that stuff ...

meanwhile the linux machines here very much only get retired when the hardware is dead or just too old

once more for the peanut gallery

nvidia _choose_ to not support the wayland stack. or well more generally, the new linux kms+egl gpu stack, since there's a lot other cool things you can built on top of it that aren't wayland

nvidia _choose_ to implement crypto locked down fw in a way that blocks open drivers (even apple got this right!). and no one else can fix it, because it's actual real crypto

nvidia _choose_ to not fix any of this

don't buy nvidia if you don't like this

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to understand fascim, don't read what hitler and goebbels said in the 40s

read the 20s, and understand it took less than 20 years from that to industrialized genocide