Notices by Brian Swetland (swetland@chaos.social)

Is the state of Mastodon (and most of the fediverse?) such that user/message signing keys are still all RSA? I've seen there's been some discussion of Ed25519 support, but it seems like not much progress?

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #Questions

@wren6991 There's long been a style of development that's basically "no problem cannot be solved by adding more layers (or libraries, or middleware, ...)" and "AI" development appears to be taking that "win by multiplying complexity until it works" approach and automating it.

LinkedIn is the place where you learn about friends becoming completely poisoned by "crypto" or "ai" bullshit like Facebook was the place where you learned people you knew in high school became christian fundamentalists or anti-vaxxers or nazis or whathaveyou.

A reminder that you can still just sit down and write software. Or stand up and write software if you prefer.

The key point is that *you* can *write software* and you don't have to let other software write software for you.

@eniko My feeling is you probably can find something simpler than SDL, but it's not going to be all that much simpler and/or will be outweighed by SDL's level of documentation, reliability, and broad platform support -- all of which have always felt like a pretty big win to me. Once you have a framebuffer you tend to end up wanting input, audio, platform abstractions for threads/mutexes/etc... at least that's been my experience.

I'm starting to think I've found my way out the other side of burnout.

Hat tip to the "OMG AI WROTE A COMPILER" nonsense, which didn't surface until I was already getting back up to speed on my little compiler project, but that bullshit has definitely been motivational.

If nothing else, spitefully writing code myself and risking actually learning things along the way makes me smile.

The C64 Ultimate is a delightful recreation of the computer I grew up with.

https://www.commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate-basic-beige-batch1

#Commodore64 #Nostalgia

@cwebber I pretty much only use wireless input devices (IR remote and ps5 gamepad) with the little PC hooked up to the TV for video playback and such.

Beyond any security implications, I just really never want to worry about charging or replacing *more* batteries in my day-to-day computing experience, much less RF interference/flakiness issues.

@whitequark Never finished my degree, instead diving into the career that I thought I would need said degree for... 30 years later it turns out it never mattered for that... but *now* it might be desirable to live in another (hopefully less broken) country (something that never had any urgency in the past) and, yeah, that'd be simpler if I had got the piece of paper back in my 20s...

@whitequark @lynne I was really wary of the demux'd controls when I ordered a cheap Siglent scope after my much fancier Keysight scope self-destructed some years back, but I got used to them pretty quickly. One button tap to select the channel is really not all that much of an inconvenience, I found.

Regarding the display, it's got HDMI out, right? Does it run at higher resolution on an external display?

@whitequark That I'd file under "now I have *two* problems".... well, I guess three, since the initial problem was "maybe the debugger should be more easily reconfigurable"...

Love what Rust is trying to do, but it just does not bring me joy. TCL on the other hand is like the avatar of EDA Tooling Trauma.

@whitequark Auuuuuugh.

Okay, I guess now I need to actually start compiling some code to run on the RP2350...

(Thanks again, @wren6991)

#Projects #Xdebug

Technically I also need to clean up various quick hacks and verify that I didn't manage to break things for debugging assorted *other* Cortex-M MCUs.

Oh and also generalize the locate-the-memory-AP code because one of those hacks basically assumes that all DPv3 devices are RP2350s. I guess at a minimum I could move that to trigger on the DP.IDR + TARGETID like the RP2040 multidrop support does.

#Projects #Xdebug

This is one of those points where I think "maybe I should include a scripting language so it's easier to add device-specific quirks without recompiling the debugger" and then I think "no, this is not a yak I need to shave right now."

@azonenberg @wren6991 @whitequark These two diagrams from the datasheet are useful if you haven't looked into RP2350 previously...

It is amazing the differences in the ease of getting questions on RP2350 boot and debug answered quickly and helpfully as just some random guy on a social media site vs the experience getting support from Qualcomm while doing Android kernel/systems lead stuff at Google.

I feel like this does not bode well for the future of Arduino.

Okay... if I upload a video clip, Mastodon will not loop it... but if I convert it to a gif, Mastodon will convert it *back* to a video clip and loop it...

Feels like there should be a better way to do this.

edit: Mystery Solved: @scy pointed out that if there is no audio track, videos will loop. (Looks like bsky also has this behaviour, but Discord and Slack do not)

#Anime #EgaoNoTaenaiShokubaDesu #Mastodon #Video #Loop #Sigh

@robey Yeah, I saw that and just thought "ugh." Somebody either does not get it or just does not care. I don't know which is worse.

@mcc @aeva I continue to be annoyed that whenever anyone brings up legitimate gripes with how bsky is operated, the staff claim "open protocol", "federation", and "user freedom", when the reality is that with only a handful of alternate towers that represent maybe a single digit percentage of users at best, for all intents and purposes it is not federated in any way that brings meaningful choice to the average user.