Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)

The #Monero Project uses Pieter Hintjens' Collective Code Construction Contract https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/22/ as the basis of its project/contribution rules. With all respect to my friend Pieter who is sorely missed, I think this C4 contract was written for a different era, and is problematic today.

This clause in particular: "Everyone, without distinction or discrimination, SHALL have an equal right to become a Contributor under the terms of this contract." is harmful, IMO.

@thomasfuchs I think it's a distortion of another sentiment, don't bring up problems and just demand that other people fix them. If you're not willing to pitch in on the work required to solve them, you're literally not helping. Especially if you're just pointing out problems that are already known and recognized.

@Alkaris @JessTheUnstill one has to wonder if their skills really atrophied so much so quickly, or were they always incompetent and just successfully faking it for 20+ years?

@VeroniqueB99 in an alternate universe

@dalias @uberduck that sounds ... not so great. Why would anyone want to expose their keys like that? What's your use case?

@skinnylatte ever since someone here posted a while ago about eating Cheetos with chopsticks to keep their fingers clean, yeah I pretty much use them for everything now.

Nice to see these stories of people being helped as a result.

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@Infoseepage @HeavenlyPossum for trump it was Mission Accomplished. He wasn't placed into the Presidency to govern, he was put there to destroy America from the inside out. His goal is precisely to waste resources and squander influence, not to win.

@dalias I just use tcpdump for packet capture. Then use wireshark on the file of captured packets. There's a "Decode As..." option for selecting what protocol decoder to use.

@ireneista @skinnylatte that site is all in Simplified Chinese, and blocked translate.google.com . I learned Traditional Chinese, and I'm pretty rusty. So it was a challenge to order from there the first few times. But hey, when you gotta have your dumplings...

@ireneista @skinnylatte We don't have so many choices here, take what you can get https://www.353go.com/h5/pages/goods/item?goods_id=304

@dalias but I recall there was a built in SIP client in Android, whatever happened to it? I haven't seen it recently.

@dalias I still use sipdroid. It does seem a bit clunkier now than it used to be, but overall still works.

One thing that needs fixing, if you use mute on your end, it actually stops sending any data over your connection, and the remote side will think you've disappeared, and eventually hang up on you. What it ought to be doing is sending packets of zeros to keep the connection alive.

@dalias @mirabilos @glyph @whitequark @jpm yes... but it makes it more obvious that you know what you're doing, when you keep "host order" for the natively operable value (e.g., what you can printf()).

@mirabilos @dalias @glyph @whitequark @jpm

Technically, those htons() should be ntohs(). The fields in a sockaddr struct are all in network byte order.

Tho obv for a 2 byte integer, the effect of ntohs and htons is identical...

@mirabilos @dalias @nxadm tbf, I sympathize. After all, naming is one of the two hardest problems in computer science (along with cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors). And I had to rename LMDB shortly after its release, to avoid confusion with other projects... it's tough to come up with good names.

@mirabilos @dalias @nxadm wow, "status changed to Unfortunate" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047478

@nxadm @dalias also, it's intentionally limiting in its expressiveness. Which makes sense as one of its design goals - it was designed to make projects and programmers at Google interchangeable. There's only one way to do things, so there can only be one "style". In short, it's designed for mediocrity. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/From-Parallel-to-Concurrent

@nxadm @dalias if you look at it as an attempt to make human programmers into interchangeable code spewing machines, then Google's new emphasis on AI code spewing machines probably means golang was a failure.