Notices by Hugo 雨果 (whynothugo@fosstodon.org), page 2

@Charlie I’ll try and package this in Alpine; would be really neat if we can just run FEX natively.

Although first I'd need a decent toolkit with proper clipboard support :(

Just a UI where I can "paste" any file would do 99% of the job TBH.

AirDrop has been integrating support for Wi-Fi Aware / Neighbourhood Aware Networking. This is pretty standard, and lots of existing hardware supports it. I'd love to be able to use AirDrop on non-iOS hosts, and a simple UI to use on #postmarketOS.

@thesquirrelfish @skinnylatte wtf. So everything has to be walled off?

@thesquirrelfish @skinnylatte That’s incredibly dystopian, I had no idea.

@ska @lanodan @domi @navi Been using Alpine for years on my primary hosts. Never heard of setup-utmp, and set up mdevd manually. They’re definitely under documented. Maybe we need an intro(1) man page , in the style of #openbsd.

@navi Irony :)

@soulfirethewolf #pimsync is implementing Google support and #imapgoose shall have OAuth support mainly for this reason: we recommend that folk don’t use shady “big tech” companies, but acknowledge that many have this imposed by their employer and don’t have a choice.

@skinnylatte Is it really a residential area if it has no sidewalks?

@navi @novenary @xerz @q66 @lanodan Agreed. Even when writing Rust code, you can only “jump to definition” one layer deep into the stdlib. Development tools can’t handle the stdlib because it used unstable unreleased features.

@navi Rust is such a great place to hide back doors. Immensely gigantic source code which body understands, we barely know how to build it and everyone depends on it.

@hund Yeah, modern XMPP clients are weird. Many hide XMPP-specific features to avoid confusing users coming from other networks. So we end up with a minimal set of features.

@navi @hipsterelectron @SRAZKVT I’ll ping you when I organise and publish my notes for Hare’s linear types. The same model likely works for C. The notation requires that lifetimes have names. I tried hard to avoid this requirement, but it doesn’t seem feasible, since a variable may have references to something which isn’t in scope, and this needs to be reflected somehow.

@hund XMPP still has status messages. ✨

@vixalientoots @navi @lanodan but we’ve just established that you don’t really need a daemon for this. I’m pretty sure that upower won’t work in my host due to dependency on other absent services.

@kernellogger Yeah, HDMI is essentially a proprietary standard now. It should only be used as a last-resort fallback. Avoid building new setups which rely on it for better forward compat.

@lanodan IIRC, it’s because the device doesn’t implement the power delivery negotiation that’s part of the USB-C protocol. So it doesn’t really “speak” USB-C and it can’t negotiate power delivery with the charger. With a USB-A cable, the charger sends power without any negotiation.

I’m sure I got some of the terminology tangentially wrong, but you get the general idea.

I truly despise usb-c devices which ONLY charge with a USB-A-to-USB-C cable. If your prototype doesn’t charge with a regular USB-C cable, then you shouldn’t start production.

#usb #usbc

@navi @lanodan Like, this is so obviously the correct solution that I’m pissed I didn’t think about it.

Although I’m not sure that mdev can chown files in sysfs.