@larsmb if i was reviewing a kernel patch i'd state the same as "the motivation part is missing" :-)

@larsmb not demanding this myself but just as a tip: maybe you could extend the description with the context for your research. That, I think, sells better the cause.

anyway put forward :-)

FLOSS folks, is there any research into using image pulls / downloads (or even, yuck, GH stars) as a metric for number of installations/active users?

(Please don't reply with lists of pro/cons/limitations/constraints etc, got plenty of those myself; I'm specifically looking for existing papers or other publications, thank you! 🙏)

#FLOSS #OpenSource #OpenSourceMetrics

@diegovsky anyway, thanks for asking, it would be quite obnoxious to claim that for Rust it would take 2 decades to catch up...

@diegovsky Right, I do not mean that it would take 2 decades for pure Rust libraries to catch up but more like PortAudio was pretty mature already in 00's (used by Audacity, quite a few game titles etc.) so it will take a lot to catch it up.

@diegovsky ,,, next time I have chance to do something with Rust at work. During leisure one should do only stuff that you already enjoy :-)

Also the audio library rant is not really Rust issue. The current libraries just have decade or two maturity gap to catch up...

@diegovsky I would (and will) when I have a chance definitely give it a shot. I'm aware of this in nightly but really have to have a legit workload to make any further arguments. Fair point anyway :-) I really do hope that things improve and my position changes...

I reconfigured my main desktop PC used for development with UKI kernel because it has been in recent past discussed at LKML around patches that are relevant in the areas I'm working on and I know almost nothing about it. So getting familiar I suppose :-) The basics are easy to understand, and the specs are nice and clean but really need to see how it works over time in daily use...

For small real-time #audio thing i’m working for my own entertainment i stick to good old #C and #PortAudio.

Working on Rust would mostly getting into unsafe mode and cursing that there is no “first-class” way to check each and every dynamic memory allocation success. Finally, the audio libraries are quite bad when considering ones actually implemented with Rust (e.g. CPAL), not just bindings to e..g PortAudio.

So where I would not like to Rust bother, it would come to poke me with. a stick, and where I would need its help, it totally ignores the issue.

I’d like Rust more if people would stop describing it as a memory safe language.There is no such thing as memory safe language. There’s only languages with weaker and stronger checks/guarantees, and usually only for a subset of overall memory management.

In the case of Rust it can handle dangling references but ignores memory usage and out-of-memory conditions completely.

#rustlang

Just created jarkk0.bsky.social, as "jarkko" was already taken but that will do :-) Never got invite so arriving a bit late..,

@Stoori @tuulap @esko@hcommons.sociale mikä on kaupallinen toimija ja "kaupallinen intressi". kaikki ostetaan jostain anyway. esim. äsken ostin suodatinpusseja kaupasta. sori en lähde tähän "kapitalismi on paha"-keskusteluun ja pidän ton oman valitukseni keskitettynä sähköpostiin, jonka toimii huonosti, ja joka vuotaa ulkomaille :-)

ja keskustelun jatkaminen olisi kovin haastavaa, kosk en ilmaise poliittisia näkemyksiäni julkisilla foorumeilla. vain äänestyskopissa kiinnostaa muut asiat kuin sähköpostipalvelimet tjsp.

@esko @Stoori @tuulap Nimim. vuodesta 1999-2021 mutt, 2021- aerc, ja webmail eka kertaa 2023 tän määräaikaisen yliopistoduunin aikana, missä on syyskuuhun. Järkyttynyt siitä, että meidän kaikki tutkimus hostataan jossain hevonperseessä. Ei kovin isänmaallista se mun mielestä.

Cool, the firmware update for #1010music #Bluebox digital mixer brought an USB audio interface to it. I was super happy with it already but do not complain!. https://1010music.com/product/bluebox

@securepaul This whole thing came to mind because I just reinstalled one of my systems realizing that i had typo in the login name. I fixed that by full re-install because it is less trouble to do that than dance the usermod dance :-)

@securepaul OK cool. Tbh no idea what that is but I'll check, thanks!

@securepaul I'm sorry missing today's meeting but maybe this could be something discuss in the next one? :-) Also @kees wouldn't this make somehow also sense from hardening perspective to have a way to do more rigid physical presence involved dance when changing account name in some situations? Not sure, just thought that this would be interesting idea...

Changing user account name in #Linux-based operating systems is not hard, but can at least be inconvenient dance to do for various reasons. Just to give an example, sometimes root account needs to be enabled for password login temporarily so that home directory name can be changed without issues.

It would be super nice if this could be done similarly as with TPM chips and machine over keys (aka MOK managed with mokutil). I.e. there would be a way to set out a request for username change for logged in local account and upon next reboot there would be a query for new account name, and this process would be taken care of renaming username, group and home directory.

User name and group name are trivial because they don’t really change any identifiers associated with the user but AFAIK usermod completely denies home directory name change for a logged in account.

@tychotithonus I barely know how to use it to seal my OpenPGP but at least from the yubikey manager you can configure authorizations for short and long press of the device.

@esko @Stoori @tuulap Ja esim. Tampereen yliopiston IT-ylläpito ei suostu lainkaan avaamaan minkäänlaista IMAP/SMTP-putkea. Ja tämä tietoturvan takia, vaikka nyt on todellinen riski et saastutan koko verkon vahingossa, kun en osaa tulkita HTML:ää oikein :-)

@esko @Stoori @tuulap ennen mastodon-palvelinta sähköpostipalvelin yliopistoihin. en uskalla avata webmailissa oikein mitään meiliä, kun on vuosikymmenien tottumus plain text-emailiin.

Vaikka tietoturvan parissa olen paljon tehnyt töitä niin nimenomaan HTML-moskan seasta phishing-meilien kaivelu ei ole mun alaaa. Muttilla, ja nykyään aercilla, ei roskapostia voi olla tunnistamatta, ja ei sen avaaaminenkaan ole erityisen vaarallista...

Mä oon vanhan liiton sähköpostimies. Meilit quotaaan Jukka Korpelan oppien mukaan, ne on aina plain textiä ja ei top-postailua kiitos :-)