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Jarkko Sakkinen

Bluesky makes conference time table changes great again i'd guess :-) exactly like old twitter which was great for that. have peek at some point what sort of api they provide.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

I like what my ex-employer is doing with #x86s, nice work. it takes talent and skills to transform #microarchitecture with decades of legacy and move it forward like this.

#x86 #intel
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Jarkko Sakkinen

#rclone is quite great, too bad i have not found it earlier.

It fixes the glitch that I've had with cloud storage, which works like Dropbox does. I can do "scattered" syncs with trivial scripting, i.e. when the files to be synced are scattered around the filesystem.

A great example is audio plugin presets and their associated files (e.g. samples) that can be deployed to multiple locations.

Also e.g. in Linux and macOS versions of U-he plugins there's some differences in the directory hierarchy. I can sort that out with two scripts, one for Linux and another for macOS, and call it day.

Life quality has been upgraded :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @diegovsky@fosstodon.org
@diegovsky I check also Vec and it also has try_reserve(), which I suppose gives similar tool as for Box to check the success state.

I think these are a big improvement but I hope that clippy will also get flags to emit error if every allocation in a code-base does not have the heap checks.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

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

Reply to @larsmb@mastodon.online
Edited 1 year ago
@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 :-)
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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

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! 🙏)

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Jarkko Sakkinen

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

Reply to @diegovsky@fosstodon.org
@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.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@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...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @diegovsky@fosstodon.org
@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...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

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...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago

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

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Jarkko Sakkinen

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

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Edited 1 year ago
@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.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@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.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

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
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @securepaul@fosstodon.org
Edited 1 year ago
@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 :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @securepaul@fosstodon.org
@securepaul OK cool. Tbh no idea what that is but I'll check, thanks!
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
Edited 1 year ago
@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...
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