#iLok comes much more nicer to use once you discover by accident that there is a command-line tool installed to /usr/local/bin

iloktool - 5.9.0 (b5097,  edaa5278, Release, 64 bit, built Oct 25 2023)
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Usage: iloktool <operation> <options>

<operation> is one of the following:
help            Prints this help message.
auths           Show all of the authorizations (licenses) available to your computer.
cloud --open    Open an iLok cloud session. Requires --account & --password for the iLok account.
cloud --close   Close all iLok cloud sessions or with --account & --password close a single session.
cloud --status  Returns the cloud status: "Open" or "Closed".
list            List iLok devices attached to this machine.

<options>:
  -h [ --help ]         Show these usage instructions.
  -a [ --account ] arg  This is the account login ID in the "cloud" operation.
  -c [ --close ]        This is used with the "cloud" operation to close all or
                        a single open cloud session.
  -o [ --open ]         This is used with the "cloud" operation to open a cloud
                        session.
  -p [ --password ] arg This is the account password for the "cloud" operation.
  -s [ --status ]       This is used with the "cloud" operation to get the
                        cloud status (Open or Closed).
  -t [ --type ] arg     If specified, this filters the "list" operation by the
                        specified iLok type.
  -V [ --version ]      Show the version number.
  -v [ --verbose ]      Indicate verbose output.

Examples (omit the -v at the end if you don't want verbose):

If you specify no operation, you get a non-verbose list of all local and
remote iLoks:
    iloktool

List all, just iLok1, just iLok2 and just iLok3 type devices respectively:
    iloktool list -v
    iloktool list --type 1 -v
    iloktool list --type 2 -v
    iloktool list --type 3 -v

Display all auths (licenses) available to your computer:
    iloktool auths -v

Open a cloud session, close a cloud session, close all cloud sessions or get
cloud status respectively:
    iloktool cloud --open --account your_account --password your_password -v
    iloktool cloud --close --account your_account --password your_password -v
    iloktool cloud --close -v
    iloktool cloud --status -v

Once you successfully use your account and password to open or close a cloud
session, your password will be saved in the computer's key chain, and you can
omit the password in subsequent open and close operations:
    iloktool cloud --open --account your_account -v
    iloktool cloud --close --account your_account -v

I used to hate iLok but these days I think that it would best if all #audio #plugin companies would use the only solution that has matured somewhat usable instead of inventing their own factors worse licensing schemes.

#MusicProduction #licensing

And Microsoft has been kind enough to document how to keep your existing #CMake project and use vcpkg: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-started?pivots=shell-cmd

#Microsoft 's #vcpkg is more like "accepting the unfortunate reality" and is actually pretty good because it can be used in most applications, despite "less perfect". Ugly but useful...

Anyone who works with #embedded toolchains knows that #build2 fixed #toolchain approach neither works for C nor C++. It has benefits, yes, but it is simply unusable in wide range of applications.

#C #cplusplus

@pchaigno Another thing I'm looking at after holidays whether eBPF ELF Profile spec could be supported by a Rust crate called Goblin.

@sjvn that’s a lower number than i would expect

@pchaigno Had a four weeks of holiday in a row first time since 2018, which leads to doing crazy things ;-)

@pchaigno I drafted a quick plan what I want to do https://social.kernel.org/notice/AkA1B7U8A1zpNR8gEa.

I've previously used bpftrace to hook into tpm_transmit and then see similar information in "raw statistics form". now i'm aiming to level up and make graph that gets updated periodically.

I quickly drafted yesterday something just to see that I'm able to make a C project with bpftool and libbpf shenanigans: https://codeberg.org/jarkko/hello-ebpf. I know it is useless cruft at this point but this was at least enough to see that given the investment in time i can make it happen ;-)

Next thing I'm planning look at is bpf ring buffers.

Life hack for github-cli gh repo clone $(printf 'squidowl/halloy%.0s ' {1..2}), i.e. clone into owner/repo directory, not just repo. #github

EDIT:

I wrote a small #bash (obviously works also for #zsh) function to make cloning easier in my environment:

gh-repo-work() {
  local url=$1
  # Strip path from URL:
  local url_path=${url#*\.*/}
  # Clone to the Github tree:
  gh repo clone $url_path "$HOME/work/github/$url_path"
}

“Demo”:

~ main*
❯ gh-repo-work m4b/goblin
Cloning into '/Users/jarkko/work/github/m4b/goblin'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7261, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1215/1215), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (326/326), done.
remote: Total 7261 (delta 977), reused 922 (delta 889), pack-reused 6046
Receiving objects: 100% (7261/7261), 3.22 MiB | 4.69 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5565/5565), done.

~ main*
❯ ls -1 work/github/m4b/goblin
CHANGELOG.md
Cargo.toml
LICENSE
Makefile
README.md
assets
etc
examples
fuzz
fuzz-afl
src
tests

~ main*
❯ rm -rf work/github/m4b/goblin

~ main*
❯ gh-repo-work https://github.com/m4b/goblin
Cloning into '/Users/jarkko/work/github/m4b/goblin'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7261, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1227/1227), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (337/337), done.
remote: Total 7261 (delta 988), reused 923 (delta 890), pack-reused 6034
Receiving objects: 100% (7261/7261), 3.23 MiB | 6.68 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5564/5564), done.

~ main*
❯ ls -1 work/github/m4b/goblin
CHANGELOG.md
Cargo.toml
LICENSE
Makefile
README.md
assets
etc
examples
fuzz
fuzz-afl
src
tests

The list of papers accepted at the 2nd #eBPF workshop has been published by ACM: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3672197#tableOfContent.

@pchaigno during my holiday s ive got into learning bpf and now im writing profiler with libbpf to detect performance issues in recently added bus encryption for TPM driver. Got addicted!

Since I use #IRC "professionally" I spent 50 something euros to for annual #IRCCloud subscription.

The main reason is the bouncer they have in it that "just works" without even trying: https://blog.irccloud.com/bouncer/

If I ever build a company I will get IRCCloud Teams instead of Slack ;-)

@djuuss @gimulnautti lol nobody has ever called me a part of group called "psytrance folks". Non taken ;-)

Unfortunately only music personality I follow is @polarity who is also only Bitwig expert I follow at Youtube. I generally try to avoid watching or reading anything "music production" related because then you end up learning 1000000 and 1 ways to use EQ and compressor in a wrong way, get a headache and feel bad for yourself 😆

I like Polarity's stuff because it is more like cool insights and hacks rather than how to use EQ incorrectly.

That said, if there was a great Reaper tuber with emphasis on ReaScript, that would be something I'd be interested! I really would like learn that some day.

I don't have lot of emphasis on music ATM. I'm doing one collaboration track with Kirna. Actually good that this came out because I've been supposed to send him stems for last 2 months lol. It will be released some day at https://dopescience.bandcamp.com/.

The thing with Kirna is cool in the way that he is using Studio ONE so I have a real-world situation to try out .dawproject, which both Bitwig and Studio ONE support. I guess I'm geek first and music second, even when it comes to music ;-)

https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php

#Finnish #italo #disco #banger from 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2GTRKgB6RM ;-) #aksuli #electroclash

Would be cool if there was TUI client for Google Sheets. I use it for tax reports etc. thanks to GoogleFinance() macro. Can't live without it. ****ings to #Google for this horrible vendor lock-in.

At #Intel I even developed a tax reporting template that became a minor internal hit among Intel #Finland employees :-) I hate myself for loving web app but it is soo convenient for moneyz.

@vbabka @ljs this one goes to crowdstrike and microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHRnhOP3hE ;-)

@vbabka @ljs does it matter ;-)

Trump to the press: I will crush you like the bugs you are.

Journalists: Haha there goes Trump again.

Biden: I'm incredibly disappointed in your coverage:

Journalists: How dare you? Resign immediately, you ungrateful pathetic SOB.

Flow planned for my cheapo #BPF flame graph for a single driver:

1. tpm_transmit()
2. Chop the backtrace into two pieces.
3. Keep the top N rows, forget the the bottom.
4. Publish N rows with 256 bytes per row room for a call entry, i.e. 0x100*N bytes to the BPF ring buffer.

The host side then consumes the fixed-size packets and puts matching stacks to the same bucket. A second thread can periodically then compose flame graph of the data corrected so far.

Somehow got into learning this eBPF stuff during the holidays :-) Super interesting and addicting.

#eBPF

#ladybird is compatible with #lwn ;-)