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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
A profitable business based on good old #Slackware in 2024 (!):
https://www.aronetics.com/the-tragedy-of-systemd/
Not meant to bash #systemd ;-)
https://www.aronetics.com/the-tragedy-of-systemd/
Not meant to bash #systemd ;-)
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@tdelmas GCC is not just licensing wise important. There's bunch of weird embedded hardware etc. where GCC is the only supported toolchain. For that to gain Rust support would be improvement. Often these companies are also conservative to make any changes to their years long status quo.
I think at least two compilers for any possible widely used system programming language is optimal because that keeps innovation happening in the internals and adds some healthy competition to the sauce.
I think at least two compilers for any possible widely used system programming language is optimal because that keeps innovation happening in the internals and adds some healthy competition to the sauce.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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@tdelmas yes obviously. My guess is that "the year of Rust" in kernel won't happen before we can use GCC to compile Rust.
I've tried to find some instructions on how to test GCC-Rust but still puzzled how to get it setup for Fedora :-) I don't have any picture where it is at.
I've tried to find some instructions on how to test GCC-Rust but still puzzled how to get it setup for Fedora :-) I don't have any picture where it is at.
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Edited 11 months ago
I wish that some day #Bitwig will have #wavetable editor like #Cubase has: https://www.steinberg.help/r/halion/7.0/en/halion/topics/wavetable_synthesis/wavetable_editor_r.html
Feels retarded to have spawn #Serum just for the sake of editing wavetables. This is actually trend. Many DAW's have added wavetable oscillators but no means for editing them. Like why even bother? Totally useless feature without the editor part.
Feels retarded to have spawn #Serum just for the sake of editing wavetables. This is actually trend. Many DAW's have added wavetable oscillators but no means for editing them. Like why even bother? Totally useless feature without the editor part.
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jarkko
Edited 11 months ago
#FM8 is still useful today. I don't use it to play anything but it is best tool and workflow to design patches for any other #FM synth (also for hardware synths) because it has such a great visualization of the interconnections and envelopes:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/fm8/
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/fm8/
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Danie van der Merwe
danie10@mastodon.socialWordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free
Before WordPerfect, the most popular work processor was WordStar. Now, the last ever DOS version has been bundled and set free by one of its biggest fans.
One forgets today how massive WordPerfect and WordStar were in their days. In fact, anyone ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/wordstar-7-the-last-ever-dos-version-is-re-released-for-free/
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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I created a ticket for #isync addressing the #Fedora 40 issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/patches/19/
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I've taken the quantum track at #Brilliant (actually registered it just because of this track).
After going through it my feeling of the topic is that the psychological impact of mystifying it makes it more complex than the topic itself.
It is just a new computational model, which is a superset of Turing model (a single isolated qubit has computational power of a Turing machine).
I.e. it is a just new board game with its own rules for states and ports. I'd figure that in the early days of computing it felt similar "unreachable" mystery as you had bunch of scientists describing it.
Lately I've had to learns some bits of processing of IR inside LLVM. That is about as complicated as understanding qubits. Engineers will get it when they need it ;-)
#quantum #qubit #programming
After going through it my feeling of the topic is that the psychological impact of mystifying it makes it more complex than the topic itself.
It is just a new computational model, which is a superset of Turing model (a single isolated qubit has computational power of a Turing machine).
I.e. it is a just new board game with its own rules for states and ports. I'd figure that in the early days of computing it felt similar "unreachable" mystery as you had bunch of scientists describing it.
Lately I've had to learns some bits of processing of IR inside LLVM. That is about as complicated as understanding qubits. Engineers will get it when they need it ;-)
#quantum #qubit #programming
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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@kernellogger IOW confused me, I'm not good with Internet acronyms so I mixed it up with _IOW first ;-) ioctl's fit to the driver context...
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)
kernellogger@fosstodon.org"'[…] no [#Linux] #kernel developer should spend one single second worrying about out-of-tree modules.
It's simply not a concern - never has been, and never will be.
Now, if some out-of-tree module is on the cusp of being integrated, and is out-of-tree just because it's not quite ready yet, that would maybe be then a case of "hey, wait a second".
But no. We are not going to start any kind of feature test macros for external modules […]'"
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@colinianking [noticed your reaction] so I started to work on this before taking four weeks of during July and this is the angle: https://codeberg.org/jarkko/tpm2_library
I'm planning to first get all features of tpm2-scripts to it and then add those key generation functionalities. Rust felt natural choice because it is like "Java of system programming", i.e. I can get OpenSSL functionalities for instance by doing cargo add for the crate containing libssl bindings and writing few lines of code :-)
There is also tpm-rs endorsed by TCG but after looking at it a bit I though that yet another TPM stack that makes simple problem more complex than it should be. Did not feel lean and mean enough for kernel testing.
I'm planning to first get all features of tpm2-scripts to it and then add those key generation functionalities. Rust felt natural choice because it is like "Java of system programming", i.e. I can get OpenSSL functionalities for instance by doing cargo add for the crate containing libssl bindings and writing few lines of code :-)
There is also tpm-rs endorsed by TCG but after looking at it a bit I though that yet another TPM stack that makes simple problem more complex than it should be. Did not feel lean and mean enough for kernel testing.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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I disliked EliteBook lineup already enough that have not used HP since 2011 ;-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@Netux ive done a lot of work with CVA6 running on Kintex7 FPGA. After todays job interview it might be that I end up working with RISC-V but disliking *in detail* is where engineering starts 🙂 If you are happy with the status quo, it can be hard to be distruptive which essential in tech business.
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@ljs @cwayne amazing how much time and detail jim has put this video, like finding sources for every single glitch, still gold after 14 years :-) this is what i call commitment. and this video really demonstrates how much microscopic detail liam howlett put into prodigy first albums, phenomenal. and all put together (in the original track) with Roland W-30 sampling keyboard (up until 3rd album which was sequenced with Cubase).
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