#ChatGPT delivered me value for the first time ever :-) Asked what is the best 1000 W PSU on a budget.

Pilot episode of #Fallout watched. First Prime Video complained about region for no good reason. Then i cursed quite a lot (and loud) and tried to cancel Prime (which was on free trial). Then Amazon offered me additional free month and I accepted that, and also playback started working 🤷

Pilot was amazing tho... And yeah, 40 days of trial left.

With the right configuration and ntsync driver, wineasio and some other components you could make a "boot to wine" image perfected for audio. I.e. make better Windows than Windows for audio software.

These days even super proprietary things like iLok manager can be made to work in wine.

Is there generic probe style timeout in Linux kernel that you could pair with eBPF script? I.e. can you say somehow that "if a process context is stuck more than X seconds, please trigger this eBPF". I.e. then you could inspect location of PC, dump stack and whatnot.

I like to use this platofrm as sort “Github gists” so listing this “highlights” #riscv memory initialization for cheatsheeting purposes, adding those I need to bookmark for reference:

• init_resources()

Just wanted try out what I minimally need for qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel arch/x86/boot/bzImage:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e

make defconfig
scripts/config --set-str CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE "initramfs.txt"
yes '' | make oldconfig

cat > initramfs.txt << EOF
dir /dev 755 0 0
nod /dev/console 644 0 0 c 5 1
nod /dev/loop0 644 0 0 b 7 0
dir /bin 755 1000 1000
slink /bin/sh busybox 777 0 0
file /bin/busybox initramfs/busybox 755 0 0
dir /proc 755 0 0
dir /sys 755 0 0
dir /mnt 755 0 0
file /init initramfs/init.sh 755 0 0
EOF

mkdir initramfs

curl -sSf https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/busybox-static-1.36.1-r25.apk | tar zx --strip-components 1
cp busybox.static initramfs/busybox

cat > initramfs/init.sh << EOF
#!/bin/sh
mount -t proc none /proc
mount -t sysfs none /sys
sh
EOF

“linux from scratch” in 32 lines :-)

#linux #kernel #alpine

Anyone know what different tools RISC-V provides for cache policy. I know e.g. that fence.i empties the icache but does it have something like MTRR on x86? I'm sort of in "not sure what I'm looking for" phase with this.

#riscv #x86 #mtrr

Do not use Kate but since Krita has been so successful could be a good move 🤷 I mean Krita has been successful to the point that people know Krita but do not necessarily know KDE.

https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/

My B4 #OLPC prototype, 15+ years old. Original battery. Still works and battery charging is no problem. Impressive little machine :)

I've been strongly opinionated that CPU vendors are not paying the price of getting their confidential computing technologies to upstream but just made up analogue what goes wrong.

Think of desktop Linux. It is not business at scale but it is still mandatory piece for enabling business at scale.

Think of the world where Linux would run only on data centers but all development could be done only in Windows, and for testing, even when just playing with an idea, you would need a server rack with four figure price.

This is the world of confidential computing.

With Linux 6.10 #ntsync driver combined with #wineasio you can get better #Windows than native Windows is for audio in some ways.

FL Studio is fast and smooth and you can do incremental backups for your full audio setup by simply archiving the wine folder. E.g. try a random plugin and revert back to previous wine folder after the experiment with all the crap cleaned up.

#audio #musicproduction #linux

still the most popular song

When it comes "non-inclusive" language and even "toxic language", I try to keep somewhat high threshold before making any conclusions.

Sometimes a non-native speaker can do that by mistake because of less vocabulary and taking this into account is also one way of being "inclusive".

Usually when I get a response that feels just nasty the action I take is not to respond at all because when people get pissed trying to discuss about it just leads to non-constructive debate. Sometimes there's reason for that nasty response, e.g. a mistake that I've made or something I've ignored, but there are better and worse work weeks, and life outside the work affects the performance.

That is the reason why I think not responding at all to a "more toxic" response is the best action taken because also the person who responds might just have a bad week, and despite CoC and everything people sometimes cannot control their nerves - that's just human.

#linux #lkml #coc #codeofconduct

If my #LKML responses have been a bit confusing this week there’s a good reason for that:

1. I had covid infection first part of the week unknowingly.
2. Latter part of the week I’ve been recovering from that.

Thanks for understanding :-) I’m already feeling fine and should be again full capacity next week. Apologies about any possible confusion or whatever.

I saw a while (this year anyway) ago a photo in Facebook taken by my friend working at hospital with XP running some medical system (no clue what it was exactly). Who knows what other mission critical systems there still are with XP deployed :-) https://www.neowin.net/news/end-of-life-microsoft-finally-terminates-support-for-windows-xp/

finally #fallout

John Gartner is a psychologist who, as founder of Duty To Warn, has raised the alarm about Trump's declining mental fitness. This week, we had the honor of interviewing him for a disturbing conversation about why he’s more worried than ever that the media and the public are missing all the blaring red signs that Trump is slipping rapidly into dementia. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

So, this happened.

https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/

My talk on Bevy's Rusty ergonomics was uploaded on the Rust Nation UK conf channel!

https://youtu.be/CnoDOc6ML0Y

#bevyengine #rustlang #gamedev

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