I checked corp DHL offer for 6 times per year delivery. It's way beyond I want to pay. My expectation ATM is one delivery total and it costs ways more than flying to Berlin and back.

I think that we can safely say that consumer versions of parcel delivery services have a single application when sending: a return package. For anything: don't do it.

Priority letter with tracking code failed for the first time ever (in the EU region) but there goes the trust, and I burned 30 EUR for nothing. It is tuition cost, don't mind but also the very last letter that I'm going to sen through post office.

Not much of a choice. I just fly to Berlin. It's 3x priority letter, guaranteed delivery, cheap quality beer and Döner. I can accept this outcome ;-)

I might fly to Berlin next week because post office lost my wet ink contract.

There was 2x successful delivery in the priority mail that originally sent, which can only happen, if you have found ways bend the space time continuum in a way not known to the current laws of physics.

See for yourself:

https://www.posti.fi/en/tracking#/lahetys/RR117310579FI

Successfully delivered. Twice. I know Berlin is weird but I did not know that it is quantum weird 🍄 And this was with priority letter that cost almost 30 EUR. Yeah.

I neither have much trust to courier companies, unless you are multi-billion corporate customer (like Intel, Google and similar size company). E.g. corporate DHL is totally different story than consumer DHL.

I went to UPS Access Point yesterday, and the dealer said literally that you should reconsider because your contract might get wet (it was raining). I asked WTF are you talking about. "Boys sometimes might forget them outside for a while so they might get wet."

"UPS - We wet your mail"

This is literally true - according to UPS. How I ended up to this awful sitcom 🤷 I'm a Mike Judge fan (Beavis and Butt-Head, Silicon Valley, Tales from the Tour Bus etc.) but do not want live inside his script for God's sake.

So yeah. Better to just pay for plane tickets, say hi to some friends and hand over the wet ink (*not* wet contract) by myself. I might be weird not crack smoking and glue sniffing weird like these delivery services 🤖

It's less than 200 EUR to get Berlin and back. I like the place, and I do like also Döner so better to start looking for tickets :-) Optimal would late next week but have to check also with people I need to meet etc. :-)

Not even pissed. Post and courier services fucking up consumers is a universal standard. Keeping your letters wet... Just had to write this down because this is beyond mental 🙂

#Berlin #Germany #trip

Is there any non-Apple laptop of which 3,5mm connector does not suck? For playing not producing... And usually you have a sound card, controller or something but having such port is just a great backup.

I have no laptop ATM and planning to get a gig laptop and for that doing some configuration would pay off, given that it is then super stable and random "push notification" etc. crap does not appear randomly.

Just random note (and I think I stick to my mac for the time being e.g. because RME soundcards are proprietary as hell unfortunately).

One could make these quite easily a wine focused distribution for audio with wineasio for wiring into pipewire.

I.e. not Bitwig or other (available for) Linux DAW and yabridge but full-on everything inside wine. E.g. FL Studio performs better wine and is more stable than in Windows. For audio, wine is better Windows than current Windows. Even things like iLok (ugh) work these days without glitches (you need gnutls 32-bit for this, I found it by accident).

It has many other benefits:

1. One can snapshot the production environment because Windows is just a folder. This is useful for e.g. testing new plugins and making perfect clean ups after.
2. One can have multiple environments.

Making this an app ("manager' alike or something, this what Linux Steam is really) or a spin of distribution would be interesting idea. Pipewire was from get go a game changer in audio, it is actually just as a stack better than CoreAudio, but now that it has stabilized it is diamond.

Also, all RT just went to mainline, not sure if there is something that could improve from plain PREEMPT. And the biggest performance glitch was WaitForMultipleObjects (Win32 API), which was recently (either 6.10 or 6.11) recently fixed by having a driver and device just for this call, which bypasses nasty wineserver completely.

Personally I stick mac in audio (because I have RME BabyFace Pro FS) but Wine (with WineASIO) would actually be my option number 2, not because it is a "Linux way" but more like it has better user experience than Windows.

Just writing this down so that won't be forgotten :-)

#linux #audio #wine #note #musicproduction

Ooo, it's Mike Blumenkrantz's new post "My Wayland Your Wayland Our Wayland" https://www.supergoodcode.com/My-Wayland-Your-Wayland-Our-Wayland/ ✨

https://www.systeminit.com/

I want but does Telegram support SMS only binding? I can scrape Signal if it comes down to that ;-) Rad as hell.

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01

#GNOME 47 https://release.gnome.org/47/

Does anyone use dm-verity for anything? Looks almost like abaddonware.

#linux #kernel

This makes #Julia rad. You have like Jupyter notebook in a terminal! And with not much configuration (just add Plots and SixelTerm packages to the environment).

I don't care about learning a new language but it's all this other stuff in the environment that makes it so much more effective that it is worth it (and the language seems to be as trivial as Python anyway).

Game changer... ... ... in math ;-)

Deep Dive into RCU Race Condition: Analysis of TCP-AO UAF (CVE-2024–27394)

V4bel published an analysis of a race condition vulnerability in the TCP-AO subsystem caused by incorrect usage of the kernel RCU mechanism.

The researcher managed to trigger it reliably using the ExpRace technique.

Article: https://blog.theori.io/deep-dive-into-rcu-race-condition-analysis-of-tcp-ao-uaf-cve-2024-27394-f40508b84c42
ExpRace: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/lee-yoochan

Time for Paul's quiz session! Have been waiting for a new RCU article only because I love those quizzes even tho I'm not always that great solving them ;-)

Also the book "Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?" is worth reading.

https://lwn.net/Articles/988638/

Makes me wonder why don't netatalk just plain import those legacy ciphers? Their security has been compromised already by time and age, so it does not really matter. Nobody's after your Apple 2 LAN setup 🤶

In common case you never should reimplement ciphers given FIPS 140 crap etc.

https://lwn.net/Articles/989687/

#netatalk #wolfssl #openssl #fedora

When you think about it there are no hardware companies anymore in IT. There's just geeks doing weird stuff with their laptops and sending their designs to manufacturing plants :-)

A company like Nvidia for instance is a design company, IP holder and brand agency with a research department. [no means to slander Nvidia per se, sorry]

It's kind of interesting equation given that the state of the art manufacturing is located in places, which would not require a lot to turn into warzones.

I just find this fascinating...

I have to say that I really like Julia. Always have a terminal with REPL open for calculation and computation :-) In production I could imagine it being used exactly for the computational model and interfacing that with C/Rust/Java shim.

I just needed a calculator and it really is the answer to my needs. It has pretty cool Jupyter Notebook style model called shared environments that seems to work for my brains.

In the niches where Julia could deliver it is not really even the case that C would be the king but more like people are still using Fortran, Matlab and similar relics.

Two years ago, Joe Biden said the COVID pandemic was over. Since then, 200,000 people have died from COVID. Many more are suffering from Long COVID.

Wear masks.

Tell the US Senate Judiciary Committee that you Object to the PREVAIL Bill TODAY!

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#opensource #patent #ip #patenttrolls #foss

If anyone has any idea how to detach display from #1010music desktop form factor products PLZ help me!

Not only my gym went to bankruptcy but German Post office lost my letter, which contained signed contract for my employer. I used priority mail that cost me almost 30 EUR to send.

It really feels like Monday 🤷 Oh well, I'll just redo my contract, scan the pages and blah blah blah...

I'm glad that I installed while ago pull-up bar (not sure if that is the correct English translation) to my home so I did some pull ups, presses etc at home.

I'm glad that I had only monthly membership to the gym that went to bankruptcy, so I lost only 40 euros.

Now I need to find a new gym from Tampere :-)