What I thought we needed to do: Create a docker image, bring an ARM Qemu image up, and build it there.
What I found it would be easier: Just use the qemu user mode, which runs a single command in another architecture. So instead of calling cmake inside a Qemu ARM image, I can qemu-aarch64 cmake.
What is the new issue: For that to happen, I need to have all the ARM building tools available. One solution would be to have a volume with all the ARM executable to build something, mount it along the image with qemu-aarch64, so when it calls gcc, it would actually call the ARM version of gcc.
And I'm not sure how to implement that last point.
@passthejoe didn't find a mention in that post that you should immediately upgrade a Samsung 980/990 Pro SSD's firmware, or otherwise it might die after only a couple of weeks. Especially bad for 2TB models, apparently.
So. Three folks I follow are echoing pretty much the same sentiment I've been trying to express and are spending less time here.
I'll preface with a reminder that you may very well feel my opinions are bunk. I am a successful YouTuber, after all, with all the privileges that entails.
But here's the brass tacks: it's harder for me to be here comfortably than it was on the birdsite. And to be honest, I think Mastodon's always gonna be this way.
@TechConnectify It's so painful to see / hear this. It's even more embarrassing to see that some people don't even have the slightest social decency to at least not be hostile in this very thread. Mind-boggling.
I can't speak to how this compares to Twitter, how bad the situation is for accounts with more followers, let alone have any solutions. It's just a shame to see that people have a bad time on the platform that I personally generally feel at home. 😔
I'll never understand DBahn - Their app sends the most terrifying messages eg:
(what this turns out to mean is that they substituted rolling stock and changed the train number for part of the journey)
My confusion is because in the UK we refer to trains by their time, and destination - adding the local station if required to disambiguate.
e.g:
"The 1905 to Glasgow (from Euston)"
In Germany by contrast this is the "ICE 572 - to Berlin."
@steely_glint I do appreciate date and train number as a means to unambiguously refer to a given train. Especially for short intra-city routes, specifying the final stop can be confusing as you then disambiguate by some other smaller train station name that only locals are familiar with.
However, the DB IT systems are very broken and so are their processes. The app does not even attempt to be helpful if anything whatsoever diverges from the plan... 🫤
"To be fair to C and C++, if you set yourself the goal of crossing an 8-lane freeway blindfolded, it does make sense to focus on doing it as fast as you possibly can." 😬
@wolf480pl I've run across some pretty wild ones in the past, but the one piece of software that always comes to mind is NixOS which does chattr +i /var/empty. Some this continues to bite me real bad when I do sandboxed OS installs, containers etc. I don't learn my lesson. 🙃
Reading the ruling on the supposedly "illegal" hosting of #youtubedl's website by @ubernauten, I was shaking my head for a good half an hour. I can't think of a better way the court could have made it so painfully obvious that they have absolutely no clue of what is actually going on.
The idea that such a tool might be illegal in on itself is bonkers. But I can't begin to comprehend the court acks that this site hosts only a GitHub link, yet still says it offers a download.
Honestly I'm pretty scared by the possible precedent such rulings can establish. It contains so many dangerous theories, such as the "rolling cipher" being an adequate technical means to prevent someone from fetching a publicly accessible file from a web server.
There's really nothing stopping you from applying this argument to every web scraper that concatenates two strings to build a URL...