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phnt, 7 days ago

@icedquinn @j @Forestofenchantment @p @lanodan If I remember correctly, the same actor also contributed to zstd. I know, paranoia.

phnt, 13 days ago

@SuperDicq @mischievoustomato Rust is for people that can't write C without it breaking all the time and like unnecessarily complicated language syntax. I can count the number of useful Rust programs on my one hand. GNU coreutils is a mess as is GCC and binutils, but it's a mess that works. Until Rust fixes it's many problems (no ABI, only statically linkable, slow compile times, usable without cargo) it will be a meme language.

phnt, 13 days ago

@coolboymew @icedquinn @lanodan I worked in one company with a zero CVE policy, never doing that again.

• But that CVE isn't exploitable, we don't have that code compiled in. It doesn't exist in the binary.
• Does not matter. The scanner still reports it, update it just to be sure.

phnt, 16 days ago

@sun @mia Linux will never be used for critical realtime usecases. It's too big and slow for that. It is used in embedded applications for viewing the state of a machine, but it never runs it. ECUs use big custom microcontrollers and sometimes FPGAs, but the infotainment system sometimes runs Linux (usually Qt or EFL for GUI). Czech modernized locomotives use old Debian (kernel version 2.6) for the driver controls, but the real computer only gets commands from that. When you are dealing with thousands of sensors that can completely change the state in which the controller has to go and hundreds of HW level interrupts, Linux is to complex for that. You need something simple that is very close to the hardware.

phnt, 16 days ago

@sun @mia The realtime patches that I know of are still used for desktop uses as far as I know. Ubuntu Studio for example has a "realtime" kernel to minimize latency between recording and playback hardware. Or I can be completely out of the loop and some madman made a realtime Linux for something embedded. I can see the usecase for IoT, but that's it.

phnt, 20 days ago

@kaia If you plan to use it only for online meetings, these would do fine. However don't expect a sound from them. I've had a Jabra headset (a lower end one, the price was 60 EUR) during covid and they had nothing but mids. Good enough for speech and that's it. The microphone is the typical slightly scratchy one. Better than laptop built-in ones and worse than a dedicated one. If you already have headphones, it might be cheaper to buy a separate USB mic than these headsets. In my opinion they are usually overpriced for what you get, because they are mainly targeted at companies buying them in bulk.

phnt, 20 days ago

@kaia Or another option is "gaming" headsets. A friend of mine has HyperX cloud and the microphone isn't bad, I would say above average. The headphones also sound pretty good, slightly more bass, which is fine for most. They sell for a lower price than the more company oriented headsets and overall give you more for the same price. A possible disadvantage is that they are USB wired only I think.

phnt, 21 days ago

@lain @kaia If only that was true for most medium to large sized companies. The reality is that upper management constantly creates meaningless rules and procedures, so they can justify their position in the company. And everyone under them suffers because of that. The "just let me work" company mindset isn't there.

phnt, 23 days ago

@sun @Paulajak @dushman @raccoon @getimiskon @arcana @meso I think 90's fashion was much better than what we have today honestly. I'm not too fond of the almost slutty modern fashion I see everyday. I don't want my girlfriend to look like an adult actress.

phnt, 23 days ago

@grillchen @Paulajak @dushman @raccoon @getimiskon @arcana @meso @sun There isn't a lot of choice, so you can't blame others for what they wear. Men's fashion is even worse in my opinion right now. When I need to buy something, I can't find something that I would want to wear. Everything just looks ugly and repulsing to me, I don't want nonsense text/images on my shirts, the only shoes I can wear without feeling like a dumbass are hiking shoes and few Vans models.

Rant over.

phnt, 23 days ago

@SuperDicq @hj @disarray
>especially with something like the fediverse where not a lot can be gained from exploiting security issues anyway as 99% of the communication here is public.
That most of the communication is public/unlisted doesn't mean that users don't use the other 2 options. The poast leak is a great example of that. Of course you can't stop everything when the administrator is just dumb like with the chudbuds leak. Yes, it's a non issue for most instances, because they are small and that's why there should be some encouragement to host your own instance if possible in my opinion.

Slighly off-topic:
Pleroma is by far the best in this regard. Compiling Misskey is hell and Mastodon isn't easy to run as a small instance. There's one problem with Pleroma's installation and that's RHEL/Fedora based distros, not much you can do there, because SELinux kinda sucks to write policies for and elixir, ffmpeg aren't even in the main repos for RHEL. I can rewrite the old CentOS installation guide if hj and others want, but there's not much I can help with SELinux, my setup works and that's it.

phnt, 23 days ago

@SuperDicq @hj @disarray If you use base Misskey with Docker and no custom patches, than yes, it's really easy. Almost the same could be said about the Pleroma OTP, you download it and run it, that's almost all of it.

phnt, 23 days ago

@hj @disarray @SuperDicq I do too, because I have some custom patches for both FE and BE. Most are just annoyances that I had and almost nobody will have (FE muting posts through wordfilter on handles for example). I use the source installs as a safeguard if I want to add something in the future.

phnt, 24 days ago

@lucy @kaia as soon as there is more than 1 engineer, fun begins.

phnt, 25 days ago

@kaia suya :suya:

phnt, 26 days ago

@kaia @Jain You can, on Loonix it can probably done with V4L2 and FFmpeg, or if OBS can play a file through the virtual camera.

phnt, 26 days ago

@kaia @Jain OBS can do window capture and use that as a virtual camera V4L2 input that any other app should be able to capture. Just play a clip in a separate window without decorations and borders and you have a nice source for a virtual camera.

phnt, 26 days ago

@Jain @kaia Not as a source for a virtual camera apparently. I looked for that and didn't find anything. Maybe that's hidden in the weirdly named "Source" option that did nothing for me.

phnt, 29 days ago

@kaia sudo docker run faster

phnt, 29 days ago

@kaia Sad, they should make it a feature.

phnt, 29 days ago

@SuperDicq @nano If you really want to use JetBrains software, there are very likely packages for PHP development in IDEA even though it's a java IDE. There is an Electron extension in CLion for example. It's still less than ideal solution though.

phnt, 29 days ago

@SuperDicq @nano Yeah, the official PHP plugin license links to their User Agreement.