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rakslice

@rakslice@mastodon.social

quantization machine inputs artisan. he/him. being wrong on the internet practitioner. 50.3° N, 119.3° W (approx.) 68kΩ (Rɪᴅ_ʙ) pull-down. ε_𝑣 in Twitch chat. Boosts are sometimes followed by relevant snark

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mjg59, to random
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Long shot, but is there anyone out there who has access to a ThinkStation P320 in the tiny form factor (not just SFF, the really small one) and would be willing to send me the output of dmidecode?

rakslice,
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@mjg59 this is the sort of situation where I just go find one on linux-hardware.org (if a partly redacted one suits the purpose) e.g. https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=f69b9b159a&log=dmidecode

JenMsft, to random
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Unboxing your new graphics cat

rakslice,
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@JenMsft hmm... "If it fits I sits", foam cutouts edition

rakslice, to random
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Looking at ancient svr3.x Esix (which means the network stack is going to be some kind of glued together thing you need to be a bsd & vendors genealogy expert to understand the provenance of), how do you set a default route?

rakslice, to random
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Mulligan, n. 'The golf sense of "extra stroke after a poor shot" (1949) is sometimes said to be from the name of a Canadian golfer in the 1920s whose friends gave him an extra shot in gratitude for driving them over rough roads to their weekly foursome at St. Lambert Country Club near Montreal.' "https://www.etymonline.com/word/mulligan

rakslice, to random
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I spoke recently about YouTube as a glorified free hosting platform chasing eyeballs trying to pass itself off as social media; Medium is another example. tl;dr: What if most of the "network effects" of such platforms are actually negative for the hosted content?

rakslice,
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Just now reading that article about the Qantas A380 turbine disk failure due to faulty oil stub pipe on Medium, I made the mistake of looking at the "Recommended" section at the bottom

rakslice,
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and I saw a piece linking a Toyota water injection engine patent https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230304452 with the caption "It processes water to extract hydrogen, which then powers the engine."

rakslice,
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Water injection, for anybody who is not familiar, is injecting water droplets into ordinary combustion engines to either smooth temperatures to reduce knocking, in reciprocating cylinder engines, or to increase thrust in jet engines. It has nothing to do with extracting hydrogen from water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_injection_(engine)

rakslice, to random
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Ever since learning the truth of Saga-as-Final-Fantasy as a kid, I've tended to distinguish a certain kind of video games company as being smarmy businessmen primarily and appreciators of games only situationally when it suits the needs of the business

rakslice, to random
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Why is it that every BC government online service I use as a random member of the public (Services BC appointments, vaccination bookings, health gateway) has a different set of centralized auth schemes? Like, the point of a centralized auth scheme like BCeID is that while it's more complicated for users, you can have one and use it for all the things, but they never do because they end up deciding that none of them meet the requirements for the other services or smth

ihorner, to random
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Time to face the consequences of my actions.

Gotta turn this into at least three “holiday” briskets.

rakslice,
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@ihorner 🎵 holiday bri- i-i-i- 🎵
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rakslice, to random
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I think I've committed some kind of algorithmic faux pas... The Google News "Picks For You" box is now showing me press releases (?) from a transit agency (??) in a city 3000 km away from me (???) https://www.metrolinx.com/en/news/new-technology-means-faster-trips-for-eglinton-crosstown-lrt

rakslice, to random
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LB: with apologies to really epic posters who know who they are, this one is a real thing https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1191463

rakslice, to random
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Maybe it's weird but I realized at some point that I like dystopian fictional settings because they provide a break from the pretense that everything waves hand around at outside world is fine

rakslice, to random
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So I have a question for people who know cursed old libtool stuff: When using libtool modules, are you supposed to be able to just pass the modules with -dlopen when linking the final program with libtool and have it work?

rakslice,
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What I'm concerned with is the case where some of the modules' dependencies like libm are not available as shared libs and so are going to fall back to being built statically and then libtool -dlopen will fall back to linking them in statically for use with ltdl preload stuff

rakslice,
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For the purpose of understanding, the modules in question are the loaders from Imlib2, and the final program is Eterm.

rakslice,
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It seems like all the expected libs are getting statically linked in and expected symbols e.g. lt_libltdl_LTX_preloaded_symbols are present ; After sorting out the undocumented requirements for the paths to get into the preopen case by literally debugging into the lt_dlopenadvise call, I can get in but it's as though it doesn't have a vtable to find

rakslice,
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Maybe Imlib2 just didn't follow the directions for libtool properly, I don't see any symbols with LTX in the loader libs

rakslice, to random
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Totally random question: what are the the specific new bylaw change requirements in https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023PREM0062-001706 actually located in?

rakslice, to random
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LB: They gradually fritter away all of the teams that actually worked on maintaining the things they made until they reach a critical point where they realize the existing business isn't going to cut on it, and then you get a kind of capabilities-free paper shufflers brigade's idea of product development

mcc, to random
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I've been told people on this website enjoy me trying to think through computer problems out loud while in incredible pain, so good news: I'm taking my new Thinkpad T14 (https://mastodon.social/@mcc/111218408629532857) out of the box and I'm going to install Linux on it first thing. So expect a LOT of complaining.

rakslice,
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@mcc I think internally in the codebase the bar with the button formerly labelled 'Activities' is called the "panel", but help docs just refer to it as the "top bar" https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-introduction.html.en

rakslice,
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@mcc And the activities overview is still activities overview. Yeah, I don't see it in the key bindings list either, its key binding must be hardcoded. if you want to invoke it with a command, suitable for putting in a custom keyboard shortcut, I think you have to send a dbus message https://askubuntu.com/a/1459422/10960

rakslice,
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@mcc okay, strictly speaking the setting is not hardcoded, it's a config setting of the mutter wm, org.gnome.mutter overlay-key, which you can set with gsettings or dconf-editor or similar https://askubuntu.com/a/850202/10960

rakslice,
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@mcc the single key names it takes appear to be standard X11 key names as used with xdotool or similar https://gitlab.com/nokun/gestures/-/wikis/xdotool-list-of-key-codes

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