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I will never be able to explain Slashdot
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 07:37 |
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srsly what kind of idiot posts on a lovely dying site from the late 90s
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 07:39 |
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i, for one, welcome the return of fuckedcompany.com
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 07:39 |
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jre posted:This will end well someone needs to go in and start unironically lobbying for them to adopt launchd
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:16 |
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Captain Foo posted:it's Darwin/mach/cocoa, op that's what makes it oh so much better than a Linux especially the Mach and the Cocoa, it's important to build on good abstractions (OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows included a "Mach daemon" to deal with the lack of great Mach-style IPC on Windows NT 4.)
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:20 |
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Suspicious Dish posted:That's like building a new website to siphon the idiots away from Slashdot. Slashdot is already the dumb headquarters. doesn't Kuro5hin still exist too?
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:22 |
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Sniep posted:i, for one, welcome the return of fuckedcompany.com you rear end in a top hat, I actually checked to see if it was back pud is too busy disrupting music distribution to bring it back
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:23 |
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the devuan mailing list archives are already just precious: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/list/dng.en.html only thread with any activity is some guy getting barked at for daring to suggest that maybe they might want to bother looking at least a little bit legit before soliciting donations etc also: lkcl sighting!!!
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:41 |
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(if you don't know who lkcl is i, uh, well. the rabbit hole's deep and i really don't want to effortpost it. let's just say that if lkcl gets himself wormed into the devuan project in a big way they are doomed to flame out in an even more entertaining fashion than they already are)
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:44 |
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pram posted:srsly what kind of idiot posts on a lovely dying site from the late 90s
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:45 |
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quote:in short: if you want to attract serious unix devs and holy poo poo this guy is retarded
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:47 |
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pram posted:holy poo poo this guy is retarded so is their target audience tho so I think he's got a point
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 11:45 |
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Place your bets for the split within the split
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 13:06 |
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Gazpacho posted:Place your bets for the split within the split https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 13:09 |
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pram posted:holy poo poo this guy is retarded the proprietary non free Linux kernel host lmao
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 15:30 |
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BobHoward posted:the devuan mailing list archives are already just precious: Impossible to read tree forum just like all linux forums good job
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 16:17 |
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Hey guys launchpad is open source why not host code there
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 18:56 |
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Because there are a total of 0 people working on it.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 19:05 |
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seems their effort to fork Debian is going the same as their effort to address init's failings all these years
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 19:11 |
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BobHoward posted:(if you don't know who lkcl is i, uh, well. the rabbit hole's deep and i really don't want to effortpost it. let's just say that if lkcl gets himself wormed into the devuan project in a big way they are doomed to flame out in an even more entertaining fashion than they already are) someone effortpost this because it sounds hilarious
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 19:29 |
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Series DD Funding posted:xmonad owns though "Hey, I'm trying out this new XMonad desktop environment. How do I configure it?" "It's not a desktop environment! it's a non-redirecting tiling window manager!" "OK, it's not a desktop environment. How do I configure it?" "You write a series of functional expressions in Haskell that evaluate to the state you want it to adopt!" "Did you just tell me to go gently caress myself?"
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 19:29 |
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xnomad: for those who want the fresh inviting feel of a bloomberg terminal
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 19:45 |
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Mr Dog posted:"Did you just tell me to go gently caress myself?"
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:11 |
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Mr Dog posted:"Hey, I'm trying out this new XMonad desktop environment. How do I configure it?" lol
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:18 |
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carry on then posted:someone effortpost this because it sounds hilarious to give you a taste, as a fresh new guy he got hired to work on samba and went off to the land of oz. however he turned out to be a terrible coder who poisoned everything he touched. he was also the kind of terrible which believes its poo poo doesn't stink, in fact it's a perfect diamond why are you trying to wreck samba by hating on me and my work, you people who actually matter to the project and want me to fix my poo poo!!! eventually he alienated the real leaders so much they revoked his cvs access and, after a few rounds of him starting flamewars, booted him from the mailing lists too. iirc the triggering event for cvs revocation was lkcl threatening to take out patents on key bits of samba and then use them to destroy the project, because he wasn't getting his way he tried to fork the project but his fork petered out and went nowhere (because it was actually being run by lkcl) i assume that ever since then he's been persona non grata in any reasonably large project, but he's got a knack for appearing to be competent so he's been able to infect minor projects on the periphery now and then his current obsession is open source hardware, taken to stallman levels of open source purity. he's got this idea that what the world wants is computers-inna-pcmcia-card (google eoma-68) so that you can swap your cpu/dram/flash module between notebook, tablet, and desktop shells, and he's just the man to do it. see the arm-netbook archives for the most recent debacle, i especially recommend may/june 2014 and the interactions with aaron j. seigo the problem with digging too deep on this guy is that it becomes because you realize that, mixed in with funny dunning-kruger arrogance, he's almost certainly got untreated mental health problems of the kind which keep him from seeking effective help
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:26 |
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BobHoward posted:to give you a taste, as a fresh new guy he got hired to work on samba and went off to the land of oz. however he turned out to be a terrible coder who poisoned everything he touched. he was also the kind of terrible which believes its poo poo doesn't stink, in fact it's a perfect diamond why are you trying to wreck samba by hating on me and my work, you people who actually matter to the project and want me to fix my poo poo!!! ah yes, the "if you won't let me blow holes in the hull i swear i'll sink the ship" kind
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:28 |
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BobHoward posted:his current obsession is open source hardware, taken to stallman levels of open source purity. you mean free software purity
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:34 |
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bobhoward has found the angriest man in the world http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2013-October/008979.html quote:
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:38 |
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quote:* LSPI. good. don't know what it's for, looks connected to quite a
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:40 |
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quote:Hi, I am Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, i very rarely touch a shift key, i use my full name deliberately to avoid the american-biased search engine algorithms something along the lines of "oo look it's three words therefore it must be a name let's apply some brain-dead conventions to it".
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:47 |
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lmao
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:49 |
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quote:i very rarely touch a shift key
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:51 |
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i actually think EOMA-68 looks like a cool idea and apart from the Linus-ism about smoking crack that seems like a decently researched technical criticism of Quark (and I mean nobody knows what the gently caress that thing is for, the SemiAccurate guy sure as poo poo doesn't either) in a community with people like esr and rms and a lot of the bsd people in it i'm not seeing anything that's blipping my Untreated Mental Illness gauge, though the thing about flinging his own poo everywhere on the Samba project is news to me. e: can i get an estimate of his untreated mental illness-ness in milli-Reisers? Sapozhnik fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Nov 29, 2014 |
# ? Nov 29, 2014 21:51 |
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I've spent a lot of time with Exynos, Allwinner, Freescale, MediaTek, Rockchip and Amlogic SoCs for work. They are garbage and you shouldn't study them.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 22:26 |
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So what's a good SoC that can boot a mainline Linux kernel w/ device tree support? Genuinely curious, gonna ship out some OLinuxino-based thing that has to connect to the internet and communicate using an FTDI USB-to-RS422 cable pretty soon for work.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 22:32 |
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I'm glad he put that sentence at the bottom of his web site saying that it lays out perfectly at any width because otherwise I might notice that the rest of the page is jumbled and useless when viewed with an iphone
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 22:37 |
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Mr Dog posted:So what's a good SoC that can boot a mainline Linux kernel w/ device tree support? Exynos and Snapdragon work with mainline tree.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 22:40 |
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Mr Dog posted:i actually think EOMA-68 looks like a cool idea it's.... really not, but if you aren't a hardware engineer you might be tempted into thinking it is in ultra low cost systems (what he's targeting) adding a relatively expensive connector pair and a second board is a non-starter. lkcl super believes the better mousetrap is giving chinese consumers the ability to upgrade a lovely bottom feeder tablet from allwinner a10 to allwinner a20, but if that upgradability means the costs of the first generation product are substantially higher (it will) you're never going to sell enough of the first generation against cheaper, more highly integrated competitors generally speaking there's this fallacious geek belief system that if only the sheeple would wake up they'd realize how amazingly cool hyper-modularity is. (see also phonebloks.) but the entire history of electronics shows that the market prefers integration. integration improves the product (smaller, less power, more reliable) and reduces costs at the same time. even specialized narrow markets prefer integration, where they can get it. the worst way in which eoma-68 sucks is that if you want a genericized cpu card intended to slot into systems which provide the i/o, modern arm phone/tablet SoCs are a bad match precisely because they're a system on a chip. all i/o is integrated and there are seldom real backplane bus connections (pcie) which you could use to sensibly push i/o off the chip and then across the eoma-68 connector. so eoma-68 has to use the 68 pin connector for i/o rather than backplane, and because lkcl-the-system-engineer is obsessed with lovely allwinner socs, it's specified around least common denominator allwinner soc i/o. this has led to terrible decisions like burning a huge number of the precious pins on the ancient, going out of style parallel LVDS LCD interface (still popular in poo poo low end garbage). even if you disagree with me that the idea of eoma-68 is bad, i can assure you the execution is terrifuckingbad quote:and apart from the Linus-ism about smoking crack that seems like a decently researched technical criticism of Quark (and I mean nobody knows what the gently caress that thing is for, the SemiAccurate guy sure as poo poo doesn't either) those are some reasonable criticisms if you believe that lkcl's needs are what quark is intended to fill. when you read that, realize that lots of his critiques are "it doesn't match what i want for something to go into an eoma-68 card". what i learned while employed at a (small) fabless semi co designing SoCs was that good projects are very much about talking to customers and building something which suits needs for specific products that have a relatively concrete future. trying to be everything to everybody is not so good, you won't be focused and you will probably miss the market. (being late is deadly in the chip industry, much more so than software.) intel is a giant company and sometimes they do things which might well be make-work projects for groups they want to keep in house. in some ways quark appears like it might be such a thing, but who knows, maybe quark's i/o mix is exactly what some identified customer needs. the problem with lkcl and semiaccurate is that they have a very myopic understanding of how the chip industry actually works, and assume that if they can't identify what a thing is for it must therefore be impossible to explain. (not that i'm super knowledgeable but i know enough to see the limitations in their pov) quote:in a community with people like esr and rms and a lot of the bsd people in it i'm not seeing anything that's blipping my Untreated Mental Illness gauge, though the thing about flinging his own poo everywhere on the Samba project is news to me. i haven't gone back and dug into the samba archives but i seem to recall serious insistent claims of a cia conspiracy to defeat open sores by striking down lkcl
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 23:07 |
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yosproject: convince lkcl and xah lee to collaborate on and submit a kernel patch
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 23:35 |
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Mr Dog posted:e: can i get an estimate of his untreated mental illness-ness in milli-Reisers? shouldn't we use a multi-dimensional system with separate axes for Hans Reiser, Andre Hedrick, and Jeff Garzik?
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