Posts by Grogan 555 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Sep 2012
ALSA support never left, mozilla just stopped enabling it in their distributed binaries. I always enable it in my builds, because I run them on multiple Linux systems (some are ALSA only)
Arch Linux enables ALSA in their builds, other distributors probably do too. It depends on where you got your binaries.
Listen to that posturing... really, he's got his shit in a knot over "pocket"? I've never cared much for this person's opinions. He's either preaching to the choir or full of shit.
I have many advantageous reasons for using Firefox. Not the least of which is a good build system that you don't have to be in the inner circle to use and understand (I get that most of you wouldn't think of things like that). Control over what sites get to stick in my face is another, the extension interface allows manipulation of streams etc. Also, they maintain it so they don't break the APIs and older extensions can still be updated if they break... while Google deliberately dumbed theirs down so people can't override sites and browser behaviour.
At this point I trust the Chinese more than the Americans... and companies like Google and meta faecesbook. China doesn't give a fuck what I do. America, on the other hand, likes to probe everyone's anus. Right now I distrust any American company, because Donald and his ilk exert control over them.
Indeed, once people realize that the chaos and consequences are part of the plan, both domestically and internationally, it gets easier to understand with less incredulity. The Orange Ignoranus and his annointed advisors that have his ear, aren't as stupid as they are evil.
Foolish dynamic linking and inherited dependencies. That has always bugged my ass about pulseaudio, libpulse becomes a dependency for things that don't even have anything to do with audio because they link against things that link against libpulse. Now you need both pulseaudio and pipewire libraries for package dependencies on typical distributions.
The stock frequency listed is one thing, but the frequency reported in your OS will vary with power management governors, usage conditions with "turboboost" and of course user settings in BIOS etc.
Say what you want about Windows (hatred!), but this is just people not understanding how things work. My 5.2 GHz processor cores are reporting "800 MHz" in my OS right now. If I start a compile job they'll ramp up to maximum because I have overridden turboboost ratios.
Umm, read your EULA? You chose to use that stupid security software. (that's how it works)
Any time you install filter drivers you run that risk. Norton, McAfee (how many times have I had to spend HOURS hunting and poking to manually remove broken McNorton shit from customer PCs in the 2000's when I was doing that... it was more difficult to remove than most of the malware)
What about Microsoft, when they issue an update that blue screens your computers, you going to sue them too? They'll point you at your EULA.
I was in a very similar boat. I thought to get with modern times and bought a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse set. The keyboard was killing me, I was backspacing more typos than typing words and it was causing me problems with my hands.
I went back to my old keyboard on a PS/2 to USB converter dongle despite the occasional latency or glitch, like keypresses not registering with lights blinking instead (it's rare enough that it gaslights me into thinking I mis-pressed or fumbled)
That IBM keyboard shown is exactly the keyboard I have, one of the first PS/2 keyboards from 1986. Pry it from my stiff, dead fingers now that the strain caused by that stupid Logitech keyboard has healed up.
The Trump administration is pissed that China derailed and de-monetized their AI cooperative, and released it under a MIT license very soon after the announcement lol
Zuckerfucker was so pissed that he lost billions, that Meta tried to ban Linux discussion groups until outrage caused them to back-pedal it as a mistake, even after telling the complainant that the ban was going to stay, and subsequently silencing him.
To blazes with the lot of them. Schadenfreude is one of the few pleasures left in this life because of these pricks.
Exactly... these are just a bunch of jumped up, small minded prigs in here. Low intellect, authority whipped tools. I said something similar. that one should be able to use AI to find sources of information, but then those sources need to be credited and footnoted like any other. They wouldn't have even known.
I find research papers using search engines. One could also use AI themselves to find information on the Internet.
Some years ago, a friend/colleague that ran a computer shop became a reseller for an ISP, and their highest tier at the time had a 300 Gb monthly limit. I said no way, I'm not putting up with bandwidth limits and overage charges. He chided me that it was an insanely generous limit, nobody should be using that much.
Firstly, I pointed out that I'd use that up in a week purchasing games on Steam and downloading shows (again, "you shouldn't be doing that!"). Secondly, I pointed out that it had the potential to cost me thousands of dollars a month in overage fees if some process used excess bandwidth for a long period of time. Thirdly, if they are going to be charging for data, then they'd best make sure it's a clean connection that doesn't result in packet retransmission, as well as network noise like packets not legitimately destined for my node.
That ISP soon dropped that idea because it was an outdated way of doing things (their words, or similar). They now offer services from 50 megabit/s to 2.5 gigabit/s speeds (depending on where you live) with no data caps.
Indeed! Vivian Stanshall was my immediate thought, mostly because it's the first masculine usage of the name that I had encountered (in Canada here I've only seen it a girl's name).
"... all the beautiful people..." heheh
Another one I love is the "11 mustachioed daughters" (with his own named band "Vivian Stanshall's Big Grunt")
Exact detail escapes me, but it was early to mid 2000's. My school teacher sister used Office 2000's PowerPoint to make a presentation and generated a 900+ Mb file. She was telling me that most of her colleagues were complaining that they couldn't open it, it was freezing their computers. I was all "hmm" until I saw the file she gave them. She could open it (made her Pentium-D with 512M RAM computer sluggish with pagefile use) but other people had older PCs. They were bitmap images... Microsoft's garbage generators, in the wrong hands, will happily let you do things like that.
It's a checkbox right there in Privacy and Security in the main Settings interface.
"Website Advertising Preferences
Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement
This helps sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about you. Learn more"
That's what I have (according to lspci) in my Xeon based server, I was surprised to see the onboard graphics as Matrox G200. I used to buy those for Windows 98 and 2000 back in the day, they were great desktop cards. Nowadays, at least at the datacenter I use, those servers don't ever get a display hooked up. They are provisioned remotely through a web interface (choose from serveral linux images) and if you lose control of it, remote KVM console (through IPMI interface).
Python 3.7 to python 3.8... removal of nullptr broke a lot of shit. That's one example that came to mind (because it affected applications I needed to use... had to build LibreOffice with its own python interpreter)
Also, regardless of compatibility, any x.x.y upgrade is going to break all your modules anyway.
I don't care for those "ergonomic" keyboards either, always found them awkward.
I can't even find a keyboard that I really like. For decades, on my main rigs. I'd been using a big old IBM clickety clack keyboard from 1986, one of the first PS/2 keyboards. I first tried to use it on my new rig (no PS/2 on this board) with an i/o converter dongle, but it proved gimmicky. Sometimes latency, sometimes even missed keystrokes and one or more of the keyboard lights would blink (caps lock, numlock, scroll lock). I still have it on an older rig but I seldom sit at that one anymore (use it headless mostly now).
So waaaah is me, I can't get used to anything. It's been several months too and I still have to backspace and correct a lot of rtoubg (typing lol). I don't look at my fingers when I type and I'm forever disoriented. I've since tried a mechanical keyboard, gaming keyboards and finally settled on this plain jane logitech keyboard/mouse combo because I needed a new mouse at that time anyway. The less shit in the USB ports the better, too.
Good documentation has quick reference pages, and more detailed chapters/sections and/or common examples that follow :-)
I find some man pages awful for that reason, the synopsis alone is too silly like "foo [options] [arguments]" but then you have to wade through prosy stuff to try to understand how to actually use the program.
Yes, you have to compile with/against older GNU if you want to distribute binaries that everyone can run. The libraries are good at providing backwards compatibility, but they have symbols to prevent loading them in the opposite case.
At this time it's that, not deliberately choosing to "drop support" for older userspace.
Back in the day, we used to mock MSKB articles with Solution: Don't do that :-)
(Not as bluntly, but some of them were basically saying just that)
There was a MSKB article for just about everything back in the late 90's. I had so many of them in my bookmarks I decided I needed a search engine for my bookmarks. That was when I made Netcape's home page "bookmarks.htm" and used the find text function. (Netscape 4.x, because it was really the only fully functional browser on Linux back then)
Those Anthropic "Claude" bots are intrusive, they ignore robots.txt directives (most bots except legitimate search engines do), and abusive. I started noticing them back in May, hammering the shit out of my web forum and photo gallery. We're talking like 400 to 500 simultaneous bots all coming from different IP networks within Amazon's cloud.
If AWS is going to allow that kind of tomfoolery to take place on their network, fuck em. I have blocked every single CIDR block used by AWS with kernel rules. We're talking /9, /10, /12 bit subnets etc., millions of IP addresses. I don't have to care about that, for there are no internet clients (butts in chairs with web browsers) in there. I've been thinking of dropping the rules to see if they were still a problem, but... nah. AWS can stay blocked.
It's no joke, I like to allow large publicly viewable attachments and gallery posts for my members, and these asshole bots rack up tens of thousands of downloads.
It's not even that I mind the content being scraped, it's the bloody abuse.
It could be a brilliant post, with insight from a seasoned IT veteran from days of old, and it will get downvotes here. Petty, judgemental people that think they have a little power... and don't like anybody smarter than they are.
Some of them may be deserved, including for myself, but it's a piss off that there are people that sit here and go "nope, nope, nope"
I used to have a few youtube videos. Nothing much, just some game captures of funny things. A few thousand views and a few comments etc. I deliberately didn't choose to monetize them, I don't like ads and I wouldn't subject other people to them on my behalf (not a single one on my web site and forum etc. No sponsors, no affiliate links, no begging for money... I just don't do that shit).
First, I don't know why, but one of my videos got flagged for copyright. Google then put ads on it. I was annoyed, but not murderously pissed yet.
Then another got flagged for adult content. Cartoon nudity, because I showed some naked corpses because I had this skyrim nudity mod. They made it 18 only and, you guessed it, stuck ads on it.
That was it. I deleted everything I had on youtube. If I want to post a video I'll just host it on my own fucking web server. I have a shit tonne of monthly bandwidth.
I use a mail program (Sylpheed... pry it from my stiff, dead, fingers) that strips out most of the crap in html messages and gives you plain text, or a html alternative with hyperlink text and stuff. If you really need the original message, it's still there in the encoding, it can be saved as a file (or view message source). Between all that, there has never been a message I couldn't deal with (I've been using this since 2001)
I don't like html emails.
Hey you downvoting simpletons... we have rent control in Canada, and I like it. Rent increases are controlled. Municipalities also regulate by not rezoning property so people can just build more expensive apartments and condos when they aren't what's needed, to encourage affordable rentals. You high school civics parrots would change your tune when it's you that can't find a place to live. So fuck you.
They should have surreptitiously stuck them with a tiny pellet of Polonium before releasing them, so they'd rot and die within a few weeks of getting home. In other words, "out Putin" Vladimir Putin.
I wouldn't seriously want them to do that, but because these are computer criminals, releasing them to Putin does have consequences (v.s. some other type of criminal that is never going to be in the U.S. again)
I detest those fucking things. I teach people to HOVER over links before clicking and those URL obfuscating services make a mockery of it.
Probably the most ominous thing about them is, neither you nor whatever site or service you posted the link on, have control over what that link may redirect to in the future.
I don't care about the red underlining type spell check where you can take action to correct it, if I choose not to ignore it. That can only be helpful even if it doesn't have an entire language with all its made up words and vernacular in its dictionaries.
What I hate is spell checking that I have to fight against, that automatically corrects deliberately misspelled words (or auto-completes). I have to turn all that bollocks off on my phone.
I'd have to say that would be pretty useless to me in a plain text editor, though. Every sequence of characters separated by spaces would likely be underlined in the type of file I'd be editing with Notepad on Windows. (script, .inf, .ini type configuration files etc.)
This doesn't apply to ride sharing, as you need the infrastructure, but if you're going to do gig work, try to get your own gigs. I can't stand these middle men that take your money and lock you in with non-hire policies for the companies they send you to. I refuse to be controlled like that.
These agencies exist BECAUSE of and only because of, your work. They do nothing. Fucking parasites.
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