find something you don't like about linux and try to track down where that thing is to fix it
And to track that down, use https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source to ealisy browse between kernel version, functions, etc..
Readit Newsdeaddabe commented on Ask HN: I'd like to start reading the Linux source code. Where should I start? · Posted by u/markchristian
deaddabe commented on HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/miles
I heard Brother is following the same dark pattern.
Is the company aware of why they’re so loved/respected these days?
Do you have a source or a link? From my experience Brother is the best brand of printers that I have worked with (monochrome, laser).
deaddabe commented on Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd github.com/Xfennec/progre... · Posted by u/jxi
I use it constantly. My company's products are flashed using an sd card and to create it I dd into and from the sd card several times a week
I feel that dd is never the correct tool to write to SD cards. At least cp can figure out the block size itself. Or the more elaborated bmaptool can even skip empty blocks which are often found in disk images.
Link should be https://www.hetzner.com/news/arm64-cloud explaining the offer.
I live near a major university that has as many as 4 fablabs listed. All of them is reserved to students. If you are an outside "thinkerer", you need to pay something like 400€/month to show up and use a soldering iron. Sometimes there is only a "contact us" form where you can ask for a quote! These efforts are completly sterile. Students have free access, but nobody from the outside world of the university to learn from.
I had access to a local hackerspace during my studies that was 100% run by volonteers, without any university involvment. It was glorious. I sat next to software and hardware professional doing amazing projects on their free time.
I guess I still have to tinker on my own instead of sharing it with people eager to learn in a common space. I think that somehow big universities actually prevent such spaces from emerging by creating their own sterile initiatives.
deaddabe commented on Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers hetzner.com/_ray/pow... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
They had some problems about 10-15 years ago (hardware, network). The fire some time ago wasn’t cool either
Which fire? Are you not confusing with OVH SGB2 fire in 2021?
deaddabe commented on Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM jabber.org/notices.html... · Posted by u/neustradamus
Prosody (server) and Monal (iOS client) make a great combination. I'm not aware of anything for Android that's as elegant as Monal but I'd be happy to hear people's suggestions.
Conversations [1] is the best Android XMPP client I know. IIRC they pushed the adoption of OMEMO and implemented it first, before the desktop clients could catch up.
deaddabe commented on Faster than the filesystem (2021) sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.h... · Posted by u/madmax108
deaddabe commented on Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC floppy.museum/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
what title on top. The address for stats is:
http://floppy.museum/status.htm
am I missing something here, a counter is a counter. Unless the site is cached with a CDN which is... a CDN in front of an sx286 PC.
Could do the same thing with a VIC20, or an AM crystal radio for that matter.
The other counters on the page are updating after each refresh. I think only the ICMP counter is broken. The IP address points to a Norway provider. I do not think there is a CDN, elsewise the counters would be frozen.
Obviously programming in C wasn't your only favorite pastime.