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isopede commented on Nokia N900 Necromancy   yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia... · Posted by u/yaky
isopede · 9 days ago
I have such fond memories of the Nokia N810.

I did my master’s thesis on that device. I had a custom hypervisor running a guest kernel, virtualized networking, and a buildroot userspace. I could SSH into the host N810, then SSH into the guest. I even virtualized the framebuffer at some point and got the “dancing baby” animation playing from the guest. It only ran at a couple frames per second, but it was _amazing_.

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isopede commented on Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor   github.com/YaLTeR/niri... · Posted by u/atlintots
jzb · 3 months ago
I think "tried it on _what_?" is the question -- which distribution, etc.? I've been using Wayland on Fedora for years and don't have any complaints. My primary laptop/desktop has an Intel graphics chipset, but I've tested it on laptops w/NVIDIA and not had problems.
isopede · 3 months ago
It's been a few years since I last looked at it, but I've tried daily running it probably 4 or 5 times over the last 15 years. Usually on Arch, but also some Debian/Ubuntu-based distros. It's fuzzy now but I've tried probably every NVIDIA GPU generation since the GTX 500 series.

I can't remember all the bugs, but I've definitely at least encountered all flavors of flickering bugs, stale updates, GPU crashes, failed copy and paste, failed screenshares, failed videoconferences...

From comments on this thread, it sounds like things have drastically improved and its probably time to take another look.

isopede commented on Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor   github.com/YaLTeR/niri... · Posted by u/atlintots
isopede · 3 months ago
Somebody sell me on these newfangled tiling WMs. I have been using basically the same xmonad configuration for 15+ years, pretty much updating it only on breaking or deprecated changes. What do all these new Wayland compositors have to offer except "tiling, but for wayland?"

Does Wayland actually work now? I've tried it every few years for over a decade now and every time I ran into showstopper bugs (usually on nvidia cards).

isopede commented on The Therac-25 Incident (2021)   thedailywtf.com/articles/... · Posted by u/lemper
isopede · 4 months ago
I strongly believe that we will see an incident akin to Therac-25 in the near future. With as many people running YOLO mode on their agents as there are, Claude or Gemini is going to be hooked up to some real hardware that will end up killing someone.

Personally, I've found even the latest batch of agents fairly poor at embedded systems, and I shudder at the thought of giving them the keys to the kingdom to say... a radiation machine.

isopede commented on How can AI ID a cat?   quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/sonabinu
isopede · 4 months ago
Neat. Anyone know what is used to make the animations? I like the graphic design!
isopede commented on Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing   infineon.com/part/BGT60TR... · Posted by u/teleforce
therein · 5 months ago
Interesting that it happens to be the harmonic frequency of oxygen. For these power levels it is probably fine but something to keep in mind.
isopede · 5 months ago
That band is often chosen _because_ of the absorption band of oxygen. Significant attenuation at those frequencies means it limits range, allowing for higher frequency reuse and less interference over a greater area.
isopede commented on How automotive radar measures the velocity of objects   viksnewsletter.com/p/how-... · Posted by u/subbdue
dvh · a year ago
What will happen if every single car has radar? Wouldn't they interfere? You're stuck in traffic and 300 nearby cars are blasting radars all over the place?
isopede · a year ago
Interference is a real problem with FMCW radars, either maliciously in the case of electronic warfare, or accidentally in the case you mentioned, with many radars in the same space using the same frequency band. Wifi and cell phones use time division or frequency division multiplexing techniques, but radars (at least current-gen) generally do not.

There are mitigation techniques like randomization of chirp frequencies, choosing different idle times between frames, and signal processing techniques to try to detect interference and filter it out. In the general case, FMCW techniques will always have interference problems.

This is one reason amongst many others that military radars do not use FMCW but instead coded pulse compression techniques.

isopede commented on Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager   github.com/MHNightCat/sup... · Posted by u/oidar
opheliate · 2 years ago
An operating system from 2018 which is no longer maintained by its vendor? https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tara_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

I think it's somewhat unreasonable to expect software released today will necessarily work on your environment without some legwork.

isopede · 2 years ago
Is it though? I can run Windows programs from 20 years ago on my Windows machine just fine.

Issues with Linux binary distribution meanwhile are ubiquitous, with glibc probably being the single biggest offender. What's worse is that you can't even really statically link it without herculean effort. I've spent an inordinate amount of my life trying to wrangle third-party binaries on Linux libraries and it's just a sorry state of affairs.

Try taking a binary package from a vendor from even just 5 years ago and there's a non-zero chance it won't run on your modern distro.

isopede commented on Are We Modules Yet?   arewemodulesyet.org/... · Posted by u/dureuill
dlivingston · 2 years ago
What's stopping Rust from being used in embedded?
isopede · 2 years ago
Among other things, tooling and vendor libraries. Vendor libraries are often composed of thousands upon thousands of lines of auto-generated C headers and written in some bespoke format. Demonstration code and/or sample drivers are almost invariably provided in C. Of course you _can_ rewrite these in Rust, but if you're an engineer trying to get shit working, you'd first basically have to reinvent the whole wheel just to do bringup.

I don't even want to talk about the state of proprietary vendor tooling...

u/isopede

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