nesarkvechnep (u/nesarkvechnep)

nesarkvechnep commented on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support lists.linuxfromscratch.or... · Posted by u/cf100clunk

ptx · 7 days ago

> the thing you were running was generally expected to do the double-fork hack itself and otherwise do 'well behaved daemon' things

FreeBSD has a general utility that does this for you, daemon(8): https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon&sektion=8

nesarkvechnep · 7 days ago

I also use it every time I need a service which should be restarted on crash. It's a very handy utility.

nesarkvechnep commented on Zig Libc ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#... · Posted by u/ingve

nesarkvechnep · 8 days ago

"Furthermore, when this work is combined with the recent std.Io changes, there is potential for users to seamlessly control how libc performs I/O - for example forcing all calls to read and write to participate in an io_uring event loop"

This is exciting! I particularly care more about kqueue but I guess the quote applies to it too.

nesarkvechnep commented on My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml anil.recoil.org/notes/oxc... · Posted by u/noelwelsh

pkal · 8 days ago

I recently realized that "pure functional" has two meanings, one is no side-effects (functional programmers, especially of languages like Haskell use it this way) and the other is that it doesn't have imperative fragments (the jump ISWIM to SASL dropped the non-functional parts inherited from ALGOL 60). A question seems to be whether you want to view sequencing as syntax sugar for lambda expressions or not?

nesarkvechnep · 8 days ago

Pure functional doesn't mean no side effects but controlled side effects.

nesarkvechnep commented on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2... · Posted by u/yannick2k

throw567643u8 · 9 days ago

I watched at home and drank Belgian beer in the afternoon.

nesarkvechnep · 9 days ago

I hope you didn't get a hangover. They have great tasting beers but put too much sugar in them.

nesarkvechnep commented on The browser is the sandbox aifoc.us/the-browser-is-t... · Posted by u/enos_feedler

nextaccountic · 15 days ago

Unix permissions were written at a time where the (multi user) system was protecting itself from the user. Every program ran at the same privileges of the user, because it wasn't a security consideration that maybe the program doesn't do what the user thinks it does. That's why in the list of classic Unix tools there is nothing to sandbox programs or anything like that, it was a non issue

And today this is.. not sufficient. What we require today is to run software protected from each other. For quite some time I tried to use Unix permissions for this (one user per application I run), but it's totally unworkable. You need a capabilities model, not an user permission model

Anyway I already linked this elsewhere in this thread but in this comment it's a better fit https://xkcd.com/1200/

nesarkvechnep · 15 days ago

There's FreeBSD's Capsicum. It's a full-blown sandboxing mode and capability framework. Unfortunately, Linux didn't adopt it and chose chaos.

nesarkvechnep commented on Booting from a vinyl record (2020) boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vin... · Posted by u/yesturi

lucideer · 18 days ago

One of the most "real" features of vinyl records that I never really internalised until I started buying a few is that you can take a record out of its sleeve & look at the grooves to see how many tracks is on each side & how long each of the tracks is. You can also "skip" to tracks when playing (much better than tapes ever could) using this same method.

nesarkvechnep · 18 days ago

Early Hip Hop DJs used this exact property to go straight to the drum break and not waste time waiting for it.

nesarkvechnep commented on The Gleam Programming Language gleam.run/... · Posted by u/Alupis

krainboltgreene · a month ago

IMHO this is an education problem.

nesarkvechnep · a month ago

Problem which plagues 90% of the people? How to overcome it?

nesarkvechnep commented on The Gleam Programming Language gleam.run/... · Posted by u/Alupis

pkos98 · a month ago

Well, for the specific example I gave (JSON serialization), you certainly do care whether Jason.Encoder is implemented for a struct.

nesarkvechnep · a month ago

Yes, I just ranted, sorry. I share your view about Gleam.

nesarkvechnep commented on The Gleam Programming Language gleam.run/... · Posted by u/Alupis

pkos98 · a month ago

Coming from Elixir, I gave Gleam a try for a couple of days over the holidays. Reasons I decided not to pursue:

- No ad-hoc polymorphism (apart from function overloading IIRC) means no standard way of defining how things work. There are not many conventions yet in place so you won’t know if your library supports eg JSON deserialization for its types

- Coupled with a lack of macros, this means you have to implement even most basic functionality like JSON (de)serialization yourself - even for stdlib and most popular libs’ structs

- When looking on how to access the file system, I learned the stdlib does not provide fs access as the API couldn’t be shared between the JS and Erlang targets. The most popular fs package for erlang target didn’t look of high quality at all. Something so basic and important.

- This made me realise that in contrast to elixir which not only runs on the BEAM („Erlang“) but also runs with seamless Erlang interop, Gleam doesn’t have access to most of the Erlang / Elixir ecosystem out of the box.

There are many things I liked, like the algebraic data types, the Result and Option types, pattern matching with destructuring. Which made me realize what I really want is Rust. My ways lead to Rust, I guess.

nesarkvechnep · a month ago

I’ve been doing Elixir for 9 years, 5 professionally. Nobody cares about ad-hoc polymorphism. The community doesn’t use protocols except “for data”. Whatever that means. Global singleton processes everywhere. I’m really discouraged by the practices I observe but it’s the most enjoyable language for me still.

nesarkvechnep commented on The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study d12frosted.io/posts/2025-... · Posted by u/whacked_new

nesarkvechnep · a month ago

Argh, a few screenshots would’ve been nice. There’s none to be found in vui.el’s repository.