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richardfey commented on Print, a one-line BASIC program   10print.org... · Posted by u/NKosmatos
richardfey · 21 days ago
I tried this on all the basic interpreters available on Ubuntu (yabasic, sdlbasic, basic256 and bwbasic), couldn't get it to work on any of them.

In a couple cases the only remaining issue was the lack of a RND() function definition

richardfey commented on Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government   androidauthority.com/once... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
NL807 · 2 months ago
>Italy doesn't really care about copyright violations, unless it's soccer or if it's for profit.

I'm almost certain someone got paid off and pulled some stings. They don't do anything unless money is involved.

richardfey · 2 months ago
> They don't do anything unless money is involved.

I disagree. They could have done it to be under the spotlight and progress their career.

richardfey commented on MARS.EXE → COM (2021)   chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~wojte... · Posted by u/reconnecting
dvh · 2 months ago
Have you also tried to reach the end?
richardfey · 2 months ago
It's endless right?
richardfey commented on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web   websmith.studio/blog/astr... · Posted by u/pumbaa
richardfey · 2 months ago
Reminds me of Zola (https://www.getzola.org/), which was a step up from Hugo for me.
richardfey commented on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux   kevinboone.me/systemd_emb... · Posted by u/synergy20
bmicraft · 10 months ago

    /etc/systemd/{user,system}.conf.d/dont-wait.conf:
    [Manager]
    DefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s
There, done. That's all the timeouts you'll ever need. Go and complain to your distribution they are setting the wrong defaults, even desktop environment(s) already recommend[1] setting it to a low value.

You can stop hating on systemd now, everything you needed was in `man systemd-system.conf` all along.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommenda...

richardfey · 10 months ago
> There, done. That's all the timeouts you'll ever need. Go and complain to your distribution they are setting the wrong defaults, even desktop environment(s) already recommend[1] setting it to a low value. You can stop hating on systemd now, everything you needed was in `man systemd-system.conf` all along.

Here's another example of cultism repressing any dissent.

Let me make a bullet points list for you:

* I do not hate systemd, I have never stated that, I have been using it for possibly longer time than you and love most of it

* I am entitled to write about what I don't like, you can disagree and move on, we all need to do this exercise on a daily basis

* there are cases where systemd will change the order of dependencies during boot, that's by design because systemd works in a way that tries to achieve states. It's not really enforcing a graph with order

* in a sufficiently complex system, this constitutes a source of non-determinism and it is basically undebuggable: you see the failure, learn about the corresponding configuration, change it and hope that you did the correct change (you have no way to test this until next random occurrence)

That's all, it's based on my experience; I write plenty units on a regular basis and 99% of the times everything goes very well.

richardfey commented on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux   kevinboone.me/systemd_emb... · Posted by u/synergy20
RandomThoughts3 · 10 months ago
> it often doesn't go well

Plenty of people changes systemd configuration all the time and it just goes fine. You live in fantasy.

Even op is basically saying: “my issue with systemd is that I dislike the timeout configuration of some services but I stubbornly refuse to change these configurable timeout durations because it would show that the problem was myself and I prefer blaming systemd.”

It takes no time whatsoever to get a boot graph with each services name and starting time. That’s an actual feature documented in the manual of systemd which solves OP issue. But of course it would require actually understanding something new and everything new is bad, isn’t it?

richardfey · 10 months ago
> Plenty of people changes systemd configuration all the time and it just goes fine. You live in fantasy.

"since I have never experienced what you say, it must be fantasy"

> Even op is basically saying: “my issue with systemd is that I dislike the timeout configuration of some services but I stubbornly refuse to change these configurable timeout durations because it would show that the problem was myself and I prefer blaming systemd.”

This is a perfect example of toxicity; I have been successfully using systemd for years and I am entitled to point out what I dislike, I do not have to love everything of it, it's not a religion nor a cult. Your reply tells more about yourself than the topic of the discussion at hand.

> It takes no time whatsoever to get a boot graph with each services name and starting time. That’s an actual feature documented in the manual of systemd which solves OP issue. But of course it would require actually understanding something new and everything new is bad, isn’t it?

You're missing the point, the problem is not changing timeouts but preventing failure and achieving an overall deterministic behaviour out of your system, without ignoring failures. But I refuse further eating these baits, you seem more interested in creating some flames rather than having constructive discussions.

richardfey commented on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux   kevinboone.me/systemd_emb... · Posted by u/synergy20
AnthonyMouse · 10 months ago
> now I have to avoid that and minimise tinkering/hacking.

I think this right here hits at the crux of the issue.

There are people who like systemd because it's integration-tested with itself and its own defaults, so if you never change those defaults you don't have many problems.

Then there are people who don't like systemd because if you do have to change any of its defaults, it often doesn't go well. And, of course, the latter behavior as a box users are expected to live in is poisonous, because everyone is being conditioned to be passive and uniform.

richardfey · 10 months ago
Yes, I think your analysis is spot-on.
richardfey commented on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux   kevinboone.me/systemd_emb... · Posted by u/synergy20
acdha · 10 months ago
> My most common issues with systemd are related to those long timeouts when something at boot/shutdown is not working as intended

That’s an issue with a daemon, not systemd. Anyone who used NFS saw that routinely on SysV init during the era when Red Hat distributions shut down networking before ensuring that the network mounts were unmounted.

richardfey · 10 months ago
I regularly see it also on a system not using NFS, and it seems related to console seats. Never went to the bottom of it because it's sporadic/non-reproducible.
richardfey commented on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux   kevinboone.me/systemd_emb... · Posted by u/synergy20
richardfey · 10 months ago
I think author is missing on the Devuan-maintained udev fork.
richardfey commented on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux   kevinboone.me/systemd_emb... · Posted by u/synergy20
cedilla · 10 months ago
Okay, I'll bite.

What kind of problems do you have with the part of systemd that replicates sysvinit /every other day/?

richardfey · 10 months ago
My most common issues with systemd are related to those long timeouts when something at boot/shutdown is not working as intended, and unexplained/unexplainable changes to the order of boot of some components. For the former I have given up playing whackamole with all the timeouts you need to reconfigure, for the latter I didn't even try because I know that there's something peculiar about my setup that will never work nicely with systemd, there's simply not enough systems configured like that for upstream to care. I have accepted this new reality, but I know that before systemd I was able to fix any highly customised setup of mine, now I have to avoid that and minimise tinkering/hacking.

u/richardfey

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