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usr1106 commented on Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor   git.vuxu.org/nitro/about/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
usr1106 · a day ago
I wrote my own init system in C from scratch some 13 years ago. It was more work than anticipated by myself and the manager who approved it. It served the purpose to bring up a Linux GUI and some backend for it on not so capable hardware in n seconds (don't remember n, but it was impressive).

It was a nice programming exercise. Wouldn't be suprised if even back then something like that already existed and the whole effort just demonstrated a lack of insight of what is readily available.

Probably the code still exists on some backup I should not have. Have not looked back and don't know... The company who owned the rights has gone out of business.

Edit: After typing this it came to my mind a colleague of mine wrote yet another init in the same company. Mine had no dependencies except libc and not many features. The new one was built around libevent, probably a bit more advanced.

usr1106 commented on The use of LLM assistants for kernel development   lwn.net/Articles/1032612/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
vhantz · 2 days ago
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usr1106 · 2 days ago
What about: Could you please give us links to patches before and after or any other details

(has already happened, just commenting on the comment style)

usr1106 commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org   giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
nine_k · 2 days ago
Back it up to S3 glacier, or to Backblaze. The cost of it is pretty low, much lower than a VPS / bare metal box + 1 TB cost for the photo app hosting.
usr1106 · 2 days ago
Technically I have no big doubts about S3 Glacier.

But what happens if you don't use that stuff for a long time. You are in hospital when the bill needs to get paid. Your credit card gets stolen and the number needs to changed. Whatever personal crisis that you are not able to take care of life as usual for some weeks. They will just delete your data before you are back in business.

Does anyone know how long it takes, how many warning mails will come? I have very little data in AWS, but I more or less constantly feeling it might happen to me. Maybe not because of such big crisis, but just the simple fact that my bank will reject the automatic payment requiring a PSD2 second factor and I miss the email...

usr1106 commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers   pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
usr1106 · 5 days ago
How does their auditing even work? Auditing should happen at kernel level, I sure hope they don't have Copilot in their kernel. So how can any access go unaudited?

Well, the article did not say whether the unaudited access was possible in the opposite order after boot. First ask without reference and get it without audit log. Then ask without any limitation and get an audit log entry.

Did Copilot just keep a buffer/copy/context of what it had before in the sequence described. I guess that would go without log entry for any program. So what did MS change or fix? Producing extra audit log entries from user space?

usr1106 commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
Aachen · 7 days ago
Do we know if Anubis is unwilling to fix that, or if they've just not opened a bug report yet?
usr1106 · 5 days ago
No problem for x. Not for y either.

Why would anybody open a bug report?

(Even/odd confusion of number of negations maybe:) )

I guess it became clear from other comments that disabling JavaScript causes the problem. An experimental fix exists for that.

usr1106 commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
timeon · 8 days ago
> non-Big Browser

Surprisingly there was no problem for me with Servo and Links. Which browsers are not working?

usr1106 · 8 days ago
Not for Sailfish's not so up to date Firefox either.
usr1106 commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
nine_k · 8 days ago
Typos may be quite impactful, don't discount them.

My only contribution to node-grpc fixed missing quotes, but only because that produced real crashes.

usr1106 · 8 days ago
In my previous work we were strict about typos, whitespace and general consistency in reviews. And even fixed them later if they slipped through. I found it a bit ridicolous a times.

In my current company nobody cares. It can be seen in the whole code quality. Full of smaller and bigger bugs as well as horrible hacks. It can be seen whether coders look twice or more at their own stuff before putting it to review or not, just trying to avoid ridicolous comments. It's a whole attitude. I write good code in a messy source base is unlikely to work in practice.

That said, I have submitted cleanup commits to open source projects only in the same MR with a real code change I wanted to make and only in vincinity of that change.

usr1106 commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
elric · 8 days ago
It's interesting (and a little sad) how all git "forges" (for want of a better word) converge on the same layout. An alphabetical list of files, when they were last modified, and an expanded readme file.

IMO a list of recent commits would be more useful as a landing page, or maybe even just the readme. When checking out a new project, I'm interested in what it does, not in its folder structure when its LICENSE.md was last modified.

usr1106 · 8 days ago
Pick one of the open source forges that takes MRs (not using the giant's terminology, hardly ever calling git pull either...) and contribute your ideas.

That said, it's a bit like QWERTY. Maybe a bit weird, but it eases quick orientation on a new keyboard or repo if everyone uses the same layout.

usr1106 commented on Crossplane 2.0   blog.crossplane.io/announ... · Posted by u/akhayam
usr1106 · 9 days ago
3 points, 0 comments? Does anybody still use Crossplane?
usr1106 commented on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]   cnn.com/2025/08/12/busine... · Posted by u/mastry
usr1106 · 11 days ago
Visited one of the biggest computer, electronics, and household appliance shop in the country (in Europe) last week. Was surprised that they actually had chemical films on the shelf. Not a big variety, and only limited numbers. Only one brand: Kodak.

Myself I shot slides from 1977 to 2001. Was not a big fan of Kodakchrome colors, preferred Fujichrome. And they were also cheaper, relevant for a student budget. After working with one of the first camera phones I have not bought any roll of film, even if in hindsight 100 KB VGA pictures were somewhat limiting... Now I mostly avoid taking photos because I won't have enough time in my life to keep them organized and watch them...

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