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gabrielesvelto

@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org

Old school nerd.
Knows things about computers that would drive you insane.
Hacks on Firefox at Mozilla.

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mastomememakers, to scifi
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science?! lets be honest ...

gabrielesvelto,
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@mastomememakers close but not quite: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/

gabrielesvelto,
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@mastomememakers that one is totally accurate

gabrielesvelto, to linux
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I've updated my tutorial on how to monitor memory on to include information about the kernel_lockdown LSM, and how to make it work when it's enabled.

Long story short, you can still monitor corrected & uncorrected memory errors with kernel lock-down enabled, but only using integrity mode. rasdaemon is incompatible with kernel lock-down confidentiality mode, as it deliberately hides kernel information from userspace applications.

https://www.setphaserstostun.org/posts/monitoring-ecc-memory-on-linux-with-rasdaemon/

gabrielesvelto,
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@rgacogne yep, thanks, I'll fix it later

csepp, to demoscene

Following the tag is quite nice except for all the AI art crap. :)

gabrielesvelto,
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@csepp you can use a keyword filter to get rid of the AI crap. Most stuff is tagged with #aiart so filtering that out will get rid of the junk

mhoye, to random
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"...when examining only those who passed the [bar] exam (i.e. licensed or license-pending attorneys), GPT-4’s performance is estimated to drop to 48th percentile overall, and 15th percentile on essays."

So, yeah.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-024-09396-9#Sec11

gabrielesvelto,
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@mhoye this calls for a meta-study about who lies more about their products between Elon and Sam

dotstdy, to random
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The Firefox mobile app is really not good :(

gabrielesvelto,
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@dotstdy @DenJohn does the interface still respond but the page remains white and it doesn't load new pages no matter what you do? Sounds like a but I've also encountered: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892395

gabrielesvelto,
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@dotstdy @DenJohn could you grab the logcat when it happens? That'd be a good way to figure out if it's the same issue

gabrielesvelto, to random
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I'm gonna say it: I'm really, really grateful to our QA people. Testing stuff over and over and over is not fun, but it's crucially important. There's so many things that can't be caught by automated tests. There's no replacement for a user manually interacting with your software.

gabrielesvelto,
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@usul @mte90 also stuff related to localization and accessibility

noelreports, to random
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Russian Air Force affiliated channel Fighterbomber commented on the attack on Belbek Air Base.

"There is no point in writing anything about Belbek.
Both the Ukrainians and us are lying. As usual. But the "truth" won't change anything. We need to learn. To the wounded recover, to the dead eternal memory."

gabrielesvelto,
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@noelreports 😂

davidho, to random
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Explain to me like I'm 10 years old: Is the Biden tariffs on electric vehicles, batteries, and solar panels coming from China motivated 100% by politics (and maybe racism), or is there some other (more legit) reason to do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PEcRiZPdvY

gabrielesvelto,
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@davidho anything that makes cars more expensive is a net positive for humanity, regardless of the motivation

gabrielesvelto, (edited ) to rust
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If you're doing a lot of work in C/C++/Rust consider using sccache to cache compilations. It's easy to set up and will save you a lot of time and a huge amount of power.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache

As an example this is just a couple of hours of work on Firefox, it saved me from re-running the compiler almost 90% of the time.

gabrielesvelto,
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@shram86 this is a generic tool that works with all mainstream compilers and requires just a few lines of global configuration. After that it works completely transparently

mhoye, to random
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Random linux question: Is there way to tie a keystroke directly to an action in a console? Not in a terminal emulator, mind you. I mean, I'm not running X or Wayland anything, the console.

I'm thinking of volume keys, etc.

gabrielesvelto,
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@mhoye you can create a custom keymap and bind commands to the keys you care about. The Arch wiki has some examples on how to do it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration#Creating_a_custom_keymap

gabrielesvelto, to random
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The shocking realization that - in spite of the way it objectifies its characters and the heaps of fanservice it contains - #BubbleGumCrisis passes the Bechdel test.

gabrielesvelto, to random
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I love our users: I went over two bugs, one in Thunderbird where the user was trying to drag 5k contacts to the "To" field of a new email and the other in Firefox with the user trying to upload 100k files in one go to GDrive.

While these are extreme cases they should work. If we can handle them gracefully we can handle anything, so we should strive to make these cases work.

gabrielesvelto,
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@azonenberg there's a fine line between a scaling issue and a DDOS attack ;-)

Ryan, to gentoo
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Well life wasn't hard enough so I decided to daily drive #gentoo with #openrc and #hyprland. Let's see how it goes over the next two weeks

#linux

gabrielesvelto,
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@Ryan for running a dekstop system OpenRC requires a bit more configuration than a systemd install, but it's usable and shouldn't pose too many issues

gabrielesvelto, to demoscene
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hub, to random
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Drive through a detour that lead to residential street with a 30 speed limit. Have douche moron be impatient because you are at the speed limit.

Fuck drivers.

gabrielesvelto,
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@hub yeah, fuck them, especially those who get nervous because you're respecting the law

mhoye, to random
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TIL: 'zerofree' finds the unallocated, blocks with non-zero value content in an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem [...] and fills them with zeros.

gabrielesvelto, (edited )
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@mhoye it's particularly useful when you're making a raw image of the partition with ddrescue and compressing it

a1ke, to ps1graphics
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Here's another older #ps1 style #animation spruced up with polygon wobble and an extra layer of crunch

Low poly animation of a blue-haired girl in a drab sci-fi environment being interviewed by someone out of frame. The audio is taken from a Comedy Central skit featuring Hailee Steinfeld and Joshua Horowitz. The transcript is as follows: Voice: "Standard questions for you here-" Mynn: "Sure." Voice: "-these would be the usual ones we run by everyone: Have your parents ever been violently murdered in front of you?"

gabrielesvelto,
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@a1ke beautiful rendering, it really captures the aesthetic of the period

eniko, to random
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every year i find myself paying closer attention to the weather than the last. wonder what could be causing that. some kind of change in climate, maybe? nah. that couldn't possibly be it

gabrielesvelto,
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@eniko the world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Rings. etc...

gabrielesvelto,
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@eniko cue Gandalf going "War has already begun" which is very appropriate whether you're thinking of climate change or actual violence in the world

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