khm

computer nerd at a national lab.

I help out with 9front sometimes.

when I see nazis, conspiracy wingnuts, pedo apologists, or any other repugnant shit, I block the whole instance. no time for that or the people who enable it.

posts here self-destruct within a month or so.

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2024-01-08 22:23:52

new theory: climate change is driven by Hollywood to normalize low visibility due to wildfire smoke, so they can turn down the render distance on CGI, making movies cheaper to produce

2023-12-01 22:50:00

9front is for when you're tired of falling off the shoulders of giants

2023-11-14 16:52:59

Somebody brought a llama to the conference. I'm not posting pictures of it because I don't want to reward this behavior

2023-11-02 16:38:02

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@npub1typ…c8hh alt text is my preferred narrative medium c.f. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@khm/111167399477708647

2023-10-29 19:46:46

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@npub1sg4…xslc that one guy's debian build is pretty solid but I can't bring myself to use the device, out in the world, because I know I can't replace it if it physically breaks
so I've been sticking with the remarkable 2

2023-10-11 17:03:15

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@npub1sg4…xslc I want to make sure you're aware of the last such effort -- https://distributedweaknessfiling.org/
it started out as a get-me-promoted project from a redhat staffer, stagnated via NIH syndrome, then the author hopped companies and it became https://universalvulnerabilityidentifier.org/, which immediately died and was replaced with https://gsd.id, which is a git repo full of json files with a shitload of python around it, courtesy of "Cloud Security Alliance"'s Chief Blockchain Officer.
room for improvement.

2023-09-14 06:23:57

I just figured out why Red Hat keeps making all these obnoxious decisions (killing CentOS, obfuscating source code access, etc)
they're trying to keep everyone from noticing they deprecated Motif!
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.0_release_notes/deprecated_functionality#deprecated-functionality_graphics-infrastructures

2023-09-05 07:44:28

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@npub1sg4…xslc @npub10cq…6nm3 then you'd be Microsoft, who did exactly that in WSL2. I explained to them the mistake they made and suggested a better wording. They updated the post.

2023-09-05 07:42:07

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@npub1sg4…xslc @npub10cq…6nm3 the job he's talking about here is getting this consistency. if gnome devs are assholes, fine, huge surprise, but they still ship a thing they call wayland support. it's an unpleasant surprise to discover that there is no 'wayland support' but instead "a bunch of different shit that people sometimes refer to as wayland and other times get mad at you for assuming they're compatible with one another"

2023-09-05 07:40:12

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@npub1sg4…xslc @npub10cq…6nm3 I don't really think posting to his own blog amounts to an invasion, but sure, I can see how you feel wronged here

2023-09-05 07:36:26

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@npub1sg4…xslc @npub10cq…6nm3 hence https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/#comment-243517

2023-09-05 07:34:15

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@npub1sg4…xslc @npub10cq…6nm3 "most wayland implementations do not support screen savers" and "wayland does not support screen savers" are not unforgiveably different sentences, speaking of semantics

2023-09-05 07:32:06

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@npub1sg4…xslc @npub10cq…6nm3 it's exactly what he said. the wayland design is superior but not suitable for xscreensaver, which should not be a surprise, since it's six thousand years old and from a different planet than wayland is.

2023-09-05 07:14:57

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@npub1sg4…xslc who here is a journalist? me, some asshole who doesn't matter and nobody pays attention to, or jwz, who is merely explaining to users of one program why that program doesn't work on wayland?
there is no smearing in that blog post, aside from the "don't have joy in the hearts" bit, which is an ironic admission that screen savers are not particularly useful things.
in the comments of that post other people enumerate extensions and he points out that isn't sufficient for his needs.

2023-09-05 07:11:12

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@npub1sg4…xslc I have no interest in understanding why.
how did we go from 42+ wayland compositors to two this fast? because "wayland" seems to mean whatever it needs to mean to be right on the internet?
not my dog, not my fight. but the arguments you're presenting are not compelling. there are better ways of handling outside criticism than "get a doctorate in this thing I care about, idiot"

2023-09-05 07:07:31

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@npub1sg4…xslc "there are a huge number of wayland compositors that each support different shit" is not the flex you think it is, is the point here

2023-09-05 06:46:33

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@npub1sg4…xslc then it's nonsense to talk about wayland, period, because x11 works fine without randr

2023-09-05 06:46:01

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@npub1sg4…xslc 4) does not work on gnome or kde
so that doesn't really do jwz any good

2023-09-05 06:17:33

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@npub1sg4…xslc jwz's post was about wayland, not about wlroots

2023-08-26 06:15:57

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@npub1sg4…xslc they seem to have forgot to release any code

2023-07-22 20:25:18

Lots of sardonic Mastodon posts lately about technologists doing unethical work and whether, when an educated person does bad stuff, that behavior is dumb or evil.
It would be a lot easier to take these posts seriously if their authors didn't spend half their lives working for Google or Facebook.

2023-06-25 23:37:56

9FRONT "DON'T TOUCH THE ARTWORK" RELEASED
Notable changes in this release:
- /srv/clone
- ARM thumb support
- EMMC support
- Mediatek mt7688 MIPS kernel
- Multicast, IGMP and MLD support
- aux/dial
- dhcpv6 support in ipconfig
- mk test
- scream audio protocol support
- evdump
AND MORE!
http://9front.org/releases/2023/06/25/0/
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/607/475/707/064/122/original/2c018c4b67ae2f83.png

2023-06-20 16:12:59

thirty years of stick-shiftin' turbo diesel
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/577/420/300/560/664/original/ca6fd070182b7666.jpeg

2023-05-23 08:16:33

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@npub1sg4…xslc some people are forced by the government to stand up for rapists
for instance, when the US Supreme Court is in session and the bailiff says "all rise"

2023-05-04 17:33:03

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@npub1hjq…qkdp this meme format always bothered me, because in the movie he could see fine without his glasses, and using them blurred his vision.
therefore please find the attached meme, thank you for your time
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/311/606/426/798/099/original/0634ba2b613db657.png

2023-04-18 21:37:15

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#[0] I love adafruit! Here's a post where I tested and recommend their products: https://community.mnt.re/t/will-we-be-able-to-usb-power-mnt-reform/241/19
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, however, is a dirt company.

2023-04-18 19:33:16

First I disliked Raspberry Pis because they had bad technical limitations. Then I disliked Raspberry Pis because they hired former surveillance police. Now I also dislike Raspberry Pis because they're going to ship Sony hardware whose drivers phone home.
How bad will things get before people stop idolizing this company?

2023-04-18 17:46:46

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#[0] I realized after I posted that you were targeting daily use and not pedantically-full implementation.
Either way, you have a few decades before you lose the race

2023-04-18 16:06:32

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#[0] do here documents inside functions work? I hope so because then you'll have it like thirty years faster than actual plan 9 rc did

2023-04-16 23:05:30

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#[0] had more in mind the "I use KDE themed to look like MacOS to run VS Code with sixteen thousand plugins which all rely on cloud servics and Chrome with extensions to present an onscreen ortholinear keyboard and emacs keybindings but irc is too much work"

2023-04-16 19:38:16

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#[0] people will use the most arcane, hostile, barbaric trash software as their window manager, text editor, or web browser, but they have Strong Exacting Opinions when it comes to a fucking chat client

2020-09-08 19:49:59

onboarding is like waterboarding but with bad ideas instead of water