Posts by hopeless@mas.to
(DIR) Post #A5sWpeIkbQtldqYw6K by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-03T19:07:06Z
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@murtezayesil ...isn't it telling you to use a dedicated server? Shared vps can mean shared with cryptominers or whatever.
(DIR) Post #A5sYIxhdeDTQAMkFKy by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-03T19:23:36Z
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@murtezayesil Yes it's a logical server 'only you can access'. But on most of these cheapo offers, they pack as many virtual sessions on the same physical cpu as will fit (why wouldn't they...). It may really be a 2.5GHz core but it may be pegged at a load of 20 overall, you just don't know.The next step up is a dedicated physical machine, you can get a last-gen xeon one and 100Mbps connectivity for around US$20/mo. And nobody sharing anything on it.
(DIR) Post #A5wRJdCLRmRVoZJrVI by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-05T16:22:43Z
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@piggo malloc and vsnprintf are really complicated if they offer all the modern features.Do you know about -ffunction-sections ?
(DIR) Post #A6CBmLF8nAxLmyecbo by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-13T05:28:58Z
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@be Why don't you read what he actually wrote, and complain about that if you still want to.https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-communityThe whole drama is driven by people responding with outrage to strawmen, it's good for everyone if you make sure you are responding to the source material directly.
(DIR) Post #A6Fz11gvFKhmioA0HI by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-15T02:41:25Z
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@elb yeah... the rust hype train seems unstoppable at the moment.
(DIR) Post #A6LB2EzBAZd7vE9FKq by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-17T14:48:52Z
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@wolf480pl Not forever... eventually the guys that hack them will update them for you to keep other hackers from displacing them with easy wins.
(DIR) Post #A6jCexMNbj0qbmlvwe by hopeless@mas.to
2021-04-29T04:56:33Z
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@meeper Hey... I heard they accept patches...
(DIR) Post #A72UGPStSylbiIVDE0 by hopeless@mas.to
2021-05-08T12:06:43Z
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@vala For Linux, really bare minimum but still an OS install, a few hundred MB. Minimum desktop, something in the range 3 GB.
(DIR) Post #A7VmZ5ZQARXKDQlGJU by hopeless@mas.to
2021-05-22T15:27:40Z
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@revk p-channel mosfet on the 9V end will do it... usual trick is drive its gate using N channel with drain also pulled up to 9V so the P one is off unless N G is > VGs
(DIR) Post #A7hYDwDWgDRrfH3kmG by hopeless@mas.to
2021-05-28T07:43:30Z
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@dick_turpin mm Fedora favours Flatpak. Base Fedora also has packages like debootstrap and apt / dpkg, it doesn't mean they are the recommended way.Snap remains a Canonical thing.
(DIR) Post #AvWDbkcI3CDj0hwLjc by hopeless@mas.to
2025-06-26T09:49:22Z
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@fireborn Just noting that with a FOSS project, every feature or task or documentation or even dealing with contribution, has to have somebody's remaining time on the planet exchanged to do the work, usually for free and without thanks.That's not excusing people getting burned / publicly humiliated. But... how is what you are doing here to the annoying commenter, any different to what you are raging against when it was done to you?
(DIR) Post #AvWH4v9WFzC9wo5FaK by hopeless@mas.to
2025-06-26T10:23:39Z
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@asie @fireborn Your reply seems completely unrelated to what I posted... my point is that the OP cannot say how awful it is be treated as he described, while attacking his correspondent in exactly the same way.They should pick a position, either it is to be denounced to act like that towards others; or, the OP is right to act like that towards his "contributor".If it's OK to burn people, no point to the post. If not OK to burn people, OP shouldn't burn this guy.
(DIR) Post #AvY2MCpIgm4oglKY7s by hopeless@mas.to
2025-06-27T06:30:38Z
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@asie @fireborn If OP really believed that burning others for his catharsis is normal and okay, then he is not in a position to write a rage-article blaming others for helping themselves to some catharsis at his expense.Having been mainly on the getting burned side of this (including on LKML) I think if we can recognize it is bad, we should try to not increase the amount of it in the world. Conversely if we understand kindness is good, we can strive to increase the amount of that.
(DIR) Post #B12M6DuW1T2jTjKU76 by hopeless@mas.to
2025-12-07T13:13:59Z
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@jk Is the coding AI producing mostly-reasonable and maintainable results?Because the fact you like the results of the project to date, is not worth anything to the project, compared to good patches.Nor is your purity demand for only the contributors' personal hard labour being good enough for you to leech.
(DIR) Post #B12M6I9uEBjMecYpeq by hopeless@mas.to
2025-12-07T15:03:48Z
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@jk @kolya If you're consuming the project's work and not contributing anything, that is the dictionary meaning of "leeching".I also leech of hundreds of projects and only contribute to a handful, it's just a statement of fact.However it puts into contrast what you're demanding, which is you only want to leech off the work of an actual human and their time on the planet.If AI patches work and can be maintained, they should be preferred to minimize the cost to actual humans.
(DIR) Post #B219TWKxB8ye2y6Igy by hopeless@mas.to
2026-01-06T12:56:30Z
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@iamkonstantin It's a good move by the client, even if you are a big fan of the US there's no reason, eg, other countries should have their government store everything on US clouds.But it's quite difficult if you look into this. For example, kernel.org is run by Akamai now https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akamai-delivers-infrastructure-support-to-ensure-uninterrupted-linux-kernel-development-302412685.html and AFAICT Akamai is a US company.If you tug on things like OpenSSL it seems they are based in Delaware. And a FOSS userland stack is a big mismash of all kinds of things from different places.
(DIR) Post #B3ZzzpW8gkAce4JEm0 by hopeless@mas.to
2026-02-22T12:38:52Z
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@wolf480pl @david_chisnall > I wish the market cared about reliabilityNobody has cared enough about FOSS maintainers to make sure they can eat. Why would they start caring about the purity ideals of noncontributing users?
(DIR) Post #B3annPfFyjoshGqY88 by hopeless@mas.to
2026-02-22T21:56:51Z
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@wolf480pl @david_chisnall Imagine two OSes... OS A "vibe codes everything" and "releases a buggy service" (for decades now).OS B has no AI code, "takes its time to make reliable software" and can be run in a "fault tolerant configuration".So due to your poor choice of example: - OS A is windows, it makes billions. - OS B is Linux, you can share copies for $0 under GPL 2.
(DIR) Post #B3apkwvm2RCGuVWdUm by hopeless@mas.to
2026-02-22T22:18:51Z
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@wolf480pl @david_chisnall The OP here is just trolling. There's a lot of fear around AI atm.For future reference although you may feel you laid out your point obviously in the post I replied to, what you actually wrote was a scenario and a question, "who makes more money". It's absent in that text what your position is.I answered your question, if it's agreeing with you then great, we agree on something. Using AI and making sloppy software doesn't seem to stop microsoft making money.
(DIR) Post #B3aryVqLkHdmrXaEfA by hopeless@mas.to
2026-02-22T22:43:41Z
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@wolf480pl Yes I can see you thought your position was clear.But your wish about the market caring about reliability was not in the post I replied to. I think you'll find (indeed you just have) a reader can't arrive at understanding your position from that post.Anyway have a nice rest of the evening.