Posts by linear@nya.social
(DIR) Post #B0zUcnF8PPVgUD8Sqe by linear@nya.social
2025-12-07T02:07:21.332Z
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no, having a cursor position indicator is not enough
(DIR) Post #B10emD3X03vvqinSs4 by linear@nya.social
2025-12-05T03:21:17.642Z
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run the thing about companies selling firmware dev contracts to the lowest bidder is this:the lowest bidders are people who can technically get the job done but e.g. don't understand how to use array syntax in C, and so instead will decide to fill a struct with 10,000 variables identically named other than the index at the end, and use pointer math to access them
(DIR) Post #B13qVUiPs4tycWb1xQ by linear@nya.social
2025-12-09T04:22:48.502Z
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if i were like styropyro and had a 30,000 watt light bulb, i would try to contact the ISS via ham radio while they were flying over at nighttime to ask if they could see it
(DIR) Post #B13vCwE3rbUyD9MwO8 by linear@nya.social
2025-12-09T05:27:48.903Z
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doing video screen capture on KDE Plasma 6 under FreeBSD using pipewire, feels about like doing the same thing under Linux roughly a year and half to two years agowhich is to say: it works, but it does require a bit of manual intervention
(DIR) Post #B18Z8aOxpwbGAImv0y by linear@nya.social
2025-12-11T11:04:00.194Z
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i just decommissioned my biggest server machine (i.e. the one real normal server machine i have, my Poweredge R640) from the Proxmox and Ceph clusters, and have rebooted into the FreeBSD installer.this has been an interesting ~year experiment with Proxmox and Ceph, and that experiment is probably not over, but i think i'm going to begin moving a lot of infrastructure onto the one big reliable reasonably-redundant server
(DIR) Post #B18Z8bF4iCHelvAXEu by linear@nya.social
2025-12-11T11:13:04.564Z
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it will probably be a better experience overall even if i do find ceph's extreme self-healing to be very cool and good.the worst thing i can say about it is: cephfs in this environment can't really do well on workloads that are metadata-heavy or involve lots of small random writes. a lot of this is simply a limitation of the situation i was running it in, and to some degree, the nature of distributed filesystems.my constraints a year ago were that i needed a reasonably reliable storage system out of a hodgepodge of spare drives and mediocre PCs and weird stuff. something that would let me trust that my data was safe, would tolerate multiple computers dying, and ideally was good enough to max out at least a gigabit link, and yknow what? it delivered on all those frontsmy needs today have changed
(DIR) Post #B1N32Mh5bdRskgeeBM by linear@nya.social
2025-12-18T09:42:36.563Z
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"naturally aromantic basmati rice"
(DIR) Post #B1SqSrS00iqTgRPlxI by linear@nya.social
2025-12-20T15:03:24.026Z
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-applicationi want a .meow tld...
(DIR) Post #B1WHfGVPxjV76P25aq by linear@nya.social
2025-12-22T21:49:03.874Z
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @ska@social.treehouse.systems supposedly moldbug is considering leaving the country because things are not going how he wants, and he fears democrat retaliationone can only dream
(DIR) Post #B1kgmgRb8lHodvJqbY by linear@nya.social
2025-12-29T20:12:54.342Z
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@yottatsa@deadinsi.de do it.
(DIR) Post #B1p836bp6OfHotzr8q by linear@nya.social
2025-12-31T23:58:52.708Z
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i should be allowed to claim my cats as dependents when i file my taxes
(DIR) Post #B2EAJurTlf9QDomGBM by linear@nya.social
2026-01-12T21:31:39.485Z
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@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @nightclaw@mastodon.social personally, if i were in your position, i would feel obligated by my professional ethics to bring this backlash up to my superiors, up to and including the CEO. i'm sure it would make people a lot more comfortable were you to so much as acknowledge the pushback without getting defensive, and instead accept the feedback and pass it on (in the process, confirming that other eyes at Mozilla than yours have reviewed the opinions in this thread)if the environment at my workplace discouraged this behavior, i would consider it a highly toxic workplace environment and leave as soon as possible.with that in mind, i'm beginning to wonder: is Mozilla a toxic workplace environment? do you need help finding a different job, where it's encouraged to listen to feedback from your users and pass it up the chain?
(DIR) Post #B2EAOMMVSoN0fgPQDw by linear@nya.social
2026-01-12T21:35:21.728Z
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@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social @nightclaw@mastodon.social for that matter, some direct questions: have other eyes at Mozilla seen the information in this thread?and another related question that's been burning in my mind: can you point to anything official that states that this "firefoxwebdevs" account is a currently active official account, controlled by Mozilla, and not something being done by a rogue employee?
(DIR) Post #B2ISLKnrNWWmm7kZtY by linear@nya.social
2026-01-15T00:42:02.891Z
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i'm probably going to be told tomorrow that i'm being laid off, so if anyone has a lead on a decent remote embedded software engineering or unix/linux systems job, i've got a resume to send you.i don't like discussing the specifics of who my past clients have been in public. however, my most recent position was contracting with the kernel team of a major CDN and cloud services provider that i know many people on fedi are also current or former employees of, maintaining their internal linux distribution (an customized Ubuntu downstream) for their custom server platforms, porting forward and cleaning up patchsets to newer versions of the distribution, fixing issues in toolchains and libraries, etc.i've also done embedded software work for a large variety of devices including medical, cellular technology, and industrial control equipment, in addition to some consumer products. i've done board bringup and BSP development with Yocto/Openembedded, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, etc, on most major SoC and microcontroller families. when doing business logic, I am most comfortable in C and Lua, but fine working with C++ codebases, and can learn to work with other languages if a project needs it.boosts appreciated.
(DIR) Post #B2JQq6nnTiQhZwE9YG by linear@nya.social
2026-01-09T01:48:40.481Z
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type of girl who installs Windows Me on her 486 for reasons unfathomable even to her
(DIR) Post #B2JQq7dYNHpWASRUDw by linear@nya.social
2026-01-09T02:10:24.761Z
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(DIR) Post #B2JqcdRFwCETYKv5hA by linear@nya.social
2026-01-15T19:41:29.568Z
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it occurs to me that at some point in the near future i'm going to have to start explaining to people younger than me that search engines did, in fact, work really well at one point in time, before LLMs came around, and they aren't going to believe me
(DIR) Post #B2Lzj0NopaB2M5LPFI by linear@nya.social
2026-01-16T20:32:24.520Z
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https://duckduckgo.com/vote
(DIR) Post #B2OAQi9hLm96QF8ejA by linear@nya.social
2026-01-17T21:38:12.091Z
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really annoyed by displays that use "high" frequency dithering to improve color accuracyi'd rather have the color banding instead of having to deal with my entire visual system, having gotten used to the flickering, now causing the rest of the world to look like it's flickering when i look away from the display
(DIR) Post #B2OAR3FmuKUjrD9JdQ by linear@nya.social
2026-01-17T21:40:30.998Z
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"but the human visual system can't see past 30fps" no, wrong, fuck you, that's a horribly incorrect oversimplification. set up a 120hz and 240hz monitor right next to each other and i'll tell you which one's which in about 10 seconds just by moving the mouse on each