Posts by mattdm@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AZPflqTCTvGOHl1EbA by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-09-04T04:54:55Z
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@jwzI loved XScreenSaver back in the day. But, fundamentally, their time is gone. To "save" screens in 99.9999% of situations, the screen should just be going to sleep to conserve power. And for most of those, so too should the rest of the system.
(DIR) Post #AaTGLc3KaVzOulWEHw by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-10-05T20:27:19Z
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@arstechnicaThese sentences sound like each word was pulled from a hat!
(DIR) Post #AatZh8aCZ2NiwnDPiC by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-10-18T13:07:24Z
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@lowqualityfactsSomething something pound of feathers....
(DIR) Post #AbDkF7v3HmuqUilu6a by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-10-28T01:25:10Z
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@sjvnI wish you had a little more nuance in the part about Red Hat. _Everything_ Red Hat does is open source. That hasn't changed and won't. There is no "open core" proprietary parts, no dual licenses, no copyright assignment or unilateral CLA with "copyleft for you but not for me". RHEL has never been community developed, once forked from Fedora Linux. But _especially_ with the CentOS Stream changes, it's more open and transparent than ever.
(DIR) Post #AbDkF8w9VBOFeQIISW by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-10-28T01:33:14Z
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@sjvnI get _why_ people want to lump RH in with the "companies squeezing the ratchet" thing. It _feels_ compelling. But that doesn't make it true. I guess I shouldn't expect much from The Register, but.... I always hope for more.
(DIR) Post #AbEPMRgYI4cBwhb8SG by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-10-28T14:20:37Z
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@iank @sjvnI will rephrase: all of the software Red Hat makes is open source. Propriety software is used in the business, and I guess in making some of the web site. I don't think any of this new or related at all to this article, though.As for firmware: I agree that having all of this open is the ideal, and a good goal. But I think the distinction between loadable firmware and something you can't see (whether on some ROM or an ASIC) is specious. Meanwhile, people need computers that work.
(DIR) Post #AbSzhUCis87vcPmK6i by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-11-04T14:56:37Z
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The path for people interested in Linux desktop contribution _must not_ be "First, study 30 years of drama. Then, pick a side!"
(DIR) Post #AbYC744ynSONMZv4V6 by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-11-05T14:58:55Z
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This standard ain't right.
(DIR) Post #AcVY9us4PGYScwjkqu by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2023-12-05T16:04:01Z
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Now shown in Google Meet — part of Google's general war on adblockers.
(DIR) Post #AdaEaIhfjWD7lqBrrE by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-01-06T21:38:14Z
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I found this, complely unlabeled, in the notes on my phone from about a year ago. Please explain.
(DIR) Post #Aif0Sf1NUNXcNPgsuu by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-06T18:42:35Z
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Red Hat is hiring a kernel engineer for RISC-V enablement and support. This will be highly Fedora-focused work. https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Software-Engineer---RISC-V-Hardware-Enablement_R-038565Note that the job is out of the Waterford, Ireland office. PS: if seriously interested, and if we're at least acquainted, contact me _before_ applying and I'll send you a referral link!#fedora #risc_v #riscv #job #redhat #ireland
(DIR) Post #AjSjX3fvFfkpdel0wC by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T16:31:24Z
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@mcc Update to (at least) coreutils 9.2, or use a distro which provides that.With that version, mv -n will print an error and return 1 if a file is skipped. (Previously, it just printed nothing to indicate it was doing nothing. Insert Drake meme here.)
(DIR) Post #AjSjX4gfUNwemG77js by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T16:34:36Z
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@mcc There is a new `--update none` option to get the old noclobber behavior, if you want it.tbh I'm surprised 1) they made what could be a breaking change and 2) to my knowledge there has been no "you broke my scripts" outcry. Although probably the second can be found if I look hard enough.Also, apparently posix only specifies -i and -f. Because, sure.
(DIR) Post #AjSjX5drwHIfjroP0y by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T16:36:19Z
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@mcc IMHO good for the coreutils maintainers for making some of this stuff make more sense after all of these years.But I'll wait for the "they hate Unix!" crowd to show up.
(DIR) Post #AjSjX7E43BqaePkp4S by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T16:51:25Z
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@ljrk @mcc Haven't tested, but I believe that's been fixed sometime after 2015. From the release notes for 8.30 (2018):``` 'mv -n A B' no longer suffers from a race condition that can overwrite a simultaneously-created B. This bug fix requires platform support for the renameat2 or renameatx_np syscalls, found in recent Linux and macOS kernels. As a side effect, 'mv -n A A' now silently does nothing if A exists. [bug introduced with coreutils-7.1]```
(DIR) Post #AjSjX88QfcvxTE7pvU by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T16:52:40Z
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@ljrk @mcc Also this explains the `mv -n` silence when I tested on RHEL 7. :)
(DIR) Post #AjSjX8k0PuzXLlhqUq by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T16:53:23Z
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@ljrk @mcc Anyway, everything is terrible.*switches to plan9*
(DIR) Post #AjSjX9iylDlSOsEXXE by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-06-30T18:10:20Z
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@ljrk @mccMeanwhile on LWN... https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/979524/f93c7f46307f3415/
(DIR) Post #Akf7FL7zOp1xmVFdZo by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-08-04T02:13:32Z
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@vkcMost cars these days do pretty much exactly this.
(DIR) Post #AlVgcFf3UTXW6QIJWa by mattdm@hachyderm.io
2024-08-31T01:03:17Z
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@foonehttps://www.adafruit.com/product/5991 ?