lantastic

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by lantastic 1mo ago
On topic of fear of nuclear war: After reading Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine, I'm surprised we as a species are still around.
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by lantastic 3mo ago
On Linux, you could create a udev rule to give you permissions on any attached raw disks (if you feel particularly adventurous). What's the license for ffs?
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by lantastic 4mo ago
Stunts was the greatest! You could make your own tracks, save replays and (IIRC) even resume gameplay from any point in the replay. My very favorite game of all time.
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by lantastic 4mo ago
.. and have been for a long time. I don't remember the last time I reached for a hand-written SDK for a HTTP API. It's always some codegen affair. But out-of-the-box experience for many codegen tools is that the generated API ends
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by lantastic 7mo ago
Mine too! Another Lightwave-produced show I loved was Space: Above & Beyond.
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by lantastic 7mo ago
> if i remember it correctly: they used a software called "lightroom" Afaict, it was Lightwave3d, that I just learned still lives to this day. Last release June 11 2025. Also used to make SeaQuest :) Oh, the memories...
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by lantastic 9mo ago
Sounds interesting. What's the title?
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by lantastic 10mo ago
It is subject to legislation and certification, but it's harder to lobby when you can't privatize the direct costs. Still, scams are common (e.g. inflated medical equipment costs). I guess hustlers gonna hustle in any system.
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by lantastic 11mo ago
Others pointed plenty of arguments, but the ones I find most compelling (not necessarily useful in this context) are: - you can serve any number of disjoint websocket services via same port via HTTP routing - this also means you can do TLS
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by lantastic 1y ago
Sure, socketpairs on Linux.
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by lantastic 1y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by lantastic 1y ago
My cynical take is this is regulatory capture on part of the most lucrative tech sector in the next few years, in return for campaign contributions.
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by lantastic 1y ago
Wow, that's massive. I guess it's inevitable that a popular piece of open-source software for end-users will be compelled to accrue dependencies due to popular demand for features that require them. I feel Telegraf made a good com
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by lantastic 1y ago
In every program that uses a particular feature from the stdlib. Given the same feature, I tend to trust stdlib more than some rando project. And if you don't trust the stdlib, why would you trust the compiler?
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by lantastic 1y ago
comatose sentry necessary motto
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by lantastic 1y ago
Clearly you didn't read my socrates note.
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by lantastic 2y ago
FIPS and "be secure" aren't necessarily a full overlap: there's plenty of ways to be secure that isn't even allowed in FIPS, so you need to actively disable that set if you run FIPS mode (depending on libraries used
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by lantastic 2y ago
Does this mean FIPS-enabled software never runs as such in production (or at all) in environments where it is supposedly mandated?
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by lantastic 3y ago
I like the "go generate" approach to integrate such tools. I used a different (but identically named) go-enum tool [0], which accepts the go type and generates implementations for a bunch of interfaces. The neat thing is that the
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by lantastic 3y ago
If you want to relive some the joy of X-Wing, X-Wing Alliance Update (XWAU) modernizes the XWA game (including VR support). For TIE Fighter afficionados, there is even a TIE Fighter Total Conversion project that rebuilds entire TIE Fighter
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by lantastic 3y ago
Interesting. Can you expand a bit on the kinds of problems that websockets would encounter with such middleware? I've seen a fair share of surprises on just TCP from DPI/MitM and high bandwidth-delay products, so I'm curious
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by lantastic 3y ago
David reached out to the maintainers on the relevant ML [0]. Could also CC the regressions@lists.linux.dev [1]. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/nycvar.YFH.7.76.23110120... [1] https://www.kernel.org&
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by lantastic 6y ago
I heartily agree. Don't treat yourself like a 3rd party.
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by lantastic 6y ago
Thanks for the blog post. Ep383 of the Linux Unplugged podcast [1] also went into detail with CentOS members. What CentOS gave you until Stream was (with some delay) the "same" set of packages that RedHat released in RHEL, which w
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by lantastic 9y ago
I once used make to jury-rig a fairly complex set of backup jobs for a customer on a very short notice. Jobs were grouped and each group was allowed to run a certain number of jobs in parallel, and some jobs had a non-overlap constraint. Th
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by lantastic 9y ago
> Programmers seem to fall into two camps. Those that need to know details to understand a method and those that need to know the contract to understand a method. This is an interesting observation. I seem to fall into the former categor
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by lantastic 9y ago
Nice, I will definitely try it out!
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by lantastic 9y ago
Conan ( https://conan.io/ ) tries to tackle the package management for C/C++.
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by lantastic 10y ago
Trademarks were part of the confiscation during WW2, but Aspirin lost its trademark status in US long before that[1]. [1] https://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tmcases/b...
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by lantastic 10y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link!

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