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ace, 1 year ago

If you build a linked list in C, and put the pointer to the next entry as the first element in your struct, then you only need a single variable (and two comparisons) to do sorted insertion into the list.

ace, 1 year ago

People really have no love for JPEG-XL - though to be fair that’s mainly Google’s fault at the moment.

ace, 1 year ago

Reading the Dockerfile in their repo, it’s simply a clean debian:slim with four compiled rust binaries placed into it. There’s no services, no supervisord, nothing except the mail server binaries themselves.

ace, 1 year ago

The official binhost project has been an experimental thing until now, I’ve personally been using it for the year on multiple machines, but it’s not been something that you can just enable. And it’s definitely not been something that’s come pre-prepared in the stage 3.

ace, 1 year ago

I personally use ~/.bin for my own symlinks, though I also use the user-specific installation instead of the system-wide one.
I wouldn’t guarantee that any automation handles ~/.local/bin or ~/.bin either, that would depend entirely on the distribution. In my case I’ve added both to PATH manually.

ace, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Flatpak already creates executable wrappers for all applications as part of regular installs, though they’re by default named as the full package name.

For when inkscape has been installed into the system-wide Flatpak installation, you could simply symlink it like; ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.inkscape.Inkscape /usr/local/bin/inkscape

For the user-local installation, the exported runnable is in ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin instead.

ace, 1 year ago

A lot of that data doesn’t actually exist, ostree hardlinks data blobs internally, so the actual size on disk is much smaller than most disk usage tools will show.

ace, 1 year ago

Amusingly enough, one of the HP laptops I used in that era actually worked better with ndiswrapper somehow.

It was the only one to do so though.

ace, 1 year ago

“It’s a ndiswrapper miracle!” - a statement only uttered by the completely deranged.

ace, 1 year ago

Not really, WSL seems like it was mainly supposed to stop people leaping ship to be able to develop Node without the horribly painful Windows JS experience. And wouldn’t you know it, Microsoft has been making their own JavaScript language in Typescript.

ace, 1 year ago

People love to complain about CMake, often with valid complaints as well. But it - to this day - remains the only build system where I’ll actually trust a project when they say they are cross-platform.

Being the Windows maintainer for OpenMW, it used to be absolute hell back a decade and half ago when an indirect dependency changed - and used something like SCons or Premake while claiming to be “cross-platform”, used to be that I had to write my own build solutions for Windows since it was all hardcoded against Linux paths and libraries.

CMake might not be the coolest, most hip, build system, but it delivers on actually letting you build your software regardless of platform. So it remains my go-to for whenever I need to actually build something that’s supposed to be used.
For personal things I still often hack together a couple of Makefiles though, it’s just a lot faster to do.

ace, 1 year ago

Definitely the third / middle left, but the bottom right definitely gets second place to me.
Not a major fan of too abstract art, and those are just both so serene.

ace, 1 year ago

It makes sense to use the words that people are most used to, and bluescreen/BSOD has been the go-to lingua for describing a crash/error screen - even if not blue - since a while now.

ace, 1 year ago

A possibly metal battleaxe.

ace, 1 year ago

I think the file upload size limit could become a problem in my case, at least in terms of posting the complete ACLs.

We’ve recently managed to come down to only ~1.4k VLANs though, and the network firewall pair for our server networks now only handles ~600 SPB services.

ace, 1 year ago

I’ve spent literally the entire last month working on tooling to orchestrate our asset management database for NAC (Network Access Control) purposes, and somehow I still didn’t think of this.