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joshumax
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Linux rocks! The GNU/Hurd rocks! OpenBSD Rocks! Android rocks! Inferno rocks!
Web: https://joshumax.me
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- Yeah, I've always been surprised[1] when people come out claiming to be Satoshi but ignore this very blatant writing style in their own texts. I haven't really interacted that much with them online and both the double spaces and the British spellings struck out to me and a few others years ago.
- Yes, it works, but there are some issues.
The first one being that the SoC configuration runs in DS-compatibility mode which does not expose all of the available RAM in the DSi, and nds-bootstrap won't properly redirect I/O requests to the external SD card, which means you either need to embed the rootfs in the NDS ROM which won't persist changes, or use a flash cart and run the DLDI build instead.
- I very fondly remember this project when I was growing up too, and I credit it with sparking my interest in kernel development.
When trying to port some industrial control software to DSLinux, I ran into some bugs around how the SLOB allocator behaved under memory pressure. One of my patches landed upstream, even though SLOB is deprecated now. Still, as a kid starting out in the embedded space, it opened my eyes to the joys of hacking around with homebrew.
Fun fact: a modded DS still powers a large part of my local observatory's equipment.
- Sorry, I think this might tangentially be my fault. I know someone who works on the GitHub team and let them know about the situation via IM. A few minutes later both the account and the issue disappeared.
- If by "lens flares" we're referring to the 6 spikey lines jetting from the stars, those are known as diffraction spikes and are a result of the 3 spider vanes holding the secondary mirror in front of the primary mirror cluster at the center of the optical axis. As light enters the primary mirror cluster in the JWT, bright points of lights such as stars have visible aberrations due to the position and orientation of these vanes. In the JWT which uses 3 of them, their orientation creates this 6 spike diffraction pattern. In the case of the Hubble telescope, which is based on the RC telescope design, it uses 4 vanes which creates a 4 spike diffraction pattern instead.
- Funny I should see this on the front page of HN the day before I finish my Stellarium port for Nintendo Switch [1]. Unfortunately a lot of the UI code in the 1.0 release made it harder to port so I'm currently basing the Switch version on the 0.xy tags, but it's still a great accomplishment for the Stellarium team!
1: Unless I get approval from Nintendo AND Noctua you will need an RCMed Switch with Atmosphere to run it.
- Funny how two people can hack two separate home phones to run DOOM without realizing it until after the fact. For perspective, I posted a blog article about modifying a CaptionCall phone to run DOOM at the same time [1] as this was posted! What a unique coincidence!
1: https://joshumax.github.io/general/2021/08/11/running-doom-o...
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- Some of the reviews also seem comically fake, take for example this 5 star review for the "Airpod Pros":
'You will love these earbuds . I mainly use the wireless earbuds, I am very satisfied in all aspects. These earbuds also have a solid voice for music. They are easy to pair. More than enough scope. These earbuds work very beautifully. Awesome battery life and clarity. These earbuds are the most convenient and comfortable. I love these earbuds , I already want another pair. Buy them. You will love these earbuds .'
- Manjaro on the PinePhone currently has 2 branches. The first alphas used Plasma Mobile and another branch of alphas use Phosh. Work on the Plasma Mobile builds seems to have slowed down for Manjaro ARM, partially likely due to some UI instability and also because the Phosh experience currently feels more polished.
- I don't expect much from anti-malware companies, but this is one of those moments that made me absolutely dumbfounded that someone actually thought embedding an entire un-sandboxed JS engine with SYSTEM privileges was in any way a good idea. I actually had to get out of bed, open IDA, and start a Windows VM just to check that this wasn't some sort of elaborate hoax!
This isn't some MIDI parser logic, it's an entire JS interpreter that can parse DOM elements! How in Earth did this even get pushed out to a release? Did we learn nothing since the last time [1]?
1: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
- I was only around at Codeweavers for a part of this huge undertaking, and only contributed a small part of the 32-on-64 MacOS patchset, but I must say this was one of the most impressive feats I've seen coordinated using mainly nothing but email and IRC for communication.
Everything from thunking layers to calling conventions to inline assembly in the Wine codebase had to be redesigned for this release of Wine; an absolutely massive proposition. Ideas such as dynamic binary translation and running Win32 executables in the MacOS hypervisor framework were considered, and some ideas I tried while hacking Wine gave me insight into other projects I hack on such as Qemu and LLVM.
In short; props to everyone who worked on this! It was a long time in the process!
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- What are you referring to regarding pthread_create()? Last time I checked I thought that it would return an undefined thread* only when giving a nonzero return code, which while certainly isn't handled in a lot of multi-threaded applications could be checked before anything else is done with the newly created thread.
- Wow, I remember booting up your port on my XE to run a Minecraft server on my Google glass during a vacation; thanks for all your hard work making pmOS better!
- FWIW I maintain a port of Debian stable for my XO-1 with IceWM and it's extremely resource-light on the aging OLPC hardware. I'd be happy to throw up the build scripts on GitHub if anyone is interested.
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