Interesting commit: “Remove a death threat from the FreeBSD sources”. Honestly “DO NOT, UNDER PAIN OF DEATH, [do X]” doesn’t sound like a threat but it’s nice to see that many committers don’t want that kind of stuff in the source.
But why change #ifdef DONT_EVEN_THINK_ABOUT_IT to #if 0?
Wow. Windows will no longer require admin rights to create a symlink. Amazing.
The FreeBSD Foundation has a “Uranium Donor” now. I guess they need all that uranium donated to them :) Seriously though, this makes me want to use WhatsApp more. Thanks!
Wow, a researcher from a German university sent me a survey about copying code from Stack Overflow — and not just randomly! Because they found a snippet in one of my repos.
So, SO answers are CC BY-SA licensed, which is terrible (you basically aren’t supposed to use it in BSD/MIT/ISC or CC0/Unlicense/WTFPL code!)
But that particular project was GPL licensed, which is compatible with Share Alike! And that’s particularly amazing — most of my projects are under Unlicense or ISC. I just decided to use the GPL for that one because it was an Android GUI app.
tfw you get a comment on a three years old github thread :)
I made Bluetooth Low Smart 4.0 Energy LE Thing work on FreeBSD! I mean, the node.js BLE thing that talks to the USB dongle directly through libusb, but that’s what I needed for Node-RED :) Four PRs: node-usb node-bluetooth-hci-socket noble bleno
Upgraded my phone to CyanogenMod 14 (Android 7.1). Dirty flashed over CM13, everything went smoothly. Using Tingle to apply the signature spoofing patch for microG now, instead of Xposed.
If you’re going to do the same: the first boot after an upgrade — including a Tingle patch — takes some time, don’t panic. Also, Wi-Fi only started connecting correctly after a reboot.
So Android NDK now supports CMake. That’s certainly cleaner than the Android.mk, uh, solution. (Also, more importantly, externalNativeBuild in Gradle is now a thing — no more manual ndk-build calls.)
Moved my code directory ~/src, which contains Vim plugins, to a NAS mounted over NFS (so now it’s the same on my desktop PC, the VMs running on it, and my Raspberry Pi).
Neovim became very slow, with starting, opening files or even switching buffers taking 50 seconds.
So I ran the profiler and… it was the EditorConfig plugin! Even with the external C core.
Got Webrender running on FreeBSD. In particular, this sample of standalone usage works!
Made possible by a linking fix in x11-rs, a linking fix in gleam and support in ipc-channel that someone already made. UPDATE: forgot to send a PR to webrender itself :D
I can’t believe NO ONE made a rewrite of VisualSearch.js / Search.js without all the dependencies (jQuery, jQuery UI, Backbone and Underscore!)
Qt Quick 2’s high DPI scaling is utterly ridiculous. Automatic scaling only uses integer factors, which means comically huge UI elements on a 4K desktop monitor where 150% is the appropriate factor — it literally gets rounded to 200%. The weirdest thing though: fonts sized in points are scaled to the exact DPI of the monitor, ignoring the rounded UI scaling factor. Which means that the UI elements on my desktop are bigger than on a low DPI monitor, relative to the text inside of them. What were they thinking?!
When will UI toolkit developers STOP believing that non-integer scaling is bad?
Linux people are reinventing wpa_supplicant. Apparently it’s not lightweight enough. I think they’re just continuing to reinvent literally everything for no good reason :P
So it’s possible to control an external monitor’s brightness over DDC/CI. There’s e.g. ClickMonitorDDC for Windows. Why the hell doesn’t Windows support this natively?! It shows the native brightness slider for laptops, but not for desktops!?
PSA: if you’re using VirtualBox on Windows and you need USB passthrough, do not install usbpcap when installing Wireshark.
Back in the mid-2000s, people worked on writing operating systems in Haskell! Even with GUIs.
There’s also a Squeak/Pharo Smalltalk on bare x86 project, last updated in 2011.
I guess all we have now is Redox. I hope it will become a truly successful operating system not written in C.