cmeerw

@cmeerw@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also lowendspirit, but in both cases you have to be very careful what you buy - not everything that is advertised there will work as advertised or will work long-term

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  where they will double your monthly data limit for free when you comment your order number.

  where they use you to spam the forum thread (for giving away something rarely anyone has any use for)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much anything that’s only available via an app store. The difference with web apps is that I can also use them on a laptop/PC and I have a bit more control about tracking (by using ad/tracking blockers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not being forced to have an Android or Apple smartphone, so more open standards and just Web apps instead of proprietary apps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best free/cheap web host for DIY email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use them as IMAP storage for a few mailing lists I am subscribed to (but not for my main emails), but they do reject legitimate emails from time to time (not often, but it does happen - and those emails don’t show up in “Spam” or any logs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best free/cheap web host for DIY email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had pretty good experience with hosting an email server on AlphaVPS, InceptionHosting and just now GreenCloudVPS.

  GreenCloudVPS currently have a promotion until Sunday, and there are usually promotions around Black Friday on LowEndSpirit and LowEndTalk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least for memory usage the hypervisor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between memory merely used as cache vs. memory actually used by the software running on the machine (and OSes will usually just use any otherwise unused memory as cache, so you will likely see some inflated memory usage)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How do they actually get that information (particularly memory utilization)? Do they rely on their agent that’s pre-installed (but can be uninstalled)? At least in their web interface it doesn’t show any of that utilization for my instances (one is Ubuntu with their agent uninstalled and the other one is NetBSD).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I never really got used to IRC myself, but it’s usually fine when connecting to IRC via Matrix.

  BTW, what other communication channels would you have expected?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am actually using a OrangePiPC as:

  • WLAN access point (hostapd)
  • LTE Internet via a E3372 USB dongle
  • radio via DVB-T dongle/Internet
  • USB speakers for the radio
  • Bluetooth dongle to connect to Bluetooth-enabled speaker in another room
  • USB temperature sensor, motion sensors via GPIO
  • VoIP telephone with connected USB headset
  • small LCD display to show the current temperature and incoming call information
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did a bit more digging through the mailing list (also looking through the links posted on the HN thread), and to me it looks a bit weird.

  OP came up with an initial patch (Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 12:36 PM) that wasn’t deemed to be good enough to be merged. Maintainer came up with a different patch (Tue, 7 Jun 2022 00:34:56 +1000) saying “but I wanted to fix it differently”. OP then posted a reworked patch (Fri Jun 10 17:15:49 AEST 2022) that looks a lot more similar to the maintainer’s patch.

  The maintainer’s patch and OP’s reworked patch look quite similar, but from what I can see from the mailing list, the maintainer actually came up with that approach, and OP didn’t then credit the maintainer in his reworked patch. @kairos can you please clarify, what am I missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not really seeing any toxic behaviour here.

  OP’s patch was largely based on code in ptrace32.c, but that code actually looks quite bad. So maintainer applied a better fix. Maybe ptrace32.c should be updated to use code that’s more similar to ptrace-fpu.c now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So you have just re-posted an old email to the mailing list just so you can link to it, likely confusing everyone on that mailing list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  the email lists:

  However, every one of these reports has to be triaged, analyzed, and dealt with.

  I don’t think non-coding work means non-technical work - you’ll likely still need to dig deep into the technical details to actually be able to help

  There is also a link to docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and its linking ability is a huge simplifier for long term planning.

  What long term planning? Who is going to come up with that plan? Will everyone agree to that plan? Who will be paying for the resources to work on that plan?

  Combined with a Kanban board for tracking, progress of tickets. You remove a ton of pain.

  I am not seeing how that would help. What are you going to do if there is no progress on something? Fire volunteer X because he didn’t make progress on ticket Y (as he has no interest in ticket Y)?