[X] My Assistant

Ran into things getting broken within my virtual pc.
I want some kind of OverOS, that allow to hotswap between several ordinary OS, while retaining that ability to swap between them, and maybe also controlling how much of the hardware they have access to (virtually cutting Internet cables, and maybe storage or other things could be interesting too).
But I guess it would hugely need powerful hardware support from more components that virtualization, and for some slowness injected (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

[www.qubes-os.org] Qubes?

This post has been edited by Scumbini: Aug 13 2021, 23:37

Ran into things getting broken within my virtual pc.
I want some kind of OverOS, that allow to hotswap between several ordinary OS, while retaining that ability to swap between them, and maybe also controlling how much of the hardware they have access to (virtually cutting Internet cables, and maybe storage or other things could be interesting too).
But I guess it would hugely need powerful hardware support from more components that virtualization, and for some slowness injected (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

QEMU KVM
Qubes also works and might be a little easier to make do what you want

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 14 2021, 02:59

[www.qubes-os.org] Qubes?

[www.qubes-os.org] Nope, same as ordinary VM

[www.qubes-os.org] Nope, same as ordinary VM

So then you want QEMU + KVM.
and potentially something like "looking glass."

Of course if you are determined to use Windows as the host OS you're SOL.

Been doing a deep dive into the world of computer colour management.

I know I'm not ready to do so, but I think the simplest way to get full-desktop colour correction (with XYZ lookup tables) on Unix/X is going to be to write colour correction functionality into a desktop compositor (or into graphics card drivers, but I kind of doubt we could get e.g. Nvidia, whomever owns PowerVR now, etc. to cooperate there).

I'm ruminating on trying something like that on Compton or a Compton fork. Would be really awesome to have all software have accurate colours rather than just a hodgepodge of it. Especially on laptops, which usually both have worse quality displays and no method for adding hardware between the GPU and the screen to do the correction (you can get external devices that do the translations on a DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort signal for desktop monitors, but desktop monitors tend to be much closer to, say, sRGB (or your preferred colour space here) than their laptop counterparts so the difference from calibrating is less significant.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 15 2021, 08:23

I need to print a quick copy of a document. The printer utility never remembers the quality settings, so I have to reset them every time. But it does remember that I printed 50 copies last time.

SorcerorsApprentice.jpg

*pulls the plug to stop it*

*paper jam*

that era is still not completely gone either, these are still used to this day
[Dymo tape embosser image]

Thank you! It’s been ages since I last used a tape embosser, and I believe that one packed a few characters more than the one in your picture – where’s the comma?! Still, your image is so nostalgic that I saved it.

SorcerorsApprentice.jpg
*pulls the plug to stop it*
*paper jam*

We have the technology.

(Thanks for sharing. I believe all of us run into similar woes, at least sometimes.)

Damn it, something has been changed in a web software tied to my Internet box, and now it's no longer compatible with Firefox 76.0.1 that I use.
I will have to update (though I could use Edge in the meantime )
And bad luck coming with bad luck: as I was considering to go to ESR so that maybe I can update without fearing to break too many things while still expecting support while updating more often, well they recently bumped it to same version my Firefox would update to, 91.
And it seems it should break lots of stuff.
Will have to experiment with my tablet (while this poor old thing can still work and contribute to the world)

New FF can still be made less retarded with a bit of work.
I even have the old about:config.
And specifically in my case I've modified it so that it can still view images in the current tab and such.
The only things it's sorely missing are a proper status bar and a scrollbar that always follows system themes.


This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 15 2021, 20:36

New FF can still be made less retarded with a bit of work.

Yeah, but the issue is that (in my case at least) the work to do has to be compared to its updated form, and updated accordingly, with the risk that this time, some features have been broken for good, or may be in an unstable form, or ugly stuff finally managed to get in in a way that cannot be countered.
Far too much headache (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Another day, another fucking stupid firefox bug that's been open for three years
[bugzilla.mozilla.org] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488619.
Colours are oversaturated when using colour profiles when using the same rendering intent compared to in other colour management-aware applications

My current profile picture illustrates this really well on my laptop. It also feels like it's using the wrong gamma curve.

At least it does something, though; I can't get Chromium to honor my ICC profile at all so firefox still looks better on average.
I think chromium's supposed to obey the _ICC_PROFILE X atom, but it doesn't seem to actually do so, even when I do run xiccd.

Another stupid chromium thing:

CODE

--ignore-gpu-blacklist is deprecated and will be removed in 2020Q4, use --ignore-gpu-blocklist instead.

What a stupid and petty thing to introduce a breaking change over. And I saw it coming the moment I heard someone on NPR complaining about it in the tech industry.

I suppose it's just easier to appease people on this inconsequential bullshit than it is to give everyone the full history of computing jargon so that they can understand literally no one is thinking racially when they use that term in the computing context.
Maybe I should start using a literal '?' character whenever I need to do anything bl?cklist related in my own programs.

By the way, I can 100% understand how some people would get upset with the 'master/slave' thing in IDE drives - just because the word 'slave' makes it pretty clear that the term 'master' is being used with connotations of control/domination over someone else. Same for USB. I still think it's silly, because it shouldn't be racially charged to talk about slavery; there are (even today) plenty of slaves in the world that are not black. But I can at least appreciate/respect how in the context of America someone might get upset about this particular usage.

But the word 'master' on its own does not imply there has to be a 'slave.' Who the hell has ever heard of an audio 'slave tape,' or a 'reslaved' film? And are we still allowed to call the most accomplished chess players 'masters'? How about craftsmen, painters, musicians, or martial artists?
It just seems a tad ridiculous to be getting upset about calling a Git repository's default branch the 'master branch' because it's directly analogous to the concept of a 'master tape,' e.g. the canonical reference/source to work from.

I guess there are a lot of people with psychological problems (e.g., autism) in computing. Maybe that has something to do with why people only seem to care about it in silicon valley. Or maybe it's just California doing California things.

…I guess I should keep that one to myself when applying for jobs though… lest I be put on a blacklist ;)

If anyone wants to educate me on why I'm wrong, go ahead. Either here or in serious debates/FSZ if you think it'd be more appropriate. I'm listening.

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One more thought:
I need to get an RJ45 crimp tool and some connectors. About 3/4 of all my twisted pair ethernet cables (of all generations/speeds) have at least one broken off thumb tab. I've got zip ties on some of them, and it works, but it's also pretty irritating.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 16 2021, 00:18

If anyone wants to educate me on why I'm wrong, go ahead. I'm listening.

You want corrections? Okay, here we go.

1. You should be a little bit more unyielding when defending well-established vocabulary. (Except maybe in cases where there is solid historical evidence that said vocabulary, back in the days, was consciously established to promote oppression or inequality within society.)

2. You should better stress the fact that the context and the speaker’s or writer’s intention are what matter, rather than the first thing that comes to mind to somebody who wants to see offense everywhere.

3. You should be a bit more refined about it and abstain from swearing while you make your point. (This might not work on 4chan and in similar contexts, however.)

Otherwise, 6/5. This sort of thing, written by sworn opponents of bigotry, is what I want to read. What oppressed people need are better schools, youth work that prevents criminality, occupational safety, possibilities to get heard in decision-making, etc. Forced changes in vocabulary (with select few exceptions) are too superficial a way to fight any real problems, and often based on exaggerations or outright misinformation.

I must add, though, that replacing blacklist with blocklist sounds apt and clever to my layperson (sic) ears. I’ve seen far worse forced replacements, ones that are cumbersome and make less sense than the original terms. This one could actually have potential if we agreed that a terminology change is needed. But if we so agree, then surely we must get rid of whitelist as well, right? What’s the apt and clever replacement for that one?

This post has been edited by Katajanmarja: Aug 16 2021, 00:44

hxxps://script.google.com/macros/s/**********

Is that really a Google-owned site?

I must add, though, that replacing blacklist with blocklist sounds apt and clever to my layperson (sic) ears. I’ve seen far worse forced replacements, ones that are cumbersome and make less sense than the original terms. This one could actually have potential if we agreed that a terminology change is needed. But if we so agree, then surely we must get rid of whitelist as well, right? What’s the apt and clever replacement for that one?

I'll respond to the rest at some point after I've slept, but the people plugging 'block list' are saying we should say 'allow list.' Which is the part that makes it really crap.

Also, I counted one 'fuck' at the beginning of my post in a different topic than the 'blocklist' thing.

Unless you're counting 'hell' as a curse (I don't tend to, but I know some do) I think that's the only one I used in the post. The way my brain works it's a way to express bewilderment or astonishment rather than an expletive, so I guess I just didn't think about that when I wrote it.

Edit: Oh yeah there was a "bullshit" in there, too. Well, that pretty much just sums up what this feels like from where I'm standing, but there it is. I did say something.

If I were in FSZ I might have thrown a few more curses in for spice and replies.
Also, in my experience with 4chan, no one there has ever changed anyone with an opinion's mind on anything of importance, regardless of if they swore or not. Their sole impact might be to generate more (usually rude) responses.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 16 2021, 10:32

nginx's uwsgi_intercept_errors (or any of the other proxy_intercept_errors) is a blessing. The dev makes a shitty API that can't deal with a single wrong request but no problem, I just steel the reverse proxy which will catch the errors internally redirect to a static page I make and cache the result.

The shitty API normally will commonly answer 200, 200, 200, 403, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500 .... by which time the server load is tiny because all those 500s are taken from cache. The end result is that crappy devs can't overload my server no matter how shitty their app is.

Is FFmpeg optimized for 12- & 16-core CPUs? E.g. all 24/32 threads 90-100% utilized during encoding.

Is FFmpeg optimized for 12- & 16-core CPUs? E.g. all 24/32 threads 90-100% utilized during encoding.

probably depends on the video codec in question.

Someone [streaminglearningcenter.com] here appears to have 40 cores, and it seems it works fine with higher thread numbers like that.

Not all video codecs were probably programmed for parallel processing, especially the ones that already encode fast enough (or are very old and few care about). But for something like h.264 your answer is probably yes.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 17 2021, 06:20

Is it an encoder issue or the codec these days that determine if it supports multiple cores for encoding?

I've not actually swapped the PSU yet, but I think I'll have to rework at least one fan cable or power cable. I want to have I have a stupid cable spliced into a modular PSU plug instead of a female for a standard plug.

I wonder if windows sandbox or sandboxie may be better answers to what I previously said I wanted than what I mentioned.
...
Probably need to work on the details of the questions to ensure I get the right answer though (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)