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KindOneon An opinionated approach to GNU Make

>macs don't have a recent bash

macOS Catalina now uses zsh.

KindOneon VirtualBox 6.1

No, it can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

https://www.qemu.org/download/

KindOneon AVX register corruption from signal delivery

Reminds me of this post from 2017:

"Debugging an evil Go runtime bug" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845118

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427

https://bugs.gentoo.org/637152

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/10/188

KindOneon CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to crash your system

Have you seen this post? https://medium.com/@mxatone/how-bad-design-decisions-created...

KindOneon Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

Probably compounded by the fact that a bunch of schools closed in the midwest and northeast because of the snow.

KindOneon Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)

Uppercase 'S' for TLS, lowercase 's' just hides the channel from /list and ALIS on freenode.

KindOneon Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)

The spammers were using unidentified nicks. The network has channel mode 'r', that is used for only allowing identified nicks into the channel.

I'm not really a fan of channel mode 'r' for support channels. Someone might join the channel for a simple question or two, they get the answers and never return. Having to register a nickname and check email can be a bit annoying for some people.

The network also has user mode 'R' that blocks messages from unidentified users.

They added a spam filter into the IRCd over a year ago.

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/channelmodes

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/usermodes

https://freenode.net/news/spamfilter

KindOneon Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track

Intel is a bit annoying at picking and choosing which instruction sets get included in the processes. Maybe they just removed it for the 10th gen mobile? I wonder if they will be included in the 10th gen desktop, if that is ever going to be released.

I've only looked at a few of the mobile and desktop 9th gen, looks like its only included in some of the higher end models.

Mobile:

i5-9300H - no

i5-9400H - yes

i7-9750H - no

i7-9850H - yes

Desktop:

i3-9300 - no

i5-9600 - yes

i7-9700 - yes

KindOneon Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size

musl has 4 for 2019.

musl-1.1.24.tar.gz (sig) - October 13, 2019

musl-1.1.23.tar.gz (sig) - July 16, 2019

musl-1.1.22.tar.gz (sig) - April 9, 2019

musl-1.1.21.tar.gz (sig) - January 21, 2019

http://www.musl-libc.org/oldversions.html

KindOneon Rejected from YC (Again)

Something like this? https://xkcd.com/1102/

KindOneon How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs

Yes. Its also been added into various LTS versions about five or six months ago.

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16....

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.1...

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14....

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19....

ctrl+f: cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option

KindOneon Why should I always enable compiler warnings?

What about gdb?

KindOneon Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS

Discussion on reddit (3 months ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/byuw77/so_this_is...

KindOneon Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS

If you use the software you can email him and ask for his Capterra review link. Capterra is giving out $10 USD gift cards for reviews on his software.

KindOneon Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

Needs (2016) added at the end. (Might be older, could not find anything on archive.org before Jan 2016)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870488

KindOneon LLVM 9.0

Repo of the Linux kernel built with clang:

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux

KindOneon Free POS Software / Free Cash Register Program

Previous discussion on reddit little over a week ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/byuw77/so_this_is...

KindOneon Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting

Slow the decay for funerals.

KindOneon Ask HN: What do lightly-colored comments mean?

You need 501 karma for downvoting.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

KindOneon Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

I would guess it depends at what time you post. Posting at 3am would have different results than a 3pm post.

KindOneon Arabsat-6A mission [video]

https://youtu.be/TXMGu2d8c8g?t=2864

Solid oxygen.

KindOneon US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max

Looks like it only took two events for the FAA to ground them. I think they were instantly grounded because everyone knew the dangers of lithium-ion batteries catching fire.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lithium-ion-b...

KindOneon Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

License is MLP 2.0.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/4995

KindOneon GCC proves an uninitialized variable must be 0 and doesn't warn about it

I think -Wsometimes-uninitialized ?

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/381

KindOneon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

Look at the users profile. It has the persons email address.

KindOneon Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

They fixed that a few weeks ago.

KindOneon Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

You can disable the redesign. Its also somewhere in the preferences.

http://old.reddit.com

KindOneon Coverity Scan Update

I have access for two opensource programs using it (bitchx and znc). The webui is a bit like a full blown IDE. It has found a few bugs (some are CVE's) in various projects.

https://github.com/znc/znc/search?p=1&q=Coverity&type=Commit...

https://github.com/bitchx/bitchx/search?p=1&q=Coverity&type=...