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quazeekotl | 5 years ago | on: Cups has been forked after Apple supplied only one commit in all of 2020

CUPS was almost entirely[1] made by Michael R Sweet who left Apple close to a year ago[2] and now works for his own company.

Completely understandable to move the upstream repo away from Apple, I don't think there's much else to it. He's been very active in the fork AFAICT.

His Sponsors page: https://github.com/sponsors/michaelrsweet

[1] https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors

[2] https://www.msweet.org/blog/2019-12-20-left-apple.html

quazeekotl | 6 years ago | on: YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

Most of those ideas didn't die out because one day people found out about them, and then we put an end to them.

Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, why didn't this "sunlight" disinfect them?

quazeekotl | 6 years ago | on: Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All

> The poorest of the poor in this country is in magnitude better conditions than their companions in other countries.

This is objectively untrue by pretty much any measure.

For instance on plenty of health related metrics the US is significantly worse than most first world countries (such as infant mortality), and some regions are worse than even many third world countries (such as Texas).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

44th on this list

The idea that poor people are significantly better off in the USA is a flat out lie.

quazeekotl | 6 years ago | on: Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions

How many non-complicit-with-the-government North Koreans do you think have safe, unmonitored access to computers and the internet, and so can safely (or even unsafely) use cryptocoin? If the number is not 0 it is very, very close to 0.

We already know that the North Korean government is using cryptocoin tech to evade international sanctions to fund their missile and nuclear programs.

How many North Korean non government officials do you suppose were permitted to attend this conference?

Actions like this absolutely enable this terrible regime to perpetuate itself and its horrific actions, they do little or nothing to aid any ordinary North Koreans.

quazeekotl | 6 years ago | on: The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

Unfortunately enabling swap in linux has a very annoying side effect, linux will preferentially push out pages of running programs that have been untouched for X time for more disk cache, pretty much no matter how much ram you have.

This comes into play when you copy or access huge files that are going to be read exactly once, they will start pushing out untouched program pages to disk, in exchange for disk cache that is completely 100% useless, even to the tune of hundreds of gigabytes of it.

Programs can reduce the problem with madvise(MADV_DONT_NEED), but that only applies to files you are mmap()ing, and every single program under the sun needs to be patched to issue these calls.

You can adjust vm.swapiness systctl to make X larger, but no matter what, programs will start to get pushed out to disk eventually, and cause unresponsiveness when activated. You can reduce vm.swapiness to 1, but if you do, the system only starts swapping in an absolute critical low ram situation and you encounter anywhere from 5 minutes, to 1+ hour of total, complete unresponsiveness in a low ram situation.

There _NEEDS_ to be a setting where program pages don't get pushed out for disk cache, peroid, unless approaching a low ram situation, but BEFORE it causes long periods of total crushing unresponsiveness.

quazeekotl | 8 years ago | on: Let Consumers Sue Companies

This is the typical corporate abuse enabling flaw in a lot of libertarian thinking.

Withdraw limiting regulations and replace them with market based compeititve mechanisms.

Except somehow the second part inevitably seems to get forgotten about...

quazeekotl | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

I think thats pretty unfair when mozilla has been straight up refusing to implement webextension equivilents to XUL based functionality that a lot of addons depend on.

Such as the fact there is no way to enumerate what sites have html5 local storage stuff stored, thus no way to control or clear it on a per site basis, and they are not interested in changing this, rendering an addon like what self destructing cookies does imposisble...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329745

Or the ability for extensions to construct permission sandboxing

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353468

There is objectively a LOT of functionality that is just plain never going to be implemented, thats far from the fault of the extension authors.

Many have been trying to work with mozilla to push in the functionality they need, but if they just get disregaurded and ignored what are they supposed to do exactly?

Don't try to place the blame for this on the extension authors.

quazeekotl | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

Do you have any evidence this is actually true? XUL is still there, the firefox UI is still written in it and it will be for quite some time to come. I find it hard to beleive disallowing XUL extensions have significantly sped anything up.

quazeekotl | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/

Unfortunately 75%+ of the most used extensions either arnt ported, wont be ported, or cant be ported.

The situation is pretty grim, mozilla really needs to delay this move, web extensions arnt capable of supporting the functionality lots of these addons require, and its not like XUL is even going away in the near/midterm, this is purely an administrative decision.

If they plow forward anyways its going to really, really hurt firefox.

quazeekotl | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

>the same people who are most vocal about this are the same people that are most vocal about not having multi process support and about having compatibility issues with extensions when the browser updates or when one extension steps onto another extension (all old-style extensions share a single namespace).

These strawpeople exist only in your mind.

quazeekotl | 8 years ago | on: Inciting Violence vs Freedom of Speech

This site is being run in part by weev aka Andrew Auernheimer, somebody that basicly spends all their time finding ways to stir up shit, and generate controversy.

This site has absolutely nothing to do with genuinely disseminating white power ideas, and everything to do with doing exactly what its doing right now, getting thrown off of every popular hosting service it can so it can generate more articles, and more drama. You can be positive its going to make its rounds on pretty much every hosting service there is.

That is the express goal of his actions and I can not beleive nobody is calling that out.

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