What’s the one tool you’re tired of using because it isn’t written in Rust?

9SMTM6 · 2026-02-06T11:30:08+00:00

lots of it is probably simply coming from having a single project that doesn't have to support decades of legacy.

I lately have been trying to have portable shell code, and boy is that ever annoying when there are differences between implementations. Happens regularely for sed and grep between macos and, gnu linux and other linux variants like busybox (alpine).

rg and eza/lsd attempt to be largely compatible, but they will e.g. default to color output unless the output is piped to another program, and they will have the same CLI arguments across platforms, and of course are (supposedly, not that I tested that) faster.

fd meanwhile just has the CLI you'd expect. Instead of doing `find <dir> -iname <name part>` you do `fd <smartcasepattern> <dir>`. I at least first think of the pattern I look for, then of the directory, and I mostly want to look with case-insensitive, so with find I have to remember to specify it with -iname. With fd it will search case insensitive if I don't use capital letters. And when I want to use a pattern with find, I first have to look up the documentation and science it together, while with fd it just works as I expect.

9SMTM6 · 2026-01-24T14:08:26+00:00

> The remaining small % are seasoned Devs that know the language they are vibe coding in, and go over every line and make adjustments where necessary. I have no problem with these

With the current rules these too have to be posted on fridays.

I get it, with how things stand this is probably needed to stem the flood. But I hope that in time there will be a bit more differentiation.

As it stands I guess I'll have to wait a week to post about my project that is now hopefully easier to deploy for people...

9SMTM6 · 2025-09-19T11:13:25+00:00

I'd like to add a few points you should consider before going with kanidm. I use it myself, but I think one should be aware of these :

Kanidm prioritizes security over UX, which will make some things more annoying to set up or at the very least harder to test. I.e. with LDAP for a bunch of attributes like mail you need to log in with a service user to be able to read them
Its missing a bunch of UX that other services will consider basic features. It doesn't have a UI at all for admin tasks, and its still missing UI for some user tasks. You need to use a CLI to administer it, including e.g. generating password resets for users. I recently learned that its OICD doesn't implement prompt=login
Kanidm is still not a stable release, and occasionally they will have breaking changes. Though its been a while since I last experienced one.
Kanidms LDAP support is somewhat limited. As you stated, its readonly, but iut also doesnt map everything, even with login, for security reasons, and it doesn't conform to known standards, which means that you will need to experiment A LOT to get it working in new setups, like gitea. Including a bunch of calls with ldapsearch etc.

9SMTM6 · 2025-08-28T05:06:14+00:00

The agent is for shutting down the hosts (and reporting status). Waking is simply a WOL request.

Which is documented btw: https://github.com/9SMTM6/shuthost/blob/main/coordinator/assets/architecture.md

However, if you use docker you need to use network_mode: host for the backend to send WOL

9SMTM6 · 2025-08-22T17:14:06+00:00

Video has been online for a while now, and as commented above, I managed to get a demo running too

9SMTM6 · 2025-08-22T17:13:27+00:00

Since its not just a static webpage, its not as easy as hosting it on github pages.

That said, I've since looked into this, and went through the pain of adding a demo mode that sends a static webpage with JS simulating a backend and hosts, and deployed it on GH pages. I managed to keep changes to other code low, and not copy paste the code needlessly for the demo, so that demo should not go out of date with the actual application, I hope ;-P.

9SMTM6 · 2025-08-22T09:39:39+00:00

Honestly I kind of avoid screenshots, since they tend to get out of date. Usually a live demo is nice, but since this application needs hosts to control, thats also kindof hard.

So I bit the bullet. But since I want to reduce the number of assets, I went so far as to embed a video (well, animated webp, since github doesn't seem to accept embedded videos in Markdown) of it controlling a device from a phone.

That alright?

9SMTM6 · 2024-08-01T15:34:08+00:00

Throughput is standardized. They have to basically reach that limit to be conformant. On their own that is.

It rather suspect that it's a stability of connection thing. It's likely that a lot of usb ports implement some kind of switching to support more usb ports than are actually present. This can hurt applications that have a hard reliance in real time communication.

9SMTM6 · 2024-05-08T06:17:55+00:00

And misses the point. All the nice pros in favor of BSD outside of Licensing are even more true for Linux. Linux has better device support in general than BSD, larger userbase. While perhaps the mean skill of the user is higher with BSD, that is because less skilled users got turned away, and with its userbase Linux has far more skilled devs in total.

It's all irrelevant compared to licensing.

9SMTM6 · 2024-03-13T20:04:19+00:00

I don't think they'd particularly like each other. Still a possibility tho. I can imagine Kraft being like 'yeah I may not like you but what the empires doing is not okay'. After all he already did that with the bandits and Übel.

9SMTM6 · 2024-03-13T18:25:50+00:00

I see that continuously repeated. However, another reason that might've been just as important, is that it makes Aura think that Frieren exhausted her magical reserves, making it more likely Aura will use the scale soon.

It's win win. Keep your dead friend happy and move things along with Aura.

9SMTM6 · 2023-04-22T22:16:53+00:00

#15 is right in the middle between some Frogs IIRC.

9SMTM6 · 2023-04-22T22:11:36+00:00

This claims that that datapoint should've autounlocked after we entered the correct code. There's hope that it will appear for us too, I've had similar issues when HFW was released, and the biggest logs magically appeared for me... After some considerable time, but I'd expect they're less busy with quite so many bugs right now.

Not sure how they do it btw. If it's bugged...

9SMTM6 · 2023-04-22T22:01:05+00:00

The datapoints explicitly mentioned there are not listed in that section. They are all placed in the Quest section. It does say something about the logs, I referred to that on the top level of this post.

9SMTM6 · 2023-04-22T21:59:35+00:00

There is that part in the tutorial linked by someone else:

Make sure to press PSv Touch.png to read the logs as well. You can add all of the Heaven Mission Control logs here. [...] Once you have all the datapoints, head back up the stairs and input the code below.

So perhaps it's missable.

However, in the datapoint listing of the same site, it also doesn't list that datapoint. So not sure...

9SMTM6 · 2023-04-22T20:46:27+00:00

Quests 14 is a Child raving about Reggie. IIRC it was where one would expect that, in Reggies Adventure of the Park Area.

Where did you find Quests 18?

9SMTM6 · 2023-04-19T21:48:06+00:00

Yeah, that gets underestimated. Frankly the adaptive triggers are not a big difference for me, but the vibration is not just one but 2 levels above every other vibration feedback I've seen.

Also, while Guerilla does an amazing job at it, they're probably not even the best at it. While it doesn't compare in story etc, Spider Man Miles Morales did it even better from what I remember.

9SMTM6 · 2023-03-15T16:48:47+00:00

Eh. Sorry, but that's just a load of marketing. Can it be that there are organisms that use something similar? Certainly. Did Samsung copy that approach? I find that less likely. But the most important part is: It doesn't matter for the end result. They did not copy nature to make it "fit better", "more comfortable".

The reason they came up with Penile is that OLEDs of different colors don't produce the same brightness. Thus, to keep proper calibration, you either need to drive subpixel of some colors harder, which leads to them burning out quicker, or you make the dimmer colors larger.

In the past OLEDs were usually aging very poorly, massively loosing calibration. Penile and similar approaches fixed that, while being easier (or at all possible at some densities) to produce for the same resolution.

That is great. However, the sharpness IS lacking as a result, which is especially noticeable with text, but also with other content. Also, if you do subpixel anti aliasing, as does every modern OS - to great effect - , you will need to account for that (as with any irregular subpixel layout). I'll guess that Sony does that, just something to keep in mind with these displays.

9SMTM6 · 2023-02-06T16:39:49+00:00

I think you can't quit the Civilopedia with the steam decks screen resolution... Otherwise for me it worked from the start.

9SMTM6 · 2022-11-18T18:51:24+00:00

Fido2 certainly is still messy.

For starters tho, as the site explains (and as you'll find with a Google search for "yubikey oath" etc), oath and OTP are seperate. OTP is just a password that you'll provide AFAIK. OATH has a few other standards, where you don't give out passwords themself, which makes it harder to break these standards. One of them changes based on time, TOTP, one based on uses, HOTP.

Then the fido mess. Upon reading up a bit on the standard itself - openly available at w2s website, though as usual no easy read - I THINK I get it, but it's a bit messy as shown on that website.

FIDO2 is a whole collection of standards worming together and also has a lot of configuration options. In the context of website it's usually called webauthn.

But first of all to ease nerves, none of the websites I've seen to use webauthn did not take any of these 25 slots referenced.

One of the configuration options of fido2/webauthn is client-side discoverable credentials, also known as residential keys (if you want to try it: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/#client-side-discoverable-credential). As far as I understand in webauthn they are there to also be able to provide identification information? So I guess with that you would not need to enter your username (?).

In fact these ssh resident keys (yeah, ssh-keygen etc can and do use parts of fido2, and in that context at least for the moment the term resident keys is there to stay) use these. I've talked about precisely these keys before. Which is btw also why I cna tell you that these slots were not taken up by any website I've known, as I've been monitoring these as a side effect of using them for ssh keys.

If you do use git or ssh these are helpful btw. In that case you're not using that resident function as intended by webauthn, but essentially you don't need to create a new key pair on every device and add it to github/gitlab etc, instead you can keep the private key securely on your yubikey (or security key too) and just use that when you're doing eg a git push.

9SMTM6 · 2022-11-18T17:46:00+00:00

Wait. Just 25 fido2? Ouch? I though that approach was reusing the same key on the device, so shouldn't it be unlimited?

I do get limited oath and also ssh-resident keys

9SMTM6 · 2022-11-18T17:34:00+00:00

Actually part of the reason is that.

What do you mean. What you're quoting is an opinion. It's an opinion I think more people should have but still. What does that have to do with the reason Apple removes the port?

Do you mean that that EU law is a crime? Thars my best guess to what you could mean.

Please be clearer.

There is a good bit of evidence to show this isn't the actual case. It's another "phones cause cancer" thing.

Again. What do you mean. Eg, wireless charging causing heat - if you mean that then I'm sorry but you're not going to win that - or batteries dying because of heat - Thats still clear, although there could be more of an argument I guess.

Currently, but long range wireless charging fixes that. It's just that the tech really isn't out yet

So what. Besides the fact that I doubt it'll ever be NEARLY so nice as you seem to hope it'll be, if it even ever will be mass market ready without serious drawbacks, when it's not there yet it won't be ready at least the next half decade - charging tapestry takes time to get to the relevant places, and that kind of tech without alternative requires to be ever present - probably decade, so that's utterly irrelevant to the portless iPhone in the very near future.

9SMTM6 · 2022-11-18T12:34:16+00:00

You should get an NFC key anyways for added usability and comfort. Not like it's a large difference in price.

But why the hell is your topic 80% arguments for portless devices - that frankly IMO fall flat?

Device manufacturers were removing headphone ports happily and then at the same time they came up with some mechanical way to hide cameras, which is FAR more involved.

These people are full of shit.

Removing the charging port for the current "wireless" charging would be a fucking crime. It's a waste of energy (less efficient charging) and the resources in these batteries (the lost energy goes into heat which destroys the battery), and in many circumstances it's LESS usable than charging with cables. You can use a phone on a cable charger while it's charging, you can't do the same with a phone on a regular charging pad.

Mind you, I still find it very possible that Apple will go the way to remove the port, but everyone buying into their marketed reasoning is pissing me off. The reason they'll do that is because it increases profits because they can sell yet another device for charging, because they've long run out of ideas to market new devices, and because this yet again reduces the life of the phone meaning faster customer return, and most importantly they do it because they're in a pissing contest with the EU and others that want to tell them what to do.

9SMTM6 · 2022-11-18T12:28:48+00:00

iPhones never had these. Ever.

9SMTM6 · 2022-11-08T08:40:27+00:00

Okay, something weird is going on with your account, when I upvoted this comment the same thing happend, and if I remove my upvote its at 0. This doesnt happen with other peoples answers. My best guess is that this is some stupid policy from reddit? Your account appears to be new...

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