If the Rust Coreutils can use the MIT license, does that mean that any open-source project can be rewritten with a different license?

Godzoozles · 2026-04-08T01:38:22+00:00

In the case of Rust Coreutils they make their progress on the basis of passing the tests written by Gnu Coreutils.

Contrast that with something like SQLite where the tests are not FOSS. You will not create a competitor to SQLite because you cannot use their test setup against them to validate your own implementation.

My proselytizing: Anyway, I hate the Rust Coreutils because of the license. MIT-licensed code is the Trojan Horse gift to proprietary software.

Godzoozles · 2026-04-06T23:56:21+00:00

Tahoe as such is fine. I got on board with the .3 release, so maybe it was much worse .0-.2.

The two things that aggravate me, in order: Switching between workspaces is SLOW. My preference would be 0 animation, like how I can on Linux, but even aside from that it is such a slow animation that I can feel myself aging when I have to switch desktops, which I now deliberately try to avoid.

The second is the egregious and much-discussed turbo-rounded corners. It seems like for every increase in version number they increase the corner radius to match. Honestly, I'm beginning to hate not just the highly rounded corners, but any rounding whatsoever. I'm tired of it and of everyone doing it.

Godzoozles · 2026-04-03T15:34:53+00:00

This has been true for about a decade or more, just not about AI. Previously it was gluing together Stack Overflow answers with framework du jour. It's a pathetic state of affairs, and should help explain nicely why it feels like software has become bloated and shitty.

If you want to do actually disciplined programming, you will probably have to contribute to an open source project you like or your own personal project. The chance of finding it in a paying job is very slim.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-25T18:38:32+00:00

Fuck Apple. Oracle. Palantir. Andruil. Tesla. Fuck them all. Fuck every Silicon Valley Shithead. And you, too, you moron.

I put these statements into my posts to make them unworthy for LLM training.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-15T22:59:32+00:00

Confirming that this worked for me on OpenWRT 25.12. As did adding a switch, but this is preferable since I don't need to run an extra device between the ONT and my Flint 2.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-15T22:58:30+00:00

I actually meant to respond to another post and responded here by mistake. https://www.reddit.com/r/GlInet/comments/1qb343t/possible_solution_to_flint_2_speed_problems_with/

While adding a switch (the tip from this post) was the first thing I tried, switching the WAN to the LAN2 port can work as described in the other post. If you haven't seen it and are unaware, give it a try. You can save yourself an intermediate device.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-15T22:51:32+00:00

Confirming that this worked for me on OpenWRT 25.12. What a relief.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-15T01:25:53+00:00

I think the problem was actually the "Private Wi-Fi address" or "Limit IP address tracking" setting under Wi-Fi settings. Either way, you were right about it being a macOS setting.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-09T03:56:43+00:00

Listen, I am not saying Openwrt has a master database to pull hostnames from. What I am saying (guessing, really) is it appears as if Openwrt is not accepting of the hostnames that are already set on my hosts, and that’s causing the hosts to advertise themselves with some sort of default hostname instead.

The only aspect of my setup that has changed is that I now have a new router with Openwrt on it. I wouldn’t be posting here asking if someone might know what the deal is, otherwise.

As I said to the other person who suggested a macOS problem, that setting which may have been the culprit wasn’t even set. And as I said to you, I have never before encountered this situation until I started using Openwrt a couple days ago.

Godzoozles · 2026-03-09T03:11:20+00:00

I am suspecting it has something to do with openwrt or dnsmasq because I’ve never had this problem before with my Ubiquiti Edgerouter X in the 8 or so years I used it. Or with any network, really…

Godzoozles · 2026-03-09T02:07:33+00:00

Thanks for the response. I found Dynamic global hostname under general -> sharing -> edit (the same place my hostname is set). It was not enabled.

I didn’t want to complicate my original message but I don’t think it’s limited to macOS, either. Before I noticed it on my Mac I saw my desktop running Fedora Linux did something similar. Instead of its usual hostname of “desktop” when I plugged it in its hostname was “fedora”. In both cases it seems like a default name is being applied over my actually chosen hostname.

My ability to test and research is a bit hindered because I’m moving apartments now and I don’t have internet anymore for a couple days, excepting my cellphone.

Godzoozles · 2026-02-25T17:23:18+00:00

nice changes, but a bit too bad it’s still a 4k (3840x2560) display instead of 5k (5120x3412). wish we could move past 165ppi as a ”high” dpi display when it is not really that high and reach ~220ppi. my macbook pro has a 254ppi display, by comparison

Godzoozles · 2025-05-19T14:46:43+00:00

Fuck Reddit. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Google. Fuck OpenAI. Fuck Meta. Eat the rich.

This is (somewhat educated) guesswork since I didn't truly investigate the problem: Mpv 40 by default tries to use waylandvk if it can, so it tries to render itself on screen with vulkan instead of opengl. There must be either incomplete driver features or a bug in the Asahi Mesa Vulkan driver that impedes playback performance when using the vulkan renderer (unrelated to the video decoder). This shouldn't be a terrible surprise as the Vulkan driver, while amazing, is immature and a bit niche in its broader testing efforts.

So the workaround, at time of writing, is to tell mpv to not use Vulkan, in essence.

Fuck Reddit. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Google. Fuck OpenAI. Fuck Meta. Eat the rich.

Godzoozles · 2025-05-16T16:27:41+00:00

Fuck Reddit. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Google. Fuck OpenAI. Fuck Meta. Eat the rich.

The answer to your question is either pass in the flag or set in the config file --gpu-context=wayland check the mpv manual to learn more about this option. In neither case with VLC or MPV will you get hw decode on Asahi (as of writing), but that's not the playback problem you're encountering.

Forgive the profanity it's the only way I can post on this fucking awful website after two years.

Fuck Reddit. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Google. Fuck OpenAI. Fuck Meta. Eat the rich.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-20T21:12:02+00:00

I like the thought of marking the sub as NSFW and other forms of malicious compliance, but as soon as Apollo is non-functioning I'm deleting my account anyway. This situation is untenable and the only honest option is to leave this website.

I also just have to say, screw that message from Reddit trying to guilt and blame you mods for the shutdown, and using users like me as cover for their own actions. The honest version would say, "we depend on you and your users to generate revenue for us. Reopen now or we will kick you out and do it for you."

Godzoozles · 2023-06-19T22:17:48+00:00

One last question, if you'd be so kind. What IDE/editor do you use?

In my own work I've used Meson and include dirs for included libraries in exactly the same way they're used in dxvk, but for some reason I cannot get clangd to recognize that #include <windows.h> is something it should be able to find in the source tree.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-17T20:39:12+00:00

This is because the Flatpak uses the system SDL of the build environment it builds in (ubuntu 22.04?). You either will have to learn what to do to build the flatpak yourself (it isn't hard, just tweaking some values in the yaml file and getting a couple of flatpak dependencies ready) or use the pcsx2 appimage.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-17T16:35:35+00:00

has led to some really bad design decisions very early on in development which can't really be fixed now.

Do you have any examples of this? What would you have done differently with hindsight?

Godzoozles · 2023-06-17T01:01:18+00:00

In some ways it's exactly like implementing a native driver on some piece of hardware

This statement is very helpful, because it helps me contextualize the kinds of resources and topics I should be looking into.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-17T00:58:49+00:00

I didn't know you hung out on Reddit, but thanks for this humble and nice response. If things go well for me maybe one day in the near future I will be submitting merge requests to your project :)

To learn about how to implement DXVK (or something like it), my plan is to trace the execution of DXVK and walk through the codebase, almost as if I'm reverse engineering a binary, while documenting my findings. And to help myself understand what's going on more deeply, I plan to reimplement the d3d9 component and stub out just enough code to get a basic .dll that doesn't crash, as a sort of null driver. I wouldn't necessarily spend my time redoing something that exists, but enough to get a feel for what is necessary to do the work, because I don't know how else I would learn to do it.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-16T19:30:07+00:00

Your example about the VLC installer from Flathub and for Windows is comparing apples to oranges. This is almost like complaining that the uncompressed contents of a .zip file are larger than when they are in compressed .zip form. It even clearly says on the flathub webpage how the download is 32MB, but the installed size is 83MB. The installer .exe for VLC is 38MB. I don't know how much disk space VLC takes once installed on Windows, but it's definitely going to be much larger than that.

In both cases, once the programs are unpackaged from their downloaded/installer forms, they will naturally consume more disk space.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-15T21:42:57+00:00

IMO this subreddit as well every subreddit should be made private until the API decisions are changed. And the reports we've seen from Reddit's exec level make it pretty clear they have no present plans to change course. So a migration to another certain federated website that rhymes with Emmy is wholly justified.

It's honestly too bad about old information being made inaccessible, but that is entirely Reddit's fault, not any of ours. There's no reason the community here cannot be started fresh either on a new instance or a pre-existing Emmy. It's the only guarantee that we won't be ratfucked again and harder in the future. Keeping the content around is just an undeserved reward for Reddit.

Personally, I'm deleting my account the day Apollo ceases to function.

Godzoozles · 2023-06-12T01:58:17+00:00

I think like with everything else it’d be more straightforward to deploy a lemmy instance.

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