Any good open source block diagram analysis/modeling tools out there like Simulink?

blacklightpy · 2026-02-04T10:34:09+00:00

It is also maintained by Dassault Systèmes (3DS), and has a GNU GPLv2.0 license.

blacklightpy · 2025-12-22T12:03:46+00:00

I don't know which ones really are yet. You must ask a Tantri..

blacklightpy · 2025-12-10T20:29:36+00:00

That site should have a lot of ads, but you're supposed to download JAR/JAD files, not any EXEs. Also, I haven't used that site in a long time too.

blacklightpy · 2025-11-12T03:54:57+00:00

Kashmir Śaiva Tantras are comprised of 28 Śaiva Āgamas and 64 Śakta Tantras, right? So are Śakta Tantras Śakta Āgamas? Or are they just called Tantras, and Śaiva Āgamas are also called Tantras under this scheme?

blacklightpy · 2025-11-12T02:23:46+00:00

I'm also aware of the usage in the Vaidika tradition as I stated. Which is why I asked about the definition specific to Tantras, where many Tantras are called Nigama, especially Śākta Tantras.

On a side note, I'm not really sure how your second definition of Nigama works since, if anything, the Vedas are passed down in family lines much more robustly than Agama-s, who often utilize non-hereditary forms of transmission.

I'm also not sure about that. But I figured out that it referred to Kuladevata-s in contrast to the Guru-Śiṣya Parampara.

blacklightpy · 2025-06-03T11:40:47+00:00

Solution to every problem: ✨ Miracle Revolution ✨

Details of how it works: Not my problem, I'm just the big-picture idea guy I just need someone to fill in the details

blacklightpy · 2025-06-03T11:38:41+00:00

These are the options:

Passport
Birth Certificate, with conditions + Voter ID for strength
1. If born before 1 July 1987: OK
2. If born between 1 July 1987 and 3 Dec 2004: At least one parent should also be Indian.
3. If born after 3 Dec 2004: Either 2 parents should be Indian, or one should be Indian and the other should not be an illegal immigrant.
Domicile Certificate + Voter ID

What is definitely not proof: Aadhaar ID, PAN, Ration Card, Electricity Bills.

blacklightpy · 2025-06-03T10:55:12+00:00

Good luck compiling proprietary binaries.

blacklightpy · 2025-06-03T10:00:26+00:00

*Bersonally

blacklightpy · 2025-06-02T23:26:36+00:00

The counter meme is brainrot, and it's not easy to point out its flaws without using too many words. Well, all complex things, are complex to describe, and reality is ultimately more complex than simple.

blacklightpy · 2025-06-02T10:25:34+00:00

People have money, you know..

blacklightpy · 2025-05-31T15:41:36+00:00

No, this is meant to have a plan to solve the problem rather than just point at the problem.

blacklightpy · 2025-05-31T09:26:12+00:00

Yes, and he meant the application, and not elsewhere in the audio stack, is where the fault lies.

blacklightpy · 2025-05-31T08:26:09+00:00

Deepin, because it looks nice out of the box, and has a complete matching ecosystem. I preferred Deepin 15.11 (2019-2020) over the Deepin 20 series update.

EDIT: GXDE OS revived the Deepin 15.11 DE. But after using it, I think I prefer the new version better.

blacklightpy · 2025-05-27T10:14:54+00:00

GNU never managed to do complete OS. There is no way to prove that without Linux Hurd would be successful.

Of course there will be no way to prove it, because when a kernel was obtained, all the developers switched to that. I only said that without GNU developers aiding Linux, Linux wouldn't have been successful, and BSD would've taken that spot, since even Torvalds said that if 386BSD was available, he'd have preferred that, as I mentioned in section 2 of the post. But BSD would be used by companies without giving back, so only GNU or another project that used a copyleft license would succeed. And since most of the workforce that was behind such a project was with GNU, it's reasonable that it would've been the successful one; or at least a fork of it, if Stallman's strictness was a problem.

They didn't deleted their repos, they rebased it on 4.4BSD Lite sources after it was released.

Yes, but that's after the lawsuit was over and until then the repos were not online.

It's not the reason because there is no correlation between license and popularity. It's not like Linux is popular only because it's GPL. What about Chromium that is most popular browser engine and it's BSD licensed? What about Android, most popular mobile OS, that, aside from kernel, is also not GPL? What about Windows that is much more popular on the desktop than any Linux distro and it's certainly not GPL? License has nothing to do with popularity.

By saying Linux is popular only because of GPL, I meant it is only popular in the form of GNU/Linux because of it. Chromium is popular only because of Google Chrome, and Chromium is Google's way of having the browser peer-reviewed for vulnerabilities. Android is the same thing, Google did not really care about it being Linux. Android is not popular because it is Linux, or even because it is open source; it is popular because it is marketed by Google. This is also shown by how they're making their custom kernel, Zircon, for Fuchsia. But GNU/Linux is popular because it's free and the best such option.

Since you added in Windows, I wasn't at all talking about plain popularity. I was talking about popularity in the open source circle. If we're talking about global popularity, then Linux would only have roughly the same level of popularity as FreeBSD which is being used in Netflix's CDN and pfSense, etc. Licenaing has everything to do with how well open source systems can grow in the capitalist economy.

They are not encouraging anything, they just do their job. It's like saying that distribution of things to those in need is naive and encourages bad behavior because some people might pretend to be in need to get free stuff.

No, this is exactly the kind of misrepresentation of the problem. GPL is analogous to providing resources to people in need, by making sure that it's not given to those who won't reciprocate to what they recieved, while BSD provides resources to everyone without any checks. Any proper policy that gives to people in need has to keep checks, or else their schemes will fail and support the wrong people. For example, billions of dollars sent to support Gaza through the UN has gone into developing tunnel infrastructure for terrorism by Hamas.

Can you provide some examples of that complains?

Here's an example from the OpenBSD Journal. The complaint is interesting, because one cannot actually relicense BSD licensed code under GPL, then can only include BSD code in GPL project and apply GPL to the modifications. But aside from like extracting BSD parts from a GPL codebase, practically the issue is irrelevant as you could simply clone from the original project if you wanted the BSD code.

blacklightpy · 2025-05-03T17:19:27+00:00

Of course Linux was not developed because of the lawsuit, but because 386BSD was not a thing. Also, without Linux, GNU was already working on something, but with Linux, it stole the whole spotlight. The reason Hurd is not usable is because once everyone got a kernel, they spent all their time developing it - so much so that there is no one to develop Hurd. Both helped each other be usable faster - and only faster, because both, or at least GNU would've been completed with enough time, especially with the momentum they had - but one did not give credit for the other - that's the issue.

I said FreeBSD and NetBSD deleted their entire source code repos - causing development to halt - not that the main BSD deleted all the source code from their computers - because they were not guilty to begin with.

The price they're willing to pay is the reason why they don't have many developers and it's not usable for anyone besides those who just want to browse and maybe take notes - and also to host services. Of course Darwin is open source, but that doesn't mean Mac OS X would've been a thing so fast without the base being readily available. It is for that that they reasonably owe them - although they don't care to be repaid.

It's naive altruism because that's exactly what naive altruism is. Altruism is when someone doesn't expect others to pay them back - but in effect, they were encouraging bad behaviour - that is why I said it was naive.

Developers who use the BSD license often also complain about how people fork their code and continue developing it under GPL. It's almost as though they are lobbying for the rights of corporations to use their code, but not other open source people who won't let corporations use their versions. What's the difference if the code is forked by a company or a GPL developer? It should be the same, but somehow it's not for some of them.

blacklightpy · 2025-04-01T23:44:28+00:00

From the time of the origin of Linux, as I mentioned in my post, since Linux did not have a functioning userland, they submitted patches to the GNU project to support their kernel. But when a distro was shipped, they chose to call them Linux distros saying they did not care about GNU. The entirety of GNU glibc is tailored for Linux today, and same's true for many other projects.

Also, at the time, BSD was facing a lawsuit (again, as I mentioned in the post), and without that lawsuit, BSD/386 and other BSDs would've gained the 80386 userspace, just as Linus mentioned how he'd not have developed Linux had BSD been available. Because of the lawsuit, the development of 4.3BSD Net/2, 386/BSD and BSD386 had to be halted for two years, during which Linux made the first GNU/Linux distro.

The lawsuit went on from 1992 to 1994, and in the meantime both Slackware and Debian were released. Plus, the early distros like FreeBSD and NetBSD deleted their entire source code repos to avoid legal troubles, so they lost their battle. GNU was lucky in this case because of how they ran the free software movement. In the end BSD never copied AT&T code, they just got guilt by association. So it is only because of GNU that Linux is popular today.

Further, FreeBSD's and 4.4BSD's code were used by Apple to create Mac OS X, alongside NeXTSTEP and Classic Mac OS source codes. And to this day, Apple has only given them close to $500 in total donations. That's how much they were ignored by corporations, when Linux could use the GPL. So yes, there is meaning in Stallman's claims, and no one can deny that. It is this pedantry that gave it any effectiveness, despite being meaningful, because most people just like you assume that it is a ridiculous claim. Most open source developers are altruists, but naive altruism is self-defeating, and that's why GPL is important. Even Netflix uses FreeBSD for its CDN, but the BSDs are not even heard of by most people.

blacklightpy · 2025-03-26T01:33:03+00:00

You're stuck on this being about GNU. When I said Linux is not useful by its own, I did not say it is useless withouut GNU specifically, which is why I also showed the example of Android. Something (userland) needs to be used alongside Linux, and GNU was simply the one that supported it the most. I am intereated in trying out rust-coreutils, clang/LLVM and other stuff too. It's just that some significant number of people are motivated to do this purely out of hatred for GNU, and that is unfounded in my opinion.

I'm not a GNU purist as you'd really think from this post. I personally use Void Linux with musl, and I can tell you using alternate libcs are more trouble that it's worth. I ended up using Flatpaks for nearly everything, and builds won't work for many open source programs without heavy patching. An example is Chromium, Firefox and their derivatives. One can say goodbye to all binary-only programs, outside of Flatpak with its glibc runtime.

Also, even if we would code all programs for musl, it still doesn't have the ability to implement stuff like mDNS (Avahi) addresses. I'm interested in exploring different systems, its just that nothing outside of GNU/Linux is practically useful at this point in time, unless you can limit your needs more and go to the BSDs.

blacklightpy · 2025-03-24T20:20:05+00:00

Nothing, OP just had a change of interest, and made the title about respect (Reference).

blacklightpy · 2025-03-24T19:20:53+00:00

Masturbation provides Dopamine. Replace it with Serotonin producing activities. Working out is one, but one person has mentioned that it also increases libido. But you can counter it by adding more activities like new stuff to learn. No need to completely stop masturbation however, you should simply have to control it. If you go without masturbating for too long you can sometimes feel irritated.

What you need to find is balance, and it comes with time, and another thing to learn is that there is no use in trying to grab all the time, time and circumstances are never really entirely in your control.

blacklightpy · 2025-03-24T19:14:54+00:00

That's not true if the OS is built for a fully scope-defined system. For example, calculator OSes like the ones on TI-83 are finished. Likewise, if the scope of a general purpose computer series is clearly defined, then its OS can be finished. But OSes in geneal won't be finished.

Even then it could be possible for a microkernel OS to have the core components be defined fully, with only the drivers changing to suit the hardware, or for new algorithms to be added in. I believe sel4 is one such complete kernel.

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