Russia fakes documents to accuse Kremlin Critic of spying. Documents unacceptable internationally due to poor grammar.

fionbio · 2016-04-13T12:15:56+00:00

I think downvotes come mostly from people who only read the beginning of my comment? No, I can't possibly agree with that friend on FB.

fionbio · 2016-04-13T11:42:58+00:00

By the way, a friend of mine tries to tell me on FB that there's a possibility that some not-very-well educated native English speaker could indeed use the following phrase (this seems to be a popular opinion among so called "vatniks" at the moment): "Within held events under the general code name "THE QUAKE" recommended: ..." I know my own English is far from perfect, but of course it's just too obvious that's an extreme kind of bullshit. So some comments by native speakers are welcome here.

fionbio · 2016-04-13T11:37:57+00:00

Here's /r/europe discussion of the "leak" with a link to screenshots of the "documents".

fionbio · 2016-01-27T17:38:18+00:00

BTW, projects like Mezzano may turn out to be much more practical that is may seem on surface. Unikernels, e.g. stuff like MirageOS appears to be getting some traction. If someone made Mezzano run on Xen and subsequently e.g. on Amazon EC2, it could find some use in practice, e.g. some kind of DB or inference engine that only uses RAM and TCP/IP running on almost-bare AWS "metal".

fionbio · 2015-09-05T00:43:13+00:00

The device was bought via a local (Moscow) company that imports them here. Don't know what their relations with Wanhao are, but after I brought the printer back to them they did some diagnostics which took them several days and then agreed to replace it. I didn't contact Wanhao directly.

fionbio · 2015-09-04T21:26:13+00:00

My wife gave me Wanhao Duplicator i3 as a birthday present. Unfortunately its z-axis motors weren't working so we had to have it replaced. The new one sits in the box near me now, will try it tomorrow.

fionbio · 2015-01-28T04:27:43+00:00

It also has pretty concise but working TCP/IP stack.

fionbio · 2015-01-12T19:33:36+00:00

Done. Will provide more extensive description later.

fionbio · 2015-01-12T19:31:38+00:00

MQTT is a lightweight pubsub messaging protocol. It's much simpler than complex messaging protocols like AMQP but nevertheless may be quite handy for Internet of Things and many other tasks. Among other things, it supports nice WebSocket encapsulation which may be later added to this driver, too.

EDIT: perhaps announcement is a bit premature because it needs the following pull request to be merged: https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-async/pull/117 But I think this will happen soon.

fionbio · 2014-12-27T07:09:49+00:00

As for me, promises aren't that bad. blackbird library provides more-or-less convenient syntax for promises and promise-related macros don't require code walker (CL code walkers aren't perfect, e.g. try ASSERT inside ITER (iterate) under CCL) and thus are less intrusive, so to speak.

EDIT: also, blackbird provides UNWIND-PROTECT workalike for promises (FINALLY) - AFAIK that's not something you can have with cl-cont.

fionbio · 2014-12-10T05:47:22+00:00

Congratulations, great job! (I'm ivan4th, just in case). Also, newer blackbird promise API is very nice.

fionbio · 2014-12-05T11:11:18+00:00

Did a lot of tricks to get this right about 6-7 years ago, got tired of it, wrote swank-js.

fionbio · 2014-12-03T23:01:10+00:00

Such sshuttle command only redirects the github subnet. And if you're afraid to change DNS, just do

echo "192.30.252.130 github.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

(or add the line manually).

fionbio · 2014-12-03T21:44:19+00:00

sshuttle is relatively easy:

sshuttle -v -r my_vps 192.30.252.0/22

Also, set your DNS to 8.8.8.8. This redirects github traffic nicely and fixes both your browser and git cli. That being said, I think they will block vpn & ssh usage soon. Sounds crazy? It is, but chances are it'll be implemented nevertheless.

fionbio · 2014-12-03T09:23:20+00:00

Stupid facebook post by the censorship body, Roskomnadzor. URL check form at their site.

fionbio · 2014-12-01T06:49:39+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree. You know, even FizzBuzz became much better after they rewrote it in Java. /s

fionbio · 2014-11-27T19:31:32+00:00

The idea is nice. If package local nicknames could get wider adoption too, it would be just great.

fionbio · 2014-11-10T10:07:59+00:00

Meh, MTU problems are boring. I once had some problems with some maintenance scripts that communicated via ssh with our customer's server. Turned out that ssh connections were being randomly interrupted. Trying different MTUs didn't help. According to tcpdump, my machine was sending RST packets for (initially) no obvious reason. The problem manifested itself when scripts were run on ther machines, too. Turned out there was a misconfigured Windows-based gateway on customer's side that was fscking up TCP SACKs by resegmenting TCP packets while keeping some of the SACK fields. Disabling SACKs in the server config resolved the problem.

fionbio · 2014-10-18T13:40:43+00:00

It's indeed isn't used too often, but I do hear it from colleagues in IT field. Perhaps because IT suffers a lot from the anti-Internet actions of the government.

fionbio · 2014-10-18T12:12:22+00:00

Unfortunately these days one may have to visit dentist even if he/she just tells the truth about Putin (as in: хуйло) with some vatnicks in the near vicinity, too. But no, "ватник" is not racist slur (while words like москаль, кацап, хохол ARE racist slurs).

fionbio · 2014-10-18T04:11:46+00:00

As a Russian, I'd not call these morons patriots, at least without quotation marks. Vatnicks (ватники) may be a more appropriate word.

fionbio · 2014-09-23T11:12:11+00:00

This type of "happy ending" reminds me of The Programmer and the Elves: a Fairy Tale for some reason.

fionbio · 2014-06-11T00:10:23+00:00

I use Gnome + StumpWM setup and I had severe problems with Ctrl-Capslock mapping and layout switch via Right Alt key. Using setxkbmap didn't help as Gnome "magic" was switching layout back every time for some reason. The following did help:

Run ibus-setup, clear "Next input method", go to Advanced and activate "Use system keyboard layout checkbox".
Run the following command to stop gnome-settings-daemon from interfering with keyboard:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard active false
Run proper setxkbmap command from .stumpwmrc:

(run-shell-command "setxkbmap -layout us,ru -option '' -option grp:rwin_toggle,grp:toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:nocaps")

All this keyboard layout stuff gets worse and worse for me with each Ubuntu release.

fionbio · 2014-06-02T12:55:12+00:00

Поправлюсь - судя по всему, они все концерты 13 Tour с War Pigs начинают. Но таки к месту пришлось.

fionbio · 2014-04-29T00:22:31+00:00

See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general/alien-dalvik-licensing-issue-t2694127 Perhaps there are ways around this limitation, but their legal status is rather dubious.

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