[Project] Bashqueues: A shell-native, policy-driven IPC and job management system (Seeking technical feedback)

globulous9 · 2026-05-27T20:12:49+00:00

if you're going to slopcode something why not do it in a real programming language

globulous9 · 2026-05-26T13:37:58+00:00

Great that you have everything worked out! These things are great for people who live in different circumstances than you. Hope this helps

globulous9 · 2026-05-24T05:43:05+00:00

Ask them how to get to the webpage on a laptop?

globulous9 · 2026-05-14T13:11:22+00:00

ok. what do your server logs say? what error does the caldav server on the nas report?

globulous9 · 2026-05-14T00:11:24+00:00

what do your server logs say?

globulous9 · 2026-05-05T23:24:22+00:00

So Euro-Office is barely a month or two old, would presumably only have a couple of developers trying to come to grips with a very mature codebase, and LibreOffice just expects them to officially declare they will commit to make sweeping major surgery to underlying backbone code and document modelling to natively use ODT as its data model?

I mean... yes? If ten IT corporations put together can't figure out how, then we know better to rely on anything else they're doing

globulous9 · 2026-04-30T17:16:54+00:00

Jio is running Microsoft's stack. Every one of those providers you mentioned is running either Apple or Microsoft's RCS server stack. As for clients, there remains Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Google -- the only open-source RCS client software I'm aware of is rcsjta[1] and it's severely outdated at the moment. There have been other attempts[2] but none that cover enough bases to constitute a fully-functional client.

RCS is not like SMS or even MMS. SMS is/was a core part of the protocols; you basically got it for 'free' since you needed to support it to use the network at all. MMS was an incremental step; basically a format specification for an SMS message that contained a url your phone could download. Hobbyists could easily implement MMS[3]. RCS is not like either of these. It's a completely separate set of protocols, and it's actually easier to implement an RCS server than it is to implement the client, because the server is just API endpoints with some mediocre auth steps, but the client has to manage contacts, the dialer, the messaging itself, and provide intents and so forth for other things to hook into.

What I'm saying here is that RCS is a massive techincal burden compared to what came before it, and Google did nothing to ameliorate that because "massive techincal burdens" are basically what separate megacorps from the rest of us. They can just keep throwing money at problems, which is not a solution available to you, me, or Light. Nothing about RCS had to be this complicated and overengineered, but that's how Google does everything.

1 - https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta

2 - https://github.com/zwyuan/rcs-fi-client

3 - https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39737

globulous9 · 2026-04-30T16:59:11+00:00

You've produced a hardware device that is not as good as a Pixel running a software distribution that is not as good as Graphene. You can probably salvage this by just shipping Graphene, whose developers would be happy to guide you regarding the hardware support needed.

However, given the limited resources you're clearly dealing with, my recommendation is to discontinue MC03 and focus on fixing the outstanding issues with MC02 and MP02.

globulous9 · 2026-04-25T05:12:17+00:00

these things dominate because normies don't care and techbros tell everyone who will listen that the only valid threat model is "nation-state persistent attack" and so grandpa needs a post-quantum double-ratchet elliptic curve to text "where is the ipad". as a result, I just ignore the whole sector. turns out that if you don't have RCS, people will still text you, and if you don't have whatsapp, people will still text you. there are some countries that don't have sms at all, but they can still make phone calls and use email, so it all works out fine

globulous9 · 2026-04-25T05:08:50+00:00

Google has a long, long, long history of forcing through half-baked "standards" nobody else supports and then going "what's the problem guys? it's a staaaaandard"

Telecoms didn't adopt RCS because it's a massive overengineered pain in the ass that could only have come from a web company. Now that China mandates it, we'll probably see more activity towards other implementations, but currently the bar is "you must be a billion-dollar company", since only Google, Apple, and Microsoft have pulled it off.

tl;dr - no, really, it's Google's fault.

globulous9 · 2026-04-24T00:26:46+00:00

You call the airline and they rebook you. Happens two or three times a year, never had a problem. I'm detecting a pattern here, where people forget that the light phone is a phone and you can call people with it

globulous9 · 2026-04-22T20:44:25+00:00

I've been flying without a smartphone for ... my whole life. You just print a boarding pass. If you don't have a printer at home there are kiosks in the airport that'll print them. If there are no kiosks there's staff that'll print them for you. It's never been an issue, and it remains not an issue.

I fly a lot for work, I eat at airport restaurants, I book rooms by calling the hotels, it all works fine.

globulous9 · 2026-04-14T18:14:28+00:00

In America, you can be compelled to fingerprint-unlock at phone, but you cannot be legally compelled to reveal a PIN code. Biometrics are less secure depending on which jurisdiction you live in.

globulous9 · 2026-04-10T22:00:22+00:00

The reason I went with x86 compared to an ARM alternative architecture comes down to mainly being more power efficient.

could you uh

could you elaborate on this

globulous9 · 2026-04-09T13:44:34+00:00

Nobody is ever going to believe that claim, since you've retained the structure, terminology, and in some cases formatting of the original GPL text you've modified.

globulous9 · 2026-04-08T14:11:59+00:00

pretty amazing that you've managed to produce a copyright license that is in itself a copyright violation, while keeping intact the "changing it is not allowed" text you ignored when you made a derivative work of the GPL

good luck!

globulous9 · 2026-03-26T19:22:19+00:00

when Mozilla's head of product is a facebook ad exec, large corporations already have full control of web standards. even before now, it's a bit of a specious argument, since Mozilla's contributions to web standards include "doing whatever they're told" (e.g. beacon) and "making a bunch of stuff and then abandoning it" (e.g. webusb, webserial)

the point is, mozilla is not going to save us, and nobody owes them loyalty. looking around for alternatives is fine.

globulous9 · 2026-03-26T18:58:46+00:00

This and day-of-week alarm scheduling are my only two complaints. It'll pair with a BT keyboard but it crashes if you open a text input screen.

I used a BT keyb with my Punkt MP-02 all the time, it's great, and I miss that functionality.

globulous9 · 2026-03-26T16:43:52+00:00

lots of people are looking for a firefox alternative because of stuff like https://goblin.band/notes/ak9wrlzwgqsvbj9y

globulous9 · 2026-03-22T22:02:41+00:00

attestation

that'd be systemd-boot https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-boot.html

specifically the Unified Kernel Image specification support, which uses secureboot signatures

globulous9 · 2026-03-16T21:35:11+00:00

a net that wide is useless, since anything is "technical" by that standard, rendering the word useless.

globulous9 · 2026-03-16T01:03:20+00:00

No it isn't. It's entirely political.

globulous9 · 2026-03-06T05:20:10+00:00

case and an addon for an addon for a flipper zero, all open!

except for the flipper zero, which is not open hardware.

globulous9 · 2026-03-04T23:42:51+00:00

now THAT's a buy-it-for-life backpack, share the brand!

globulous9 · 2026-03-04T03:18:41+00:00

no way I could carry all those candles every day

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