[2026-04-19T05:25:01Z] <midfavila> apparently syslinux was officially discontinued. does anyone know about that?
[2026-04-19T05:26:50Z] <midfavila> z/join #smgl
[2026-04-19T05:26:52Z] <midfavila> fuck
[2026-04-19T05:26:55Z] <midfavila> minor mistake on the internet
[2026-04-19T05:26:59Z] <midfavila> unlimited humiliation forever
[2026-04-19T05:27:53Z] <kris_> i will now bully you relentlessly on twitter
[2026-04-19T05:29:02Z] <midfavila> damn
[2026-04-19T05:29:06Z] <midfavila> i guess that do be how it is
[2026-04-19T05:30:06Z] <midfavila> damn sourcemage hasn't put out a stable release in like 20 years
[2026-04-19T05:30:12Z] <midfavila> that's crazy
[2026-04-19T05:30:56Z] <kris_> kettles are indeed for boiling water
[2026-04-19T05:31:01Z] <kris_> you can put a block of ramen in there
[2026-04-19T05:31:11Z] <kris_> like in the kettle
[2026-04-19T05:31:11Z] <midfavila> i'm going to put you in a kettle
[2026-04-19T05:31:24Z] <midfavila> >.>
[2026-04-19T05:31:39Z] <kris_> I am already in a kettle.
[2026-04-19T05:32:18Z] <midfavila> wtaf i can't build syslinux in my distro but i can build it on slackware
[2026-04-19T05:32:26Z] <midfavila> wait
[2026-04-19T05:32:27Z] <midfavila> wait no
[2026-04-19T05:32:31Z] <midfavila> no i can't build it on slackware either
[2026-04-19T05:32:42Z] <midfavila> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I DON'T WANT TO USE GRUB
[2026-04-19T05:33:23Z] <kris_> did something happen with limine
[2026-04-19T05:33:41Z] <midfavila> i have decided that it is *uncool*
[2026-04-19T05:33:45Z] <midfavila> but i don't recall why 
[2026-04-19T05:33:48Z] <midfavila> because i am eepy
[2026-04-19T05:33:53Z] <midfavila> so i will need to reconsider it
[2026-04-19T05:34:03Z] <kris_> i wouldnt wish grub on you even if you made me stub my toe
[2026-04-19T05:34:48Z] <midfavila> oh i see now i was mad that it requires nasm
[2026-04-19T05:35:28Z] <midfavila> UGH i would have to move one of my packages from base/ to core/ just for the bootloader
[2026-04-19T05:35:31Z] <midfavila> >:CCCCCC
[2026-04-19T05:35:46Z] <kris_> https://github.com/puzzleos/stubby/issues/48
[2026-04-19T05:35:50Z] <kris_> how would this even happen
[2026-04-19T05:35:53Z] <midfavila> next thing i know it's going to be using fuckin .ini
[2026-04-19T05:36:59Z] <midfavila> maybe i should just go back to using LILO
[2026-04-19T05:37:32Z] <kris_> im considering moving to zfsbootmenu myself
[2026-04-19T05:37:40Z] <kris_> which is just a UKI with some shell scripts to handle zfs
[2026-04-19T05:37:57Z] <midfavila> ugh but lilo sucks ass...
[2026-04-19T05:37:59Z] <kris_> xfs is scaring me
[2026-04-19T05:38:09Z] <midfavila> syslinux is consistently ez
[2026-04-19T05:38:10Z] <midfavila> it just werks
[2026-04-19T05:38:14Z] <kris_> like its my "this filesystem is the best filesystem to ever store files" fs
[2026-04-19T05:38:15Z] <midfavila> until now i guess
[2026-04-19T05:38:20Z] <kris_> but now they're adding daemons that require systemd 
[2026-04-19T05:38:25Z] <midfavila> kris jfs time
[2026-04-19T05:38:26Z] <kris_> because redhat, naturally
[2026-04-19T05:38:26Z] <midfavila> :D
[2026-04-19T05:38:30Z] <kris_> wont happen mid
[2026-04-19T05:38:34Z] <kris_> i did look
[2026-04-19T05:38:48Z] <kris_> jfs is probably bound to be the most unreliable fs possible on systems that dont have batteries
[2026-04-19T05:39:07Z] <midfavila> le why
[2026-04-19T05:39:08Z] <kris_> it wont do a real write until there's an actual trigger like memory pressure or an unmount
[2026-04-19T05:39:18Z] <kris_> and i have 48gb of ram in my desktop so its going to take a *long* time for there to be memory pressure at all
[2026-04-19T05:39:46Z] <midfavila> have you considered sync'ing once in a blue moon
[2026-04-19T05:39:48Z] <midfavila> you can just do that
[2026-04-19T05:39:55Z] <midfavila> also that's why journaling exists lol
[2026-04-19T05:40:02Z] <kris_> mfw setting up a snooze script to run sync once every 5 minutes
[2026-04-19T05:40:27Z] <kris_> i might just move back to ext4
[2026-04-19T05:40:52Z] <kris_> i really couldn't give less of a shit about performance and ext4 in the past like 3 kernel updates has completely caught up to xfs 
[2026-04-19T05:40:57Z] <kris_> which is nuts given how large the gap was previously
[2026-04-19T05:41:37Z] <kris_> on my server if i do move away from lvm + xfs it *will* be to zfs
[2026-04-19T05:41:50Z] <kris_> only sane way to handle software raid outside of lvm
[2026-04-19T05:41:58Z] <midfavila> i've never bothered with pretty much any of them
[2026-04-19T05:41:58Z] <kris_> mdadm is a meme
[2026-04-19T05:42:19Z] <midfavila> i used to use xfs like now and again but idk for desktops i usually use jfs+nilfs
[2026-04-19T05:42:26Z] <midfavila> nilfs is nice
[2026-04-19T05:42:33Z] <kris_> one of the people i talk to in #zfsbootmenu occasionally is a fan of jfs
[2026-04-19T05:42:37Z] <kris_> kind of surprising given the channel
[2026-04-19T05:42:47Z] <midfavila> i mean it's simple and lightweight and just werks
[2026-04-19T05:42:49Z] <kris_> if it would perform writes by itself it wouldnt be a big deal
[2026-04-19T05:42:55Z] <kris_> like without a trigger i mean
[2026-04-19T05:43:01Z] <midfavila> why not try patching the jfs driver
[2026-04-19T05:43:14Z] <kris_> if im going to do that i might as well port over openbsds ufs stuff 
[2026-04-19T05:43:24Z] <kris_> because that's my take on what a filesystem really should be doing
[2026-04-19T05:43:32Z] <midfavila> >if i was going to change a couple of lines i might as well just port an entire separate filesystem
[2026-04-19T05:43:39Z] <kris_> that being supposedly (havent verified) it just immediately writes to disk
[2026-04-19T05:43:45Z] <kris_> always
[2026-04-19T05:44:06Z] <kris_> delayed writes are evil
[2026-04-19T05:47:24Z] <midfavila> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2.0?topic=tuning-file-synchronization-performance
[2026-04-19T05:47:30Z] <midfavila> maybe this is worth looking at 
[2026-04-19T05:47:36Z] <midfavila> obviously not perfectly comparable since aix but still
[2026-04-19T05:48:50Z] <kris_> you're going to be mad at me but at this point im also considering just moving my desktop to freebsd
[2026-04-19T05:48:54Z] <kris_> at minimum to test it
[2026-04-19T05:49:00Z] <kris_> the only thing i'd be losing is flatpak
[2026-04-19T05:49:28Z] * midfavila wrinkles his nose at kris_ 
[2026-04-19T05:49:57Z] <kris_> the only issue i really have with freebsd is that they're pragmatic or w/e with what goes into the rpeo
[2026-04-19T05:50:14Z] <kris_> void and debian are better in that regard because you have to intentionally toggle on the nonfree slop repo
[2026-04-19T05:50:25Z] <midfavila> i'm so fucking tired of this bullshit about pragmatism
[2026-04-19T05:50:33Z] <midfavila> being a corporate cuck is not "being pragmatic"
[2026-04-19T05:50:36Z] <midfavila> it's called having no principles 
[2026-04-19T05:50:50Z] <midfavila> debian and most of the BSDs are all fucking shit
[2026-04-19T05:50:54Z] <midfavila> because of this
[2026-04-19T05:51:01Z] <kris_> oh fuck
[2026-04-19T05:51:04Z] <kris_> gnu guix has grub 2.14 now
[2026-04-19T05:51:25Z] <kris_> meaning i dont have to take a fucking massive hit to my boot chain security to use it
[2026-04-19T05:52:06Z] <midfavila> you know what this reminds me of
[2026-04-19T05:52:10Z] <midfavila> it reminds me of people during election season
[2026-04-19T05:52:28Z] <kris_> ive been browsing for other options for a while now so my brain is all over the place
[2026-04-19T05:52:32Z] <kris_> void hasnt done anything wrong im just bored
[2026-04-19T05:52:40Z] <midfavila> "i know that the 98% hitler candidate is still really bad and you fundamentally disagree with them on  basically everything but you HAVE to vote for 98% hitler in order to keep 99% hitler out!!!"
[2026-04-19T05:53:57Z] <kris_> you probably dont want my opinion on that
[2026-04-19T05:54:11Z] <kris_> but anyway grub 2.14 on guix means i get to use argon2id and luks2
[2026-04-19T05:54:25Z] <kris_> id just have to package sbctl
[2026-04-19T05:54:29Z] <kris_> and amdgpu blobs
[2026-04-19T05:54:32Z] <midfavila> my opinion is that people need to vote for what they actually believe in and then shut the fuck up
[2026-04-19T05:54:37Z] <midfavila> have principles or don't participate
[2026-04-19T05:55:22Z] <kris_> guix is just so funky man
[2026-04-19T05:55:25Z] <kris_> like there's funk
[2026-04-19T05:55:25Z] <kris_> everywhere
[2026-04-19T05:55:44Z] <kris_> not in a bad way it's just very difficult for me to understand how to use it compared to similar systems like nixos
[2026-04-19T05:55:46Z] <midfavila> that's gnu+funk to you
[2026-04-19T05:55:57Z] <kris_> probably because i actually put in effort to use nixos for stuff
[2026-04-19T05:56:15Z] <kris_> and probably will be again shortly
[2026-04-19T05:56:26Z] <kris_> long story but some jackasses have decided to violate our gpl licensing at iw4x
[2026-04-19T05:56:42Z] <midfavila> uh oh
[2026-04-19T05:56:54Z] <kris_> obviously we can't actually do anything so im working on just implementing a better version of what they have officially 
[2026-04-19T05:57:07Z] <kris_> it's so silly
[2026-04-19T05:57:19Z] <kris_> they're like "well you guys should keep in mind how much work we've put into this! we dont want to just open source it like that!"
[2026-04-19T05:57:25Z] <kris_> and we're just like .........dude
[2026-04-19T05:57:48Z] <midfavila> if you want to induce artificial scarcity then you can go to the infinity gulag
[2026-04-19T05:57:54Z] <kris_> they're going to the extent of obfuscating their binaries right now to try to make sure we aren't aware they're still doing that
[2026-04-19T05:58:07Z] <kris_> of course, it took maybe 5 minutes to unpack
[2026-04-19T05:58:10Z] <midfavila> why not just ban them
[2026-04-19T05:58:15Z] <midfavila> they sound like assholes
[2026-04-19T05:58:21Z] <kris_> ban them from what
[2026-04-19T05:58:27Z] <kris_> iw4x is so decentralized that even we can't really control it
[2026-04-19T05:58:30Z] <kris_> by design
[2026-04-19T05:58:43Z] <midfavila> maybe not the best design
[2026-04-19T05:58:52Z] <kris_> it is when we've already been DMCA'd by activision once
[2026-04-19T05:59:11Z] <kris_> but to sum up whats happening
[2026-04-19T05:59:18Z] <kris_> iw4x has a server browser, you load up the game and connect to a server directly
[2026-04-19T05:59:30Z] <kris_> call of duty normally has matchmaking which we havent implemented
[2026-04-19T05:59:52Z] <kris_> these guys have implemented their own MM system on top of our code and closed source all of it despite using ~94% iirc our code judging by a comparison after we decompiled it
[2026-04-19T06:00:53Z] <kris_> funny thing is they're still relying on our server infra for this lol
[2026-04-19T06:00:56Z] <kris_> leeches
[2026-04-19T06:01:13Z] <midfavila> yeah so boot them off. can you not do that? 
[2026-04-19T06:01:15Z] <kris_> our server infra being our master server which is what gets heartbeats from servers people are hosting and then relays the existence of those servers to the clients
[2026-04-19T06:01:30Z] <midfavila> blacklist their shit if they won't comply 
[2026-04-19T06:01:32Z] <kris_> midfavila: itll just fall back to the node system
[2026-04-19T06:01:38Z] <kris_> we're already not propagating their IP addresses to clients
[2026-04-19T06:01:46Z] <kris_> but regardless my take here is that im going to just implement MM
[2026-04-19T06:01:52Z] <kris_> since apparently people want it
[2026-04-19T06:02:35Z] <kris_> on the note of the node system, basically iw4x has a thing that lets servers p2p eachother more or less so itll propagate through a "mesh" compared to being sent directly to our master server and out to clients but its a fallback
[2026-04-19T06:02:43Z] <kris_> the existence of which was created to make it impossible to take the network down
[2026-04-19T06:03:22Z] <kris_> anyway, gonna be a fun few weeks of beating rocks together with C++
[2026-04-19T06:03:41Z] <kris_> a language that i am completely and entirely unfamiliar with because i don't normally handle anything related to the actual client
[2026-04-19T06:03:54Z] <kris_> i just write server utilities here and there and like, our discord bot
[2026-04-19T06:04:26Z] <kris_> we tried really hard to get them to just open source it and upstream it so everyone could just work together but they really dont wanna
[2026-04-19T06:06:32Z] <kris_> totally unrelated but i wish i could find a good modern dumb tv
[2026-04-19T06:06:46Z] <kris_> i dont want a tv running god damn android i just want a modern panel that can display things 
[2026-04-19T06:07:06Z] <midfavila> but technology
[2026-04-19T06:07:10Z] <midfavila> everything is computer
[2026-04-19T06:07:30Z] <midfavila> i still miss my 24" trinitron monitor
[2026-04-19T06:07:42Z] <midfavila> LCDs can't compare to CRTs
[2026-04-19T06:07:58Z] <kris_> i have an nvidia shield tv why the fuck would i need a second android install for my tv
[2026-04-19T06:08:08Z] <kris_> midfavila: yeah they really cant
[2026-04-19T06:08:12Z] <kris_> lcd are dogshit
[2026-04-19T06:08:57Z] <midfavila> i have NEVER had issues with CRTs
[2026-04-19T06:09:02Z] <midfavila> LCDs constantly act up for me
[2026-04-19T06:09:17Z] <midfavila> always something going wrong and then the output ends up being shit anyway
[2026-04-19T06:09:31Z] <kris_> i have a ton of ips displays still going well
[2026-04-19T06:09:36Z] <midfavila> not to mention they're all bullshit aspect ratios
[2026-04-19T06:09:39Z] <midfavila> like fucking 21:9 
[2026-04-19T06:09:43Z] <kris_> my main monitor at this point is a qd:oled anyway
[2026-04-19T06:09:59Z] <kris_> >looking at modern non smart TVs
[2026-04-19T06:10:00Z] <kris_> >fucking 720p
[2026-04-19T06:10:05Z] <kris_> im going to have a stroke
[2026-04-19T06:10:07Z] <midfavila> once i have some money saved up i'm going to buy some 1920x1920 displays 
[2026-04-19T06:10:08Z] <kris_> just put a modern panel in it
[2026-04-19T06:10:20Z] <midfavila> kris look at ali if you aren't already
[2026-04-19T06:10:30Z] <kris_> yeah i will
[2026-04-19T06:10:36Z] <kris_> atm im just seeing what amazon has, i have to feed the machine
[2026-04-19T06:10:47Z] <midfavila> don't use amazon jfc
[2026-04-19T06:11:16Z] <kris_> you have to appreciate the irony of me purchasing my communist manifesto on amazon
[2026-04-19T06:11:29Z] <kris_> (i havent bought one but i know a guy who did that)
[2026-04-19T06:11:39Z] <midfavila> i think it's silly that you wouldn't buy it from a local bookshop or download it from marxists.org
[2026-04-19T06:11:42Z] <midfavila> or just like
[2026-04-19T06:11:45Z] <midfavila> ask the CPUSA for a copy
[2026-04-19T06:11:50Z] <midfavila> i'm sure they would give you one for free
[2026-04-19T06:13:22Z] <kris_> right that reminds me actually i need to write an epub reader
[2026-04-19T06:14:18Z] <midfavila> actually maybe don't contact the cpusa lol
[2026-04-19T06:14:25Z] <midfavila> https://www.latintimes.com/us-pushing-allies-combat-antifa-far-left-terrorism-labels-them-political-terrorism-rather-596503
[2026-04-19T06:14:40Z] <midfavila> not unless you want the fbi to kick your door in again
[2026-04-19T06:21:24Z] <kris_> tbh im more scared of people who havent had that happen
[2026-04-19T06:24:39Z] <midfavila> fair
[2026-04-19T06:26:01Z] <kris_> also technically they didnt kick my door down my mom just >let them in
[2026-04-19T06:26:03Z] <kris_> with >no warrant
[2026-04-19T06:26:19Z] <midfavila> "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM WHY DID YOU LET THE FBI IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN"
[2026-04-19T06:26:37Z] <midfavila> "WE HAD THE WARRANT TALK MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM SNOWDEN"
[2026-04-19T06:29:15Z] <kris_> tbf i never gave her the warrant talk
[2026-04-19T06:29:23Z] <kris_> given i was 12 and didnt know about that myself
[2026-04-19T06:36:12Z] <kris_> mid do you like the borderlands games
[2026-04-19T06:39:53Z] <midfavila> no
[2026-04-19T06:39:54Z] <midfavila> i hate them
[2026-04-19T06:40:10Z] <kris_> :c
[2026-04-19T06:40:29Z] <midfavila> i fucking despise borderlands writing
[2026-04-19T06:40:37Z] <midfavila> it's just edgy marvel 
[2026-04-19T06:41:51Z] <midfavila> https://old.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/comments/1sn2m3p/japanese_elders_are_committing_crimes_to_be_put/
[2026-04-19T06:45:12Z] <kris_> sorry i really like borderlands 2
[2026-04-19T06:47:25Z] <kris_> boderlads
[2026-04-19T07:16:53Z] <kris_> midfavila: i currently have a dumb tv but theres an interesting issue with it, occasionally the backlight just.. stops?
[2026-04-19T07:17:04Z] <kris_> like it's not *broken* the backlight just stops working after a few hours
[2026-04-19T07:17:58Z] <kris_> maybe its overheating
[2026-04-19T08:26:56Z] <sewn> im suprised my laptop lasted this long
[2026-04-19T08:27:09Z] <sewn> i accidentally cut power on it before i went to sleep
[2026-04-19T08:27:19Z] <sewn> and it shut off when i woke up
[2026-04-19T21:13:25Z] <Guest23> I didn't know Drew Default is 31. For some reason I thought he's been in the scene for 3 decades
[2026-04-19T22:00:42Z] <elisoli> i am trying to run dwl on a i5 1gen with integrated graphics but it keeps saying it found no GPU. I've already enabled CONFIG_DRM_I915 and installed the 06-15-05 firmware/ucode, could you guys help me on this?