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  • What are some software red flags?

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  • Venture capital funding. The plan is always to do a rug pull. Though if it properly freely licensed and the code is reasonable enough to be forked, it's less worrying but still risky. It's better to work with honest people.

  • I Spoke To The Dev Behind The Systemd Birth Date Change - YouTube

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  • A developer submitted a PR code change for systemd userdb.

    My proposals (that's really what PRs are) are to implement a solution that meets the regulatory requirements in several jurisdictions by providing a way to store a self-reported birthdate locally on the machine. These laws also require that this date is collected during account creation (hence why I made PRs against installers) and you can enter any value here, even January 1st, 1900. There is no proof required, no ID scanning, and no external tracking. Nor do I have any desire for that to ever change.

    Apparently the developer is confirmed to be just a regular guy. He thinks it'd be worse if every desktop environment implements their own solution to comply with these laws. He's against the various laws related to this incident.

    As a fallout for submitting this pull request, he has been extensively harassed. His personal information being repeatedly posted online; his information used to sign up to a lot of sites, groups, churches, car dealerships, ordering food for him; threats of murder; regular textual harassment.

  • Changing key mapping with xmodmap is broken. Is there a workaround?

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  • Why is there no horror anime that's actually scary?

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  • Not what you're looking for, but I think Shinsekai Yori and Made in Abyss have pretty impactful psychological horror elements. I haven't gotten around to watching Higuarashi, but it's well known as a (apparently psychological) horror anime.

    I do agree that the medium limits the visceral impact that visual elements have. Despite that, I was still fairly grossed out by some select scenes in Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.

    Also, if you want something like a horror movie, you probably want a movie... The same suspense can't be sustained over separate 20 minute chunks.

    Movie or not, I don't think there are many anime that are even attempting to fulfill your horror desires.

  • Fedora - changes in pp_table don't persist after restart

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  • I'm not familiar with Radeon PowerPlay, so I don't know if there is a proper way to solve this, but you should be able to make a systemd system service to run the upp command on boot.

    To do so, I think you can use the following:

     
        
[Unit]
Description=Run my_user_script
After=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target


[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=upp -p /sys/class/drm/card1/device/pp_table set --write smc_pptable/SocketPowerLimitAc/0=312 smc_pptable/SocketPowerLimitDc/0=293 smc_pptable/TdcLimit/0=300 smc_pptable/FreqTableSocclk/1=1350 smc_pptable/FreqTableFclk/1=2000 smc_pptable/FclkBoostFreq=2000

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target

    To configure this service:

    • Save the text (using sudo/root) to a new .service file in /etc/systemd/service. (e.g. /etc/systemd/system/my_update_pp.service)
    • run sudo systemctl daemon-reload to tell systemd to re-read the service files
    • run sudo systemctl restart my_update_pp.service to manually run the service
    • run sudo systemctl enable my_update_pp.service to tell systemd to run your service automatically on boot/wake (WantedBy tells systemd when it should include the unit/service, After, Wants, Requires, and Before help systemd decide the order to run all the units/services)

    Notes

    • Usually for simple systemd services, you can omit After and set WantedBy to just WantedBy=multi-user.target, but if you also need to run upp after sleep or hibernate, then you probably need something more complex. I copied the After and WantedBy from a stackexchange answer, but I haven't tried using those targets before. You might have to add multi-user.target to the WantedBy list.
    • I don't actually know if you need to run upp after sleep/hibernate. Running on boot might be sufficient.
    • I think you can skip the chmod if you run upp as sudo/root. Systemd system services run as root by default.
    • I don't know how safe it is to mess with PowerPlay during boot. My gut says it's probably fine, but it also seems like something that could cause graphics to not work. Tread carefully.

    References:

  • Fedora - changes in pp_table don't persist after restart

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  • Use triple backticks for blocks of code-type stuff

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    like so

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upp -p /sys/class/drm/card1/device/pp_table dump
header:
  structuresize: 2470
  format_revision: 15
  content_revision: 0
table_revision: 2
table_size: 802
golden_pp_id: 2466
golden_revision: 16307
format_id: 128
platform_caps: 24
thermal_controller_type: 28
small_power_limit1: 0
small_power_limit2: 0
boost_power_limit: 0
software_shutdown_temp: 118
reserve:
  reserve 0: 0
  reserve 1: 0
  reserve 2: 0
  reserve 3: 0
  reserve 4: 0
  reserve 5: 0
  reserve 6: 1
  reserve 7: 0
power_saving_clock:
  revision: 1
  reserve:
... and so on ...

  • Cross culture colloquialism and dubbing?

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  • This is called localization.

    Information or brevity will always be lost in translation (and communication in general), so the translator needs to pick what information to convey and how to convey it. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a satisfactory localized translation, like translating a pun. Or if the translation has been localizing the Japanese name-honorifics system as whatever the characters in an English speaking country would call each other, but then there is a long dialogue in the show discussing how they are addressing each other; that dialogue can throw a wrench in the translation.

    For Love is War, the source joke word was probably ちんちん (chinchin) which is both a childish way to say "penis" (like "poopoo" is a childish way to say 💩, or like "peepee") and a dog trick where the dog sits and begs (it might also have additional meanings). The translator probably had to think about how to make a similar gag with the existing visuals.

  • Would downscaling a display allow for better battery life?

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  • I'd think so. 3k is so many pixels to compute and send 60 times a second.

    But this video says the effect on battery life in their test was like 6%, going from 4k to 800x600. I can imagine that some screens are better at saving power when running at lower resolutions... but what screen manufacturer would optimize energy consumption for anything but maximum resolution? 🤔 I guess the computation of the pixels isn't much compared to the expense of having those physical dots. But maybe if your web browser was ray-traced? ... ?!

    Also, if you take a 2880x1800 screen and divide by 2 (to avoid fractional scaling), you get 1440x900 (this is not 1440p), which is a little closer to 720p than 1080p.

  • [Question] Setting up a bridged network for HomeAssistant in KVM Fedora

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  • I haven't made a bridge to a VM before today, or made a bridge with Network Manager. That being said, I was able to persuade Network Manger to get a bridge working, and there are a few things I can note:

    • When you setup the bridge, the host network interface should become a slave to the bridge. This means that the physical network interface should not have an IP Address, and your bridge should now be where you configure the host's IP address.

      • After you start the VM, you should be able to run ip link | grep 'master br0' on the host, and it should display 2 interfaces which are slaves to br0. One for the physical ethernet interface, one for the VM (vnet). And it should only list your ethernet interface when the VM is off.

    • The RedHat tutorial does not show the bridge and the host having different IP addresses, the RedHat tutorial shows the bridge and the guest having different IP addresses. Actually, no, the RedHat tutorial shows the libvirt NAT bridge, not even the bridge that the tutorial describes creating... If you set the IP address of virbr0, I don't know what happens.

    • If your VM's network adapter is connected to the host's bridge, then you should be able to log into your VM and set a static IP address.

    I had a lot of problems getting Network Manager to actually use my ethernet interface as a slave for the bridge. Here's what worked for me, though:

     bash
        
nmcli con show
nmcli con down 'Wired Connection 1'
nmcli con modify 'Wired Connection 1' connection.autoconnect no
nmcli con add type bridge con-name br0 ifname br0
nmcli connection add type bridge-slave ifname enp7s0 master br0
nmcli con modify br0 connection.autoconnect yes
nmcli con modify bridge-slave-enp7s0 connection.autoconnect yes
nmcli con modify br0 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.231/24 bridge.stp no
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
nmcli con show
ip addr

    • Instead of enp7s0, you'd use enp1s0 I guess.
    • Above, I manually set my bridge IP address to a static address because my ethernet interface is wired directly to another computer, so no DHCP for me. If you have DHCP on your ethernet network, you probably don't need to set "ipv4.method" or "ipv4.addresses".
    • I set "bridge.stp" to "no" because my network doesn't have any redundant paths, and the stp process seems to take like 25 seconds before I can use the bridge network.

    After that, I can go into "Virtual Machine Manger", set my VM's NIC's Network Source to "Bridge device...", Device name to"br0", boot my VM, login to my VM, configure my VM's ip address. And then I can connect to the VM's IP address from the physical ethernet network.

  • NixOS is better because...

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  • This is a text post, so the OP wrote text corresponding to the title. You should be able to see it at the top of the post. (Spoiler, OP is basically asking the community why NixOS is better, because they don't quite understand the advantages of using NixOS.)

  • Looking to make the switch

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  • POP!_OS apparently uses systemd-boot (not to be confused with systemd). It apparently adds a Windows entry automatically if Windows is installed on the same disk. When Windows is installed on a different disk, it looks like booting the windows boot manager EFI program is still possible with systemd-boot. The instructions given in that link are a bit vague, though.

    This page has a different, simpler approach and more specific steps. Apparently you can just copy the Microsoft EFI folder to a specific directory in your Linux drive's ESP partition. I'd be a little bit concerned about Windows not being able to update its EFI bootloader, but I also don't know if Windows ever updates that. The page also has instructions on how to interact with the systemd-boot menu during boot.

    You could also install grub yourself, but I can't guarantee that'll be easy. Mashing F2 might be the sanest solution, unless you plan on booting into Windows every day.

  • Wayland running GUI program as another user

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  • I got interested, so I spent some time looking into what's going on here. I'm not intimately familiar with X11 or Wayland, but I figured out some stuff.

    Why sudo ip netns exec protected sudo -u user -i doesn't work for X11 apps

    Short answer: file permissions and abstract unix sockets (which I didn't know were a thing before now).

    File permissions: when I start an X11 login session, the DISPLAY is :0 and /tmp/.X11-unix/ has only 1 file X0. This file has 777 access. When I start my wayland session with Xwayland, the DISPLAY is :1 and /tmp/.X11-unix/ has 2 files X0 (777) and X1 (755). I can't figure out how to connect to display :0, so I guess I'm stuck with :1. When you change to a different (non-root) user, the user no longer has access to /tmp/.X11-unix/X1.

    Abstract unix sockets: When I start my wayland/xwayland session, it creates abstract unix sockets with ids @/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 and @/tmp/.X11-unix/X1. See ss -lnp | grep Xwayland. The network namespace also sandboxes these abstract unix sockets. Compare socat ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/tmp/.X11-unix/X1 STDIN and sudo ip netns exec private socat ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/tmp/.X11-unix/X1 STDIN.

    When you do sudo ip netns exec protected su - user, you loose access to both the filesystem unix socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 and the abstract unix socket @/tmp/.X11-unix/X1. You need access to one or the other for X11 applications to work.

    I tried using socat to forward X1 such that it works in the network namespace... and it kinda works. sudo ip netns exec protected socat ABSTRACT-LISTEN:/tmp/.X11-unix/X1,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/.X11-unix/X1. It appears having ABSTRACT-LISTEN before UNIX-CONNECT is important, I guess it would be worth it to properly learn socat. With this sudo ip netns exec protected su - testuser -c 'env DISPLAY=:1 xmessage hi' works, but sudo ip netns exec protected su - testuser -c 'env DISPLAY=:1 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb kcalc' does not work. 😞

    Changing the file permissions on /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 to give the user access seems to work better.

    Wayland waypipe

    Waypipe works as advertised. But it's still a little bit tricky because you need to have two separate processes for the waypipe client and server, wait for the waypipe socket to be created, adjust file permissions for the waypipe socket file, and set (and probably mkdir) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

     
        
waypipe -s /tmp/mywaypipe client &
sleep 0.1
chgrp shared-display /tmp/mywaypipe
chmod g+w /tmp/mywaypipe
sudo ip netns exec protected su - testuser -c 'mkdir -p -m 0700 /tmp/runtime-testuser && env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/runtime-testuser waypipe -s /tmp/mywaypipe server -- env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland kcalc'
kill -SIGINT %1

    Combined

    into this script https://github.com/vole-dev/grabbag/blob/main/run-netns-user-wayland.bash

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  • thanks, I'll try out the libx264 encoder next time

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  • Oh wow, I didn't know (free) Davinci didn't support using H.264 as source media, that feels rather limited.

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  • Completely tangential tip, but in the very-limited video editing I've done recently: I've used Davinci Resolve, rendered as .mov, and then used ffmpeg to render to my actual desired format. e.g. h264 w/ aac audio so I can upload to Youtube:

    ffmpeg -i input.mov -c:v libopenh264 -profile:v high -c:a aac -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4

    I do think that finding the right flags to pass to ffmpeg is a cursed art. Do I need to specify the video profile and the pix_fmt? I don't know; I thought I did when I adventured to collect these flags. Though maybe it's just a reflection of the video-codec horrors lurking within all video rendering pipelines.

    edit: there may also be nvidia-accelerated encoders, like h264_nvenc, see ffmpeg -codecs 2>/dev/null | grep -i 'h\.264'. I'm not sure if the profile:v and pix_fmt options apply to other encoders or just libopenh264.

  • Recommend me romance anime

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  • Flipping through my watched list, here are some romance anime I liked, varying levels of drama and comedy:

    And maybe some that might not quite be what you were expecting:

    Edit: also looking forward to A Sign of Affection, which is airing this season

  • Winter 2024 anime calendar

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  • Shows for Winter 2024 on my radar, that I am interested in watching:

    • Classroom of the Elite: first two seasons were fun, looking forward to season 3
    • Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki: first season was OK, I'm interested in where the story will go
    • Mato Seihei no Slave: I vaguely recall someone saying there was something good about the source material
    • MASHLE: first season was OK, I'm not very interested in S2, I might binge it when the season is complete
    • Blue Exorcist: oh, another season. It's been a while. I remember liking the first season and being confused at the start of the second season (it's about 6 years between each season, so maybe I just forgot some important details. From a S2 MAL review: "the season does not follow the end of season 1. Episodes 18-25 were not canon and accordingly, they do not exist in season 2", I didn't know this, so maybe that was my problem)
    • The Dangers in My Heart: first season was fantastic, excited for the second season
    • A Sign of Affection: the source material is rated highly on MAL, I'll give it a shot
    • Banished from the Hero's Party: First season was OK
    • TSUKIMICHI: I liked the first season, looking forward to the second season
    • The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil: I saw the PV, I'll give it a shot
    • Cherry Magic!: The source material is rated well on MAL, I'll give it a shot
    • The Witch and the Beast: The source material is rated well on MAL, I'll give a shot
    • The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash: WILDCARD, I dunno, it sounds like absolute trash from the title, but I think I'll give it a shot anyways

  • Boushoku no Berserk • Berserk of Gluttony - Episode 12 discussion - FINAL

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  • Boushoku no Berserk was fairly enjoyable! It is kinda trash, but it's good trash: there's an actual plot, the main characters are fairly likeable and fairly believable (even if the villians are like "hahaha, watch me be evil!") and have a touch of depth. The struggles that the MC has to deal with are actually interesting. The animation and sound design is of acceptable quality throughout. The voice acting was pretty good!

    7/10: guilty pleasure for those of us who like these kinds of shows. I generally know what I'm getting into when I see the promotional art and description for these kinds of shows; Boushoku no Berserk meets or exceeds those expections.

    Also Eris: "whoops, I guess I shouldn't have gone along with Envy's scheme." A change of heart... but why? Because Fate won? lol. I guess just leave it up to the viewers imagination because the actual explanation would probably not be worth watching.

  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet [Dark mode in details]

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