This message is being posted from Haiku on my Chromebook c202s. Probably the first person on Earth to post such a thing using the native keyboard and trackpad.
This chromebook has several show stoppers with respect to using it in any capacity. The first is the touchpad. I needed to enable the C202S's intel I2C controller, and wired the existing Elan I2C touchpad driver to the i2c controler, and playued with the clickpad/report handling enough for basic movement, clicks, and gestures.
The second is the keyboard. I started down a cros_ec route because I was led to believe you needed the microcontroller to work to successfully read the keyboard, but during development of that driver, it became clear we were on the wrong track. The keyboard was actually exposed through the legacy ps2 path, so we fixed the haiku ps2 driver to poll for input when it appears there's keys ready to be delivered but irq1 isn't being delivered consistently.
I believe both the keyboard and touchpad fixes can be easily upstreamed, I'll look more at that later.
The next steps are the emmc support (I'm running off a small usb stick at the moment), and sound support (which is turning out to be really tough because linux drivers and haiku drivers are way different)
In my view, haiku is ideal for this little chromebook (though the chromebook may not be ideal for haiku!) because it has limited memory and limited storage, so a 500MB OS that lives comfortably on a 16GB stick.
Next step is emmc support, which seems to just be a little extension of the existing emmc/sdmmc code, plumbing the quriky chromebook stuff into the existing work. That's been where the most bang for my buck has come from, and that's why the sound has been such a challenge -- You definitely can't just port linux drivers over easily.
This chromebook has several show stoppers with respect to using it in any capacity. The first is the touchpad. I needed to enable the C202S's intel I2C controller, and wired the existing Elan I2C touchpad driver to the i2c controler, and playued with the clickpad/report handling enough for basic movement, clicks, and gestures.
The second is the keyboard. I started down a cros_ec route because I was led to believe you needed the microcontroller to work to successfully read the keyboard, but during development of that driver, it became clear we were on the wrong track. The keyboard was actually exposed through the legacy ps2 path, so we fixed the haiku ps2 driver to poll for input when it appears there's keys ready to be delivered but irq1 isn't being delivered consistently.
I believe both the keyboard and touchpad fixes can be easily upstreamed, I'll look more at that later.
The next steps are the emmc support (I'm running off a small usb stick at the moment), and sound support (which is turning out to be really tough because linux drivers and haiku drivers are way different)
In my view, haiku is ideal for this little chromebook (though the chromebook may not be ideal for haiku!) because it has limited memory and limited storage, so a 500MB OS that lives comfortably on a 16GB stick.
Next step is emmc support, which seems to just be a little extension of the existing emmc/sdmmc code, plumbing the quriky chromebook stuff into the existing work. That's been where the most bang for my buck has come from, and that's why the sound has been such a challenge -- You definitely can't just port linux drivers over easily.
It wasn't really practical, would have been way more work. The driveway is directly attached to the house right to the property line, so to bypass the house, you'd need to jackhammer up most of the cement driveway to dig a 6 foot deep trench. It actually was far more practical and efficient to drill under the house.
My water main broke a couple weeks ago.
To get water back into my house, they needed to dig a huge hole (frost line up north is like 6 feet deep) from the city's water valve to the front of my house, then they had to drill under the basement all the way to the utility room. They had to jackhammer out the basement floor, and run this huge copper line.
Every step of the way, they had to go "Oh, this job isn't as easy as we'd hoped, it's going to be a lot harder", and that means more time, more equipment more money.
It was a nightmare. Absolute nightmare. I'm waiting for the final invoice, and my insurance with a big 5 bank was never going to cover it because in spite of costing a lot of money it doesn't cover anything.
There isn't an inch of my front lawn that survived. It's a giant field of mud.
Here's the thing though: throughout the whole process, I kept hearing the people who go "Housing is a human right" in my head, and I thought about everything I actually needed to maintain that so-called "right". It was a crew of guys and an excavator and a drill and a vac truck, and by the time everything was back to some semblance of normal, it was two full days for a crew, and on the third day someone needed to come in and cement the hole in the basement back in.
And that's where the whole concept becomes insane to me. I don't have a right to a crew of people coming in and spending days doing dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable work. That's a privilege, and a privilege I was happy to pay for.
Housing is a responsibility, and one you have to fight entropy to maintain. House was built in 1946, the water line is probably 80 years old. Just like the replacement ceiling tiles, replacement flooring, replacement shower parts, replacement sink traps, replacement plumbing under the sink, repairs to the driveway, growing the lawn back after all this.
Entire villages are being abandoned in Japan, and nature quickly reclaims the buildings. The images are of places humans can no longer live. Entropy is a harsh mistress.
I'm not saying the state shouldn't help the needy here. That's a different discussion. My concern here is the language of "rights" and what that implies.
When the word "rights" are invoked, it's trying to invoke the unalienable rights endowed by our creator, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are things that are not given by the state, but only infringed upon by the state. The problem is, for something like housing, that's simply not true. In order to get an unalienable "right" of housing, you need the time, labour, materials, equipment, land that presumably was someone else's first.
Skilled labour is at a premium, what happens when there isn't enough to build or maintain house houses? If the right is truly unalienable, then the state simply has no choice, and must enlist people. At first they can do so by increasing the amount of money paid and funding available to do the thing, but eventually you reach the point on the supply/demand curve where nobody else is willing to sell labour at any price. What then? At that point, if you are the state, and you are faced with an unalienable right to housing, then as always happens with rights, you start having to balance them. Perhaps the state then decides or has it decided for it that the right to housing is more important than the right to the liberty that comes from owning your own person. Coercive means such as threats of violence then can be applied to force people to work on a certain thing "or else".
I very nearly was without water for most of the summer. The first company I called didn't do this kind of work. The second had a 6-8 week backlog. The third was barely able to move around its schedule for us. There just aren't that many people willing to crawl around in 6 feet of clay and boulder filled mud for 8 hours a day. Even the city itself had to make a demarcation of responsibility point, and that's why it was my problem and not their problem.
Which, by the way, is something that always happens when the state gets involved with so-called "Rights" of this nature. Communist China has virtually no welfare system unless you're one of a chosen few. Healthcare in Canada famously has absurdly long wait times, sometimes in the years for certain procedures. And even my fairly liberal area (it's been a liberal stronghold for decades), the taxes keep going up but the state will reduce the amount they're willing to take responsibility for.
Which goes to my final point -- Housing isn't a right, it's a responsibility. And the government can choose to take on that responsibility, just like it can choose to take on many responsibilities, but that doesn't mean you have an unalienable right to the thing. They can fail to provide it due to lack of will, lack of resources, lack of competence. You still need the thing, but you can be facing a summer without water. In the Soviet Union, situations like these were famously common. In the Nordic countries, they realized that if the state is to take on that responsibility, they require a strong private economy to power the public responsibility.
To get water back into my house, they needed to dig a huge hole (frost line up north is like 6 feet deep) from the city's water valve to the front of my house, then they had to drill under the basement all the way to the utility room. They had to jackhammer out the basement floor, and run this huge copper line.
Every step of the way, they had to go "Oh, this job isn't as easy as we'd hoped, it's going to be a lot harder", and that means more time, more equipment more money.
It was a nightmare. Absolute nightmare. I'm waiting for the final invoice, and my insurance with a big 5 bank was never going to cover it because in spite of costing a lot of money it doesn't cover anything.
There isn't an inch of my front lawn that survived. It's a giant field of mud.
Here's the thing though: throughout the whole process, I kept hearing the people who go "Housing is a human right" in my head, and I thought about everything I actually needed to maintain that so-called "right". It was a crew of guys and an excavator and a drill and a vac truck, and by the time everything was back to some semblance of normal, it was two full days for a crew, and on the third day someone needed to come in and cement the hole in the basement back in.
And that's where the whole concept becomes insane to me. I don't have a right to a crew of people coming in and spending days doing dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable work. That's a privilege, and a privilege I was happy to pay for.
Housing is a responsibility, and one you have to fight entropy to maintain. House was built in 1946, the water line is probably 80 years old. Just like the replacement ceiling tiles, replacement flooring, replacement shower parts, replacement sink traps, replacement plumbing under the sink, repairs to the driveway, growing the lawn back after all this.
Entire villages are being abandoned in Japan, and nature quickly reclaims the buildings. The images are of places humans can no longer live. Entropy is a harsh mistress.
I'm not saying the state shouldn't help the needy here. That's a different discussion. My concern here is the language of "rights" and what that implies.
When the word "rights" are invoked, it's trying to invoke the unalienable rights endowed by our creator, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are things that are not given by the state, but only infringed upon by the state. The problem is, for something like housing, that's simply not true. In order to get an unalienable "right" of housing, you need the time, labour, materials, equipment, land that presumably was someone else's first.
Skilled labour is at a premium, what happens when there isn't enough to build or maintain house houses? If the right is truly unalienable, then the state simply has no choice, and must enlist people. At first they can do so by increasing the amount of money paid and funding available to do the thing, but eventually you reach the point on the supply/demand curve where nobody else is willing to sell labour at any price. What then? At that point, if you are the state, and you are faced with an unalienable right to housing, then as always happens with rights, you start having to balance them. Perhaps the state then decides or has it decided for it that the right to housing is more important than the right to the liberty that comes from owning your own person. Coercive means such as threats of violence then can be applied to force people to work on a certain thing "or else".
I very nearly was without water for most of the summer. The first company I called didn't do this kind of work. The second had a 6-8 week backlog. The third was barely able to move around its schedule for us. There just aren't that many people willing to crawl around in 6 feet of clay and boulder filled mud for 8 hours a day. Even the city itself had to make a demarcation of responsibility point, and that's why it was my problem and not their problem.
Which, by the way, is something that always happens when the state gets involved with so-called "Rights" of this nature. Communist China has virtually no welfare system unless you're one of a chosen few. Healthcare in Canada famously has absurdly long wait times, sometimes in the years for certain procedures. And even my fairly liberal area (it's been a liberal stronghold for decades), the taxes keep going up but the state will reduce the amount they're willing to take responsibility for.
Which goes to my final point -- Housing isn't a right, it's a responsibility. And the government can choose to take on that responsibility, just like it can choose to take on many responsibilities, but that doesn't mean you have an unalienable right to the thing. They can fail to provide it due to lack of will, lack of resources, lack of competence. You still need the thing, but you can be facing a summer without water. In the Soviet Union, situations like these were famously common. In the Nordic countries, they realized that if the state is to take on that responsibility, they require a strong private economy to power the public responsibility.
When I went to school, it lined up like this:
0-49 - fail
50-59 - D
60-69 - C
70-79 - B
80-89 - A
90-100 - A+
And that was mostly in the '90s, but already in the '90s we everyone kind of knew that they weren't going to actually let anyone fail unless they really mess things up. Incidentally, there was a point in my life where I really messed things up. After that I had to work really hard to recover from my very bad semester. Thankfully, I was able to get enough extra work done to graduate on time.
On the other hand, we didn't really focus on the letter grades anyway, everyone just knew their mark. If you got a 60 or a 69, they might both be a c but it was pretty clear that they weren't the same mark.
0-49 - fail
50-59 - D
60-69 - C
70-79 - B
80-89 - A
90-100 - A+
And that was mostly in the '90s, but already in the '90s we everyone kind of knew that they weren't going to actually let anyone fail unless they really mess things up. Incidentally, there was a point in my life where I really messed things up. After that I had to work really hard to recover from my very bad semester. Thankfully, I was able to get enough extra work done to graduate on time.
On the other hand, we didn't really focus on the letter grades anyway, everyone just knew their mark. If you got a 60 or a 69, they might both be a c but it was pretty clear that they weren't the same mark.
[admin mode] ok, following up it's because of my pleroma cache, which had ballooned. Not sure exactly why it would all of a sudden, but by default it's on /tmp which is effectively a ramdrive. Without much ram, the ramdisk ended up getting absolutely hammered, leading to the OOM.
[admin mode] sorry for the downtime folks. Not sure why, but we ended up in an OOM condition on the reverse proxy. I've given it considerably more resources including multiple times more ram and multiple times more swap, and I'll keep an eye on it.
The reason for the long delay is that even my teamviewer backup method for dialing in to fix it was misbehaving. I had to get physical proximity to get in. I'll get that fixed up so it doesn't happen again.
The reason for the long delay is that even my teamviewer backup method for dialing in to fix it was misbehaving. I had to get physical proximity to get in. I'll get that fixed up so it doesn't happen again.
"Hudson died in April 2020 after leading police on a high-speed pursuit following a liquor store robbery. She was behind the wheel of a stolen Jeep when she crashed on Lagimodiere Boulevard.
An officer fired two bullets at her when the Jeep began to reverse as police approached on foot[...]"
It seems to me you'd have to be incredibly racist to think the reason she got shot was her race and not because she lead the police on a high speed pursuit following a liquor store robbery in a stolen jeep, then began to reverse as police approached on foot.
If I did that and I got shot, I'd be going "Yeah, that tracks" as I went down, not "it's cause I'm 1/256th Philippino, isn't it?"
An officer fired two bullets at her when the Jeep began to reverse as police approached on foot[...]"
It seems to me you'd have to be incredibly racist to think the reason she got shot was her race and not because she lead the police on a high speed pursuit following a liquor store robbery in a stolen jeep, then began to reverse as police approached on foot.
If I did that and I got shot, I'd be going "Yeah, that tracks" as I went down, not "it's cause I'm 1/256th Philippino, isn't it?"
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that America had alliances with monarchies within the lifetimes of the founders. Perhaps even the English. An alliance, even a strong one, isn't something that you could claim to be treasonous.
Of course, you used the word "allegiance", but it only makes sense as a misuse of the word. Typically, one country doesn't "make a military allegiance" to another, one could become a fiefdom of another, or a vassal state, or otherwise become subservient to the other, but that's a holistic state, not a purely military one.
Of course, you used the word "allegiance", but it only makes sense as a misuse of the word. Typically, one country doesn't "make a military allegiance" to another, one could become a fiefdom of another, or a vassal state, or otherwise become subservient to the other, but that's a holistic state, not a purely military one.
Back when I was a kid, we had these p things... p... parchment? No... Pterodactyls? No... Oh! Parents!
The people who are supposed to keep their kids off of social media if they don't want them on social media!
The people who are supposed to keep their kids off of social media if they don't want them on social media!
One thing I find kind of funny is the redditor take "noooo you can't have a 40TB hard drive, that's too biiiiig!"
You can keep everything on 128MB SD cards if you like, but as for me? I'm happy to have big hard drives. "Oh but you'll spend too long rebuilding if one fails!" I'll be ok. If you have any extra 40TB hard drives laying around and they give you the ick, then just give them to me. I'll give them a good home.
You can keep everything on 128MB SD cards if you like, but as for me? I'm happy to have big hard drives. "Oh but you'll spend too long rebuilding if one fails!" I'll be ok. If you have any extra 40TB hard drives laying around and they give you the ick, then just give them to me. I'll give them a good home.
No, not at all.
We live in a society full of people who press the blue button assuming everyone else will bail them out for their choice and thus be dragged down with them.
To live in a society of red button pressers is to live in a society where individuals take responsibility for their own well-being first and foremost, and more importantly not burden others with the risk of their existence. It's selfish to demand others put themselves at risk to validate you, when everyone could be just fine if they just make the obvious choice and protect themselves.
Morally speaking, forcing others to consider pressing blue and potentially dying just to save you is a sort of moral vanity. You press blue because it feels nice to press blue, but insodoing you perpetuate a potentially lethal plague, for no other reason than you think others might too.
But there are entire continents with billions of people who would laugh at the concept of pressing blue as well. You don't outnumber them, they won't press blue. That's the whole scenario in the west right now, when you think about it.
We live in a society full of people who press the blue button assuming everyone else will bail them out for their choice and thus be dragged down with them.
To live in a society of red button pressers is to live in a society where individuals take responsibility for their own well-being first and foremost, and more importantly not burden others with the risk of their existence. It's selfish to demand others put themselves at risk to validate you, when everyone could be just fine if they just make the obvious choice and protect themselves.
Morally speaking, forcing others to consider pressing blue and potentially dying just to save you is a sort of moral vanity. You press blue because it feels nice to press blue, but insodoing you perpetuate a potentially lethal plague, for no other reason than you think others might too.
But there are entire continents with billions of people who would laugh at the concept of pressing blue as well. You don't outnumber them, they won't press blue. That's the whole scenario in the west right now, when you think about it.
Morality or not, we've got two choices here: the "everyone who presses this button lives" button, and the "if I press this button there's a chance I die" button.
Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live.
"My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.
The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown.
Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live.
"My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.
The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown.
[admin mode] automated backups knocked out the database for no good reason I can tell. After the backup was complete I restarted everything and here we are.
My Ribdiculous Reincarnation is a surprisingly fun little anime so far. It's absurd and every episode they're playing with different art styles. It's about a weird perverted guy going through a bunch of reincarnations then recounting his experiences to a goddess of reincarnation.
Even if you agree with their missions, anyone with two eyes has to realize they're not acting in good faith.
Of course the defamation league or hate, hate, hate in the uk, they're all just organizations designed to keep running organizations.
Of course the defamation league or hate, hate, hate in the uk, they're all just organizations designed to keep running organizations.
ngl I'd buy an army jacket from goodwill, but I don't think our army has surplus of anything but embarassment.
I know -- when I'm closer to renewal I intend to look at the alternatives. But sometimes inertia keeps something around longer than it deserves.