When you see that the libtinfo6 package is being updated and your brain automatically appends "il" to "libtinfo", it's time to reevaluate something in your life.
What is VC? I already am too old so VBA is Visual Basic for Applications for me, and VC is something like... Vacheron Constantin, idk.
Which OS do you run? Because for me, everything worked from the first time even in the bare Alpine CLI.
To the people asking why I have a collection of 8 Victorinox knives while only using two of them on a daily basis: don't worry, I also use one calculator out of 7, one fountain pen out of 9, one watch out of 31 and three phones out of ~60 at any given moment.
That's, like, the whole point of a collection: being able to rotate your tools.
Ported my BLE-enabled Casio watch synchronizer from JS to Python. https://git.luxferre.top/rcvd-py/file/README.html
Planned for this for almost two years but it took half a day.
The protocol is a canonical example of how not to design protocols if you don't want the devs to curse you.
Don't get me wrong, it's still cool but far from elegant.
Do you know which watchmaker made an elegant sync protocol? Timex. With their first Datalinks. They were purely optical. That's what I call elegant. No additional hardware required from the PC side. And yes, the protocol is now out in the open (along with other repos from the same author): https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client
Many years later, Longines tried to replicate this optical calibration in their Conquest VHP line. As a result, they made a total mess. And instead of opensourcing the effort, they just abandoned it, and now you can't even install the app on newer Androids. Some research is ongoing, but of course such watches are much more scarce and short-lived.
Thanks, I'll stick to my BLE Casios instead for the time being.
Amethyst is a product (as in a consequence, not in a sense of market goods) of the exact newspeak-induced vision I was talking about. It will only remain fully FOSS as long as it can lure enough people to eventually make it a product (in a sense of market goods). Afterwards, some dubious binary blobs, ads and "premium features" are inevitable. To sum it up, it's the absolute opposite of the artwork I was talking about. And again, it's not a problem of the FOSS model itself that some people use it this way.
Maybe I'll dedicate my next phlog post to this entire question, there's too much to say about it.
Could you give a particular example of the project you're talking about?
Who said it's for sale in the first place?
There are many things in this world that are not supposed to be monetized yet still remain useful.
Of course, if you're talking solely about Nostr clients, it's very far away from art. Starting with the protocol itself.
There's no fundamental problem with FOSS.
There is a problem with the modern pandemic that (regarding software) started back in 1990s, I guess. When megacorps began turning art into "products" as a part of their anti-individuality vision.
People also got used to "products" instead of engineering artworks. And now, whenever they essentially look at a Jacquet Droz automaton, they expect it to perform like a Teslabot. Of course, not even realizing that Teslabot is mostly vaporware.
The true art and the remaining hope for the software world now lies at the intersection of FOSS and demoscene. Doing this for your own amusement, as optimized as you can, making it work on the weakest hardware, not being bothered that some square-minded rookies can't read what you write, and sharing your knowledge with the rest of the world, for those who can and do understand and appreciate it.
Bare Linux installation on the same VPS. RAM consumption. Debian 12: 111 MB, Alpine 3.19: 47 MB.
Guess which one I had to install manually via VNC?
The best political party is a warehouse party.
As much as I dislike Perl, I still need a Nostr client that can run on Perl 5.8.8.
Or on Regina (Rexx).
Or anything else that runs on DOS.
#asknostr
Except some (at least two) of your subscribers are spreading fake news.
Unpopular opinion: [Free|Svar]DOS is underrated.
https://hoi.st/posts/2024-04-08-a-few-more-words-about-dos.txt
I need to take a break from Nostr and other media for about 2 weeks. The phlog post is gonna be published but then see y'all on April 7, I hope.
Visual Basic for Applications?
