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Notices by clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la), page 56

  1. Code Selfish (paul@social.device5.co.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 11:07:41 EDT Code Selfish Code Selfish

    Some advice

    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 11:07:41 EDT from social.device5.co.uk permalink Repeated by clacke
  2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 03:32:43 EDT clacke clacke
    • Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
    After over half a century of independence, Malaysians for the first time elect a government other than the incumbent party.

    https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/423990

    https://identi.ca/avadiax/note/psFeIxaGT4mW4RMnySOf4g thinks this is amazing and hopes Singapore's PAP is the next to fall.

    I'm wondering if this will really make Malaysia a "normal country in which race and religion would not be an unalloyed obsession", or if the de facto single party system is what has kept the country together in the face of racial and religious obsession.

    In Singapore, even more so.

    /cc @moonman
    In conversation Thursday, 10-May-2018 03:32:43 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink

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      After six decades in power, BN falls to ‘Malaysian tsunami’
      from Malaysiakini
      EDITORIAL | The Tsunami did happen. But it was a 'Malaysian' wave that swept Harapan to power.
  3. Anna e só (anna@cybre.space)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 12:47:37 EDT Anna e só Anna e só

    Dear free and open source community,

    I want you to recommend projects that welcome people that never contributed to FOSS before. I am planning to do a workshop this year to encourage people to make their first contributions. What I need:

    - A page explaining how they could contribute.
    - General recommendations and documentation.
    - Where they can contact people involved in such projects in case they have questions.

    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 12:47:37 EDT from cybre.space permalink Repeated by clacke
  4. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 02:44:42 EDT clacke clacke
    • INACTIVE
    @deadsuperhero Before you bash yourself up about it too much, it could also be something else that doesn't involve you, and he just wasn't ready to talk about it yet.
    In conversation Thursday, 10-May-2018 02:44:42 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  5. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 02:41:31 EDT clacke clacke
    • remmy
    @remmy agree but

    #dymaxion map coolest map

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1517581
    In conversation Thursday, 10-May-2018 02:41:31 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  6. Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 00:32:59 EDT Christmas Personified as a Catgirl Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
    free software has always been that you have a right to the source code of software that you use, and a right to modify it. If you try to make it part of a broader goal of social justice, you end up with people like the moron at LibrePlanet that said proprietary software is freer than FOSS if it's easier to use.
    In conversation Thursday, 10-May-2018 00:32:59 EDT from shitposter.club permalink Repeated by clacke
  7. Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@sealion.club)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 22:31:46 EDT Pete Zaitcev Pete Zaitcev
    in reply to
    • clacke
    @clacke UNIX v7 was a swapping system. I think AT&T only added paging to System V, years after 3BSD. As far as using the swap area to back paging, of course BSD did it first. Obviously, where else do you want to page? Swapping into filesystem objects was years ahead still. So, Linus does not have anything with that naming convention.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 22:31:46 EDT from sealion.club permalink Repeated by clacke
  8. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 23:29:26 EDT clacke clacke
    • Pete Zaitcev
    @zaitcev Thanks for the background!

    Didn't know paging was that new.

    If there were systems that already did swapping and then transitioned into paging, I guess it makes sense that they had mixed terminology, and then Linux just inherited that.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 23:29:26 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  9. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 22:24:04 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    Man (in club): "Hey DJ, play Love to Hate You"
    DJ: "No"
    Man: "I demand it under my Right to Erasure"

    https://twitter.com/rws26/status/992681356432900097
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 22:24:04 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  10. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 22:17:28 EDT clacke clacke
    Copying from a thread of #GDPR jokes:

    - Do you know a good GDPR consultant?
    - Yes.
    - Can you give me his e-mail address?
    - No.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 22:17:28 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  11. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:53:56 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    My brother would get very frustrated if he saw what I'm writing here. He's from a generation of nerds that cares about the difference between "swapping" and "paging".

    Swapping is when you move an entire process out of memory and onto disk, as some pre-unix systems did, and maybe some early unices, I'm not sure. Paging is when you divide memory into memory pages and can move individual pages of a process onto disk.

    Linux uses paging, but Linus named the paging area swap space, the tool to set it up mkswap, and used the term swap in the interfaces (except when he didn't!), so here we are.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:53:56 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  12. winmine.exe (calvin@cronk.stenoweb.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:21:43 EDT winmine.exe winmine.exe
    in reply to
    • clacke
    • JordiGH

    @clacke @JordiGH posting fake comic strips gets you into a boner, it seems

    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:21:43 EDT from cronk.stenoweb.net permalink Repeated by clacke
  13. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:42:00 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    @shellkr Adding swap generally does not degrade performance. It may even improve performance, as more space available for paged out memory may lead to more RAM available for the page cache.

    Without swap, dirty pages are given privilege and will always get RAM, with swap the system has the chance to prioritize frequently accesse clean pages over rarely accessed dirty pages.

    In practice, whether adding swap actually improves performance depends on the type of workload and how well the kernel reasons based on the workload. For some workloads, the kernel may make bad decisions and removing the option of paging out dirty pages to swap may improve performance.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:42:00 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  14. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:38:54 EDT clacke clacke
    @shellkr

    You are confused about these concepts.

    tmpfs is not RAM. You cannot add more RA by increasing tmpfs size. There is no such thing as a program running out of tmpfs and starting to use swap.

    Regardless whether you put your data in files in tmpfs or you keep it in process memory, it uses virtual memory. It will stay in RAM if possible, but if necessary it will be paged out to disk.

    When the system runs out of virtual memory, swappiness determines nothing. The system will not give an out-of-memory error until it has tried evicting every clean page (flushing all cache) and paging out every dirty page. Swappiness determines how eager it is to page pages out when it doesn't have to. It affects performance, but cannot affect whether the system runs out of memory.

    It didn't say whether it ran out of RAM or swap, because running out of RAM or swap isn't a thing. It ran out of memory so I added memory.

    Yes, 8GB is a lot of virtual memory to keep on disk, but whether it makes your machine slow depends on how you use it. Your machine becomes slow if the active set, the amount of memory continually accessed while the current processes are running, is larger than your RAM. At that point it doesn't matter how much swap you have, except that if you have too little for supplying the amount of memory (RAM+swap) required, something will run out of memory.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:38:54 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  15. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:19:53 EDT clacke clacke
    • JordiGH
    @jordigh ah-hah!
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 21:19:53 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  16. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:38:15 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    Found the original(er) scan, with slightly fewer jpeg artifacts.

    https://marvelandspiderman.tumblr.com/post/88009359061/the-more-you-know-peter https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1516137
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:38:15 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  17. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:31:01 EDT clacke clacke
    • Thor, the Norseman has moved!
    @thor She was openly pro-bremain, and now she is going to fulfill the referendum outcome to the letter, but no further, and still try to get what she considers the best possible deal out of it.
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:31:01 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  18. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:26:05 EDT clacke clacke
    #soliddick https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1516117
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 15:26:05 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
  19. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 10:11:02 EDT clacke clacke
    in reply to
    • clacke
    • cobra2
    @cobra2 Do you know what this means? Does this mean ZFS is using 3 GB of memory?

    $ cat /sys/module/zfs/coresize
    3407872

    I just saw the filename and looked inside. I've been searching around just a few minutes and haven't seen any mention of this file, but maybe there's a good reference overview of the whole /sys/.../zfs tree somewhere?
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-May-2018 10:11:02 EDT from social.heldscal.la permalink
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