Welp. Finally had to subscribe to @mullvadnet.. not for any privacy reasons, not for geoblocks nor censorship, not even because my home IP address was flagged for too-many-requests by GitHub anymore, but just because my home ISP has fucked up their routes so much that the @postmarketOS website (wiki and package repo, but not gitlab) was unreachable. Traceroute: home, ISP, stars, stars, failure back from ISP. Amazing.

i found it. found where ALSA in linux comes from physically

uh oh, looks like the json-c library might be a disaster. found a tool that uses it to parse files from a directory, it didn't expect any non-json files so it'd crash on them, I added a check for json_object_from_fd returning NULL and it got through a couple non-json files and then on another file it just.. returns an actual non-null pointer but then json_object_iter_begin on it crashes. what is this, "let it crash" but in C?!

Got the relatively-cheap dual 4K capture card.. As expected, it's a SuperSpeedPlus hub going into two independent SuperSpeed "minus" capture chips. Entirely unexpected though: tiny fan for active cooling!

huh. apparently some of the legendary APM X-Gene systems still are in use at some dedicated server providers? wow