Val Packett 🧉

@valpackett@treehouse.systems
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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in general, but I have a lot less influence there.
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"Constrict compresses your videos to your chosen file size" yaaas swag swag swag. Always nice to see easy to use tools that solve real daily problems. Truly the year of the Linux / #GNOME desktop and all.

Now I wish it contained Video Trimmer inside of it as well :D

Install Constrict on Linux | Flathub

Compress videos to target sizes

Flathub - Apps for Linux
The existence of code patches and code injection implies the existence of code gel, code pills and code implants
Your average phone has a dozen advanced low-level exploit mitigations like literal pointer authentication. Your average gaming PC has a dozen ways for malware to escalate from normal user process straight to ARBITRARY KERNEL WRITE without even trying

"MSI Afterburner - RTCore64.sys driver (yes, even in the latest version) has a vulnerability that allows any usermode process to read and write any kernel memory it wishes"

..what?! Wow, what an absolute clown show. I can't believe I used to just run that thing back in my Windows gaming days.

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach

Why are developers so hesitant to bring anti-cheat solutions to Linux?

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux | Samuel Tulach
dope glitch art courtesy of venus/radv/amdgpu and format modifiers #mesa3d

Interesting continuation of the "VM crashes with EFAULT when accessing AMD GPU memory" story: just spotted a muvm issue from someone trying it with an AMD GPU on aarch64 that reported the same symptom!

Hopefully the recently landed "KVM: arm64: Map GPU device memory as cacheable" patch series helps? #kernel

How to run muvm on arm64 with AMD GPU for 4K-page x86 apps and native 3D acceleration? · Issue #165 · AsahiLinux/muvm

I'm working on setting up muvm on an ARM64 device with 64K pages, running an AMD GPU. I understand that muvm is primarily designed to run x86 apps (built for 4K-page systems) in such environments, ...

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if anyone's unsure as to how GoToSocial performs so well, it's simply by not having enterprise tech brain.

code for the longterm. refactor things if you want to. stop focusing on horizontal scaling bullshit. microservices are not the answer.

PSA: do not ifdef struct fields in the header that aren't actually conditional in the ABI! Maybe don't ifdef struct fields, like, ever.

(Yes, reported.)

"Valid User" lmao

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Apple: “Only now are computers so powerful that they can display UIs with complex physics-simulating ‘liquid glass’ effects”

Future Crew on a potato PC in 1993:

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"Valid User" lmao

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@valpackett we really aren't human beings to them are we lol.