@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: huh? Where and when does the linking happen here?

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: Wait, if you have an implicit function declaration warning because the function doesn't actually exist, the build should fail at link time, right?

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: FWIW, my sysdeps test for timer_create() correctly fails on OpenBSD: https://git.skarnet.org/cgit/skalibs/tree/src/sysdeps/trytimer.c

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: You don't need to justify to me why you're avoiding systemd and D-Bus 😅

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: systemd's APIs generally aren't that bad. But when you mix it with D-Bus, that's when you get the magic sparkles.

@nprofile1q...

Frankly, I don't think most people who enjoy Nolan's films make this mistake.

Don't they?

My favorite Nolan movie is Tenet, which is the one his fans tend to like the least. But to me Tenet is the most quintessential "brain teaser" Nolan movie, even more so than Memento, and it doesn't try to pretend to be thought-provoking art (as opposed to e.g. Inception), it's openly trying to puzzle you in an unabashedly fun way. The highway scene in Tenet perfectly illustrates for me what Nolan is all about, what he's good at; it's the most enjoyable scene for me in all his Nolan movies, and I want more of that and less of whatever he's trying to do with The Odyssey.

So, why do most people disagree? Why isn't Tenet liked? My suspicion is that a larger portion of people than you think actually does mistake interesting brainteasers with profoundly thought-provoking art, and when the movie is openly a fun brainteaser with no other pretense, they don't like it.

I mean, I think it's an apt comparison here: look at all the Fight Club fans. I enjoyed this movie, I think it's good, but it created a cult-like fascination by people (mostly men, huh) who saw in it something more profound than there was, who latched onto it for life guidance, and yes, a part of it is fascist-adjacent. I would not be surprised if a similar phenomenon was at play with Nolan.

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @rose I haven't been following NixOS at all, what happened? what part of the torment nexus did they associate themselves with this time?

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @rose can't wait to see something like that appear tbh, maybe this will finally decide people (and distros) to move away

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @rose maybe not associating directly, but they would take money from them no questions asked

@navi Linux is not dead yet. It is too big to fail - which is bad per se, but helpful here. You have time. We have time. Things will happen: a bubble burst, or a fork, or a brand new kernel from scratch, etc. In the meantime, don't despair: there are ways to port service managers on other OSes.

Since the LLM craze started I have been scaling back my efforts. I'm waiting for the smoke to clear a bit to know where to go.

@nprofile1q... phrasing!