I ran into something similar when in haste I went from Raspbian Stretch to plain Bookworm and discovered the Debian version of Kodi didn’t have all the userspace drivers to drive the hardware decoding. In the end I worked around it by running Kodi from a container with stretch in it until the official Raspbian Bookworm got released. Maybe you could build a stretch based container for your VLC setup?

Did you ever play with the audio visualiser? I believe it was built in with the CD-ROM drive? What about Tempest 2000?

I never got a Jaguar despite being a signed up Atari fan boy at the time. The hardware was ridiculously complex which made ports to it a hard sell and Atari just didn’t have the first party exclusive clout needed to sustain a console at launch.

I do wish I’d had a chance to play with some of Jeff Minter’s creations on it though. Apparently there was a nice audio visualiser that built on the trip-a-tron from the ST days as well as some reboots of classic arcade games like Tempest 2000.

I’ve generally been up front when starting new jobs that nothing impinges my ability to work on FLOSS software on my own time. Only one company put a restriction in for working on FLOSS software in the same technical space as my $DAYJOB.

Morpheus made it very clear to neo that taking the red pill was a one way trip to enlightenment. Cypher references the red/blue pill test when talking to Neo so we can assume he did the same with him. I think Morpheus is pretty clear there is no going back.

Not totally unexpected, I mean look at what brain rot does to humans.

The article mentioned there is a long history of forks in the open source Doom world. It seems the majority of the active developers just moved to the new repository.

I helped with the initial Aarch64 emulation support for qemu as well as working with others to make multi-threaded system emulation a thing. I maintain a number of subsystems but perhaps the biggest impact was implementing the cross compilation support that enabled the TCG testing to be run by anyone including eventually the CI system. This is greatly helped by being a paid gig for the last 12 years.

I’ve done a fair bit of other stuff over my many decades of using FLOSS including maintain a couple of moderately popular Emacs packages. I’ve got drive by patches in loads of projects as I like to fix things up as I go.

I run stock on a pixel although I do have droidify installed and prefer that too the play store for most things. Especially for the freeze app where all my corporate stuff is run from.

Was it before or after Oracle acquired Sun that the fork happened? I’m fairly sure it was Oracle that passed the project across to Apache and I have no idea why the Apache foundation accepted it.

I’ve long avoided npm but attacks on PyPi are a worry.

I finally figured out the ramalamma runes to run stuff from hugging face. It sure does like to “think” through its problems:

 ➜  ramalama run huggingface://jedisct1/MiMo-7B-RL-GGUF/MiMo-7B-RL-Q4_K_M.gguf
Downloading hf://MiMo-7B-RL-Q4_K_M.gguf:latest ...
Trying to pull hf://MiMo-7B-RL-Q4_K_M.gguf:latest ...
 99% |███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████  |    4.36 GB/   4.36 GB  34.04 MB/s        0s 🦭 > what sort of coding capabilities do you have?
<think>

Okay, the user is asking about my coding capabilities. Let me start by recalling what I know. I can handle a lot of programming languages, right? But wait, I need to list the main ones without getting too technical. Frontend like JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Backend languages such as Python, Ruby, maybe Java or C#. Then frameworks and libraries: React, Node.js, Django, TensorFlow. Oh, and I can help with algorithms, debugging, and code optimization. Also, version control with Git. Should I mention specific examples where possible? Like helping with Python scripts or JavaScript functions. Don't forget to mention that I can explain concepts and assist with coding interviews. Wait, maybe add something about being updated with the latest trends. Also, emphasize that I can provide explanations and walk through code step by step. Avoid mentioning any limitations, like not having real-world execution. Make sure the answer is clear and covers the key areas without being overwhelming. Structure it with bullet points for clarity. Check for any recent updates in programming languages I should include. Yeah, I think that's covered. Alright, time to put it all together in a friendly, concise way.
</think>

I can assist with a wide range of coding-related tasks, including:

### **Programming Languages**
- **Frontend**: JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, CSS, React, Vue.js, Angular.
- **Backend**: Python, Node.js (JavaScript), Ruby, Java, C#, PHP, Go, Rust.
- **Data Science/ML**: Python (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch).
- **Databases**: SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).

### **Frameworks & Tools**
- Web Development: Django, Flask, Express.js, Spring Boot, React/Next.js.
- DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Git (and GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket).
- Testing: Unit tests, mocking (with tools like unittest, pytest, JUnit).

### **Key Skills**
- Algorithm design, code optimization, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Code review, formatting, and refactoring.
- Generating code snippets, pseudocode, or explanations for specific tasks.
- Walk-throughs for complex projects (e.g., building APIs, sorting algorithms).

### **Additional Help**
- Coding interview preparation (examples, explanations, time/space complexity analysis).
- Concepts like OOP, REST APIs, design patterns, and best practices.
- Debugging assistance (e.g., interpreting errors, logic issues).

Let me know what you need! I can also explain ideas in simple terms or guide you through steps. 🚀
🦭 > Can you write me a short C function to reverse a string?
<think>

Okay, I need to write a C function to reverse a string. Let's see. Hmm, how do you reverse a string in C? I remember that strings in C are arrays of characters, so the idea is to swap the characters from the beginning and the end.

First, I should think about the parameters. The function will take a string pointer and its length. Oh right, because to know how long the string is. But wait, strings are null-terminated, so the actual length is one less than the size including the null character. But maybe the user will pass the correct length. Hmm, maybe the function should accept both the string and its length. Or maybe calculate the length inside the function. Wait, but calculating the length each time might be inefficient, especially for long strings. So perhaps the user should pass the length as an argument. That's better.

So the function signature would be something like void reverseString(char *str, int length). But wait, in C, the length of a string can be found using strlen(), but that includes the null terminator. Oh right, so the actual number of characters is strlen(str) - 1. Wait, no. The strlen function returns the number of characters before the null terminator, so for example, if the string is "hello", it's 5 characters, and the null is at index 5. So the length parameter for reversing should be the same as the return value of strlen(str). But if the user passes the full size of the buffer, maybe that's different. But perhaps it's safer to have the function take the length as an argument. Because if the user provides the correct length (including the null terminator?), wait no. When reversing, you don't want to mess with the null terminator. So maybe the function should reverse the characters up to the null terminator. So perhaps the function should first find the length of the string using strlen(), then reverse the first length characters. But then the user doesn't have to pass the length. Hmm. Let me think.

If the function is written to take the string and its length, the user has to make sure they pass the correct length (excluding the null terminator?), but maybe that's up to the function to handle. For example, if the user passes the correct length, then the function can swap the characters from 0 to length-1. So perhaps the function can be written as:

void reverseString(char *str, int length) {
    int left = 0;
    int right = length - 1;
    while (left < right) {
        char temp = str[left];
        str[left] = str[right];
        str[right] = temp;
        left++;
        right--;
    }
}

But then the user needs to calculate the length before calling the function. Like, int len = strlen("hello"); reverseString(str, len); That would reverse the first len characters, which are the actual characters without the null terminator. That makes sense. So the function swaps the characters up to the length provided. So the user is responsible for passing the correct length. But maybe in the example code, the user might just pass the string and the function calculates the length. Let me see. If the function doesn't take the length, then we can compute it inside the function. Let's see:

void reverseString(char *str) {
    int length = strlen(str);
    int left = 0;
    int right = length - 1;
    while (left < right) {
        char temp = str[left];
        str[left] = str[right];
        str[right] = temp;
        left++;
        right--;
    }
}

This way, the user just passes the string, and the function reverses it. That's probably better because the user doesn't have to compute the length. But then, what if the string is null? Well, we should handle that, but maybe for simplicity, the example code can assume the string is valid. Also, the function will modify the string in place, which is efficient. That's a common approach in C.

So putting it all together, the function would look like this. Let me test it in my mind. Suppose the string is "hello". The length is 5. Left starts at 0, right at 4. Swap 'h' and 'o' → "oleh". Then left 1, right 3: swap 'e' and 'l' → "olleh". Then left 2, right 2: stop. So reversed string is "olleh", which is correct. Yes.

So the answer would be a function that reverses the string in place using an in-place swap algorithm. The code would look like the second version, without the length parameter. That's better for the user because they don't have to compute the length. So the code is:

#include <string.h>

void reverseString(char *str) {
    int length = strlen(str);
    int left = 0;
    int right = length - 1;
    while (left < right) {
        char temp = str[left];
        str[left] = str[right];
        str[right] = temp;
        left++;
        right--;
    }
}

Wait, but what about strings that are not null-terminated? But in standard C, all strings are null-terminated, so this should work. So this code should work for standard C strings. The function reverses the string in place, which is efficient. The user can call it like: char str[] = "hello"; reverseString(str); printf("%s", str); which would output "olleh".

So that's the code. I think that's correct. Let me check for possible errors. For example, when the string has only one character. Then left and right are same, the loop doesn't run, correct. For empty string, but then strlen would be 0, right would be -1, loop doesn't run. That's okay. So yes, the code should work.
</think>

Here's a C function that reverses a string in-place:

```c
#include <string.h>

void reverseString(char *str) {
    int length = strlen(str);
    int left = 0;
    int right = length - 1;
    while (left < right) {
        char temp = str[left];
        str[left] = str[right];
        str[right] = temp;
        left++;
        right--;
    }
}

How to use it:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    char str[] = "hello";
    reverseString(str);
    printf("Reversed string: %s\n", str);
    return 0;
}

Output:

Reversed string: olleh

Explanation:

1. The function calculates the string length using strlen().
2. Two pointers (left and right) start at the beginning and end of the string.
3. They swap characters (``) until the end of the string.

This approach reverses the string efficiently with minimal memory usage (in-place reversal).

Is the summary video an AI generated one from NotebookML?

Care needs to be taken with big orgs like the NHS to not try and boil the ocean with massive IT systems. Concentrating on open interoperability standards allows for smaller more flexible contracts and the ability to swap out components when needed.

Open source licences would be the ideal default although at a minimum the purchasing org should have a licence that allows them (or subcontractors) to make fixes without being tied to the original vendor.

FLOSS projects can only be sustainable if their are enough shared interests able to support it through contributions of all kinds. Fortunately the code is free so that constellation of support can change over time. It’s a shame this particular line of government funding is coming to an end but others can help.

I think the most useful thing for this is hosting repos that suffer from constant DMCA takedowns. Emulators, ad-blockers, site revancers etc.

These are all excellent ways someone can contribute to a project. Our project website has a repo anything can contribute to to make changes, even the blog entries are statically generated pages.

I used to think about it a lot when I was younger because it seemed so unfair that life comes to an end. As I’ve gotten older (and closer to the inevitable) I think about it less. Hopefully you’ll get to the point you realise worrying about something you can’t change isn’t productive use of the time you have left. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do what you can to eat well, keep fit and put off that final reckoning as much as you can.

Looks like they did well. All of the attacks required physical access and glitching the chip. That should be good enough for a lot of use cases.

Yes and no. A lot of the projects I work on the majority of the engineers are funded by companies which have very real commercial drivers to do so. However the fact the code itself is free (as in freedom) means that everyone benefits from the commons and as a result interesting contributions come up which aren’t on the commercial roadmap. Look at git, a source control system Linus built because he needed something to maintain Linux in and he didn’t like any of the alternatives. It solved his itch but is now the basis for a large industry of code forges with git at their heart.

While we have roadmaps for features we want they still don’t get merged until they are ready and acceptable to the upstream which makes for much more sustainable projects in the long run.

Interestingly while we have had academic contributions there are a lot more research projects that use the public code as a base but the work is never upstreamed because the focus is on getting the paper/thesis done. Code can work and prove the thing they investigating but still need significant effort to get it merged.