Post by @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 5 hr. ago

posting the linux kernel cope about DMA bufs again because it's so fucking pathetic https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/pin_user_pages.html#folio-maybe-dma-pinned-the-whole-point-of-pinning

The whole point of marking folios as “DMA-pinned” or “gup-pinned” is to be able to query, “is this folio DMA-pinned?” That allows code such as folio_mkclean() (and file system writeback code in general) to make informed decisions about what to do when a folio cannot be unmapped due to such pins.
What to do in those cases is the subject of a years-long series of discussions and debates (see the References at the end of this document). It’s a TODO item here: fill in the details once that’s worked out.

literally just the OS refusing to adjudicate between shared resources which is the entire fucking point of an "operating system"

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d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 5 hr. ago

in particular, refusing to adjudicate between precedence for transitions between control of a page by drivers vs userspace code. so this gets to the very heart of why linux and monolithic kernels in general fucking suck ass and will not survive the revolution

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 5 hr. ago

i'm aware "pathetic" is very harsh and arguably eliminationist language and i am using it to describe fascist code written by fascists to enact fascist hierarchies you can argue that's harmful but i don't consider it to be such when deployed in this linguistic context

somebody

@somebody@circumstances.run 5 hr. ago

@hipsterelectron pathetic is not a word I would ever use lightly which is why I also look to my favorite prose writer ever Melville for when to use it. It isn't even something I consider a weapon. There are times we are all pathetic, or when I know I have been. It is just a very serious word that must be used correctly. There are people I've loved I would apply it to at their lowest; it is not an intrinsic trait but a state of being that can change that is caused by absolute defeat

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 4 hr. ago

@somebody this is exactly the kind of feedback i was interested in and i would have accepted a negative critique as well

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d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 4 hr. ago

@somebody i think using it as an insult is deeply deeply fascist-coded to the point where i consider the rhetorical usage of it to be an evil act. it really just declares the object a "degenerate" and a target for elimination and if i ever use it that way i deserve to be reviled for it

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 4 hr. ago

@somebody i see we disagree on whether the word is evil—i would agree with you i think and clarify that the evil usage is in the implication of the target being irretrievably consigned to a lack of sympathy and thereby becoming a target for subsequent or previous eliminationist logics and rhetorics

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 4 hr. ago

@somebody i do agree there is a pathetic state that can exist as an observation which would be a singularly harsh and extreme judgement of a state of affairs (harsh and extreme is not to disqualify it, just to limit its use like any weapon)

somebody

@somebody@circumstances.run 4 hr. ago

@hipsterelectron I mean, I've been there, deeply and truly. I agree with what you said before except that I also I believe that the very state of being reduced can be miraculously reversed. that's the very condition of a molester or violent criminal kneeling in front of a pastor and being commanded to repent in my mind, or simply so compromised as to not be able to care for oneself despite having no further oppressor but a past violence you need to become new in front of.

many times in this life the reality is simply that harsh. the truth is I am many awful things but I'm not a coward, and if I am truly hating someone, they will not know it was me before they're gone. so I use my words very very carefully, and I don't know of any words I can use that do not describe myself also at certain times. my point is that hate is something I experience, but the only times I have directed it I have lased myself through, it is such a dangerous thing that I do not even endorse the use of in open warfare in which killing is a given

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 3 hr. ago

@somebody i believe too that the pathetic state is not a condemnation but an observation and thereby implies a temporality

somebody

@somebody@circumstances.run 3 hr. ago

@hipsterelectron Yes! and also, that temporality does not change the transient actuality in eternity. This is why we are all sinners! It doesn't mean: oh you never get better, you don't deserve peace, blah blah. It means that sometimes you do be fucking it up! That's the truth of it. Knowing that is part of what you are non-discursively is a method of regrounding perpetually. You never believe it isn't in you to fuck up again, because as soon as you stop the war with the flesh and you stop seeing the other as a soul and a mind, you go right back on it!

to be completely open about this in a way I am not usually comfortable with in public because I believe that displaying christendom fully is also vanity, the understanding of what lies between heaven and eden is the understanding that discursivity lies between non-discursive limits. we start in the garden, and we either find the just kingdom or we fail. understanding that time is war and war is time is at the very heart of understanding why the sacrifice of the only son was made in front of us: God had to say in some way that He was one of is, just from a different plane outside time.

This is not easy! For anyone! But existing is not easy in general as it turns out and nobody's (in particular, the creator's) omnipotence actually changes this. That is a critical insight, and in my view, it is the insight crucial to universal suffrage!

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 5 hr. ago

oh my fedi client performs even more aggressive newline stripping in quotes than mastodon itself that's so funny

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 5 hr. ago

pachli is written by a centrist so i do not recommend using it without dual-wielding with tusky

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