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mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, you know going into the game that sooner or later, this sorta thing will happen.
mircea_popescu: would also immensely help if pizarro was significantly larger by now.
mircea_popescu: that sort of infantile misbehaviour eminently fits the bill.
mircea_popescu: if one's systematically dedicated to not doing anything useful, sooner or later one necessarily finds himself burning all his time on dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: if you're going by vermin's reaction, you can't introduce the spurious criterion of "is this delicious from my pov".
mircea_popescu: nah, the point of similarity is "things derps don't want to be said", not "things of substance".
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever, i'm not gonna debug shaders now. muh kb-wotn is broken and that's that.
mircea_popescu: "stack protectors" are such a dumbass idea, i swear. who are they supposed to help ? the dumb user doesn't need the stack protected, he needs programs that don't smash it. and the smart user doesn't need fucking blindfolds on, he needs honest, informative and actionable errors. wtf "generic fault of a generic type"
mircea_popescu: at least now it's crashing properly, so i know what the fuck to do.
mircea_popescu: i suspect what's happening is that the gl is trying to do depth comparison on a texture with no depth, through a sampling shader. which...
mircea_popescu: there's a broken shader / nvidia card issue at work here, it's not what i thought at first, pure spuriousness.
mircea_popescu: aaand meanwhile, managing to bash a non-protected hand-compiled wine in the playonlinux hairball has exposed the underlying error : 002b:fixme:d3d_shader:print_glsl_info_log 0(24) : warning C7050: "vs_out[11]" might be used before being initialized
mircea_popescu: wine per se is an attempt to implement the windows api in posix.
mircea_popescu: the problem being that by now it escaped any sort of human control.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform play on linux ? no, it's basically a multi-mb pile of "useful python scripts" for running wine. basically, it's automake for windows proggies running in wine.
mircea_popescu: ^ kidna curious if anyone can tell the fracture, whereby mp couldn't find what he wanted, lost interest.
mircea_popescu: which is the problem here -- there's nothing open source about this atrocity.
mircea_popescu: if you compile it with -fstack-protector it fails in this manner (not just on this game, but many). if you compile it without, it works fine -- however the downstream tree (playonlinux etc) can't very well be coerced to use it.
mircea_popescu: wine necessarily fucks around with the stack, as part of what it DOES.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh, there's no such thing as sorta-clean toilet.
mircea_popescu: but it didn't work when ti didn't work because of the program in question using exotic weird, not because "we shoot selves in foot with buggy half-working gcc stack protection misfeature"
mircea_popescu: it didn't work ALWAYS, and yes, precisely dr. dos problem as you describe it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it worked fine, i played heroes etc on it last time around (cca 2010 or so)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and i can't write, because i need a reference i can no longer find.i have no fucking idea how to fix this sort of problem, nor do i truly speaking expect it'll ever get fixed. so w/e, i guess ima trash this thousand words and move on. except the specter of "there's an X% chance you won't be able to complete the article you wish to write" is sufficiently chilling to permanently discourage one from even starting.
mircea_popescu: ke in the windows days, entirely and utterly unfixable. there's no alternate paths anymore, you can't get wine x to work with pol y anymore than you can get a chunk of windows nt to drop-in replace some chunk of windows vista.
mircea_popescu: well so let's see here : i can't play, because after sinking however many hours in chasing dependencies and fixing assorted if widely distributed breakage the end story is that "foss" has managed to really give the whole game away -- there is ONE chain, consisting of play on linux so-and-so using wine-so-and-so on ubuntu this-and-that, and you pray it works -- because if it doesn't work, THAT IS IT, "there was an error" li
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz : you may build and even install a proper wine (ie, configured without the derp-ass gcc "stack protection", that evidently doesn't work) ; and it'll even work, system-wide. however that doesn't mean playonlinux won't stick to its sadder, older version. and of course you can't just force-copy symlinks over in its holy directory, because they're all brokenly relative, and gns resolution works as shown in that p
mircea_popescu: can't fucking find anything on this blog of mine, by now it's taking longer to amass the references than it takes to write a god damned article.
mircea_popescu: does anyone by any chance remember which the fuck trilema article contained this image of a chavy teenage chick, straddling a dude in a car, knees bent, jeans still on but lifted off her cunt, shoving the dude underneath's manhood into her cunt with the left hand ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: ubuntu, made by people who don't understand computers for people who don't need computers.
mircea_popescu: so i brought back screen to manage the term sessions for these idiots. THIS is the sense of progress : from 10.04 to 18.04, they lost terminal management, i'm back to screen. i didn't actually use it in 10.04
mircea_popescu: and speaking of terrible accessibility : they changed the taskbar structure from purely linear to a sorta broken tree, so that all terminals snap together into a single terminal icon (holy shit WHY, everyone's taskbar is 90% terms and that is THE ONLY REASON to even HAVE clickable taskbars) so now i have to do two clicks, one to bring up a derpy bubble and a second to bring up the wanted terminal, which blows btw because n
mircea_popescu: or do you mean, "shipping broken" ? cuz sure, it is, but what the fuck did they put in those FOUR cds ? the gfx is shitty, the accessibility broken and the compiling dun werk.
mircea_popescu: needing bison ? well yeah, xml wasn't enough, gotta gnu
mircea_popescu: "configure: error: no suitable flex found." doh. so you install flex. "configure: error: no suitable bison found."
mircea_popescu: so one, obviously, is stuck installing a proper wine on the system, because fuck me if i'm not getting off beginner island (VERY fucking annoying manifestation of the bug -- crashes you in the final battle, with that asswipe eric).
mircea_popescu: in other, ongoing lulz of the endless saga : "*** stack smashing detected ***: <unknown> terminated" << wine (as bundled with the shitty ubuntu in question, v 3.0-1) abuses "stack protection" to
crash perfectly fine programs (in this case, king's bounty - warriors of the north).
mircea_popescu: kinda what all these are derived from, hardblown, method-acted comedy. it's a cinematic adaptation of a roadshow style of entertainment (much like the "high class production" fred astaire / frank sinatra etc were in try to steal broadway for the studios)
mircea_popescu: ~same look and feel as that klonk, "we hacked up some old slot machines" "why ?" "dunno"
mircea_popescu: you recall the amiga guy's failed bid to make a sort of tablets-in-tables restaurant/amusement park ?
mircea_popescu shall be off to lead his virtual armies. which is how one survives on modern "operating system" : by spending all the time inside pre-modern, 1990s era games.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i actually got this thing going. you ever played the kb franchise ?
mircea_popescu: vaguely reminds me of the old ibm-pc clone days, when ~nothing worke
mircea_popescu: oh, no, it's so accessible and usable and progressed, i dunno what you could be griping about
mircea_popescu: most of the fucking processes can't even be brought up by clicking on this derp-ass gui
mircea_popescu: but i was trying to get king's bounty legends of the north booted.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that part doesn't work, of course. and you should see what the glyph engine looks like.
mircea_popescu: ubuntu is not some kind of linux. it's a mod on windows registry.
mircea_popescu: steam is not "this big deal gaming published with its own os", it's a pathetic front on a dead flash-wannabe (unity)
mircea_popescu: this damned thing is almost exactly windows, i dunno why even bother with emulators, should just run win binaries native by now.
mircea_popescu: for instance of what i mean by "any way" : you'd expect kill $(ps aux | grep wine | cut -f2 -d" "| awk '{print $1}') will do it. and indeed it kills DOZENS of processes.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile continuing the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918697 nonsense : wine doesn't work worth a shit on the new ubuntu. it never worked splendidly, granted, but it was quite workable last i looked into this half decade ago. it degraded significantly. for instance, after a bunch of installing various, i'm left with a taskbar fulla dead icons. (well, in fairness they bring up a transparent exclamation point in a tria
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: what can i tell you. u;ltimately all things are baubleds/.