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00:33 Gustavo6046 Is it just me or are caves spawning on every power of 2 depth?
00:33 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: unless we abstract the scripting API in a glue-code-agnostic way.
00:33 Gustavo6046 Although that will be difficult, given Lua's idiosyncrasies.
00:33 Gustavo6046 We could also target a more "common" format, like WebAssembly, and let the developer choose the language.
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00:46 Hawk777 That sounds nice TBH. But it would still require maintaining two scripting connections (unless Lua has a WASM backend?) in order to not break everything that ever existed, and I’d personally still rather the core devs spent their time on other choices from the pile of open tickets.
00:48 Hawk777 Abstracting things doesn’t help the matter because the MT devs would still have to maintain the abstraction and its two implementations.
00:49 Hawk777 I’d say it’s also beneficial that, with only a single language option, modders can all read each other’s code.
01:02 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: it is not necessary, if we can create the Lua backend as mere glue code for a universal scripting API
01:02 Gustavo6046 I THINK it would be easier to have the legacy API untouched
01:02 Gustavo6046 but Lua-only
01:02 Hawk777 You keep saying “mere glue code” as if mere glue code doesn’t need maintenance :)
01:02 Gustavo6046 and have the universal API have all these goodies
01:02 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: it doesn't
01:03 Gustavo6046 The moving parts it glues do.
01:03 Gustavo6046 And we don't maintain Lua, do we?
01:03 Hawk777 Well, I guess we disagree then.
01:03 Gustavo6046 The Lua glue code would allow access for both the universal API and the legacy API. Sounds convoluted, but it's for a reason -- it makes it only one part that needs to be maintained with respect to changing Lua versions.
01:04 Hawk777 Changing Lua versions? I thought the core devs had already decided they would never go beyond Lua 5.1 because of compat breaks in the Lua stdlib.
01:04 Gustavo6046 Lua is very, very awful when it comes to backward compatibility, which is just yet another reason I would gradually phase it out, or at least give it less attention or something, in favour of JavaScript.
01:04 Hawk777 I.e. stuff which has nothing to do with Minetest being taken away and breaking mods/games.
01:05 Gustavo6046 Welp
01:05 Gustavo6046 I already stated
01:05 Gustavo6046 The legacy API will be left untouched
01:05 Gustavo6046 so existing mods and games will work perfectly
01:05 Gustavo6046 PLUS, this also guarantees they will never break!
01:05 Gustavo6046 In the universal API we can emphasize on long-term forawrd/backward compatibility
01:06 Gustavo6046 by making certain features behave differently depending on the API version
01:06 Hawk777 And… now you have a translation layer, which implements the legacy API in terms of the new API. And every time you rework the new API, you have to update the translation layer to match.
01:08 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: nono
01:08 Gustavo6046 the legacy API does not need to be implemented in terms of the new API
01:08 Gustavo6046 Both are interfaces to the game's mechanics
01:08 Hawk777 OK… so now every time you want to refactor game engine internals, you have to update both consumers instead of just one?
01:09 Gustavo6046 psst
01:09 Gustavo6046 glue code :PP
01:09 Gustavo6046 lol
01:09 Gustavo6046 I think I'm starting to get your point.
01:09 Gustavo6046 Being modular is good
01:10 Gustavo6046 Instead of updating the consumers, just have them access the game's interface? So the game mechanics will themselves be responsible to maintain backwards compatibility, to not break either.
01:10 Gustavo6046 We can still deprecate features, but if we remove any we must reflect that in both API codes.
01:11 Gustavo6046 I think "glue code" is a bit misleading, C++ does it for you in the form of classes -- templating, abstract classes, the numerous ways to perform dynamic dispatching... you get the point.
01:11 Hawk777 Sure. You can only make that if you can predict the shapes of things well enough to make it future-proof.
01:12 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Also we're stuck at 5.1 lua anyways, because the just in time compiler is at 5.1
01:12 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: it's easier if the game internals are separated from the details exposed to the scripting engine. So, say, if in the future "mapblocks" are internally reinvented as "chunks" or whatever, the scripts can still refer to the new ones as they have ever done to the old ones. To the modder, they're still as mappy and blocky as they've ever been.
01:13 Gustavo6046 Yeah, LuaJIT's main contributor has retired from the project
01:13 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> And JIT lua is only 30% slower than straight up C code.   And no, he came back early this year
01:13 Gustavo6046 So don't expect much updates to come from that
01:13 Gustavo6046 oh?
01:13 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Yeah he's working on the garbage collector
01:13 Gustavo6046 JS has a more active scene and community. That and other reasons is why I think it would be far more modder-friendly. If you ask me, anyway.
01:14 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> JS is the most moving target in the universe
01:14 Gustavo6046 But including it without breaking existing mods nor doubling the required effort will be complicated. We'll need a battle plan.
01:14 Gustavo6046 exe_virus: yes it is
01:14 Gustavo6046 but we don't need to support the new ESes
01:14 Gustavo6046 We can use an embedded interpreter, like QuickJS
01:14 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Then why leave lua, we don't need to support 5.2+
01:14 Gustavo6046 It's not just about that
01:14 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> QuickJS will be slower
01:14 Gustavo6046 JavaScript is more programmer-friendly
01:14 Gustavo6046 Yes, but not by a significant amount
01:14 Hawk777 No.
01:15 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Lua is pretty damn friendly
01:15 Gustavo6046 Lua is not programmer-friendly, at all.
01:15 Hawk777 I’m a programmer, and I like Javascript less than Lua, ergo you are wrong.
01:15 blaise javascript is shit.
01:15 Gustavo6046 Many Lua programmers have departed for JavaScript.
01:15 Hawk777 See how this is all personal opinions?
01:15 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: hm
01:15 Gustavo6046 that is a point
01:15 Gustavo6046 People will inevitably have different opinions
01:15 Hawk777 “Which language is better?” is always a personal opinion thing.
01:15 Gustavo6046 Yeah
01:15 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> I have done both, and C, and java, and so on. Lua is perfect for mods, and javascript is made for web, simply put
01:16 Gustavo6046 exe_virus: JavaScript was made to be an embeddable scripting language, in this case for web browsers.
01:16 Gustavo6046 Legends say it would be more Lua-like, if Netscape hadn't demanded it be "more Java-like".
01:16 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Fair but it's made with the assumption of multithreaded
01:16 blaise nah, ANSI C (C#) is miles better than turbo pascal, or basic, or many others
01:16 Gustavo6046 Hence the name
01:16 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Everything in games is basically single threaded
01:16 blaise that isn't an opinion.
01:16 Gustavo6046 Isn't JavaScript single-thread-only? (and async)
01:16 Gustavo6046 Kinda like Python's GIL
01:16 Gustavo6046 blaise: C# != C
01:16 Gustavo6046 C# is kinda bad
01:17 Gustavo6046 exe_virus: JS is single-threaded
01:17 specing someone been badmouthing lua?
01:17 blaise it's a standard that all other implementations of C are expected to conform to
01:17 Gustavo6046 It uses an event loop to make more use of that CPU usage
01:17 Hawk777 WTF? “C# is kinda bad”? I’m not the biggest fan of it, but at least it’s statically typed, which JS isn’t.
01:17 Gustavo6046 I think it supports more threads, though
01:17 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Ah, that makes sense
01:17 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: good point
01:17 Hawk777 Um no, C# and C are totally different languages.
01:18 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Truth
01:18 Gustavo6046 blaise: C# is a Java-like language designed by Microsoft
01:18 Gustavo6046 I think you're thinking of C++.
01:18 Gustavo6046 C and C++ are both standardized.
01:18 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Java ~= javascript
01:18 Gustavo6046 I couldn't care the least about regulatory bodies like ANSI.
01:18 blaise borland C is completely different from C...
01:18 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> C# just has four plusses instead of two
01:18 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> C++ is still, to this day, a cluster though
01:18 Gustavo6046 They can shove their shiny language standards and revisions up their own Firewire ports for all I care.
01:18 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Like I would expect all the implementations to be standardized by now, but nope.
01:18 Gustavo6046 exe_virus: true
01:19 Gustavo6046 Different C++ standard libraries have wildly different ranges of support
01:19 blaise it's kind of insane..
01:19 Gustavo6046 It does happen a bit with things like JavaScript too, though
01:19 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> And I'm a fan of C++, but like dang, why can't it be simple yet
01:19 Gustavo6046 I imagine not with Lua since it has an ACTUAL reference implementation.
01:19 Gustavo6046 exe_virus: C++ is complicated by definition. Literally. It's a LOT more complicated to parse and compile than C.
01:19 Gustavo6046 I'm fine with it, but I think C++ is not superior to C, because it has tradebacks.
01:20 Gustavo6046 Especially when it comes to size. C++ is a behemoth, which is usually not a Very Good Thing(TM).
01:20 blaise indeed
01:20 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> True, though I mean chromium is the best example of what c++ can be
01:20 blaise but everything has it's use case..
01:20 Hawk777 Personally when I tried writing some code in C after working in C++ for a long time, I was just so sad about how much boilerplate I had to write.
01:20 Hawk777 Really? No RAII?
01:20 Hawk777 Sadness.
01:20 MTDiscord <e​xe_virus> Its like 10MB of total power
01:20 Gustavo6046 blaise: that is true
01:20 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: that is true
01:20 Gustavo6046 quite a bit of boilerplate in C
01:21 Gustavo6046 I'm not a fan of boilerplate either
01:21 Gustavo6046 But I think you're supposed to do the boilerplate only in some parts of the code (main-level or something)
01:21 Gustavo6046 and then you write the meat and potatoes of the program in a lower level, without classes or whatnot.
01:21 blaise Gustavo6046: you could always go pure assembly? XD
01:21 Gustavo6046 blaise: true
01:21 Gustavo6046 but C is basically a prettified assembly
01:22 Gustavo6046 there's little point in using assembly rather than C
01:22 Hawk777 No no, it’s things like resource management. With C you have to remember to manually release resources (free memory, close file handles, whatever) in both the success and failure paths. In C++ both are handled by RAII.
01:22 Gustavo6046 especially today with C compilers often optimizing the code more than a manual assembly programmer could ever do on their own
01:22 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: only for heap-allocated objects
01:23 Gustavo6046 local variables are automatically handled by scope
01:23 blaise yeah, well.. C wouldn't have gotten to where it's at without people that know how to code in ASM
01:23 Gustavo6046 you'd be surprised how much stuff can be moved to the stack.
01:23 Gustavo6046 (and faster than heap)
01:23 Hawk777 File handles can’t be “moved to the stack”.
01:23 Hawk777 Nor can dynamically sized containers.
01:23 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: true and true
01:23 Gustavo6046 those do get a bit boilerplatey
01:24 Gustavo6046 I think std::vector was one of the first things C++ had?
01:24 Gustavo6046 specifically because of that
01:24 Gustavo6046 Whoa
01:25 Gustavo6046 this lua API is beautiful
01:25 Gustavo6046 I don't know what i was expecting
01:25 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> define 'beauty'
01:25 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> personally, i hate lua
01:25 Gustavo6046 it looks extraordinarily clean
01:25 Gustavo6046 I mean, compared to ordinary Lua code
01:25 Gustavo6046 it almost doesn't look lie Lua
01:25 Gustavo6046 like*
01:26 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> so by inheritance, i hate the lua api
01:26 Gustavo6046 oneplustwo: you were smiling in chat up to this point, weren't you.
01:26 Gustavo6046 There's no such thing
01:26 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> smiling?
01:26 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> at what?
01:26 Gustavo6046 at me trash talking Lua
01:26 Gustavo6046 I don't like Lua
01:26 Gustavo6046 but this API is a pretty good
01:26 Gustavo6046 design
01:26 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> why would i smile?
01:26 Gustavo6046 happiness?
01:26 Gustavo6046 approval?
01:26 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> lol
01:27 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> IMO Lua has the simplest syntax out of every scripting language I ever learned or tried
01:27 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> the only thing i smile at is when i delete the print statements and stack overflow tabs after i finish debugging
01:28 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> i dont understand why they have to use "end" to end a function
01:28 Gustavo6046 too simple
01:28 Gustavo6046 oneplustwo: yeah I like that feeling too
01:28 Gustavo6046 like "ahh, finally I figured out this bloody bugger"
01:28 Gustavo6046 Helenah: do I sound british enough? :P
01:29 Gustavo6046 (I'm not)
01:29 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> Bash uses 'fi' which makes even less sense (yeah I know if backwards but no actual word)
01:29 MTDiscord <o​neplustwo> if you want to sound british, you either need to emulate the upper-class or the coal miners, no in-between
01:30 Gustavo6046 lol
01:30 Gustavo6046 oneplustwo: you mean the distinction lies at y=-1024?
01:32 Gustavo6046 So
01:33 Gustavo6046 how do I assign a timeout to a farming:soil?
01:33 Gustavo6046 Is the param2 vacant?
01:33 Gustavo6046 or something?
01:33 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> nodeetimers?
01:33 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> *nodetimers
01:33 Gustavo6046 I probably want to learn how to get a block's parameter with the api first
01:34 Gustavo6046 Well, I wanted it to be a parameter of the block
01:34 Gustavo6046 If it has air above, it decrements till it reaches 0, then I can do stuff on the block.
01:34 Gustavo6046 above it*
01:34 Gustavo6046 If it doesn't, the timer is reset to a N
01:34 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> https://minetest.gitlab.io/minetest/
01:34 Gustavo6046 ?
01:34 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> a nice prettified api reference
01:34 Gustavo6046 Ah
01:34 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> may be useful for you
01:36 Gustavo6046 thanks!
01:37 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> Node parameters cannot be changed during runtime...to have additional dynamic data use nodemeta
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01:39 blaise I do like GO
01:39 blaise it's nifty.. :)
01:40 Gustavo6046 Golang?
01:40 Gustavo6046 Mehh.
01:40 Gustavo6046 It's fine.
01:41 blaise grinch
01:42 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> while we are at new api fantasies, i would like to start a shitstorm by suggesting python
01:42 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> forces clean indentation
01:42 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> But I code using nano
01:43 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> tata nano?
01:43 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> pardon me
01:43 blaise hahahaha
01:43 blaise nano... what a crying shame
01:43 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> but what is it?
01:44 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> oof
01:44 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> GNU nano only allows a few tabs per screen
01:44 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> rip
01:44 blaise it's the text entry program from the pine MTA
01:44 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> ah
01:44 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> thanks
01:44 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> brain fart there
01:44 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> sorry
01:44 blaise they seperated it when alpine became a thing
01:45 Gustavo6046 So like this?
01:45 Gustavo6046 https://termbin.com/2apr
01:45 blaise most people only used it when dialed into a bbs via modem or terminal node controler/packet access
01:45 Gustavo6046 although
01:45 Gustavo6046 I modified existing cocde
01:45 Gustavo6046 https://github.com/PilzAdam/farming_plus/blob/master/weed.lua is the original
01:46 blaise these days we have much better tools to work with.. vim or emacs being amongst the most popular
01:47 Gustavo6046 I use micro
01:47 Gustavo6046 not vim or emacs or nano
01:47 Gustavo6046 but vim is fine I guess
01:47 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> i use gedit
01:47 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> light and fast
01:47 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> with awesome synctex
01:47 Gustavo6046 when it comes to GUI tools I either use mousepad (for writing simple text files or tiny projects) or VS Code (the OSS fork)
01:47 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> with awesome synctex
01:47 Gustavo6046 discord has s/// syntax, doesn't it?
01:48 blaise Gustavo6046: micro?
01:48 Gustavo6046 it should let you double-check your edits, and support editing messages other than the last
01:48 Gustavo6046 blaise: yeah
01:48 Gustavo6046 it's written in go I think
01:48 blaise url?
01:48 blaise I prefer vim
01:48 Gustavo6046 https://micro-editor.github.io/
01:48 Gustavo6046 eh I prefer micro
01:48 Gustavo6046 it's simpler to use, but not necesasrily stripped down like nano
01:48 Gustavo6046 and has a plugin interface, kinda like Vim does
01:48 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> nano is my choice cause it is very barebones while still supporting the most needed features (search by term/line, replace, syntax highlighting)
01:49 blaise interesting
01:49 Gustavo6046 but anyways
01:49 Hawk777 Are we just having all the holy wars at the same time in this channel now? We’ve done programming languages, now we’re on text editors, I suppose tabs-vs-spaces will show up next.
01:49 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: xD
01:49 Gustavo6046 I like 4 spaces
01:49 Hawk777 I like tabs.
01:49 Gustavo6046 I think spaces have already won a long time ago--
01:49 Hawk777 But rendered as four spaces.
01:49 Gustavo6046 oh.
01:49 blaise CRLF vs CR
01:49 Gustavo6046 Exactly
01:50 Hawk777 Oh no, another one!
01:50 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> I like newlines
01:50 Gustavo6046 I like tabs but CONVERTED to four spaces.
01:50 blaise heh
01:50 Gustavo6046 IhrFussel: I like BEL
01:50 Gustavo6046 fite me
01:50 Gustavo6046 fite me and my typewriter with a literal physical bell!
01:50 Gustavo6046 dingdingding
01:50 blaise :D
01:50 blaise how about irc clients?
01:50 Hawk777 I don’t like the converted. I feel that storing as TAB means I’m being nice to people reading my code, because depending on their eyesight, the nature of their brain, the size of their monitor, font size, font selection, etc. etc. etc. they can choose whatever indentation level per scope they find makes the code easiest to read, without modifying the physical file.
01:51 Gustavo6046 I think there's a right way to store indentation
01:51 Gustavo6046 screw individualism /s
01:51 Gustavo6046 just kidding
01:51 Gustavo6046 I just don't like there being a separate character specifically to store indentation
01:51 * blaise uses kvirc for GUI, but in CLI will use EPIC with amnesiac script
01:51 Gustavo6046 or generalizing indentation as tabulation at all
01:51 Gustavo6046 I use weechat for IRC
01:52 Gustavo6046 I also use Manjaro Linux, don't murder me over it
01:52 blaise heh
01:52 * blaise uses gentoo
01:52 MTDiscord <I​hrFussel> I use...discord for IRC
01:52 Hawk777 Gentoo FTW.
01:53 Gustavo6046 Also
01:53 Gustavo6046 tabs can screw up code if it's posted online
01:53 Gustavo6046 like in a pastebin or something
01:53 Gustavo6046 or in forums
01:53 Gustavo6046 I'd rather expand directly in the file than do it every single time to share it online
01:53 blaise depends on the service and tool
01:53 blaise hastebin actually does pretty good with it
01:53 Gustavo6046 ah
01:53 Gustavo6046 yeah but hastebin is good
01:53 Hawk777 So can spaces if you’re using a shitty web service (i.e. one that doesn’t have support for preformatted code so all multiple spaces turn into a single space per HTML rules). And if you use a nonshitty one, tabs are fine.
01:54 Gustavo6046 too bad it's kind of down often but still
01:54 blaise wgetpaste and dpaste tends to muck it up pretty bad
01:54 Gustavo6046 good services
01:54 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: nah
01:54 Gustavo6046 most of them don't allow configuring tabs
01:54 Gustavo6046 (which is why you prefer tabs to begin with, isn't it? user configurability)
01:54 Gustavo6046 in fact, I'd say MOST programs and places in general don't allow configuring tabs, except for text editors and some programming-specific places (like GitHub)
01:54 Gustavo6046 It's just not a very common concern.
01:55 blaise Gustavo6046: you can set up your own hastebin server..
01:55 Gustavo6046 blaise: I'm referring to the main service, but yeah I forgot about that detail
01:55 blaise :)
01:55 Hawk777 Just because one specific tool that might be used for viewing a file doesn’t allow configuring tab width, doesn’t mean I should avoid catering to the other 99% of tools that do (i.e. just because web services don’t, doesn’t mean I should harm people using text editors, which are by far the more common way to look at source code files)
01:55 Gustavo6046 :D
01:55 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: except, it's not tooling
01:55 Gustavo6046 it's everything else
01:55 Gustavo6046 tabs are not very popular nowadays
01:55 Gustavo6046 ASCII control characters are overrated
01:55 blaise as far as coding, there was a tool I liked using in X considerably more than working from CLI
01:56 Gustavo6046 they're a fad, a relic from a distant past
01:56 blaise can't remember what it was called but it supported pretty much everything
01:56 Gustavo6046 I'm glad Unicode does not include extra tabulation.
01:56 Gustavo6046 (I think it doesn't)
01:56 Gustavo6046 Horizontal tabulation, thati
01:56 Gustavo6046 s
01:56 Hawk777 It’s a freaking text file. There’s the language interpreter, which doesn’t care one way or the other, and there are text editors and viewers, which by and large allow configuring tab size.
01:56 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: no they don't
01:57 Gustavo6046 most don't
01:57 Gustavo6046 or do
01:57 Gustavo6046 I guess most text editors do
01:57 Hawk777 Let’s see. vim does. emacs does. notepad++ does. Visual Studio Code does.
01:57 Gustavo6046 micro does too
01:57 Gustavo6046 but the thing is
01:57 blaise maybe it was visual studio code?
01:57 Gustavo6046 you don't want your code to only be readable in the text editor
01:57 Gustavo6046 what if you have to email patches to a mailing list and have it be reviewed?
01:57 Gustavo6046 what if you want it to put in any of the hundred pastebin services available online to show others?
01:58 Gustavo6046 "[pastebin link] look at how big my wiener is!" "lol what" "oh wait... it's kind of... deflated. ew. what."
01:58 blaise Gustavo6046: most people expect diff format
01:58 blaise seriously
01:58 Gustavo6046 ?
01:58 blaise anything other than that is insulting
01:58 Gustavo6046 what does that have to do with tabs or spacers
01:58 Hawk777 If I want to show other people my files, I’ll push them to a Git repo and they can clone it thank you very much.
01:58 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: just use github gist
01:58 blaise "what if you have to email patches to a mailing list and have it be reviewed?
01:58 blaise "
01:58 Gustavo6046 or termbin
01:58 Gustavo6046 I am in a haste
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01:59 Gustavo6046 don't have time to open up A BROWSER just to put code up in the webz
01:59 Gustavo6046 blaise: yes
01:59 Gustavo6046 talking about email clients
01:59 blaise ah...
01:59 Gustavo6046 which there are hundreds upon hundreds of that are used by lots of people
01:59 blaise I run postfix and sendmail manually from the cli
01:59 blaise XD
01:59 Gustavo6046 including community managers and project maintainers and reviewers and whatnot
01:59 Hawk777 Besides, if I put it on the web with four spaces, anyone who finds four spaces suboptimal to read is still s*** out of luck.
01:59 Gustavo6046 oh yest
01:59 Gustavo6046 the CLI
02:00 Gustavo6046 the biggest felonies you can have in tab land.
02:00 Hawk777 Except now anyone who finds it suboptimal to read is *still* out of luck even if they read from a text editor.
02:00 blaise just kidding, I use claws
02:00 Hawk777 blaise: Are you sure you’re not my clone?
02:00 Gustavo6046 somehow they are all born in the very crib that tabs vs spaces was born at to begin with.
02:00 Hawk777 Gentoo *and* claws?
02:00 Gustavo6046 the good old teletypewriter.
02:00 blaise lol
02:00 Gustavo6046 geez that's pointy, put those claws away from me
02:01 Gustavo6046 lol
02:01 blaise it's the only email client I can find that properly supports proper certificate checking and gpg
02:01 Gustavo6046 micro has tabstospaces (which I just set to false) but no spacestotabs
02:01 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: Noh!~ I would feel defeated if I were to succumb to tabulation devices this easily! Me of all people!
02:02 Gustavo6046 blaise: I use mutt and exim
02:02 Gustavo6046 using Gmail as a router so I don't have to mess with ISP level stuff
02:03 Gustavo6046 by the way send some random stuff to contact@gustavo6046.cf just to make sure it still works, I transitioned the DNS handling from Freenom to FreeDNS lately
02:03 Gustavo6046 (the domain still is Freenom though, and it's a temporary one)
02:03 Gustavo6046 (except it's until I get a source of income, so "temporary" is a bit optimistic)
02:03 blaise I host my own postfix/dovcot kitbash
02:04 Hawk777 Exim+Dovecot for me.
02:04 Hawk777 I have run Postfix, but found Exim a little easier.
02:04 blaise I need to renew my certificates, actually
02:05 Hawk777 No automation with LetsEncrypt for you?
02:06 Gustavo6046 I host local exim
02:06 Gustavo6046 I don't like going knee deep in stuff I don't know
02:06 Gustavo6046 I like experimenting a little at a time
02:06 blaise I didn't know about exim, I'll check it out
02:06 Gustavo6046 I also don't like too traditional/oldschool methods, like the very mature GNU/BSD stuff
02:06 Gustavo6046 blaise: I probably didn't need it
02:07 Gustavo6046 it's more powerful and extremely flexible, but not as simple, so it's more suitable if you need more flexibility than postfix can offer, I've heard
02:07 blaise mostly I just need to be able to whitelist, and report attempted abuse to spamassasin.. XD
02:08 Gustavo6046 I still don't know how to commit and how often. Is it every little change, or everytime I implement something fully? Is it okay to implement a feature when I didn't test it, with a description like "Feature feature", and maybe commit fixes later with a description like "Fixed feature featured", "Fixed feature feature again", ...?
02:08 Gustavo6046 blaise: do you use fail2ban?
02:08 blaise yeah, of course..
02:08 * Gustavo6046 bonks his head against the keyhole of blaise's mail server
02:08 Gustavo6046 ow
02:09 blaise you don't even know my hostname.. XD
02:09 Gustavo6046 I know lol
02:09 Gustavo6046 I'm just kidding you
02:09 Gustavo6046 I wonder how important security is if nobody knows your IP, especially if you're behind a CGNAT like me.
02:09 blaise for the longest time I was getting pings from china..
02:09 Gustavo6046 (I am a sad potato)
02:09 Gustavo6046 Is this the right way to implement what I want? https://github.com/Gustavo6046/farming_plus/commit/d3387b29ac1d6aeddbd8c3fefd58cca42fbf1884
02:09 Gustavo6046 blaise: lol
02:10 Hawk777 Lua uses elseif, not else if.
02:10 blaise my server is sitting pretty on a pretty fat fiber connection out in the wilds..
02:10 blaise so I kinda have to use good protection..
02:11 Hawk777 (technically “else if” is valid code, but you need more ends for it)
02:11 blaise yay, clang-11 is done
02:12 Hawk777 I’m not sure if it’s good practice to modify node metadata so frequently either.
02:12 Hawk777 But that part I’m not sure about.
02:14 Gustavo6046 ah
02:14 Gustavo6046 I see
02:14 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: probably not?
02:15 Gustavo6046 it's supposed to be kind of static I guess
02:15 blaise so, I've been flying an Adder for a long time now
02:15 blaise I've got a few billion credits...
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02:16 blaise should I move up to the python, or go directly to the Anaconda ?
02:16 Gustavo6046 What about settings, like the timeout values at the top of the file, Hawk777?
02:17 Gustavo6046 blaise: I'd say don't be too all in at once
02:17 Gustavo6046 This is the kind of thing that really feels like it has a catch
02:18 Hawk777 Gustavo6046: I’d make those local, but seems fine to put them there.
02:18 Gustavo6046 I never watched Family Guy (that's an American show, I don't think people watch it here in Brazil), but if I recall correctly it has an episode where the guy gets very rich and spends it all at once.
02:18 Gustavo6046 And... bad stuff happens. I think. I don't remember lol
02:18 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: ah
02:18 Gustavo6046 Is there no way to expose them to the player, sort of?
02:19 blaise it's Elite Dangerous... I would never sell my Adder..
02:20 Hawk777 Do you mean expose the numbers? Are you saying you want them to be settings or something? Because just making them non-local in the file will not let the player edit them through any kind of UI.
02:20 Hawk777 You’d have to use the settings API for that.
02:21 Gustavo6046 ah
02:21 Gustavo6046 blaise: I thought you meant like those wierd US airlines where you get "credit" for flying, for some reason lol
02:21 Gustavo6046 and you could get comfier seats or whatever if you endured the crappy ones for your lifetime
02:21 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: yeah
02:21 Gustavo6046 that's what I mean
02:22 Gustavo6046 I don't really like making them hardcoded
02:22 Gustavo6046 At least putting them at the top makes it easier for anyone who wants to edit it to do so, right?
02:22 * VanessaE sighs... why, just why?  https://imgur.com/U5ESefq.png
02:22 Hawk777 Sure, or you could use settings for them.
02:22 Gustavo6046 o.o
02:22 blaise VanessaE: :o
02:22 Gustavo6046 what happened, VanessaE?
02:22 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: yeah
02:22 VanessaE fuck if I know.  some wxgtk bug I guess
02:25 Gustavo6046 VanessaE: yes but what is the context
02:26 Gustavo6046 it does look very buggy
02:26 Gustavo6046 but that's wxWidgets for you
02:26 VanessaE Gustavo6046: that's Prusaslicer, normally it doesn't look like that.
02:26 Gustavo6046 a what?
02:27 VanessaE ...
02:27 VanessaE oh fuck
02:27 VanessaE I'm on the wrong channel
02:27 Gustavo6046 :P
02:27 Gustavo6046 It happens
02:27 Gustavo6046 Don't be too roused about it, it's fine.
02:28 VanessaE heh oh well
02:28 Gustavo6046 hm?
02:28 Gustavo6046 is there anything you're trying to say or?
02:28 * VanessaE takes her gripe over to the correct channel :P
02:28 Gustavo6046 Ah :P
02:31 Gustavo6046 weird, Minetest Game disappeared from the content list
02:32 Gustavo6046 I had Minetest Extended, which I deleted since I think it overrode Minetest Game for some reason. Not cool. :/
02:33 Gustavo6046 I wish it were in ContentDB, even if it were to be distributed with the game or alongside it.
02:33 Hawk777 https://content.minetest.net/threads/233/ ← I brought up yesterday that it’s not actually shipped with distro packages in all cases, but is now also not available from contentDB, but nobody replied before I had to leave.
02:34 Gustavo6046 How do I redownload it?
02:34 Gustavo6046 Ah
02:34 Hawk777 But that thread is why it’s not in contentdb.
02:34 Hawk777 You can still grab it from Github.
02:34 Gustavo6046 >_>
02:34 Gustavo6046 I want to download it, rubenwardy
02:34 Hawk777 https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game
02:34 Gustavo6046 Ah
02:34 Gustavo6046 At least I still can get that
02:34 Gustavo6046 I'm not barred from THAT.
02:34 Gustavo6046 Next step: make the game proprietary
02:35 Hawk777 If it *were* shipped with the engine in all cases, I would not see a lot of point also having it on ContentDB, since that seems like a recipe for users ending up with two copies of it (one in a system location made by package installation, and the other in their home directory made by contentdb installation). But it’s not in all cases shipped with, so having it not in CDB is a little annoying.
02:36 Gustavo6046 yeah
02:36 Gustavo6046 I had to git clone it
02:36 Gustavo6046 Hawk777: why put it in a system location at all
02:36 Hawk777 Uh, because that’s where it would end up if it ships with the engine and you install via e.g. a distro package manager.
02:37 Gustavo6046 Ah, screw that
02:37 Gustavo6046 Distros, distros.
02:37 Gustavo6046 There should be a standard place to put files without necessarily guarding them to root.
02:37 Gustavo6046 Like /opt maybe?
02:38 Hawk777 Sorry, but I currently have over a thousand distro packages installed on my computer. I am not interested in going to each one’s website and checking whether a newer version is available. Package managers are good.
02:38 Gustavo6046 I know
02:38 Gustavo6046 yes they are
02:38 Gustavo6046 but also very non-standardized
02:38 Gustavo6046 which results in issues like this
02:39 Gustavo6046 this kind of confusion is not easy to avoid
02:39 Hawk777 Um, no, fundamentally you either install something system-wide (thus available for everyone, but should not be writeable by anyone because then user X can break stuff for user Y), or you install stuff per-user (thus available for only that user and nobody else).
02:39 Hawk777 The problem only shows up if you try to install the same thing both ways at the same time.
02:40 Gustavo6046 yes
02:40 Gustavo6046 Maybe duplicate resolution is easier
02:40 Gustavo6046 So per-user stuff overrides system wide
02:40 Gustavo6046 That's how I'd do it
02:41 Hawk777 I mean, *ideally* the result would be that everything gets installed system-wide. That has other advantages; disk space is relatively cheap, but it’s still nice to keep software out of backups (there’s no point backing up that which can be re-downloaded and reinstalled), and the easiest backup is one which just grabs your whole home directory. Fortunately Minetest games and mods are pretty tiny so they don’t really contribut
02:41 Hawk777 h, but larger software which insists on installing itself in a user home directory is annoying for that reason even if not on a multi-user machine.
02:42 Hawk777 Sure, I can handle a hundred gigs of Steam games on my hard drive. I don’t want to upload a hundred gigs of steam games to my backup storage every time I do a full backup.
02:43 Hawk777 Ergo, keeping user data and programs separate = good.
02:44 specing Sounds proprietary
02:44 specing Anyway, backup tools should have exclude/include lists
02:44 Hawk777 Well of course they do, but it’s annoying to add a dozen different directories to an exclude list.
02:45 Hawk777 Much better if programs (and their assets, i.e. stuff that comes back at the press of a button) live in one place, and user data lives in another.
02:46 Hawk777 As I said, I don’t really care much about Minetest in this case, because Minetest mods and games are tiny.
02:48 specing Things should respect the XDG standards
02:49 specing I suppose games off $proprietary service would install into ~/.cache , which you can exclude altogether
02:50 Hawk777 Well, that would be acceptable I suppose. Ideally software would be installed into /opt (if giant-blob-that-insists-on-living-in-one-directory) or /usr (if sane normal software).
02:51 Hawk777 In practice Steam lets you pick the install directory; I wasn’t attacking it, just giving it as an example of really big software that I don’t want in ~.
03:01 specing All the out-of-package-manager software I used so far did install to /opt by default
03:01 specing one of them installs to ~/opt/ by default... a rather strange choice I suppose :)
03:02 Hawk777 :O
03:02 Hawk777 Yeah that’s weird.
03:03 Hawk777 Yes /opt seems to be pretty common, except for the case of things that expect to be run as a regular user but also act as their own package manager, like Steam and Minetest.
03:03 specing it's a foss package too (the one that installed to ~/opt)
03:07 Gustavo6046 How can I tell the meta value of my block?
03:08 Gustavo6046 If there is one set, anyway?
03:08 Gustavo6046 Maybe color the outline?
03:13 Gustavo6046 Can I use a = as an expression in Lua?
03:14 Gustavo6046 Oh nevermind
03:14 Gustavo6046 I don't need to lol
03:21 Gustavo6046 The auto-generated docs are condescending. They assume that if you don't understand them, it must be that you don't understand Lua.
03:22 Gustavo6046 I don't want the concepts, I get them well enough already; I just want the damn method names! The actual reference!
03:22 specing Gustavo6046: doc/lua_api.txt?
03:22 specing Gustavo6046: doc/client_lua_api.txt?
03:22 Gustavo6046 Oh, thanks
03:22 Gustavo6046 I was looking for that
03:23 Gustavo6046 Something that doesn't have outdated warnings slathered all over it lol
03:23 specing hmm
03:23 specing I wonder if you see the API if you do dump(_G)
03:23 Gustavo6046 I want to set a node's texture, like, I want to overlay cracks on it.
03:23 Gustavo6046 Transparent cracks
03:25 Gustavo6046 There should be a way to define a new node as a variant of another one, so using API functions on the original node type would also give the new one.
03:25 Gustavo6046 Node type aliases, I'd call them
03:25 Gustavo6046 Like slightly grassier versions of the tiled soil texture.
03:25 Gustavo6046 I just want to do that.
03:25 specing you can do that
03:25 specing see how dirt with grass is done
03:26 Gustavo6046 ah
03:26 Gustavo6046 specing: yes, I get that
03:26 Gustavo6046 But I want to change the actual farming soil types
03:26 Gustavo6046 Not add new ones
03:26 specing you could pull it out of registered nodes and modify it?
03:30 Gustavo6046 oh?
03:30 Gustavo6046 I could?
03:31 Gustavo6046 specing: but for specific nodes
03:31 Gustavo6046 depending on the value of a meta int
03:31 Gustavo6046 I could make an air-like node with a slightly grassy "floor"
03:31 Gustavo6046 but that sounds like it could cause problems
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03:36 Gustavo6046 specing: anything im mind?
03:41 specing air-like? you mean like a 1/8 slab?
03:52 Gustavo6046 specing: hm?
03:52 Gustavo6046 no, like a node that otherwise behaves like Air
03:55 specing But is fully textured like dirt-with-grass?
03:56 Gustavo6046 specing: no, just the bottom, from the inside
03:56 Gustavo6046 so the bottom face is a transparent grass texture
03:56 specing ok, so maybe a slab with no hitbox?
03:56 Gustavo6046 maybe
03:56 Gustavo6046 a tiny one
03:56 specing I'm trying to think of an example like you said
03:56 specing of a node*
03:57 Gustavo6046 specing: I imagine my use case is an example on its own right? lol
03:57 Gustavo6046 I have a tilled farm node
03:57 Gustavo6046 it has a timeout
03:57 specing Oh, I know of an example
03:57 Gustavo6046 I modified weed.lua from farming_plus, so that it has a timeout, and once it decrements to 1 it can spawn weed above
03:57 Gustavo6046 (not 0, because 0 means "no meta" and I use that to reset to the initial value)
03:57 specing seeds / early stage plants from any farming mod
03:57 Gustavo6046 no
03:57 specing a timeout?
03:57 Gustavo6046 I want the timeout to display on the top surface of the block itself
03:58 specing what
03:58 Gustavo6046 yeah
03:58 Gustavo6046 it's just a value
03:58 specing What
03:58 Gustavo6046 a counter
03:58 Gustavo6046 I set it in meta
03:58 Gustavo6046 sorry, I'm stupid
03:58 Gustavo6046 let me post the link
03:58 specing hmmmmm
03:58 specing Perhaps
03:58 specing I think that technic battery boxes do something similar
03:58 specing they show charge level on their side
03:58 Gustavo6046 https://github.com/Gustavo6046/farming_plus/blob/master/weed.lua#L31-L57
03:59 Gustavo6046 yes, kind of like that
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04:02 Gustavo6046 specing: but I don't want to make new node types
04:02 Gustavo6046 it's fine if I have to make new textures, I guess
04:03 specing I dont think you can do new textures without new node types
04:03 specing How does technic do it? Several node types per battery box?
04:05 Gustavo6046 oh lol
04:14 Gustavo6046 specing: I found the source
04:14 Gustavo6046 for Technic
04:22 Gustavo6046 I'm usually not a fan of mixing faux-declarative and imperative, but it seems that in Lua mixing the two is the best way.
04:22 Gustavo6046 Everything else looks egregious lol
04:23 Gustavo6046 Like, the register calls are faux-declarative, as it groups what would otherwise be multiple calls (like init_node_type, set_node_type_thingthing, etc) and uses a single call with a table argument (or whatever Lua calls them).
04:28 Gustavo6046 But still
04:28 Gustavo6046 let me try to find the thing
04:28 Gustavo6046 specing: https://github.com/minetest-mods/technic/blob/master/technic/machines/MV/battery_box.lua
04:29 Gustavo6046 clever dude abstracted away common stuff
04:31 Gustavo6046 specing: https://github.com/minetest-mods/technic/blob/a8daa417c485ee20716ec050d4c676b5c91af773/technic/machines/register/battery_box.lua#L159-L393
04:31 Gustavo6046 found the function
04:42 Gustavo6046 Yep, it seems to
04:43 Gustavo6046 local front_tex = "technic_"..ltier.."_battery_box_front.png^technic_power_meter"..i..".png"
04:43 Gustavo6046 notice the i?
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05:05 Gustavo6046 I just want a way to visualize this timeout in general.
05:05 Gustavo6046 Without having to replace the node type
05:05 Gustavo6046 Ooh wait
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06:19 * iamweasel waits stoically
06:21 specing Gustavo6046: I'd use infotext
06:21 specing or CSM :DDD
06:21 specing maybe your use case is a great example for what SSCSMs could be useful for
06:21 Gustavo6046 Ah
06:21 Gustavo6046 I see
06:21 Gustavo6046 Thanks! I'll use infotext
06:22 specing Gustavo6046: e.g. terumet thermoboxes use infotext to show how much heat they contain
06:22 Gustavo6046 Ah
06:23 Gustavo6046 Why are meta methods accessed with a colon?
06:23 Gustavo6046 Oh, that's Lua
06:23 Gustavo6046 nevermind
06:24 specing yep
06:25 specing obj:fun(a,b)  = fun(obj,a,b)
06:25 specing syntax sugar
06:25 Gustavo6046 I see
06:26 iamweasel oh that's neat specing :)
06:27 specing Lua is a neat little language that is easy to use, up until you want to do inheritance
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07:22 Gustavo6046 Also, crops in Helenah's server did not grow at all after a certain point.
07:22 Gustavo6046 Helenah: does debug.txt say anything abgout it?
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08:22 Gustavo6046 I DID IT
08:22 Gustavo6046 :D
08:22 Gustavo6046 good night!
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09:42 specing do you minetesters in general prefer one function to work on nodes, objects and "nothing" (pointed thing) or do you prefer 3 separate functions instead?
09:43 rubenwardy Depends on the context
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09:47 specing core.use_item for CSMs
09:48 rubenwardy Pointed thing makes sense in that case
09:51 specing All cases use PointedThing. But I'm asking whether I should make core.use_item handle all cases or add use_item_on_node and use_item_on_object
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10:36 Helenah Is there any way to optimise the engine to work on a pi 4?
10:37 Helenah I'm desperate to play with my gf and she has a pi.
10:37 Ingar the client is almost usable on a pi
10:37 Ingar last time I got 20-30 fps
10:37 Helenah Ingar: It lags like hell on this pi.
10:38 Helenah She could move around, but she said she wasn't comfortable with the lag.
10:38 Ingar a pi isn;t the greatest gaming machine ofc
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10:38 Ingar might be better off with a NUC style machine
10:38 Helenah Ingar: What you mean?
10:40 specing get a PC :D
10:40 Ingar Helenah: I mean, the Pi4 sucks at OpenGL :)
10:40 sfan5 are you running it via the new opengl driver?
10:40 Ingar any 5-year old mini PC would be better
10:40 sfan5 gles2 might also give better performence
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10:42 Ingar I"m at work now though, unfortunately I odn't have my Pi4 here
10:42 specing sometimes I wonder how the gma4500xhd in this 12 yo laptop would fare with minetest
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10:42 Ingar specing: intel GMA ?
10:42 Helenah Ingar: How come it played Minecraft 8 better?
10:42 specing Ingar: yes
10:42 Helenah I thought Minetest was lighter?
10:43 specing Ingar:VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
10:43 Ingar specing: intel video :) http://ingar.intranifty.net/pictures/Upside-Down.jpg
10:43 rti Hi. I am new to <inetest. I am looking for a way to host Minetest worlds. My main requirement is, that I need non tech ppl to be able to spin up world easily. Is there a solution already built/available? Like a Minetest server control panel which is able to mange Minetest server instances?
10:43 Ingar (real pic, no photosoup)
10:43 specing Ingar: that doesen't look like minetest?
10:43 Ingar specing: no but it's intel GMA ;)
10:44 Ingar (older one though)
10:44 Ingar Helenah: does minecraft even run on the pi ???
10:44 specing my gaming desktop has intel HD2500  igpu and it runs Minetest very well
10:44 tango_ I suspect minetest's current performance issue are mostly related to irrlicht not being exactly modern in its opengl usage
10:45 Helenah Ingar: yES
10:45 Helenah Yes
10:45 tango_ specing: I'm on a UHD Graphics 630 (intel igp for the i7-9750H) and it sucks at times
10:46 tango_ specing: spikes where I drop below 1FPS
10:46 specing tango_: with Minetest?
10:46 tango_ specing: YES
10:46 tango_ specing: sorry for the caps
10:46 specing It only goes below 60 if I turn on unlimited view range or spawn 500 chickens around me
10:46 Helenah I'm not saying Minecraft runs perfactly on the pi, but it doesn't lag unusably like Minetest.
10:46 tango_ specing: much worse here. not sure why
10:47 specing tango_: wait, is H some mobile stuff?
10:47 tango_ specing: yah
10:47 specing ah
10:47 tango_ specing: ah what 8-D
10:47 specing my cpu is 90W i5-3470, you are probably thermally limited
10:48 tango_ specing: that's definitely a possibility, the cooling of this laptop sucks hairy balls
10:48 tango_ specing: BUT it doesn't seem to be related to, say, runtime
10:48 tango_ so I'm a bit skeptical at putting it only on thermal
10:49 specing tango_: I just tell that desktop lowend igpu from 7 years ago has no trouble with minetest
10:49 specing kinda sad that I didn't go for the HD4000, though
10:49 tango_ go for a ryzen now if you need an upgrade
10:50 tango_ specing: fwiw https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/10683
10:50 specing nah
10:50 specing POWER9
10:51 specing ^ only CPU worth buying these days
10:51 Helenah So... irrlicht uses OpenGL in an outdated way? That's not good! o:
10:52 specing tango_: Oh, another + for intel iGPU is that there's no working driver for radeons and that nvidias burn up
10:53 Helenah specing: nvidia works fine for me, no trouble keeping it cool!
10:54 specing Also, nvidias since gtx 750 have locked down firmware uploading, hence Nouvean' FOSS firmware cannot be used on them
10:54 specing Nouveau*
10:55 tango_ specing: what do you mean by no working driver for radeons?
10:55 specing Lots of reason to boycott the whole lot of those bastards; intel, amd and nvidia included
10:56 specing exactly what I said
10:56 specing their drivers have always been nothing but trouble
10:56 specing at least on Linux
10:56 specing no idea about other platforms
10:56 tango_ specing: when was the last time you checked?
10:56 specing And these days are shims loading supermassive blobs to the cards
10:57 specing tango_: it has been some time now, perhaps 8 years or so
10:57 tango_ things have changed a LOT since
10:58 Ingar AMD drivers got a lot better
10:58 tango_ immensely
10:58 Ingar (5700XT here)
10:58 tango_ both on mesa and their amdgpu stuff
10:59 Ingar on nvidia, I'm with Linus
10:59 tango_ big middle finger
11:00 specing Are those amdgpu drivers even open?
11:00 tango_ amd is better but not perfect either
11:00 tango_ specing: no, but the mesa ones are
11:00 tango_ and they are pretty good
11:00 tango_ much of the stack is shared actually
11:00 specing Do those drivers work if you rm -rf /lib/firmware/{radeon,amdgpu}?
11:01 tango_ specing: no modern gpu works without firmware
11:01 specing You are quite possibly correct
11:01 tango_ specing: not even your igp
11:01 specing It is also why my last experience was 8+ years ago
11:02 specing the igpu works without firmware
11:02 tango_ specing: no, the firmware is just loaded by the BIOS
11:02 specing it may have mask rom firmware, but I doubt it
11:03 specing The GMA4500HD has none, it is not loaded by the BIOS because there is no BIOS
11:03 specing The gaming pc one might have it, but if it does, it is loaded by the BIOS
11:04 tango_ specing: what do you mean there is no bios
11:04 specing I still doubt it. The firmware loading was included in Skylake, mine is ivy bridge
11:05 specing There is no BIOS, it was replaced by Libreboot (Coreboot+GRUB)
11:05 tango_ specing: are you bypassing the IME?
11:05 specing Libreboot turns it off on gm45
11:06 tango_ oh, interesting
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11:08 specing This laptop also has some radeon GPU, which does not work as there is no FOSS VBIOS replacement
11:08 specing as such, it cannot be initialised with free software code
11:09 specing Which is also why I claim that there is no such thing as a free software radeon driver, they all depends on blobs of various sizes
11:09 specing some of them in /lib/firmware are very large
11:13 specing I think it still draws power, need to figure out which components to depopulate off the motherboard to completely disable it
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12:49 hecks so I've been getting intermittent issues with ObjectRef:get_pos returning nil
12:49 hecks Initially I thought it was a problem with the server yanking entities from under me, but I backported sorcerykid's on_deactivate and
12:50 hecks get_pos actually returns nil inside that callback every time
12:55 hecks sfan5
12:57 sfan5 uh well
12:57 sfan5 objects marked for deactivation are not available to lua anymore
12:58 sfan5 so you have to ensure that happens in the right order
12:59 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> EFI ftw?
12:59 MTDiscord <s​rinivas> oof
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13:16 hecks And when does this marking happen exactly?
13:54 sfan5 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
13:55 sfan5 look into the unloading methods in serverenvironment.cpp
13:57 hecks looks like a matter of finding all the code that touches m_pending_removal and m_pending_deactivation
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14:02 Helenah How do I debug while wheat and cotton wont grow all of a sudden?
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14:16 hecks Helenah: you can start here https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/blob/e6aec880decf52d5e6db6ab005c04a7ef60b1156/mods/farming/api.lua#L191
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14:40 rti Hi. I am looking for a way to host Minetest worlds. My main requirement is, that I need non tech ppl to be able to spin up world easily. Is there a solution already built/available? Like a Minetest server control panel which is able to mange Minetest server instances? For Minecraft there is https://gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-web/-/wikis/Web-Console/Server-Management
14:42 Helenah rti: For worlds, I don't think there is and that's... risky...
14:42 Helenah The best approach would be to allow them to spin up their own servers
14:42 Helenah You can use pufferpanel (free)
14:43 Helenah Reason why I say allowing them to spin up their own worlds is risky because you'll have a single instance of the minetest engine where many people are spinning up loads of worlds, this is not good. Also, I think with the way minetest works, worlds would be stacked which also isn't good.
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14:45 Helenah rti: Your best bet would be to use pufferpanel to aid you in providing a virtual minetest hosting solution where which minetest server is on its own port, the customer can use SRV DNS records to point sub domains to their server port(s).
14:46 rti Helenah: Thank you so much. Pufferpanel is exactly what I was looking for. I could have never guessed that name :D
14:46 rti Thanks again!
14:47 Helenah rti: It says it's for Minecraft server deployment, but when I've checked it out myself, it will also deploy Minetest.
14:48 rti Helenah: Ok, as it has a plugin arch, adding minetest as a plugin should not be that hard after all either. I will look into this!
14:51 Helenah rti: The UI allows you to choose what server you would like to deploy whether that be vanilla, bukkit/spigot/paper, forge, couldron/thermo or even some mod/plugin pack, even minetest.
14:52 rti Perfect
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15:37 Helenah hecks: What do I do with that bit of code?
15:38 Helenah hecks: All I know is 2 days ago wheat and cotton grew.
15:41 hecks You can check what it needs to grow and how it's called, maybe it was some config option you've changed, maybe the server is failing to run timers for some reason
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16:03 Gustavo6046 Ingar: OpenGL shaders are generally slower than classic surfaces
16:04 Helenah o.o
16:04 Helenah Oh Gustavo6046 !
16:04 Gustavo6046 (I don't know how to call it, I nick it "hardware Quake" lol)
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16:05 Gustavo6046 specing: if I chance the ID of a node, does minetest.register_alias allow me to maintain backwards compatibility??
16:05 Gustavo6046 er, one single question mark, oops
16:06 Gustavo6046 Ah, it can
16:07 sfan5 you mean the name? yes
16:07 sfan5 nodes have (numeric) IDs internally but as a modder you cannot control what those are
16:07 Gustavo6046 ah
16:07 Gustavo6046 yeah, the name
16:07 Gustavo6046 thanks
16:09 Gustavo6046 also
16:09 Gustavo6046 is it a normal thing to do pull requests on Minetest mod repos on github?
16:09 sfan5 mod authors usually accept contributions yes
16:09 hecks sure
16:09 Gustavo6046 PilzAdam's original was last updated March 31st, 2019
16:09 Gustavo6046 https://github.com/PilzAdam/farming_plus
16:10 hecks if a repo appears inactive, consider just forking and adopting the mod
16:10 sfan5 !mod farming_plus
16:10 MinetestBot sfan5: [farming_plusplus] farming_plus fork by MTDad - https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=10187 - https://github.com/MTDad/farming_plusplus
16:10 sfan5 hm
16:10 sfan5 I think most people just use farmind_redo these days
16:10 sfan5 so not much point in looking into farming_plus
16:13 Gustavo6046 And then there are my edits, which I don't know if they work that well with the mod. There is a quirk or two, eg. the Grassiness value infotext is mostly for debug, I will definitely remove it from a wider release (like a PR), but if I find a better way to show the timeout value on tilled soil without much nodetype magick I will do. https://github.com/Gustavo6046/farming_plus
16:18 tango_ farming_redo so called because people had ran out of plusses
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16:56 Helenah tango_: Oh, I didn't know I needed farming_redo instead. o.o
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16:56 Helenah damn
16:56 Gustavo6046 tango_: lol
16:56 Gustavo6046 farming++
16:57 Helenah How do I change the kick for inactivity time?
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18:06 MinetestBot [git] Thomas--S -> minetest/minetest: Formspec: Allow to specify frame loop for model[] (#10679) d0a38f6 https://git.io/JL3Ut (2020-12-15T18:06:36Z)
18:06 MinetestBot [git] wsor4035 -> minetest/minetest: lua_api.txt: Add mod_orgin to node def (#10697) 3ed940f https://git.io/JL3Uq (2020-12-15T18:05:55Z)
18:16 MinetestBot [git] lhofhansl -> minetest/minetest: Allow configuring block disk and net compression. Change default disk… e638056 https://git.io/JL3kY (2020-12-15T18:15:25Z)
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20:15 tango_ wtf I'm getting kicked out from an unlisted server because minetest cannot connect to its server list?
20:16 tango_ and that's without even considering the issue of getting disconnected while underwater basically guaranteeing you'll die
20:18 sfan5 huh?
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20:56 MTDiscord <A​bdu> Is the 5.4.0 dev input lag (sometimes can't select an item in the hotbar) android specific or across all platforms?
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21:57 Helenah I've built a tunnel which I intend for people to pass through safely...
21:57 Helenah Those yellow monsters from mc_mobs are spawning there... how do I stop that without using mods to disable their spawn?
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22:21 specing Gustavo6046: I don't know, I mainly do client side modding
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