#plist

[puppy95]

BEWARE THE DANGERS OF MUNDANE SITUATIONS YOU MAY ENJOY THEM TOO MUCH

[artoria2e5]

Some code I've been meaning to perfect, but don't have the energy to.

I know this is a very sharp departure from what I used to post. I haven't had the energy to take them for a while; plus I'm fat now. Sorry about that. There was a good time when my boobs were big and the belly not as round -- more like triple-stacked -- but come on. We don't post nipples on this site.

I also didn't have enough energy to follow through on many of my things. A lot of them are still VERY USEFUL things to me at least, but everything's just too much of a drain. There's a possibility of someone also finding these things useful, so I figured a blog post will help make them somewhat findable with a search engine.

Well, I suppose GitHub pages would be a better place. But I've already got kind of a blog here...

Windows argument passing in node and cygwin

Python plistlib for openstep formats

Windows argument passing

The thing about command-line on Windows is that it's the wild west. Programs do not actually receive an argv[] array like you have been conditioned by C to believe; instead they get a "cmdline" string to do whatever the hell they want with it.

Still, in that sea of insanity, there is one constant. Regular programmers are lazy. They just use whatever the runtime library does with the command line. In these cases you get a somewhat predictable behavior -- "somewhat", because even amount Microsoft runtimes the behavior differs -- and you can write some sort of an escaping function.

Beyond the runtime, cmd.exe also has its own understanding of how quoting works. Most disgustingly, it understands where double-quoted parts start and end differently from msvcrt. I've got a trick for that.

Node

The node PR, at https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29576, is focused on quoting. It's got proper quoting for bash, pwsh, and cmd + msvcrt. It's got very strong test cases (throw them at other people's things: they might break!) and good documentation. What it didn't have is communication and rizz. You're advised to skip to the "files changed" tab.

The cmd "trick" is explained at https://github.com/Artoria2e5/node/blob/c0a6aff35cd3ff6d3bd0e3687776158e97466c93/lib/child_process.js#L850. The gist is that msvcrt and .NET treats two double-quotes as if it's an escaped double-quote. It's undocumented, sure, but Microsoft's own code relies on it.

doc/api/child_process.md has a good chunk of text explaining how Windows cmdline works and who deviates from the norm. And that leads to our next suspect: Cygwin.

Cygwin

Cygwin is the way to run POSIX things on Windows these days. Sure there's MSYS2, but guess what? It's a Cygwin fork. If you are using the official Windows build of git, you're using MSYS2, which in turn means you're using Cygwin code.

Cygwin is not msvcrt, obviously. But what's less obvious is that it doesn't process cmdline the same way. That bites you HARD when you want to run a Cygwin program on a file with weird characters.

The patchset at https://github.com/mirror/newlib-cygwin/pull/5, formerly a botched e-mail exchange ending with me being too tired to split the patchset (come on, it's almost impossible to have intermediate stages that build, let alone work!), was my answer to the problem. It rewrites the cmdline parser to be msvcrt-compatible, while still keeping the Unix-style globbing and @-expansion features.

It's fucking awesome is what it was. It's written in C++ with in-place processing. What else can you ask for.

Oh, in case you want to know what my current answer to the problem is: roll into a ball and cry.

Openstep plistlib

So if you use an Apple product and do things that Apple don't really like you to do, you have probably came across a "plist". Nowadays plists are either an opaque binary file or a very wordy XML. Back in the good old days plists were not like that at all: they read more like JSON, except they only supported strings and dicts.

Python's plistlib does not care about the old style. It should, because it's fucking beautiful. It's also as functional as the new stuff is, as long as you use the GNUStep extensions.

I wrote a Python package to do just that (or did I? does it work yet?). https://github.com/Artoria2e5/text-plistlib As far as I can recall it works on a round-trip smoke test, but some extension decisions needed to be hammered out. It uses tatsu though, so there's no chance of getting into the plistlib part of the standard library.

I think I've also got some other things related to this plist format open somewhere. I wanted to write a parser for opencore to cut down on this XML misery, but COME ON IT'S C. I can't even keep track of a plain recursive descent parser in Python (why else am I using a parser generator?), to do it in C? No way. I'm also too lazy to learn yacc, thank you very much.

Other things

something about https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=168509072920594&w=2

Dream the DRM receiver/broadcaster has bad Opus options. Dev said I should open a branch. I think I can't, because I can't even get the official binary to run. I also lost my slightly illegal SDR kit.

I've definitely forgotten older things.

[capnhanbers]

hey! on my annual come back and re-read JoAT rn (and it hits every time), and just wanted to say I'm listening to the playlists this time and oh my god???? So far I've only tried sans' but it's so so good, I've added so many of the songs to my library!!!

WAAAAA I'm not sure when you sent this but compliments on my music are such a freaking rush OUGHGHFGHGGHGHGHGH

[sergeifyodorov]

am34 playlist. what songs go on that kinda thing

[bluespiritfire]

I'm SO fucking tired of Spotify forcing their stupid 'smart' shuffle down my throat. I use normal shuffle and then once the song is over, smart shuffle activates! Like, no, fuck off, I don't want to use this feature. I don't want this feature in my app in the first place!

[figgisagency]

*adds every song from mania onto the adricyrling playlist*

[tubborucho]

Tubbo and Badboyhalo – When someone immortal dies

taglist: @pastelvangelion @smallz-o @salineroses @dynamicworms @cindersnows @deadfishisyeq @snyland @missstrawberry @frubbotoxicyuri @haloberry @thecardboardbutterfly @avianchorus @qtubbo-is-not-fine @an-egghead @codaattheend @mikaikaika @radio-zephyr @routeriver @luminouslotuses @lionheartedmusings

dm me if you want in or out of taglist

credits:

1. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-angels-are-more-robotic-and-can-t-feel-emotions-rather-than-warm-with-loving-energy

2. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Concept-of-robot-as-opposed-to-angel-a-and-within-dehumanisation-b-Based-on-Haslams_fig1_332918259

3. https://forum.unity.com/register/genesis?state=iZPbbln2xXCTrPJfeRMDS3ZgCBn4y5e5hG8oyZCJ%3B%2Fthreads%2Fmissing-purpose-string-in-info-plist-file-with-unity-2018-3-11f1.653251%2F&error=login_required

4. “Reborn. Early Diaries” Susan Sontag

5. “The long and short of it” Richard Siken

6. N/A

7. “The Oresteia” Aeschylus

8. https://pin.it/UwaztHCx9

9. “Courtney Love Prays To Oregon” Clementine von Radics

10. “After Frank O’Hara / After Roger Reeves” Ocean Vuong

11. “Anecdote of the Pig” Tory Adkisson

12. N/A

13. N/A

14. https://pin.it/5WwkfBDhb

15. N/A

16. @.cemeterything

17. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-a-father-s-love-Is-it-different-than-a-mother-s-love

18. https://www.infinitheism.com/mahatria-wisdom/love/about-fathers-love1

19. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/father-love-is-like-an-unending-trip-of-joy-and-happiness/?frmapp=yes

20. N/A

21. Hozier – Work Song

22. N/A

23. “A Self-Portrait in Letters” Anne Sexton

[glavilio]

i get so insulted when programs launch at startup automatically. WHO gave you permission to do that? to trespass on my estate whenever you dam well please? and when disabling it in settings doesn't work and i have to hunt around the plists i literally see red. I WANT TO TEAR YOU FROM LIMB TO LIMB

[the-pen-pot]

I am so close to 200 patrons, and I would love to hit that number! If you're interested in signing up for more, you can edit your pledge by going to https://www.patreon.com/bdstrike/membership

A Quick Reminder of Rewards

$2 pledge gets you early access to fics before they go up on AO3

$5 opens up more than 100,000 words worth of draft chapters for you in the Merlin, Hobbit and Sherlock fandoms (this pledge is the most popular)

$10 makes you eligible for printed copies of my shorter stories such as Gravity plus 10% store discount

$13 per month gets you all of the above, plist a 15% store discount.

And from the bottom of my heart, a huge thank you to all those who have pledged, past and present. 💖

[v7lgar]

hi hi hi for the ask game i would love a moodboard for Big Brown Eyes by Lola Young <33

amazing song, i added to my plist and i can't even begin to how much i thank you for putting me on her euge

song or character moodboard game

[fadeintolight]

Hi, you were right https://szigetfestival.com/en/programs#!/plist////// I hope you enjoy the festival :)

THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT

[puppy95]

This is not a drill..puppy95 one hour playlist its so nice and fresh 🥬

[paperwalwal]

yechan and sangyeop complimenting wonsang's producing skills in the car! plist video was so sweet :')

[nexo-nex]

I'm currently doing the idle animations from the EAH game's sprites. They're a lot more easier to animate so I'll most likely wont be taking as long with them. With that being said, I'm not really sure if I'll make the walk animations.

You see, when I analyze the .PLIST files with (aka all the info the animations files have such as frames, sizes, pngs, etc) with iBackup Viewer, it shows me that all the walk animations are composed of around 8 frames, but when I watch gameplays of the game and pause to see how accurate they'll look, said frames get lowered to 5 frames, and while giving them 5 frames would make it more accurate to the game, the animations look really choppy cause theyre missing frames and thus making the animation feel incomplete and amateur.

I'm most likely will give them the 8 frames they are shown on the sprite sheets, but I'll see what I can do.

[rebellum]

Accidentally said a book had a "twot plist" earlier

[lietuvens]

ghhhhhhhhhhhhh

diivainas dienas divains laiks divaina pasaule divaina pilseta_ satiku piektdien leo draudzenes kafejniicaa kur turpinaju laimiga savu jauno sober-cope kofeina dai;ly binge kas vnk nozime 6 kafijas un 3 energijas dzerieni diena lidz stiri, vini man uzsauca kafiju nocenotu ledus lati 600ml pa 2..5 life is skidoni i am so grateful pec tam sedejam ara un ieksa ara sausmigi salam parunajam ar draudzeni partraukuma kura man nepatika leo jokoja ka dzivos metro stacija un vina viebas un sauca vinu par zurku un vispar likas tada tuksa nedaudz bet nu ari tadi cilveki ir forsi tik vini nerubi/ vispar gruti man saprasties ar cilvekiem kas nav nereali nariki vai kkada veida prata jukusi kaut kad liekas ka vini dzivo tadu semi sheltered life kas man neskiet appealing ./ tas gan stulbi ta domat bet ari garlaicigi ar tadiem biezi ir

anywway leo tur kechas kaut kads puisis baigais patik sarunajam vinu satikt vins tur uz kaut kadu rave planoja nakti iet nu labi tad mes ari/leo loti gribeja lai naku lai gan man budzets atlauj tikai energijas dzerienus (knapi_) un izlema man izmaksat ieeju/ baigi shemojam par naudu jo vini negribeja savus lielos iekrajumus teret utttt bet peksni viniem augusta alga ienaca uun mes ketaminu pat nopirkam/

pa celam es raudaju autobusa nikna acis viniem skatoties jo vini teica ka zin kaa mana mamma jutas un deva padomus ka jadoma par sevi un ka tas kas ar vinu notiek ir vinas atbildiba un ka man nevajag dusmoties uz sevi par to kaa naudu teereeju (pagatnes forma) un tas viss aizskara man vispersonigako un svetako temu gribeju galvu viniem noraut vienkarsi bimbaju un teicu nezini gan tu nezini gan reali nezini tu nezini ] daudz pedeja laika jutu to raudasanu kad acis turi pavisam vala un skaties tiesi acis pretim un neslep galvu un sirds uz pusu plist bet juti vel savu kermeni vala atgriezta dvesele bet turi to ta pat rokas un nemiz

ilgi stavejam rinda (lol) tikmer visu laiku vini refreshoja ig dms lai skatitos kaa puisis neatbild 20 minutes 25 minutes 30 minutes 32 minutes uttuttutt . daudz purpinaja par to ka bail ka neatnaks aa es neesmu nekas bez romantic interests and crushes aaa man vienalga bababa its so over were so back its so over were so back its so over were so back its so over were so backutttutt es tikmer vienkarsi jutos viena un man pietruka draudzibas dazadas konkretas ugh whateveeer

ieksa iepisam linchu pasiverejamies surpu turpu visur laba muzika gabba and whatevr bet ik pa bridim apnika un tad izlemam nu ka varam pasedet ari pagaidit puisi kas Esot Celaa. kecha vispar visu nakti divaina bija reali negriezas man tas kermenis nereiba galva tikai smadzenes aizmigusas kluva miglaa/ whateveeer\ tad leo ieraudzija vina labako draugu un aizskrejam sveicinaties. vaardaa galileo (loll whaat), lidzi tris cikses kas izskatijas taa it kaa vinam patiktu digital fandom art ka ari butu 15 gadi. made sum dumb small talk, kaut ko miinaajaamies apkart lidz paradijas daudzinatais jaunietis ar vel svesiniekiem un visi aizgajam uz tuacham sadruuzmeeties 5 cilveki viena maza kabinite un vini piedavaja mums spidu no ka mes laimigi atteicamies. daliju linijas kamer visi reize runaja kaut ko un man nenormali uz nerviem krita< sausmigi gen-z clout vibe kura es jutos kaa vecs iignja pie tam leo turot telefonu visu laiku vicinajas apkart un vispar man zajeebs bija, ko citi pamanija un jokoja ka mums beef. vel man galvu jauca visu nakti tas ka leo ar mani runaja par to puisi nonstopa latviski kamer vins blakus bija un man vienkarsi gruti bija sakoncentreties uz dajebko. kaut kads cilveks kas izskatijas pec bladee wannabe spida linijas lielas taisija un teica ka tas ir neopets of lines. prasija kada framerate esam visi es teicu 5 vini sasmejas leo uzreiz iemeta ka shes always like that. jutos pretigi stulbi

visu nakti dejojam un pisam linchas, man bija lielas kabatas tapec leo telefons un maks bija pie manis aka man visu laiku bija jabut ar viniem, biezi vien vini gribeja ap to puisi tuset/gaidit vinu utt es tikmer migu ciet nogurusi. bet muzika super nu breakcore jcore all the cool fast chopped goofy whatevr cores tiesam tas ko pedeja laika klausos tas ko vienmer mekleju un neatrodu nekur. prieks par to nereals. kaut kada bridi vini mani palaida vienu uz tuachu protams ka es sev kaut kadas mega stripas nasis ievilku jo visu nakti jutos ne gluzi high ne gluzi sober. had a weird dissacscoiotav mega high kura prost papsiu telefonu un tabaku., telefonu velak atradu. tad ta bladee impersinator dj sets bija, kuru es apmekleju daleji, jo tas bija hyperpopy bet blakus istaba joprojam skaneja 200bpm insanity, kas mani uzrunaja vairak. atnaccu atpakal uz beigam un paradiju thumbs up kip ka labi bija, man to pasu pretim paradija;,

tad leo ieminejas ka sis cilveks bija 100 gecs albuma. damn shawty ookay? prasiju kads artist name, jo zinu daudzus no ta remix albuma, atbildeja man, ka 99 something. dammn wtf uzreiz ierubiju, ka 99j*kes lol (a) .. es vinu klausijos kaa vienu no pirmajiem maksliniekiem no visa ta zanra, vel pirms gecs or whatver, one of the first liked songs on soundcloud n shit. sajutos vel divainaka un stulbaka. visu vakaru biju lowkey friend of a friend of a friend npc low energy grumpy cixe kas mani reali saka gruzit sausmigi jo biju ne shur ne tur ne shis ne tas. tad velak viss uz beigam vilkas, jo est gribejas. visi ara sapulcejamies, 8-9 no rita, kads tur pipe, kads prasa ketaminy atkal, kads kaut ko stasta.

leo viena bridi jokoja haha man bija simts eiro iedevu annai un vina visu iztereja. es saku wtf ko, vini atkal nja 60 eiro ketamiinaa haha lol esmu broke. blad the fuck tik nahuj pretigi. es vienkarsi sarunaju to kechu nopirkt, ta ka 2 grami , tad otru sarunajam, ka kads kaut ka kaut kur pardos, velak vini teica, ka pat varu nestresot pardot, ja kas pataupis citai dienai. visu nakti teica, lai neuztraucos, ka uzsauc pasakumu. un tad sita. es uzreiz prasiju, kas ta dara what the fuck ko tu runa, samejie uzreiz haha piedod tas tak joks, man social autism, im autistic. vienkarsi svesinieku un kruta makslinieka prieksa mani sita. ewwa. gribeju iet majas bet man bija bail atvadities no visiem jo tas, ka eju, nevienam burtiski neko nemainitu, nekas nebutu mainijies tadel nezinaju, ka atvadities, un vispar labak pazustu kaa npc draugs kas es biju visu nakti. jutos loti neredzama un redzama vienlaicigi. bagati clout jauniesi, kam ir forsi draugi utt.vispar nejutos dabiksi starp viniem, ari vini likas aprobezoti or whatevr. im like toooo clearpilled redpilled need people who r like that lolllllllll gnjv es parak judgmental. computer science degree kaa nekaa vinam ir. vispar vins tur beigas leo atraidija un skaidroja, ka nekas nebus. tas short term dating break up typa lifestyle tik depressing. bet nu ir ka ir. tas puisis runaja par to kaa u need to do drugs not for the drugs to do you. ka vinam tikai divreiz ir bijis ta ka drugs do you. tik stulbs lol. atvadoties apskavamies un es iesaku teikt, ka labprat kadreiz sakarigak satiktos, bet vins pusvarda jau pagriezas prom un saka ar kadu citu runat. leo palika pie galilieo, kurs esot bagats un uz jautajumu vai brauks ar ubani vai sbani atbildeja, ka ar uber.

es tikmer gaju majas caur miglu, kas loti metaforiski saskaneja ar manu parguruso pratu. nopirku tabaku benzintznka veikala, knapi varot skaidrot, ka velos letako, ilgi meklejot bildi ar pasi, jo sai bija jabut vienigajai reizei, kad man dokumentus prasa, ilgi skaidrojot, ka velos papirisus ari. ejot majas loti sagruzijos. staigaju un domaju par to kaa nesaprotu, kur es esmu, svesa vieta tomer, bet ari majas aka riiga klust tikai par atminu un ari tomer sveshu vietu. tad es ta peldu pa vidu un manas kajas mani nes uz prieksu un domat es censos nedomat.

aizgaju majas noguleju 10 stundas pamodos aizgaju uz veikalu aizmigu vel uz 10 pamodos uztaisiju est aizmigu vel uz pusotru. feeling gray/ jaiet meklet atkal darbs, mani ghosto darba devejs jau nedelu, man sajuta, ka mani kaut kaa apkrapj. bet es nevaru sanemties, negribu neko darit tikai gulet gulta acim vala. dzivokla biedrs iedeva sava prieksnieka epastu, uz kuru cv aizsutit, ta ari izdariju. rakstu tam klubam epastu ari, ka gribu stradat. subject line ir I dream of you. ceru, ka nokers vinu uzmanibu lol.