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Living a Thousand Lives: Exploring the Quirky World of BitLife

by vast.stoat.yach＠hidingmail.net

Have you ever wondered what your life would look like if you made entirely different choices? Life simulation games have always been a fascinating genre for gamers, but few capture the unpredictable, hilarious, and sometimes chaotic nature of existence quite like Bitlife. Instead of relying on heavy 3D graphics, it is a text-based simulator that focuses entirely on the ripple effects of your decisions. It’s perfect for casual gaming sessions, so let's dive into how to play and get the most out of this quirky experience. https://bitlifefree.io/ Gameplay: Growing Up, One Year at a Time The premise of the game is incredibly simple but highly addictive. You are born with a random set of basic stats—Happiness, Health, Smarts, and Looks—in a random country to random parents. From there, you control your character's life year by year simply by tapping the "Age" button. In your early years, your choices are understandably limited to things like interacting with your parents, going to the doctor, or playing with pets. But as you grow into a teenager and an adult, the world completely opens up. You can choose to study hard, drop out, date, travel the world, buy real estate, or even turn to a life of crime. Every year, the game throws random scenarios at you: a classmate might insult you, you might be offered a questionable substance at a party, or you might find a wallet on the street. How you react directly impacts your stats and future opportunities. You might even have to pass mini-games, like navigating a maze for your driving test or escaping from prison. The ultimate goal is simply to live your life until your character passes away, leaving behind a unique legacy and a tombstone summarizing your deeds. Tips for a Great Experience If you are just starting out, here are a few tips to make your virtual life more successful—or at least more entertaining: Keep an eye on your core stats: Your Health and Happiness are crucial. If they drop too low, your character might face early health issues. Go to the gym, meditate, go to the movies, or spend time with family to keep these bars in the green. Education pays off (usually): If you want a high-paying, stable career like a doctor, judge, or CEO, use the "Study harder" option every year during school. Read books at the library to passively boost your Smarts stat. Hunt for Ribbons: At the end of every life, you are awarded a ribbon based on how you lived (e.g., "Hero," "Scandalous," "Lazy," or "Rich"). Trying to collect all the different ribbons is a great way to give yourself specific goals. Don't be afraid of the absurd: The real charm of the game is in its wild unpredictability. Sometimes, making terrible choices, trying to become a famous actor, or buying a crazy exotic pet leads to the most memorable playthroughs. Don't always play it safe! Conclusion Ultimately, the beauty of this simulator lies in its endless replayability. Every time you hit the button to start a new life, it is a completely blank slate. You can be a saint in one lifetime and an absolute menace to society in the next. Whether you have five minutes to kill on a bus commute or an hour to craft a sprawling, multi-generational family dynasty, diving into Bitlife offers a fun, lighthearted escape into a world where you pull all the strings. Give it a try, and see exactly where your choices take you!

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Re: [PATCH] drm: docs: Remove item from TODO list

by Maxime Ripard

Hi, On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:25:50AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:31 AM Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Since "Clean up checks for already prepared/enabled in panels" has > > already been done and merged [1], I think there is no longer a need > > for this item to be in the gpu TODO. > > > > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/551421/ > > > > Signed-off-by: Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira(a)hotmail.com> > > --- > > Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 25 ------------------------- > > 1 file changed, 25 deletions(-) > > It's not actually all done. It's in a bit of a limbo state right now, > unfortunately. I landed all of the "simple" cases where panels were > needlessly tracking prepare/enable, but the less simple cases are > still outstanding. > > Specifically the issue is that many panels have code to properly power > cycle themselves off at shutdown time and in order to do that they > need to keep track of the prepare/enable state. After a big, long > discussion [1] it was decided that we could get rid of all the panel > code handling shutdown if only all relevant DRM KMS drivers would > properly call drm_atomic_helper_shutdown(). > > I made an attempt to get DRM KMS drivers to call > drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() [2] [3] [4]. I was able to land the > patches that went through drm-misc, but currently many of the > non-drm-misc ones are blocked waiting for attention. > > ...so things that could be done to help out: > > a) Could review patches that haven't landed in [4]. Maybe adding a > Reviewed-by tag would help wake up maintainers? > > b) Could see if you can identify panels that are exclusively used w/ > DRM drivers that have already been converted and then we could post > patches for just those panels. I have no idea how easy this task would > be. Is it enough to look at upstream dts files by "compatible" string? I think it is, yes. Maxime

3 days, 4 hours

Why Choose Cryptera Chain Signals for DeFi Hack Recovery

by luisannete22＠gmail.com

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4 days, 10 hours

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by Yulie Morgan

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4 days, 10 hours

Space Waves

by blanchehughes54＠gmail.com

Space Waves features simple controls but intense gameplay. Players must carefully time their movements to avoid crashing into obstacles in a constantly moving environment https://space-waves.co

6 days

[PATCH v3 00/10] Add dmabuf read/write via io_uring

by Pavel Begunkov

The patch set allows to register a dmabuf to an io_uring instance for a specified file and use it with io_uring read / write requests. The infrastructure is not tied to io_uring and there could be more users in the future. A similar idea was attempted some years ago by Keith [1], from where I borrowed a good number of changes, and later was brough up by Tushar and Vishal from Intel. It's an opt-in feature for files, and they need to implement a new file operation to use it. Only NVMe block devices are supported in this series. The user API is built on top of io_uring's "registered buffers", where a dmabuf is registered in a special way, but after it can be used as any other "registered buffer" with IORING_OP_{READ,WRITE}_FIXED requests. It's created via a new file operation and the resulted map is then passed through the I/O stack in a new iterator type. There is some additional infrastructure to bind it all, which also counts requests using a dmabuf map and managing lifetimes, which is used to implement map invalidation. It was tested for GPU <-> NVMe transfers. Also, as it maintains a long-term dma mapping, it helps with the IOMMU cost. The numbers below are for udmabuf reads previously run by Anuj for different IOMMU modes: - STRICT: before = 570 KIOPS, after = 5.01 MIOPS - LAZY: before = 1.93 MIOPS, after = 5.01 MIOPS - PASSTHROUGH: before = 5.01 MIOPS, after = 5.01 MIOPS There are some liburing tests that can serve as an example: git: https://github.com/isilence/liburing.git rw-dmabuf-tests-v3 url: https://github.com/isilence/liburing/tree/rw-dmabuf-tests-v3 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20220805162444.3985535-1-kbusch@fb.com/ v3: - Rework io_uring registration - Move token/map infrastructure code out of blk-mq - Simplify callbacks: remove a separate blk-mq table, which was mostly just forwarding calls (to nvme). - Don't skip dma sync depending on request direction - Fix a couple of hangs - Rename s/dma/dmabuf/ - Other small changes v2: - Don't pass raw dma addresses, wrap it into a driver specific object - Split into two objects: token and map - Implement move_notify Pavel Begunkov (10): file: add callback for creating long-term dmabuf maps iov_iter: add iterator type for dmabuf maps block: move bvec init into __bio_clone block: introduce dma map backed bio type lib: add dmabuf token infrastructure block: forward create_dmabuf_token to drivers nvme-pci: implement dma_token backed requests io_uring/rsrc: introduce buf registration structure io_uring/rsrc: extend buffer update io_uring/rsrc: add dmabuf backed registered buffers block/bio.c | 28 +++- block/blk-merge.c | 14 ++ block/blk.h | 3 +- block/fops.c | 16 ++ drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 282 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/bio.h | 19 ++- include/linux/blk-mq.h | 9 + include/linux/blk_types.h | 8 +- include/linux/fs.h | 2 + include/linux/io_dmabuf_token.h | 92 +++++++++++ include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 5 + include/linux/uio.h | 11 ++ include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h | 31 +++- io_uring/io_uring.c | 3 +- io_uring/rsrc.c | 266 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- io_uring/rsrc.h | 30 +++- io_uring/rw.c | 4 +- lib/Kconfig | 4 + lib/Makefile | 2 + lib/io_dmabuf_token.c | 272 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/iov_iter.c | 29 +++- 21 files changed, 1071 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/io_dmabuf_token.h create mode 100644 lib/io_dmabuf_token.c -- 2.53.0

1 week, 4 days

Independence for dma_fences! v6

by Christian König

Hi everyone, dma_fences have ever lived under the tyranny dictated by the module lifetime of their issuer, leading to crashes should anybody still holding a reference to a dma_fence when the module of the issuer was unloaded. The basic problem is that when buffer are shared between drivers dma_fence objects can leak into external drivers and stay there even after they are signaled. The dma_resv object for example only lazy releases dma_fences. So what happens is that when the module who originally created the dma_fence unloads the dma_fence_ops function table becomes unavailable as well and so any attempt to release the fence crashes the system. Previously various approaches have been discussed, including changing the locking semantics of the dma_fence callbacks (by me) as well as using the drm scheduler as intermediate layer (by Sima) to disconnect dma_fences from their actual users, but none of them are actually solving all problems. Tvrtko did some really nice prerequisite work by protecting the returned strings of the dma_fence_ops by RCU. This way dma_fence creators where able to just wait for an RCU grace period after fence signaling before they could be save to free those data structures. Now this patch set here goes a step further and protects the whole dma_fence_ops structure by RCU, so that after the fence signals the pointer to the dma_fence_ops is set to NULL when there is no wait nor release callback given. All functionality which use the dma_fence_ops reference are put inside an RCU critical section, except for the deprecated issuer specific wait and of course the optional release callback. Additional to the RCU changes the lock protecting the dma_fence state previously had to be allocated external. This set here now changes the functionality to make that external lock optional and allows dma_fences to use an inline lock and be self contained. v4: Rebases the whole set on upstream changes, especially the cleanup from Philip in patch "drm/amdgpu: independence for the amdkfd_fence!". Adding two patches which brings the DMA-fence self tests up to date. The first selftest changes removes the mock_wait and so actually starts testing the default behavior instead of some hacky implementation in the test. This one got upstreamed independent of this set. The second drops the mock_fence as well and tests the new RCU and inline spinlock functionality. v5: Rebase on top of drm-misc-next instead of drm-tip, leave out all driver changes for now since those should go through the driver specific paths anyway. Address a few more review comments, especially some rebase mess and typos. And finally fix one more bug found by AMDs CI system. v6: Minor style changes, re-ordered patch #1, dropped the scheduler fence change for now Please review and comment, Christian.

1 week, 5 days

Re: [RFC PATCH 10/30] vfio/pci: Export vfio dma-buf specific info for importers

by Jason Gunthorpe

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 01:34:53PM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote: > Export vfio dma-buf specific info by attaching vfio_dma_buf_data in > struct dma_buf::priv. Provide a helper vfio_dma_buf_get_data() for > importers to fetch these data. Exporters identify VFIO dma-buf by > successfully getting these data. > > VFIO dma-buf supports disabling host access to these exported MMIO > regions when the device is converted to private. Exporters like KVM > need to identify this type of dma-buf to decide if it is good to use. > KVM only allows host unaccessible MMIO regions been mapped in private > roots. > > Export struct kvm * handler attached to the vfio device. This > allows KVM to do another sanity check. MMIO should only be assigned to > a CoCo VM if its owner device is already assigned to the same VM. This doesn't seem right, it should be encapsulated into the standard DMABUF API in some way. Jason

1 week, 5 days

A Guide to Mastering Slope

by sarahcolter＠wshu.net

Have you ever felt the exhilarating rush of speed, the focus demanded by precision, and the utter satisfaction of overcoming a seemingly impossible challenge? If so, then you might just be ready to tackle Slope. This deceptively simple online game has captivated players with its addictive gameplay and endless potential for improvement. It's a perfect little escape for a quick break or a dedicated practice session. Let's dive into how to play and, more importantly, how to experience the thrill of Slope. Introduction: What is Slope? At its core, Slope is a rolling ball game. You control a ball that’s constantly moving downhill, navigating a procedurally generated landscape of interconnected platforms. Sounds straightforward, right? Don’t be fooled! The platforms narrow, the speed increases relentlessly, and the gaps between platforms widen as you progress. One wrong move and you’re plummeting into the abyss. https://slopegame-online.com The brilliance of Slope lies in its accessibility and its learning curve. It's incredibly easy to pick up and play, yet fiendishly difficult to master. You don't need complicated controllers or extensive tutorials. Just a keyboard, a steady hand, and a determined spirit. It's a perfect example of a simple concept executed brilliantly. Gameplay: Navigating the Perilous Path The controls are as minimal as the aesthetic: the left and right arrow keys are all you need to guide your ball. Use the left arrow key to steer the ball left, and the right arrow key to steer it right. That's it! But mastering those two keys is the key to survival. Your objective is to stay on the platforms for as long as possible. As you roll further down the slope, your speed increases, and the environment becomes increasingly challenging. Red blocks appear, acting as obstacles that instantly end your run if touched. The platforms themselves will start to shift and move, adding another layer of complexity to the game. The game ends when your ball falls off the platform. Your score is determined by the distance you travelled before your demise. The higher the score, the better! The goal is to constantly improve your score, pushing yourself to see just how far you can go. Tips and Tricks for Conquering the Slope While the controls are simple, mastering Slope requires practice and a good understanding of the game's mechanics. Here are a few tips to help you improve your game: Smooth Movements Are Key: Avoid jerky, panicked movements. Small, controlled adjustments are far more effective than large, sweeping ones. Think less about reacting and more about anticipating. Look Ahead: Try to focus a little further down the slope. Anticipating the next turn or gap will give you more time to react and adjust your trajectory. This is easier said than done when the speed is high, but it's a crucial skill to develop. Embrace the Momentum: Understand how your ball's momentum affects its movement. Learn how to use the slight curve of the platforms to your advantage, especially when approaching tight turns. Don't Fear the Edges: Sometimes, the safest route is to ride along the edge of the platform. This allows you to make small corrections and avoid potential obstacles in the center. Practice, Practice, Practice: There's no substitute for practice. The more you play, the better you'll become at anticipating the challenges and reacting accordingly. Don't get discouraged by early failures. Everyone starts somewhere. You can visit Slope to begin practicing! Learn from Your Mistakes: Analyze your failures. What caused you to fall off the platform? Were you too slow to react? Did you misjudge the turn? Understanding your mistakes will help you avoid them in the future. Conclusion: The Enduring Appeal of an Endless Game Slope isn't about complicated storylines, stunning graphics, or intricate controls. It's about the pure, unadulterated challenge of pushing your skills to the limit. It's about the satisfaction of mastering a seemingly impossible task. It's about the addictive loop of playing, failing, learning, and improving. And its accessible nature means anyone can jump in and experience that thrill. So, go ahead, give it a try. You might just find yourself hooked on the endless decline. The simple controls and challenging gameplay make it a strangely addictive experience. It's a testament to the idea that sometimes, the simplest games are the most engaging.

2 weeks, 3 days

[PATCH] dma-buf: fix stale @lock references in struct dma_buf documentation

by Xiang Gao

From: Xiang Gao <gaoxiang17(a)xiaomi.com> The kernel-doc comments for vmapping_counter and vmap_ptr in struct dma_buf reference "@lock" as the protecting lock, but struct dma_buf no longer has a "lock" member. The mutex was removed in favor of using the dma_resv lock exclusively. The implementation correctly uses dma_resv_assert_held(dmabuf->resv) in dma_buf_vmap() and dma_buf_vunmap(), so update the documentation to reference @resv instead. Signed-off-by: gaoxiang17 <gaoxiang17(a)xiaomi.com> --- include/linux/dma-buf.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/linux/dma-buf.h index 133b9e637b55..ef6d93fd7a2c 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-buf.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-buf.h @@ -322,13 +322,13 @@ struct dma_buf { * @vmapping_counter: * * Used internally to refcnt the vmaps returned by dma_buf_vmap(). - * Protected by @lock. + * Protected by @resv. */ unsigned vmapping_counter; /** * @vmap_ptr: - * The current vmap ptr if @vmapping_counter > 0. Protected by @lock. + * The current vmap ptr if @vmapping_counter > 0. Protected by @resv. */ struct iosys_map vmap_ptr; -- 2.34.1

2 weeks, 3 days

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