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- URL: https://x.com/AlexABPerson/status/2071714528635527401
- Author: Alex Burrows (@AlexABPerson)
- Posted: 2026-06-29 21:56:48
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1/ @AlexABPerson
@NOTimothyLottes
Have you actually reached out to said developers and offered to start a documentation effort/ask them some questions about things? It seems a little unfair to be rage posting about this all the time when the point is you (and me, and everyone) have the power to make it better.
2/ @NOTimothyLottes
@AlexABPerson
Haha I could start that with an email: hello godly ALSA dev, as a vintage pee-on programmer from the stone age, I was trying to ignore your advice about using the user-space API and thus needing GPL, and instead using the undocumented IOCTLs of the kernel driver directly …
3/ @NOTimothyLottes
@AlexABPerson
But on a serious note, I mostly shit post for the entertainment, because once in a while I actually learn something from a response. And often documenting the process might help someone else too …
4/ @AlexABPerson
@NOTimothyLottes
That’s fair, thank you for the honest reply! It is interesting to see a lot of these sorts of inner workings, and I definitely sympathise with the “I can’t believe it works like this” feeling 😂 Stuff does have a tendency to get like that huh