Daily Archives: 2023-11-12

Article note: Huh. Linux has sprung a HID-BPF interface that lets you do BPF filters on HID devices, which is being used to handle device quirks instead of hardcoding everything in C. That's ...an extra layer of plumbing that can fuck with your devices... but also a much more inspect-able, adaptable, and portable one.

Article note: Another one of these stories where folks at Apple were doing awesome work that prestaged things they did successfully later (usually in the form of "port the good user facing Mac features to Unix"), but it was nearly all eaten by managerial ineptitude. Not one I previously knew the details of; someone who worked on it is in the HN thread.