#osdev @ Libera stats by _whitelogger

Statistics generated on Friday 7 November 2025 - 0:00:04
During this 6-day reporting period, a total of 35 different nicks were represented on #osdev.


Most active times
3.3%
3.3
1.0%
1.0
1.6%
1.6
0% 0% 0% 0.1%
0.1
1.3%
1.3
0.3%
0.3
0.6%
0.6
1.9%
1.9
4.1%
4.1
0.5%
0.5
5.0%
5.0
6.7%
6.7
10.6%
10.6
6.3%
6.3
7.5%
7.5
2.0%
2.0
1.9%
1.9
9.7%
9.7
17.0%
17.0
9.1%
9.1
8.4%
8.4
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
0-5 = 0-5 6-11 = 6-11 12-17 = 12-17 18-23 = 18-23

Most active nicks
 NickNumber of linesWhen?Random quote
1 heat256"if something is particularly tricky, i write a big old comment"
2 zid238"you're going in the opposite direction"
3 guideX230"oh I am working on that too"
4 geist185"i guess i can look into the github wiki stuff again"
5 kof67361"it is reflectiveness in a loose sense that is lacking"
6 the_oz_52"the cursor on the screen is an illusion"
7 Ermine47"hm, ncopa updated it a week ago"
8 Amorphia31"ClaudeSlop, oh, no, Copilot and ChatGPT slop"
9 poggler28"ideally you have a common input bus and the drivers are just copying input parameters to the bus and any application that cares about the event subscribes to it"
10 nikolar23"are you writing a 386 os or sometihng?"
11 chiselfuse22"whatever instructs the ld-linux.so to patch entries in .got.plt with RELATIVE without there being any RELATIVE reloc for entries there.. is it the .dynamic section entry PLTGOT that makes it decide to do that? because otherwise the initial entries in .got.plt that point back to .plt are absolute values that are invalid with a non-0 base address"
12 sortiecat20"Or rebuilding it entirely as zid says"
13 Reinhilde19"I should write my own Wiki engine."
14 demindiro17"For my custom QEMU BIOS I did the latter. Works well enough"
15 chromoblob15"kof673: i wanted to redefine in CPP non-identifier tokens too"
16 clever13"from what ive heard, the addr in every BAR must be aligned to its size, its size must be a power of 2, and the register itself forces the low-order bits to 0 to make it stay aligned"
17 klys10"guidex, do you have something like showkey from the kbd package"
18 the_oz9"He is on -a- topic and sane -for that topic- but unfortunately off topic here, and people aren't interested in that topic"
19 pogycat9"kernel42069.dll"
20 GeDaMo8"You want to let an in-development OS access your real drives? :"
21 Ameisen8"I've realized that my benchmark method for comparing my VM's performance to the host is pretty flawed, as LLVM is missing a lot of important optimizations for MIPS"
22 sortie7"Yeah really shows how much work you've put into it"
23 froggey6"for the original ibm pc, of course"
24 pessimal3"<heat> but god. why. -- NIH?"
25 GreaseMonkey3"welp, i might have finally conquered my fear of the floppy disk controller i was overcome with back in 2007-2008 now that i have a better idea on how to actually program the damn thing"


These didn't make it to the top:
\Test_User (2) jimbzy (2) [ (2) mcrod (2) carrar (1)
Mutabah (1) netbsduser` (1) araxestroy (1) nortti (1) Psudeou (1)

Big numbers
Is zid stupid or just asking too many questions? 8.4% lines contained a question!
heat didn't know that much either. 5.0% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was heat, who yelled 2.3% of the time!
Another old yeller was geist, who shouted 2.1% of the time!
It seem that zid's shift-key is hanging: 1.2% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     08:41:00 <zid> ME LLAMO GYOUBU MASATAKA ONIWA

Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
zid brings happiness to the world. 2.9% lines contained smiling faces. :)
heat isn't a sad person either, smiling 1.5% of the time.
guideX seems to be sad at the moment: 1.3% lines contained sad faces. :(
geist wrote the longest lines, averaging 74.5 letters per line.
#osdev average was 60.8 letters per line.
heat wrote the shortest lines, averaging 44.9 characters per line.
zid was tight-lipped, too, averaging 47 characters.
guideX spoke a total of 3112 words!
guideX's faithful follower, geist, didn't speak so much: 2621 words.
nortti wrote an average of 42.00 words per line.
Channel average was 11.39 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 think 41 zid
2 really 40 poggler
3 there 38 chromoblob
4 something 38 kof673
5 would 37 chromoblob
6 which 37 demindiro
7 about 34 froggey
8 stuff 28 heat
9 because 28 zid
10 though 27 heat

Most referenced nick
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 heat 30 zid
2 zid 18 nikolar
3 guideX 14 poggler
4 geist 10 heat
5 Ermine 7 heat

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch4s25.h 2 kof673
2 https://gitlab.com/guideX/guidexos/-/blob/main/Kernel/Driver 1 guideX
3 https://github.com/Norost/norost-b/blob/master/run.sh 1 demindiro
4 https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/devices/usb.html 1 zid
5 https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks 1 the_oz_

Other interesting numbers
Nice opers here, no one got kicked!
Strange, no op was given on #osdev!
Wow, no op was taken on #osdev!
kof673 always lets us know what he/she's doing: 3 actions!
For example, like this:
     08:58:00 * kof673 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Also, poggler tells us what's up with 1 actions.
guideX is talking to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 4 times!
Another lonely one was kof673, who managed to hit 1 times.
chiselfuse has quite a potty mouth. 22.7% lines contained foul language.
Reinhilde also makes sailors blush, 15.7% of the time.

Latest Topics
A topic was never set on this channel.
Total number of lines: 1334.

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