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2026-07-26 18:43:03 GMT

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Depends on your computer.
How quick it is depends directly on how much computer you have; e.g. try using it on a phone. I've seen sites that will literally take over a minute to open.

2026-06-13 05:25:18 GMT

Doot do doooooot
got encrypted PDFs opening on plan9 :)
maybe now that I can read the PDF specification I can use it to get better font renderings :P
#plan9
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2026-04-25 07:44:02 GMT

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> slow down
I've seen studies linked that purported to show the opposite; bike lanes => fewer cars on the road => faster response times
not to mention *gestures at Europe*
they get a lot wrong, buuut

2026-03-23 17:31:48 GMT

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What i mean is, it's kinda weird that even something as well defined as C can change so much in 20 years as to require basically relearning the idioms.
It's also... kinda just an argument that this code is bad, tbh. Lots of Plan 9 code is this old, much of it uses similar patterns, little of it has ever taken me this much effort to reverse engineer...

2026-03-23 17:21:07 GMT

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Something fascinating here: this is a codebase in C. It's not doing anything crazy by the rules of C. C is my preferred language, the one I'm best at. I understand every single line of code, on its own.
But a lot of the high level logic feels weirdly foreign, moreso than typical Go code even.
I can read the code and go "oh that's a hash table" pretty easily, and i get using a hash table to quickly identify cached blocks
But the table is, implicit? Sorta?
The heads of each "bucket" are stored in the cache, but there's no real bucket. Each block just has a doubly linked list to follow prev/next pointers which, sure, but then it also multiple other unrelated lists.
Okay, not too crazy.
But they're sorted by a fake ticker clock, except not entirely, only sorta quadratically? Which seems to just be a way to maintain a LRU in *yet another list* sorting the *exact same set* of *statically allocated blocks*.
And, i can untangle all of this. It requires pen and paper ( or a .tex file), but it's a fascinating experience reading something, understanding what it means, but having no clue what it's doing

2026-03-18 18:37:48 GMT

[@cinap_lenrek](https://hj.9fs.net/cinap_lenrek ) having trouble finding a minimal repro of the linker bug :/
I've got one that works on fossil but that's not sufficient. I'll dig into it later. I've definitely run into it on smaller project multiple times, I'm sure I'll find it again

2026-03-16 02:56:10 GMT

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> can't attach the debugger
... yeah i can? That's how i debugged tbe previous deadlock. Keep a dedicated fs with acid and enough utilities to use it and snap the processes to a different disk - or straight to venti with ramfs+vac.
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-03-16 02:34:00 GMT

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I've run into it before. I *think* it's essential that the missing symbol *not* be in the last function. This should work for main.c:
void foo(void);
void
bar(void)
{
foo();
}
void
main(void){
bar();
}

2026-03-16 02:27:03 GMT

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Last time i ran into a deadlock i fixed it in like three or four hours. This is the exact kind of programming I'm best at, and it's with a project I'm familiar with and have used for 3+ years (without, i might add, any data loss or corruption so long as i ran fshalt, across at least four machines).
Fossil has very simple data structures and _already mostly works_. I'm not worried about deadlocks. If there were still data corruption or loss issues that i was aware of I'd be much more hesitant, but all that I'm intending to is related to in memory and on-CPU logic. I have no intention of changing anything about the disk format.
Venti is simple enough that neoventi seemed like a good idea. Compatibility with the disk format was the hardest part.
I think fixing fossil will be less work than trying to replace it, and fixed fossil + neoventi will do most of what i want. Venti is where the interesting stuff happens anyways.
And, importantly, if I'm wrong, i can just stop working on it and go back to e.g. wbfs. I also don't have access to the latest neoventi or pdffs sources until i get back to my pc, so I'm stuck with what i have on the reform; this seemed a reasonable short term obsession
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2026-03-16 02:15:44 GMT

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I've already fixed one of the deadlocks, I'm pretty sure i have a repro for the other one I've seen.
The only data corruption issue In aware of is that the atomic ops intended to ensure poweroff doesn't lose data just, are wrong, so it power is lost mid sync a file can be truncated.
Fossil is not actually super complicated imo. We'll see.
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-03-15 22:46:25 GMT

Fossil progress update, midwau through day 1: fixed fourish minor bugs and the code is 6% smaller.
Nothing major yet, just doing some small cleanups to learn more about the internal structures before doing the deeper stuff :)
Not bad for a quick start!

2026-03-15 21:55:15 GMT

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Cc [@cinap_lenrek](https://hj.9fs.net/cinap_lenrek ), @npub1485…8vcz for that bug btw [no irc access rn, sorry, only intertnet is on phone :/]
Setting curtext = P at the start of undef resolves it by having ??none?? printed instead. Would need to look a bit more to see how to actually find where the reference originates.

2026-03-15 21:50:08 GMT

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Fwiw I've also found some general 9front bugs too.
E.g. if you have a function declared in a header and use it but accidentally have only a static implementation, 7l prints the wrong function name as the source.
Reading through the source, i think this is because undef, which checks for unresolved symbols, is called after everything else is done, and it calls diag, which uses curtext as the source, and curtext will not be valid at that point since undef doesn't set it
I'm gonna have to check the other linkers to see if they do the same.
Fwiw fossils code is less bad than ventis in many ways.

2026-03-15 19:20:00 GMT

Reading through the fossil source code and refactoring to clean up and get familiar, already found and fixed a few stupid but mostly harmless bugs. Most recently, telling fossil to print out the list of file systems when none are configured suicides.
So if you launch a fossil with just a console, to configure interactively, and prompt for the list, hahaha no you don't
But wait, there's more!
Normally you can run e.g.
% fsys main check
To run a fsck on fs main, or you can
% fsys main
To set the current fs, and then
% check
If you run fsys without args, it looks like it's suppppposed to clear the current fs.
Instead, it clears a _second variable_ for current fs because there's two of them 🤦‍♂️
And it doesn't even clear that! It sets it to the name of the first fs!

2026-03-15 13:12:26 GMT

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Also, doing some maintenance is a nice change of pace from my usual habit of working on replacing stuff
Fossil looks salvageable moreso than venti was.

2026-03-15 13:06:29 GMT

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Might as well ask why a dog is barking 😂
It's just what they do!
More serious answer: cuz it honestly shouldn't take more than a few days to fix every bug I'm aware of

2026-03-13 22:01:39 GMT

With some nice theming, i can barely see the screen damage :3
And yes I'm hacking on fossil. I'm going to fix the stupid "fsck ate my active file system" bug and see if I can learn enough about the fs structure to just patch the superblock direcrly instead of resetting the file system...
A few other things i want to do in there too once i know what I'm doing.
Then to see if i can get usb tethered so i can grab neoventi to finsih finally...
#plan9 #reform #mntreform
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2026-02-10 08:51:52 GMT

Wait, monophasic sleep isn't normal???
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep
I want to dive deeper into this at some point but this seems to at least pass a basic self-consistency test

2026-02-04 04:20:59 GMT

...i think i just figured out what happened
Cc @npub19av…rp6r, i think you can give useful feedback here
I'd noticed a breeze coming from the circuit breaker panel due to shitty insulation for ages, way before the fire
I think the high winds of the storm, at like 5F temperatures, was providing inadvertent _active cooling_ to the circuit breaker
So as the wires and breaker were heating up due to overload, the breakwr was cooled down
But the circuit ran through a better insulated part of the house
So eventually, the breaker trips - but the circuit was already far, far hotter than the breaker
Still not certain how the heat translated into fire several hours after the breaker tripped, but - that might explain why the breaker failed?
Does this make sense?

2026-02-02 23:41:49 GMT

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I... wait you can do that
That makes sense
But also jfc why
@npub1e8t…n3ds

2026-02-02 23:34:12 GMT

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Just make an led that flickers the light in time with the mains frequency on purpose 🤪
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2026-01-31 06:49:00 GMT

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I'll make her survive 😭
The case needs unburied, disassembled, dunked in isopropyl, and reassembled.
Then maybe i give in and buy mobo 3.0.
.. but no, I'm buying the parts yo fix the mobo as soon as i get the computer working
@npub1tyf…83t2

2026-01-30 21:26:17 GMT

"Why are you cancelling your internet?"
"You got bought by Verizon."
"...oh?"
"Also my house caught fire."

2026-01-27 04:34:59 GMT

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We've been incredibly fortunate. Given that the house was on fire two days ago, i cannot imagine being in a better situation right now. This was an absolute tragedy, and some amazing people have responded with miracles.
Shelter, at least for the short term, has been sorted out thanks to a friend's casual acquaintance being an absolute angel.
The Red Cross, bless em, reached out to us and helped us with temporary lodging while we figured out something a little more stable and, unprompted, offered more assistance due to the ongoing storms.
Rabbi brought food through the storm, even though it took 10 to 15 minutes to get his truck turned back around.
There's so many people that stepped up to help that I'm struggling to even remember them all.
The fire and police departments responded very quickly even though we didn't actually know there was a fire until after they showed up, they got the information they needed and then got us out of the cold while they took care of it. We never even saw flames, and I'm grateful that they were able to keep the damage as minimal as it is, and that they got us in touch with the red cross even as they were fighting the fire.
We're okay, mostly. Horribly rattled, but okay. Looks like almost everything that matters survived too - e.g. important documents, sentimental objects. Some things are horribly damaged, our home is partly in ruins, but. Even Bubbles, the sourdough starter baby, frozen as it is with the heat gone, is alive.
Based on info from the fire inspector plus own observations, looks like a faulty circuit breaker that failed to trip while moderately to severely overloaded for 12+ hours. Uncertain how exactly the flames started, since the breaker did eventually trip 2+ hours before the fire. Seems likely that residual extreme heat plus weather conditions and lack of windproofing on parts of the structure did Something. There was likely a *lot* of heat built up, there was definitely some fuel - e.g. some spiderwebs - near the breaker panel. Arc of it tripping may have ignited something slow burning which eventually hit structure. Don't know exactly, though the root cause seems certain.

2026-01-25 14:28:18 GMT

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"Lemme fix the foundation issues while living here with no prior experience" <- crazy but feasible with great care and patience
"Lemme rebuild the house and then still have to deal with thoae problems"... the city housing department suggested building a new house would be a better idea _even before_ this happened...

2026-01-25 14:26:57 GMT

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Unsure it's getting repaired. It needed work even before this. This on top of that is... i dunno.
Have to find someone to look after cats for a month or so. That buys time to figure it out
I'm lost

2026-01-25 04:31:39 GMT

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I don't know that I'll _ever< trust someone else's electrical work again

2026-01-25 04:21:10 GMT

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The problem now is figuring out "where live?"
Can't afford to keep cats in a hotel forever, most places won't take them, I've got like two days to figure out where I'm staying for i don't even know how long

2026-01-25 02:48:38 GMT

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Most of the physical objects are totally fine apparently
Possibly not some sentimental stuff, not sure yet. aitinh in truck still.

2026-01-25 02:21:38 GMT

House attic caught fire. Smelled gas, there's no gas supply, called 911 immediately.
I'm fine, cats are fine, house is mostly fine but damaged. They had to tear the ceiling to get at it because the attic was inaccessible. It was an electrical fire.
Something that was done either before i moved in, or by the contractor who bailed on me, was done very very wrong.
House is damaged. Most stuff should be fine, or is water damaged. Frankly i don't care much about any of it right now.
Figuring out next few days. Very, very hectic. Will not respond. Just making sure people know.

2026-01-24 02:27:49 GMT

I really wish someone who broke into the e.g. AMD PSP would explain how they did it
not because I wanna write malware, but because there's an ARM CPU in my PC that I paid for then dammit that thing is mine and I'mma program for it 😡

2026-01-23 00:10:38 GMT

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...hey wait a minute
there's also a security camera feed _on the screen in that image_
which doesn't show the person taking the picture
The _real_ secret is that the reporter was a _vampire_!

2026-01-22 21:46:09 GMT

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If I get some wood, and the supplier tells me what's in it, and I make a bookshelf out of it and sell it, and _I don't add anything harmful_
but it turns out that the supplier lied and my "totally normal untreated wood" was actually chemically treated
Why should _I_ be liable for that, and not the supplier?

2026-01-22 21:43:58 GMT

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Heck, actually, really small rules change that I think keeps the wins and removes the problems:
You should be allowed to just say "We don't _think_ there is but we haven't tested," i think?
If you can sell it anyways, better to draw a distinction between "definitely bad", "nobody checked", and "definitely good."

2026-01-22 21:42:03 GMT

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Oh sure, I agree with that completely
My issue is just that I think a combination of factors ends up with some worse results:
- You're required to disclose if there's any
- You're not prohibited from saying that there is if there isn't
- Anyone can sue you if they claim there is and you didn't disclose it
- It's cheaper to just assume everything's dangerous than to actually measure
I think that some of the labels are so clearly ridiculous that nobody takes them seriously, and that results in people not taking the _actual disclosures seriously_
The warning that "this bookshelf contains formaldehyde" - useful. "and it will off-gas for a few weeks, make sure there's good ventilation, keep it somewhere where there's good ventilation for a month before moving it anywhere where there isn't" would be even more so. It tells you what you have to do to use it safely.
"This may contain _something_ bad but we don't know what, we just don't want to be sued if we missed something" <- detracts from the first one. It just makes people see "califronia says..." and zone out. There's no actual information in it, there's no instructions on how to make sure it's safe, so if you're already going to get it anyways, it doesn't change what you're going to do anyways...

2026-01-22 21:36:52 GMT

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Yeah but the problem with leaded gasoline was, I thought, in large part just _how much of the stuff_ we used?
Whereas leaded solder will, _with good ventilation_, disperse very quickly?

2026-01-22 21:28:47 GMT

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(i.e. AFAIK lead creates danger for _ingesting_ not _respirating_, whereas flux provides a _respiratory_ danger)

2026-01-22 21:27:01 GMT

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AFAIK, lead in leaded solder is dangerous not for the fumes it provides but because it leaves contaminants in the environment. As long as you keep leaded solder in a dedicated work environment, always wash your hands before leaving it, and don't ever bring food in, AFAIK it's genuinely safer than the flux.
whereas the flux is dangerous _fumes_, AFAIK air pressure is enough to prevent leaded fumes from being super dangerous [in amounts used by normal people, at least.]

2026-01-22 21:20:30 GMT

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Yeah but - there's an obvious difference between a drink and, say, a trace contaminant in an internal component.
I don't _care_ if there's a bit of copper inside of my _furniture_ because I'm not _going to eat it_

2026-01-22 21:12:49 GMT

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To emphasize: there's a difference between "If you add lead in this, you have to tell us how much you added" vs "if there _is_ lead in this, you have to tell us _how much is in it_."
There's ad ifference between an ingredient, and unknown contaminants of tiny amounts, in the supply chain

2026-01-22 21:10:54 GMT

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> requiring to test and document
is incredibly expensive for items that you have _no reason to think might contain anything_.
Most people, if you ask them if they want an exact chemical breakdown of what's in everything they buy in exchange for, say, 10% higher prices, will not want it.

2026-01-22 21:08:45 GMT

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Prop 65 is based off of good ideas, but tbh it convinces me that they're _right_ not to let the States set these rules.
Prop 65 sets up horrible incentives for lawyers, companies, and the government alike. Everything has a label now even when it shouldn't, so nobody takes them seriously; meanwhile people get sued over stupid bullshit while actual violations get overlooked.

2026-01-22 21:01:33 GMT

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tbh
"You can't pass laws requiring people to treat safe levels as unsafe" isn't that crazy to me

2026-01-22 20:09:51 GMT

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cuz Congress, IIRC.
I vaguely recall something about the Clean Air Act or some such saying something like "no state [except california] can set their own limits above the ones in this statute"

2026-01-22 20:02:30 GMT

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oh, that's easy
they're the only state legally allowed to

2026-01-22 19:54:54 GMT

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a mockery of california :P
but no, I"ve seen messages like this on basically everything
which is kinda their point

2026-01-22 19:41:55 GMT

HAHAHAHAH
> Warning. Everything sold into the state of California contains agents known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects, reproductive harm, or other, as yet unnamed, harm to its citizenry.
That's... I'm guessing, technically compliant? xD
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2026-01-19 06:26:40 GMT

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on clearance
for $800
mhm, definitely no scam here :eyeroll:

2026-01-19 05:57:07 GMT

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> $4,346
exclamation, THE FUCK

2026-01-17 08:18:41 GMT

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Also, system doesn't *post* with it in. Kernel isn't relevant?

2026-01-17 08:16:34 GMT

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..wait, you're saying that it might work better hot plugged?? 🤔

2026-01-17 06:07:30 GMT

@npub19av…rp6r good news: the xeon phi is dead anyways
Bad news for me, but
Your trauma can rest :p
(Overheats fast and system doesn't boot with it in :/)
(But, 9threadripper / notyetpublic9machine / unnamed overkill machine has taken her first breath :)

2026-01-17 00:47:38 GMT

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ay-yi-yi
Now I'm contemplating how you could actually do this and it probably wouldn't even be that hard
just have a defined API for saying "gimme a snapshot of your state that I can give a fresh copy of you later to resume", have all programs implement it, and then your "swap" is a set of the important state, not the actual RAM contents
...fuck I could totally try implementing this 🤔

2026-01-14 21:28:37 GMT

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haha, back into OSRS? :)

2026-01-11 05:22:22 GMT

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Where does 9front fall on this? 🤔

2026-01-09 19:24:43 GMT

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...I just quit 🙃
And I've gotten more personal software stuff done in the few days since than in the few weeks prior, _and_ been a bit more on top of everything else, soooo

2026-01-09 04:28:30 GMT

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😂
I'll note when I said everyone else, I meant "who purveys closed-source internet-connected trash masquerading as useful technology", not "who purveys speakers", but - fair enough, wasn't aware any of the others didn't do this

2026-01-09 01:56:30 GMT

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Sure, but - compared to what everyone else is doing, this is much much better
so the point about "stop yelling at them for doing what you wanted" remains imo

2026-01-08 06:26:00 GMT

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Mouser:
> EOL
>$1600

2026-01-08 05:36:03 GMT

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Basically: buggy product needs debugged, not abandoned. The concept is really cool

2026-01-08 05:35:50 GMT

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TBQH, I'm mad that the project ended up the way it did. IMO it _could_ have been good, _if_ the bugs had been worked out, and it had kept the display output.

2026-01-08 05:21:32 GMT

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Okay, but... I agree. That's why I said it's a _toy_.
There's a nonzero chance IMO that the problem was software. If I'm wrong, _it was $30_.
If I didn't get it, it was already eWaste. At least I can play with it before that happens.

2026-01-08 04:50:03 GMT

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Look I'm not saying the thing is _amazing_ but
It's literally $30 and it's an x86 chip _on a PCI card_ that can, theoretically, be made to _speak 9p over it_.
It's a toy. I'm not intending to actually try and do anything serious with it :P
...would be funny to get it running plan9 and compiling Go though 😂

2026-01-08 04:49:06 GMT

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no, that's what I'm drinking

2026-01-08 02:59:51 GMT

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...it's a Xeon Phi. I'm sorry.

2026-01-07 22:17:55 GMT

I don't know how I talked myself into thinking this was a good idea 😂
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2026-01-04 01:01:26 GMT

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...huh, you totally could use this to define makefile rules couldn't you?
'All' it needs is a way to actually do something when a neuron fires...

2026-01-04 00:53:45 GMT

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... have an adventure file, and an input file? Conditional rendering based on which neurons are activated? Or am I overthinking this...

2025-12-17 20:54:06 GMT

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.... 🤔
I'm sure there's some key I'm not using for acme that I could use for this...

2025-12-15 01:40:03 GMT

...snrk.
Microsoft Word 1.0 in System 7 inside of an emulator in a web browser on linux has lower latency than most modern editors I've used, including the Linux ones. For _shame_.
...let alone modern office software 😂

2025-12-14 21:42:39 GMT

Are there any Linux desktops similar to Win3.1? Tried that for the first time today and am pleasantly shocked by how much I like it, would unironically love a desktop that functions similarly.
edit: just to preempt the 'old-timer' comments, I'm not even 25, so get _on_ my lawn 😂

2025-12-13 22:21:13 GMT

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Huh, why's that?

2025-12-11 07:38:56 GMT

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The thing about 100-year events is that centuries happen every century 😅

2025-12-09 22:58:56 GMT

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I'm not sure of the contrext, but I was looking at insulation options recently, and found some studies claiming that fiberglass, which is the usual replacement these days, actually causes the exact same problems as asbestos which, given that their chemical structure is extremely similar, I find more plausible than not 🙃

2025-12-05 20:08:25 GMT

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and an interesting test for new browsers 😂

2025-11-27 01:28:27 GMT

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also tbqh I don't enable timed locking on any of my computers, including laptops. IMO the time lost unlocking it [20-character RNGed password] is annoying enough, and the risk of someone actually doing something small enough, that I don't care.
If it's _on_, I'm nearby enough to not care. For my home PC, even more so: if someone steals it, have fun with that encrypted drive. If it's at home, and someone breaks in, my computert is _not_ my concern lmao
[the one exception is work laptop, because, well, _work laptop._]

2025-11-27 01:17:33 GMT

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So I'm just going to note, for Sway on Linux with logind support at least, from the swayidle man page:
swayidle -w \
timeout 300 ’swaylock -f -c 000000’ \
timeout 600 ’swaymsg "output * dpms off"’ \
resume ’swaymsg "output * dpms on"’ \
before-sleep ’swaylock -f -c 000000’
This will lock your screen after 300 seconds of inactivity, then turn off your displays after another 300 seconds, and turn your screens back on when resumed. It will also lock your screen before your
computer goes to sleep.
To make sure swayidle waits for swaylock to lock the screen before it releases the inhibition lock, the -w options is used in swayidle, and -f in swaylock.
In theory, any source of sleep will cause an event to logind and thus sway, and it will lock _before sleeping_ instead of after.
I'm unsure if this works with elogind, or if it only works with systemd though

2025-11-20 18:47:53 GMT

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I can't even begin to respond to that 😂

2025-11-18 02:47:35 GMT

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??
are you implying coke owns pepsi?

2025-11-18 02:43:54 GMT

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...eh, nah. Keeping in mind that the prices of some of the VPNs are comparable with streaming services anyways, shutting it down would quite... possibly... huh. Cost them money, in that case.
I'm not certain I totally buy the argument I outlined there, but _if true_ I think it's actually a really solid argument that the VPNs really are competing _with streaming services_, which...

2025-11-18 02:35:04 GMT

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Yeah but the point is that actually prosecuting it is _expensive_ and courts have previously refused to as a result.

2025-11-18 02:25:03 GMT

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I only disagree in that enforcement of piracy laws, en masse, has already been rejected by the US courts.
There was a case where one of the big media companies tried suing a _ton_ of people by IP and the judge basically said "no, we're _not_ wasting resources figuring out who each of the something hundred thousand IPs is, we're not going after them, this is a waste of the court's time"

2025-11-17 22:12:08 GMT

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The real reason is largely piracy.
It lets you e.g. bypass region restrictions on some streaming services, and shifts knowledge of illegal activity from your ISP to the VPN.
And generally, if a VPN in another country knows you're breaking your country's laws [and theirs], what are they going to do, report you? Then they lose a customer...
[Whereas e.g. torrenting, media companies will literally peer with you, grab your IP, and report you to your own ISP]
@npub1rw9…a6ek

2025-11-16 23:14:36 GMT

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s/don't really do much/tell the VPN provider _even more_/

2025-11-12 20:09:16 GMT

Hypothetically: if there was a service offering after-market open-hardware sodium-ion batteries for old laptops at a reasonable price, would you be interested in buying them and, if so, how many? I'm talking about old Thinkpads and such. Information about the specific devices would also be useful.
Edit to add: LiFePO4 would almost certainly also be available; there's negligible additional work to support both. Li-Ion is less likely but possible if there's demand.
Edit: I wouldn't normally ask, but since the entire point of this interest is to gauge interest, boosts are definitely welcomed and requested :)

2025-10-19 06:56:48 GMT

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The go compiler - and especially runtime - is actually really solidly put together, and not terribly hard to hack on.

2025-10-19 06:50:23 GMT

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Golang. For work shit 🙃
[more the runtime side than the compiler, but.]

2025-10-19 06:13:50 GMT

Days since improving performance required hacking on the compiler: zero 🙃

2025-10-09 19:54:02 GMT

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..what did they actually _do_? lmao

2025-10-04 21:58:01 GMT

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I genuinely don't even know what that's trying to say, at all. That's amazing.

2025-09-16 11:31:20 GMT

I would never want a brain implant, but
A bone conduction sound driver implant, that... that'd be hard to turn down.....

2025-09-11 18:07:26 GMT

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Well of cours with a narrow definition of violence, you'd classify all violence as the same type! ;)

2025-09-11 17:44:49 GMT

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..airsoft is political? 🤔
(missing the point, I know :)

2025-09-11 05:27:54 GMT

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Oh, i agree completely.
It's just the only computer I have with
- the ability to run Plan 9
- a working HDMI port
- working Ethernet for networked booting

2025-09-11 05:10:53 GMT

GAH why is the rpi such garbage
trying to push it past 1080p. I _know_ it can do 4k, people have _done it_, but having to reboot each try is a PITA..

2025-08-24 11:59:11 GMT

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The visible part of the article there seems to be arguing "they're a problem because they're treated badly and they make that a problem for other people"?

2025-08-07 19:09:15 GMT

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Sorry, but now that you've invited me to join, I've lost interest! 😁

2025-07-24 04:21:02 GMT

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(I don't disagree with your argument! I'm just not sure I interpret what they wrote the same way that you do , so I'm not certain whether I agree with one of your premises :)

2025-07-24 04:10:45 GMT

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Mm. Read a bit of it out of curiousity, and it was more nuanced than I expected. I have mixed thoughts here. I completely understand your frustation, but I also am not entirely convinced that their post would not exist without the OpenAI funding - that is, I think it's sincere. (only read about half of it, could have missed something.)
I've mixed thoughts. Need to think about it more before I can really comment...
(I despise LLMs for their environmental, societal, and political impacts, but some of the _technical_ discussion they make there is...
Some of the technical discussion is interesting, but it comes after "if we put aside all the problems, does it have problems?", sorta.
hm.)

2025-06-04 23:05:25 GMT

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I like high-dpi, it makes text pretty :(