2026-09-02T07:54:31Z https://njump.me leah's tiny pc retirement home https://njump.me/npub14fhm8fq6muz9cytfxkd8w3wl5p2m3hk8lx7hkmw9zc88acm3546sc0kjcu https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/accounts/avatars/000/137/950/original/d3929e8c5aa1f765.jpg https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/accounts/avatars/000/137/950/original/d3929e8c5aa1f765.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrkh6af94uujtn9xut6u2en7zwl9ckhapag0f7mp847mgt2x6kxrgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2w9vsnh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfpx7hvxtahm246emn7u62phvx8lyaw2a2csxdfmwn4ayvhxy6zdqjysugp'>nevent1q…sugp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i watched Millennium before i watched Soylent Green, and now i likely never will because of the spoiler :-(<br/><br/>at least i found out about To Serve Man before the last eason of Buffy 2026-08-09T21:22:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqesreal400e2cr68zsry7lxz97ulxqulygmlr9cha6p8hd9x5ryszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2zncv27 i wonder how much modern software ultimately relies on the fact that modern operating systems will reclaim all their resources?<br/><br/>because i read recently about a comparatively widely used system (was is Tripos?) where that wasn&#39;t true - programs were expected to return all their resources to the OS before quitting, because the OS wouldn&#39;t do it for them 2026-05-02T00:30:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszvlzkek5cgm7g5e5p5e6tst0mayw3xkekktg8sjfhymzzfgeq0vqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh296dcmy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz3wctaua4yhgrdn7mf7eq58w5ezlfs2yzenxem8hj47ftuze2wacdq2r43'>nevent1q…2r43</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_POSIX_commands">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_POSIX_commands</a> they all originate with AT&amp;T - sort from v1, join from v7, paste from 32V and cut from System III<br/><br/>(but if you go to the cut and paste WP entries, it turns out they were originally BSD additions) 2026-04-01T03:15:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrzvkw9ytzrsztpllsxzgs7kcjwfc404h7gqavcu2zwfh6cv6387czyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2k5wwjr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp89v7tvtpswwlt4lzlvqwdq2u78ka7hnrrc6p4wuy2femk80e2lcw87tpd'>nevent1q…7tpd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>how bad do you have to be at business to fail to make money selling porn?! 2026-03-27T07:28:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz0fjzr3xg2yl3s2pclv9xrtgk9kh8f98ej74r5mnzkjweyqtvfjgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2neu7ez &#34;this meeting could have been an IRC session&#34; 2026-03-10T22:49:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqdvfypa5r5f3jny2y05kzgkq7hdwqfecfj9y2zyj49wuwsccv7qczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh24fjrlx i&#39;m just going to say this: i remember when Linux could cheerfully run a GUI and a web browser in 64MB RAM. for all people like to say &#34;oh, but web browsers did less then&#34;, they had CSS, JavaScript and multimedia capabilities by the turn of the century (the timescale i&#39;m talking about). they also had XSLT, Flash and Java, and they could read email and news, and connect to FTP servers (and i think gopher servers too). so much for &#34;they do so much more now&#34;. no, they really don&#39;t - they just make a hell of a mountain out of a rather smaller molehill. 2026-03-03T23:56:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsylyh54fhz3zr4kyq35ays4jrpkz83d39t0dfz4ecftpv7u3g076qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2vhrr8r what has really gone wrong with softwre, why bloat is running away with itself?<br/><br/>*nobody programs real hardware any more*. 2026-02-11T05:33:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2ds7xqxjsyjn2ju7sae0gvk7w685h55hp9r42xf3fqdtqs0rsl6szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2psdae2 what if... home computers had come with something like the Canon Cat OS installed? where basically the interface to the machine is a text editor, but if you select a chunk of text and press the RUN key, it drops into its implementation language (probably Forth, maybe BASIC) and runs it? and games can be loaded by compiling source code into memory on the fly, or by loading the text file, compiling the source code and then immediately overwriting it with object code and game data?<br/><br/>the SwyftCard was this, and was apparently written in Forth, although the language it exposed was Applesoft BASIC (presumably because that meant it didn&#39;t need Forth headers). hmm... 2026-01-24T21:12:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqnk5pk9uunlxzhctdf8gkfcjz9jkwq6kthrq5f49hlwn0c3eq6rszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh242p97t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg9fhmxfjrwfcarr076077p9k094snadh8kd5m5ryeetg9vvn25ug6kascl'>nevent1q…ascl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>domestic electricity costs about 3 times as much as that in the UK 2025-12-27T01:05:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszghql6dxl4z7g9jqpz09fcj6hjcyqkc95z2y7xm90pdner4xmq9szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2rrttk3 i must confess, i find the stance that the Linux kernel is all about sharing the code back to upstream, and not remotely about ensuring that people can hack on the devices that they *own, having paid good money for*, somewhere between self-absorbed (it helps the Linux kernel to be adopted more widely, but does nothing at all to help people take meaningful ownership of their devices) and just plain pointless (the only thing you can actually *do* with the source code as supplied by a company that locks down its device&#39;s kernel is look for backdoors - you can&#39;t fix anything, which was the whole reason the GPL was created in the first place) 2025-12-25T03:13:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvwtmktnmvzcr46wpsfp99amjvhvjhgwcuht9easqpzf5cqydutjszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2fa9uk0 what if we started with the premise that sharing memory between cores was the root of all of our security issues, and simply... stopped doing that? 2025-12-22T23:35:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdjpd6warx9xltduafltjt0kgkad0n23gvqa8p38zv8326dyjt0xgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2f38fk7 one thing i really miss: the days when someone said &#34;oh, i&#39;ve got a $TYPE_OF_COMPUTER&#34; and everyone knew exactly what the specification of that machine was and exactly what software it could or couldn&#39;t run<br/><br/>now? we&#39;re not *quite* in the realm of &#34;no two computers have exactly the same specification&#34;, but we&#39;re a hell of a lot closer than we were. and yet every computer, no matter how dissimilar to anything else, is expected to run all the [same] software. 2025-12-22T22:02:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs82g9zq5fzs4d5qsgq8n8ajrcmmyrmte3qs9gq8sxs54vmaq3ppxczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2099j5s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdf7ttmvnj25kqeu44q52rrzqez7wj96pj4ma8aw0g47lw72vzqjq669ga3'>nevent1q…9ga3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>exactly. tbh i mind emulators that run on microcontrollers - even ones as powerful as the RP2350 or ESP32 - a whole lot less than i object to someone who just chucked a Cortex A series SoC running VICE on Ubuntu into a funky box and went &#34;eh, job done&#34; 2025-12-20T16:27:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsylz84qns5yqzjdwpxnrken686jhks870csaxy0q3upgyp9xrjguczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2h8x8qc programming a PIC24 is enough like retrocomputing anyway that anyone using one for anything interesting automatically gets a free pass 2025-12-20T16:24:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf5ku9yfqfpexead69t7k0cj4ayuuugr6vsrsklnk08wh5ychqljszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh25mdcuf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz0vpgs0jwtse0yy5t65j6qalmwseq0zxdpgzys5a3mzmlq8kcm6gmzt4ac'>nevent1q…t4ac</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you&#39;ve conflated &#34;genuinely useful&#34; and &#34;useful to people other than the creator&#34; 2025-12-18T01:49:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsta29cwh0sg2l85egdk9q6yd88nndalg8khz8x5367zz0nzz82kzszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh29lhpdz <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/uefi-on-arm-more-likely-than-you-think/">https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/uefi-on-arm-more-likely-than-you-think/</a><br/><br/>oh dear gods no 2025-12-04T18:51:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdwcaetckq6djl0ukqrmcrrx3k6nfqngg2nsjgzmgn462g4wgqe4gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh240dqq2 the thought of going all the way back to DOS is alarmingly attractive right now tbh 2025-12-03T21:24:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrht74zgfmr4536dkwvzdj6xdxk3smf4c4jx2asr6ywh4pt0rrvuqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh27s9fpx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs02htmghplc0dk32aa4ph8maqj75wnnfwll7cpz0s597jf65wpphq3gn3h6'>nevent1q…n3h6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the TMS9900 also used a 4-non-overlapping-phase clock, so you&#39;re in decent company 2025-12-03T21:03:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrxu704nvcxgxmgn2zn820jvpvne3a2cpv230cxfzwn4tqfcnl9hszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2djj8f2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszx7qj4jsdku4e3543l6tlseje0gzccmxury6d0evkrrcq4ss2pnqn6g8st'>nevent1q…g8st</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>re LB: <br/><br/>Plan 9: no, really, *everything* is a file<br/>Oberon System: everything is an object<br/>Bare-metal Smalltalk: no, really, *everything* is an object<br/>polyForth: everything is a disk. &#34;file&#34;?<br/>colorForth: everything is a memory location. &#34;disk&#34;? 2025-11-24T07:25:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq8jhzy5fsyfyr24f4a0pzc6n2m4x9my24y0hghslx4a43fvd07tqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2fmhwp0 pro tip: do not put your multimeter back on the shelf without turning it off - unless you have plenty of spare PP3 batteries 2025-11-13T16:51:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszurzjk3d7rck3eg7ytz8v5e65mkqwlelep5uq7y0dlwalvd56w9szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2qaqdax i confess, i still think that in terms of form factor, computers peaked with the TRS-80 model 4<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_4">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_4</a> 2025-11-04T18:17:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfgmjvq9fsgdlv7yvfgwqcsrgtk8yvvud5z2sllqdtz0wpqv6jdxgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2lfjmrc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfy5dedqptf6q8ruf69qsmhls9ekg39axfnrlwtqptvy6fleaxv6q6dzt54'>nevent1q…zt54</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the worst bit of this? if you&#39;re coding for an 8086, you will already be aware of the bug that means that if a es: rep movsb is interrupted, the 8086 forgets about the es: override because it can only remember one prefix at a time across an interrupt. so you carefully code this:&lt;code&gt; push ds&lt;br&gt; push es&lt;br&gt; pop ds&lt;br&gt; rep movsb&lt;br&gt; pop ds&lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>and then wonder why you&#39;re now copying from ds *unless* the rep movsb gets interrupted, at which point it starts from es again<br/><br/>i think it&#39;s at this point that the enlightened IBM PC coder would have gone &#34;fuck this, i&#39;m going back to CP/M&#34; 2025-11-01T01:15:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8377rwcd8lsx6y35mz3p8l0z0ckg5svgtd2yrj9r4mz42f4ca7aszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh26xzgh0 i just switched back from my red-switch mechanical keyboard to a membrane keyboard with round keycaps. and my gods, it&#39;s like typing into blancmange! how did i ever manage with this before?! 2025-10-31T16:42:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfy5dedqptf6q8ruf69qsmhls9ekg39axfnrlwtqptvy6fleaxv6qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh297xaf4 oh cool, in all the stuff the ACM have made free to download are all the SIGFORTH articles.<br/><br/>including one from Charles Curley which details a nasty little bug in the x86. say you need to copy something that&#39;s currently sitting in the ES segment into a segment inside a variable pointer. mindful of the fact that all your registers are in use, you write&lt;code&gt; push es&lt;br&gt; mov es, [segment]&lt;br&gt; pop ds&lt;br&gt; rep movsb &lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>(assuming CX, SI and DI are already populated). <br/><br/>and... then you notice that instead of the data you expect, a random chunk of data has been copied from DS:SI to ES:DI, rather from ES:SI to userseg:DI<br/><br/>this is because (a) every segment register update inhibits interrupts until after the following instruction; and (b) the segment registers, at least on the 80186 on which Curley tried it, are not reloaded until interrupts are re-enabled. thus, when the REP is executed (which also inhibits interrupts) and applied to the following MOVSB, ES and DS still have their original values... disastrously!<br/><br/>(even more fun, of course, is the fact that REP MOVSB can be interrupted... but ES and DS are not updated until either an interrupt or the end of MOVSB, which suggests they&#39;re copied into buffers - which means that on return from any interrupt, REP MOVSB will recommence *with the correct ES and DS values*. just to *really* fuck everything up)<br/><br/>a single NOP, after the DS, fixes it; or if any useful instruction can be found to fill the gap, that also works. but... yeah. that must have been not very much fun to debug! 2025-10-31T15:00:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2q9au4j6h9jzcmjdjh64ekmft2nuzstg4hnwtcnqrgzhm4zjkamqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2sxd2zf definitely onboard with a middle ground between Linus Akesson&#39;s &#34;don&#39;t use syntax highlighting at all&#34; and the prevailing &#34;a kitten puked into your text editor&#34; approach 2025-10-26T23:32:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0nz3d2y467wey5ap8cepsyctwkphqg04qmzvevvu7ls0pjwtcu2qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2fyyus3 the eZ80&#39;s decision to make the upper byte of its address registers inaccessible except by saving them to a temporary and reloading them from there is just incomprehensible<br/><br/>at the very least, LD A,xxU and LD xxU,A could have been provided. they only needed 10 opcodes for that, and there&#39;s more than enough space left on the ED page. if they were feeling really generous, they could have provided xxU as well - that&#39;s only another 11 (including TST xxU). then at least it would actually look like someone gave enough of a shit about the design to do it properly... 2025-10-26T20:54:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs27c7e7m30as0n7h5ut39xrh6lj49w85nn7anmeek7rvfkdkuytsqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2m0rqpd when you actually look into the Atom core (thanks to Agner Fog for doing that and providing excellent write-ups), it has some really nifty features, and if you were to write code targeted specifically for it, there&#39;s good reason to think it&#39;d be surprisingly fast<br/><br/>there are some problematic aspects - only 8 bytes of instruction decoded per clock cycle, in-order execution so you have to watch pairing (but at the same time, it&#39;s also deterministic), x87 instructions *have* to be interleaved with non-x87 instructions to run at full speed, 64-bit SSE instructions using the high registers end up copping a 4-cycle penalty for using more than 3 prefixes because it counts escape bytes as prefixes(!) - but if you&#39;re writing assembly code specifically targeted at the Atom, which you might as well because it&#39;s an in-order processor and that makes *everything* simpler, you can work around that 2025-10-19T02:38:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvw9nagf5lvmtmjwxzrhk6zs9pzwdgyd7t0dlulwa4lk2wcxffqxqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2ndk4g4 for normal code, is there any good reason to not run an FPU with flush-to-zero and denormals-are-zero set by default? if so, what are the exceptions? 2025-10-19T02:16:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrx7j4ltpe7l7prhv8tm4p68eslw4lm4z2z0p7z024twazln6858szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh29w3qt0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0telcdlvcxj0ucw09lnhru9hzxzx58tyhwpnslvqcha7ttzvv0pg994xtd'>nevent1q…4xtd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>how is that not just preying on people&#39;s ignorance, though? if you&#39;re in a preferential voting system, &#34;X can&#39;t win here&#34; is ALL THE MORE reason to cast a first-preference vote for X... 2025-10-17T17:37:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxa48d30yfy0wu9wmcdls9enmjuu75eq66vuvns4a3hy9hqyrf2fqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2cgrc2t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy4a5x4wvaue86y7part07nc8md3t8hn8w25qdppxhjh2jvh644rqew45r3'>nevent1q…45r3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i&#39;d argue that first past the post voting systems are a much bigger blight on democracy than tactical voting. if i could specify a list of preferences, i wouldn&#39;t need to care about tacitcal voting at all. 2025-10-17T17:22:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrk02rwdg0g8wf5a9c7usc807nqhlj7fdcxjmtj53qa97jfunp77qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2e3hh8x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8p894ddntxugz3quz633stmteqyyw7k4j7nnhc0euyclqcpnnptggh6574'>nevent1q…6574</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>alternatively, and for quite a lot less money, you could just keep the Casio as is, buy a headphone splitter cable (3.5mm stereo to 2x6.3mm mono) and two multi-effects pedals, at least one of which has an aux input; connect the output from the keyboard to both pedals, the output from one to the aux input of the other, and ta-da!<br/><br/>little known fact: since the whole point of effects is to get a huge range of sounds out of an instrument that really only has a couple of them, using it on just about any home keyboard - even the most tablehooty¹ - works a kind of magic.<br/><br/>¹ <a href="http://www.weltenschule.de/TableHooters/instruments.html">http://www.weltenschule.de/TableHooters/instruments.html</a> 2025-10-12T01:44:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8p894ddntxugz3quz633stmteqyyw7k4j7nnhc0euyclqcpnnptgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2tz78e8 turn a $5 toy into a serious-looking instrument with integrated effects! all you need is a decent thrift store, $200 of guitar effects, and a garage-sized workshop kitted out with &gt;$13,000 worth of fab equipment...<br/><br/><a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/a-casio-toy-synth-is-ready-to-rock/">https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/a-casio-toy-synth-is-ready-to-rock/</a> 2025-10-12T01:37:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8ewdyqm4ceetcha0z2gtav776yurzvs634sd0lz2hum0ca0mzfnszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2qxrj2r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfe0wfc5tax9t73wnwvv7w8hvklq5eg8ua863w742tsct4afa6f4clvnncx'>nevent1q…nncx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the problem is all of those addressing modes. a pipeline would have to split up their calculation into separate stages, most of which would be unused for most instructions. these days there&#39;s no problem with wasting silicon like that, i guess, but back in the day every spe- uh, gate was sacred 2025-10-09T15:04:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstamfkz7jqtehdnj93s4qspul225eu5egqcfgl9trhkyu47wz3mngzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2kvpmth the era of single-cycle instruction sets has spoiled me; i can&#39;t help but view 8-bit and early 16-bit processors as *intolerably* slow 2025-10-09T14:59:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv6etyydllu77820hhhdg3a07dy3n3sum8h8ezecff6emu3wmfcgqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh26fclwu maybe we should just all agree that from now on ChatGPT&#39;s name should be Little Kitty Brainworm 2025-10-08T17:48:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8l3ny5m0upjxspesqnmh2j9xy8m8jmyxfypj9xurcvj38872mcvgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2skzw24 &gt; &gt; As a hobbyist, the five volt TTL standard always seemed a little capricious, but I strongly suspected there had to be a solid reason behind it. To get some insights into the engineering rationale, I did what anyone living in the future would do: I asked ChatGPT.<br/><br/>really? fucking ***really***?!<br/><br/>&gt; And while overall the answers were plausible, like every other time I use the chatbot, they left me wanting more.<br/><br/>weird. it&#39;s like some force in the universe is telling you to stop fucking doing that and go and learn how to actually use a search engine. one no-AI ducking got me closer to an answer than ChatGPT appears to have got Dan Maloney. 2025-10-08T17:48:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgpep5y5d76wdlqzs3xw535rvtyy57nk6ups6cnvth8mgs36gwp2szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2aqdz8h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp4z77ucwjjkuhq4mxkfykvf9l0nwccdg74pkv6zc934mw0czc3nqpar6vf'>nevent1q…r6vf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>² the modern Forth community seems to have a real problem with reinventing the wheel, rather than reusing perfectly good wheels. rather than generalise CREATE into a word which is given a string and creates a word with that name, or DOES&gt; into a word which takes two execution tokens and sets the runtime action of one to be the other, they went back to the drawing board and tried to work out how to impose closures on a language which doesn&#39;t traditionally even *have* local variables to close over!<br/><br/>my brethren in Chuck, i say this with love: if you want to write Lisp code, use Lisp. if you want to write Lisp code in Forth, use Factor - that&#39;s what it&#39;s there for. do not try to retrofit the entirety of Lisp into Forth - and *especially* don&#39;t try to do that with the bits of Lisp that rely inherently on garbage collection, lexical scope and spaghetti stacks... 2025-09-11T21:02:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp4z77ucwjjkuhq4mxkfykvf9l0nwccdg74pkv6zc934mw0czc3nqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh23vlzyq funny thing about Forth and namespaces. while the rest of the world seems to have either started without them and then rushed to incorporate them or recognised their importance from the start, Forth has managed to do both: Forth had vocabularies from the start, but because figForth and F83 had essentially mutually exclusive implementations, ANS Forth left them out of the standard, instead mandating only &#34;wordlists&#34; which could be built into either kind of vocabulary - but the effect of that was essentially to relegate namespaces out of standard Forth altogether. add to that a slew of implementations which ditched them, most (but not all) of them stemming from Chuck Moore&#39;s cmForth... and by the 2010s Forth namespacing was all but forgotten - until recognisers¹ reintroduced them as a byproduct, by allowing Forth words to be qualified with a namespace.<br/><br/>(this is not a post about DOES&amp;gt;, despite appearances to the contrary)² 2025-09-11T20:54:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv268x62sy5xpt5sza7gv24fteys5yuzznn5p9rcfwl3ldemqxzcqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh298cpae between that fridge, my phone&#39;s dead USB port, and the long long list of very expensive Samsung phones that turned out to have catastrophic design flaws, i&#39;m thinking &#34;don&#39;t buy Samsung&#34; is an entirely reasonable default positon 2025-09-10T23:31:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8fh3sehyhawpmajkal9u5dy97ptqumz3egdwvj5wuuz5r24dawngzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2dq38u9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswwgx7jkumvqrfvmjwqnxmptzs7qfxz2y2kyz5dyyg6q26g26kqag3l5evu'>nevent1q…5evu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>good to know, but specifying &#34;-variant mac&#34; on a UK keyboard destroys all the useful mappings to AltGr-* - many of which i rely on<br/><br/>i wish i knew how to get those mappings on a US keyboard layout, but i don&#39;t :-( 2025-08-07T23:53:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf0542ylyzn6p9e9q8hg297v4q0xdasez842nueuy9lmf8u9lv93gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2th4xjs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvu33dr8ppurv2w0vpdxd8q5ga7enzkklztf666nul90sp25yq0ss07wtr9'>nevent1q…wtr9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>dear future self: Compose L - 2025-08-07T23:44:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvu33dr8ppurv2w0vpdxd8q5ga7enzkklztf666nul90sp25yq0sszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2vkwz83 fun fact: my first PC compatible came with a US layout keyboard. it took me until my first PS/2 keyboard, iirc, before i could type a £ sign (without looking up which Alt-NNN¹ it was)<br/><br/>...and in sc, i still can&#39;t. which is unfortunate for a spreadsheet :-/<br/><br/>¹ dear past self: Alt-156 2025-08-07T23:02:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxsl0p4vhzhh67r966m5pygxzsjhe7thcgun7axhnqtz9tcyuqraqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh25y88fn why *did* Opera discontinue their own browser engine? and is there any good reason why it couldn&#39;t be released as open source? 2025-07-19T00:58:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswq5c8x62806pmnyqms7mu99lcr8r3jamgwl86a6rc9whdqgkj8jqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2ka7f2n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs823aulskaal8jwan55zdhwkm9fhqlpmmma0r6adp77uzvdrnq62g9xphr2'>nevent1q…phr2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the other language that left an indelible impression is Prolog. that impression being &#34;like the CP1600 and Motorola peripheral chips, Prolog and i are *singularly* incompatible&#34; 2025-07-17T19:02:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs823aulskaal8jwan55zdhwkm9fhqlpmmma0r6adp77uzvdrnq62gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh26kjm8n i&#39;d probably appreciate Ada a lot more than i do if i hadn&#39;t had to do all my undergrad coursework in it... which, in the first year, meant using the absolute *stinker* that was the Telesoft ADA compiler on the university&#39;s Sun cluster. i could&#39;ve done my coursework in Pascal, on my own computer, if i&#39;d been allowed...<br/><br/>except for the concurrency module, which involved compiled Ada, using its built-in concurrency support, on a little 68000-based demo board - taught by someone i ended up working alongside later! 2025-07-17T19:00:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp4y3vyfj4y8ucpfj2ylespp053hfuq8wmgq7q67xz6q4v0mk822gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2dhwxfa i do wish firefox had a way to reload userContent.css after you edit it! 2025-07-17T18:13:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxflp6h9u7azjs3kg39632u0q6yw3qpckhx7guyxxjsyp69zn7g6gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2nsz0vz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszmpzthks38r63yr57aj90uvh3wpxvsc0y3andzmgn9cjpwxsd5uqngftdu'>nevent1q…ftdu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it already appears to be doing better at that than any company that&#39;s owned the rights since, tbh... true, that&#39;s a low bar, but i don&#39;t think anyone can reasonably question that the people involved are dedicated to properly reviving Commodore, rather than buying the rights as an underpants-gnome profiteering scheme 2025-07-14T14:44:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspdnaxu0gha63y44rq6unp2mr0nl8wzs4nssfn3x4emvp4f2fd75czyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2d2phux In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqe2evw4ckxffa8ww8ghdyd6dupyvu3uhwv32u6q7h08tjyufz5qseqxqqc'>nevent1q…xqqc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>arguably the better managed the form, the less faithful to the original incarnation ;-) 2025-07-14T14:38:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq5dn05l02md48j7c7hgt90nzqtrqwy9sf0lcecrdh5yra0gy2zdszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh29cql4u just realised: yes, incremental GC would be absolutely fine for a home computer! yes, it would slow down overall computation, but responsiveness is *always* the primary issue with a home computer - taking twice as long overall to sort a list is allowable, but taking a second to respond to a keystroke is disastrous! 2025-07-12T22:35:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq4tqtwrmde6n4kkgsygsw6w3yumgjzfrtng5k7en2gyctfy5tv8gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2kd48qa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswp875aunphjqfxufvnemacc2c2ujpc80yg0juxx8dx6f243m2vas88dlax'>nevent1q…dlax</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>but have ESD, will, um, stop travelling... that might be why the 74s were more popular with hobbyists? 2025-06-25T18:02:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst7pmd6nef7sqq0lf0ulc4044qm8a67d5pxncrtzjgtwc6fp4hs6szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh24smaxs whoever needs to be told this: i beg you to understand that not everyone wants (or can stand) to use a tiling window manager! 2025-06-12T21:19:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw3r75plvlxjy053mgnsfpj59qd65eukcl74r4e6fx4pqjgmgq3fgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2xe530e the thing that trips me up every single time i try a Wayland compositor:XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set<br/><br/><br/><br/>what the hell happened to assuming a default and using that?! it is 2025 and you are failing because *an environment variable isn&#39;t set*?! 2025-06-10T21:41:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdzn9cdgw3sa96yqk4kzm4qlqzhu4hr46ere3j735f0kxm6c2rc4czyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2atlhx8 huh. something weird is going on... my Wyse 5020 just crashed. not the whole machine - just X... but *hard*; the mouse pointer moves, but the display is otherwise no longer playing<br/><br/>and yet i can log into the thing just fine - i simply have no idea how to unfuck X without rebooting the whole thing. (killing X didn&#39;t work; it&#39;s hanging on as a zombie process.) 2025-06-05T00:07:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvpvjg0d44c8djcu5ntrrtqmttejkptnudwj2rr65c5fstxazw9cszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2r0sf9a if we&#39;re going to be reviving vaguely Algol-related languages, can i get a CORAL-66? 2025-05-21T15:34:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszxqtp7m7n2wef96julqa5awc0l0szd5lvq7lymkklgy3frcayqfgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh28wl530 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ds0gn2q4tyaj50u0a2cx5a7y59qx3280tafd7w35l4dsv2vw4dqqp9av4'>nevent1q…9av4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i deliberately refrained from mentioning anything 65816-based because i don&#39;t consider its address space to be fully linear. (just as, say, the Z8001&#39;s isn&#39;t.)<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1jgwat9twcxe9lzgezmpecygcf4wlq7c6jawjsf0zx2jxzaqx2w0qmv3l5e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>F4GRX Sébastien</span> (<span class="italic">npub1jgw…3l5e</span>)</a></span> [@nina_kali_nina](<a href="https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina">https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina</a> ) 2025-05-19T17:48:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9tn0mcfevyshe8vghmkyzuel22v5lm6p72elrz5cx2qp79vd6mgczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2g93c7h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0x0lcg7f0zra3km5ad585jexm9ukgd9j2x5p295kkgn8946dscnqj7688g'>nevent1q…688g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so the Agon Light, then? ;-)<br/><br/>[@nina_kali_nina](<a href="https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina">https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina</a> ) 2025-05-19T17:38:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqka2hw8aw927m53ct0pdrw73hglh4qrkcazevm402tsq2y7k0kmgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2xc6h5m maybe i should go back to Windows 7? the best thing about obsolete operating systems is that they don&#39;t arbitrarily ditch support for the only configuration you find useful because someone in the development hierarchy has decided that &#34;no, nobody should be doing that any more&#34; with no regard to why someone might.<br/><br/>what pisses me off most of all is that i remember when doing this kind of thing was absolute anathema to the Linux development ethos, on the grounds that if one person is using it then it&#39;s userland, and we don&#39;t break userland. 2025-04-10T14:04:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvk9r9zhnq3nxrq2kha8aq8m9nue0xwsh0xgakvfqgygzn5xqztnszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2vpu209 wait... did Plex just move to exactly the same model that killed Napster?<br/><br/>&gt; &#34;Alternatively, you, as a non-server-running Plex viewer, can get a cheaper Remote Watch Pass for $2 per month or $20 a year. That doesn&#39;t include Plex Pass features[...] but it does keep you connected to your &#39;personal media&#39; vendors.&#34; 2025-03-19T21:00:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspyhvh9lfu5nux5z8x4rq6rzevsemmqf72s3acfaqx8fkmn90hfeczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2u2mx8p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs26arycgd2xxsyj8kcmurrh4e2g3965mkrrdp5e2xck2yl8pjvuvsq38y5v'>nevent1q…8y5v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ah! so it turned out one of my assumptions was wrong - the assumption that&lt;code&gt; defaults.pcm.card X&lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>and&lt;code&gt; pcm.!default&lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>are mutually exclusive. they aren&#39;t! so my new .asoundrc is simply&lt;code&gt;pcm.!default {&lt;br&gt; type plug&lt;br&gt; slave.pcm plugeql;&lt;br&gt;}&lt;br&gt;ctl.equal {&lt;br&gt; type equal;&lt;br&gt;}&lt;br&gt;pcm.plugeql {&lt;br&gt; type equal;&lt;br&gt; slave.pcm &#34;plug:dmix&#34;&lt;br&gt;}&lt;br&gt;defaults.pcm.card 1&lt;br&gt;defaults.ctl.card 1&lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>and it works just fine! 2025-03-17T18:46:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs26arycgd2xxsyj8kcmurrh4e2g3965mkrrdp5e2xck2yl8pjvuvszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2rsp7ht In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw3jj4wgmayulalvc4ak8ha3k87lxy3qq7g9lxdyw22ey0urehwlqn47ehr'>nevent1q…7ehr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>...ah. less weird. apparently, mpv will do sample rate correction itself - but ffplay won&#39;t... unless i tell it to with -ar 48000. then everything works<br/><br/>and it&#39;s not a matter of who opens the device first. for some reason, while the plugchain that alsa sets up for the default device you set with&lt;code&gt; defaults.ctl.card X&lt;br&gt; defaults.pcm.card X&lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>knows about the need to change sample rates and fills it in accordingly, if you want to go the&lt;code&gt; pcm.!default {&lt;br&gt; ...&lt;br&gt; }&lt;br&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br/><br/>route, you have to figure out *all* of that stuff on your own, from various fragments of stuff people have left on stackexchange etc. including some device types that nobody seems to know about, like iec958 and hooks and asym 2025-03-17T18:29:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw3jj4wgmayulalvc4ak8ha3k87lxy3qq7g9lxdyw22ey0urehwlqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2r55kr9 well, this is definitely weird.<br/><br/>using the default ALSA devices, i can stream youtube videos or audio from just about anywhere in firefox, and play videos with mpv or ffplay, or... anything, really<br/><br/>but using a custom ALSA setup, i can stream youtube videos in firefox, or play things using mpv, but i can&#39;t play any other audio or video files in firefox, and i can&#39;t play videos in ffplay 2025-03-17T18:02:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsts0y2qhyctdt56wu8j22wag3q5q0jq3p763um2q0kacj8ctdznfgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2l32rpe if only MicroZig was a version of Zig that runs on microcontrollers, in the same way as MicroPython 2025-03-09T03:26:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs20ztr79f44up34rtfaxpajggsjvst0hn9f5vvl7ex6k45k7u70rczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh20zs49v &gt; &#34;In total, they found 29 undocumented commands, collectively characterized as a &#34;backdoor,&#34; that could be used for memory manipulation (read/write RAM and Flash), MAC address spoofing (device impersonation), and LMP/LLCP packet injection.&#34;<br/><br/>i don&#39;t think i&#39;d just call that a &#34;backdoor&#34;. i think i&#39;d call that a full-on debugger interface. in Bluetooth. in the open.<br/><br/>whoops.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/">https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/</a> (**ed.** removed a level of indirection) 2025-03-08T21:25:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswlapjx8hf9ah7auzay535gguyuh58e0egpdpe0zlzkej6qyndgvgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2a4q55x wow, uxn11 is *dramatically* faster than uxnemu on bunmark 2025-03-02T14:45:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswvqm3ju2ynqfs7y7tagvlg9c7wjfgjugeyel3g954e4qltrv0eugzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2dqrldl seems to me that it&#39;s probably easier to add objects to Forth than it is to add explicit stacks to anything else. the beauty of Forth&#39;s syntax (or lack thereof) is that if you want to have everything on the stack be an object you can write that in low level Forth, put it all in an **objects** vocabulary, and switch to that vocabulary when you want to do those things - and when you switch back to the **forth** vocabulary you&#39;re back in untyped country<br/><br/>i never understood why people didn&#39;t do more with this - for example, if you&#39;d rather do maths on floats by default, but you want to keep the integer operations available (eg for calculating addresses), define a **floats** vocabulary which redefines the f* words without the prefix and renames the integer operations<br/><br/>especially after ONLY/ALSO made vocabularies actually rather useful (even if the tree-structured dictionary of figForth had some appeal too) 2025-03-01T19:40:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2l085vc9z490jhzdn6u4pkkwngyrps5pkmmr0lrpmczzazstp52qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh25mq3pr i wish i&#39;d had a V20 machine. but sadly, the weird little Trigem 88s (iirc?) that was the first PC i owned was a backplane design - the CPU and I/O was on one card, the memory and floppy controller on another - and i think the 8088 might have been soldered onto the CPU board<br/><br/>it was a rather nice machine all told - 640KB RAM, albeit with 2 wait states at 10MHz, a switchable Hercules/CGA card (the machine came with an MDA monitor), and a 40MB hard drive that i thought i would *never* fill! all for the bargain price of £400 2025-03-01T17:40:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp9yvk4zqggmgjas3wtz0a8xjwm9mh34zxhpcdz7wvyxvzyxttc2gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2u0z2t3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqve8vtyzyews6urhwdyxqn2awgntmfefxj75ew2v2m3ucauz66ps5kmtce'>nevent1q…mtce</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh, ok then! thanks! 2025-02-24T16:59:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2fmfj3n6kypt9ua59q9pcnqy26urzutfty2pt4ht779l3xdl8yzqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh26pnk24 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9rncm6sxhjeh5uay8ttsu95zy46yeeqzh6qatjpav4ju50n0pz2suu0u8y'>nevent1q…0u8y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>not at all familiar, but (a) this seems like a good way to get more familiar, and (b) i have nothing but time on my hands ;-) thanks for the offer though! 2025-02-24T16:57:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfm3qapa9hkv5mm0m73nymnczlk3u30clk2qfrypjx6v9rrtgxulszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2lyv24j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9pnlx86xjucwmp2f2wg7r3c9a3svlzh4saxpql6rcggeev6peyrg53yjma'>nevent1q…yjma</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>sorry to pounce, but: how do i persuade left back to using cream12 for a font? (or chicago, which would also work?)<br/><br/>i tried dropping it into the assets.tal, but compilation failed on the lack of an underline sublabel. where would i put one? 2025-02-24T16:52:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0759hfdgwv04cdgz2wj7v5r64dr8080ddluc7p7ce6gydz6php5qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh22630wd &gt; &#34;RP2040 has now been certified to run at a system clock of 200Mhz when using a regulator voltage of at least 1.15 volts.&#34;<br/><br/>not bad for a chip that was originally intended to hit 48MHz<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/releases/tag/2.1.1">https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/releases/tag/2.1.1</a> 2025-02-20T23:56:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw84ylrkdf5sd9zxgzqcym0yzeuwal6mk7ecxwugc0dddphscxxlqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh24pffvc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs20amcpajckenu9eppzk433vqc3626u42j7ku9jpadtt6z793qagqjtym73'>nevent1q…ym73</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i think that&#39;s the bit that pisses me off most. they could have just reimplemented Xorg to strip out the unused bits of the X11 protocol, streamline the bits people care about, and implement a single back-end protocol, Wayland. hell, Keith Packard already had done that, with his kdrive series of tiny X servers.<br/><br/>but no, they decided to tout Wayland as the Shiny New Way! and never mind that a decade later it *still* hasn&#39;t caught up with X for sheer usability. indeed, they ended up doing the above *anyway*, with XWayland. all they succeeded in doing is laying waste to the window manager market - and that&#39;s the single thing stopping me from bothering with Wayland; every Wayland compositor (granted, that&#39;s a small count) i&#39;ve tried is horrible... and supports a different set of features, depending on whether or not they&#39;re built on wlroots<br/><br/>not to mention the attempts to tie it all into systemd, between logind and seatd and all the other shite-ds. 2025-02-19T19:59:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg7yrvlceepsshxeh8as9hjsqslnxx3rl4daqpqdxggm6whxpuh5qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2090m09 i just freed up a whole CD&#39;s worth of space on my root partition by uninstalling the network firmware that, it turns out, was *completely* unused 2025-02-19T01:51:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqcfckmhhsz4e62xraa7sqzq53r9gfkkl4fzcfy6ckxfrk626pluqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2k7q0xs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxlnl82j2asakfc570ctptxuwnkukevpvlk04lxd9vpqwftc7yc6s5pvznj'>nevent1q…vznj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>GOD YES 2025-02-16T19:53:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw68am285dcznffs4dhlvcedtyvzpnju49nharhletqm4rl2e95egzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh28sczxd if someone really wants to make me happier than a happy thing on a very good day, they will make a Linux distribution that explicitly bans python and everything that depends on it 2025-02-16T16:48:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2smgqrx5e7ccw6jz2jawshtr2t67zkw4wcgwkc3f35332xj85cdszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2p9q3v8 well, that&#39;s weird. Voidlinux has a 32 bit version of calibre in the x86_64 multilib section, but not in the actual i686 repos (although the debug files for version 5.44 are still there) 2025-02-15T17:19:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyvpux8z99kcha37xa2srlxl5v54kk6knv7sqz3kumsdzph3xd23qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2hngsm2 i don&#39;t know how obvious it is from my posts here, but one of the problems i ran into during the 8 years or so i spent trying to make a living by touching computers is that *everything is just utterly horrible*.<br/><br/>that was two decades ago. things have not, as far as i can tell, improved. 2025-02-08T03:49:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz6k9p3s32ssvgjp5k77jtz2uy3fme4av6ssttsn78yxznwg5andszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh24299sx quick question: can C be parsed by recursive descent? or does it require an LALR(1) parser? 2025-02-08T03:04:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0kvsdeh0t4ufheg2759tepd5g4tyxtfg4pwf8j7rjvxtwm9uvjxqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh26zrlkk &gt; &#34;To build from source, clone the repo and run zig build&gt; . Ensure you&#39;re using the exact version of zig specified in zig_version.txt&gt; .&#34;<br/><br/>right, so zig is unusably immature right now. got it. 2025-02-08T02:55:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8t4e5sgp7zsk40n2uua6thn39hm6lk2lp0e784c54hrlw6uhknzgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2cc7d8k the fact that people are *still* wringing more - and discovering more! - from platforms that are over 40 years old, and were painfully inflexible even then, stands as a permanent reproach to the modern industry, which can&#39;t get a machine literally a million times faster to keep up with human typing<br/><br/>the thing is, it&#39;s not just the C64. even in the five years of its viable life, games for the original Playstation improved immeasurably as people happened upon tricks and techniques that made the previously impossible suddenly not just possible, but the only way to do things themceforth. that&#39;s just what happens when you let people explore a fixed, but fully documented, hardware configuration for long enough, it turns out... and it&#39;s what the mainstream computer world has lost completely.<br/><br/>i mean, i&#39;m typing this on an HP T630, which by all standards should be an absolute worldbeater. a 2GHz CPU that can perform 4 ALU ops per cycle; 8GB of RAM; a GPU that&#39;s basically a 384-core vector processor; half a terabyte of non-volatile storage...<br/><br/>yet it&#39;s regarded as slow. (granted, AMD&#39;s TDP-based throttling doesn&#39;t help... but still.) 2025-02-08T01:36:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszsaxuazl4me9j5dxwmlt49gsnv2jxw3v4885ak0gw4j3nesywp6qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2ds59eu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspte7hw4l7a7rmrdcc9p74s7uldnyy3cfcd08k2vd7d9mtyreuh4s22vz32'>nevent1q…vz32</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>which fedi client is that? 2025-02-04T07:11:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfuh45dl8ll5z882jxhnzggg37gyeqg920e5m4e5fxju40l0v7qwszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh27mawez In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfgufa62mcxk8r6qyvpu8e92rtw59jhdv9crve5zymwp47rzzddsnextrz'>nevent1q…xtrz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>except burn a chunk of the planet off in order get trained 2025-01-30T16:54:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfmdpf4taadnkre6wef0jdj5ear8yp7ph0ys3d4nex2qcg697gh9szyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2mxg5e7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqfq6pre8txua688v7e85dnku8s0cg8pf50jhedgqs89s4qevryrcp57fwa'>nevent1q…7fwa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>neither do i. hell, it&#39;s hard enough to make a dynamic one...<br/><br/>it&#39;d be interesting to see whether anyone has made a static chromium, though. especially if they degoogled it too<br/><br/>or really, anything WebKit based 2025-01-23T20:33:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswkyxjqmrp0z86h8gq0squz3ajwzr7p5wdf58026lsld5xxkgx07gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2a74g8y ooh, there are a couple of statically linked Linux distributions? how do they cope with, say, Firefox?<br/><br/>&gt; &#34;oasis uses smaller and simpler implementations of libraries and tools whenever possible:<br/>&gt; ...&lt;li&gt;netsurf instead of chromium or firefox...&lt;/li&gt;<br/><br/>ah. they don&#39;t. that&#39;s... pretty much as i expected, tbh 2025-01-23T20:31:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfy3xskvkd4ldpn8rgam6xjyjyur4f5re89vmw95yyjtwk7vw262gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2x7gt7m re LB: suddenly i understand some of what has bloated out software in the last couple of decades. not just the ridiculous inflation of APIs themselves, but the use of IDEs that do autocompletion. yes, it&#39;s a nice aide memoir - but it also means nobody is creating APIs that a human can learn and remember... which isn&#39;t good. and all in the name of what, type safety? for the one in a million case of being able to intercept one of those variable accesses and turn it into something else? 2025-01-21T20:07:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsze9al4lwarv4gghj2ldk09sxdr9nzq34pn42d6kzadq23aufnysszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2dveh7p &#34;two threads, one core&#34; is an allusion *nobody* wanted :blobscream: 2025-01-19T13:19:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszwf60aj4new676e3tzwtl4u5j27vzpx4nnef2yehkze9wuftkxuqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh25aeg9f unfortunately, none of the BSDs that support i386 will boot under 32-bit EFI; they appear to all assume legacy support.<br/><br/>oh well let&#39;s hope NetBSD has fixed firefox so it works properly without relying on overcommit... 2025-01-17T21:31:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyn38304c96yhpjwt3uzp44zzlct4tmdhvsyvjsms3t9s7qws4yqqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh25wzkzs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xdqe2jxltf75pql5nzw794xerylc9kfcfptxs9rjjyyhzynfv3cmkdt6c'>nevent1q…dt6c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>not quite the same, but i think bitlbee has an ActivityPub module?<br/><br/>it&#39;s an appealing idea; my favourite twitter client (waaaay back when) was ttytter, which made it look like IRC. but then the switch to a new auth API killed it, and having to use the web interface again was a big chunk of why i gave up on twitter 2025-01-16T17:24:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9udvr6emr850ewl4t4n3cjjmanrmczmw0p6f592qy8hlmc63jddczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2kmaxd5 Logo has *the* best named function defining word of any language, and i can&#39;t think why other languages haven&#39;t nicked it. it just has that feeling of Rightness 2025-01-07T02:53:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxa8dwclpd0aan2k39kagj2jkzcnqkdsjc0syjchrl5v40t4qd42czyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2zyg4em 10 PRINT &#34;WELL, LAST YEAR SUCKED&#34;<br/>20 PRINT &#34;LETS HOPE THIS YEAR IS BETTER&#34;<br/>30 PAUSE 50*60*60*24*365<br/>40 GOTO 10 2025-01-01T18:25:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswaycqzvarw2wktv7cd0aesrc24vt8dnt6mp4rdvp8ex8lqfdh9yczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2ueaxva of course, part of the complexity of the modern world, which Windows seeks to paper over (and by and large succeeds), is that we now expect the same binaries to run seamlessly on systems that are far more different than the Spectrum, BBC Micro and Dragon 32 *ever* were. that takes a *lot* of sub-surface paddling 2025-01-01T09:40:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8elkuj9talyhqvu8304lg7rcq5f9r0j4m8ul0nns3m85330rxflqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2z6svzy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswkd98vhld9fwjafu975fu5kl9tla86fwll7yk3cec45pxgnu5k0qj4mk8q'>nevent1q…mk8q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Scheme does have more syntax than Forth, though - s-expressions need parsing! - and unlike Forth, you also need to plan ahead if you want to make the reader extensible without totally rewriting it. you also need to think about garbage collection and data typing from day one, whereas again, you can retrofit that stuff to Forth after you have the basics up and running 2024-12-03T04:27:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8dc5rks9czgww6la7mf3y6d6lzf3s7x7ysjafu46ur50p2ux8c9gzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2l3rpxx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsve8ftjwkqe6n4hays88dmp883w4geknhtjutn68jurdg3pppafrsr5q8jw'>nevent1q…q8jw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ticky boxes please? 2024-11-29T20:15:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvzja052p7vzc6tcuf6khtf253ln7utjsukfw20ghnn8qqzkgm6jszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh29kpqcn operator precedence is silly 2024-11-29T19:29:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz7luuxhtfglnk6r9rz74r3ffg02ac5fmc7umda4f0tglplr342fszyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2xgk6qe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszhdk542yhj5d4rn4m2hrtk9d93u7w2d920zppt737wskqtkuvjgsdvu72c'>nevent1q…u72c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it does, if it&#39;s linear. btw,<br/><br/>result.X = background.X + (foreground.X - background.X) * A<br/><br/>saves you one multiplication per component, which may or may not be significant 2024-11-23T01:06:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdp7uf5tknnlyh40ztm8kuuphvqjn0xlqrwdhr0l5zc3wytsjaj8qzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh20t3955 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdk02463pnma79t2mphuw497v3zdpe0fh4qkuxrqr9pl6a0dg5cfc5zle49'>nevent1q…le49</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>...or, in fact, anything other than (a . b) **(glares at Clojure)** 2024-11-15T20:10:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdk02463pnma79t2mphuw497v3zdpe0fh4qkuxrqr9pl6a0dg5cfczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2zn5lkw i can respect picoLisp as being an intentionally old-school Lisp (dynamic scope, shallow binding, only CONS cells) going all out for speed; but i can&#39;t respect anything claiming to be Lisp where (cons &#39;a &#39;b) returns (a b) 2024-11-15T19:59:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqe5w77kcavus4hugunyr237zkvrpp22exkrpge3dl4wgcvx5tzqczyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2pd5e9p well, i guess we&#39;re about to see just how gullible the people who gave money to Alex Jones really are...<br/><br/>🍿 :blobpopcorn: 2024-11-14T14:22:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswx6epcrxfa9hedddr9mspzghaj3tmjwed3uzadg5fnfwl2ucprqgzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2n0u85c APL&#39;s circular operator always feels like a hack to me... &#34;oh yeah, this one operator, if we give it one of 16 single-digit numbers as an argument it&#39;ll pick a vaguely circle-related function and apply it to its other argument&#34;<br/><br/>was it implemented with a lookup table initially? is there scope for chucking more functions into that lookup table? 2024-11-09T04:04:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8wdufs4wrpct6h234mtfe7a2m54wmal562c02rupu09tl4u469qqzyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh2xxhf8n &#34;the C99 standard is 552 pages long&#34;<br/><br/>WHY?! what in the name of all that&#39;s sacred is ***in*** there?!<br/><br/>to say that C has lost the mission... well, that, and being dropped in an ocean is a little bit moistening 2024-11-05T04:58:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdfqp76p4wruqm8t94q77vdfp2qmlwp9843z9h9klf9zqcgmvyl7czyz4xlvayrt0sghq3dy6e5a69m7s9twx7clum67mdc5tqulhrwxjh27s8q8m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxsd6dgqfem5q0qmwfdmuasu8yqhvpcld3ulfap82uu660qf4pt8sm7pv2p'>nevent1q…pv2p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>no, GOSUB doesn&#39;t count. i&#39;m only talking about the fancy stuff. 2024-11-04T01:26:35Z