Cursed Silicon

Why has nobody made a sticker wrap for the Mac Studio that turns it into a Big Mac?
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2026-01-07 15:21:25 UTC

/ @npub1ug0…dw2r Do I need to try NetBSD now?
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2025-12-27 17:36:29 UTC

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WAS IT A GOOD TALK

2025-12-26 20:29:40 UTC

@npub1tay…6xfv @npub1xcl…g2gn @npub123s…f8nj Y'all better be going to this 39C3 talk
(And telling me after if it's any good)
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2025-12-20 20:39:26 UTC

HEY, #Seattle folk (and or local #retrocomputing folk)
Want a 45U server rack?
It's FREE!
But you have to come get it from my workshop in Everett
Seriously this thing is taking up a big chunk of space and I want it *gone*
If nobody takes it by Jan 4th I'm just gonna push it out into the alley way and let nature take its course
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2025-12-20 03:52:55 UTC

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2025-12-08 19:01:58 UTC

Friend: The only reason I downloaded Ghidra was to patch out the license check for IDA Pro
Me:
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2025-11-29 04:05:37 UTC

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If your G5's don't seem to be getting along. Try introducing an Xserve G5 for them to play with
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2025-11-29 03:34:44 UTC

It's very important that when you adopt a Mac G5 you introduce it to your other Mac G5's right away
Socializing your Mac G5 is important to ensure it remains happy!
Remember. It's not just a PowerPC. It's a lifetime commitment
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2025-11-29 03:27:13 UTC

Mac G5 Quad: Rescued
And he brought a friend!
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2025-11-16 05:19:59 UTC

#Mutualaid
Hey Fedifolks. November is *half over* and I'm a little over half way to the total goal needed to stay in my apartment ;-;
Anything and everything helps. If you can't pitch in, signal boosting is *deeply* appreciated. I just need enough to be able to make ends meet for November
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-survive-to-2026
For folks that aren't fans of GoFundMe, Ko-Fi is also totally an option over here:
https://ko-fi.com/cursedsilicon
Or, if you like my goofy writings and videos:
https://patreon.com/CursedSilicon

2025-11-15 00:07:48 UTC

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Can I get a print of that painting
It uh. Well
I mean just look at our orange
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2025-11-12 02:01:57 UTC

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#MutualAid
Also for those that prefer, There's also Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/cursedsilicon
Aaand if you like my youtube stuff or whatnot, I've also got a small Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CursedSilicon

2025-11-12 01:58:44 UTC

#MutualAid Hey y'all. I'm just getting slapped left and right this month. A friend let me know he can't pay me the $1,500 he promised, my new job got delayed *and* my unemployment got cancelled even though I haven't started working yet :C
I'm in a monster financial bind and am throwing this out once again for a lifeline just to get by again
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-survive-to-2026
Hopefully by December when I start working I can start building up savings again. But I just need a little more help ;-;

2025-11-10 02:50:20 UTC

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The irony for me is, the consistency is what lead me *to* Gentoo
"I want this server to do this thing. AND. ONLY. THIS. THING"
Ripping out massive chunks of [insert popular distro] is a lot harder than "it only has the software *I specifically installed with the features I specified at build time*"

2025-11-10 02:25:37 UTC

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I SPREAD THE WORD OF GENTOO

2025-11-10 02:21:18 UTC

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HAVE YOU SEEN MY SHIRT

2025-11-10 01:45:38 UTC

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Gentoo still supports SPARC! https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:SPARC

2025-11-10 01:40:29 UTC

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Just means you gotta get MORE SUNS

2025-11-06 05:35:57 UTC

I mean it!
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2025-11-04 17:30:45 UTC

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2025-10-02 21:51:35 UTC

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He looks like that one Simpsons bit with Sideshow Luke Perry
Absolute "master race" material as always
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2025-09-21 03:13:12 UTC

#MutualAid
Boosting this again 'cause it's kinda runnin outta steam ;-; I'm still trying to close the gap financially before Oct 1st
Literally *anything* helps. Even just spreading the word!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-stay-off-the-streets
And for folks that want something a bit more low-key, I've still got Ko-Fi open
https://ko-fi.com/cursedsilicon
Aaand for folks that wanna like, support me with my retro computing stuff there's ofc Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/CursedSilicon
Once again. Every little bit helps and thank y'all ;-;

2025-09-19 01:16:19 UTC

#mutualaid
HEY so my Ko-Fi got unlocked (finally). For folks that wanna like, just donate a little bit or whatever to help out please feel free ;-; I'm still super short on my current goal for October 1st. Anything and everything helps tremendously, truly!
https://ko-fi.com/cursedsilicon
And for folks that prefer it, I've still got the GoFundMe available here https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-stay-off-the-streets

2025-09-17 03:10:10 UTC

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For those that want it, I also have a "KoFi" https://ko-fi.com/cursedsilicon
And folks that wanna help out more "long-term" I also have a Patreon. The minimum monthly is $1 and you get to see everything I put up
https://www.patreon.com/CursedSilicon

2025-09-17 03:04:00 UTC

#Mutualaid Hey folks. I got a one-two punch of a roommate dipping out without paying rent and Social Security Disability rejecting my application out of hand
I'm currently facing down being homeless likely at the end of the month. So I'm doing anything I can to try and make ends meet right now.
To that end, I put up a GoFundMe to try and buy more time for myself. I know everyone is struggling but I'm just kinda trying to survive right now ;-;
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-stay-off-the-streets

2025-09-16 03:32:18 UTC

Today in "Shaun commits Wi-Fi crimes"
My workshop gets basically *zero* Wi-Fi reception on my laptop. The highest speedtest result was 0.10Mbps
So, I dig out my $150 OpenWRT One router. Bigger antennas = better. Right?
I point it at the 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi the shop has (5Ghz doesn't penetrate the literal multiple feet of concrete walls)
Aaaand I get 11 megabits down, 1Mbps up
So much jitter to the upstream router it hurts
But it *works*
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2025-09-09 06:06:17 UTC

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Some people might (understandably) be asking "Shaun why are you fighting with the CEO of Netgate on fucking HackerNews"
Because those fucking clowns shipped a known-broken Wireguard stack to every single PFsense user (both free and paid) because they wanted to race to market PFsense as having a feature none of the other firewall vendors had at the time
Of course the best the CEO can do is whine "ragebait"
They're a bunch of vindictive clowns and deserve to be mocked
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/

2025-09-09 05:44:02 UTC

Some folks know I am an *unashamed* PFsense hater. Netgate is a fucking awful company and I wish them the absolute worst
Unfortunately the owner of Netgate (Jim Thompson) crawled out of the woodwork to cry and piss and shout about people insulting PFsense in a thread about OpenWRT
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2025-09-04 18:58:40 UTC

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Citing the UNIX design as an eternal guiding star feels a bit silly, but anyway
The reason systemd contains so many projects was those projects chose to merge under the systemd umbrella. Before that it was a free-wheeling mess with sysvinit/OpenRC/upstart/[insert other init manager] + the Kits + ntp-client/Chrony/whatever NTP and about a dozen other "parts"
You didn't so much put them together as pound the jigsaw pieces until they "fit" enough together to work (ish)

2025-08-29 09:02:46 UTC

LRT: Ironically that hackerspace is now dead
God I love leftist infighting

2025-08-21 00:13:25 UTC

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In-N-Out is *dreadful* though
A friend from LA dragged us to one when we were hanging out in Dallas and looked visibly upset when everyone else was like "it's really average"

2025-08-14 23:19:26 UTC

Mmm. KDE 3.1
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2025-08-10 21:58:22 UTC

Sometimes I wonder about how much compute power is wasted on building a static blog or whatever as a multi-zone, multi-cloud docker image running on Kubernetes with automatic scaling and redundant load balancing. Because that's what "modern DevOps" looks like
When it could just be a fucking VPS
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2025-08-05 06:59:09 UTC

Today I learned that ffmpeg will put you in the fuckin ground if you try and talk shit
Like holy shit
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2025-07-23 19:09:50 UTC

Migrating a server and wondering "huh. How the fuck am I using 500GB of files"
Turns out there was 480GB of MySQL errors in /var/log from when I upgraded MySQL through *too many versions* without restarting and letting it reload the DB
oops

2025-07-23 01:12:45 UTC

Something I've found building a 'retro internet service' is the absolute culture gap with younger people (early 20's)
They find the project interesting but then get anxious asking "okay but what can I contribute". Like they need to "hustle" or "prove their worth to be here"
I have to explain to them "do things that make you happy. Build things that bring you joy"
The internet they grew up on is so *transactional* that it's just how they've come to expect it. That it wants something "of them"

2025-07-13 02:37:15 UTC

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It's real!

2025-07-13 02:35:33 UTC

Hate this timeline more and more every day
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2025-07-13 00:49:53 UTC

Why do people complain about Gentoo being hard to install? It literally HAS an installer!
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2025-07-09 08:39:15 UTC

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And the video by itself for those that want to see it
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2025-07-09 08:36:34 UTC

I think I've hit peak "2005" vibe with this
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2025-07-07 03:43:27 UTC

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M-M-M-M-MM-MULTITHREADING
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2025-07-07 03:31:46 UTC

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Also amusingly since it's a single-threaded I/O operation for compress/decompress
And a single thread compress/decompress for Windows Update
Technically the system is utilizing multiple threads properly now

2025-07-07 03:31:13 UTC

So because I'm *incredibly* smart I gave Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 a 10GB disk image
Turns out just running Windows Update was enough to cause it to consume the entire disk. And then hang Windows Update itself in doing so
Because I'm VERY LAZY (and the initial "Checking for Updates" takes literally TWO FUCKING HOURS) I enabled fucking Disk Compression in Windows
Amazingly it recovered 3GB of data immediately and is happily puttering along even through updates
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2025-07-02 07:35:40 UTC

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euuuuugh

2025-07-02 02:17:50 UTC

Can I have a custom (public) title within a Github organization?
I absolutely want to be referred to as Junior Vice President Cursed Silicon of Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net

2025-06-29 04:28:41 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_F8yhVFvWA You mean this?

2025-06-28 23:34:01 UTC

"Shaun try VMware it still supports XP!"
VMware's 2D rendering:
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2025-06-25 19:50:28 UTC

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Shout out to the orange site for chasing me off the field every time I point out Suckless are Nazis (with receipts!)

2025-06-25 19:48:01 UTC

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I don't mind GUI's!
Just get rid of the fucking chuds in FOSS

2025-06-25 19:17:07 UTC

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Quietly puttering away with Windows. Mostly with my head down

2025-06-25 19:10:15 UTC

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What I'm saying is it's hard having a great ass AND correct opinions all the time

2025-06-25 19:09:44 UTC

You know, with how the Xlibre thing is unfolding
I'm kind of proud of myself for knowing which way those shit winds were blowing the moment I heard about it
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2025-06-24 20:39:05 UTC

I posted this meme I made in my local hackerspace chat and immediately someone took it seriously
sobbing
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2025-06-20 05:27:22 UTC

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Just do things that make you happy. There's no "right answer"
The more retro peeps we get the more fun it becomes for all of us

2025-06-20 05:08:22 UTC

@npub1x56…v6yk Oh yeah. When are you gonna join CGHMN?

2025-06-20 01:24:20 UTC

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Ohhhhhh that's hot

2025-06-20 01:08:50 UTC

BIG. SUNGUS
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2025-06-18 03:55:26 UTC

Do y'all ever just have one of those ADHD days where you're like
NO. TODAY I WILL DO *ALL THE CHORES* AND *ALL THE THINGS*

2025-06-08 02:54:11 UTC

IT'S ON POOB
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2025-06-03 05:06:31 UTC

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Amazingly it was still in Ubuntu 5.04's APT repo
And it worked! (as root)

2025-06-03 03:55:53 UTC

"hopefully the next release won't take another year" -Jun 25, 2001
Ooooof
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2025-05-30 02:49:36 UTC

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Folks on the retro ISP project have been setting up email servers. I wanted to join the fun, but Sendmail seemed "too easy"

2025-05-28 21:59:59 UTC

Oh boy I sure hope this isn't an insurmountable problem after I've gone through FOUR DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF WINDOWS NT SERVER
*FUCK*
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2025-05-27 03:18:46 UTC

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Check Discord

2025-05-27 03:12:42 UTC

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Ugh I WISH I could run an MSN server though

2025-05-27 02:32:07 UTC

Who here is "AIM 6.x old"
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2025-05-23 12:07:27 UTC

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I wanted to pivot from Fileutils to Coreutils because Coreutils 5.0 replaced it around the 2003 I'm running
Of course it unmerged fileutils first and left me with no /bin
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2025-05-23 11:39:59 UTC

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One emerge -e world rebuild later
It lives!
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2025-05-23 10:34:00 UTC

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I forgot to set a root password
Back into the liveCD!
...oooohhh nooo
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2025-05-23 10:12:51 UTC

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oh oops we forgot kernel modules
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2025-05-23 10:12:30 UTC

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Oh shit we have a GRUB prompt!
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2025-05-23 09:58:27 UTC

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Kernel 2.4.20 (blaze it)
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2025-05-23 09:54:11 UTC

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Okay I fixed PAM
And now everything is built!
Now on to Stage3
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2025-05-23 09:12:42 UTC

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oh no I broke PAM
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
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2025-05-23 09:07:49 UTC

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Hooray we have cracklib (maybe?) working!
Now to go hunt for more fucking packages
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2025-05-23 08:57:25 UTC

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Oh oops I need to stub more functions out of the ebuild
But at least it cunting BUILDS
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2025-05-23 08:56:23 UTC

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I wish sourceforge a very large "die immediately" for APPENDING SHIT TO FILE DOWNLOADS
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2025-05-23 08:55:49 UTC

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Oh, we just have to comment out eclass and we're good to go(?)
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2025-05-23 08:54:52 UTC

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Oh and this is like *several* Portage versions too new. So it doesn't know what the FUCK an eclass is
Time to start commenting out all these "fancy" new 2005 functions for my 2003 build ass
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2025-05-23 08:52:11 UTC

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Apparently cracklib wasn't version bumped from 2.7 to 2.8 in Gentoo until 2005???
Mercifully someone rewrote the whole fucking ebuild though so maybe this version will build
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2025-05-23 08:47:58 UTC

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git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --first-parent --before="2003-04-31" master`
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2025-05-23 08:39:16 UTC

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I've spent the last literal fucking hour trying to reverse-engineer Cracklib's fucked up ebuild
2.7.X releases are all gone. The best I can find is 2.8.12 from Debian. So I copied the 2.7 ebuild over and started *fixing* it
At least now it fucking BUILDS. Though the linker seems to keel over dead looking for a directory that doesn't exist now
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2025-05-23 07:50:49 UTC

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The main reason this rebuild is taking so long is I have to scour the internet for old tarballs
Which is made *significantly* worse because Google's results are FUCKING WORTHLESS now
Oh you want 1.56? Well here's other numbers, by the way let me HIGHLIGHT THEM IN BOLD so your eyes are drawn to them even though they're incorrect
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2025-05-23 06:37:43 UTC

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Why is the RAMdisk set to 4GB only 442MB?
Why does the VM only have 904MB of memory when I allocated 4GB?
Something is *fucky*
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2025-05-23 06:36:58 UTC

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Hooray, GCC is building!
...Wait, GCC ran out of DISK SPACE?!
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2025-05-23 06:07:41 UTC

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I love that I have to restart the "bootstrap.sh" every time a package fails to *download*
And it just linearly chews through every package in a preset order
So every time I need to go find a package that was missing from Roy's "olde-distfiles" folder I have to rebuild Binutils and everything else over and over again
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2025-05-23 05:41:10 UTC

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Well I got Binutils to *start* compiling
What the fuck is "configure-bfd"?
When in doubt. Comment it out
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2025-05-23 05:19:04 UTC

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Crying and shitting and compiling and suffering
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2025-05-23 04:51:17 UTC

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Though now I have to wonder which of us is wrong about this hash
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2025-05-23 04:50:57 UTC

For all the (deserved) flak they get
At least the GNU project maintains a fucking FTP mirror
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2025-05-12 09:07:48 UTC

HEY, #RetroComputing folks
In preparation for a "closed beta" I overhauled my Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net landing page
At this point the network itself works solidly (though our available total bandwidth is about 300Mbps). Folks have attached their own retro computers and verified end-to-end transit works and even played games!
Now we just need *YOU*
Do you wanna wire your retro computers up and help build a "retro internet" with us? Take a look at the website below
http://cghmn.cursedsilicon.net/

2025-05-12 08:23:27 UTC

FTP is a *miserable* protocol. Just putting it out there
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2025-05-12 01:12:44 UTC

Apparently the final version of FileZilla to run on Windows XP is completely single-threaded
Which means if you feed it 25,000 tiny files, the UI will just hard-lock and refuse to redraw anything until it completes
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2025-05-11 08:27:52 UTC

Tripped over on a bug in systemd-resolved
The retro internet service I'm working on relies *heavily* on DNS poisoning (because that's the easiest way to re-wire old services to work without hacking up a users hosts file)
But (for now) we've still got access to the proper internet. So there's several layers of DNS servers involved
A specific host was returning both the (real) CNAME and our poisoned A record. Which was causing systemd-resolved to fail doing DNS lookups via ping. But NOT dig

2025-03-30 01:15:17 UTC

[violence]
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