Jeff

https://bitbang.social/@overeducatedredneck

I run Chimera, OpenBSD & NetBSD.
Favorite retrocomputing topics: Unix History, installing NetBSD on retro computers.

Bay Area denizen, rides motorcycles, races 24 Hours of Lemons, #actuallyautistic he/him

Professionally: SRE, funemployed

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Compositor (Xuake): https://git.sr.ht/~phaedrus/Xuake

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2025-07-23 02:39:46 UTC

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The PDP-11 is (mostly) little endian, and pre-dates all of Intel's processors. Intel's endianness comes from the Datapoint 2200, which was bit serial, and the carry circuitry is simpler if you do things little-endian.
Honestly, I think the real answer is that big endian is easier to diagram if you come from a culture with a left-to-right writing system and a habit of putting zero on the left on graph axis.
(I like little endian systems)

2025-01-27 07:48:51 UTC

... I got my compositor to run on #NetBSD. I fixed the kernel panic I was running into by deciding the change I had made to ioctl permissions constituted putting beans in my nose.
I then went back and added a GET_PCIINFO ioctl like what OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD use (but slightly different) and modded libdrm to match.
And it worked. It even let me fire up a terminal emulator window, which is further than I got last time. I'm going to clean up patches and hop on tech-kern later (but soon).

2024-09-28 01:16:37 UTC

There has been an escalation in the theme arms race at #buttonterrible by team Follow Dear Leader. #24hoursoflemons #weirdcarmastodon
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2024-08-03 00:02:28 UTC

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.
All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.
#crowdstrike

2024-04-07 05:11:46 UTC

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Huh. I wrote my own Wayland terminal emulator to go with my compositor, and it has similar properties with regard to memory footprint and dependencies (it uses EGL directly instead of a toolkit, and has no extra dependencies). However, it implements only the barest minimum to display to the screen. No scrollback buffer or anything. Instead, I run tmux in it, and that gets the daemon process and multiple sessions features.