Nostr notes by nytpu

Fun fact: even though skyview.social exists, I viscerally do the ...

2026-03-04T23:18:12Z

Fun fact: even though skyview.social exists, I viscerally do the Gollum "we hates you forever" thing any time I'm linked to a Bluesky post from an account that is restricted to logged in users (which, like DRM, has literally zero effect other than punishing legitimate viewers)

Oh yeah, GrapheneOS, the OS that's fine officially shipping ...

2026-03-04T17:27:08Z

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Oh yeah, GrapheneOS, the OS that's fine officially shipping sandboxed proprietary Google Play Services but will not ship a screen reader because it's GPLv3!

Rust's absolute refusal to allow you to create ...

2026-02-28T21:28:17Z

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Rust's absolute refusal to allow you to create non–machine-integer types (or even just any type equivalent to another but considered distinct by the type system) without the absolutely massive amount of boilerplate the "newtype idiom" demands is probably the most frustrating thing about the language tbh

godspeed you! big animal (npub10yl…vmwq)

It was removed from the Kernel last September because the dev ...

2026-02-19T23:06:37Z

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It was removed from the Kernel last September because the dev (Kent Overstreet) would throw a literal fit if *anyone* (including Linus Torvalds) made *literally any* comments on patchsets, he basically demanded Linus merge them immediately with no review comments.

You know… maybe that's why he loves the AI agent so much, because it'll just gush about how great all his code is and he's such a good programmer XD

godspeed you! big animal (npub10yl…vmwq)

My main culprit is always wanting to make a parser program much ...

2026-02-12T04:02:40Z

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My main culprit is always wanting to make a parser program much more complex by reading data on-the-fly from a file instead of just reading the whole thing into a string, even though for parsers, even a 1 GiB generated input file still wouldn't OOM even a machine from 2008. And reading from a file a few bytes at a time would be horrifically slow and worse in every way without the OS just pre-caching the entire file in memory on its end and defeating the purpose anyways

Once again having to force myself to not way overengineer ...

2026-02-12T04:01:40Z

Once again having to force myself to not way overengineer something to avoid using amounts of memory that programs touted as the "most lightweight" happily use in a heartbeat. This time I was thinking of datastructures to avoid allocating a flat array that's an entire… 640 KiB. Wow, anyone's computer could OOM if my program dared allocate that much.

I was looking up why Tolkien chose rings as the main object of ...

2026-02-11T00:52:56Z

I was looking up why Tolkien chose rings as the main object of power in *The Lord of the Rings*, and turns out it's just because he arbitrarily chose a ring for *The Hobbit* (with no further plans to develop the story at the time), so he stuck with it for LotR.

However, why he chose a ring for *The Hobbit* is almost more interesting than it being some generic symbolism. He likely chose it because of a ring from Plato's writing that granted the wearer invisibility, and tempts them (philosophically) to commit evil acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges

And then the characteristics of the ring in LotR were very likely inspired by this IRL ring with an inscription on it and an associated "curse tablet", that Tolkien was consulted on to translate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Silvianus

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2026-02-10T23:57:55Z

Terminology for the place the CPU is executing from

Back in my day, programmers programmed on punch cards. With their ...

2026-02-10T18:56:43Z

Back in my day, programmers programmed on punch cards. With their *fists*.

Every time I look at Rust procedural macros it strikes me how ...

2026-02-10T04:23:29Z

Every time I look at Rust procedural macros it strikes me how crazy it is they provide literally zero assistance at all, you just get a raw unparsed token stream and then fuck you do the rest yourself.

They don't even provide assistance for things where it's absolutely necessary to be provided by the compiler and can't be done by an external library—namely hygenic symbols that are *guaranteed* to *never* collide with anything, i.e. (gensym) in Lisp. (they technically have the ability to do it but it's been unstable for nearly a decade with no signs of being stabilized, because it wouldn't be Rust if literally every potential useful feature wasn't like that)

It is funny how these random ass invertibrates independently ...

2026-02-09T04:28:20Z

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It is funny how these random ass invertibrates independently convergently evolved complex eyes that are significantly better than vertibrate eyes in most tangible ways (vertebrates in general, not even just mammals who all have horrifically bad eyesight other than humans and a few other species)

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2026-02-09T02:54:21Z

*Brassica oleracea* of the day

But boosts already don't show up anywhere but to followers

2026-02-09T02:38:33Z

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But boosts already don't show up anywhere but to followers

What's the different between a public and unlisted boost in ...

2026-02-09T00:06:02Z

What's the different between a public and unlisted boost in Mastodon's implementation

Telling an anthro "you smell like feral <their ...

2026-02-08T22:42:09Z

Telling an anthro "you smell like feral <their species>"

Isn't the initramfs a classic CPIO archive that's then ...

2026-02-07T04:21:54Z

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Isn't the initramfs a classic CPIO archive that's then wholesale compressed? (so sorta like tar where the file archive format is independent from the compression)

The squashfs-tools are the userspace tools maintained by the guy ...

2026-02-07T04:00:16Z

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The squashfs-tools are the userspace tools maintained by the guy who originally wrote and maintains the Linux Kernel drivers, so those are the ones packaged everywhere I think https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools

Significantly better compression ratios (due to deduplication), ...

2026-02-07T03:49:26Z

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Significantly better compression ratios (due to deduplication), and tar is really not a great archive format IMO (even with the POSIX tar format everything now uses fixing up a lot of issues); well, for anything other than it's namesake tape archiving, where it remains fantastic.

What do I do with my Mass Effect installations now… since ...

2026-02-07T00:20:08Z

What do I do with my *Mass Effect* installations now… since it's pirated and not Steam I can't trivially reinstall it from scratch, nor have save data and everything automatically restored. Do I just zip squashfs up the whole Wine prefix and archive it even though it'll also store a bunch of redundant files that could be trivially regenerated?

I mean, yeah, pretty much everything uses the SCSI command set ...

2026-02-06T05:47:58Z

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I mean, yeah, pretty much everything uses the SCSI command set for decades and decades. That StackOverflow link lists a bunch, but also all the really high-performance enterprise storage stuff has been all just different physical interfaces for SCSI for decades and decades (SAS is "Serial Attached SCSI", and FibreChannel uses the SCSI command set, etc.).

The only reason it's falling out of favor is because everything's now becoming different physical interfaces for PCIe instead (e.g. NVMe/M.2, USB 4 data transfer, etc.)

Would anyone happen to know of a utility/trick for converting ...

2026-02-04T17:17:20Z

Would anyone happen to know of a utility/trick for converting HTML tables (trivial, no complex cell stuff or styling or anything going on) to text tables so I can have a readable plaintext version?

I could just write a quick Lisp script but I imagine there's probably something already out there

I mean, I imagine it's not readily translatable between ...

2026-02-03T03:41:17Z

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I mean, I imagine it's not readily translatable between mammals and avians, and I'm sure any resources would just say "caffeine is toxic to birds" even if appropriate amounts *technically* aren't, just because you shouldn't be giving birds caffeine lol

Would an osprey-sized serving of espresso be like .5 oz? Because ...

2026-02-03T03:36:40Z

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Would an osprey-sized serving of espresso be like .5 oz? Because birds have low body masses and fast metabolisms plus their already-small size

Not at 9:00 at night!!!

2026-02-03T03:35:55Z

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Not at 9:00 at night!!!

It's weird and funny that Go had an interesting "language ...

2026-02-02T20:08:56Z

It's weird and funny that Go had an interesting "language package manager" implementation to avoid needing a centralized repository or tons of central bandwidth/storage; but then for no reason Google decided to implement proxies and middlemen to emulate a central repository but worse in every way (deleted upstream repos will still silently work until the module cache flushes and then everything will suddenly break, completely opaque how any of the servers work, they hammer repositories' bandwidth checking for updates since there's no explicit publishing workflow, etc.)

And yet they're used so little that absolutely no one ...

2026-02-02T03:17:02Z

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And yet they're used so little that absolutely no one that's replied has had answers to any of the fairly simple questions posed

Another problem with Mastodon's quote posts is that it's ...

2026-02-02T02:50:06Z

Another problem with Mastodon's quote posts is that it's so fucking useless that I think I've only had one person actually quote a post of mine (even though all my posts are open for quoting), and I see very few "native" Mastodon quotes out there (rather than coming from Bluesky bridge or *key), so I have no clue how they function.

Like, if I quote a post that @s somebody, does the quote also notify them, or is it only limited to the original poster? And do replies to the quotes also tag the person @ed in the quoted post?

And do the pseudo-quote UI that shows for posts that pasting a link into the body notify the linked author even though it's not a real quote post? (I suspect this is true because I've had artists that don't follow me fav posts where I link to them. And if it is true that's the shittiest fucking design in an already shittily designed feature)

Hmm, hopefully that won't start happening to me lol. This was ...

2026-01-29T02:03:27Z

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Hmm, hopefully that won't start happening to me lol. This was in the middle of me actively using it though, having some hardware fail to wake up from suspend is at least more understandable

(BTW I think there's actually a Kernel command line option to tell it not to try to shut down the drives on suspend since some drives have known-bugged firmware, two different solutions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/NVMe#Controller_failure_due_to_broken_APST_support)

Very odd scary thing happened just now… I was doing some stuff ...

2026-01-29T01:34:30Z

Very odd scary thing happened just now… I was doing some stuff on my computer and it suddenly hung in the way that I know is just classic case of the disk being disconnected or failing. So, uh oh. SysRq confirms the disk likely failed (after killing all tasks, the sync and emergency umount still failed). The system automatically warm restarted (since SysRq b reboots) and just says "no boot device found", and chainloading into the UEFI diagnostics said it can't see the hard drive. So yeah.

But then, fully shutting down, the diagnostics could see the hard drive again and it passed all the long-ass self-tests, so hmm.

I booted a live USB and the disk was visible fine, no issues could be found (cryptsetup repair & fsck on everything, mounting and chrooting in to check key files), but I noticed that efibootmgr claimed there were no boot entries for the internal drive other than the external ones (USB, etc.). So I booted Linux manually with an EFI shell and everything seemed to go fine.

After booting again, all installed files match their expected checksums according to paccheck, and the files in my home directory and /etc all match hashes from backups, so doesn't seem to be any disk corruption or other signs of failure. Re-adding the UEFI entries and rebooting multiple times has worked fine.

I think it seems like either the PCI controller or the hard drive's controller got into a bugged state and just needed a power cycle? (I was doing a lot of disk I/O with multiple programs at the time, so could've been overheating, or just hitting a firmware bug) And then the UEFI "helpfully" cleared all the temporarily invalid boot entries which made it look like complete drive failure

It kinda sucks that in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, ME1 got ...

2026-01-26T20:39:42Z

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It kinda sucks that in *Mass Effect: Legendary Edition*, ME1 got huge gameplay overhauls that made it sooo much better to play than the original, but then ME3 and *especially* ME2 got basically nothing so they still have some… very poorly aged gameplay and are as buggy as the originals

Mass Effect 1 is simultaneously the best and worst game in the ...

2026-01-26T20:39:30Z

*Mass Effect* 1 is simultaneously the best and worst game in the series I think

Well I meant more from the traditional/simplistic perspective ...

2026-01-24T20:55:15Z

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Well I meant more from the traditional/simplistic perspective rather than the modern long-term atmospheric perspective (or, more charitably, a holistic perspective rather than solely atmospheric change). Like the Ring of Isengard used to have beautiful orchards and lakes and the Isen river; but the river was dammed, the ring was scoured clean of trees to feed the metalworking, and the landscape was riven with mining pits. Or Sauron choking the Plateau of Gorgoroth with ash and soot and oil (although it was also already supposedly arid desert and ash-choked from the volcano so he just made it worse)

(Yes yes I know the theme of how Sauron's/Saurmon's ...

2026-01-24T20:28:47Z

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(Yes yes I know the theme of how Sauron's/Saurmon's industrial works is more their industrualization "going too far", from the pre-/early-industrial perspective the great crime is cutting down the old-growth forests for private purposes that were previously used in common by all the common folk, while the Good Guys presumably stick to the arboricultural forests specifically meant for timber purposes)

Thinking about how in The Lord of the Rings, the dwarves would ...

2026-01-24T20:27:56Z

Thinking about how in *The Lord of the Rings*, the dwarves would probably actually have the *least* environmental impact out of all the species, including the elves. Because pre-industrial metalworking needed fucktons, absolutely huge amounts of wood to make charcoal for every step of the process (https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-ii-trees-for-blooms/).

But the dwarves have much more advanced metalworking so—with some synthesis from *Dwarf Fortress* lore—it's likely they knew how to coke mined coal so they wouldn't need to rely on charcoal anymore; plus if they had early modern metalworking technology (advanced casting, high-temperature/blast furnaces, etc.) they could halve their fuel requirements on top of using mined coal as fuel.

I've seen a lot of different clothing designs to accommodate ...

2026-01-24T19:57:34Z

I've seen a lot of different clothing designs to accommodate tails but I've never seen ones with a sleeve to cover the tail too (probably only really applicable to thicc tails though)

For data integrity reasons, pretty much all OSes either ...

2026-01-24T06:52:41Z

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For data integrity reasons, pretty much all OSes either write-through the page cache (i.e. data is flushed to disk immediately) or very regularly (I think the Linux default is a sync every five seconds, but then only syncing pages that haven't been modified in the past thirty seconds).

But in general OS disk caches just don't micromanage the block device, from their (and the hardware interface perspective) they're pretty much just asking for a block number and the data magically appears after a blocking period. Whereas the flash controller knows the exact physical topology of the drive and can manage it more effectively.†

Plus OS disk caches are designed mostly to avoid accessing the block device when not necessary: accumulating writes occurring within a short period to the same blocks so they can be issued together (different from the reasoning/strategy in the footnote), and allowing data to be read back immediately/read multiple times in quick succession. i.e. just reducing latency. While the disk's own cache is designed to maximize raw throughput, so it'll be more aggressive about optimizing for different access patterns. And it's just explicitly designed to have tons of data dumped into it and slowly written back.

† e.g. even to change one sector, flash chips usually require huge groups of sectors (128 KiB+) to be erased at a time and then the entire group has to be rewritten with just the one change; so sectors *physically* close together should be batched so it only has to do one erase (not logically close, due to wear levelling pseudorandomly scattering logical sectors around)

Something I find puzzling is just how slow DRAM-less SSDs are ...

2026-01-24T03:55:06Z

Something I find puzzling is *just how slow* DRAM-less SSDs are (I've worked with them but fortunately have never owned one lol). Like, they're often literally slower than higher-end spinning disks?? Even if they don't have RAM to basically lie about the speed (quote the speed of the RAM instead of the actual storage!), shouldn't the flash still be *moderately* fast? Like SD cards can be pretty dang fast and they can't have much cache. But I guess DRAM-less SSDs are just the crap option so they're putting bottom of the barrel flash in it on top of not adding cache

They should make a vampire movie where someone modern gets turned ...

2026-01-20T16:16:40Z

They should make a vampire movie where someone modern gets turned into a vampire and they proceed to turn into a bat and refuse to go back to human form

More of the juvenile #BaldEagle #BaldEagles #Eagle #Eagles #Bird ...

2025-12-23T23:26:57Z

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More of the juvenile

#BaldEagle #BaldEagles #Eagle #Eagles #Bird #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdsOfMastodon #NaturePhotography #Photography #Photo

Juvenile attacks! About 2.5 years old probably, and presumably ...

2025-12-23T23:26:26Z

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Juvenile attacks! About 2.5 years old probably, and presumably related to the adults since they all hung out in the same tree vibing for a good while beforehand (although the juvenile is way to old to still be dependent on their parents so dunno what's going on there, although plenty of fish at this lake for all three of them)

#BaldEagle #BaldEagles #Eagle #Eagles #Bird #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdsOfMastodon #NaturePhotography #Photography #Photo

Mated pair of bald eagles I've posted here previously ...

2025-12-23T23:25:08Z

Mated pair of bald eagles I've posted here previously

#BaldEagle #BaldEagles #Eagle #Eagles #Bird #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdsOfMastodon #NaturePhotography #Photography #Photo

Learning more about C locale braindeath. (just learned that POSIX ...

2025-12-02T17:21:30Z

Learning more about C locale braindeath.

(just learned that POSIX explicitly forbids the C locale from being UTF-8 aware because crappy legacy code expects high bytes to still be single characters and not part of a multibyte character; but simultaneously there's *still* no standard UTF-8 locale because fuck you.

Just like there's still no standard snprintf_l or strtod_l because fuck you, we can't be half-assed to make a comprehensive list of all the string functions in our own standard when adding alternate versions of them)

Does writing an ELF file by hand in a hex editor indicate your ...

2025-11-30T04:04:44Z

Does writing an ELF file by hand in a hex editor indicate your life is going poorly or well?

Do it for them ...

2025-11-18T23:57:16Z

Do it for them

Cathode Ray Dude please make more videos about phones I'll ...

2025-11-13T03:36:20Z

Cathode Ray Dude please make more videos about phones I'll watch a three hour video about a boring-ass PBX please please please

I would not stop laughing if Valve managed to pull off with the ...

2025-11-13T02:13:52Z

I would not stop laughing if Valve managed to pull off with the Steam Frame what Apple completely bombed doing with the Vision Pro. Valve is trying to market it as “use it as your monitor for all games, not just VR titles!”, but I could actually somewhat imagine it working because 1) it'll be “≤$1000” instead of like $3500 and 2) they actually support games which is the only time I could ever see anyone using a VR headset like that (no one doing productivity tasks would ever, demonstrably)

What the actual fuck, Microsoft's “GUID” version of ...

2025-11-11T00:44:29Z

What the actual fuck, Microsoft's “GUID” version of UUIDs, despite being the same from a generation and textual representation standpoint, in binary encodes the first three fields as little-endian and the rest are big-endian.

Instead of just… having everything be big-endian like the original UUIDs always were and like literally everyone else does

Eh, I tried learning traditional drawing for months and ...

2025-11-08T06:43:20Z

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Eh, I tried learning traditional drawing for months and didn't improve at all; while with adjusting vectors with a mouse (since you place nodes at single points and then adjust the automatically-drawn curves between them, rather than having to draw a continuous stroke) I picked up much more easily.

I think just my observation of this, where I'm just incapable of learning traditional drawing without extraordinary effort I don't have the motivation to do: https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-02-05

Done with a mouse, since making vectors is very different from ...

2025-11-08T06:35:27Z

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Done with a mouse, since making vectors is very different from drawing by hand

Affinity Designer

2025-11-08T04:07:47Z

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Affinity Designer

Okay, I think I'm declaring this done. I'm pretty happy ...

2025-11-08T01:01:50Z

Okay, I think I'm declaring this done. I'm pretty happy with it even though there's some things where i couldn't quite figure out how I wanted them to look.

(Remember, this is literally the first piece of vector art I've done in 8–10 years, plus I'm terrible at normal drawing despite spending eight months failing to learn even the rudiments, so it's a miracle I made something that looks quarter-decent lol)

We must invent one then

2025-11-07T23:32:20Z

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We must invent one then

Just to experiment I exported this artwork as a WebP in the ...

2025-11-07T23:30:28Z

Just to experiment I exported this artwork as a WebP in the “best” lossy quality setting at the same resolution as a JPEG XL and a JPEG both at 85 quality, and HOLY FUCKING SHIT WEBP RUINED IT.

Like, not even minor nitpicky things, the colors are significantly distorted (like, why did it even do that? It was authored in 8-bit sRGB, and all have embedded color profiles). And what it does to high-color-contrast, non-cardinally-aligned edges is even worse than JPEG. Further proving my point that using a video codec (which are notoriously evil to animation) for still images that are often not camera images (which WebP admittedly does *okay* with) is the worst technical decision that could possibly be made.

Is there something like Glaze that can be overlaid onto an image such that it will become a [basilisk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) ) if ever converted to a WebP?

I struggled for like four hours brute-forcing into Hunter's ...

2025-11-01T21:05:12Z

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I struggled for like four hours brute-forcing into Hunter's March before even getting to Deep Docks because I didn't know where to go, and then struggled most of the way through and gave up on Savage Beastfly later, but then after I came back much later after some needle and tool upgrades the whole thing was pretty trivial.

I did the Forum fight first try and thought it was just a normal gauntlet and didn't even realize it was *that* Forum everyone was complaining about; because I did the whole high halls pretty late after getting basically everything else in Act 2.

The Groal runback is egregious and uncalled-for regardless (even if you find the secret bench that cuts it by ⅔), but Bilewater in general gets much easier if you wait a long time to beat it (especially since the reward is only used very late to get to Act 3 anyways).

And wait, how did you skip the Slab? Did you not get the Faydown Cloak or did you wait all the way until you get the key of apostate? Because not having the Faydown Cloak would make the later platforming be the most painful thing ever I think

I think I placed the issues with it because I got really ...

2025-11-01T19:03:22Z

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I think I placed the issues with it because I got really frustrated with large parts of the game. The thing is that areas aren't necessarily badly designed (although isolated sections are like the Groal runback is objectively bad design and The Last Judge runback is subjectively tedious), it's that they clearly designed the game to be done in an **extremely** linear order and yet they didn't gate anything at all or even give any indication of whether they expect you to be in an area yet. If you're where you're supposed to be it's almost never *that* hard, but if you're in the wrong spot stuff will be almost literally impossible.

Hmm, although the wording just says “may not build”, so ...

2025-10-23T02:06:30Z

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Hmm, although the wording just says “*may* not build”, so maybe they're just saying that if there is an issue with building on Nightly they won't accept bug reports about it? Or could be that they have a really janky build setup since they seem to be doing complex stuff with build.rs scripts, since apparently it also takes like 16 GiB of RAM to compile according to that document?

Wait, how the hell did Deno manage to break building on Rust ...

2025-10-23T01:58:38Z

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Wait, how the hell did Deno manage to break building on Rust Nightly? That's a real achievement lol, because other than Rust compiler bugs it should have compatibility with everything that builds on the most recent stable (since they have pretty good forward compatibility in terms of building old code on new compiler versions, since the Rust project refuses to support anything but the most recent compiler version)

What is with people coming into a 105 minute class 45–80 ...

2025-10-13T19:54:48Z

What is with people coming into a 105 minute class 45–80 minutes late? Unless you know there's a quiz at the end of class or something why wouldn't you just completely blow it off once you're *that* late?

I should follow the hashtags for all the common C preprocessor ...

2025-10-13T16:22:03Z

I should follow the hashtags for all the common C preprocessor directives to see what pops up lol

I like phrases like “on the wing” or “on the hoof”. I ...

2025-10-02T21:02:36Z

I like phrases like “on the wing” or “on the hoof”. I know they sound somewhat archaic but how have more furries not picked those up

Thinking about > As a nice bonus, when I re-wrote [a Rust ...

2025-09-14T04:49:33Z

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Thinking about
> As a nice bonus, when I re-wrote [a Rust program] myself the resulting program ends up being over 2,000 times faster. This is with no algorithmic wizardry or special tools. I used a dynamic language with garbage-collection and relied on blog posts I found on the internet to guide me in designing the thing.
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/lasso.nytpu.com/share/1CB5AD8F/

And like how nail polish remover is in a “ladylike” bottle, ...

2025-09-12T23:53:19Z

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And like how nail polish remover is in a “ladylike” bottle, it's in the manliest sharpest angled, pitch black bottle

Acetone: For Men™

2025-09-12T23:53:17Z

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Acetone: For Men™

Men truly will deal with superglue on their fingers for days ...

2025-09-12T23:50:30Z

Men truly will deal with superglue on their fingers for days rather than suffer the humiliation of buying nail polish remover

Still, I have a lot of stuff not stored in Git-Annex for various ...

2025-09-09T20:51:56Z

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Still, I have a lot of stuff not stored in Git-Annex for various reasons that I still write out to tape. Having good tape support in GA would be good reason for me to move a lot more data into the annex though

No good solution for Git-Annex archival to tape (that isn't ...

2025-09-09T20:50:22Z

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No good solution for Git-Annex archival to tape (that isn't really irritating and worse than just using tar on a directory) unfortunately :(

I legitimately was going to hack together a special remote for it, but according to a random thread on the Git-Annex forums, supposedly a Git-Annex mainline dev is giving a talk in October and unveiling their own special remote specifically for tape archival so I've been holding out for that. https://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Fill_remotes_sequentially/#comment-dca307090989d6d15ff72d21b5d7b019

I could always make a custom program that stores the data in ...

2025-09-09T20:43:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ksl
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I could always make a custom program that stores the data in standard UStar format but then uses a second file format for browsing data locally, but GNU tar is just too robust and featureful in a way I couldn't compete with lol

On one wing, it's a really good idea to just stick with ...

2025-09-09T20:42:01Z

On one wing, it's a really good idea to just stick with widely-supported standard file formats using a very mature and stable utility when doing long-term archiving; but on the other wing I really want to make my own format for tape archiving that lets you store a copy of *all* the metadata on your computer as well as the tape, so you can browse the archives and see everything and even queue up operations, and the only time you need to load a tape is to get the file contents.

(I'm just annoyed at being stuck with my only online record of my archives the annoyingly-formatted text files created from tar's verbose output lol)

Don't talk to me or my son ever again ...

2025-09-08T22:14:50Z

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

I love macroscopic unicellular organisms, the most creature per ...

2025-09-04T02:53:30Z

I love macroscopic unicellular organisms, the most creature per least creature… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia_sphaerica

It's generally accepted that avians are a very distinct ...

2025-08-30T03:38:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…zkkp
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It's generally accepted that avians are a very distinct community that aren't really fully accepted into mainstream furry, but I don't think that's necessary bias and more weird historical distinctions. But in general (i.e. talking about anthros/dragons) I think scalies or non-mammals aren't really biased against. Ferals or other realism is slightly biased against, but that includes realistic mammals (not even feral, just more realistic depictions of charactistics)

Non-furry fursuits are rare (i.e. even non-mammals are usually made using fur) but that's exclusively because of lack of mainstream availability of materials for good feathers or scales rather than furry fandom biases IMO

But then that is also compounded with the prebuilt libraries ...

2025-08-30T01:45:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…lxfa
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But then that is also compounded with the prebuilt libraries being really fragile since Rust doesn't have a stable ABI (other than libraries with exported C APIs) so they'd have to very very meticulously make sure that all Rust packages were always rebuilt with the exact same patch version of rustc.

witch_t *navi (npub1ku3…87t7)

They didn't want to build dynamic libraries but then also ...

2025-08-30T01:43:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…j487
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They didn't want to build dynamic libraries but then *also* still have to include a full copy of the source code; AFAIK their current Rust library packages are just the source code (like Lisp) that then gets statically linked by any Rust binary packages (although for Rust libraries with exported C APIs they presumably include prebuilt versions for non-Rust packages to depend on)

witch_t *navi (npub1ku3…87t7)

I swear I remember hearing about some really hacky method to ...

2025-08-30T01:03:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…ujwj
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I swear I remember hearing about some really hacky method to build dynamic versions (probably just patching cargo.toml to build a dylib in most cases), but Debian rejected it because it also needs an entire copy of the source code available because generics in dependents need to be able to see the original code in order to compile monomorphized versions. (You're definitely not supposed to do this for all-Rust projects because of the lack of stable ABI, building dynamic libraries is meant for things like letting C programs link to Rust libraries with C APIs)

And while GHC also *supports* it, I assume it has similar intent to Rust because I remember a bunch of Haskellers getting mad when Arch instituted this packaging policy lol

Well I think it's a symptom of the fact that Haskell is not ...

2025-08-30T00:49:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…g0rv
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Well I think it's a symptom of the fact that Haskell is not meant to be dynamically linked so they probably need to rebuild large subsets of packages every time any dependency changes (presumably because the dynamic linking would otherwise break).

But that is why I said “Arch packaging” and not “Haskell ecosystem” in my OP, and mentioned Debian's Rust packaging. Debian expects all dependencies to be packaged and everything has to be updated when a dependency gets updated like is good practice; but they still statically link the Rust dependencies of programs instead of doing horrible hacks to get them (partially) dynamically linked in a way that'll be at best “unsupported” and more likely very fragile.

The Haskell ecosystem in particular just seems really bad, ...

2025-08-30T00:22:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…gxew
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The Haskell ecosystem in particular just seems really bad, because if you install pandoc (for instance), there are **229** dependencies, and almost every single one will be updated at least twice a day even though they don't seem to have any upstream updates (the Arch package versions for Haskell libraries are all on like 200+ pkgrel, which means there were 200 package versions released without the main upstream version number changing)

The way Arch packages Haskell programs is a crime, not even ...

2025-08-30T00:16:15Z

The way Arch packages Haskell programs is a crime, not even Debian does that with their stringent requirements for things like Rust programs

It's interesting that with Apple moving to ARM they're ...

2025-08-29T18:38:36Z

It's interesting that with Apple moving to ARM they're returning to the historical situation where Macs are just pretty objectively better hardware-wise than PCs (not just in performance but quality and reliability et al) if you can tolerate Apple software bullshit (which has only gotten worse) and zero upgradability.

Honestly not much clue why people bought x86 Macs when they were literally just the same sludgy PC hardware as everything else but in expensive cases and not upgradable like every other PC lol

What the is wrong with developers XD ...

2025-08-14T02:51:38Z

What the is wrong with developers XD https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/barcode-scanning/android

Multi-format barcode scanners could be made with low-cost early 1970s technology but clearly the only way to read them is machine learning models (it's not even like an LLM since it says “2.4 MiB app size increase” when bundling the model, but machine vision neural nets in general still seem just uncalled for for barcodes lol)

C=C+1

2025-08-13T18:52:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…kn7j
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C=C+1

Uncyclopedia is so good BTW. I found it in middle school starting ...

2025-08-13T18:51:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…ek84
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Uncyclopedia is so good BTW. I found it in middle school starting with the Topaz article lol

I should get stickers for all the programming language mascots. ...

2025-08-13T18:47:17Z

I should get stickers for all the programming language mascots. Ferris and the Lisp alien and the Zig lizard. And Keith the diseased rat too, of course. But then are there any others? I guess the LLVM wyvern but that's really a project mascot like Konqi rather than a C/C++ mascot.

Edit: also the Go Gopher, Java Duke, PHP Elephant, Perl Camel, Python sneks

I don't understand people on smartphones taking a screenshot ...

2025-08-11T00:53:38Z

I don't understand people on smartphones taking a screenshot of a picture in their gallery and then sharing that. Clearly you know how to upload a picture from your gallery because you had to upload the screenshot, in which case why didn't you just upload the picture directly???

Does anyone know if it's defined and sound to pass two ...

2025-08-09T20:07:21Z

Does anyone know if it's defined and sound to pass two pointers to the same static constant data as separate const *restrict pointers in C23? They're technically aliased, but since the underlying value is fully constant it is impossible for them to be changed out from under each other (so it works in practice but that could just be luck with how GCC compiles these functions)

Someone dug this up to boost so figured I'd reboost it. ...

2025-08-07T01:34:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…sdhr
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Someone dug this up to boost so figured I'd reboost it. Remember, real *Velociraptor* are only like 50 lbs and only as tall as a large bird!

I just wanted to see if there was something for lldb(1) that ...

2025-08-05T19:23:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…fuqd
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I just wanted to see if there was something for lldb(1) that added some helpers for inspecting Rust data and such (apparently there is, Rust-LLDB)

I fucking hate rustaceans so fucking much holy shit. Look up ...

2025-08-05T19:19:41Z

I fucking hate rustaceans so fucking much holy shit. Look up “Rust debugger” and you get tons of threads where everyone replies “I avoid writing ‘convoluted’ algorithms so I don't need a debugger” ([close to direct quote](https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-do-you-guys-do-debugging-in-rust/124498/2 )) and “write unit tests so you don't need a debugger to catch errors” (do you know what the purpose of debugging is?); and the closest thing to a helpful answer you see “use this Microsoft VS Code™ extension”

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2025-08-03T22:59:24Z

Someday, when you are older, you could get hit by a boulder

Phone OSes just always mark traffic as being hotspot-originated ...

2025-08-03T03:41:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…e4l2
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Phone OSes just always mark traffic as being hotspot-originated or not, hence why you can bypass it as root by just patching out that part of the networking stack (or apparently by tricking the OS with a thing someone else in the thread linked)

gulfie official (npub1nnk…8gzn)

So it used to be that the ground floor apartments were the most ...

2025-08-02T18:26:35Z

So it used to be that the ground floor apartments were the most expensive because you didn't have to go up and down stairs to get into them; I wonder how long it took after elevators started being installed places that it swapped to the top-floor being the most expensive for the views

I wonder what Nintendo did to the developers of those obscure ...

2025-07-31T23:15:53Z

I wonder what Nintendo did to the developers of those obscure free games on their eshops that accidentally enabled a software exploit on a console

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2025-07-31T00:20:58Z

Are you seriously taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

Hmm, apparently the (relatively-)current signal strength of ...

2025-07-27T22:00:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…xttn
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Hmm, apparently the (relatively-)current signal strength of Voyager from Earth is -160 dBm, which is literally only 400–1500 individual photons received per bit with the frequencies it uses https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/816698/how-many-photons-are-received-per-bit-transmitted-from-voyager-1/816710#816710

Honestly, the literal only two trustworthy options are hard ...

2025-07-27T00:48:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…pg9n
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Honestly, the literal only two trustworthy options are hard drives you bring online at least every few weeks and run a complete integrity check, or LTO tape. Or the cloud in which case you are literally just paying someone else to run the hard drives or manage the tapes.

Unfortunately no options else for long-term archival, unless you have little enough data to like, burn DVD-Rs (and hope there's trustworthy media still being made and it's not offbrand garbage).

Why are birdies the cutest things ever ...

2025-07-23T15:43:55Z

Why are birdies the cutest things ever

Very tragic that there is not yet a cure for web frameworks, ...

2025-07-21T00:25:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…n5jr
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Very tragic that there is not yet a cure for web frameworks, hopefully one day they will be cured of their affliction (or at least prevented from spreading it to others).

Some alternative medicine practitioners have made headway with prescription of banning them from all computers other than a low-end laptop from 2014, but the practicality of implementing it relegates it as a fringe self-help treatment

We should segregate web framework devs from the programmer ...

2025-07-21T00:25:02Z

We should segregate web framework devs from the programmer general population, for everyone's safety. Like leprosy historically, even a single close interaction carries the risk of lifelong infection.

I know he's considered a “father of science fiction” but ...

2025-07-18T03:01:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…g0p3
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I know he's considered a “father of science fiction” but all I can think of that he wrote a book so explicitly authoritarian and militaristic that it inspired Paul Verhoeven to make a movie adaption as a biting satire of everything the book stood for

I love that 95% of Bluesky users make their accounts visible only ...

2025-07-13T15:27:57Z

I love that 95% of Bluesky users make their accounts visible only to logged in users for literally no reason (it is extremely trivial for anyone with nonzero motivation to view the data in the network tab of dev tools *and* literally anyone could just make a throwaway account *and* all the posts are completely public on the network, it just makes anyone casually trying to look at the art you're posting not bother)

If you don't have an arbitrary theoretical purity standard ...

2025-07-09T23:25:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…22x0
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If you don't have an arbitrary theoretical purity standard then I've never once ever had data corruption on ext4, including successful data recovery from failing hardware. Certainly ext4 is ****much**** less sensitive to power loss than btrfs is in the real world, which is good because power loss is like the most common crash to happen on a normal person's computer when you didn't buy a UPS for everything