Reid :blobcat_happy:

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2026-05-01 22:04:01 UTC

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well, the meta stuff has changed a bunch over the years, but the language itself can still be compiled just fine. All major C compilers support every C spec since K&R and up to at least C17 (though most support C23 as well by now).
Meanwhile look at the other major languages around: Python doesn't bother guaranteeing compatibility within the same major release, Java has new major releases like EA sports games, Rust can't even be bothered with making sure that their own compiler can be compiled with versions older than n - 2.

2026-05-01 21:53:24 UTC

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Rust's only real guarantee is that it doesn't allow out of bounds memory access (something most languages these days don't allow unless you use explicitly unsafe ways of handling memory), but rust programmers treat it like it guarantees good code all the time always no matter what since the compiler rejects a lot of perfectly good code if you don't write some boilerplate it demands, which gives people the false sense that if the compiler accepted the code then it must be perfect.
Like, in some ways this is what INTERCAL made fun of, and now we're told it's innovation.

2026-05-01 21:49:02 UTC

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For all of its flaws, C got a few things right: it's darn simple, and it has stable specs you can rely on. C code written 30 years ago still compiles fine today assuming all of the libs it requires are still around. All other major languages have had several releases with breaking changes since then (hell, with some languages like Python it's a miracle if you can get software written 5 years ago to run on the latest Python release)

2026-05-01 21:44:52 UTC

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Mate, they're writing "we hear you" posts with LLMs, they're never fixing the issues. If nothing else, expect it to get worse.

2026-05-01 21:43:34 UTC

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I mean, I'm not even that much of a C head myself, but C programmers do this thing called actually thinking about potential issues, something that is beneath Rust programmers because their holy language handles anything and everything and if the compiler accepts code then it must be perfect.

2026-05-01 21:40:27 UTC

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entirely possible, but regardless of the motive, the result is that rustacians have an almost religious faith in their holy language inherently preventing/fixing all problems ever, resulting in a LOT of garbage code with issues that wouldn't have sneaked past a human in other languages, even in C.

2026-05-01 21:35:25 UTC

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the more I learn about Rust, the less I trust anything written in it

2026-04-28 10:42:37 UTC

@npub1thp…65lp Are you telling me the cheap prices were just part of the "capturing the market" part of blitzscaling and now that the market is captured they're hiking up prices?!? No way!!
#note1ajj…k79k

2026-04-27 18:58:09 UTC

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Vance or Trump? Not like it matters. Even if both die, the Republican party can martyrize Trump then line up someone swearing to continue Trump's holy work

2026-04-27 18:51:40 UTC

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some would argue Vance is already calling many of the important shots on behalf of the Project 2025 crew while Trump is just kinda there acting like the a Make a Wish kid to distract from the people pulling his strings.

2026-04-27 18:48:24 UTC

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pretty sure the replacement is Vance who is knowingly in bed with the Heritage Foundation (unlike Trump who's kinda just there for the ride)

2026-04-27 06:19:01 UTC

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also, the more I think about it, the more likely I find it that the oath thing just wasn't ever tested in court

2026-04-27 06:14:14 UTC

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I think normally it's to the absolute truth, so you have to explicitly state "to the best of my knowledge" as part of the oath to shield yourself there, but also I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea.
However, I don't think it matters. Even with their relative losses compared to their golden age, the tobacco industry has more than enough money to butter up the right people and get away with it.

2026-04-27 05:57:42 UTC

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but will they ever suffer consequences for lying under oath? No, because they have a trillion excuses about how they didn't know yet (they absolutely did), most smokers are in denial about how they could quit at any moment, and, above all else, there's zero interesg from US authorities to do it.

2026-04-26 22:30:55 UTC

https://media.catto.garden/media/f148d39f0dca923bc3856c2cc83683e7624fc952f8fca28e4107ed5d19e61188.jpg
https://media.catto.garden/media/832ca19bf53bfe6b78fe4bb4128360121204f2a355781d001d77472338d9eed3.gif

2026-04-26 22:26:33 UTC

Not that I woupd ever advocate for doing that, but it's something to keep in mind
https://media.catto.garden/media/fc7b1e9f5942dda25beb393abe1736efac2d415f8be027c572660cc7560a669b.jpg

2026-04-26 20:59:04 UTC

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I mean, you know who makes glib and gio, right? gnome's known for many things, quality not one of them

2026-04-26 20:55:16 UTC

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too bad gio and glib suck

2026-04-25 06:36:27 UTC

Can we, like, normalize wearing wizard robes in public?

2026-04-24 22:34:53 UTC

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bananas are tasty, radium toothpaste isn't

2026-04-24 22:33:50 UTC

Who could have ever predicted this!
https://media.catto.garden/media/203dea7404109aef1d201ae91b719a786e84cbf41228277699d7184c90e115c8.png

2026-04-24 21:36:34 UTC

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why the *fuck* would I be going to stalk someone's socials after they reply to a post of mine, especially if they're just being a dick? my reply to the original post was because of the LLM crap, your reply was needlessly mean, what other conclusion was I to reach but defense of LLMs?

2026-04-24 21:15:07 UTC

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imagine: not being an asshole just to defend a slop article that had no effort put into it because it was "written" with an LLM.

2026-04-23 17:03:17 UTC

Every night, Molag Bal checks under his bed to make sure she's not hiding there
https://media.catto.garden/media/a68dcbdcf31eefe4a77213b3f229c7d4945c87718342ff3726eedb29fbd4016e.jpg

2026-04-23 16:54:53 UTC

I think this is gender bender
https://media.catto.garden/media/fec10448b15689569bff613dfe161d563a294f5a3149e6131978446a0f052edf.jpg

2026-04-23 16:51:38 UTC

Khajiit help a brother out
https://media.catto.garden/media/08fdd289ae4c44f009132ab1963b5d8665b42ee64363724c5c133bccd366b535.jpg

2026-04-23 16:45:37 UTC

American measurements are a mental illness
https://media.catto.garden/media/9511d406a342c1ce0793a7efb808ad391184a9b853ba53ee75e5bb8d12f10ddb.jpg

2026-04-22 22:13:39 UTC

Fuck mosquitoes
https://media.catto.garden/media/30fe8bd8664a39c336a1c07dc51cd253d08b929c3431d8b721c8fee46b32c3fa.jpg

2026-04-22 07:55:39 UTC

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Gotta admire how many words went into saying so little. Really reads like a school assignment puffed up to barely make the word count

2026-04-20 21:51:14 UTC

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welp... guess Linux is a sinking ship, then.

2026-04-20 19:23:03 UTC

Serious talk: has Linux-libre made any statement about handling the LLM commits from upstream?

2026-04-20 07:46:48 UTC

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oh, I know the meme format, just not what chuunibyou means
As for being great at it: hubris is one of the three virtues of a programmer so of course you're great at it.

2026-04-20 07:26:43 UTC

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what's that?

2026-04-20 05:55:56 UTC

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ok but what's even absurd about 67 other than the collective psychosis causing people to act like there's anything funny about it?

2026-04-20 05:40:44 UTC

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no, just autistic

2026-04-20 05:12:55 UTC

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as a zoomer I can testify there's nothing funny about it

2026-04-20 04:23:38 UTC

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what's so funny about it? I'm not seeing 69, 420, 1337, or any round binary number.

2026-04-18 08:06:02 UTC

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you're supposed to go batshit insane because it's dbus

2026-04-18 07:40:10 UTC

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that sounds horrific

2026-04-17 23:26:51 UTC

Have a reaction image for the next waifu war
https://media.catto.garden/media/beb295407a885a868114d81d6ebb88800b885b4e275e3c8a27adf0683cd8b7bc.png

2026-04-16 04:49:20 UTC

Just in case anyone is wondering why I hate that everyone is now parading the Macbook Neo as *the* laptop to get: it will be probably the largest wave of ewaste from a single manufacturer when people start replacing them
#note1th6…mhkh

2026-04-14 18:28:04 UTC

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doesn't really sound like my cup of tea (not because of the horny; I'm down for a hella horny story, just not in this specific setup)

2026-04-14 18:23:01 UTC

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Idk what that is

2026-04-14 18:20:44 UTC

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y'all are horny for Cthulhu

2026-04-14 07:14:41 UTC

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1) close your Markdown quotes properly; you're supposed to have an empty line after the quote
2) http does fucking suck and everyone who decided it would be a good idea to use it for things other than serving static html documents needs to be trialed for crimes against humanity
3) TLS is a blot by big TLS, but to sell more TLS because before Let's Encrypt your only option was to pay a CA to issue you a certificate. The whole structure is broken on top of busted on top of fuck you for not being a fuck off huge megacorporation with more power than governments
https://media.catto.garden/media/b5893847d2e9da1af83bb9840b4c3f7afbd1f7da145b3ff0fe777d400db19cd5.png

2026-04-14 06:12:08 UTC

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why not like that? What's wrong with the possible entities from witchcraft?

2026-04-13 19:39:11 UTC

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I don't think it's so much people not seeing fascism, it's more that you have to 1) have a certain level of political knowledge to recognize the fascism before it's painfully obvious, and 2) be of a certain political leaning to call it for what it is instead of either agreeing with it or hoping to use it for your own political gain. And that political leaning happens to be exactly the one that everyone is told is evil and delusional, thus if they say something's fascist they must be wrong and the thing they say is fascist must most definitely be not fascist.
I'm not doing a great job explaining it, but it all boils down to there having been a sustained effort to demonize left wing ideologies, while fascism was downplayed as some long dead thing that's so far in the past you shouldn't bother with it except in the US where it was reduced to killing jews so zionists could call their critics antisemitic.

2026-04-13 19:30:18 UTC

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because for the past 40 years we've been taught about how anything left-wing is communist and communism is evil, meanwhile fascism has always been talked about as some far away past thing that we should remember once existed but shouldn't think too much about because it's all in the past

2026-04-12 08:58:43 UTC

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for how long has this been going on?

2026-04-10 20:07:07 UTC

New desktop setup or something, Idk
Still have some things to work out (like the panel) but overall it ain't too bad.
https://media.catto.garden/media/7c6f47f9d47aa3fda8ca7f312f2424680883199b5e0db6d8444fbce48fedd588.png
https://media.catto.garden/media/d9e2776e718857c1aa032e69cee0b63dead6b75adb5033374e5d609478c49cc9.png

2026-04-09 18:09:28 UTC

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maybe go learn what democracy is, you clearly skipped that lesson in school

2026-04-09 14:23:06 UTC

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with all due respect: fuck off with that shit

2026-03-31 19:10:02 UTC

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saw these posts but I wanted to see the link in the original post

2026-03-31 18:40:08 UTC

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link times out

2026-03-30 18:26:33 UTC

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unfortunately the tech industry is majority libertarian, highly individualistic and chasing the bag, so little effort was made outside of some game developer unions

2026-03-30 16:06:16 UTC

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directly towards the south pole which is what should cause all water to flow south but that doesn't happen so clearly gravity doesn't exist

2026-03-30 15:46:44 UTC

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that's not even the problem. They believe gravity is an absolute force always pointing to an absolute down

2026-03-30 15:21:43 UTC

I don't even know what the fuck
https://media.catto.garden/media/b1fd3aa104214e54ca8803e60d6d46fc37fad5ec9d9cd6d80cd3fb373cc163fe.png

2026-03-30 07:50:09 UTC

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is this the theme song for the next release?

2026-03-29 11:11:48 UTC

Can you imagine what a story that would be?
"Dad, how did you and mom meet?"
"She broke into my server via ssh"
https://analognowhere.com/_/nigheu/

2026-03-28 22:52:40 UTC

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so you seek help from the bullshit machines thaf made the search engines useless in the first place?

2026-03-28 22:44:15 UTC

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> llm usage
Eww, unsubscribed

2026-03-27 17:21:09 UTC

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and before you ask: I did go to the local electronics stores to look at the cheappest HDMI anything they have on offer: I don't have enough money even for that junk that will likely fail me before the end of the year

2026-03-27 17:18:22 UTC

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nope. I have a TV my landlord left here but the only inputs on it are RF, composite, and SCART, and I don't have adapters from HDMI to any of them

2026-03-27 16:55:22 UTC

*screams*
My laptop's display being dead means I can't do jack shit besides watch youtube and post on fedi ;-;

2026-03-26 22:32:17 UTC

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huh? Maybe my memory of irssi specifically was fuzzy but WeeChat logs by default

2026-03-26 22:14:54 UTC

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> these need to be configured or require a plugin to achieve it somehow. a headache.
how? Both WeeChat and Irssi log conversations by default. You have to go out of your way to configure them to *not* keep chatlogs
And they're a headache with multiple networks how? I use WeeChat with multiple networks and it works perfectly fine.

2026-03-26 22:04:54 UTC

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- most clients that I'm aware of can log chats, the server isn't involved with that
- you don't need to see every single message ever sent even while you're not there, it's fine, you can miss some conversations, it's not the end of the world
- WeeChat and irssi both just work. A rule of thumb with IRC clients is: avoid anything that looks flashy, extra avoid anything with "modern" on the front page. If it has barely changed in the last 20 years then it's exactly what you're looking for.

2026-03-26 21:57:28 UTC

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how? IRC is as simple as it gets for instant messaging.

2026-03-26 21:43:47 UTC

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wdym? IRC does this thing that's uncommon with more modern stuff called "actually working and being reliable"

2026-03-26 21:41:56 UTC

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because of a shitty client?

2026-03-26 21:38:51 UTC

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may I introduc you to our lord and saviour WeeChat? irssi is also pretty good if you want something extra old skool

2026-03-25 09:46:34 UTC

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weren't we always competing?

2026-03-25 09:44:44 UTC

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numbers are easier to sell

2026-03-25 08:11:16 UTC

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Doki Doki Literature Club, end of Act 1

2026-03-25 07:50:45 UTC

I gently open the door...

2026-03-23 16:29:05 UTC

Is there any bitmap font with nerdfont-compatible glyphs that doesn't look like absolute ass for the non-regular variants? (the official Nerd-patched Gohu and ProggyClean fonts have awful bold variants)

2026-03-21 18:41:07 UTC

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I mean, they do have the social credit system already; it's possible they're looking into expanding it and that's why they find any sort of AI research worthwhile

2026-03-21 12:47:05 UTC

@npub1tk7…0m5c @npub1fh7…ee83 hai, not sure who I should @ about this but something clearly went wrong here. This was just a regular mail notification about some Codeberg repo activity (which is normal, received several of those back to back as expected) but this one specifically was marked as non-standard? Idk if this was a bug on Codeberg's side with formatting one email, or if Tuta's detection misfired but something clearly didn't work as intended (I can provide the email file to either entity if needed)
https://media.catto.garden/media/4314fffc83d5a3534b84e22a1f99d440b65cc66b86aebf7e1f17f32a51678ca2.png

2026-03-19 22:45:25 UTC

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What I had in mind was more something that could help deliver the oxygen faster.
You'd still likely need batteries but that might be a tad more efficient
Though there's one more issue with running forever: you kinda need fuel to burn trough.

2026-03-19 22:39:14 UTC

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There might be ways to go about it, but most involve transhumanism.

2026-03-19 22:28:14 UTC

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You'd need more than just the lungs of a bird. As a human you're just too damn large even for scaled up bird lungs to keep up in a full sprint. Your circulatory system would likely struggle as well (human hearts can do some insane heavy lifting, but only in short bursts, not sustained effort)

2026-03-19 21:56:05 UTC

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Evolution: "How much breathing capacity do you want?"
Birds: "yes."

2026-03-17 23:11:39 UTC

People like this should outright be banned from being involved in the hiring process
https://media.catto.garden/media/e708e9b448cf1dabdceda88cf0e400d6ee370440daf92f91fb99a509f3a5121a.jpg

2026-03-17 22:21:59 UTC

Haiku gaming
https://media.catto.garden/media/fd300de1fe6aec6e418bfc2f01f011bff3f81bf4f8da3c37eb4f88b1b22f3081.png

2026-03-17 20:02:48 UTC

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*spontaneously combusts*

2026-03-17 19:56:28 UTC

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and when they have colour, it's always some really muted colour like a dark blue or that beige that seems to be popular with some new cars like the Dacia Duster and some Mazdas

2026-03-15 12:28:40 UTC

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if there is it's probably old enough that it's hard to use it in a court.
Also, there's an unchallenged precedent for what Google is doing with PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo consoles, and iOS

2026-03-15 12:20:16 UTC

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it depends a bit on the country, but I think the issue is that there just isn't legal precedent for preemptive regulatory action

2026-03-15 10:45:15 UTC

20+ year old shitbox owners be like
https://media.catto.garden/media/861a0264292bdbbceae053ddce4c3d8b1bd69cff4d851d15ebe41a77768cf793.png

2026-03-14 13:02:51 UTC

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> how does one build a ROM?
you draw a pentagram with the blood of the innocent, place candles at each of the 5 corners, then start praying to the lord of darkness while sacrificing baby goats in the center of the pentagram

2026-03-14 09:16:05 UTC

Y'know what? Fuck it, share your absolutely decadent desktop setups.
Here's mine
WM: SwayFX
panel: swaybar + Tarme
Terminal: Foot
Extras: EVi, ncmpcpp, and Links2
https://media.catto.garden/media/b9ba8409972145ef3bca94cb7f8b76c35f3aab00cc7086f83d4108a22a1c2858.png

2026-03-14 08:35:16 UTC

Can we please talk for a moment about how godawful the EU's emissions testing is? It all focuses on laboratory testing which lasts maybe a few hours and won't work the engine for more than a few hundred km, so manufacturers get to cheat all the time with engineering choices that drastically lower the emissions in the super short term but then make them much much worse in the medium and long term (along with hurting longevity).
One example of that would be low tension piston rings which allow for very low friction when the car is new but have much lower tolerances and stop being able to collect the oil properly after a few thousands of km of use, resulting in the cars burning significant amounts of oil to the point the manufacturers just tell you in their service manuals to check and top up the oil levels.
If you don't know how cars do: burning oil is absolutely horrific both for the environment and for health, because it does *not* burn cleanly (it's also why bikes with 2-stroke engines are outright banned in most cities). Achieving absolutely 0 oil burning isn't exactly possible, but 20 years ago it would've been a sign of a sharted motor in need of a rebuild if it burned enough oil to require top ups between oil changes. Meanwhile today that's just what manufacturers tell you to expect.

2026-03-12 21:27:24 UTC

Japan always finding ways to do fun stuff that we wouldn't think of in the west
https://media.catto.garden/media/7c5b555e9bea1bd0a3cac5213c990ff8bab239c35352ee7a4009fbcee67825fb.jpg

2026-03-11 17:00:46 UTC

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Java's mostly used in enterprise settings these days, and I woudln't be surprised if it's kept shit and slow because https://xkcd.com/303/

2026-03-11 13:13:19 UTC

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had Java been less verbose, Python might actually not have picked up like it did. Java enjoyed a time in the spotlight as a favourite for education and beginners, so people might have used it more for larger projects, but given how verbose it is (and how awful some of the tooling is), it lost that to Python.
Though I'll admit this analysis is completely vibes based so it could be terminally wrong

2026-03-11 13:00:11 UTC

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I think 90% of it was that Python is easy to pick up and they had really good PR. Lots of people learned it, which meant lots of packages made for it, which meant lots of people using it because it has packages for everything.

2026-03-09 20:24:29 UTC

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the issue with creating an alternative to Linux is the sheer scale of the thing. It's an absolute behemoth that is completely unmaintainable without an army of developers paid to work on it full time; some BSDs managed to stay more manageable but with more limited hardware support.
Main options would be FreeBSD and OpenBSD; FreeBSD mostly focuses on server stuff but is mostly usable on desktops; OpenBSD focuses on desktop use but also sticks closer to the old UNIX ways so it's not for everyone; hardware support is also limited as mentioned previously.

2026-03-09 10:57:16 UTC

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wasn't the civil was he mentioned supposed to be between '05 and '15?

2026-03-09 10:55:04 UTC

tbh what I want from a text editor:
- not slopcoded
- vi/vim-style modal editing
- some kind of paredit thing (very much mandatory with how much Scheme/lisp code I edit)
- syntax highlighting
- basic unix commands like copy and move directly available in the editor's command line (optional but highly appreciated)
- runs in a terminal (could also do with a GUI if it's not a massive pain in the ass, but I'd rather it runs in a terminal)
- git integrations a la [Fugitive](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) would also be really nice, though I could live without it