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2026-06-13 05:25:18 UTC

Doot do doooooot
got encrypted PDFs opening on plan9 :)
maybe now that I can read the PDF specification I can use it to get better font renderings :P
#plan9
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2026-04-25 07:44:02 UTC

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> slow down
I've seen studies linked that purported to show the opposite; bike lanes => fewer cars on the road => faster response times
not to mention *gestures at Europe*
they get a lot wrong, buuut

2026-04-25 07:39:17 UTC

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left image: local isn't a boot path, it's a command. Needs to be in the form `local!/path/to/filesystem`.
Right image: disks are directories, and you can't boot the directory!
/dev/sdE1 should be the CD drive; the USB drive should show up as a /dev/sdU..., not sdE; E is SATA, U is USB.
It looks like there's something wrong with that controller possibly (nusb/usbd: too many attaches in short succession), unsure if it's hardware fault or quirk or whatnot

2026-04-05 18:20:40 UTC

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Yooooo! Not just me! :3
Before I had the Tangara, I was using one of those mini audio recorders for a few years. Unfortunately, couldn't fix it when it broke, which was a major part of why I went with the tangara as a replacement :)
Those things are surprisingly good, and I'm regularly the only person in the gym with a wire :)

2026-03-31 13:28:24 UTC

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Didn't they explicitly reject using it?
Was this overlooked beforehand maybe?
[Maintains forceful optimism]

2026-03-26 01:03:57 UTC

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Heh
Not a shake, just dust
First time pouring concrete mix, in a crawlspace, didn't think to grab my respirator first. Most of it was fine, but one of the pours, the dust got pushed right at me by the wind and i didn't react in time :p
.valuable lessons learned, and these skills will be useful very soon because my crawlspace is waaay more fucked than the one i helped fix this morning 🙃

2026-03-26 00:14:28 UTC

on the one hand, I now know what uncured concrete tastes like; on the other, there's no YAML involved. I think I like this new job.

2026-03-26 00:01:27 UTC

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musl instead of glibc
sbase instead of coreutils
ubase instead of util-linux
pigz instead of gzip
mandoc instead of man-db
bearssl instead of openssl
oksh instead of bash
sdhcp instead of dhclient or dhcpcd
vis instead of vim or emacs
byacc instead of bison
perp and sinit instead of sysvinit or systemd
netsurf instead of chromium or firefox
samurai instead of ninja
velox instead of Xorg
netbsd-curses instead of ncurses
and then it can also be extended with firefox and dependencies etc

2026-03-25 23:58:03 UTC

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this looks, very much, like Oasis, I think
Mcf's thing?

2026-03-24 21:59:58 UTC

@npub19av…rp6r the wifi is blessed in your honor
Cc @npub1lym…fqe3
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2026-03-23 17:31:48 UTC

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What i mean is, it's kinda weird that even something as well defined as C can change so much in 20 years as to require basically relearning the idioms.
It's also... kinda just an argument that this code is bad, tbh. Lots of Plan 9 code is this old, much of it uses similar patterns, little of it has ever taken me this much effort to reverse engineer...

2026-03-23 17:21:07 UTC

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Something fascinating here: this is a codebase in C. It's not doing anything crazy by the rules of C. C is my preferred language, the one I'm best at. I understand every single line of code, on its own.
But a lot of the high level logic feels weirdly foreign, moreso than typical Go code even.
I can read the code and go "oh that's a hash table" pretty easily, and i get using a hash table to quickly identify cached blocks
But the table is, implicit? Sorta?
The heads of each "bucket" are stored in the cache, but there's no real bucket. Each block just has a doubly linked list to follow prev/next pointers which, sure, but then it also multiple other unrelated lists.
Okay, not too crazy.
But they're sorted by a fake ticker clock, except not entirely, only sorta quadratically? Which seems to just be a way to maintain a LRU in *yet another list* sorting the *exact same set* of *statically allocated blocks*.
And, i can untangle all of this. It requires pen and paper ( or a .tex file), but it's a fascinating experience reading something, understanding what it means, but having no clue what it's doing

2026-03-23 12:21:30 UTC

Working on an old abandoned code base where i can't talk to the authors and it takes hours to figure out some of the bullshit it's pulling off, i can definitely see the appeal for a tool that can quickly read over the code and check my inferences on e.g. memory flow and ownership patterns
Nowadays, people would obviously default to either LLMs for that or for arguing that humans should do it because the other people are saying LLMs and fuck that
But what I'm more interested in: there's plenty of static analysis tools for checking code you wrote. Is there any prior art in deterministic static analysis tools that help _read code_ by other people?
Dataflow and control flow analysis are super commonly used in compiler optimization. Are there any tools out there that do dataflow analysis and then, say, can look at a variable and show all _possible references_ and relevant code?
E.g. this Foo* is passed to foo(), so it can be f there, which might call bar, and ...)
Or "this code allocates Bar, here's the entire possible relevant code for what might happen to that across this 100kloc project, here's every function in every file that might use _that specific value_, and an explanation of how it gets there"

2026-03-22 20:01:48 UTC

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That it is :3
I probably have a wifi card for it somewhere (I've a few of the mobile ones from old dead laptops) but generally the power consumption isn't worth it for me with how low battery life already is
Better to plug in to ethernet when needed and be more focused the rest of the time :)

2026-03-22 19:03:34 UTC

I wonder how many other times a diesel engine has been used to charge sodium cells?
Mnt reform
...On a stick^W train!
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2026-03-18 18:37:48 UTC

[@cinap_lenrek](https://hj.9fs.net/cinap_lenrek ) having trouble finding a minimal repro of the linker bug :/
I've got one that works on fossil but that's not sufficient. I'll dig into it later. I've definitely run into it on smaller project multiple times, I'm sure I'll find it again

2026-03-18 00:30:59 UTC

Fossil actually has some of the most useful comments I've seen in code.
Paraphrasing but
/* here's a weird thing were doing
Here's why
Here's the assumptions that other code is doing
Here's how we're satisfying them temporarily
Here's why this approach is wrong, we should revisit this even though it technically works*/
These comments are actually saving me time in reading and understanding the code. That's pretty rare for code comments

2026-03-17 20:03:00 UTC

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There's a few nice reds and blues and the very occasional other color but it's so awful now in general
@npub1lym…fqe3

2026-03-17 17:57:06 UTC

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no, i actually quite like color, it provides great beauty
Was just complaining an hour ago that all the cars on the road are boring because they're all monochrome now :p

2026-03-16 03:24:40 UTC

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.. yep, will do. Off computer now, will dive in tomorrow.
I tested 6l and 7l both so i already know that's not why. Hmm

2026-03-16 02:56:10 UTC

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> can't attach the debugger
... yeah i can? That's how i debugged tbe previous deadlock. Keep a dedicated fs with acid and enough utilities to use it and snap the processes to a different disk - or straight to venti with ramfs+vac.
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-03-16 02:34:00 UTC

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I've run into it before. I *think* it's essential that the missing symbol *not* be in the last function. This should work for main.c:
void foo(void);
void
bar(void)
{
foo();
}
void
main(void){
bar();
}

2026-03-16 02:28:45 UTC

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Working on neoventi showed me that the disk stuff was the hardest, was the point in bringing that up*
Networking and threading bugs are easy by comparison.
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-03-16 02:27:03 UTC

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Last time i ran into a deadlock i fixed it in like three or four hours. This is the exact kind of programming I'm best at, and it's with a project I'm familiar with and have used for 3+ years (without, i might add, any data loss or corruption so long as i ran fshalt, across at least four machines).
Fossil has very simple data structures and _already mostly works_. I'm not worried about deadlocks. If there were still data corruption or loss issues that i was aware of I'd be much more hesitant, but all that I'm intending to is related to in memory and on-CPU logic. I have no intention of changing anything about the disk format.
Venti is simple enough that neoventi seemed like a good idea. Compatibility with the disk format was the hardest part.
I think fixing fossil will be less work than trying to replace it, and fixed fossil + neoventi will do most of what i want. Venti is where the interesting stuff happens anyways.
And, importantly, if I'm wrong, i can just stop working on it and go back to e.g. wbfs. I also don't have access to the latest neoventi or pdffs sources until i get back to my pc, so I'm stuck with what i have on the reform; this seemed a reasonable short term obsession
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-03-16 02:15:44 UTC

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I've already fixed one of the deadlocks, I'm pretty sure i have a repro for the other one I've seen.
The only data corruption issue In aware of is that the atomic ops intended to ensure poweroff doesn't lose data just, are wrong, so it power is lost mid sync a file can be truncated.
Fossil is not actually super complicated imo. We'll see.
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-03-15 22:46:25 UTC

Fossil progress update, midwau through day 1: fixed fourish minor bugs and the code is 6% smaller.
Nothing major yet, just doing some small cleanups to learn more about the internal structures before doing the deeper stuff :)
Not bad for a quick start!

2026-03-15 21:55:15 UTC

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Cc [@cinap_lenrek](https://hj.9fs.net/cinap_lenrek ), @npub1485…8vcz for that bug btw [no irc access rn, sorry, only intertnet is on phone :/]
Setting curtext = P at the start of undef resolves it by having ??none?? printed instead. Would need to look a bit more to see how to actually find where the reference originates.

2026-03-15 21:50:08 UTC

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Fwiw I've also found some general 9front bugs too.
E.g. if you have a function declared in a header and use it but accidentally have only a static implementation, 7l prints the wrong function name as the source.
Reading through the source, i think this is because undef, which checks for unresolved symbols, is called after everything else is done, and it calls diag, which uses curtext as the source, and curtext will not be valid at that point since undef doesn't set it
I'm gonna have to check the other linkers to see if they do the same.
Fwiw fossils code is less bad than ventis in many ways.

2026-03-15 21:35:44 UTC

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Good faith defense: the bugs so far have all been with stuff nobody would ever touch, and thus notice
...ither than fsck deleting /active 😂

2026-03-15 19:26:12 UTC

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It stores all data in a hash table on disk. So, when the fs fails, you can take the hash of the fs root and reset the live fs, which is just a write buffer, and you're fine
Which is really cool
But it'd be cooler if i didn't need to use it at least like once a year on average 😅

2026-03-15 19:25:07 UTC

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Did i mention this is the code for the file system
That hosts the code
That m modifying? 😊
This is fine :3

2026-03-15 19:22:21 UTC

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Fortunately, setting the wrong variable to the wrong value is fine
Because that variable isn't used after startup and is only used to set a processs name for the os
🤦‍♂️😂

2026-03-15 19:20:00 UTC

Reading through the fossil source code and refactoring to clean up and get familiar, already found and fixed a few stupid but mostly harmless bugs. Most recently, telling fossil to print out the list of file systems when none are configured suicides.
So if you launch a fossil with just a console, to configure interactively, and prompt for the list, hahaha no you don't
But wait, there's more!
Normally you can run e.g.
% fsys main check
To run a fsck on fs main, or you can
% fsys main
To set the current fs, and then
% check
If you run fsys without args, it looks like it's suppppposed to clear the current fs.
Instead, it clears a _second variable_ for current fs because there's two of them 🤦‍♂️
And it doesn't even clear that! It sets it to the name of the first fs!

2026-03-15 13:12:26 UTC

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Also, doing some maintenance is a nice change of pace from my usual habit of working on replacing stuff
Fossil looks salvageable moreso than venti was.

2026-03-15 13:06:29 UTC

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Might as well ask why a dog is barking 😂
It's just what they do!
More serious answer: cuz it honestly shouldn't take more than a few days to fix every bug I'm aware of

2026-03-13 22:01:39 UTC

With some nice theming, i can barely see the screen damage :3
And yes I'm hacking on fossil. I'm going to fix the stupid "fsck ate my active file system" bug and see if I can learn enough about the fs structure to just patch the superblock direcrly instead of resetting the file system...
A few other things i want to do in there too once i know what I'm doing.
Then to see if i can get usb tethered so i can grab neoventi to finsih finally...
#plan9 #reform #mntreform
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2026-02-13 02:33:22 UTC

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i agree in principle but if you want society to be free then you need more people to be free and peolle *will* choose the polish so clinging to the ideal without bending imo will lead to the ideal dying

2026-02-10 08:51:52 UTC

Wait, monophasic sleep isn't normal???
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep
I want to dive deeper into this at some point but this seems to at least pass a basic self-consistency test

2026-02-10 01:19:55 UTC

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/gestures vaguely in the direction of 9front
A community with a clear stance, where all code is looked at by multiple people, and where pro ai people generally don't feel welcome, is a good solution imo.
Not necessarily literally 9front though that's my community of choice, but - the template works, imo

2026-02-09 04:18:42 UTC

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I don't think there's a point continuing this conversation tbh. I don't think there's any chance of us agreeing so. Gnight :)
@npub1kld…6lkl

2026-02-09 04:17:07 UTC

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...k
@npub1kld…6lkl

2026-02-09 04:06:31 UTC

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That - okay, j agree with maybe 25% of that 😅
@npub1kld…6lkl

2026-02-09 02:45:31 UTC

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Mostly agree, but worth noting that literacy rates have been getting worse at least in the US for, a while. AI is only one part of the story here.
@npub1kld…6lkl

2026-02-04 17:17:03 UTC

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Cool, so I'm back to "it just didn't fucking work, stop overthinking it" 🙃
@npub19av…rp6r

2026-02-04 04:20:59 UTC

...i think i just figured out what happened
Cc @npub19av…rp6r, i think you can give useful feedback here
I'd noticed a breeze coming from the circuit breaker panel due to shitty insulation for ages, way before the fire
I think the high winds of the storm, at like 5F temperatures, was providing inadvertent _active cooling_ to the circuit breaker
So as the wires and breaker were heating up due to overload, the breakwr was cooled down
But the circuit ran through a better insulated part of the house
So eventually, the breaker trips - but the circuit was already far, far hotter than the breaker
Still not certain how the heat translated into fire several hours after the breaker tripped, but - that might explain why the breaker failed?
Does this make sense?

2026-02-03 06:55:55 UTC

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Lab problems? :(

2026-02-02 23:47:57 UTC

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But
It's going into a diode
So yes you are??
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2026-02-02 23:41:49 UTC

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I... wait you can do that
That makes sense
But also jfc why
@npub1e8t…n3ds

2026-02-02 23:34:12 UTC

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Just make an led that flickers the light in time with the mains frequency on purpose 🤪
[@argv_minus_one](https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one )

2026-01-31 06:49:00 UTC

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I'll make her survive 😭
The case needs unburied, disassembled, dunked in isopropyl, and reassembled.
Then maybe i give in and buy mobo 3.0.
.. but no, I'm buying the parts yo fix the mobo as soon as i get the computer working
@npub1tyf…83t2

2026-01-31 05:46:39 UTC

@npub1tyf…83t2 the table in the very top left is where the Reform case is 🙃
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2026-01-30 21:26:17 UTC

"Why are you cancelling your internet?"
"You got bought by Verizon."
"...oh?"
"Also my house caught fire."

2026-01-27 04:34:59 UTC

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We've been incredibly fortunate. Given that the house was on fire two days ago, i cannot imagine being in a better situation right now. This was an absolute tragedy, and some amazing people have responded with miracles.
Shelter, at least for the short term, has been sorted out thanks to a friend's casual acquaintance being an absolute angel.
The Red Cross, bless em, reached out to us and helped us with temporary lodging while we figured out something a little more stable and, unprompted, offered more assistance due to the ongoing storms.
Rabbi brought food through the storm, even though it took 10 to 15 minutes to get his truck turned back around.
There's so many people that stepped up to help that I'm struggling to even remember them all.
The fire and police departments responded very quickly even though we didn't actually know there was a fire until after they showed up, they got the information they needed and then got us out of the cold while they took care of it. We never even saw flames, and I'm grateful that they were able to keep the damage as minimal as it is, and that they got us in touch with the red cross even as they were fighting the fire.
We're okay, mostly. Horribly rattled, but okay. Looks like almost everything that matters survived too - e.g. important documents, sentimental objects. Some things are horribly damaged, our home is partly in ruins, but. Even Bubbles, the sourdough starter baby, frozen as it is with the heat gone, is alive.
Based on info from the fire inspector plus own observations, looks like a faulty circuit breaker that failed to trip while moderately to severely overloaded for 12+ hours. Uncertain how exactly the flames started, since the breaker did eventually trip 2+ hours before the fire. Seems likely that residual extreme heat plus weather conditions and lack of windproofing on parts of the structure did Something. There was likely a *lot* of heat built up, there was definitely some fuel - e.g. some spiderwebs - near the breaker panel. Arc of it tripping may have ignited something slow burning which eventually hit structure. Don't know exactly, though the root cause seems certain.

2026-01-25 14:28:18 UTC

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"Lemme fix the foundation issues while living here with no prior experience" <- crazy but feasible with great care and patience
"Lemme rebuild the house and then still have to deal with thoae problems"... the city housing department suggested building a new house would be a better idea _even before_ this happened...

2026-01-25 14:26:57 UTC

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Unsure it's getting repaired. It needed work even before this. This on top of that is... i dunno.
Have to find someone to look after cats for a month or so. That buys time to figure it out
I'm lost

2026-01-25 04:31:39 UTC

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I don't know that I'll _ever< trust someone else's electrical work again

2026-01-25 04:21:10 UTC

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The problem now is figuring out "where live?"
Can't afford to keep cats in a hotel forever, most places won't take them, I've got like two days to figure out where I'm staying for i don't even know how long

2026-01-25 02:48:38 UTC

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Most of the physical objects are totally fine apparently
Possibly not some sentimental stuff, not sure yet. aitinh in truck still.

2026-01-25 02:21:38 UTC

House attic caught fire. Smelled gas, there's no gas supply, called 911 immediately.
I'm fine, cats are fine, house is mostly fine but damaged. They had to tear the ceiling to get at it because the attic was inaccessible. It was an electrical fire.
Something that was done either before i moved in, or by the contractor who bailed on me, was done very very wrong.
House is damaged. Most stuff should be fine, or is water damaged. Frankly i don't care much about any of it right now.
Figuring out next few days. Very, very hectic. Will not respond. Just making sure people know.

2026-01-24 02:27:49 UTC

I really wish someone who broke into the e.g. AMD PSP would explain how they did it
not because I wanna write malware, but because there's an ARM CPU in my PC that I paid for then dammit that thing is mine and I'mma program for it 😡

2026-01-23 00:10:38 UTC

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...hey wait a minute
there's also a security camera feed _on the screen in that image_
which doesn't show the person taking the picture
The _real_ secret is that the reporter was a _vampire_!

2026-01-22 21:46:09 UTC

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If I get some wood, and the supplier tells me what's in it, and I make a bookshelf out of it and sell it, and _I don't add anything harmful_
but it turns out that the supplier lied and my "totally normal untreated wood" was actually chemically treated
Why should _I_ be liable for that, and not the supplier?

2026-01-22 21:43:58 UTC

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Heck, actually, really small rules change that I think keeps the wins and removes the problems:
You should be allowed to just say "We don't _think_ there is but we haven't tested," i think?
If you can sell it anyways, better to draw a distinction between "definitely bad", "nobody checked", and "definitely good."

2026-01-22 21:42:03 UTC

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Oh sure, I agree with that completely
My issue is just that I think a combination of factors ends up with some worse results:
- You're required to disclose if there's any
- You're not prohibited from saying that there is if there isn't
- Anyone can sue you if they claim there is and you didn't disclose it
- It's cheaper to just assume everything's dangerous than to actually measure
I think that some of the labels are so clearly ridiculous that nobody takes them seriously, and that results in people not taking the _actual disclosures seriously_
The warning that "this bookshelf contains formaldehyde" - useful. "and it will off-gas for a few weeks, make sure there's good ventilation, keep it somewhere where there's good ventilation for a month before moving it anywhere where there isn't" would be even more so. It tells you what you have to do to use it safely.
"This may contain _something_ bad but we don't know what, we just don't want to be sued if we missed something" <- detracts from the first one. It just makes people see "califronia says..." and zone out. There's no actual information in it, there's no instructions on how to make sure it's safe, so if you're already going to get it anyways, it doesn't change what you're going to do anyways...

2026-01-22 21:36:52 UTC

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Yeah but the problem with leaded gasoline was, I thought, in large part just _how much of the stuff_ we used?
Whereas leaded solder will, _with good ventilation_, disperse very quickly?

2026-01-22 21:28:47 UTC

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(i.e. AFAIK lead creates danger for _ingesting_ not _respirating_, whereas flux provides a _respiratory_ danger)

2026-01-22 21:27:01 UTC

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AFAIK, lead in leaded solder is dangerous not for the fumes it provides but because it leaves contaminants in the environment. As long as you keep leaded solder in a dedicated work environment, always wash your hands before leaving it, and don't ever bring food in, AFAIK it's genuinely safer than the flux.
whereas the flux is dangerous _fumes_, AFAIK air pressure is enough to prevent leaded fumes from being super dangerous [in amounts used by normal people, at least.]

2026-01-22 21:20:30 UTC

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Yeah but - there's an obvious difference between a drink and, say, a trace contaminant in an internal component.
I don't _care_ if there's a bit of copper inside of my _furniture_ because I'm not _going to eat it_

2026-01-22 21:12:49 UTC

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To emphasize: there's a difference between "If you add lead in this, you have to tell us how much you added" vs "if there _is_ lead in this, you have to tell us _how much is in it_."
There's ad ifference between an ingredient, and unknown contaminants of tiny amounts, in the supply chain

2026-01-22 21:10:54 UTC

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> requiring to test and document
is incredibly expensive for items that you have _no reason to think might contain anything_.
Most people, if you ask them if they want an exact chemical breakdown of what's in everything they buy in exchange for, say, 10% higher prices, will not want it.

2026-01-22 21:08:45 UTC

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Prop 65 is based off of good ideas, but tbh it convinces me that they're _right_ not to let the States set these rules.
Prop 65 sets up horrible incentives for lawyers, companies, and the government alike. Everything has a label now even when it shouldn't, so nobody takes them seriously; meanwhile people get sued over stupid bullshit while actual violations get overlooked.

2026-01-22 21:01:33 UTC

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tbh
"You can't pass laws requiring people to treat safe levels as unsafe" isn't that crazy to me

2026-01-22 20:09:51 UTC

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cuz Congress, IIRC.
I vaguely recall something about the Clean Air Act or some such saying something like "no state [except california] can set their own limits above the ones in this statute"

2026-01-22 20:02:30 UTC

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oh, that's easy
they're the only state legally allowed to

2026-01-22 19:54:54 UTC

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a mockery of california :P
but no, I"ve seen messages like this on basically everything
which is kinda their point

2026-01-22 19:41:55 UTC

HAHAHAHAH
> Warning. Everything sold into the state of California contains agents known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects, reproductive harm, or other, as yet unnamed, harm to its citizenry.
That's... I'm guessing, technically compliant? xD
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2026-01-19 06:26:40 UTC

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on clearance
for $800
mhm, definitely no scam here :eyeroll:

2026-01-19 05:57:07 UTC

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> $4,346
exclamation, THE FUCK

2026-01-17 08:18:41 UTC

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Also, system doesn't *post* with it in. Kernel isn't relevant?

2026-01-17 08:16:34 UTC

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..wait, you're saying that it might work better hot plugged?? 🤔

2026-01-17 06:07:30 UTC

@npub19av…rp6r good news: the xeon phi is dead anyways
Bad news for me, but
Your trauma can rest :p
(Overheats fast and system doesn't boot with it in :/)
(But, 9threadripper / notyetpublic9machine / unnamed overkill machine has taken her first breath :)

2026-01-17 00:47:38 UTC

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ay-yi-yi
Now I'm contemplating how you could actually do this and it probably wouldn't even be that hard
just have a defined API for saying "gimme a snapshot of your state that I can give a fresh copy of you later to resume", have all programs implement it, and then your "swap" is a set of the important state, not the actual RAM contents
...fuck I could totally try implementing this 🤔

2026-01-14 21:28:37 UTC

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haha, back into OSRS? :)

2026-01-11 05:22:22 UTC

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Where does 9front fall on this? 🤔

2026-01-09 19:24:43 UTC

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...I just quit 🙃
And I've gotten more personal software stuff done in the few days since than in the few weeks prior, _and_ been a bit more on top of everything else, soooo

2026-01-09 04:28:30 UTC

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😂
I'll note when I said everyone else, I meant "who purveys closed-source internet-connected trash masquerading as useful technology", not "who purveys speakers", but - fair enough, wasn't aware any of the others didn't do this

2026-01-09 01:56:30 UTC

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Sure, but - compared to what everyone else is doing, this is much much better
so the point about "stop yelling at them for doing what you wanted" remains imo

2026-01-08 06:26:00 UTC

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Mouser:
> EOL
>$1600

2026-01-08 05:36:03 UTC

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Basically: buggy product needs debugged, not abandoned. The concept is really cool

2026-01-08 05:35:50 UTC

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TBQH, I'm mad that the project ended up the way it did. IMO it _could_ have been good, _if_ the bugs had been worked out, and it had kept the display output.

2026-01-08 05:21:32 UTC

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Okay, but... I agree. That's why I said it's a _toy_.
There's a nonzero chance IMO that the problem was software. If I'm wrong, _it was $30_.
If I didn't get it, it was already eWaste. At least I can play with it before that happens.

2026-01-08 04:50:03 UTC

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Look I'm not saying the thing is _amazing_ but
It's literally $30 and it's an x86 chip _on a PCI card_ that can, theoretically, be made to _speak 9p over it_.
It's a toy. I'm not intending to actually try and do anything serious with it :P
...would be funny to get it running plan9 and compiling Go though 😂

2026-01-08 04:49:06 UTC

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no, that's what I'm drinking

2026-01-08 02:59:51 UTC

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...it's a Xeon Phi. I'm sorry.

2026-01-07 22:17:55 UTC

I don't know how I talked myself into thinking this was a good idea 😂
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/115/856/131/033/086/872/original/0669acd581f3b1a8.png

2026-01-04 01:01:26 UTC

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...huh, you totally could use this to define makefile rules couldn't you?
'All' it needs is a way to actually do something when a neuron fires...

2026-01-04 00:53:45 UTC

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... have an adventure file, and an input file? Conditional rendering based on which neurons are activated? Or am I overthinking this...

2025-12-17 20:54:06 UTC

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.... 🤔
I'm sure there's some key I'm not using for acme that I could use for this...

2025-12-15 01:40:03 UTC

...snrk.
Microsoft Word 1.0 in System 7 inside of an emulator in a web browser on linux has lower latency than most modern editors I've used, including the Linux ones. For _shame_.
...let alone modern office software 😂

2025-12-14 21:42:39 UTC

Are there any Linux desktops similar to Win3.1? Tried that for the first time today and am pleasantly shocked by how much I like it, would unironically love a desktop that functions similarly.
edit: just to preempt the 'old-timer' comments, I'm not even 25, so get _on_ my lawn 😂