Nostr notes by ✧✦Catherine✦✧

people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last ...

2026-01-09T11:04:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…26dx
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people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last let's say 40 years, it's very clear which states have their borders violated and which states do not

i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation

easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland ...

2026-01-09T11:02:00Z

easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland a nuclear submarine

no, i just see civilizations as pretty resilient (especially if ...

2026-01-06T13:20:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…l8xr
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no, i just see civilizations as pretty resilient (especially if the countermeasures are well understood and easy to manufacture)

what civilization ending event? with no ozone layer at all ...

2026-01-06T12:52:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…5c3m
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what civilization ending event? with no ozone layer at all we'd have to deal with significantly more skin cancer and cataracts. an issue but not at that scale

one of the stranger parts of living in the UK is how common the ...

2026-01-06T06:00:39Z

one of the stranger parts of living in the UK is how common the knowledge of the NATO phonetic alphabet is. everybody, from banks to landords, expects me to be able to spell my surname using it

is it taught in schools or something?

can you guess what this error message is attempting to ...

2025-12-30T16:28:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…zdjr
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can you guess what this error message is attempting to communicate

i wanted to give scala a fair try because vexriscv is just an ...

2025-12-30T16:26:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…ngr4
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i wanted to give scala a fair try because vexriscv is just an incredibly good CPU, but it immediately loses twice as many points as it ever had for being fuckin impossible to build

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2025-12-30T16:25:12Z

using sbt should be considered a form of self-harm

anyway, a single braking event as referenced above can bring 1 ...

2025-12-28T21:51:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…55we
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anyway, a single braking event as referenced above can bring 1 liter of water to a boil from room temperature, in what would be about a second of braking

how's this for a relatable comparison?

even if your goal is to make things comprehensible in comparison ...

2025-12-28T21:45:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…lyvg
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even if your goal is to make things comprehensible in comparison to mundane events, you could use "can bring to a boil X ml [or cups if you wish] of water"!

water's heat capacity is 4200 J/kg/K, it's a very convenient number even if you are doing mental math

"that amount of energy is sufficient to charge 10 completely ...

2025-12-28T21:42:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…hags
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"that amount of energy is sufficient to charge 10 completely drained iPhone batteries"

this is literally the electrical engineering equivalent of measuring things in football fields. what is it about americans and using real units

"a single braking event of a small car can dissipate over ...

2025-12-28T21:41:40Z

"a single braking event of a small car can dissipate over 0.12 kWh worth of energy"

i am begging people to use joules

[excerpt from a video about engineering of brakes]

reason to lose ten minutes to stupid computer shit: libreoffice ...

2025-12-27T05:02:54Z

reason to lose ten minutes to stupid computer shit: libreoffice appears to default to UTF-7 (sic) when importing CSV files

why in the ever living fuck would you want to use UTF-7. ever. at any point in your life

this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it - replacement ...

2025-12-23T13:23:46Z

this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it
- replacement for github: https://codeberg.org
- replacement for github pages: https://grebedoc.dev
- easy ci runners for codeberg: https://github.com/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner

as promised, here is a repository that lets you quickly turn any ...

2025-12-22T07:06:14Z

as promised, here is a repository that lets you quickly turn any random VPS into a Forgejo Actions runner in under 30 minutes, for use with Codeberg or your private forge! https://codeberg.org/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner

it uses NixOS internally, but Nix knowledge is neither required nor assumed, and the README walks you through the entire process.

i just read the source code tbh

2025-12-22T04:08:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…rsjv
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i just read the source code tbh

both of these things are lists. they do completely unrelated ...

2025-12-22T02:58:13Z

both of these things are lists. they do completely unrelated things

nixos is great

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2025-12-15T17:58:22Z

what fucking cunt is in charge of the trains at manchester

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2025-12-15T15:27:13Z

do i know anybody i could commission to make some ANSI art?

it's kind of unbelievable that in 2025 the "instant ...

2025-12-13T07:26:58Z

it's kind of unbelievable that in 2025 the "instant messaging" problem is *less* solved than it was in 2010

a beautiful part of using content-addressed storage and ...

2025-12-11T03:51:39Z

a beautiful part of using content-addressed storage and deduplication everything is that you get snapshots basically for free

so i added `git-pages -audit-rollback` for manually reverting a site to an earlier state based on an audit record! https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/#rolling-back-a-site

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is ...

2025-12-09T07:59:32Z

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"

it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5--LfHdshco

(i still don't have a diploma. i got _incredibly_ lucky that ...

2025-12-05T08:51:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…l8sh
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(i still don't have a diploma. i got _incredibly_ lucky that my skillset happens to be considered equally if not more valuable in the UK for the time being. i was not so lucky before & it might run out, but i'm very glad i have it right now.)

in a way, i am glad that it is unraveling: this whole system is ...

2025-12-05T08:49:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…u4hd
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in a way, i am glad that it is unraveling: this whole system is biased towards granting basic rights to people who got lucky with their family. it is manifestly unjust and should not exist in its present form. anybody who cheats through university to get a blue card is justified in doing so

at the same time, i wish there were places i could go to where i could learn from people dedicated to their field, at my own pace and without going into debt

would be nice, wouldn't it

a year or two after that i discovered that you need a diploma to ...

2025-12-05T08:47:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…65x3
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a year or two after that i discovered that you need a diploma to be considered human for the purposes of immigration. after that point, higher education ceased to have any meaning besides "a ticket to survival". having to study was an unpleasant byproduct

at the time, AI didn't exist and i also didn't know how to cheat. would i cheat my way through today? without hesitation, yes. academic integrity means nothing when the other end of scale is "being treated by a bureaucracy like you matter".

i agree that this is depressing, but i don't think AI is the ...

2025-12-05T08:44:29Z

i agree that this is depressing, but i don't think AI is the _cause_. this problem started when we collectively decided to gatekeep social and physical mobility with higher education

i went to university ~15 years ago. a naive idiot, i thought that i'm there to learn. eventually one of my parents casually admitted that university is for getting connections--i think the parent who was doing a PhD at the time, too

someone forgot verilog for an entire 802.11ax core on github ...

2025-11-30T04:12:30Z

someone forgot verilog for an entire 802.11ax core on github https://github.com/OpenEDF/ceva_wifi6/tree/main/RW-WLAN-HW/WLAN_HE_REF_IP/HW/IPs/HW/TOP11ax

maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools ...

2025-11-29T21:43:50Z

maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"

people in the us have been screaming about how the ussr was bad ...

2025-11-28T22:41:55Z

people in the us have been screaming about how the ussr was bad because of secret police and the planned economy, but it is 2025 and the us has a secret police and planned economy (by VCs, who are gullible idiots that brought us such gems as "the metaverse" and "feed the world into LLMs") and i think i'd rather be in the actual literal ussr

# grub-install /dev/shark0 ...

2025-11-25T02:17:39Z

# grub-install /dev/shark0

you know how there was a list github took down a few years ago of ...

2025-11-24T17:11:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…74nn
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you know how there was a list github took down a few years ago of every engineer who proudly declared how they worked with ICE? were i hiring someone and found out they're on that list, i would reject them

i want that, but at scale. or rather, i'm aware that this is already happening (for entirely commercial reasons such as "wage suppression"), i'm interested in expanding it to non-commercial reasons such as "making being a fascist collaborator bad for employment"

"a list of names of everyone involved and making sure ...

2025-11-24T16:42:19Z

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"a list of names of everyone involved and making sure they're unemployable, including in 'big flashy tech cos' for the rest of eternity" would be a good start

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2025-11-24T04:40:21Z

you can also scrape AI startup frontends if you really want only ...

2025-11-23T01:25:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…gcqg
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you can also scrape AI startup frontends if you really want only live ones

who would actually pay openai for queries when you can just ...

2025-11-23T01:17:12Z

who would actually pay openai for queries when you can just search github for sk-proj-?

> Keep in mind that certain details differ between GitHub and ...

2025-11-16T02:25:53Z

> Keep in mind that certain details differ between GitHub and Forgejo.

(page does not say a single word about what actually differs)

classic AI user response

2025-11-15T13:58:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…2vkp
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classic AI user response

sounds interesting but implausible, want to record a video of you ...

2025-11-15T13:56:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…zuuj
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sounds interesting but implausible, want to record a video of you doing this and put it somewhere?

android's data for rust adoption shows that rust code has ...

2025-11-14T22:13:16Z

android's data for rust adoption shows that rust code has ~5000 times fewer memory safety vulnerabilities per MLOC. that's a lot more than i expected, actually! https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html

(you might say that you're better than google's devs, but are you *five thousand times* better? i'd be skeptical.)

hey. Check out this squirrel ...

2025-11-13T19:45:24Z

hey. Check out this squirrel

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2025-11-13T01:56:50Z

tumblr is just zoomer email .

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2025-11-12T23:43:32Z

wanna feel old? armv7 is retro

simple storage as a service is our passion ...

2025-11-12T21:15:54Z

simple storage as a service is our passion

reminder that if you want an alternative to GitHub Pages, ...

2025-11-11T03:00:14Z

reminder that if you want an alternative to GitHub Pages, https://grebedoc.dev might be it

i put balatro on my oscilloscope ...

2025-11-08T12:58:18Z

i put balatro on my oscilloscope

PCB design pro tip: round the corners so that when you sleep with ...

2025-11-07T23:42:56Z

PCB design pro tip: round the corners so that when you sleep with the perfect beautiful creation it doesn't draw blood from you

the reason lead, and other similar metals (like mercury) are ...

2025-11-07T23:14:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…2lz2
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the reason lead, and other similar metals (like mercury) are harmful to your health is because they cross-link proteins in your brain (and elsewhere)

proteins have thiol, -SH, groups in many places. they rely on these groups forming hydrogen bonds to stay flexible. a Pb/Hg/etc atom will come and bond to two -SH groups, making the protein unable to change its shape and fulfill its function. when this happens in the brain, your brain stops working properly

a single atom of Pb is still harmful.

and yes, i think phasing out lead from solder is good even though ...

2025-11-07T23:06:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…mgn2
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and yes, i think phasing out lead from solder is good even though no specific evidence of leaded solder being harmful to health has ever been produced. this is because nobody's ever found out how much lead is a "safe" amount of lead; even though the harms of a small amount of lead are small, they are never zero, and so there is a good reason to not use it at all.

if lead-free solder is good for the nuclear stockpile it's ...

2025-11-07T23:01:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…rn20
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if lead-free solder is good for the nuclear stockpile it's probably good for your application too. yknow. just guessing here

(yes, bizarrely, the US nuclear stockpile is upgraded to be RoHS-compliant these days)

(on a technicality, plutonium is not considered a hazardous substance under Directive 2011/65/EU)

"lead-free solder" is the "horseless carriage" of ...

2025-11-07T22:35:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…tvnt
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"lead-free solder" is the "horseless carriage" of our time

let's make it so that in 2050, kids are like "you put WHAT in your solder??"

now that it's almost 2026, let's rename "lead-free ...

2025-11-07T22:33:22Z

now that it's almost 2026, let's rename "lead-free solder" to "normal solder" because cmon it handles just fine and we should really try to put lead in fewer things

remember how Chrome deprecated XSLT and everyone got insanely ...

2025-11-07T17:46:15Z

remember how Chrome deprecated XSLT and everyone got insanely outraged over it? anyway, good news, the deprecation path now includes a fully functional polyfill and anybody who opens a document that uses XSLT is linked to an extension that will make it continue to work even after the deprecation comes through https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt

cursed image ...

2025-11-04T13:04:01Z

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watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro ...

2025-11-04T01:46:16Z

watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro audio (native instruments, etc)

i think over a long enough timescale (more than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.

it doesn't matter that you think they're janky compared to professional-grade ones (sometimes they are, sometimes they're actively better, though that's rare)

because you won't have your professional-grade ones for very long, anyways.

llvm has some incredible option names disable arm... lol, oops ...

2025-10-28T01:24:19Z

llvm has some incredible option names

disable arm... lol, oops

advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut ...

2025-10-27T15:35:25Z

advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: https://bsky.app/profile/python.org/post/3m46nxmereb2b

basically the idea is that i'm going to turn every process ...

2025-10-26T15:36:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…33ve
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basically the idea is that i'm going to turn every process spawn of clang (within this build tree) into an HTTP request to a predefined endpoint, which then gets submitted to an auto-scaling HTTP service. which makes LLVM builds faster

additional mildly upsetting compiler content ...

2025-10-26T15:34:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…p3z5
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additional mildly upsetting compiler content

mildly upsetting compiler content ...

2025-10-26T15:25:19Z

mildly upsetting compiler content

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of ...

2025-10-26T09:47:56Z

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@yowasp/clang

huh did github basically abandon CI? ...

2025-10-25T22:02:26Z

huh did github basically abandon CI? (https://github.com/actions/cache)

apparently gentoo penguins specifically are doing very well ...

2025-10-23T13:48:00Z

apparently gentoo penguins specifically are doing very well despite climate change because they're very adaptable to their local environment. poetic

"yeah, just... let me rebuild my mitochondria with different USE flags"

a linker is just a worse-documented compiler!

2025-10-23T12:24:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…yhh6
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a linker is just a worse-documented compiler!

hey wanna read some horrors? https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/

2025-10-22T15:45:31Z

hey wanna read some horrors? https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/

they made a compiler passive aggressive (pictured: openbsd ...

2025-10-22T15:04:45Z

they made a compiler passive aggressive

(pictured: openbsd playground, a webpage that lets you click a button and get a compiled openbsd binary downloaded in a few seconds, all done locally using WebAssembly)

me: it's good code! them: look inside them: it's ...

2025-10-22T02:09:23Z

me: it's good code!
them: *look inside*
them: it's incomprehensible regular expressions!

thesis: vs code is a game engine. consider: - produced by a ...

2025-10-19T11:32:27Z

thesis: vs code is a game engine. consider:
- produced by a billion dollar company
- renders using opengl
- optimized like dogshit
- ships using a cursed runtime inheited down generations
- people hate it but use it anyway
- updates every few weeks, if something breaks the developer mostly just ignores you
- building anything involves gigabytes of artefacts
- there's ai in it for inexplicable reasons

do you ever think about how, in all likelihood, more people in ...

2025-10-18T22:01:28Z

do you ever think about how, in all likelihood, more people in history have heard modem noises as an audio gimmick on youtuber videos communicating "this is slow" than out of a literal modem?

#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer is now OSHWA-certified! ...

2025-10-13T21:59:33Z

#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer is now OSHWA-certified! https://certification.oshwa.org/uk000081.html

(what it is: https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/intro.html)

OSHWA (npub1kaf…30h5)

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2025-10-09T16:09:09Z

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i think the myth of "you can't self-host email" ...

2025-10-01T08:58:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…2aht
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i think the myth of "you can't self-host email" persists because while it can evidently be done, basically all of the software involved is ancient, baroque, inconsistently documented, requires a PhD in Bullshit to correctly configure, and is almost actively hostile to observation. but this is _annoying_, very different from _impossible_, and fortunately mostly solvable by delegating the annoying bits to an expert using something like NixOS to make it reliably work

_should_ you self-host your email? i dunno, i'm not your mom, ...

2025-10-01T08:52:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…3vq0
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_should_ you self-host your email? i dunno, i'm not your mom, pick your own poison. i do it because i need independence: throughout most of my life i have been, for various reasons, under significant risk of losing control of corporate hosted email in one way or another. doing it myself solves that.

_can_ you self-host your email? Absolutely, in under 500 lines of Nix code

by setting the entire thing ...

2025-10-01T08:47:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…kqes
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by setting the entire thing (https://codeberg.org/whitequark/mail.whitequark.org) up from scratch on a never-seen-before IP using a completely fresh server in about a day on new-to-me NixOS, i want to put the folk wisdom of "you can't self-host email in 2025 and even if you did gmail won't accept it" to rest. evidently, it can be done.

Microsoft 365 however apparently will hate your email no matter what. you learn to live with it

3/3

in the end, i went: - from running mail.whitequark.org on ...

2025-10-01T08:45:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…zfdk
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in the end, i went:
- from running mail.whitequark.org on DigitalOcean (extremely poor reputation of all IP blocks) to Hetzner Cloud (coin flip, but you can get clean IPs with minimal effort)
- from running roundcube+postfix+dovecot on ansible+Debian with spamassassin (ongoing suffering) to NixOS with rspamd (one-time suffering)

in the end i have clean IP reptuation, SPF pass, DKIM pass, DMARC pass. does gmail accept my email? yup, cold emailing people just works. with everyone but M365.

2/3

there exist several pieces of folk wisdom: - "you cannot run ...

2025-10-01T08:42:39Z

there exist several pieces of folk wisdom:
- "you cannot run your own mail server in 2025, this is too hard and time consuming" (completely false, i've done this since ~2010 with minimal ongoing maintenance)
- "you can do it but gmail will sort your mail to spam" (partially true and what i want to talk about here)

recently, my hand was forced: i had to migrate my mail server across providers and regions. it's unimportant why but important what the result is.

1/3

PSA: i now consider https://grebedoc.dev (and the underlying ...

2025-09-24T20:13:54Z

PSA: i now consider https://grebedoc.dev (and the underlying git-pages server software) feature-complete and production-ready, feel free to use it for all your "not supporting Microsoft-nee-GitHub" needs (or whatever other reasons you might have)!

subjectively and with a lot of handwaving, there are certain ...

2025-09-21T22:19:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…j5gr
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subjectively and with a lot of handwaving, there are certain qualities i look for when i'm on a hunt for a good rust library, and i feel like a randomly chosen go library gets closer on average to these qualities than a randomly chosen rust library

rust has many exceptionally well done, unambiguously industry leading projects, but also enough code that i look at and go "hmm no i think i would rather just rewrite this". i experience this with go a lot less so far

the libraries have so far been a pleasant surprise. i read source ...

2025-09-21T22:06:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…adph
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the libraries have so far been a pleasant surprise. i read source code of my dependencies (there's only one direct dependency in this project that i haven't done a deep dive into, and it's google/protobuf) so i get exposed to hidden warts early and often. i expected a lot more hidden warts

maybe it's a consequence of having many fewer degrees of freedom in the langauge design? sort of like how it is with erlang

on the flipside, the module system is so bad i genuinely think it ...

2025-09-21T22:01:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…20ay
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on the flipside, the module system is so bad i genuinely think it needs to be a case study, in the sense that chernobyl is a case study

(yes, i'm aware that it's an improvement on what came before. that makes it _worse_)

y'know... from a language design perspective, i think rather ...

2025-09-21T21:56:57Z

y'know... from a language design perspective, i think rather little of go. i think its primary redeeming quality is that it is a sort of harm reduction outlet for C programmers

however, now that i've learned to be effective with it, i don't actually mind writing go code. sure, the language is an atrocity, but so is cmake and i don't mind being effective with that either

> HTTP 200 OK > look inside > actually 401 Unauthorized ...

2025-09-18T18:28:35Z

> HTTP 200 OK
> look inside
> actually 401 Unauthorized wrapped in JSON for some reason

i cannot overstate how bonkers this is. commercially, i can buy ...

2025-09-04T17:06:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…h9g7
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i cannot overstate how bonkers this is. commercially, i can buy oxygen in a thick steel cylinder at pressures of 150 bar, or in a composite gas tank at 300 bar. this requires a complex industrial process. both options are lethal when ruptured. in a fire it will burn steel like paper

fish just... do it whenever, within seconds, to float up or down

they do this using the Root effect: locally acidifying their ...

2025-09-04T17:03:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…quqk
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they do this using the Root effect: locally acidifying their blood within the swim bladder epithelium causes the solubility of oxygen in their blood to drastically drop as the carrying capacity of hemoglobin changes

did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their ...

2025-09-04T16:59:45Z

did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their swim bladder, which they pump with gas as they descend into depths. specifically, they can pump it with hyperbaric oxygen at partial pressures of *several hundred atmospheres*

they also pressurize their eyes in the same way

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10.1152/physiologyonline.2001.16.6.287

gcc now has builtin functions for CRCs ...

2025-08-30T07:08:36Z

gcc now has builtin functions for CRCs https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/CRC-Builtins.html

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2025-08-21T12:00:52Z

if you like violent women watch "the blacklist"

i believe the people criticizing rust from an ethics perspective ...

2025-08-19T02:42:52Z

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i believe the people criticizing rust from an ethics perspective and people criticizing rust from a "git gud" perspective are two unrelated groups and Cassandra is talking about the latter here

the Rust foundation took money from Helsing ...

2025-08-19T00:50:21Z

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the Rust foundation took money from Helsing https://rustfoundation.org/media/member-spotlight-helsing/

personally i'm not planning to migrate from github any time ...

2025-08-12T13:26:25Z

personally i'm not planning to migrate from github any time soon. the people who i'd've lost on ethical grounds have self-selected out long ago, i have basically no lock-in besides very heavy reliance GH Actions (which have no viable replacement besides gitlab maybe) and i'm counting on the process of corporate death to take a few years until it starts to cause actual immediate problems

there are four genders: arm, arm, arm, and x86 ...

2025-08-06T21:31:11Z

there are four genders: arm, arm, arm, and x86

i think peak open source development is you implementing a ...

2025-07-29T00:03:49Z

i think peak open source development is you implementing a feature you won't use, in a codebase you don't control, for a person you don't understand, leaving them happy in the end

i used to think the "web" in "webassembly" is a ...

2025-07-26T18:49:07Z

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i used to think the "web" in "webassembly" is a misnomer but later i understood this to not be the case. the capability model of Wasm, the formal methods used to develop the spec, the single-pass compiler, the featureset and development process, are all deeply rooted in web technologies and their culture and something else would not be able to produce an artifact that is as useful as Wasm is

the problem with java wasn't the bytecode so much as ...

2025-07-26T18:38:46Z

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the problem with java wasn't the bytecode so much as everything that's around the bytecode. the JVM security model was based on essentially ACLs and built by subtraction starting from a fully featured desktop runtime; the Wasm security model is based on capabilities and built by addition from nothing

we have, in fact, learned from Java

are you excited for wasm-hosted wasm-targeting browser clang and ...

2025-07-26T17:51:08Z

are you excited for wasm-hosted wasm-targeting browser clang and lld, chat?

hire me to build your instant messenger for only 110k£/year i ...

2025-07-21T20:31:16Z

hire me to build your instant messenger

for only 110k£/year i will avoid actively making it worse for no goddamn reason, therefore providing *two* benefits over Matrix

this makes so much sense to me

2025-07-21T00:14:18Z

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this makes so much sense to me

> The ncurses version implements a full stack-based ...

2025-07-19T22:28:35Z

> The ncurses version implements a full stack-based interpreter for terminfo parameter strings.

i'm sorry what the fuck

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2025-07-10T11:40:57Z

hey does anybody have any device with a Renesas M16C CPU?

if that's not secure enough, you could put the HSM into a gas ...

2025-07-10T06:28:46Z

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if that's not secure enough, you could put the HSM into a gas cylinder and pressurize it to 300 bar. the tamper detection circuitry breaks off the valve

personally i'm saying let's go one step forward and mount ...

2025-07-10T06:27:11Z

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personally i'm saying let's go one step forward and mount the HSM onto an ultracentrifuge. if you try to slow it down, it erases itself. if you attack it mechanically and make _one single mistake_, the released energy destroys your entire lab. and maybe two or three adjacent floors

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