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   linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:39:36 JST linear cannon

   @noracodes@tenforward.social the cryptography library that's used in seemingly everything, doesn't build on anything that isn't x86_64 (and maybe aarch64) without modification, hasn't had a release in several years, and to which there is currently no viable alternative i am aware of

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     indentation consulting services (psykose@donotsta.re)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:56:42 JST indentation consulting services

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     @linear @noracodes it builds on aarch64 + 32-bit of arm/x86 ok, but outside of that (ppc, riscv, ....) broken yeah
     
     it's such an annoying thing too, like nobody would even be discussing this right now (like we are), if the maintainer 'just' made a release with the generic C fallback (so it's not arch locked) ffs
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     indentation consulting services (psykose@donotsta.re)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:59:47 JST indentation consulting services

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     @linear @noracodes yeah a couple of good years back it was even worse
     
     also funny: IBM has had open merge requests for s390x/ppc64le asm for *years* now
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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:59:49 JST linear cannon

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     @psykose@donotsta.re @noracodes@tenforward.social yep. and that's even fixed in the unreleased main branch
     
     there was definitely a time it did not work out of the box on aarch64 though, because i was running into issues with it on that arch a few years back

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:03:15 JST linear cannon

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     @psykose@donotsta.re @noracodes@tenforward.social yep!
     
     i use their fork on my power9 box so that it is possible for me to build a few rust programs i use, like iamb

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