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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 21:46:05 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   FUN FACT (and i will continue posting facts and they will continue to be fun, until morale improves):

   Building LibreWolf uses copious amounts of disk space. 1st terminal shows disk usage, updated every 2 secs; /home was using 0GB, now it's gigabytes (I'm building it in /home).

   2nd terminal shows the build, in OpenBSD's ports system. 3rd shows CPU/RAM usage.

   I'm re-testing building the latest LibreWolf on OpenBSD CURRENT. Hopefully my port will build!

   (i'm ssh'd into openbsd on each terminal)

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 22:19:18 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Moses Izumi

     @moses_izumi i don't think running everything inside an interpreter is viable. lots of programs are performance-critical and a dynamic recompiler can only go so far. but your point is well-taken, thank you.

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     Moses Izumi (moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 22:19:19 JST Moses Izumi

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     @libreleah
     Whenever I hear about compilers it's always something grody like
     "this project you rely on every day? it takes a week to build and consumes 3 DVDs worth of disk space."
     or
     "developer forgot to list an important dependency"
     
     Interpreted languages may have done more to help the Four Freedoms than the FSF ever could.
     - adblockers making commercial webpages less of a hellscape
     - ZDoom becoming the go-to Doom port for modders because it re-implemented the game as a pile of scripts
     - over 3 millon videogames run Lua (and NetBSD uses it to prototype device drivers)
     - Powermacs and RISC workstations getting booted with Forth
     I know it's just passing the buck to someone else but still.
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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 13-Apr-2026 22:24:05 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Moses Izumi

     @moses_izumi like. you wouldn't write an emulator in python. that's strictly c/c++ or rust territory.

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     f_ 🇵🇸 (fun@berkeley.edu.pl)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 06:39:48 JST f_ 🇵🇸

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     @libreleah is your unimatrix0 now running openbsd or still on debian?
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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 06:41:09 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • f_ 🇵🇸

     @fun still debian. my openbsd hostname is "shitbox". i do actual work on porting from my debian machine for the time being.

     then i just push to a test branch and check out that branch on the openbsd machine, and build it.

     so my debian machine is still my main machine, still hostname "unimatrix0". my openbsd dev machine, presently only used to test my librewolf builds, is a separate machine with the hostname "shitbox".

     this is my openbsd box (my shitbox):

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 06:49:40 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • f_ 🇵🇸

     @fun and this is my debian desktop:

     that text is actually a png file. i made the errors from earlier today (failed librewolf build) a wallpaper. the weird eye photo is captured from a specific frame in the movie Mad Max, just before the nightrider's car blows up with him in it.