Notices by artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)

i think it's sad that the only software distributed on bd-rom are console games.

i should be able to get a 100gb debian bd-rom with all the most popular software in main

8 disc bdxl debian set

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i think it's fun how all vendors have decided that U+1F409 DRAGON (🐉) should represent a chinese dragon, not a western dragon. Dragon wasn't even in any of the pre-unicode emoji sets from the japanese carriers, only U+1F432 DRAGON HEAD (🐲) in KDDI, according to EmojiSources.txt

@mattly one can always tell that my essays are not LLM-generated ⸻ i use three-em dashes.

@mattly can't figure out how to type an em-dash? it's easy 一 enter your chinese IME and type "yi".

hot tip: set your encryption keys to a name-mangled c++ symbol name. reverse engineers will believe they messed up instead of trying it

@doskel what's that newfangled "smtp". buy stamps you coward.

@jessew i think the sea monster was always a metaphor, so you just need to have the metaphorical version of you slay the metaphorical sea monster

@ryanc there's an "easy" way to speed that up

@whitequark i definitely learned about "u-boot" before i learned that it was a clipping of german "Unterseeboot", meaning submarine

@whitequark @wren6991 it feels as if the authors are optimizing for minimum page count in the specification, and in doing so not clearly specifying edge cases

they're called "AAA" games because you'll scream when you see how many microtransactions there are

if they support IPv6 they're called "AAAA" games

@kaia i've come across a lot of 2.5" SSDs where the PCB takes up less than half of the length.

i found the post and it does still work

@kaia does it still work?

Reduced Instruction Set Computing, Reused Instruction Set Computing, Recycled Instruction Set Computing

@whitequark my first time cross compiling was for an arduino when i was 10. i messed with avr assembly and C with only avr-libc on an arduino not much later

@whitequark @mcc chinese for rocket is "火箭", the jyutping transliteration of the cantonese reading is fo2zin3

cantonese is a variety of yue chinese

@whitequark at least go modules are a thing now, you aren't forced to place every project in ~/go/src/github.com/username/repo or whatever