Notices by steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ (steeph@todon.eu)

@hellomiakoda Usually there is a BIOS setting that makes it automatically turn on whenever it gets power. Maybe that can be used to bring it back up?

@hellomiakoda That's alright. Me having had too much caffeine too late today evens things out. We may just have to switch what we wanted to do. I wanted to go to sleep soon so I can get to work early tomorrow. I don't even know what timezone you're in. I think this was a stupid Idea and the joke not even worth typing it. But since I've already typed it I might as well send it.

@kaia Anna's Archive has a huge collection of information (scientific papers, books, …) worth torrenting.

https://annas-archive.org/datasets

Edit: There's also https://academictorrents.com/.

I'm not sure if it's surprisingly hard to find a pinout for socket 423 or 478 CPUs or it was surprisingly easy to find it for socket 370. Up until 370 I can find pin layouts. Above that suddenly nothing. Did something change at intel around then? 370 already wasn't used by other manufacturers as far as I know.

Does any #RetroComputing fan know where to find the pinout for (early) #Pentium4?

@alcinnz A string-centric processor would probably benefit a lot from SIMD support. But I'm saying this without understanding how such a processor would work.

@alcinnz I've read about Plan 9 from Bell Labs and similar OSs recently and various criticisms of character based inter-process communication. The same sort of criticism I've read about Unix pipes and Linux shell scripts before. I wonder whether a processor could be designed to be better suited for that sort of tasks. Probably not. In the end it's just copying bytes around.

@clacke Is it working?

@b0rk @crenfrow Exactly the "problem" that I have with fd, exa and various replacements for top. I've never felt the need for them strongly enough to make me learn them. And if I would I would have trouble when I'm at a computer that doesn't have them.

@alcinnz Two cores in consumer CPUs were a big step. That is where I'd define the cut-off. So, very close.

It's interesting to think about. But even if we would agree that inefficient software is to blame for everything, most still wouldn't want to write only software that runs well on almost 20 year old hardware.

@alcinnz I mean, when I build a website, it usually doesn't work in all browsers. When I write software for myself, I don't ware how inefficient it is. When I build hardware, I use an ESP even if it wouldn't be necessary. Many people may be different. But actual design choices say that most people are similarly lazy and don't want to miss the frameworks that have been built around already working tech once they're there.

Home is where the office is.

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is at least one of the most boring standards that I've ever read. It is exactly what you imagine it to be if you know the basics about any UNIX file hierarchy. It doesn't even contain examples. The whole spirit seems to be "Well, somebody just had to write it down at some point." Still, I'm glad I've read it. Now I can be sure that I don't have to read it for the things that I do.

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/index.html

I'm just trying out Servo (rust web rendering engine) for the first time. It's actually pretty good. Not as many CSS problems as I get with Ladybird. But Mastodon sites don't render. Sooo… next!

Surfing the web with such a simple GUI made me think though: Do I - does a web browser - actually need anything else? A browsing history can be useful sometimes. But it's not actually that important to me. Bookmarks can be stored in any database app, or in text files. Tabs aren't necessary if you have a task bar. You can configure that to look like Firefox tabs if you want. Many settings and customisations I'd miss coming from a Firefox fork. Some extensions, too.

@alcinnz Well, I, for one, am not sure how you mean that.

@clacke Either that or you might still be asleep. People tend to just accept and believe stuff in dreams. So that's another sign you did go to sleep.

@clacke Maybe you did sleep two hours ago. There's no way for us to check. So it's all fine. And maybe you're smart, too.

I don't think it's okay for a man page to say "This is just a short summary. For the actual manual, visit this web page."

What if I need to use an obscure combination of command line options with tar _after_ the apocalypse?

@celrock Wow, this is the first time in more than 20 years since I've seen this meme. It hasn't changed that much. :)

https://www.publicdomaintorrents.info/

Linux distros aren't the only think one can share with torrents.