Notices by asie (asie@mk.asie.pl)

feeling left out because LLM crawlers have not DDoSed any of my websites nor caused a noticeable bandwidth uptick. are they that bad

What's a translator-friendly way to set up translation contributions for an open source project these days?

ELKS (Embedded Linux Kernel Subset) running natively on a WonderSwan! ... With very little memory. But it does run!

guys does anyone have a spare $3125

i need a "clothes@soup.store" e-mail address okay

OH: a computer cannot wear thigh-high socks, therefore a computer must never be allowed to program a computer

@wolf480pl@mstdn.io @hunger@fosstodon.org They'll get dropped by the kernel if the maintenance burden becomes too high to bear and nobody steps in. They've already dropped a bunch of really old ARM chips, for example.

In fact, the main reason the M68k port of LLVM exists is because GCC threatened to remove its own M68k port!

Updated my Anime Web Turnpike knockoff/mirror/clone for the first time in over two years. Don't expect this to become a regular occurence - the work is just too daunting to tackle it alone.

https://anipike.asie.pl/

Now including the earliest website in the collection - a copy of susanooh.anime.net from late 1996!

https://anipike.asie.pl/arch/1996/cb/9215a7af52bf79978f88141c64fc91/susanooh.anime.net/

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange We spent many years trying to correct a video game's release date, just because its author gave the wrong one in an interview done 10-20 years after the fact (which is a more reputable source than the game's own documentation, naturally).

We only managed to resolve it because someone who happened to be an experienced Wikipedia editor walked into our community and proposed to clean up the article for us while dealing with the editor politics.

At this point, I honestly encourage specialized communities to build their own wikis, treating Wikipedia as a kind of "jack of all trades, master of none" place.

I wish I had the motivation to learn the new crop of systems programming languages, even to learn more about C++ properly honestly, but it kind of feels like I just stick to C because I'd rather stick to what I know. It feels every time I try to touch another systems programming language I end up being demotivated by not seeing the benefit from the initial hurdle of "relearning new ways to express what are effectively the same solutions".

maybe I'm just not that excited about programming languages anymore to treat learning more about them as an entertaining activity in its own right, and that's Okay. in fact going by my coworkers I'd argue for most people that's Normal

i see two paths in front of me

i'm so happy i never bought balatro,

PSA: If you want to help 86Box emulation accuracy, the project is seeking dumps of ISA plug-and-play cards' PnP ROMs to facilitate more accurate emulation. Here's how you can dump your retro rig's PnP ROMs easily:

1. Download https://github.com/86Box/probing-tools/releases/download/2024-02-06/probing-tools-2024-02-06.zip
2. Put isapnp/ISAPNP.EXE on your retro PC
3. Run ISAPNP.EXE on the retro PC (if you have many ISA cards, consider running it many times as to cover them all)
4. Respond to this Fediverse message with a ZIP file containing the output .BIN files!

Sound Blaster and ESS Audiodrive dumps are particularly sought after by the project (including duplicates - a few undocumented revisions have been spotted this way), but any and all dumps will be useful long-term! Thank you!

I'm running out of hard drive space, plus my drives are aging... What are your thoughts on Toshiba N300/MG08 helium drives (12-18TB bracket)? They seem to be available for like $20-$22/TB here (with the more enterprise model being cheaper), but I'm not sure how loud they are in practice - I could build a NAS and put it in a separate room eventually, but for now I'd have to put them in my (noise-padded) computer...

For context, I generally use HDDs as long-term storage drives, and SSDs for day-to-day work; this is why I'm worried about NAS drives not being the right choice, as they are rather noisy even if they are rather durable too.

If you have other recommendations, I'd like to hear them, too!

Where can I read up on good/novel ideas in RTOS design? I want to figure out if there's a valid reason to have my own go at this thing (just for the sake of being made by me is not valid, so...).

In "things that are true, but he shouldn't say it": for any given FOSS project, users who don't pay or contribute are technically a cost, so kicking out those who annoy you is a form of savings. Catering to non-contributing users is a form of volunteering, an act of charity on behalf of the developer.

As such, I'm not surprised a lot of projects kick or block people liberally, at the slightest whiff of annoyance. I think people treat too many FOSS projects as if they were companies which stand to lose something significant if their PR suffers even a minor hit.

In the end, "fork it if you don't like it" and similar sentiments are not an insult, they're a challenge. Some accepted this challenge and were even successful! If you're unhappy with a project, try making a hostile fork and see how far you get - I mean it.

PSA: If you find a non-functional Discord attachment link ("This content is no longer available"), you can access it by pasting it into Discord. This makes Discord renew it with a new token, making the file behind it accessible again.

@soop@wetdry.world https://www.whatbeatsrock.com/ it's an LLM based game but it's a fun novelty

@HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe the truest form of nostalgia is mourning for a person you could never have been

So apparently Stripe banned "Transactions that provide compensation to creators without an underlying piece of digital content associated" recently.

But they still brag about GitHub Sponsors, a service which is predominantly used for exactly that, as a key client of theirs: https://stripe.com/en-pl/customers/github

What?