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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 06:02:36 JST
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 06:00:16 JST
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@sendpaws @phnt @lain @hakui I really enjoy the hubris of thinking anyone in that sphere made anything worthwhile for AI to digest. If anything, they're doing scrapers a service by prefiltering themselves. -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 05:54:53 JST
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@lain Support for the theoretical multi-user use case award.
>you need to add your user to the dialup group or you can't flash a microcontroller that ships with a UART to USB adapter. -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 05:54:52 JST
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@lain still haven't finished the good book as I like to call it since your last recommendation of it, but I remain intrigued. Though I don't know if I can make myself believe a better world is possible, especially concerning computing. -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 05:54:51 JST
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@lain been reading some more, and just a thought that I had but which wasn't obvious to me: I sometimes hear modern C programmers talk about "single-header" libs and programs, whereas everything is in main.h and that's it.
And I often wondered what the hell the point of a header was anyway, since it seems like something the computer should figure out, not me.
But these guys keep talking about mem requirements and how slow Unix supposedly is. So is basically the whole paradigm of splitting your code into multiple .c and having a bunch of headers just a kludge holdover from the old days, because otherwise the compiler runs out of memory?! Is that what it is?? -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 05:54:49 JST
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@lain Thank you. Now I'm starting to wonder just how much of modern IT architecture is a holdover from the times of 32 KB memory. This seems like the one instance where saying "to hell with it" and just inflating the requirements 20x would be the correct call. But what do I know.
I feel like making headers and splitting workloads should be a computer job anyways.
The book seems to agree:
>Having a large number of header files is a big pain. Unfortunately, this situation occurs whenever you try to write a C program that does anything useful. Header files typically define data structures and many header files depend on data structures defined in other header files. You, as the programmer, get the wonderful job of sorting out these dependencies and including the header files in the right order.
>If you get the order wrong, the compiler will testily inform you that you have a syntax error. The compiler is a busy and important program and doesn’t have time to figure out the difference between a missing data structure definition and a plain old mistyped word.
The section below that complains that the compiler aborts when it sees a single syntax error, but I thought to myself "And? Just run it again, doesn't take that long..." and that's where I realized just how old this commentary is. -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 05:54:49 JST
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@lain which you have to click yes to or you can't use the computer -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 23:39:43 JST
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@Titanbreakerkun @Thusnelda imagine if he walks dude that would be the funniest thing ever -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 16:01:00 JST
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The cycle of technology is stacking one more layer of abstraction and sandboxing on top of what's there, only to yet again end up at
"Always click YES when untested payloads from anonymous sources on your machine prompt you, or you can't use the computer."
>windows UAC
>flash
>desktop linux (user not added to "printer" group by default)
>activeX
>mobile OS permissions
>webAssembly
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 15:36:17 JST
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@Sultry @grey it's too early to call it but if this doesn't stop it could lead to an even bigger tech crash than just the AI bubble.
Think about it. Vibe code and general jeetery will inflate already ridiculous memory reqs even more, RAM stays unavailable, people "upgrade" to new devices with less RAM over time and then the web becomes entirely unusable. As do chromecasts, TiVos or whatever they call them, smart TVs, etc. Just doesn't work, slow as molasses.
What then? -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 08:29:21 JST
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what the fuck dude -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 09:02:32 JST
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 02:13:52 JST
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@sendpaws There's plenty of games that run native so that's not even true. In any case, using that argument against proton (or steam generally for that matter) is just like saying windows "goes to shit and becomes a pain to use" "the minute you're not using DirectX"
Yeah no shit, but everyone does so who cares. -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2025 02:13:51 JST
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@sendpaws who are you quoting?
The similarity is not in a technicality but in practice. -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 02:51:48 JST
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@lain Never heard about that Gebel fellow before,very interesting. I would personally go even for seasteaning early adoption, but nobody seems to willing to do the engineering on that one.
Wasn't his point with "no soul because you're poor" more that people who are poor just say it to cope?
In any case, interesting perspective from you, since if I am not mistaken you are not a >100 millionaire hustler... -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 02:51:45 JST
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@lain is this true? -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 11:32:55 JST
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@sickburnbro @Racist_Columbo OH WAIT! I have a 3D PRINTER! That has a heated bed! Hell yeah it's going on there right NOW -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 11:20:49 JST
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@sickburnbro @Racist_Columbo I have no idea how I'm gonna get to the internals because it's glued, has no screws. You can use a heatpad but I don't have that nor do I have my heat gun with me rn.
Otherwise, I think it's going to be alright. I mean I *could* probably desolder a bad RAM chip and reflow it but there's no way in hell I'm doing that this thing is going into the trash if it's hard bricked. I just would like to get my data off there.
I feel like Apple is a different case because unlike the glorious Han empire, they charge out the ass for a new one -
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 11:16:37 JST
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think my phone literally died on the spot right now.
>No issues as of 10 minutes ago
>mid-video the screen glitches out and audio froze, blaring.
>hold the power button
>Turns off
>Doesn't turn back on
>no USB device sound when I plug it in (bootloader)
>doesn't charge
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Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 11:16:36 JST
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@Racist_Columbo the odd slowdown and whatnot, over the years I had it, but basically no. It's not like how sometimes phones won't charge if you don't put the cable in at the perfect angle and then one day it doesn't work anymore.
Just fucking died at me kek