Notices by Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net), page 11

@izaya warning they’re pcie-3.0 x2 and severely bandwidth constrianed as a result

seriously though why is the state of gapless playback in media players so dire these days

i swear this was actually a solved problem in the 90s

RE: https://chaos.social/@scarlet/112383790126485200

do you think fastly will ever not be a path MTU discovery black hole? :(

What the fuck.

@lethalbit I want a goddamn IBM mainframe

…but I do not want to pay the power bill for an IBM mainframe

@hikari @mcc @rf @whitequark blank stare approximately once every decade someone reinvents Microsoft COM

@thias @rf @mcc @whitequark @hikari I would link to my post about that particular cyclical wheel reinvention but alas it was taken down by the taliban

@jrose @hikari @mcc @rf @whitequark Well, technically __stdcall.

But the C Calling Convention is Mostly OK. Having your ABI be defined in C headers sucks though.

Not gonna lie, being able to say this will never get old :drgn_uwu: :drgn_tail:

RE: https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/c26ee35d-91a2-44c0-a5bb-8e2650130c02

@mcc @hikari @rf @whitequark Interestingly, one example of a language which has annotations for that is… Modern Objective-C!

Honestly I’d be shocked if he hasn’t managed to also piss off the rest of the board with this one. Hot damn.

Lots of people in the Nix project: I would really like eelco to stop just doing things without discussing them with other members of the community

eelco: hold my beer

@lanodan @novenary @scarlet @eta They don’t have to publish it

But they have to have it on hand if their processor or Mastercard comes knocking or face stiff penalties

@lanodan @novenary @scarlet @eta Lidl in Germany is so boring :(

In the UK you can spend so much money on whatever random interesting crap they/Aldi have got for sale in the middle aisle

@scarlet @eta @lanodan @novenary fwiw as far as I can tell the One Thing that Mastercard did a few years ago which everyone is harping on about which brought doom on all porn sites is

…

They required sellers to have signed releases & proof of age for all actors in any media they sell

@scarlet @eta @lanodan @novenary also as a porn site you’re stuck behind a rock and a hard place:

• you can use an pseudononymous name but now you look like a scammer on credit card statements, or
• you can use your actual name and now everyoen is terrified of their spouse finding out they buy porn