Notices by Badly-read literary snob (rosactrl@social.vivaldi.net)

A question by someone who knows nothing about operating systems and is very anxious so is having stupid thoughts: can’t drivers be abstracted away so they don’t have to be rewritten again? I’m imagining a micro kernel could load a driver that exposes an API but it’s not tied to an specific OS. How dumb is this and way?

@janneke 🧐

Oops!… I did it again, but you aren’t the one singing

This one is funny, I’m leaning towards rude, but then why is it different from talking with a friend that’s physically there? https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/116462925580745277

All I knew about boredom was wrong https://nautil.us/why-the-do-nothing-challenge-doesnt-do-much-for-you-1262005

@janneke and don’t get me wrong I love Lisp!

@janneke ah, but I’m the quest to find the tiniest languages that are good at one think. Guile is overkill for just processing text IMO

@janneke how so?

@janneke that’s exactly what I’m trying to evaluate so my question is why. I can imagine someone being very good at shell scripting would appreciate the cleverness of doing anything this way

I’ve never been good at writing shell scripts so I’m always impressed by the amount of shit you can do with them

@janneke OK, so these are tools to produce quality software. Now, if you don’t know how it was made, but had access to the code, is there anything that would make you think «damn, this is nice»

@janneke so gather from this that avoiding bugs by formal methods is the core of what you would call quality?

Now that we are all mad about software quality: do you have a definition for it? I started to writing one some weeks ago, today I found an old one in my bookmarks, but surely there must be many more out there

I may or may not have overloaded the air fryer

This is, once again, why I’ll never get married

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116192873098653079

Regardless of why people is forking everything, I love it! This is good!

@janneke they provide awesome lunch at work, I can eat as much as I want. And there’s fruit and coffee, so that’s my breakfast (+ the protein powder). So my dinner is muesli + yogurt and some frozen berries. I’m spoiled and no joking: this is in a big part why I don’t change employer

I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to cook today, I just remember how much I hate it

So I haven’t updated because of Liquid Glass, that I can tell. What I didn’t know is that «Apple’s most recent security updates for iOS 18 are only available for phones that can’t run iOS 26 at all, like the iPhone XR» 😫 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/are-people-avoiding-ios-26-because-of-liquid-glass-its-complicated/

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@RosaCtrl/115901463370242842

@aral I updated my iPhone because security updates are not delivered to supported devices, sorry