Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)

Nerd-snipping of the day - a sharp programmer on a Chinese forum noticed an extremely obscure fact about K&R - its Courier font is unusual and doesn't seem to match any of the modern or common versions of Courier we know today. So now I find myself hunting for technical references of that Autologic APS-5 machine used by K&R. #retrocomputing #unix

You know you have been browsing the Web for too long and terminally online when you were looking for a meme (Touhou) within a meme (Cookie☆) within a meme (MGRoid/Meguru), and inside it you suddenly stamped upon a song about the French revolution. Tuning a Japanese voicebank to sing in foreign languages counts as a meme in itself, not to mention that reposting a repeatedly banned song as a meme is a meme as well. So there's 5 layers of memes here. Just hilarious. :blobcatlul:

Q: What do you call a tax for software packages from foreign servers?

A: TARiff.

"the boffins at Google have discovered a way to craft their own microcode that is accepted by AMD [...] works on all Zen-based AMD chips [...]"!!!"a proof-of-concept microcode update [...] forces a chip's read random (RDRAND) instruction to always output the value 4":blobcatlul:

"Beams of neutrinos have been proposed as a vehicle for communications under unusual circumstances [...] We report on the performance of a low-rate communications link [...] of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth."Statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

@Kairos@ak.kawen.space CC @puniko

chiptunes imply the existence of wafertunes.

Spent an entire night on working around the broken full screen handling problem in an Emscripten Touhou emulator on iOS. Just as I thought I've succeeded, I found the keyboard input handling is broken too and I have absolutely no idea about how it works... (need a Woozy Reimu emoji here CC @puniko).

@bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com Fediverse in a nutshell. CC @puniko @PeterCxy@comfy.social

Q: What is the best social media app for Intel to advertise CPUs made using a new semiconductor process node?

A: TikTok.

@puniko Good meownyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Physics is like magic. You cast arcane spells by mumbling the names of the Great Ones, such as Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, Laplacian, Jacobian, Heissian...

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me To be exact, Novell/SUSE's office for an openSUSE community event.

Touhou Project and Snow Miku stickers in my collection from 10 years ago. The stickers are nothing unusual, except that I can pretend to be a seasoned Touhou fan, and the fact that I got them at a tech meetup in openSUSE's Beijing office from a friend. #touhou #2hu

收拾展会旧纪念品时，偶然找到了北京 Google 开发者社区这张 10 年前的宣传名片。这个互联网时代已经一去不复返了！RIP Google+ #互联网考古

34C3 stickers in my collection. The memorable aspect was not the stickers themselves, but the fact that these are real stickers from the CCC conference room, which were brought to me by a returning friend who traveled several thousands kilometers from Disconnection Land to Beijing.

@untsuki@udongein.xyz Also, fun fact: The moon rabbit's name is Reisen in Touhou because one of the possible readings is 冷戦, or the Cold War.

"Mom, can we get Touhou?"
Soviet Russian Mom: "We have Touhou Project at home."
Touhou Project at home...

@Polychrome@poly.cybre.city @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Probably won't work anyway. Even if one passes the captcha, you still get a Twitter-style forced login popup.

Are there any visual novels of this kind, but teach you math or physics instead?