Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be), page 16

@whitequark@mastodon.social I had a meme short story about these practices - Alice's Datasheets: https://niconiconi.neocities.org/fiction/alice-datasheet/

"Fallout New Vegas was compiled without compiler optimizations."
"there's a bunch of archaic x87 CPU instructions":blobcatwut:

@icpmoles@mastodon.social @climagic@mastodon.social Modern tar are the easiest-to-use Unix programs, automatic format detection has been a supported feature since 10 years ago by GNU tar, and even libarchive's BSD tar supports it. tar -xf is almost the only command I use. Those obsolete tar tutorials are a tremendous waste of time.

@plainoldcheese@masto.ai Which is exactly why new standards should be used because you can just call a builtin function that everyone can understand, instead of emulating that feature via a whole mess of templated code.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me libbsd is definitely underused by Linux developers

C++ be like...
Q: What's the standard way to do X?
Answer 1 (requires C++17)
Answer 2 (requires C++20)
Answer 3 (requires C++23)

The C++0x delay and its consequences.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Me when someone posts source code or error messages as a screenshot and asks why it doesn't working.

Q: Where can I find old API documentation on your website?
A: Those APIs are obsolete and should no longer be used. Use the latest documentation only.
Q: How can I migrate my code to the new APIs when I can't check the old documentation?
A: ...

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use discrete mathematics." Now they have to choose k problems from n problems.

@ezio@akko.wtf population density exceeds 7,060 people/km2, and is the fourth-highest in the world.

@puniko Good meownyaaaaaaaaa

Rebooted the crashed Windows 95 image via DOSBox-Pure instead and now it asks me to run scandisk because it wasn't shut down properly. A faithful emulation, I see.

Windows 95 image for DOSBox boots up
click anything
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down

A faithful emulation, I see.

nya

Many ancient astronomers attempted to improve the accuracy of the geocentric model of the solar system....

...But they just went around in circles.

@Sonikku@techhub.social @mos_8502@studio8502.ca Amateur radio antennas are not a customer-grade wireless service, and are not covered by this FCC rule (although there's a provision if you're a member in an emergency communication network).

The most American amateur radio fun fact I've heard of: "Home Owner Association doesn't allow me to put an antenna on my house so I installed a US flag with an antenna inside the flag pole."

Q: What do NSA operatives say when their eavesdropping system stopped working due to RF shielding?

A: The enemy foiled our plan.

@puniko Good meownyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Longcat implies the existence of Realcat, Protectedcat, V86cat and SMMcat.