Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be), page 24

Literally me, except I'm not a cute anime girl... #animeirl

"The AMD EPYC 4004 is Finally Here"Just wait for AMD EPYC 8088.

#TIL the "v" in argv stands for "vector" in BCPL naming convention.

@puniko cat /dev/meow

Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything: optimized out

@puniko :blobcatsign:

mew mew mew

@mia@void.rehab I'm hearing the massive DC pop from short-circuiting 7 loudspeakers simultaneously.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me That Wikipedia page is basically a infodump of the final results after a paper-long derivation. Like reading optimized compiler machine code...

You don't say...

The Flat Earthers have increased their sphere of influence and now their believers are all over the globe.

@pinkforest@hachyderm.io Historical Unix code copyright status is still an unsolved problem, even today. Many sources claim it's BSD but that license was given by SCO so it's questionable at best. Historical Unix code is practically free only because its copyright is so messy that we don't even know who still legally has the right to enforce it.

@crmsnbleyd@emacs.ch @pinkforest@hachyderm.io Novell remain silent on the copyright status of early BSD / Research Unix code that are found everywhere online, they never confirmed or denied the validity of the former SCO license so far. Their lawyers are probably too afraid to make any statement on Unix at this point.

@ankitpati@mastodon.social @whitequark@mastodon.social cdecl is one of the tell-tales that shows K&R is a reference book instead of an introductory textbook. Instead of teaching readers about useful guidelines of reading C declarations, it just gives you the raw algorithm.

When you submit vulnerability disclosures with sample code but vendors still refuse to acknowledge the problem:

PoC && GTFO

@rq@borg.social Absolutely Proprietary Interface

my favorite hosting service providers are 127.0.0.1 and [::1]

It's called Boost because it boosts your blood pressure.

Standard libraries be like: Programmers don't need to reimplement basic tasks manually, just call the library! Expect that the library only does 80% of the job and you still need to code the rest 20% manually because those missing features were not implemented historically, and because it's already the status quo as everyone's stable system is using the old library - even if we add features right now you still can't use it.

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