Notices by nytpu (nytpu@tilde.zone)

@Gulfie I'm planning on joining fedi in 2024, exciting!

@mycroft

Deep from my archives, I have finally recovered the most legendary meme on Fedi (IMO, since most people here nowadays probably haven't seen it)

@HauntedOwlbear KDE Spectacle works great for me. I believe it uses the generic Wayland API so it should work everywhere other than GNOME: https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/

Holy shit, how the hell did I get 100% on two tests in a row I was 100% sure I failed? This math test I literally guessed on how to do 5 out of 7 of the problems because I didn't bother to study any of the techniques lol, yet I got all of them, including the difficult extra credit problem.

But haven't you heard? Rust is fast and safe!!! You don't need to think applicability to your specific task and compare the tradeoffs, not when Rust is fast and safe!!!11!!!!!1!1!1! Nothing else is safe, certainly not basically every language other than C and C++; and nothing else has ever been fast either, it's not like even Java is fast enough to run on 2003-era microcontrollers embedded in tiny SIM cards!

Hold wyvern gentle, like hamburger

@SuperDicq
I'm not holding my breath, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that they're doing this as a first step to prove to some upper manager that making it free isn't going to immediately drain their bank accounts. Although I still think it's probably much more likely to be made source-available, or at best “open core”, if they do end up releasing it at all.

@raccoonformality

TFW the worms are back

TFW you're someone who regularly participates in fediblock and a single person on a 5,000 person instance makes a post you personally disagree with

Electron apps are actually the most memory-safe programs in existence, they achieve it by expecting unrestricted ownership of all system memory

@Sh41 Wait, I understand GOTO not cleaning up the return stack, but RETURN <lineno> doesn't work like tail call optimization where it pops off the return address but then jumps to the start of a different routine? A weird choice, why even allow giving a line number to a RETURN statement in the first place then?

@lanodan @drewdevault Thinking about the dozens of Curl CVEs with a severity of 9.5+ for minor, non-exploitable bugs fixed years ago

@crumbcake
Amazon did one better:
> KF8 (also called AZW3) is basically a compiled ePub that has been compiled using a Palm database
— https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/KF8
(“Palm database” as in the database format used by Palm PDAs, straight outta 1998)

I find it annoying that for “retro consoles”—pre ~1997 for home consoles and pre ~2005 for handheld consoles—there's seemingly no puzzle games that actually encourage thinking through things and taking your time, which, you know, is the entire point of puzzle games; not “oh I'm really fast at instinctual pattern matching”

Less Puyo Puyo, Tetris, or Dr. Mario.; more FEZ, The Talos Principle, Machinarium, The Witness, or Baba is You.

It's annoying that tile-matching games and other arcade-style “puzzle” games are lumped into the puzzle genre, because it makes it very difficult to find games not in that arcade style. There has to be some out there, but other the Oddworld series for the PS1 and Picross for various systems there's not too much else out there that I can find just through web searches.

@rnd @niconiconi Yeah this feels less like a Debian Stable moment and more like a shitty library moment.