say what you will about bcachefs and its maintainership issues, but when i first tried btrfs after it had been merged and marked stable, it ate my data twice within a week, and so far bcachefs has shown no sign of wanting to eat my data under similar conditions
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 02:09:00 JST linear cannon -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 02:08:42 JST linear cannon @chjara@akko.wtf yeah i imagine it's fine now if distros like SUSE are defaulting to it, but it had a rough start and i think that in comparison, bcachefs's introduction to the kernel proper hasn't been all that bad, even if there are some clear adjustment pains for the maintainer
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 10:41:33 JST linear cannon tow-boot makes the experience of using a pinebook pro so much less painful. it should've shipped with something like this out of the factory
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 03:57:21 JST linear cannon my 286's hard drive is dying :(
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 03:57:20 JST linear cannon it had a good run. now it gets to take a rest on the shelf
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 09:19:25 JST linear cannon i never actually encountered a 5.25" floppy disk (that i can recall, at least) before 2019. the computers of my childhood had 3.5" floppy drives, if they had them at all. i find them endearing nonetheless
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 09:18:56 JST linear cannon i sure am computing
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 06:13:08 JST linear cannon i can print!!!!
and unlike the fileshare to my kodi box i don't need a NetBSD server in the middle to translate, NetWare and the (much newer) printer happily talk with each other over TCP/IP -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:51:13 JST linear cannon i may have spoken too soon about not being able to find it
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:28:36 JST linear cannon i would like for my NetWare 4.11 server to have the NFS addon to make it easier to interface with unix-like systems, but the NFS addon seems extremely rare. i can't even find a dumped copy online of a version that would install properly onto this release of NetWare, let alone real disks
i do have the base unix services package that has NIS and FTP and a few other things, since that comes with IntraNetWare and i have the full IntraNetWare package -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 01:23:16 JST linear cannon @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me the details of the keyboard controller are different but it's better off for that, and in fact now matches the behavior of my real machine since i replaced the weird buggy keyboard controller with a more normal one
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 01:22:14 JST linear cannon @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me the beep you get will depend on what machine you have set up, just like in real life! different machines with different bioses will do it differently
also fun fact, the initial support for the Hyundai Super-286C was contributed by me, with the ROM dumped from my actual machine -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 01:18:13 JST linear cannon @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me oh, it does do that, it's just weird. it uses the directory you launch it in to store the config files. i have an ~/86box directory with subdirectories for each machine i have set up and i just cd to the directory before launching it. there are probably better ways but tbh i'm perfectly happy with managing it this way
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 00:26:08 JST linear cannon and also marginally faster execution than real hardware since memory latency effects are also not accounted for, which again, i don't think is really much of an issue unless you're doing something really strange like trying to hyper-optimize quake for 486 processors
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 00:25:51 JST linear cannon it is really cool that i can emulate, to a surprising degree of accuracy, most of the old PC systems i have, and close analogues for the ones i can't emulate exactly, and the only real measurable difference is in extremely niche FPU timing details
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 00:25:30 JST linear cannon 86box is the far and away the best pc emulator that exists and i am glad it is around
it is still not quite accurate enough for some of the stuff i do, but it is awfully close
and where it is too inaccurate for me, i don't blame it - i actually contributed changes to make it accurate in the respects i care about, and they were accepted, but then reverted because it was far too much overhead. and that was the right call -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 00:03:43 JST linear cannon my wife just came by to take a photo of me at my desk to use as a living counterexample of someone saying "well at least you dont have to use <specific old technology> anymore"
wherein that specific old technology was indeed on my desk and in use, with spares also on my desk, alongside many other things that someone might otherwise think nobody had used in 20+ years -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 00:03:42 JST linear cannon this is the photo she took
this is the sort of thing you can expect to see if you pass my desk at any given point in time, just with broad variation over time of exactly what old technology, specifically, is present -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 23:43:24 JST linear cannon prolog is such a programming language
i think it's particularly interesting, as i've been learning it, to note how the common best practices have changed quite a bit over time, as the language and expected features of the prolog systems in common use have evolved
idioms and patterns that were once considered good or necessary often no longer are, sometimes for the very same underlying reason -
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 08:04:28 JST linear cannon printing and binding someone's published paper just so i can have a copy on my shelf to refer to instead of having to open a pdf on a computer
i'd buy it from the MIT press if it were still in print, but it isn't, and the author later published a version free to anyone for noncommercial use, asking that if you do use it to contact him and tell him what you were using it for. which i was happily about to do, but then i found out that he died in 2020