Notices by linear cannon (linear@nya.social), page 10

@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems i mean, the pentium m is just a pentium 3 with sse2

the lack of sse2 is why my thinkpad a30 is just slightly too old - i want to be able to boot it into a linux distro and have a browser

and too many critical pieces of software have either officially stopped supporting, or de-facto stopped supporting, x86 chips without sse2, because of [insert long rant about complex issues involving x86 floating point semantics here], such that you basically can't run anything but gentoo anymore

and who is going to run gentoo on a pentium3?
......
(glances at the dual pentium3 machine in my living room)

@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org oh yeah, nullptr is not NULL and they are not interchangeable

nullptr is its own type that can be implicitly compared and converted to pointer types, but not to integer types. in C, NULL can be defined as something like (void*)0. that's not allowed in C++, NULL has to be an integer constant.

so, you're comparing NULL (the null pointer constant, an integer) with nullptr (a type that is, again, not a pointer at all, and isn't implicitly converted because the lvalue isn't a pointer either) and you get that error which is completely correct

@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org (i hate C++.....)

decided that my 286 should join my wife and i in the living room while we watch star trek ds9

i havent been giving it enough attention and dont want it to feel lonely

get u a girl who reads the ARMv6-M Architecture Reference Manual for fun

welp, it's time to switch linux distros on my work laptop

just need to figure out how, and to what

i'm running bedrock, so i could do the funny ship-of-theseus where i just kinda, swap the pieces out underneath

or i could go whole-hog and rip out everything install netbsd+xen or illumos or something and set up a funky virtualization system for actually running things in

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me iDeck G3

someone should make a steam deck except it has a powerpc g3 and runs mac os 9

fun fact: if your container is set up to use seccomp and the host's libseccomp2 is too out of date compared to what's inside the container, then syscalls that should not fail will fail and then things will break

fun fact 2: ubuntu 20.04 is too out of date

fun fact 3: other projects we have at work, require ubuntu 20.04 as the host distro and will not work with anything else

NixOS users: "wanna bet"

the NixOS user at work, who is also our leading expert in Everything: *suffers in "project fails to build unless host kernel is exactly the ubuntu 20.04.2 hwe kernel and no later, no, 20.04.4's kernel will not work, nobody knows why"*

ah yes. i love running into issues at work that ultimately boil down to docker not actually being sufficient for doing the whole "works on my machine? just ship my machine!" thing

ah yes. i love hearing a series of unexplained explosion sounds in the distance. thank you, midwestern united states. very cool

@Keicowku@kind.social in case you owe someone money and might be trying to change your name in order to escape that debt. which, i'll note, is generally considered illegal anyway, as a type of fraud

@Keicowku@kind.social relevant personal anecdote: my current birth certificate (the second one i was issued, about 14 months after the first one, because my parents got married and my mom and i took my dad's last name) does not have a gender field

if i get a third one issued with my most recent name, it will have a gender field. and i have very good reason to believe that they would decide to put down a gender i don't agree with.

hence why i haven't gotten around to it.

@Keicowku@kind.social in one state i've lived in, the only requirement to a name being considered your "legal name" is that you have used the name in that capacity. you can fill out and sign an affadavit if you need a document to "prove" that you have changed your name if any particular agency demands such proof.

in others, such as the one i was born in, you have to pay for an ad in a newspaper announcing your intent (which costs money), pay a fee to the state government, and have a court hearing to explain why you want the name change, and you are at the mercy of the judge's decision. the documents you get from this serve as sufficient proof to change your drivers license, and those in tandem may let you navigate the bureaucracy for the rest if you're patient and there are no complicating circumstances

@Keicowku@kind.social where i am, in the USA, the part of the state government that issues driving licenses or state ID frequently has different rules than the part of the state government which handles birth certificates, which has different rules than the part of the federal government which handles passports, which has different rules than the part of the government that does social security. all of these are handled separately and may have requirements relating to each other. and all of the above have different rules than what is accepted in copyright related matters, and in legal disputes.

as such, it is possible to find yourself in a position where several of these may not agree, and it may be difficult or undesirable to rectify that - and if you're within certain groups that are more likely to have name changes, such as women, or transgender people, or children of people who have gotten married or divorced after the child's birth - you are more likely to find yourself there. i happen to be in all three of these groups.

this sort of thing can be absolute hell when interacting with bureaucracies, or, say, airport security agencies.

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange @irenes@mastodon.social thank you for this information

@Moon@shitposter.club yes. it is. that doesn't address any of the questions i posed, though. which "legal name" of mine is it that you want, and why? how is me submitting under the name "linear cannon" any different than an author writing a book under a pen name?

it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is

but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work