Notices by linear cannon (linear@nya.social), page 3

the build tool's name is a portmanteu of the company's name and "make"

i'm pretty sure that if they want to find someone with prior experience with the tool they are going to have to re-hire one of their recent layoffs :P

@makdaam@chaos.social i make embedded software, including for medical devices, and i have invoked the name of the Therac-25 during meetings as an example of why taking on a certain project and allowing it to proceed would be a very bad idea

@makdaam@chaos.social if a client is making a would-be-Therac-25, i see it as a duty and obligation to tell them that they are doing that, and impede them from proceeding without fixing the issues with their project. which nearly every time boils down to getting them to realize that medical devices should be taken seriously, and not approached with a "move fast and break things" tech-startup attitude. which is sometimes futile, but then at least we said "no, we will not make this for you".

it's really funny every time i get into a new topic and go read recent research papers about it, because between half and two thirds are things i don't understand, but then there's always a not insignificant number of them that are something like "hey guys, look, i grew algae in off-the-shelf plant fertilizer instead of F/2 solution and it worked fine" because even though it has surely been done, perhaps even regularly in classrooms, nobody ever bothered to publish a paper saying so until 2022

arthrospira platensis, 100x and 400x magnification, currently growing in my lab

it would be really funny if it turned out that crowdstrike had no software bug, and the issue was that they'd compiled it on a faulty intel 13900k

@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems the wii did not run freebsd or anything even remotely resembling it. nintendo rolls their own custom operating systems, they just sometimes take networking code from freebsd, like everyone else (including microsoft) does

@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems a similar misconception is that the nintendo switch runs FreeBSD and/or Android, since it includes license notices for both

however, it does not. it runs Horizon, an OS developed internally at Nintendo, which was first used on the 3DS. Horizon is a cooperatively-multitasked microkernel operating system, and the microkernel servers providing network functionality use some code from FreeBSD's network stack. the microkernel servers providing the compositor and related graphics functions are partly derived from Android in that a heavily modified version of SurfaceFlinger is used, alongside a microkernel server that emulates part of a Unix-like /dev VFS for running the Nvidia proprietary drivers

it continually amuses me that i use linux how most linux users use windows: begrudgingly, and only for work or videogames

yknow what. i'm gonna try giving Haiku another shot

i'm less worried about the technical aspects and more worried about the legal side of things

ok google how to become dial-up isp in 2024 if you already have an ASN

interesting, this serial port seems to be for a DSP and not the main SoC. i was expecting a U-Boot prompt and linux boot log, but i got something very different

https://paste.sr.ht/blob/53d1405d2c30e49fd3f9f0b1ea12ff8c5a76bcd0

i doubt the warranty is intact anymore, but come on, lets be real here. how long was that warranty going to last anyway if its in my hands

i wonder if i will ever figure out how to fix my gentoo so that trying to open a link in thunderbird or hexchat will open it in the running instance of firefox instead of trying to start a new one for some reason

ok, i have finally fixed my configs so i can build a new kernel again, and successfully have done so, and most of the rest of the system is rebuilt too. still having issues with compiler-rt and some sporadic other packages

i'm probably just going to pare my package list down removing anything that's breaking, get my system in a more consistent and stable state, and then attempt to re-add packages as needed

clang: depcleaned
kde: depcleaned
abseil-cpp: depcleaned

jury is out on wlroots. might build this time. i kinda need that one

@Stinkie@mastodon.social pretty big, about 8 hours drive away

packing up most of my PC software (and everything else, I'm moving in <2 weeks) and. turns out i have a lot of PC software

this isnt even all of it, there's a few items missing

if Operating System is so good why didn't they make an Operating System/2