Notices by linear cannon (linear@nya.social), page 9

@cadey@pony.social here is another

@cadey@pony.social tried to grab one more but encountered difficulties

@Skirmisher@snoot.tube oh, and i've also done a bunch of bare-metal microcontroller debugging, as recently as

checks calendar

today

working on a project, and realizing that i might actually need to, for the first time in my life, actually figure out how to set up kgdb on linux and use it to debug a driver on a remote system

i'm an embedded linux developer. i have been an embedded linux developer for roughly 8 years. i am not sure how i have managed to avoid having to do this until now, and my first reason to do it ends up not even being work-related

@Skirmisher@snoot.tube yep. mostly netbsd's and haiku's

i hope that in 20 years i still find myself sitting in the living room, surrounded by computer parts roughly as old as i am, assembling/disassembling/repairing systems and mixing and matching components to satisfy different curiosities of mine

after much ado, i finally have ArcaOS installed on my pentium 3 box

all it took was installing it on something else then putting the drive in the pentium3

i have had an idea:

i should do a relatively small and manageable project.

instead of one that is of like, infinitely expandable scope

reviews for cities skylines ii seem to be pretty bad

but i'm playing it, and i'm having a lot more fun than i ever did with the first one

framerate sometimes drops to like.... 10. even with low settings. but i don't really care

2025 will be the year of haiku on the risc-v tablet

2024 will be the year of os/2 on the pentop

tonight's project:

i am going to install ArcaOS 5.1 on my Pentium3 box.

this machine has:

- dual 1000MHz (133MHz bus) Pentium 3 processors
- 1.25 GiB of SDRAM (133MHz; more is possible but will downclock the memory controller to 100MHz)
- a bootable PCI SATA controller
- two Crucial SATA drives, for RAID1
- several network cards
- a Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics card
- a Gigabyte GC-RAMDISK, a volatile DDR-backed 4GiB SSD (this is completely useless since the SSDs already max out SATA link speed but its fun)

this machine has been sitting without much use since i more or less gave up trying to get Rust and modern Linux to work on it a few months ago. i think (hope?) i'm going to have a much better time with ArcaOS.

if it works, i also want to set up Netware 4.x - which has a specialized variant which runs paravirtualized under OS/2 (ArcaOS is a modern continuation of OS/2).

the combination of ArcaOS's SMB server with Netware 4.x should enable me to use this machine as a network server for all of my retro machines, and likely modern ones too. also, i have licenses for everything involved, so it's completely above board! (no, really. i even have the NetWare license floppies)

and then i can also use it to play SimCity 2000 and do some software development

@marcan@social.treehouse.systems some less-exercised code relating to floppy disks and tty on x86 has been broken since at least the early 4.x series and i don't think anyone even knows about the issue except me and a few folks who i was telling about what i was working on when i ran into it (which was around the time the floppy maintainer quit)

i'd like to fix it, but i've not even bothered to report it upstream because the bar for entry is too high

i guarantee there are other subsystems with similar issues, and that when calls go out for "does anyone use this? if not we'll remove it", there are people like me who do use the thing, and want to test or fix it, and who have been running into issues, who just aren't willing to subject themselves to the mailing list

if the pentium 4's so good why didn't they make a pentium 5???

2024 will be the year of netbsd on the handheld pc

@craignicol@octodon.social @thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social yes. i do object. i consider this sort of advertising to be actively hostile, and to be a disability concern.

my wife and i do not watch TV. both of us agree that the only reason we don't is because of TV ads. my wife and i are both autistic, and we find these ads not just obtrusive, but very literally, painful. we are not the only ones.

when we visit my parents' house, they have televisions playing constantly. we absolutely cannot stand it, solely because of the ads. even when their televisions are "off", their smart TVs scroll ads along. this is the worst part, by a very wide margin, of visiting my family.

back when i used to use twitter, and used it on a phone where i couldn't block ads, i actually trained myself to instictively defocus my eyes whenever i saw the "promoted" icon, and block the ad without thinking about it or seeing what it was, because that was the only way i could use the app at all. i use an independent search engine that i pay for, so that i do not have to worry about it showing me ads. my answer to youtube breaking ad blockers has simply been to no longer watch youtube (i will not give money to an ad company, which is what google/youtube/et al are)

@craignicol@octodon.social @thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social

when i was more actively watching youtube, i used sponsorblock, because many sponsor segments in videos are the same way - it doesn't matter that the delivery is from the individual creator and not the platform. it, again in a literal sense, pains me to watch.

i do not use music streaming services, in part because i want to have control over my music library, and because of other ethical concerns around actually paying artists, but also because they are supported by ads and insert those into the audio stream

ultimately, if i cannot filter out ads from a thing i want to use or experience, then i simply will not use the thing; and a world where everything is ad supported is a world that i will not be able to exist in

@lynne@pars.ee @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems i am well aware of the reasons why it is required, and it's a lot more complex than that

@lynne@pars.ee @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems for example, depending on who you ask, the x87 fpu is not really compliant to ieee754 (and definitely not ieee754-2008) and trying to make it comply to that consistently is. not exactly easy

and the exact same machine code in different scenarios or under different operating systems can and will produce different results

@lynne@pars.ee @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems i agree with you

unfortunately modern programming languages do not