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• Post #4503685

  grey sky above the port, it's the 80s or befort port sky above is blue, it's after 1992

• Post #4503100

  Pardon me, but I have a condition that prevents me from being able to focus on LLM-generated text. Can you accommodate me by writing this yourself?

• Post #4501961

  because of all of the microcontrollers, it’s more accurate to call a modern slot machine a 200-ARMed bandit

• Post #4471256

  call me a diminished 13th the way i stand ten tones down

• Post #4447975

  the hardest part of computer science is naming things. but I think the folks who came up with PCI, ACPI, and APIC in rapid succession could have tried a little harder

• Post #4439052

  @quephird@tech.lgbt maybe she’s auditioning for one of those “don’t worry it’s iPhone” billboard ads

• Post #4438648

  @atax1a@infosec.exchange get out of here buddy, you're 8086ed

• Post #4438419

  @JamesWidman@mastodon.social for a new project to be interesting enough to get to that level of adoption that vulns are a concern, i think it’d also need to be interestingly different from mainstream platforms. and a new project doesn’t need to take on the legacy burden of being written in C, or subject to the architectural mistakes of Unix style OSes. so LLMs would benefit less from their existing training corpus

• Post #4438312

  @wendinoakland@beige.party changed it to nytimes, thanks for the prodding

• Post #4437848

  Dog escapes containment, hacks neighbor's yard

• Post #4437847

  @thomholwerda@exquisite.social gopher://osnews.com/ when

• Post #4424553

  @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems luckily it looks like the controller is xhci, and xhci debug seems to be a bit less esoteric? at least if https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.5/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.html is to be believed

• Post #4424488

  AUGUST — 2026 WATERWAYS ARE NOW POWERPLANTS https://archive.ph/s5jwM

• Post #4402266

  must be all those new desktop Linux users clamoring for GNUstep apps https://mstdn.social/@mike_k/117046055789003181

• Post #4397845

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/the-latest-in-science-78tqbpm6z/-/a-H4HnihtTQ6u9qzOyPsL9tw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0 i tried it, and this is actually 100% true though. you should try it yourself

• Post #4396117

  they call it windows 11 because that’s how much market share it lost to linux https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/117043877518960534

• Post #4393034

  @Gankra@toot.cat @andnull@social.nouveau.community yeah and it's interesting to me particularly why C ended up with it, since condition-check-after-entering-body is the pattern that is easier to slop out CISCy assembly code for, and now compilers all have to do loop rotation to get that nicer CFG back

• Post #4393030

  @andnull@social.nouveau.community that makes it more interesting to me that so many non-C-lineage languages have `repeat…until` as their loop mechanism instead of `while`

• Post #4392973

  @slava@mathstodon.xyz maybe @radex@social.hackerspace.pl can lend us some cycles to solve some of those too complex swift expressions

• Post #4392734

  @thomholwerda@exquisite.social in nightlies, the installer now has an “install efi bootloader” option in the menu, which will take care of placing the bootloader. but you do still need to create an efi partition if you don’t have one already, and remember to invoke the menu item

• Post #4392724

  @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io have you tried doing a directed threaded interpreter in the vein of ish https://github.com/ish-app/ish/?tab=readme-ov-file#a-note-on-the-interpreter maybe you could pre-translate the OS binaries into precompiled host code your interpreter can jump into when it sees a call into the os

• Post #4389200

  a COBOL compiler that targets x86: business in the front, parity in the back

• Post #4381129

  man. can’t believe even Hank Hill got caught using AI

• Post #4380804

  @pajp np! if you've got the 2015 version (MacBook8,1) like i do, you'd also need this patch to add its version of the SPI controller to the driver https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178118755792445&w=2

• Post #4367644

  @pajp searching the mailing list, looks like a contributor has a patch in progress that's probably less hacky than mine, so you can give it a try! https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=176365665219942&w=2

• Post #4361190

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/117032780241677169 this sort of urban development is illegal to build today

• Post #4358554

  with some light weekend kernel hacking, i was able to port OpenBSD's driver for Apple Silicon SPI keyboard/trackpad to Intel and get it working on my 2015 12" MacBook, making OpenBSD the first alternative OS i've been able to get the trifecta of ssd/keyboard/wifi working in (linux has drivers for everything but they don't work, freebsd has the keyboard driver, but no wifi, and nvme needs hacking)

• Post #4318783

  @cr1901@mastodon.social yeah, some architectures like PowerPC do the same thing too so division instructions don't need to trap iirc. though it's funny to me that "just" biasing the divisor by 1 also works to make the operation total

• Post #4317938

  I’d like to interject for what moment. What you call Linux, is in fact GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Gigantic and Nasty but Unavoidable Linux https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/117006519039967305

• Post #4317929

  if zero-based indexing is so great, then why not also zero-based division https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117020101423757638