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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
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Apr 05, 2026
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
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Mar 31, 2026
For the purposes of the Online Services Act 2023, is Usenet email?
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
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Mar 27, 2026
@cadey (basically: Sendgrid used to not do domain control checks at onboarding and allowed the same domain to be in multiple accounts, so any spammer could sign up and send e-mail from any Sendgrid using domain which passed SPF)
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
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Mar 27, 2026
@cadey I’ve been using Mailgun for a long time and been happy, but I think they’ve crippled their free service for new accounts. SES seems OK. Sendgrid used to have onboarding systems which made it too easy for spammers to impersonate you if you used them, dunno if they still do.
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
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Mar 25, 2026
@scarlet @amberage i strongly think it's trying to anchor the idea that they're a serious car manufacturer into people's minds before they all go "wtf Xiaomi make cars? Lol nope" while shopping
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
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Mar 22, 2026
Everyone seemingly getting mad about systemd adding a completely optional date of birth field to user records that is, in reality, only ever going to be filled in on the machines of children administered by parents who want such restrictions enforced, perhaps on machines administered by schools, or by people who want their computer to wish them a happy birthday.
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
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Feb 12, 2026
@regehr @0xabad1dea and it’s a bad one but it’s like a 10x factor of bad one at worst. and is say that only really because all of the mov big_offset(%rbp), %reg and back are probably huge and giving the instruction decoder indigestion.
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
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Feb 12, 2026
@regehr @0xabad1dea i know! there’s presumably a whole Source -> AST -> SSA -> Multiple optimization passes -> Assembly pipeline going on here! what on earth is it even doing in there that the output is this embarassingly bad?!
The output would be quite frankly embarassing for a single pass source -> assembly/machine code translator (which you can do for a half reasonable subset of C in 2kB of C code, see e.g. OTCC) but there’s an entire optimization pipeline in there?!
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
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Feb 12, 2026
@0xabad1dea …the more i ruminate on it the more i think digging into the output (which is rather difficult given the poor quality and lack of debugging symbols) would find that it’s done something like sometimes implementing multiplication iteratively or something. it’s really astoundingly bad.
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
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Feb 12, 2026
@0xabad1dea It’s so diabolically bad I don’t know how you do it. We’re not talking about gcc -O3 here, which does some truly herculian things, we’re talking about GCC with basically every optimization disabled. I don’t understand how the generated code wouldn’t run within a finite constant factor of gcc here, you just have to spit out the dumbest possible assembly for a given input source.
You just know there’s some absolutely horrific workarounds going in here because it’s apocalyptically bad in utterly incomprehensible ways.
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
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Feb 10, 2026
@uint8_t I feel like right now I'd rather we had more rails than more trains. Once we've done that we should definitely build more trains though
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Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
akko.erincandescent.net
Erin 💽✨
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
immigrant | software engineer in card payments liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC. 30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture. Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @ erinfluorescent
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Sep 01, 2024
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