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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jul 26, 2026
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A little library with a moss roof #mosstodon
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jul 26, 2026
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So it starts. The GPX trace says to go right through here(1) which seems like a mistake but there is a sign of forbidden things (meaning some things are allowed) and a stile (2). The unsolicited chatbot said that markings would be blue and yellow so these are probably them (3, white-over-red hiking route markings as used in at least France and Spain).
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jul 25, 2026
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Imagine you are an insect on an organized trip and you're thinking “I hope the hotel will be good tonight” and when you arrive the insect hotel is this. Pic: insect hotel on a lamppost, insect hotel version of Ještěd Tower
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jul 13, 2026
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Boosted by Joe Groff @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
Link, courtesy of @fanf@mendeddrum.org : https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/ For some reason I am particularly found of these from-the-trench accounts of impactful moments in recent history (almost always computer-related, but that's really just "recent" and "impactful" working together). There was a time when I was reading page after page from https://www.folklore.org/0-index.html (not that any of it has any relevance to whatever crap Apple is doing today), many of Raymond Chen's blog posts have a similar vibe, etc. Typically the constraints that people were facing were only in the moment and any first-order technical wisdom one might hope to extract from such posts has already been obsolete for a long time. What I care about is the enthusiasm. I could tell you about the times I felt I was doing impactful work too but that might be abusing your attention for objectively minor advances.
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jul 05, 2026
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@void_friend@tech.lgbt

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Replying to @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com that's the DVD-ROM image bundled with your favorite magazine
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jul 02, 2026
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@void_friend@tech.lgbt

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Replying to @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com can i buy one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence PS: wait wrong link, these are Lord's prayers and stuff. I meant to link to this fr-only page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_des_indulgences
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · May 31, 2026
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Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social like PacMan!
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · May 06, 2026
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@void_friend@tech.lgbt

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@regehr@mastodon.social so, regarding your “bear spray is the last thing you need” advice, I seem to have found a more last thing. @void_friend@tech.lgbt

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John Regehr (@regehr@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · May 03, 2026
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@void_friend@tech.lgbt

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Replying to @netkitty@meow.social
@netkitty kittens live in a timezone of their own
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Apr 27, 2026
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@flacs@mastodon.social that is a majestic anthill…
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Apr 26, 2026
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Replying to @steve@discuss.systems
@steve@discuss.systems @joe@f.duriansoftware.com Excel. People are still mocking it for it.
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Apr 15, 2026
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Replying to @stylus@social.afront.org
@stylus@social.afront.org Thank you very much for running the experiment. I don't know how fluent you are in Caml, but it shows a deliberate but undocumented limitation in the implementation of generative exceptions (each call to f is supposed to generate a new exception according to documentation). It's not even worth reporting (first, the implementers know; second, 32-bit OCaml is no longer supported). Writing the PoC, and seeing it work, I realized that the line if !c = 0L then the_exn := Foo; isn't even necessary! The bug is not just that one Foo if saved will end up equal to another Foo. A certain Foo should also eventually end up being equal to the pre-defined Exit exception, a much sharper manifestation of the bug that could make plausible code misbehave if it ran long enough.
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Apr 14, 2026
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Replying to @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I'm not going to fight in 2026 for a limitation that is only practical on 32-bit archs to even be documented, but this cavalier approach to semantics or even documentation reminds me of when there was only one kind of string in Caml, the mutable one, and yet the compiler transformed f1 into f2 during compilation. That was right after an internship with Xavier so I reported this to him directly when I noticed, and he replied "anyway if we fix it and lose the sometimes-incorrect optimization, bootstrap requires 64MiB [which ordinary computers didn't have at the time], so it's going to stay". let f1 () = let x = "foo" in ... let f2 = let x = "foo" in fun () -> (Also bootstrapping didn't have to be so expensive, the compiler's authors simply needed to write f2 when they meant f2, but he also "disliked that style" (it's not stylistic when according to the documentation it means something different but whatever))
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Apr 13, 2026
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Do I know anyone with a 32-bit computer, an OCaml compiler and 30 minutes of compute time to spare? I would like to see what this program prints if you give it about that amount of time (give or take). In theory all exceptions Foo are supposed to be different (https://ocaml.org/manual/5.4/coreexamples.html#s%3Aexceptions "the function f cannot raise a Done exception").

let the_exn = ref Exit

let c = ref 0L

let rec f () =
let exception Foo in
if !c = 0L then the_exn := Foo;
if Foo = !the_exn
then Printf.printf "The %Ldth exception is the same exception\n%!" !c;
c := (Int64.succ !c);
f ()

let () =
f()
ocaml.org

OCaml - The core language

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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Apr 06, 2026
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Replying to @astro_jcm@mastodon.online
@astro_jcm this decathlon model opens like a suitcase and goes in the cabin. I have been happy with Decathlon backpacks but didn't test this particular model. https://www.decathlonpro.fr/sac-a-dos-de-voyage-40l-kaki-travel-500-organizer-id-8787845.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_brand&utm_id=7250153390&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21635732369&gbraid=0AAAAADpTeccWgEyC-2Fes5w-VXM-5L_BW&gclid=Cj0KCQjws83OBhD4ARIsACblj18C8xD-utVz7CpA88tyGFmZY4DOnvNxt_pCM0bMkId7yuiK3AM656gaAvwfEALw_wcB
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 16, 2026
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Pic: on a whiteboard, someone tried to write two lines of C with magnets, but the character set has no ( ) " ;

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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 13, 2026
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This is the level of discourse that has been reached. The week-end cannot come soon enough.

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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 12, 2026
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Replying to @arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social It was. I apologize for sending you to an existing reply but I have nothing to add or subtract from my posts there: https://tech.lgbt/@void_friend/116212580262482322
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 11, 2026
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@multisn8@mastodon.catgirl.cloud Super interesting fact from that speech is that he invented Quicksort in a language that did not have recursion. It was an assembly language, and that meant not having “call”. The computer could store its PC, and jump back to a stored PC, but if you wanted to invent Quicksort you needed to invent the stack, first: visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_803 and scroll down to “Entry to a subroutine at address N is normally effected by the sequence:”
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 11, 2026
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Replying to @multisn8@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@multisn8@mastodon.catgirl.cloud I would discourage having this sort of argument but Tony Hoare died less than a week ago, and this is from his Turing award acceptance speech. The original PDF is at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358549.358561 and someone textified it at https://gist.github.com/jfacorro/50d0b736f4ee95950d5b969541302ba0
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 11, 2026
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I would like to clarify that I have nothing against C. C gave me a job 20+ years ago and I'm still on it, the job safety alone is worth it (for me). It's C being used in the wrong contexts that irks me. Two kids making a lightweight compiler for a language without runtime checks, to make use of the PDP-11 in the corner of the computer room? Fine, absolutely fine. Control software of the aircraft produced in thousands of units and carrying 200 passengers each time? The wrong language.
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Mar 11, 2026
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“even in 1980”

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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Feb 21, 2026
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Replying to @b0rk@social.jvns.ca
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I read the parenthetical, but with the first linux Slackware distribution dating from 1993, I would have been interested in seeing more resolution there (even “1980s or earlier”). Especially also since it turns out it's the most popular choice at this point.
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void friend @void_friend@tech.lgbt · Jan 22, 2026
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Replying to @claesdevreese@mastodon.social
@claesdevreese Also true: the world never used more fossil fuel than in 2024 which beat 2023 which beat 2022. It doesn't help to produce more solar and wind energy if we also produce more fossil fuel energy. It could become 1% of the total energy used and would still increase the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere, leading to climate change and its consequences. The use of fossil fuel would need to go down in absolute terms for us to start to deviate from the path to destruction on which we are still currently accelerating. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fossil-fuel-consumption
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