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dunno if it's just me or a general indictment of the Java everything-ORM-always-everywhere model, but it's somehow infinitely easier for me to look around around a text dump of a top-level document than it is to attempt to traverse sixty different files with fucked up accessors
 Thu Jul 01 13:45:32 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

maybe im just spoiled by languages with enums to Be Able To Get a sensible document tree
 Thu Jul 01 13:46:37 +0000 2021


waagh, openssl contains seemingly-fully-capable blake2 implementations /and/ an EVP facility to set the output hash size, but..... ignores it entirely
 Fri Jul 02 15:59:07 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

thank fuck for sublime's seemingly-infinitely-deep undo stack, I guess, but still
 Fri Jul 02 16:03:58 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

this shit again

oddly, I don't know a Team Team
 Fri Jul 02 17:23:16 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

replied and got 554 User unknown - arslan‌.security‌.researcher@inbox.‌eu, which, lol
 Fri Jul 02 17:38:03 +0000 2021


following last night's ИИ (Игристое Инцидент), I feel qualified to speak out against the blatant mislabeling of Советское Игристое as "carbonated fruit wine drink, contains sulfites", seeing as it's much better described as "hard soda, also stinks"
 Fri Jul 02 21:55:41 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

no, the label of this supposedly-fruit-wine does /not/ say what fruit it is. nor can I.

this is also the first time I've smelled anything anything that reeked as strong as a bag of pyrotechnic sulfur without actually being fine sulfur
 Fri Jul 02 21:58:45 +0000 2021


y'know what? fuck you. *signals inside your band*
 Sat Jul 03 00:33:41 +0000 2021


Replying to @__phantomderp

i /will/ sue for brand dilution
 Sat Jul 03 10:04:40 +0000 2021


praise bunix
 Sat Jul 03 11:21:37 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

having a "testsuite moment" and launching 92k 7-process groups that live for 0.02ms each
 Sat Jul 03 11:25:30 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

also happens on .TS requests (hehe), and unlike .EQ I actually need them :v
 Sat Jul 03 12:00:05 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

clown moment https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901636#52
 Sat Jul 03 15:49:57 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

how the fuck was it 3 hours already
 Sat Jul 03 15:50:14 +0000 2021


"open source", but with the same implication as "open wound"
 Sat Jul 03 20:40:03 +0000 2021


thanks, Dennis!
 Sat Jul 03 22:35:49 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

more thought was put into locating this than into safety handling of most software you can get from your distribution today
 Sat Jul 03 22:52:00 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

i want to say this is mildly excessive, but i know it very much is not
 Sat Jul 03 22:56:04 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

i was told UNIX did not have file types, what's this then
 Sat Jul 03 23:02:35 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

god, simpler times, wannit
 Sat Jul 03 23:04:01 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

what fresh fucking hell



 Sat Jul 03 23:50:54 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

tm – meditate

Tm does not use any files, from external influences and distractions.

Attempts to use flog(1) on tm are invariable counterproductive.

NOTE:
This page was copied from PWB/UNIX Release 2.0 (1H) and brought to you for your amusement.
 Sat Jul 03 23:52:35 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

dae double-free in 31-year-old code
 Sun Jul 04 00:03:37 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

the only problem with this is that it apparently exhausts FreeBSD's process table lol
 Sun Jul 04 01:39:58 +0000 2021


No Sharing. No Copy/Paste. Print once. More information.
 Sun Jul 04 11:43:02 +0000 2021


hog (!!)
 Sun Jul 04 16:52:37 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

while i had been passingly aware of some lengths to which /bin/sh was actually half the system, it's inexonerably wild to me that the /only two/ builtins in the V2 shell were chdir and login
 Sun Jul 04 20:35:20 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten and @leftpaddotpy

this stanza is still there in V4 and V6; as of V5 (the earliest for which the TUHS has a source dump), (a) sh still does this (1) and (b) login still exits on EOF (2) (and is then restarted by init according to /etc/ttys, this is consistent since V1)

 Sun Jul 04 21:10:11 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten and @leftpaddotpy

reading through V5 login.c again, I think this is just because of accounting, cf. (1) – t/utmp.tty are the current terminal (ttyn(0)) – if you didn't destroy the session by execing, the child user would be listed as logged in for your session after it finishes
 Sun Jul 04 21:17:25 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten and @leftpaddotpy

a far cry from process control indeed
 Sun Jul 04 21:18:21 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

but I have to admit, it was a rewarding exercise, and I did get got by a fifty-year-old manual again
 Sun Jul 04 21:20:00 +0000 2021


thank, s
 Sun Jul 04 23:38:56 +0000 2021


i never understood the phrase "friends with benefits" until I started leeching off my friends' IEEE subscriptions
 Mon Jul 05 00:23:26 +0000 2021


Replying to @_m0nt3

i mean, enterprise IEEE subscriptions have landed me a few kilobux (if bought individually at consumer rates) of standards that don't exist anywhere (I looked), so dunno about this
 Mon Jul 05 10:40:15 +0000 2021


absolutely fucking wild shit
 Mon Jul 05 18:46:21 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

id probably rest easy just having read the PDP-11 assembly, but it's quite something to (be able to) validate that read against an actual V5 instance within seconds
 Mon Jul 05 18:49:25 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

writing an essay about sum history in the manpage again
 Mon Jul 05 19:46:42 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

while not necessarily a bad thing, it also proves the POSIX cksum non-normative section and most sum manpages wrong
 Mon Jul 05 19:47:54 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

but then again it is sum, so
 Mon Jul 05 19:48:18 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

anyway, i think this is a complete history of sum(1)
 Mon Jul 05 22:14:22 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

as with many things, this would be better if it weren't exactly what it is, but the same concept applied to something useful. alas
 Mon Jul 05 22:22:14 +0000 2021


[devolves into self-referentiality]
 Tue Jul 06 00:46:45 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten, @Annatar34381343 and @leftpaddotpy

(the V5 one doesn't (chdir, login, shift, wait, : (the latter 3 of which appeared in V4)), so previous ones likely don't either)
 Tue Jul 06 16:48:25 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten, @Annatar34381343 and @leftpaddotpy

also, at least in V5, you /can/ fork login off and it does work, it just fucks up login accounting (note who output), which is suboptimal
 Tue Jul 06 17:12:53 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten, @Annatar34381343 and @leftpaddotpy

same thing happens on the V2-on-V1 thing (https://code.google.com/archive/p/unix-jun72/)
 Tue Jul 06 17:15:00 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten, @Annatar34381343 and @leftpaddotpy

yeah, this feature is new in V5 (undocumented, but V6 says (1), V4 lists it in BUGS as wanted), the question marks are unprintables, and I'm not sure what PID 0 is even supposed to be, I assume this is some random chunk of memory coming from the unused zeroth kernel _proc entry?

 Tue Jul 06 17:33:00 +0000 2021


Replying to @the6p4c

buying silicon from tek and copper from holtek. real nominative determinism hours on da market to-day
 Wed Jul 07 02:02:24 +0000 2021


kinda fucked how pretty much every alcohol and light fuel just tastes like spicy water!
 Wed Jul 07 03:03:08 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

the only thing gasolines, kerosenes, and the like have going for them is that they're a bit oily at the end. i don't really understand the point of having so many when they all taste the same
 Wed Jul 07 03:05:28 +0000 2021


it's 3pm on a wednesday. my bank's website has given me timeouts with "try again or call support on the phone :)" three times in the past ten minutes of trying to do a single thing. how is this possible
 Wed Jul 07 12:52:14 +0000 2021


you're the austin group chair and get this mail. wyd?
 Wed Jul 07 17:37:20 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

its here lads
 Thu Jul 08 11:25:08 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

22-hour payment-to-courier-on-my-doorstep turnaround is quite something
 Thu Jul 08 11:26:55 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

🥺
 Thu Jul 08 11:30:05 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

this photo doesn't do justice just how absurdly sharp the text is, in both senses
 Thu Jul 08 11:38:28 +0000 2021


Replying to @iximeow

Ghostrunner does this, but all the MODULE_LICENSE stanzas I saw were Dual MIT/GPL, leading me to believe that they've thought about this, which I don't know if is worse or not?
 Thu Jul 08 17:57:06 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

glam shots

 Thu Jul 08 18:07:42 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

this may look large because the laptop is small, it's just 9.5x149.5 (3.5x143.5 + 3 padding)
 Thu Jul 08 18:16:06 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

either way, here's a poast https://nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blogn_t/006-UNIX-r-ATT.html and source material if you wanna print your own https://lfs.nabijaczleweli.xyz/0009-UNIX-r-ATT
 Thu Jul 08 18:39:53 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

or, seeing as I have 160 of these now (80 on foil, 80 on paper, both mat), DM me if you want a few
 Thu Jul 08 19:02:42 +0000 2021


fun fact: GNU tsort is terminally broken lol
 Fri Jul 09 11:01:14 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

the literal example from the standard (unchanged since 1987) produces fucking gibberish. makes you proud to be british
 Fri Jul 09 11:03:10 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

absolute fucking clown shit https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990854
 Fri Jul 09 11:17:08 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

XPG2 may've come out in 1987, but it originated in 32V, /which does this correctly/, in 1978. how do I know? it fucking runs on contemporary systems
 Fri Jul 09 11:49:18 +0000 2021


Replying to @sehetw

I mean, I read this as ordered according to the tree then broken according to the input (so tree stable over last unique of input), as does every other implementation, so dunno
 Fri Jul 09 12:36:33 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

wow this is literally me rn https://twitter.com/nabijaczleweli/status/1408845771609456642
 Fri Jul 09 15:36:42 +0000 2021


saw a beverage that very loudly advertised "Zero Sugar!" on the paper label. sickening.
 Fri Jul 09 21:33:11 +0000 2021


something wrong with these dogs
 Sat Jul 10 02:02:40 +0000 2021


1978!
 Sat Jul 10 12:20:04 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

R. Morris, K. Thompson, Password Security: A Case History Encryption Computing, April 3, 1978, and this is already largely a retrospective; the searches are on a PDP-11/70. this really hasn't improved, has it
 Sat Jul 10 12:23:40 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

is "quantum overflow" just time, meaning "higher priority restored when syscall is made" or?
 Sat Jul 10 21:47:56 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

nice(2) has the literal worst documentation in existence I think
 Sun Jul 11 00:13:48 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

just count the bugs lol
 Sun Jul 11 00:19:59 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

yes i did spend the past two hours scouring fifty-year-old manuals and kernel sources
 Sun Jul 11 00:23:47 +0000 2021


Anarchist Win? This Woman Calls Her Girlfriend 'Bro'
 Sun Jul 11 10:10:41 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

please, my execution, she is very sick
 Sun Jul 11 10:11:17 +0000 2021


fun fact: that bundle of wire that was glowing red not five seconds ago? still fucking hot!
 Sun Jul 11 13:02:29 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

literally burned out a few layers lmao holy shit

 Sun Jul 11 13:09:05 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

thanks to that, it's no longer painful at least, but i also no longer have feeling in it
also it's noticeably stiffer, probably because its fucking cooked
 Sun Jul 11 13:10:17 +0000 2021


Replying to @marcinskarbek

never wrote the driver for the fingerprint reader in my laptop, so dodged that bullet
 Sun Jul 11 13:38:36 +0000 2021


vapourised holes in my finger notwithstanding, how are we feeling about this

 Sun Jul 11 13:43:46 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

⌀0.5mm titanium is always surprisingly graceful to work with
 Sun Jul 11 13:50:46 +0000 2021


absolute fucking clown shit. no explicit label on /tmp, GNU coreutils leaks the previous context with -Z (bottom) vs reverting to the default (top)
 Sun Jul 11 19:05:56 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

https://bugs.debian.org/990962
 Sun Jul 11 19:47:31 +0000 2021


 Mon Jul 12 10:15:13 +0000 2021


how do i have a gold vetusware membership
 Mon Jul 12 12:37:29 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

im very much not complaining, indeed i'm grateful for't as I need to pull some SysV dumps, but it's as surprising to me as anyone
 Mon Jul 12 13:29:10 +0000 2021


at da poast office, its pissing it down, im 3 minutes after shutter

 Mon Jul 12 18:52:34 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

slavs posting their Ls online
 Mon Jul 12 18:53:18 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

this does mean that if you'd like a few of these I'll poast them tomorrow https://twitter.com/nabijaczleweli/status/1413198119320395781
 Mon Jul 12 18:57:35 +0000 2021


Replying to @__phantomderp

recursive constexpr templates on the relay plane when
 Mon Jul 12 21:02:07 +0000 2021


Replying to @iximeow

i mean, beside it sounding bad, it's not really a /tremendously/ bad idea, right? GID 0 gets, realistically, nothing much with a rootfs prepared with a default 022 umask, I wouldn't think?
 Tue Jul 13 03:12:37 +0000 2021


why mine bitcoin when we could've run, cumulatively all-time, a big ole 6MW train for a year and nine months straight instead?? missed opportunity
 Tue Jul 13 03:17:50 +0000 2021


Replying to @iximeow

bragging rights at the -o bsdgroups dinner table
 Tue Jul 13 03:24:37 +0000 2021


yoo, mans do be dripped tf out
 Tue Jul 13 18:15:27 +0000 2021


pronouncing AT&T as @ ref T, accidnetally reinventing APL in the process
 Thu Jul 15 16:52:48 +0000 2021


ok me
 Thu Jul 15 21:32:43 +0000 2021


not a place of honour, &c.
 Fri Jul 16 01:54:53 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

 Fri Jul 16 02:02:54 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

i have a dense 600 words about the worst utility program in history (df) and SysVr4 rewrites it entirely once again
 Fri Jul 16 02:59:37 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

i no longer question why POSIX washed its hands entirely of this shit (funnily enough, the output it notes as matching by default with -P – 4.2BSD – is wrong: neither the heading nor the block size match (and rather obviously at that, since 4.2BSD switches to "kbytes"))
 Fri Jul 16 03:04:29 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

why is svr4 like this
 Fri Jul 16 14:11:43 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

yes, it fork/execs filesystem-specific helpers, too. it's 1000 lines long. the no-argument output is empty (spot the bug lol)

 Fri Jul 16 14:14:56 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

i thought the SysIII version was bad (300 lines of oddly interwoven flags and way too many options), but this is just incomprehensible
 Fri Jul 16 14:16:16 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

not to mention that there's no on-line documentation in the source or any of the distribution tapes I've seen. this is the fucking usage string. what are you supposed to do with this.
 Fri Jul 16 14:21:19 +0000 2021


some magick indeed
 Fri Jul 16 14:43:53 +0000 2021


ok bad post
 Fri Jul 16 15:54:40 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

if only there'd been some way to wrap this that didn't gigablow!
 Fri Jul 16 15:57:40 +0000 2021


damn.. says a lot about society!
 Fri Jul 16 16:27:19 +0000 2021


what's the deal with "kosher salt". salt's pareve? how could it become /not/ kosher
 Fri Jul 16 19:41:25 +0000 2021


so you're telling me an adversary generated this network?
 Sat Jul 17 00:13:28 +0000 2021


im separate im pure im segmented im fixed-stack im word-swapped im small model im executable im V2.3 im V3.0
 Sat Jul 17 12:10:22 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

the man set just has catpages, there are C, CP, CT, DOS, F, HW, M, S sections, corresponding roughly to what you'd call 1, 1dev, 1text, 3dos, 5, 7hw, 7, 2/3

also spot the missing mdoc macro lol
 Sat Jul 17 12:26:56 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

Intel is distributed by Intel Corporation
 Sat Jul 17 12:27:26 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

here's a suggestion: don't heat up tooling for (what I assume is) the sole purpose of getting it to an oxide purple if you can't make it stay vaguely straight lol

 Sat Jul 17 16:50:03 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

anyone else's @sqfmi watchy completely refuse to meet tolerance against the top case before filing away the PCB flare?
 Sat Jul 17 17:05:06 +0000 2021


Replying to @sqfmi

okay so i clicked firmware update, connected with bluetooth, and uh I'm not quite sure what I'm expected to do. w.s.c doesn't have a prominent button and Docs doesn't mention OTA; I guess it's supposed to be Watch Faces -> Try it! on one of them, except it does literally nothing?

 Sat Jul 17 18:22:07 +0000 2021


Replying to @sqfmi

oh, apparently it uses navigator.bluetooth, so when it says "with a Bluetooth enabled device" it means "with chromium". cool. could at least show something instead of quietly tossing TypeErrors
 Sat Jul 17 18:35:25 +0000 2021


Replying to @sqfmi

you can do OTA with base16 ROM | fold -bw1024 | sed -e 's/../& /g' -e 's/ $//' | awk '{print "write \"" $0 "\""; system("sleep 0.5")}' > fifo & { echo menu gatt; echo select-attribute 86b12866-4b70-4893-8ce6-9864fc00374d; cat fifo; } | bluetoothctl actually
 Sat Jul 17 20:09:13 +0000 2021


Replying to @sqfmi

but you'll doubtless drop packets regardless of the delay and it'll take 30 minutes because the firmwares are 1.7 megs, this really does need to listen to the change events
 Sat Jul 17 20:11:46 +0000 2021


Replying to @sqfmi

anyway, it'd be cool to actually be able to upload a firmware image without downloading hundreds of megabytes of python and building world
 Sat Jul 17 21:10:08 +0000 2021


Replying to @sqfmi

also, for something with actual literal physical clicking buttons, the click detection is atrocious
 Sat Jul 17 21:12:23 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

okay I lied it's actually fine (by accident), but it's space-indented and therefore unseeable on narrow tabs
 Sun Jul 18 10:44:20 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

in piracy as in intellectual property theft – always successful

 Sun Jul 18 11:37:26 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

okay, I admittedly write sparse mdoc, but I skipped most of the insanity, and have 545 lines. df.cpp is 465
 Sun Jul 18 13:20:12 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

3.5 full A4 pages of just STANDARDS and HISTORY lol
 Sun Jul 18 14:34:01 +0000 2021


Replying to @the6p4c

is dative for like cute dog girls or
 Sun Jul 18 14:35:45 +0000 2021


Replying to @infra_naut

if you mean piracy – yes; if not – i don't know what you mean
 Sun Jul 18 15:37:33 +0000 2021


Replying to @infra_naut

don't know per se, outside it being the big red guy from (1) https://twitter.com/nabijaczleweli/status/1304138312744153088
 Sun Jul 18 17:01:02 +0000 2021


im in "the big leagues" now (got mail from a .edu address)
 Sun Jul 18 23:33:32 +0000 2021


Replying to @eng1nqueer

don't think so, no
 Sun Jul 18 23:35:23 +0000 2021


Replying to @eng1nqueer

omg it'd be an honour
 Mon Jul 19 01:28:34 +0000 2021


LX-branded timezone
 Mon Jul 19 15:22:31 +0000 2021


requisite "got ownt in the group chat" poast but im cropping it worse than usual in hopes this drives engagement
 Mon Jul 19 20:11:28 +0000 2021


no, okay, but I'm gonna; what fresh hell?
 Mon Jul 19 23:30:13 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

if you care to mime with me:
1. argv[argc] = 0
2. argv[argc - 1] == -1
3. to turn into -2
4. chroot perrors but chdir doesn't
5. the error path /doesn't actually rebind stdout/
 Mon Jul 19 23:38:07 +0000 2021


Replying to @swagick

it did, yeah
 Mon Jul 19 23:40:41 +0000 2021


do electronic versions of the X/Open Portability Guide exist before vol. 4? the earliest useful document i could find is the notes to the XPG3->4 changelog, but it's just sus
 Tue Jul 20 19:27:12 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

AFAICT there's an obviously-sold-out listing on amazon and there's one copy of vol. 2 in a library in greece, and I only know the latter because google books suggested it; which, again: do these, like, exist?
 Tue Jul 20 19:29:01 +0000 2021


magnus
 Tue Jul 20 22:06:52 +0000 2021


Replying to @winocm

classic "PATH_MAX isnt, actually" trick. love too see it
 Tue Jul 20 22:38:43 +0000 2021


Replying to @winocm

systemd pervasively strdupa()s most paths w/o a glibc-style fallback for long ones, too; I can't wait for the poettake on this
 Tue Jul 20 22:44:14 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

SysVr3.01(?) notes that the -1/-2 thing "catches potential problems in old 16-bit implimentations(sic)" and uses a /third/ error reporting method; the why remains unknowable
 Wed Jul 21 21:45:34 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

in what can only be described as a historic blunder, I've managed to get the flag backward /while looking at it/
 Thu Jul 22 00:05:33 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

apparently argv ended with -1 not 0 before V7? this excuses the argv[argc]=0 stanza, but argv[argc-1] is a valid argument, and -2 is exactly as outside the process's address space as -1 is
 Thu Jul 22 01:37:30 +0000 2021


UPU? more like uwu
 Thu Jul 22 02:18:41 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

i swear i had a catgirl poaster read where this was funny
 Thu Jul 22 14:34:46 +0000 2021


Replying to @mycoliza

having read the V7 bootstrap and breeding document, as well as the porting memoranda, I would say that yes, it is
 Fri Jul 23 15:36:21 +0000 2021


Replying to @mycoliza

that this applies to UNIXes of today, with their sophisticated memory management schemes (difficult to breed) and being 90% device drivers by volume (dominant behaviour), I would hesitate to agree with necessarily, but the NetBSD rumpkernel scheme is a step in the right direxion
 Fri Jul 23 15:38:29 +0000 2021


have you ever used, or seen used, the multiplication (as in `[ioc]bs=69x420` for 28980) flag format for dd
 Fri Jul 23 15:40:11 +0000 2021


Replying to @di_v_erge, @mycoliza and @hikikomorphism

(even worse, POSIX clearly and broadly states that it makes literally no guarantees on output from df that's not df -P [path]... (512) or df -Pk [path]... (1024), and pleads to the implementers, noting that df -P[k] is the only portable usage. GNU coreutils fuck /even this/ up.)
 Fri Jul 23 15:46:14 +0000 2021


Replying to @lambdakitten

it's in V5, where dd first appears, so it was probably use(d|ful) then, what with the shell being what it was (plus, there's no expectation of being able to use non-decimal numbers in any utility I think, so that's not really a shock to the user)
 Fri Jul 23 15:59:07 +0000 2021


this can be certified as a definitive lily moment!
 Fri Jul 23 16:35:30 +0000 2021


Replying to @infra_naut

okay, I'll bite, what does agf mean here; is this an american thing?
 Sat Jul 24 17:52:26 +0000 2021


Replying to @infra_naut

oh. bad /bad/ post
 Sat Jul 24 17:54:57 +0000 2021


Replying to @infra_naut

i am very unfortunate to be aware of old blanchie's antics
 Sat Jul 24 19:50:41 +0000 2021


it's folded, tempered, and it does its job
 Sun Jul 25 13:52:24 +0000 2021


literal wood-side concrete wall of the military base btw
 Sun Jul 25 20:45:07 +0000 2021


television is worse now; this is apparent. why? RGB. NTSC colour television works like the human eye. RGB is for computers. simple stuff.
 Sun Jul 25 23:47:55 +0000 2021


i went outside in shoes not sporting a heavy vulcanised sole for the first time in years, and to quote a modern-day literary masterpiece: damn bitch, you live like this?
 Mon Jul 26 18:53:16 +0000 2021


we need to return to the essence
 Tue Jul 27 18:46:15 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

note how (a) even V5 has no fucking clue about the dd ASCII/EBCDIC conversion tables and (b) POSIX blatantly plagiarises the conversion, to the word. truly magnificent
 Tue Jul 27 18:57:39 +0000 2021


the thing i don't get with eARC is why a TV would be running a ZFS fork
 Tue Jul 27 20:18:02 +0000 2021


Replying to @iximeow

among others, like the frame buffer data height, it describes a full n-dimensional frame buffer data space, the thorough understanding of which will be sure to help you take your gaming to the next level with alienware and gavin newsom
 Wed Jul 28 03:05:25 +0000 2021


are the yellow minions with cylindrical eyes and fake glasses, like, a pre-amogus amogus?
 Wed Jul 28 03:13:56 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

pictured: a middle-aged mother in an unfulfilling marriage she can't leave because England doesn't recognise no-fault divorces
 Wed Jul 28 03:32:03 +0000 2021


*inflates your metatext, making you big and perceivable*
 Thu Jul 29 09:05:14 +0000 2021


m4 is just lisp but the function name is to the left of the paren
 Thu Jul 29 09:25:08 +0000 2021


stooped so low, opening non-critical groff bugs :/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991633
 Thu Jul 29 11:26:36 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

in which I advocate for .At 32v to produce "AT&T UNIX/32V" instead of "Version 32V AT&T UNIX"; this is the pettiest bug I've ever opened, I think, and yet it's one I feel very strongly about
 Thu Jul 29 11:27:43 +0000 2021


Replying to @nabijaczleweli

more than half of SVr3's dd 1600-line implementation consists of option parsing. that's more than the entirety of my implementation
 Thu Jul 29 12:33:41 +0000 2021


becoming a bug girl, call that arthropomorphisation
 Thu Jul 29 21:17:07 +0000 2021


are there any белаз girls out there? 🥺
 Fri Jul 30 01:03:09 +0000 2021


love chess. great iteration on the rogue-like concept
 Fri Jul 30 20:16:17 +0000 2021


Replying to @oculisprimed

classic careful what you wish for moment
 Sat Jul 31 20:23:45 +0000 2021