PSA to OpenBSD wifi users, if you tether to phone like me, your phone and the wifi driver may not negotiate the best wifi mode possible, configure it manually to make sure, eg here is my /etc/hostname.athn0
nwid xxx wpakey xxx
inet autoconf
mode 11n
up
#openbsd
ever since is shitposted about too much german on my timeline there has not been a single post in german on my timeline. i'm scared now. come back critters.
fun fact: on linux, btrfs and reiserfs¹ are the only two linux filesystems that have never corrupted my data and caused the harddrive to have to be wiped.
¹ i stopped using reiserfs long ago, upon discovering he murdered his wife
I see a lot of youtube commentator videos from the usual suspects blah blah blah about the "controversy" but (I didn't check, but highly doubt) do any do some simple thing to check the truth of claims about poor code quality, like look at how many github issues when bun was written in zig, how many github issues now code is written in rust
I only had a quick glance a week or two ago, but there was a huge number of open issues in the "amazing game-changer, passes all our tests" rust vibecode rewrite
@a1cswc3mhdfa0gh8@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net last i heard its just a temporary ban and they will eventually do whatever the Vatican oops i mean the Free Software Foundation decides
all of ukraine is within range if iran's missiles and ukrainian drone attacked an iranian ship in the caspian sea, killing one person. what could possibly go wrong.
I understand why you react this way but you are completely wrong. It is referring to politics between devs not politics of the wider world.
CC: @hsza@social.tudbut.de@meluzzy@woof.tech
@Primavera@void.lgbt especially since the rise of professional teams, who can pay the most money to get the best boys? and then since salary caps, who can pay the boys the most under the counter without getting caught?
For my use case I just want a box that can display words/characters/emojis, that can scroll back, that can copy and paste within itself and to other apps, that can config a font/font size/font colour/cursor colour. I don't want any drop down menus or text input boxes or multiple tabs or dbus notifications. But maybe I'm in the minority!
@blog@shkspr.mobi banks often use ancient software, in the u.s. pershing (bank of new york) used (probably still uses) very old account software, the printouts could not display the name of the report only a 3 digit code, leading to wrong report being used in some cases
"Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, member of the Assembly of Experts and former head of Islamic seminaries in Iran:
‘I recently heard that Pope Leo XIV wrote an encyclical letter titled ‘Magnifica Humanitas’, calling for the disarmament of Artificial Intelligence.
I found the letter very good; humanity must rid itself of this AI, which defies all divine purpose and is used in evil ways the majority of times. We must be aware of this.
It is truly a worthy goal of a joint intellectual Jihad / Crusade, in which our Christian brethren can play an important role.’"
Middle East Spectator
CC: @ad21l6idugqq0003@bottom.business
i have used st in the past, its ok with patches for scrollback. but i don't use it 'cause those suckless people are weirdos that thinks its funny to pose carrying tiki torches (after some big 'unite the right' march were lots of neo-nazis were carrying tiki torches).
Questions about pointers:
I'm learning a bit of Zig and have never used pointers before (I do understand the general concept of how to use them, that they point to address etc).
afaik using pointers is faster than operating on/ looking up the variables themselves?
My main confusion (using example below) is, why dereference the pointer with 'ptr.*' in the 3rd line? Why not just plug in the address directly with '&num'? Is that for performance too? Otherwise the code seems convoluted for no reason.
var num: u8 = 12;
const ptr: *u8 = #
std.testing.expectEqual(ptr.*, num);
#ziglang
Bandcamp has fired 10 engineers, which sucks, but is that all they have done? Seems an extreme reason to want to leave the platform. If you did not use any service or program that fired somebody then better move to a forest cabin because there's not gonna be anything left.
Now on chromium. A tiny hidden search bar up the top of screen leads me to https://opencollective.com/servo
If I click on it I can see "Contribute: Become a financial contributor" but no where to click or no way to proceed. Just a lot of shiny pfps and icons etc about people who did somehow manage to hand them some cash 😵
If I disable TLSv1.2 in nginx, ie go from
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
to
ssl_protocols TLSv1.3;
I wonder if this will mean some fedi clients/servers will have trouble connecting to my instance? Or should all be able to handle this by now?
Don't have a machine with 64GB RAM? Simply build LLVM with make -j1 to disable parallel compilation¹
¹ Ensure computer is a least 130m above sea level so executable can still be retrieved in the year 2726 when build completes
Jason Eldick is a crafty fellow, wrapping himself in layers of {} to keep warm. Like a cozy cocoon. Nevertheless a mere mortal is able to squint just the right amount and perceive his true visage with the naked eye. It is when [screams in binary] that all hope of recognising him is lost.
