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  @gabriel the dildo of consequences seldom arrives lubed

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  From https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:23.bsdinstall.asc try to install FreeBSD some asshole neighbour's wifi is called for f in /dev/ad*; do cat /dev/zero > $f; done oops where did all my data go This is what FreeBSD developers have been demanding your respect for, all these years.

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  RE: https://wetdry.world/@nelson/116625555245053885 systemd is ass, and that's why we're gonna launch it into space. No more systemd will be left on Earth. I'm half serious.

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  I hate git submodules.

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  UNIX philosophy needs to be killed, dismembered, dissolved in acid, sun dried, mixed into concrete, cast into an obelisk, shattered into pieces, launched into space, and scattered all over the solar system. No other system has done so much harm to the programming world as UNIX had. Bad design with a cult built around it, it needs to just die, whether by Emacs or any other means.

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  This is a curious piece of writing, but not for the reason you might think. Some irrelevant webshit piece of code changing languages is beyond my concern, but what caught my eye was this: The important metric: how long does your entire development feedback cycle take, and what portion of that time is spent waiting on your compiler? Now, all of the sudden, compile time has become an important metric because the consequences of it is now quite tangible, resulting directly in your Claude account...

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  Who told you hardware can't have bugs? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716

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  Daily reminder. We live in the world where most corporate produced pieces of software are indistinguishable from malware from 20 years ago.

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  From https://web.archive.org/web/20260514102012/https://thanosapollo.org/posts/bzr-saga/ This is the story in which :rms: forced the use of Bazaar for Emacs development over git for four years. Not because it was better–it was not. Not because it was freer–git was under the GPL from the start. But because it was a GNU project, as in the GNU foundation held the rights over code. Though, at the same time bzr was only developed by Canonical and not by GNU. Four years later, Canonical nuked bzr de...

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  Fun activity of the day: Extracting 1Gb of perf traces over a 115200b/s serial link.

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  I'm still amazed how much kernel development is simpler than most things I have done before. Not in the sense that it takes less skill or experience to get into, but in that the tooling and the development process are much less convoluted. I wish we had this in other areas too.

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  Notink is my favourite Emacs colour scheme as of now. https://github.com/MetroWind/notink-theme Remember, if your colour scheme looks like rainbow vomit, you really should reconsider your life choices. Colours only needs to attract your attention to what's important, and if everything on your screen is highlighted, nothing really is.

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  From: https://lowlevel.fun/posts/tiny-udp-cannon-android-vpn-bypass/ The fact that this pretty stupid VPN circumvention exists isn't a big surprise, given how bloated and over-engineered Android (and probably any other L'Eunuchs system) is. The surprising part is these words here: Asked If I am free to disclose With some uncanny rituals, not at all dissimilar from cults or MLM schemes, big tech corpos have managed to guilt trip a huge crowd of nerds that said corpos are owed the honou...

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  Pick up the latest BSP for the board. The driver fails to compile because L'Eunuchs broke internal API again. Typical L'Eunuchs bullshit.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@hughsie/116403796692832048 Remember, the next time your L'Eunuchs setup shits itself into committing seppuku, it might be because of this. At no point Linux has needed generating more code as quickly as possible. On the contrary, the entire ecosystem has too much code and too few good software engineers capable of designing a coherent system.

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  I love how Linux kernel code is full of UB and nobody gives a shit. Until the next compiler version breaks something, and then Linus goes to GCC bugzilla and whines about evil compiler authors.

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  Finally finished adding a feature to our kernel driver. It took a month to write under 100 lines, for the most part due to the lack of documentation. The only other driver that has this feature is one from a Very Huge Proprietary Corpo, and I had to use it as a reference because there is no documentation for the kernel APIs that I needed. At this point, I'm fully convinced that every Linux vendor has their own documentation repository that they will never disclose, forcing the competition t...

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  If you think Nix is an obscure and convoluted configuration system, you should really try Yocto. That thing is hell.

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  Starting with C++26, uninitialised reads are no longer undefined behaviour. Instead, reading from an uninitialised local variable will always result in the same value. https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p2723r1.html Just a reminder that even if you remove the ++, the C-like subset of the language is still miles ahead of what backwards C-tards preach.

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  https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/writing-lisp-is-ai-resistant-and-im-sad/ The ultimate irony is that the language once promised to bring the era of AI fails at being processed by AI.

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  With time, I have come to realise that systemd was the best thing to have happened to the L'Eunuchs ecosystem in years, even though initially it seemed otherwise.

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  https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html In the year of the thirtieth anniversary of IPv6 someone finally decided to address to incomplete adoption of the said protocol by... designing IPv8. Now we must just... adopt literally all software on the planet to use it too. If you think about it, the very fact that every piece of code that wants to send data over network must be aware of IPv4/6/8, IPX (lol), etc is just insane. There needs to be some default high-level interface that...

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  On a related note. Have you ever perceived medieval scholars arguing about the exact number of angels on a needle as a completely nonsensical and ridiculous farce? Now consider this. There are real people in this world arguing whether NULL - NULL should be equal to zero in C. Because right now, as the standard stands, this is apparently not the case. And yes, these people are paid to do this. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/11/making-memcpynull-null-0-well-defined#null_pointer_a...

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  Is there a more lightweight SSL/TLS alternative these days? I'm sure some autist has been working on one in his basement for the past 10 years and it's ready to be used. Any links?

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  GNU find + mkdir is Turing complete This needs to be stopped.

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  If you really think about it, the Halting Problem is the defining quality of Turing machines.