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linear cannon

linear@nya.social

computer witch in a professional software/linux/embedded engineer&#039;s clothing - anti-vibecoder - i live in maryland and bend old computers to my will - polyamorous, vaguely relationship anarchist, very gay - sometimes i make music as &#039;ersatz waterfall&#039; - not a tech-only account, i&#039;m just a computer addict - Intel 80286 enthusiast, and also PowerPC and MIPS and RISC-V - i have either too many or not enough ESP32s<br />---<br />if you have recently used the world wide web, connected to a 5g cell network, or gotten an ultrasound at a hospital, there&#039;s a chance something i worked on helped. i currently do energy monitoring tech<br />---<br />i am an operating systems nerd. i regularly use Gentoo, FreeBSD, and NetBSD on desktop, NetBSD/Alpine on server, Debian when those

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    only cool kids grew up with one of these

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    chips, assorted flavors

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    i got a bag of chips

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    it is time to optimize some microcontroller power usage

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    once again, after an unexpected reboot, i have found firefox restoring my tabs from... 3 months ago

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    my SGI Onyx2 has had its fan tray replaced and it is now alive

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    it&#39;s remarkable how computers just keep getting worse even when they get better

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    i found an ancient relic at goodwill

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    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/slopscan/ https://codeberg.org/ashkitten/slopscan-webext

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    @dtl@8bitorbust.info i&#39;d actually rather not give my browser access to either of those things

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    is there anything that exists in the space of fully open source weather modeling

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    i want a steam frame

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    i need more games for my psp

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    dangit my &amp;quot;backup&amp;quot; storage server&amp;#039;s root disk is failing, and it&amp;#039;s actually technically the primary storage server right now i&amp;#039;m going to have to sort this out rather immediately

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    lol (lol out loud (actually saying &amp;quot;lol&amp;quot; instead of laughing))

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    today in things you may not have known: during quake&amp;#039;s 10 year anniversary, john romero released the sources to all of the original quake maps, singleplayer and multiplayer, under the GPLv2. the textures and models are still proprietary, of course, but the maps themselves are free for the world to use

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    i think one of the most useful things facebook could do for society is probably to stop existing

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    the members of the Vortex Quake II dev team (myself included) are working on a big update that supports the q2repro engine and quake 2 remaster content, including adding all of the remaster weapons, and integrating them into Vortex&amp;#039;s RPG-like character upgrade systems i am very excited for this

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    absolutely love to delete hundreds of lines of code from a codebase with zero change in functionality

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    i want a game that is exactly like endless sky but with chunky software-rendered 3d graphics

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    emailed my congressperson about H.R. 8250, the federal age verification bill, and all the reasons why any such bill is a bad idea, and told him that if it passes they might as well arrest me now because from that point on part my life&amp;#039;s work becomes, by necessity, actively avoiding complying with it or using any device complying with it, and assisting anyone else who asks in doing the same if you&amp;#039;re reading this and in the US, you should also call/email your congressperson and...

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    all anthropic employees should be banned by default from all open source software projects, in light of the fact that apparently claude code has an &amp;quot;undercover mode&amp;quot; for their internal use, to be used when contributing to public repositories, that instructs the model not to indicate that it is an ai model or attribute commits to itself and instead pretend to be a normal human (and also not leak internal codenames) current US copyright guidance requires that ai-generated output...

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    i find it very interesting that llama.cpp, a project presumably maintained and contributed to primarily by people who generally have a decent understanding of LLMs, has a strict policy against predominantly LLM-generated contributions, bans accounts who violate it, uses an AGENTS.md that tries to rope the agent into enforcing this and warning the user, and they have also discussed adding canaries to catch people lying about AI use and not sufficiently reviewing its output

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    i&#39;m probably going to be told tomorrow that i&#39;m being laid off, so if anyone has a lead on a decent remote embedded software engineering or unix/linux systems job, i&#39;ve got a resume to send you. i don&#39;t like discussing the specifics of who my past clients have been in public. however, my most recent position was contracting with the kernel team of a major CDN and cloud services provider that i know many people on fedi are also current or former employees of, maintaining their in...