Simple chap so C and BSD are my jam.
Joined Dec 2023
Okay, that was an extreme example but still.
But akin to woodworking or welding or anything like that coding is craftsmanship; ofcourse it is possible to make chairs en masse on a factory, but imagine you spent your career building them by hand. Why wouldn't you be proud of small bits and parts of every item you've made?
Just because some crafts are not as old - it doesn't devalue them.
Pragmatic standpoint is completely valid, but don't forget why do we have writing systems: to convey information. That's the basic need. So taking the same pragmatic approach we don't need writers nor poets nor prose or anything of sorts: language exists to transfer data from human to human, and don't you dare to find any of that serialization into english/anything beautiful. Is that it?
bsandro
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Took a while but there is progress. Rear frame part had to be re-weld to accomodate fairings - some previous owner mutilated this bike heavily. I still need to get rear blinkers, front master cylinder with lever and a clutch mount (+lever). Only then carbs can be tuned because clutch misses one of the wires that affect rpm and stuff.
Still very happy how it turns out.
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I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.
As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.
I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.
But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.
I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.
mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.
They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.
The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.
Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.
Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.
Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.
The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.
What can we do about this?
At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.
Feels like the internet is breaking apart. Communities and projects are slowly clam down.
We cannot trust each other anymore - usually some amount of work was enough for at least some credibility, but not anymore. No Voight-Kampff test too.
GenAI is the reenactment of the Tower of Babel.
Did a regular oil change on my trusty Honda CRF300 and remembered that the recommended interval per official manual is 12000km. Twelve thousand kilometers between oil change for a dualsport motorcycle is beyond crazy. I do it every 3K and it goes out pitch black with very low viscosity, can't imagine what happens four times that mileage.
So I guess this is another reminder to all the good folks there - do not trust vendors, any industry now is built on lies and deception. Communicate with peers, dig real life info and use that if you want your tech to live longer. That 12k (12.8 to be exact) interval is only good for first couple of years before warranty expires; but hardware will rapidly deteriorate like that and your motorcycle will end up broken. Planned obsolescence exists with everything manufactured past 1-2 decades.
oh okay I should've read https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html - hardware passthrough is not available yet, that's a shame, so I wouldn't be able to use real hard drives inside of the VM. Ah well, I'll just scrounge some local network box, put hard drives there and mount stuff from there.
openbsd vmd cannot handle linux on my ryzen :( I wanted to hook up all my hard drives inside of the vm and then share it to the host openbsd via samba or nfs, but alas.
Crazy, never knew this was a thing:
spkmodem:
This module provides support for outputting GRUB console information over an audio output. This output can be fed into another computer’s sound input and decoded using the spkmodem_recv utility. Note that this will slow down GRUB’s performance.
@kev
omg glad you're ok! Good thinking and reaction!
<there was a long post here about me being depressed, but screw it, gotta fight these demons alone>
I've tried to learn GLSL shaders and rendering pipeline for some time now, using only good 'ole C and X11. Some things are hard to wrap my mind around; memorizing stuff is another challenge. Demoscene is my main source of inspiration, but lately I thought maybe it can be somewhat fun to make a simple game using what I know. Danmaku shooter (shmup) is my main idea now, but maybe there is something else folks can suggest to me?
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I feel you mate! Been learning greek on and off for some time now, it is very hard for me. Memorizing words is super δύσκολο, and whatever I manage to stuff in my brain evaporates after 2 weeks if I don't come back to it. Speaking is whole another thing - it doesn't progress at all regardless of how much you read and memorize stuff, only practice here.
Another curious thing I've had is that after 300+ days perfect strike on duolingo I took a break of 1 week and could only remember 3 words afterwards. So in my humble opinion that app is not worth spending time on it, best thing so far was just learning the rules and independently trying to learn as many words as possible.
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Q) Why is retro computing so popular?
A) Modern computing is crap.
A) Modern computing is crap.
- thedaemon
Fun fact: I am learning greek.
Not so fun fact: I suck at it. Memory fails me constantly, I wish I could have ECC for brain or something :)
My feeling of that mental deficit started showing in other areas: I no longer think I am even remotely good in any of the things in my life. Coding skills are no longer needed, managerial stuff is still extremely hard, and even my english sucks ass.
Probably it just stuff stockpiling on me in general, and the idea that I cannot dream "I'll become good at this some day", because it is hard to afford that line of thoughts past certain age.
Or maybe that's what happens when midlife crisis strucks at 40 and you already own a motorcycle (or two) :D
Better late than never but I'm starting to realize I just enjoy restoring and fixing stuff.
Apart from computers I have the motorcycle I got for my bday couple of weeks ago. It was somewhat mutulated by previous owners, misses parts here and there and I keep putting it back bit by bit until it looks and works as stock as possible.
I hope I will be able to show "before-after" photos at some point.
Potato didn't boot until I set userconf disable i915drmkms* in boot menu hah.
Someone gave me a laptop a while ago - told me it was old and broken. No power brick too, and nothing I have fits (barrel jack 4x1.35mm).
Anyhow, today I finally decided to do something and just soldered couple of wires with a random barrel plug I had, laptop turned out to be quite alive: celeron n3050, 2gb soldered ram, 32gb emmc + sata bay (empty).
Now it has storage and new life with NetBSD 11rc1! And I unironically like the "rat laptop" look.
@aks
time to replay Skyrim and re-read "Lusty Argonian Maid"! :)
Simple chap so C and BSD are my jam.
Joined Dec 2023
