Posts by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
(DIR) Post #AVIBDgkgOpfNYQrn5E by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-05-03T22:48:19Z
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@stanford I don't know about Akkoma, but I've heard Pleroma is a lot less resource-intensive to self-host, for example. After all, there's nothing special about Mastodon in the largeer Fediverse...
(DIR) Post #AVJoN7p9CrcpUePCXQ by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-05-04T17:11:01Z
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To paraphrase: too big to moderate is too big to allow.
(DIR) Post #AXjQBz20UFu8rFuiNk by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-07-15T21:50:38Z
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@whitequark What’s LPL? I’d love to learn lock picking but I’m completely clueless about it so far, I only have the very basic idea of how tumbler locks work…
(DIR) Post #AXqoy6J3Qsk8QUiYTo by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-07-19T11:24:47Z
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If anyone works for Eir, could you please communicate to someone sufficiently pointy-haired there that the customer portal that only works in Google Chrome (and fails to work in other standards-compliant browsers like Firefox) and tech support suggesting that people try Internet Explorer in 2023 aren't normal things?#MastoDaoine
(DIR) Post #AZ8LBzrVl7I2rQhFlw by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-08-26T18:56:48Z
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@hj @dosnostalgic Spawns... the optimal number of them is always a few less than there are.
(DIR) Post #AZVxY06LaNtsSl6rOS by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-09-06T22:17:13Z
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@malakai That’s a very optimistic estimate, I think the ratio is more like 1:2 at least.
(DIR) Post #Ab0iIDPtiLkqOSJ3Jo by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-10-02T10:20:53Z
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How exactly did early x86 CPUs that didn't have an integrated FPU know to send x87 instructions to the external co-processor?Was there a hardcoded instruction number range reserved for co-processors, or a general mechanism for registering instruction ranges?What bus did it use to send instructions to the FPU chip and retrieve results?If anyone has pointers, please share.#x86 #retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #AbZzSP2JAFWbLxQz6O by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-11-08T00:12:44Z
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@lispi314 @yassie_j @lizzie I forgot that Ken Ashcorp existed, but I certainly always found his lyrics quite cringey (although the songs are... sort of fun, I guess. I don't feel like re-listening to them now, though.)
(DIR) Post #AbtesJnOJbOUOBcw0O by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2023-11-17T11:31:42Z
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Lingua Latina mortua non est.(The place is Brew132 in Cork — a #Catholic cafe)#MastoDaoine #Latin
(DIR) Post #AhWDmN3ApUVNzOqP8i by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2024-04-17T23:31:45Z
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I wonder if there's already a work that starts out like a "cozy mystery" and gradually morphs into hard-boiled noir.#literature
(DIR) Post #Ai0nnWqPKIElkMWRLU by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2024-05-18T09:52:41Z
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@aral They also misspelled Siobhán.
(DIR) Post #Ai16xFhLpOzwatdVNw by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2024-05-05T20:28:36Z
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Flowers growing out of cracks in stone walls is certainly some kind of a metaphor, but I’m not sure what exactly the metaphor is for. ;)#bloomscrolling #florespondence
(DIR) Post #AkYIzXHkGmhGCGKFMG by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2024-08-02T09:20:09Z
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@mer If I heard that expression out of context, I'd have thought it was an all-female punk band name.
(DIR) Post #AqqoNIhMY9DFFaztA0 by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-02-06T14:54:32Z
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@aliss @puniko May also contain: peanuts, privacy violating trackers, gluten, hostile government backdoors, milk, critical vulnerabilities, sulfur oxide, crustaceans.
(DIR) Post #AuQtOhBVihV2eFCjqa by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-05-23T11:00:09Z
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@simon_brooke @vnikolov Most of Soviet goods were absolutely substandard.It's important to understand that Soviet optical instruments, mechanical watches, and other items still in use now were very expensive and scarce at the time. Low-end items have long ended up irrepairably broken.But a lot of other things were not just crude by modern standards — they were breaking all the time. In the case of electronics — scarce, expensive, _and_ breaking all the time.Western equivalents were highly sought-after not just for better performance, but also better reliability.And, yes, it was a consumerist society — just with very little to consume. ;)There was a lot of DIY and custom-made items, but it was never prestigious. A brand-name item, especially a Western one, would always be valued more than anything custom-made.One area where it seems comical now: quite a few people asked luthiers to make clones of unobtainable Gibson or Fender guitars because there was a lot of street cred in owning a Fender but zero street cred in having an instrument made specially for you. You'd only resort to anything locally-made if you couldn't obtain the real thing™.
(DIR) Post #AuQtOjHxtfqpAqEvBY by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-05-23T11:28:49Z
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@vnikolov @simon_brooke >or available only to privileged people domesticallyThis is a little-known part. There were special distribution channels for high-ranking "communist" party members.Even special stores that a person from the street couldn't even enter, but if you were privileged, you could buy all the normally unavailable foods and other items — often for a lower price than on the "open market".Orwell didn't make up the "inner party" part.
(DIR) Post #AuQtOlkOkvmcnbYemW by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-05-23T11:07:27Z
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@simon_brooke @vnikolov ...while there was no incentive for enshittification in the modern sense, all government-mandated "five-year plans" were always about _producing more_.Quite often, producing more stuff that no one needed at all.So a government-run socialism, by itself, is not an antidote to all our problems, sadly.
(DIR) Post #AvJl6ZPJuSHfHXsKNU by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-06-20T09:39:46Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @corbet @dmarti >The Rust init system officially adopted by Arch is named rye-init (or a similar name, depending on upstream branding)Sentences no human would come up with. ;)
(DIR) Post #AzrtZvPwNwPm0I6wi0 by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-11-03T12:17:13Z
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@shironeko @hsivonen I have a great admiration for those machines, but I can't get myself to advocate for mainstream support for them in modern OS versions.Running Linux on obsolete enterprise workstations and servers is a very niche hobby that is also mostly limited to a small number of countries where those machines used to be common and thus available locally without exorbitant shipping costs. For most Linux users in the world, hobbyists and professionals alike, they are practically unobtainable.If people want to do it, they can maintain their own patch sets or forks — it's FOSS.For my own hobbies, I'd rather see more improvements in the sound subsystem.
(DIR) Post #Azs42tlQbv86obcFMG by dmbaturin@functional.cafe
2025-11-03T13:55:31Z
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@shironeko @hsivonen Are there statistics on user counts?