Posts by millihertz@oldbytes.space
(DIR) Post #ASZlfwj7NNWB774zr6 by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-11T14:14:03Z
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@m0xee well, it falls at the first hurdle. turning on OEM Unlocking doesn't actually enable unlocking on my phone - so it's stuck as a MIUI device forever more :-(
(DIR) Post #ASZlfypDZfaNcbwtdo by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-11T16:31:56Z
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@m0xee ...well, that all looks dreadful :-( i think, all told, it's probably just easier to sell the damn thing on and let someone else solve that problem (or not care about being advertised at by everything)
(DIR) Post #ASa7NhCmXnSQkmeoue by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-11T20:35:25Z
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yay, the memtest86+ maintainer has incorporated VIA support, just a couple of weeks after i asked them about it! i'll look forward to downloading that asap
(DIR) Post #ASgEMa1VcqfOokYjLc by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-14T19:31:12Z
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why is a simple WYSIWYG editor that can support different fonts and colours in text but not much more something it's virtually impossible to find on Linux? basically just need the equivalent of Wordpad (except for using an open file format, like something XML-y) - do i seriously have to use Windows to get that?!(yes, i know about Ted, but it doesn't support colour, which makes trying to talk about colorForth, for example, much more difficult than it should be)
(DIR) Post #AStlPOWieIVfZYaPTs by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-21T05:23:50Z
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someone posted an "open source is broken" thing yesterday featuring the plight of the lead (only?) core-js developer... and all i could think was that the primary way in which open source is broken was intentional, and by design - it allows corporations, the very people who should be paying the upkeep, to freeloadthe thing about corporations is that if they're not required to pay for something, there's a legal case to be made that their fiduciary duty to their shareholders requires them not to. at least the Free Software movement required them to contribute back in kind - the Open Source movement was created to push back against that, and even now people buy into the corporate-shill message that putting even the tiniest barrier in the way of a corporation leeching off your work is somehow hostile to the entire intent and purpose of open sourceand yeah, the core-js dev totally should just down tools and leave. fuck every company depending on their work without paying for its upkeep.
(DIR) Post #AStlPQtTqduAujFcEi by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-21T05:40:06Z
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there is, of course, a specific issue around web apps, which aren't "distributed" in the conventional sense. in the context of a web app, the hasty fix is that the act of exposing it to customers for the purpose of generating revenue, whether directly or indirectly, should be considered "distribution"
(DIR) Post #ASuKdqNLOwiCOTpJ68 by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-21T11:28:16Z
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two things are guaranteed to earn you a block:coming into my mentions to argue with me. just don'tcalling the GPL a "cancer" or "viral" or "infectious" when you do soi'm not saying the GPL is perfect. its "we are Ethical, and Freedom is our Only Value" stance offends the hell out of me. but it does at least enforce mutualism in distribution of conventional software, and that is the bare fucking minimum a decent society requiresif you don't want to use the GPL for your software, whatever. if the very idea of someone having to contribute back when they use your work offends you, then djb has some exciting news about the public domain!but if you want me to take your objections to the supposed "virality" of the GPL seriously, you might not want to behave in exactly the way that so offends you when arguing your case.
(DIR) Post #ATJK1o7ehaZCRzPFZY by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-01-05T01:49:04Z
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what i don't understand is why, when the powers that be were looking for a replacement for the PC BIOS, they decided to develop UEFI when IEEE 1275-1994 was right there
(DIR) Post #ATJK7VEbq6sLbmNHv6 by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-02-05T07:35:01Z
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ooh, missed this:https://www.eejournal.com/article/mips-rolls-out-its-first-risc-v-processor-core-its-a-big-un/MIPS has now gone full RISC-V, which kind of makes sense, since RISC-V is 4 Berkeley iterations down from the original MIPS architecture. and they've clearly applied everything they learned modernising the MIPS architecture to their first RISC-V offering! exciting times... even if the poor old MIPS architecture is now orphaned (but it lives on, i guess, in Loongson - and in various textbooks... and in Microchip's oldest PIC32s)
(DIR) Post #AUV9UEp2dt10Fb95sm by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-04-10T06:45:47Z
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so as far as i can tell, once you disable all the security crap, UEFI is basically like a modern CP/M - you have a hardware interface layer, a disk and filesystem driver, a shell that lets you fiddle with all of that, and the ability to load and run programs one at a time.is that about right? if so, i wish there were an equivalent to the Ralf Brown Interrupt List for UEFI
(DIR) Post #AUfCWtrsiijiUCnggq by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-04-15T03:18:41Z
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henceforth my favourite alternative-history question is going to be "what if Linus had stuck with the no-commercial-use licence on his fledgling kernel?"...because frankly, the worst aspect of the Free Software / Open Source movement was that they set their hats hard against "no commercial use" or "no military use" or "no fascists" clauses applied to software that was, in every other respect, exactly what they were advocating for. if you're not building a cruise missile, "no weaponry use" on an embedded RTOS doesn't affect your freedom one iota. by insisting that the only morality allowed in software licences was the morality of restricting software, they essentially ensured that the entire software world became completely amoral
(DIR) Post #AUkrmtM37oWFTcAxOK by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-04-17T01:39:27Z
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porting this across from Reddit, because it's interesting and relevant:You can go back in time and make any change (cosmetic or functional) to the retro system of your choice. What do you do?(changes must be era-appropriate and reasonably costed)boosts welcome
(DIR) Post #AVerOxuzs2ro6C9sQa by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-05-14T21:07:16Z
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does any CPU out there turn its FPU off if you don't use floating point? i suspect newer Intel and AMD CPUs probably do, because TDP is everything, but what about things like Cortex M chips?
(DIR) Post #AVjE1ckHdqP0fdwXtg by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-05-16T23:53:01Z
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@crc gah! asm-level heisenbugs!segfaulting because of a misprediction...?
(DIR) Post #AW2OG74i6GcVGKbyLY by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-05-26T05:43:00Z
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@georgia the rarest of all the Mewgs[image shows a black cat with a white tuft on their chest poking their head through a module-sized gap in a rack of Moog synthesizer modules]
(DIR) Post #AWLWS9l3y3xfaBpEQa by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-06-04T11:22:25Z
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@stux there's nothing like a cat for finishing any accidental manoeuvre with a look that says "i totally meant to do that" ;-)
(DIR) Post #AWOKvNd0rUiB1S6lw8 by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-06-05T19:56:30Z
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"4 billion bytes is 4GB. we need more than that."UUHHHMMMMMM
(DIR) Post #AXxMaikFQiAY57Dh1k by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-07-22T14:57:20Z
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*fights off the urge to buy four new mechanical keyboards for £7.60 each*
(DIR) Post #AYTlSAenJmhxA1eF84 by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-08-07T06:17:03Z
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what i wouldn't give for a "mark all of this person's media sensitive" profile note on Mastodon
(DIR) Post #AYeUXhhiJeo6cWcpdo by millihertz@oldbytes.space
2023-08-12T10:41:07Z
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oh ouch, Core 2 Duos have slipped into "retro" while i wasn't looking