Posts by swetland@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #AY0QATjHcKnHH0OHWS by swetland@chaos.social
2023-07-23T02:52:26Z
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@dbort I need to check out Krita for non-vector stuff -- I keep hearing really good things about it. Blender is downright amazing these days, and like KiCAD gets used for Real Serious Work.Mention of Adobe reminds me how I find the whole subscription model for software extra obnoxious -- yay, I don't own my software, they can break it or "improve" it at any time, *and* I have to pay ongoing fees because they're basically holding my files hostage in many cases.
(DIR) Post #AYEWWtufoJnHD46iXY by swetland@chaos.social
2023-07-30T21:57:39Z
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@esden Those aluminium cases look fantastic.
(DIR) Post #AawsErHTmQUvmUZDFY by swetland@chaos.social
2023-10-20T02:38:49Z
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Heya @textfiles what's the best point of contact for archive.org feature requests?In particular, I was wondering if it'd be possible to support, in addition to the "fullscreen" button for emulators, etc, a "theater" button that'd resize things to the width of your browser window.On my 30" monitor, I often would like content to be larger, going all the way fullscreen is overkill, but remaining at the default size limits things to a tiny rectangle in the middle of the browser window.
(DIR) Post #AbDHsd1ifJJVb0NFFw by swetland@chaos.social
2023-10-28T01:07:10Z
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TIL that 450-550MB (compressed) is considered a "small" or "embedded" Linux image by people nowadays.Of course I also was reminded that the Linux kernel for the rpi4 is a good 20MB (plus 75MB of modules!).
(DIR) Post #AcQrpo3D56dSyXpu6q by swetland@chaos.social
2023-12-03T12:14:46Z
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@mjg59 And a cable to pass analog audio directly from the CDROM drive to the sound card...
(DIR) Post #AcQujfYI4AE4k58gCW by swetland@chaos.social
2023-12-03T12:44:47Z
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@mjg59 This was an internal four conductor cable between the drive and a 4 pin header on the sound card that was standard(ish?) in the early days of CD support on PCs. Not a lot of CPU or bandwidth to spare for processing CD audio...
(DIR) Post #AcauxPHSCGhcVleedU by swetland@chaos.social
2023-12-07T23:38:33Z
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Committing a bit of software archival. AHCC is an open source (GPL v2) replacement for the Pure C (Turbo C) compiler for the Atari ST.The author's website has vanished, and this was obtained via an archive.org snapshot (which sadly is missing the changelog, though everything else is intact).https://github.com/swetland/ahcc#AtariST #Retrocomputing #C89
(DIR) Post #AcauxRtSTwI6cDS29Q by swetland@chaos.social
2023-12-08T01:57:09Z
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AHCC v6.0 can compile itself on MiSTer FPGA's Atari STE core in just under an hour. Whee!#AtariST #Retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #AdYRUiz01YJkcq2xF2 by swetland@chaos.social
2024-01-05T14:12:21Z
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@nyquildotorg It was telnetd. sshd didn't exist on the system.Several people discovered that bug at roughly the same time. One of them was testing an ssh client they wrote, had typed reboot and was surprised when their phone rebooted instead of the remote machine.The underlying cause was a root shell left running on the first virtual terminal, which by itself was inaccessible until changes made to fix a graphical glitch just prior to the G1 shipping impacted input routing.#Android #Oops
(DIR) Post #AdYRUlTYktx2MCMO9Y by swetland@chaos.social
2024-01-05T14:17:25Z
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@nyquildotorg When switching from graphics to terminal mode and back during suspend and resume, sometimes the cursor for the vty would blink, leaving a little corrupted box in the corner of the framebuffer.I asked another Systems Team member to just disable vtys since we didn't use them for anything to quickly resolve this issue, failing to realize the old debug console code was still around (leftover from early bringup work) and would start consuming keyboard input. Very embarrassing.
(DIR) Post #AdYRUnK3tBXg5Jvpcu by swetland@chaos.social
2024-01-05T14:27:50Z
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@nyquildotorg telnetd was there because it was a vestigial bit of debug glue from the very early days of adb before the debug shell forwarding code existed.There's probably a lesson here about removing things from the build that are no longer used.There was a nasty remote exploit bug in the wifi driver for the G1 as well, but that was found and fixed before first ship.
(DIR) Post #Ahq2V3ORRnUflcWy5Q by swetland@chaos.social
2024-05-05T23:50:28Z
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Today in reassuring hostnames...“First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.”― Douglas Adams, THGTTG
(DIR) Post #AhuYt2oNEhIO4uz27k by swetland@chaos.social
2024-05-05T23:00:39Z
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Taking a moment to reflect on the fact that my most recent desktop machine has more CPU cache (24MB) than my first desktop machine with a HDD (20MB) had disk storage.Also noting that I just paid $170 for a 2TB NVMe SSD... compare that to the 100MB 3.5" HDD I purchased back in 1994 for about $200.Wild.
(DIR) Post #Ahvh4ltYwx2nsbTPJQ by swetland@chaos.social
2024-05-05T22:23:28Z
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Exploring restic for backing up my workstation (to local external volumes and probably "the cloud" too) at the suggestion of a friend.https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Maybe just in time, because...[605358.398403] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 131640760, 1024 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE [605358.398428] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 131640760 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 88 prio class 2Now I'm replacing the primary NVMe SSD tomorrow too...#backups #restic #oops
(DIR) Post #Ahvh4o7SgFLmmHzXFo by swetland@chaos.social
2024-05-05T22:26:32Z
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On the positive side, the files reported unreadable were all various things under /work/xilinx/Vivado/2019.2/...So, if I'm lucky I haven't lost anything important and Vivado has finally proved itself useful... as a 25GB ablative shield for the rest of my project data on that volume...#backups #vivado #surprise
(DIR) Post #AiZEmphnhwlbiNHrnc by swetland@chaos.social
2024-06-04T00:35:28Z
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@Wolven The thing I find so infuriating about this is that I *paid* for a Windows 11 license. Sure, I only use it for the gaming machine, and I hope to eliminate that eventually, so could it be worse but...It's just utterly obnoxious that MSFT took my money for this product but that's not enough. They have to keep making it more and more terrible (required MSFT account login, advertising, auto-installed crapware, telemetry you can't disable, absurd "AI" spyware, etc etc).
(DIR) Post #AjTFl3F8qrHet0wmUi by swetland@chaos.social
2024-07-01T01:04:15Z
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Hey, #ActivityPub folks.I'm curious -- has there been thought given to making some kind of simple HeyFollowMe button on web pages that could work as smoothly as RSS buttons did for RSS using folks back in the day?Ideally not requiring one to copy and paste a URL into a #Mastodon search box or type your home server address into a Follow dialog box on another site's page.I'm assuming there's some reason such a thing isn't already out there. #Question
(DIR) Post #AkXF9v0CLqpxftqyTQ by swetland@chaos.social
2024-08-01T21:07:31Z
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@foone Interleaving across 10 eight-column lines would be friendlier for display via sprite multiplexing on popular systems with 8-per-line limits like the NES and C64.Hmm, well maybe 5 eight-column lines... getting 80 glyphs across on most systems of that era is going to be rough no matter how you slice it.
(DIR) Post #Av1lPf8LLYKThLlALA by swetland@chaos.social
2025-06-11T06:39:34Z
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I'm kind of fascinated by the "oh no, new languages / tools / systems are doomed because there's no huge corpus for 'AI' to be trained on" blather recently. Sounds a lot more like "oh no, people who are utterly dependent on these 'AI' tools are doomed" to me.
(DIR) Post #Avfbll2bTRVQXrBx9E by swetland@chaos.social
2025-06-28T21:22:29Z
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It's kind of amazing how the industry has finally managed to invent something that makes computers, which I have found magical and joyful since I was five years old, utterly miserable and hateful. Good work, "AI".