movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (3h ago)

Vacation: Doing crazy things like C on DOS, lots of Rust, bare-metal assembly code, everything is fine.

Back at work: How the fuck do I move an email in this web mail program? Am I stupid? šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

#ubuezaa
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (1d ago)

(#izdrxgq) @bender@twtxt.net Theyā€™re not completely impossible, but C makes it much easier to run into them. I think the key point is that in those ā€œsafeā€ languages, buffer overflows are caught and immediately crash the program (if not handled otherwise) instead of silently corrupting memory, not being noticed right away and maybe only later crashing at a different location, where it can be very hard to find the actual root cause. This is a big improvement in my book.

Some programmers are indeed horrible. Iā€™m guilty myself. :-)

I like the article.

#ogc6jxq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1d ago)

I think this is finally a good metaphor to talk about ā€œsimpleā€ software:

https://oldbytes.space/@psf/115846939202097661

Distilled software.

I quote in full:

principles of software distillation:

Old software is usually small and new software is usually large. A distilled program can be old or new, but is always small, and is powerful by its choice of ideas, not its implementation size.

A distilled program has the conciseness of an initial version and the refinement of a final version.

A distilled program is a finished work, but remains hackable due to its small size, allowing it to serve as the starting point for new works.

Many people write programs, but few stick with a program long enough to distill it.

I often tried to tell people about ā€œsimpleā€ or ā€œminimalisticā€ software, ā€œKISSā€, stuff like that, but they never understand ā€“ because everybody has a different idea of ā€œsimpleā€. The term ā€œsimpleā€ is too abstract.

This is worth thinking about some more. šŸ¤”

#533m7aa
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (2d ago)

(#fadfcsa) @bender@twtxt.net I also went back to my duty today and fixed a problem I created right before vanishing into the holidays. Of course, I discovered more problems while fixing the one thing. Luckily, another public holiday tomorrow. :-)

During my time off, I was a very lazy rat. I planned on doing some woodworking again, but instead I started watching Itchy Bootā€™s Africa season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMvfS5mbsiI&list=PL8M9dV_BySaXNvQ_V1q4UU-DirPQlX0ZP

#odagrtq
itsericwoodward @itsericwoodward.com
 (2d ago)

Spent most of the long weekend working on a few coding projectsā€¦ specifically, I pushed some updates for TwtKpr to my test instance before spending some time working on the build process and demo page for my new twtxt-parsing libraryā€¦ which lead me to make some changes to my existing fluent-dom-esm library.

So, nothing actually got finished, but the incremental updates continueā€¦

#epdavoq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (3d ago)

(#xtkev6q) And now the event loop is not a simple loop around cursesā€™ getch() anymore but it can wait for events on any file descriptor. Hereā€™s a simple test program that waits for connections on a TCP socket, accepts it, reads a line, sends back a line:

https://movq.de/v/93fa46a030/vid-1767547942.mp4

And the scrollbar indicators are working now.

Iā€™ll probably implement timer callbacks using timerfd (even though thatā€™s Linux-only). šŸ¤”

#czkzdta
prologic @twtxt.net
 (3d ago)

Trying to build a native heap allocator that grows and isnā€™t statically wired into the binaryā€™s image is fuckā€™n hardā„¢ as šŸ¤£

#bfoknma
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (4d ago)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I noticed that your feedā€™s last modification timestamp was missing in my database. I cannot tell for certain, but I think it did work before. Turns out, your httpd now sends the Last-Modified with UTC instead of GMT. Current example:

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:50:20 UTC

Iā€™m not a fan of this timestamp format at all, but according to the HTTP specification, HTTP-date must always use GMT for a timezone, nothing else: https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#http.date

#vqu5wfq
prologic @twtxt.net
 (5d ago)

Mu (Āµ) is now getting much closer to where I want it to be, it now has:

  • A process stdlib module (very basic, but it works)
  • An ffi stdob module that supports dlopen / dlsym and calling C functions with a nice mu-esque wrapper ffi.fn(...)
  • A sqlite stdlib module (also very basic) that shows off the FFI capabilities

šŸ˜…

#n3vbeia
prologic @twtxt.net
 (5d ago)

(#w3qxekq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de What I wish for once on this miserable planet is for coporations one day ohave a different set of reasons to exist and thrive other than:

but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it

Life becomes very boring and uninteresting when your only goal in life is to ā€œmake more fucking moneyā€ šŸ’° Fuck šŸ¤¬ Fuck this Corporatocracy we live in šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø

#gpoo3oq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (5d ago)

(#voi7gxa) @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

Steps to world domination:

  1. ā€œInventā€ ā€œAIā€ (by using other peopleā€™s data).
  2. Get people hyped about it and ideally hooked on it.
  3. Only provide it as a cloud service. But hey, if you want to, you can run it locally!
  4. Buy all hardware available on the market, so that nobody but you can build more systems.
  5. All PCs of consumers and competitors are too weak now and canā€™t be upgraded anymore.
  6. Everybody depends on your cloud service! Win!

All of that is possible because corporations donā€™t have a ā€œconscienceā€ in capitalism. Nobody forces the RAM manufacturers to sell all their stuff to just one or two buyers, but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it.

#w3qxekq
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (5d ago)

(#tcz2koq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Iā€™m pretty sure I know a bunch of people who love to blow up their money. :-(

Holy shit! :-O At least, the walls didnā€™t shake here. But we also had some very loud explosions, maybe they were far enough away. :-? Of course, the bangs continued last night.

Maybe some politicians need to be personally attacked with this sort of shit first in order to ban it once and forever.

#3jjzmca