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by buserror 3y ago
Been using tinc for god knows how long... Perhaps 20 years? It's been fantastic. I really don't know why people are wax-lyrical about wireguard. tinc was doing it 20 years ago. UDP? yeah. encryption, mesh, proxy ARP you name it. I
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by buserror 4y ago
I pasted some headers (some of them very long, in multiple chunks) and asked the bot to write me a summary of what the API does, and what could be used to make it better. Answer were spot on . Free documentation! If you also paste the sour
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by buserror 4y ago
Unfortunately qemu isn't as 'integrated' as Sheepshaver -- theres the mouse grab problem, also no disk sharing with the host (the read[/write] fat32 disk don't seem to work, at least under 9.2.2) I had a a project f
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by buserror 4y ago
Possibly my favourite. My dog-eared copy is signed... twice... too. He used to come and read in Windsor, UK on occasion...
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by buserror 4y ago
I don't want to brag, but I wrote GLterm (for OSX) in 2002 or so, first ever terminal emulator using OpenGL... It was a shareware tho (it was all the rage back then)... In fact I probably reported and had ATI and nVidia fix bugs that e
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by buserror 4y ago
I know, for quite a while I got quite a bit of income from them, good old day of Mac Sharewares :-)
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by buserror 4y ago
Oh, reminds me I had an email address @kagi.com, a long, long time ago :-)
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by buserror 4y ago
Same here, mine has been running overclocked to 5ghz for about 10 years (?) now and I refused to upgrade it by quite a few "lakes". Sure now it's getting pummeled by hugely multicores newer processors, but for a long time, it
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by buserror 4y ago
Not entirely sure we are going the right way tho. In the last 3 months or so (aka 2 major kernel versions), I had to add stuff to my command line to make my perfectly working workstation work again. X99 motherboard, worked for years . GR
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by buserror 4y ago
Ah, someone like minded. I work best, by far, very early on -- max 11am... then perhaps a bit more in the afternoon, but mostly doing 'admin' sort of things. All the big programming bits are done early on.
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by buserror 4y ago
Don't? I often now wake up at 3 or 4am. I just get up, do things, and perhaps have a nap later. That's the nice thing about working from home. Or I don't have a nap, but go to bed super early (8pm!!), that way, 3 or 4am still
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by buserror 4y ago
brexit. Everyone in the media try to ignore the elephant in the room. But, brexit. I know several companies who are winding down, because they can't export. Just too much trouble and money. It is everywhere, and nobody talks about it.
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by buserror 4y ago
Is this written by "AI", or auto-generated? or? Stuff like: "Phosphorus cycles took place at the same" as a title.. Hmm... Or perhaps someone with a keyboard that inserts random commas in the text? "We have learned
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by buserror 4y ago
TBH, you can do pretty much the same without an arduino at all. A FTDI cable and the right command line tool will allow you to program an AVR easily enough! FTDI has a 'bitbang' mode that can work as a SPI (or well in this case, a
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by buserror 4y ago
Haven't the people making the standards other things to do, like, integrating useful features instead of duplicating incbin.h [0] years after that feature worked? https://github.com/graphitemaster/incbin/blo
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by buserror 5y ago
Same here, it's like GraphicConverter, no brainer buying a licence now and then. In the case of VueScan, I wouldn't really need it as I don't use it often, but it counts as 'asset' instead of feeling like i'm a
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by buserror 5y ago
One absolutely essential companion to gdb is 'rr' [0], it's a 'post mortem' debugger, but unlike a core file, you can replay the action, in reverse if necessary. You can reverse-cont, reverse-step create watchpoin
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by buserror 5y ago
I can almost guarantee that you will add more bugs to your code trying to 'recover' from a malloc failing than just letting your process crash, and hopefully get launched at a better time. The /correct/ way to write a pr
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by buserror 5y ago
I tried the -fanalyser recently with a piece of C code. OMG. pages and pages and pages of "possible-NULL" and other "c/m/realloc(...) could return NULL!". Really, if I'm in a situation where *alloc() retur
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by buserror 5y ago
Ah, I also bought a SE/30 recently, as part of a batch of an upgraded 128->plus, an original SE, and my prize: the SE/30. All working too. The reason I bought the SE/30 is because it's the computer I had on long term
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by buserror 5y ago
I'm the one who pointed attribute cleanup to them tho (on twitter no less) -- apparently they weren't aware of it... ? https://twitter.com/BusError/status/1481706530831585284
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by buserror 5y ago
I know what recursion means thank you so much. If you get $100 income, get a 20% tax on that, and then get another 20% tax on... not $80 but on the /previous/ $100, you are paying recursive taxes. Thats what the old "CSG&quot
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by buserror 5y ago
Ahah, it's always expensive time for the french taxpayer -- always have been! They even have recursive layer of taxes, where you pay taxes on amounts that have... already been removed from your revenue as... taxes.
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by buserror 5y ago
Ah, I wrote Zilot -- a PalmOS emulator for the Mac, in the 1990s ;-)
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by buserror 5y ago
I had the french secret service come and interrogate me in ~88 (bad cop/good cop) because I had doctored a RS232 cable to be NULL modem, to be able to connect to the X25 "transpac" network using a terminal. I was 'drafte
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by buserror 5y ago
I've discovered Iosevka a while back, and never looked back. EVERYTHING is Iosevka now. Code, terminals, editors, file managers, the whole flippin lot. I LOVE it, it's like that 80 columns mode on old apple IIs, just perfectly leg
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by buserror 5y ago
Here what I emailed in 2008 to the author of an article that was already debunking their 'research'. I know it's easy, now, to mock them (and well deserved in many ways, but at one point, they were influential, for the good
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by buserror 5y ago
So clicked the link, was presented with that useless cookie page. Begrudgingly accepted because really, I go there so rarely I don't really care. Then it was "Ho, do you want to be notified of..." beeeeeeeep no I don't g
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by buserror 5y ago
Actually I use them a lot, on single track roads in the UK, they provide a MUCH better coverage around the front/side of the car -- I don't know how many critter I managed to dodge because I saw their eyes in the hedges.
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by buserror 5y ago
Yes, the stalk is there, buf if you use it, black cars come to your house, remove your BMW and replace it with a Wolkswagen! Us BMW drivers are all terrified of using them!

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