m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@kaia
The band Tool parodied this with the track Die Eier von Satan from their album Ænima — it's just a recipe for some cookies read out loud in German to a rather weird rhythmic background audio, but to non-German speakers it unmistakably evokes the Nazi associations 😂

Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules:

https://reason.com/2024/08/16/police-cannot-seize-property-indefinitely-after-an-arrest-federal-court-rules/

@amoroso @rob
My Mac Pro is also more then a decade old — all the rubber plugs in it look worn, but it works and only requires vacuuming every once in a while. I also have one of the early fanless ARM-based machines — Genesi EfikaMX, also still runs and now acts as a VPN box and hosts a proxy server.
Some computers last for decades and break when you can't even get replacement parts for them anymore, others die right after the warranty has expired — truly sad 😩

@amoroso @rob
I've always liked the form-factor — my PowerPC MacMini, one of the earliest widely-available computers of this sort is turning 20 soon — still runs and it's at its limit, but it hosts my Pleroma Fediverse instance. Some hardware is very reliable — I think I've only replace the HDD in it, which died in two years or so — but since then it's running flawlessly 24/7 for over a decade.

@amoroso @rob
And damn… That machine looks packed: 64 gigs of RAM, a dozen of cores and you can probably even play older games with that iGPU — all that in a nice passively-cooled compact case!
I still like my old Mac Pro, but with newer machines I don't even see that point in all that computing power, I'd probably go with something… more basic.

@rob
Wow, lucky! Maybe it has something to do with that replacement program, sadly — mine had survived 😅
This sometimes happens with Apple, my friend's early plastic MacBook got its motherboard fried, he was expecting the worst, but they've just given him a new one and with Core 2 Duo — which was the newest at the time, replacing the Core Duo one he had 😂
@amoroso

@hakui
I didn't mean it that way, sorry 😔 Maintaining a healthy sleep schedule is very important!
BTW, I know it's kinda late to ask… I have a weird feeling that these LPs have nothing to do with line printers, so what are they exactly?
@deadheat @romin

@newt @echo
But we can still thank dating sites for giving us social networks 😂
In fact what we mean by social networking existed even in the nineties: dating sites had messaging/chats, rating photos, casual online multiplayer games… No one was conning them social networks though. Facebook's major breakthrough IMO was proper marketing — shifting the focus away from dating so less people started shying away from participating.

@newt @echo
Looks like this field is in a bit of a crisis now: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/17/dating-apps-decline-bumble-tinder
I find it not hard to believe they might be hiring workforce abroad to keep the people engaged TBH 😏
Not that I would miss if most of these websites and companies close down, I've always found commodification of romance cynical and if you're looking for a hook-up, it's not like there were no options even without these apps.

@romin
My conpooters aren't that old yet 😏
The MacMini my Repolma instance is hosted on is nearing twenty though 🤭

@aronow
That donut toy looks so much fun 😻
My cats would certainly carry it around a lot!

@newt
> No, I mean the Personal Area Network profile in Bluetooth. It also emulated Ethernet.
Yeah, I remember PAN back from the days when my ThinkPad T43 was still brand new — I've never seen it used in real world, yes — why bother when there is Wifi? 🤔
It might make more sense now that Bluetooth LE exists — to save the battery, but I've never tried that myself.
@Aeder

@awilfox
There is also a branch with an attempt to port newer libgo to older gccgo in the Adelie tree — that one failed to build on my machine too, but my experimenting with it is somewhat hindered by the fact that complete rebuild of gcc on this MacMini takes forever😅 So I might've missed something.

@awilfox Thanks for all your patches and for keeping PowerPC alive!
Did you manage to advance any further in making newer Go work on 32-bit machines? I see that Adelie got updated with GCC 13 about 10 days ago? Does gccgo in that one get built properly? I think I've tried those patches when they were still in the experimental branch and it didn't work for me.

@newt
> PAN.
This has existed since the early days of Bluetooth, but I've never seen it used in reality. Well, with absence of serial interface, looks like its time has come. Why even bother with Bluetooth then and not just use wireless ethernet, is it easier on the battery?
> Those I saw provide a virtual ethernet adapter.
Well, like I said, mine might be just old. I like none of this! First integrated audio interfaces using USB and now this. This is just fucked up, man! 😠
@Aeder

@newt
> They no longer support DUN or RFCOMM profiles via bluetooth.
For real?! 😲 This sucks!
How does tethering over Bluetooth work then? 🤔 I've never used it TBH.
Dedicated cellular modems still do provide virtual serial port though — but I won't put my money on it, the ones I have are rather old too.

@Aeder

@romin
Minor downside: you have to put local modules into src/ too — obviously (it's in the name) GO111MODULE didn't exist in this version either.

@romin
You can now! I'm not even sure when they have added it — this version doesn't support it either. A directory named "vendor" is handled in some special way, but it only seems to affect the namespace visibility and nothing else, it doesn't look for dependencies in this dir.
But you can always put everything under src/ and point GOROOT to the current directory — very straightforward!

@newt @Aeder
How dare you — SMS is a zoomer thing! I want fax interface for Fedi: you dial in, tone-dial the thread id and in a couple of minutes it calls you back and faxes you the printout of the thread — now we're playing! Read grown-up stuff! 👨‍💼