m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@Anachron @unspeaker @starlabssystems
My old HP laptop allows remapping most LEDs to most other things: such as internal storage or network activity, audio input/output mute and so on — making extra LEDs extremely useful! My old MacBook Pro isn't as flexible in this regard, I suppose it depends on how well the embedded controller is supported by the Linux kernel.

@icon_of_computational_sin
You can declare a variable with static lifetime, but having a static variable in C sense, considering the borrow checker, would be kinda against the design of the language, you can still do that, but as the compiler can't guarantee thread safety, all modifications to the value of such a variable would have to happen in unsafe block: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/static-items.html

@romin
Yeah, now that I think about it, looking for it there might've been a good idea 🤔
General purpose search for a video that is the intro of the game Sheep is hindered by the fact that apparently, there is a YouTube blogger (vlogger?) named "The Sheep Game" — never heard of him/her, but that's me, not the search engines.
There is a "let's play" video on YT that starts with this intro, but downloading that to cut it seemed like too much trouble.

@romin
Too bad, I have to do something about this sheep fixation I woke up with.
I even had to find a DVD with that game to grab that video off it (yes, I have a boxed version of it😅).
They made us believe that nothing gets lost on the Internet now and yet there is no unedited intro of a game that doesn't even pre-date the Web 😩
And I couldn't even find that quote "real <someone> ship" until I remembered by myself that it's attributed to Steve Jobs. Search engines are broken, we're doomed! 😱

@romin
Well, Firefox is in Rust for the most part, so having image codec also in Rust kinda makes sense! 🤷
And unlike Go, Rust has turned into a tool that actually works not only on a subset of Google approved platforms, which are macOS with Apple Silicagel, Windows x64 and Linux x86_64 and AArch64.

@romin
Can we at least have this equally forgotten masterpiece then?
Just any kind of sheep!
Sheep!🐑Sheep!🐑Sheep!🐑
Real artists sheep!🐑🐑🐑
What makes you think that you can sink my battlesheep?! 😡

Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Interest-JPEG-XL-Rust

God fucking damn it! Can we have images without Google involvement already? 🤬

@romin
Can we have War Sheep in Breloma though? Like the one we used to have in IcyQueue? 🤔

@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika
Ha-ha-ha! Well noted!
This was just a wordplay on "power/force projection", I'm not even such a fan of aircraft carriers 😊

@hj @newt
The thread feels incomplete without this 😁

@kravietz
Ha-ha-ha! Yeah, that definitely used to be the case — but I was pretty sure I got rid of all that "legacy" years ago 😄
@koteisaev

@Anachron
Well, Windows malware is still a thing, I have daily back ups of Windows partitions set up on this machine, but restoring them isn't as easy and fast as restoring VM from a snapshot — that is why I didn't go the route of disabling the updates entirely.

@kravietz @koteisaev
Ah, found it! In the back of one of the bookshelves… next to 12 tomes of Stalin printed in 1946 😱
I wonder where did that shit come from…
I should probably sell it to some hardcore fan of his for a generous share of his/her capitalist bucks instead of just throwing it away 🤑

@romin
My dudes 🐸🥂🐸

@kravietz
Well, yes, I did… But god damn it, stealing a book? Cannot believe it! 🤣
@koteisaev

@Anachron
I've deferred quality updates on my only Windows 10 machine till 2035 — to prevent getting it infected with COPilot, and only install Defender threat DB updates 😂
I did that by messing with the registry — it involved making some of the keys non-writable, but I don't remember the exact key names.

@lgbuijs @randahl
Also, NKVD cap had blue top, or green for the border guard kind — would be a good idea to use that if he wants her to look scary, because right now she looks rather like a flight attendant for a company that for some odd reason uses hammer and sickle for logo — than a "dictator" of any sort 😂