m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one
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I maintain an Android app that doesn't get any new features. I still have to keep upgrading it once in a while. The amount of deprecations I have to deal with is crazy. It takes a day each time I touch the app to just get it working with the latest Android Studio. I am not even fixing any bugs or adding features. All this running just to stay in the same place.
Now ask me if I will consider using cloud platform services from the same company that's responsible for Android.
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I designed my personal website to load in 1 second on 38.4kbps dialup internet. I spent a lot of my life getting work done with my laptop tethered to a StarTac phone on 14.4kbps CDMA. Modern web developers have no clue what real world internet connectivity is like for the majority of users. https://mastodon.social/@simon@simonwillison.net/112984044070256201
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Hi. Person with 20 years experience in information security, IT and networking here.
Just wanted to let you know I just spent 3 minutes digging through the settings on my computer to figure out why my mouse was being weird.
I was holding it upside down.
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I realized I've never written about my automated colour correction workflor for scanning. Might be helpful for some people.
Because I often scan large numbers of things in a session, I don't want to do any colour correction by hand. Instead, I use a fully automated workflow. I do calibration via an IT8 chart, a colour chart with a large number of swatches covering different a wide range of colours.
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Today's @haiku|s 23th birthday! Congratulations! 🎉 #HaikuOS #BeOS https://www.haiku-os.org
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Mitra 3.2.0 finally adds UI elements for emoji reactions. This is a significant change and if you don't like it, let me know. I can add a setting that hides reactions.
RE: https://mitra.social/objects/019166d2-8ffc-90f5-25bf-b132cc60d6c7
Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules:
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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.
I've also had to update libbacktrace to the one from gcc 10.5 — my system seems pro produce binaries with dwarf-5, but older libbacktrace does not support that and adding "-gdwarf-4" to CFLAGS somehow failed to fix that for me.
This go toolchain still fails to produce fully statically linked binaries as normal go toolchain does — this is probably related to libucontext in Void only exporting prefixed symbols. But that's a relatively minor problem, statically linking libgo works fine.
Good news is — it's possible to make #golang work on a relatively up-to-date #powerpc system, even though it's really dated: gccgo that comes with gcc 8.5.0 provides go 1.10.3… Yeah-yeah, but even this is one hell of an achievement, at least programs that only depend on the standard library work reliably.
Thanks to Adelie Linux maintainers and their set of patches: https://cgit.adelielinux.org/packages/tree/system/gcc?id=b7807f42fbd231b0783eb0d26fd60b63153ca6d9
And yes, I've built #ziglang too, but it fails to produce binaries even for the hello_world type of programs, I have no idea what the problem might be, but as it depends on LLVM (and even comes with LLVM 18 for bootstrapping), it could be literally anything.
And you can't build newer Rust using older tools — because it only supports last 3 releases of LLVM and they have cranked out quite a few of them in the past couple of years, but the worst part is those LLVM releases can only be built with GCC 13. This looks somewhat relevant: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/95594
Why does everything have to depend on the latest versions and be so fucking broken? 😩
Things that work reliably well on my 32-bit #PowerPC machine.
GCC 13 works fine, but can't produce a working dynamically linked Python binary — probably has other issues so I've downgraded.
Rust up to 1.80 works, but segfaults when building certain crates, such as getrandom — probably related to newer versions of LLVM being horribly broken and LLVM12 probably works because it seems to ignore most optimisation flags.
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@m0xee @trib @josh @stevenimpson #DivestOS is fairly good from a privacy/security perspective I have heard. And it runs on more devices.
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19th century trade cards: often beautiful, frequently weird AF. https://librarycompany.org/2024/08/08/the-captivating-world-of-19th-century-american-trade-cards/
- Experimental PPC-related (and hosted) instance
- https://Breloma.m0xEE.Net/users/m0xEE
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Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.
Joined Nov 2020
