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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

[shitpost, aviation] propeller planes built during World War 2 and perhaps the Korean War are known as "warbirds". therefore propeller planes built after that period are "peacebirds".

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

_sighs_ it has been orez days since I tripped over an endianness bug.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

giving my aranet4 some TLC (replacing the batteries after like five years)

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

CISC CPUs can be divided into "state machine from hell" and "pipeline from hell". I will not be taking questions.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

so, uh, my old phone is a Pixel 4a (I have a Fairphone 5) which I've just, kept in a drawer for the past year, after Google pushed a software update to limit the battery due to manufacturing flaws. it occurs to me that I should be significantly more responsible and dispose of the thing safely […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

who called it "auto-restart on exit" and not "subprocess samsara"

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

_frantically opening stackoverflow_ how do I exit gta vi?

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

doing some retrocomputing (compiling gcc 3.4.6 for an ancient instruction set)

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nilix @nilix.cafe.nilfm.cc.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Hello honknet and beyond! I'm looking to get #fediHired, available for contract work starting in October! I am a software and systems generalist, having built and worked on all sorts of systems in different types of environments from education to small business to enterprise. I have lots (6 […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

here's a question for fedi because statistically one of you has an idea (boosts welcome) increasingly often, my phone (fairphone 5) has been completely dropping all cellular signal, showing "No service - no SIM". when it gets like this, airplane mode won't fix it and Settings > Network and […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

#[test] fn two_plus_two() { let mut forth = Forth::new(); forth.forth_literal(2); forth.forth_literal(2); forth.forth_plus(); let code = forth.compile(); #[rustfmt::skip] let expected = [ […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I have been writing a Forth JIT, and I think I am developing a small but dedicated following of people watching it produce very 90's code in morbid fascination.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Everyone's talking about the eclipse, but uh, I don't have any way of safely viewing it, so um.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

describing a turbojet as a pipelined 4-stroke piston engine to annoy people

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

[mh--] maybe it's finally time to retire my internet presence.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

[grumbling] person: so how do I write an interpreter lofty: I have spicy takes on this subject because people make dumb design decisions person: I want to hear your spicy takes person, later on: I'm going to ignore you now in favour of making dumb design decisions

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

thinking about how the most time I've spent outside recently was during the heatwaves, because my flat becomes a greenhouse in such conditions.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

[grumbling at noisy car outside] somebody needs to be taught that dick length isn't measured in decibels

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

I enjoy talking about forth things but I struggle finding people to talk to about it >.>

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

good morning from an international non-binary on international non-binary day

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

[self-OH] I am admittedly an amateur sparkly thing appreciator

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

I wish I could make more friends. There are people on here I want to reach out to, but I don't know where to start because they don't interact with me and so I don't have any form of read on their interests.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

[military, ram shortage] there is an anecdote of how a missile's software had memory leaks, and their response was that memory management didn't matter because the whole thing would explode at the end, "freeing" all the leaked memory. so they just stuck enough memory on to survive the leak […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

[food] I keep buying cream slices and I never know how to eat them

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I think I am learning enough about Forth to write some sort of Wat-style lightning talk. for example, `2dup` is a Forth word that copies the top two elements of the stack. it is also a number in base-36. if a word is not defined, it is interpreted according to the current number base. so […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

[computer chess data generation] polyamory is becoming popular these days because it takes seven people to write a chess program

a pie chart of the ~400M positions generated thus far; I've generated about half with my machines, 22% by lily, 18% by omni, and 10% by lak. by the way, I'm targeting 10B positions...

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

oh good, another one of my cluster nodes has developed hardware problems (it powers off under load, and there's nothing coming out of `netconsole` that suggests a cause)

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

It feels a little weird to have a bunch of people following me who don't interact...

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

[OH] <veltas> Forth is the art of pointless hackiness

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

current status: donating 64GiB of RAM in this economy.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Current status: I have written a forth stack-operation superoptimiser to let me focus on what the stack needs to look like, not how to get there.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

[self-OH] I am admittedly an amateur sparkly thing appreciator

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Roses are red, Dandelions are yellow, Relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_TLS_GOTTPREL against `__libc_errno`

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I feel like I have sniped at least two or three people with my 4k chess engine having a Forth system. admittedly, it's...a bit untraditional because while forth is all about being an interpreter that can be interacted and extended, here forth is being used more as a human-readable bytecode […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

it's pride month, and a bunch of people are offering to talk about their experiences. but I often remember that my own experiences are _really not the norm_ and I don't know how applicable they are to others... happy pride month though.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

putting strings in the `.text` section of my 4kiB chess program.

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I have to admit that you have inspired me to write a Forth. there's a 4 kilobyte chess engine competition, and after toying around with different threading approaches I think I have something that is fairly compact. Now to, uh, write the rest of the owl...

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

[OH] "I think the problem is I'm femme in summer and masc in winter" that's a gender

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

[lofty being mushy about friends] being in a room with five other girls who want to cuddle you turns out to be both a realistic and achievable goal

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

[mh-] sometimes it is really hard to tell if I spark joy in others

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

"you can do it relatively quickly" :wlfHyper: "in gimp" :wlfAghast:

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

it turns out that "I want the outside white area of an image replaced with transparency" is a phenomenally hard problem >.>

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

the best and worst part of SIMD is that when you are doing the fast path, things really are fast; when you have something that diverges from this, not even god can help you. I am currently trying to figure out if there is a faster way of doing a "dot3" (`x_1*y_1*z_1 + x_2*y_2*z_2 + ...`) than […]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

[trains] describing the state of electrification in the south of England as "cursed with 'good enough'"

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