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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

[trans~] my discord pronoun field now reads "I've given up correcting people"

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

things radio technology architects probably don't design around: the window cleaner absolutely destroys my DAB reception

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nilix @nilix.cafe.nilfm.cc.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#begPosting #mutualAid Anything helps, I'm over here every day working my ass off. I started dollctl from scratch earlier this year and it now has all the makings of a production-ready devops platform. I'm on my way to finishing the first chapter of Polycrisis […] [Original post on cafe.nilfm.cc]

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

also I bought a lil guy for £40 on the weekend, and listening to _the radio_ rather than whatever Spotify throws at me is an odd experience of course I also get to experience which local stations decided to cheap out on bitrate...

a banana-sized DAB+ radio sitting on the table next to me

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

yesterday I got called "a hardcore Linux user with Windows as their DE" and I can't really rebuke that

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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

(I swear these things must have some sort of joule thief circuit in them)

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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

@babble_endanger@freeradical.zone seems like the 4 is fine, it's the 4a which has battery issues.

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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

visually the phone does not look like it has a swollen battery, but it's not like I can pull the back off and see.

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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 · 20/08/2026

@brouhaha@mastodon.social > While C3758 meets x86_64 v2 architecture level, upstream RHEL9 doesn't support it. I can't tell if you mean the Atom chip or v2.

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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 · 01/07/2026

@pixellight@pony.social but on the plus side, train?

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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 · 19/06/2026

[computer chess data generation] 2 billion. getting there, eventually.

A number of people have chipped in to help; I've generated about a quarter of all positions, lily another quarter, gyrosgeier yet another quarter, and the remainder is split between omni, lak and stary.

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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

@brouhaha@mastodon.social having AVX512 is still quite important for the stuff I do, but I'm upgrading from Comet Lake which is still AVX2, so the vector upgrade will be very important.

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

@brouhaha@mastodon.social I'm doing my best to wait for Nova Lake; I think that'll be when I upgrade because for my needs I do expect a performance boost from APX and AVX10.

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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

@coral@empty.cafe and how often is that, normally? ^^;;

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

@coral@empty.cafe _stares_ on-site cambridge...

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

@chiralthealien.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy they unfortunately are not.

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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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