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Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

New hobby: trying to make deterministic versions of llm powered dependency analysis tools using the various parts of git-pkgs. Normally can get 90% of the way that and it ends up being much faster and cheaper.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@anemone cyberpunk: beware, transhumanism unlocks another level of social stratification the most powerful men in this world: cool, sign me up!

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@andrewnez twist: It's Sunday evening, do you know which websites the residential proxies in your LAN are scraping today?

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@nytpu like "60% of buyers are in front of you" ?

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@nytpu as in, people in public reacting to your device making sound

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@nytpu the counter-strike bomb planting sound also doesn't help

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Is there a wifi router that - has decent stock firmware - doesn't phone home, or require accepting privacy policy during initial setup - is still being sold ? Ofc I can use OpenWrt whenever I need a router or AP, but I want sth I can recommend to less technical friends who might not be […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@dushman minecraft server main thread: :blobcatrainbow: garbage collector threads :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow:

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@nytpu it would be scary if Jarre wasn't still alive

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@nytpu they don't say the "and put it in a drawer" part out loud

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@nytpu so, I don't know how that secondary stack works (still waiting for your blog post :P) but my wild guess is that the 90% of allocations it'd save for Java and Go largely overlaps with the 90% of allocations that inlining + escape analysis saves :P

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@pervognsen 1 line diff and a screenful of commit message is the best kind of commit

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

[AI, FOSS meta, sudden realization] I just realized vibecoded software is incompatible with the Free Software Definition, specifically with Freedom 1 - the freedom to study how the program works. If someone pushes LLM-generated code that they don't understand (often didn't even read), then how […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

> be load testing haproxy > it has some weird behaviours > at the start of a test rps overshoots > after that there's ringing I wish I knew control theory...

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Would it be rude to review patches on a project you haven't contributed code to? 🤔

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@glyph it is rude. Source code is a form of human-to-human communication, and sending LLM output where human communication is expected is rude.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I wish node-exporter had a system-wide "instructions retired" metric...

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@nytpu I love how Android* has no way to remember a wifi network's password without auto-connecting to it *well, whatever version of Android is on my Xperia. Idk if AOSP also has that limitation, or if Sony forgot a checkbox in its custom UI

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Is it wrong to have a little auto-irony in your CV?

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu that's as close as "god ordered me to make a music for this" as we get these days

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu yeah, hence why I think it can be fun to try and watch how it works. But watching how it works benefits from seeing the whole FRAM on one screen :P

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu Which is why I don't like anything with persistent RAM.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu And then it hit me: We write buggy programs all the time, and they produce corrupted state, and from that point on the behaviour of the program is unpredictable. But if that state is volatile, we can discard it, and restart the program from a known-good state. And that will make the […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu Ok so it's been a long time since I've read it, but IIRC the idea with Houyhnhnm computing is that everything is a giant Smalltalk machine, all state is persistent, no address space isolation, just a soup of objects in a managed language or sth. When I was first reading it, it was […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu > everything persistent reminds me of ngnghm.github.io which I hate in the same way I hate Smalltalk but I think it could be fun to try on a small scale, like where the whole state fits on one screen

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Houyhnhnm Computing

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu Imagine the conspiracy theories if Al Qaeda leaders were fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@nytpu if the computer includes the kernel, then yes, the kernel would definitely prefer to have a large portion of its RAM filled with easily evictable, clean, disk-backed pages

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Backpressure from printing logs has to be the most funny, yet insidious performance bottleneck.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@nytpu I'm not claiming that this will fix it for all programs you have issues with or that they're even using SDL, just that Steam does weird game-engine-specific shit with controllers, and that could be affecting it in some way.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

:blobcatthinking: .oO( Two mutually hostile programs running in ring0 (no hypervisor) on two different cores of the same CPU, fighting for dominance over the CPU) (it's both Symmetric MultiProcessing and Survival MultiPlayer)

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The difference between messing around and science is writing it down. And today I really don't feel like writing it down...

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Suppose you have two receivers some distance d apart, each with very high bandwidth, and are trying to use them to detect the direction of incoming waves whose wavelength is λ > d, by measuring phase offset between the signals each receiver is seeing. Will this work? Or will the small distance […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

:blobcatthinking: .oO( "A je to" episode where they see a 3D printer for sale but can't afford it, so they try to print a 3D model on a 2D printer, fail 3 times, then succeed )

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@nytpu They see a popular franchise as a unutilized resource. If people *would* watch a movie from that universe just because it's from that universe, then clearly not making movies from that universe is a huge waste, and they ought to be making movies from that universe *right now*.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@pervognsen tfw. the terms sound familiar but I forgot their meaning... graduating was a mistake.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

TIL haproxy benefits *a lot* from cpu pinning. I was load-testing it with a dummy backend that always responds after 100ms. If I wanted to keep the overall latency below backend+20ms, I had to keep req/s below like 60% of empirical maximum. After pinning each thread to a different core, I can […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

[horrible bronze-age programming pun] if Enuma Elish was so good, why was there no Uniona Elish?

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

[horrible bronze-age programming pun] if Enuma Elish was so good, why was there no Uniona Elish?

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@nytpu meanwhile these days both cities and countryside have negative population growth :/

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

["rogue" AI] If you own a dog, and your dog escapes through a hole in your fence and bites someone, you're held responsible. Same should be done with OpenAI. They made an LLM, were testing its exploitation capability internally, it escaped containment and attacked a third party? OpenAI should […]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Imagine if we had a deontology that could deal with the crazy shit going on in tech these days, instead of trying to make ad-hoc moral evaluations based on vibes and shaky attempts at consequentialism

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

In case anything bad were to happen to mstdn.io, I have a second account at @wolf480pl@not.acu.lt I'm not sure if it'd become my new main account

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@nytpu you can have a little fallacy as a treat

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@rygorous is like a process in kernel space - you can interrupt him, it'll set a flag in his signal mask, and he won't notice it until he's done with whatever he's currently talking about

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@nytpu some corpos have a reverse-midas-touch don't they

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