@Ashedryden But why on god's green earth would you want to use Discord?

Another excellent meal from Dosa District on #Milwaukee's East Side -- give them a try! (the punugulu are to die for!)

GitHub is an absolute shambles today.

github having issues again today... feels like quality/reliability takes a back seat to speed in this new AI world

Turned the docs into a blog post: https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/

After a ton of work, I've finally gotten over my perfectionism and made https://github.com/mattst88/ip32prom-decompiler public.

It decompiles the PROM firmware for the Silicon Graphics O2 (IP32) and reassembles it into a bit-identical image.

Even if that doesn't sound interesting to you, the README and reverse-engineering document should make for a fun read.

#sgi #reverseEngineering

I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.

Finnish universities 1996:

"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."

Finnish universities 2026:

"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."

Learned helplessness.

#Linux #IRC #Finland #Suomi

@nanobot567 https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/adv360/

Was this the most capable publisher? https://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/1qyt41c/was_this_the_most_capable_publisher/ #c64

A #void for #caturday

I am once again remembering why I do not love Python.

(It's packaging. Everything else is fine.)

@noracodes Packaging is awful, for sure.

But the perf. OMG the perf. It's been the hotness for so long and it STILL doesn't beat Perl.

IMO the only nice thing about Python is reading and writing it.

New first-offense law leads to 47 reckless drivers towed in #Milwaukee:
https://www.tmj4.com/about-us/lighthouse/new-first-offense-law-leads-to-47-reckless-drivers-towed-in-milwaukee-advocate-representative-react

Still true today, unfortunately.

did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?

of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power

it refers to a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May_Day

it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech

from the play "Sir Thomas More"

here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory

(#Gandalf, #Magneto, etc)

on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"

#FuckICE #ICEout

I think it's interesting how software engineers are (among?) the most eager working class group to replace themselves with LLMs.

It's interesting because LLMs do a worse job than us, we lose ability/skill to do our job the more we use it, lose our jobs, produce worse software, are less satisfied with our work, etc.

Yet so many of my peers seem to be super excited about and advocate for it, while other working class groups at least detest LLMs if not even consider organising themselves to protect their trade/jobs from LLMs.

Are we becoming the cops (read as: class traitors) of this techno-fascist dystopia?

@BrahmaBelarusian @maxleibman An actually useful application of AI would be detecting and auto-declining all of the above garbage. If someone wants to write an "AI browser" that is what it should specialize in.

No, I do not want to install your app.

No, I do not want that app to run on startup.

No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.

No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.

No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.

No, I do not want to sign up for an account.

No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.

No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.

No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.

No, I do not want you to scan my content.

No, I do not want you to track me.

No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.

It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.

I don't want to laugh at someone's real distress but this IS very funny ...