why would anybody remove this sticker from the motherboard

the phenomenon of "you buy a more expensive, higher-end product and it sucks on an unpredecented, previously unimaginable scale" always frustrates me

this is a fine thing to show as a single line of a backtrace right?

can someone explain to me why server motherboards are so fucking awful (it could also just be supermicro. i've had two server motherboards and both were from supermicro) the cheapest, most cost-reduced, aliexpress tier desktop motherboard easily outperforms both of those supermicro boards […]

chat what do you think is worse: IPMI or frostbite

this is a server motherboard for a 7nm processor who connects a floppy to it (except for you know who)

by far the best invoices i've seen are done by Alibaba it contains every bit of information you actually want and absolutely no extra information whatsoever. no logos, no prose, no footers, nothing

lol... ... ... would this cause problems for me if HMRC notices

new bio

would it fucking _kill_ HMRC to make a proper webservice instead of this garbage https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/exchange_rates

custom domain support for the new (git-pages based) Codeberg Pages backend is now generally available! if you publish a site from a CI workflow (which seems to be the majority of use cases), follow the instructions in https://codeberg.org/git-pages/action#with-a-custom-domain

> Other manufacturers used a "line cord resistor", a special AC cord made with resistance wire which replaced a power resistor in the radio chassis. These line cords tend to get warm to the touch after the radio was in use for a while. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Five) you […]

tomorrow i think i'll put together the hardware for the next generation CI service i'm building

keyoxide was surprisingly not painful to set up https://keyoxide.org/aspe%3Akeyoxide.org%3AQBOIKKTRGOD2DEYRK2HMRRFXRM

every time i look at OIDC i get reaffirmed in the belief that it is a minefield to implement validation for

custom domain support for the new (git-pages based) Codeberg Pages backend is now generally available! if you publish a site from a CI workflow (which seems to be the majority of use cases), follow the instructions in https://codeberg.org/git-pages/action#with-a-custom-domain

pity the poor English translator of the LoongArch documentation, who put a note in the preface that, honestly, they have literally no idea what the original big-brain authors are talking about

i wonder what would happen to civilization if we collectively completely got rid of day trading

every now and then i think about the tweet that said nuclear codes should be kept in a capsule implanted in an unlucky enlisted guy’s chest cavity, and the football briefcase carries only a knife. make sure you REALLY want em before you get em. anyway,

Fortunately the wiring protected the expensive fuse from blowing.

“I have had such a good relationship with the Great Betrayer. I cannot understand why, at this particular time, he has chosen to betray me. I know that all the other appeasers who offered him gifts and abandoned their principles to accommodate his arbitrary demonic whims were betrayed but their […]

when someone's biography is like (145 BC – ?) I like to assume they're still out there somewhere, posting to this day

let's say you want to build an application that uses Qt as a statically linked binary, and you want to avoid building two dozen dependencies yourself is there any existing cross-platform solution which will do that for me and also isn't vcpkg?

do I know any people who use Haiky and would be willing to help set up a CI workflow for ChiPass?

huh! i wonder if we'll still have water resistant phones after https://mastodon.social/@madduci/116437669181277009

if you uncritically boost that nvidia shill who boasts about lacking any creativity, i _will_ think less of you. too many has-beens in computing

@samth cmon. i know you can do better than that

so i was bored and purchased one kilo of UV hardenable resin, to do things with. and also a battery powered UV light that i've seriously underestimated the performance of check out the temperature rise from blasting this resin with UV for 2 sec from 20 cm

i think the thunderbolt controller on my laptop just... died?

i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago > **Never touch the terminals.** Please don't. Cause of failure. > > This may be the cause. > > It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time. **It is not possible.**

catherine fact: the thing that has _by far_ done the most to my ability to stay on top of domestic chores was "to imagine what a concurrent, pauseless garbage collector would do and then apply the observations"

do any of you have experience with Windows code signing certificates? (i could always go to the cheaters' forums, they know everything about Windows code signing, but would rather not)

the portable windows build of ChiPass (our KeePassXC fork) is going to be a single static .exe the installer-based build is going to be the exact same thing but inside an installer the .exe currently about 30 MB in size, including Qt (no more fiddling with Qt plugin DLLs!), though it will […]

current status (this isn't even the entire list)

got Steam client arm64 public beta to run on my MNT Pocket Reform (with RK3588)! starts significantly faster than the emulated version. thanks @bnys for pointing me at the manifest url!

windows: the new shell is powershell also windows: the only way to develop is to use "vcvarsall.bat" which has no .ps1 equivalent deeply unserious platform 🤡

i could live with powershell replacing "curl" and "cat" with things that don't work, i guess, but the fact that the syntax was clearly designed by hieronymus bosch is the last straw

i'm here to kick ass and write excellent software... and i'm too chronically tired to stand upright much, nevermind kick things, so software it is

[programming language design hot take] the only _real_ sign you've failed as a language designer is if you've created a situation where otherwise reasonable people working with it go "sigh. I guess I could work around this with an LLM"

deeply unfortunate that in 2026 we have to choose between "a programming language developed by people with a deep respect for memory safety" and "a programming language developed by people with a deep respect for labor rights" but i suppose it's not too surprising after a culture shift resulting […]

crawlers, man at least this one wasn't requesting nonexistent URLs, which (counterintuitively) meant it was cheap and quick to serve

oh, go-git is now a sloperation https://github.com/go-git/go-git/pull/1913/changes

my code has started (and ended) romantic relationships, changed how people view the world around them, and brought people bits of otherwise unachievable joy it is embarrassing to tell on yourself that you can't do the same, but it is downright ignorant to claim it cannot or shouldn't be done at […]

git-pages is now handling all pages traffic on Codeberg! (some of it is then forwarded to the old server) https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/changelog/issues/3#issuecomment-13277175

fun fpga fact: * the slowest commercial fpga still in production is called "QuickLogic EOS S3" * the second slowest is called "Lattice UltraPlus"

i wrote an internet standard https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html (it's published on ietf so you know it's real and official and endorsed by the ietf)

@mntmn also a _really_ easy tell for this kind of thing is prepend `view-source:` if the entire page has one well commented javascript block that is like 5000 lines long it is 100% vibecoded. nobody who would write a 5000 line long javascript block where every algorithm is open-coded and […]

OH: "I had a horrible dream where someone offered me to put a 1:1 ratio of ground up cashews and vodka into my coffee"