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(for anyone who sees this and is confused about the joke: risc-v has an entire register dedicated to the value 0, reading it always returns 0 and writing it discards whatever you assigned)

@riley i dont have that kinda money

pick your favorite

still think its funny when people suggest i get a bike to get around where i live (fortunately moving within the week) because the terrain is so mountainous and steep that i would still be struggling to walk up hills except now i would also have to drag a bike with me as i did it

I hate how all AI hype is predicated on "if we can just make this not be broken then it would be an amazing product"

And because AI produced things look kinda close to the real deal people buy it. Cause it feels like it just needs a small improvement, even though its flaws are a fundamental part of the technology

Just don't draw the weird 6th finger. Just don't make up things when you don't have a real answer. Just don't change the environment in an AI generated game entirely if the player turns around 180 degrees

These things *feel* like they're small, solvable problems to people who don't know better. We could easily fix those things if humans were doing the work!

But AI can't. It will never be able to. It can't because not doing those things means it couldn't do anything else either. Like self-driving cars, the solution to these issues will always be 2 years out

You could say that at the moment the promises of federation from bluesky are kinda... BS

"eniko why won't your studio support mac anymore"

well, this might have something to do with it: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/

"Now it would seem that to distribute MacOS software you need to have an Apple Developer Program membership, costing $99/year."

if anything apple should be paying *me* $99 a year to put up with their bullshit. i'm not locking myself into development-as-a-service where every year i have to dish out $99 to even be allowed to make programs for mac and then every 4 years also have to buy an entirely new overpriced piece of trash laptop because apple arbitrarily decided the latest version of macos won't run on older macbooks

LB: execute all billionaires

so i know this is undefined behavior, but does anyone know why this crashes when i compile this with zig cc specifically?

EDIT: looks like it defaults detecting all undefined behavior and silently crashing instead of showing error messages. not sure why it's not showing an error though >_> adding -O2 produces the expected result

look, all the best C coders trash talk C. the only time you should be worried is when someone's using C without talking shit about it

And of course C doesn't have templates or generics or anything of the sort so rolling your own, assuming you want it to be reusable, involves gross macro abuse in order to do it and you have to use void* everywhere cause that's not an issue at all

C is such a piece of shit language. Only language where "I need a dynamically growing array or a hashmap" is answered with "roll your own lol n_n"

EDIT: C (not C++, not Zig, not Rust) is the correct language for the job I'm doing. I am also very aware of how to implement dynamic arrays and hash tables. I have written my own stdlibs on freestanding C before. I do not actually need coaching in this matter, thank you. I also like C, sometimes, but sometimes I think it's a stupid piece of shit language, because it is

explaining to the beeskeeters that what they’re refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, ActivityPub plus Mastodon

usually this is accompanied with a similar hostility towards cohost despite it already being in read-only mode prepping for shutdown. it's truly bizarre

people on bluesky are weirdly emotionally invested in mastodon failing

so how does that bluesky<->fedi bridge even work? cause i'm pretty sure you can't display a long mastodon post on bluesky. is there just like a "read more" link back to the original post on fedi?

currently forming a theory that boomer parents insistence on "fresh air" came from the 1918 flu pandemic generations, who recognized fresh air reduced the incidence of airborne viruses. except when this was passed down boomers internalized "fresh air" to mean "go outside and touch grass" rather than "keep your house well ventilated for optimum health"

@oblomov the reason people are on bluesky and not on fedi is because most people would rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend there isn't an ongoing ever worsening problem. Which means when the problem finally gets huge enough to acknowledge there's a crisis that must be resolved imminently

So where do they go? The place that involves the least friction for relocating. And that's bluesky, not fedi, because bluesky is more like the thing they already know

Do we need a project for archiving the internet archive?

oh my god. on dot social, if you follow someone and they follow you back, it fully REMOVES the "follows you" tag from their profile, instead opting to have the follow/unfollow button say "mutuals"

this completely breaks the flow of how you check if someone follows you and i wouldn't be at all surprised if this leads to all sorts of jumpscares where people think their good friends/mutuals have unfollowed them

EDIT: oh wait nope they just removed the "follows you" badge 100% regardless of mutual or not, and rolled all of it into the follow button. which is also bad because an action button should not be overloaded with all of that semantic context, but at least it's consistently bad, i guess?