@prologic@twtxt.net Yep! I like that this distillation metaphor makes it explicit: You have to go ahead and actually distill something. It doesn’t happen automatically. The metaphor acknowledges that this is work that needs to be done by someone.

@bender@twtxt.net They’re not completely impossible, but C makes it much easier to run into them. I think the key point is that in those “safe” languages, buffer overflows are caught and immediately crash the program (if not handled otherwise) instead of silently corrupting memory, not being noticed right away and maybe only later crashing at a different location, where it can be very hard to find the actual root cause. This is a big improvement in my book.

Some programmers are indeed horrible. I’m guilty myself. :-)

I like the article.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I quite like this part:

Many people write programs, but few stick with a program long enough to distill it.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yiha! Even autoscroll, very nice! The naming certainly drew inspiration from Urwid. I like it. Looking forward to eventually checking out its inner workings. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Given the age, they must mean Kopernikus! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFS_Kopernikus

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :-D

@bender@twtxt.net I also went back to my duty today and fixed a problem I created right before vanishing into the holidays. Of course, I discovered more problems while fixing the one thing. Luckily, another public holiday tomorrow. :-)

During my time off, I was a very lazy rat. I planned on doing some woodworking again, but instead I started watching Itchy Boot’s Africa season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMvfS5mbsiI&list=PL8M9dV_BySaXNvQ_V1q4UU-DirPQlX0ZP

@prologic@twtxt.net Yup, it’s been a while since I played that. 😅 Hardly rememberd it, to be honest. And apparently I did everything wrong, because that monster just came along and trashed my city, no way to stop it. 🤪

@bender@twtxt.net No, I had my break/holiday earlier. I chose to work through, except the public holidays of course.

@bender@twtxt.net I am so prepared and ready for retirement. 🤣 (Not gonna happen for a while, though. If ever.)

@prologic@twtxt.net so, you were not giving time off during the end of year? The company you work for didn’t give a break?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de hear hear! If anything, holiday breaks help to validate the fact that we are prepared for retirement. At least, I am!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh nice! It’s been several decades since I’ve played that! Probably 3 actually come to think of it 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net SimCity 2000 in DOSBox 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de what game is that?

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Not using OpenBSD or httpd? Yeah. It’s been working quite well since ~2017, so, meh, too lazy to switch now. But nothing is set in stone, of course.

@bender@twtxt.net I have another two days of vacation, then it’s back to the grindstone for me as well. 😢

Can’t we have vacation all year round? 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net Computers are great, eh? Soooo many problems to choose from! What do you want to solve today? 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think they are Windows users, going by the lack of attention to detail, and the fact they love DFS. Ha!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very cool! 😎

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Yeah, probably. Not going down the CURRENT route, that’s for sure. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool! :-) I just implemented a workaround for the time being.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s already fixed:

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/668f1f05e71c5e979d278f1ad4568956226715ea

Question is when that fix will land. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bah. Yeah, that looks like a bug. Let’s see if this already reported upstream. 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I noticed that your feed’s last modification timestamp was missing in my database. I cannot tell for certain, but I think it did work before. Turns out, your httpd now sends the Last-Modified with UTC instead of GMT. Current example:

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:50:20 UTC

I’m not a fan of this timestamp format at all, but according to the HTTP specification, HTTP-date must always use GMT for a timezone, nothing else: https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#http.date

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Let’s hope they find the guys who fired that rocket onto the balcony and we actually get a fireworks ban.

@prologic@twtxt.net Very impressive! :-)

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Oh no, fuck that 🤣 That’s why I built an FFI so I can call C-functions via shared libraries 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very nice! We also had some snow this morning, but it’s already melted. And the sun is missing, too. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Looks kind of nice 😊

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What I wish for once on this miserable planet is for coporations one day ohave a different set of reasons to exist and thrive other than:

but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it

Life becomes very boring and uninteresting when your only goal in life is to “make more fucking money” 💰 Fuck 🤬 Fuck this Corporatocracy we live in 🤦‍♂️

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

Steps to world domination:

1. “Invent” “AI” (by using other people’s data).
   
2. Get people hyped about it and ideally hooked on it.
   
3. Only provide it as a cloud service. But hey, if you want to, you can run it locally!
   
4. Buy all hardware available on the market, so that nobody but you can build more systems.
   
5. All PCs of consumers and competitors are too weak now and can’t be upgraded anymore.
   
6. Everybody depends on your cloud service! Win!
   

All of that is possible because corporations don’t have a “conscience” in capitalism. Nobody forces the RAM manufacturers to sell all their stuff to just one or two buyers, but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club da fuq?! 🤯

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, that’s sick! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m pretty sure I know a bunch of people who love to blow up their money. :-(

Holy shit! :-O At least, the walls didn’t shake here. But we also had some very loud explosions, maybe they were far enough away. :-? Of course, the bangs continued last night.

Maybe some politicians need to be personally attacked with this sort of shit first in order to ban it once and forever.

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe @prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s been ages that I came across Trac. :-D

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe I can’t believe Trace and Edgewall Software is still around and in use 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I haven’t spoken to a single person yet who was a fan of all this. Not even the more conservative family members.

Some people have detonated several really loud bombs yesterday. This wasn’t a “Böller”. It shook my walls, doors, windows. Family members in other parts of the country reported the same … Is this a new trend?

@javivf@adn.org.es Happy New Year! Let’s hope so. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s actually not nearly as half bad as I really thought it would be. Just having to eventually deal with the “lowering down” to machine code / ARM64 assembly in the end once you’ve verified the semantics in the VM.

@prologic@twtxt.net Not bad for a start, ey! Looking forward to see you going down these rabbit holes and opening one can of worms after the other. :‘-D Very, very impressive, hats off to you. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org A “Hello World” binary is ~372KB in size. I currently have peephole optimization and deac code optimizations in play, and a few other performance related ones, but nothing too fancy. I have a test case that ensures fib(35) doesn’t regress too badly as I continue to evolve the language.

@prologic@twtxt.net Can you just make them optional? :-) But that of course complicates things.

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s impressive. How large are the resulting binaries? You don’t have any optimizations in place yet, do you?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hid in the workshop with earmuffs for the absolute worst part.

@javivf@adn.org.es Heck yeah, let’s do this! :-) Welcome to 2026.

@prologic@twtxt.net Not bad. 😃

@prologic@twtxt.net Anything by Charlotte de Witte. 😅 For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfkgSlmoe1I

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Happy New Year to you too! 🥳