Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be), page 2

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JavaScript engine in WebAssemblyWhat a time to be alive.

It's called Rust because the build takes so much disk space and you need to use an HDD (spinning rust) for development.

You know you're using AWS bare-metal Apple Silicon macOS servers when it takes 40 minutes to boot. :woozy_aws:

@puniko be like... #animeirl

PNG images can be decoded from JavaScript, and PNG images use Deflate compression. Thus, I decided to encode the WebAssembly binary as a grayscale PNG image, Base64-encode the PNG as a data URIStatement dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

Imagine living long enough to see someone saying that Gentoo has a better wiki than Arch. :woozy_baa:

I still remember the days when the pre-built HTML Gentoo Manual was the only reference material out there.

@lamp@mastodong.lol @astrid@fedi.astrid.tech serverless computing: sudo poweroff

Q: What can you say about Unix time overflow after it's upgraded to 64-bit?

A: It takes a long long time.

All programming languages are strongly-typed on the IBM Model M keyboard.

Q: What does a contractor say when the production of new game cartridges is delayed?

A: ROM wasn't built in a day.

Unfortunately mixing clang and GCC on macOS creates some weird linking issues that I can't solve, but GCC must be used. The only workaround I'm seeing now is starting from a clean GNU userland. So now I'm now bootstrapping Gentoo prefix on Apple M1... :woozy_baa: Wish me luck. It's a rented server, this Gentoo install is burning the CPU and my wallet at the same time... :woozy_baa:

The Apple M1 managed to finish Gentoo stage2 bootstrap after exploding twice. :woozy_baa: GCC 12.1 was incompatible with macOS 13 mainly because of a hardcoded max version limit and a name collision. I had to apply these two patches...

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=d1201dbf55a11d391030914985ba6b443e59baa5
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=6725f186cb70d48338f69456864bf469a12ee5be

GCC just passed Gentoo stage3 bootstrap...

Gentoo stage3 bootstrap failed half-way due to a "internal fatal error" of flex failing to launch m4. I can't understand why, it needs further debugging but it can't possibly be done in the remaining hours of the server rent. Lesson learned: don't rent an expensive server unless you're 100% sure that the development environment is working, try it on something more basic... :woozy_baa:

So... in contrary to the popular beliefs, "Install Gentoo" is not the solution to my problem, but "Install Asahi Linux" probably is. :woozy_baa: Still need to try fixing Gentoo Prefix as it's the only option on hardware that I don't own.

Yes!!! My Gentoo Prefix stage3 bootstrap on Apple M1 running macOS 13.2 Ventura has completed successfully!! :blobcatglowsticks: :blobcat_hug_genchu: :blobcatglowsticks: (I'm probably the first one to succeed in 2023, time to file bug reports and upstream patches...)

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@lamp@mastodong.lol @feld@bikeshed.party I'm definitely not a fan of these devices.