Notices by emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)

@lain there once was a shape called AT
but it's now quite old, you'll agree
so it was extended,
embiggened, amended,
and prefixed with EEEE.

there was once a motherboard form factor called AT, "Advanced Technology"

then it got replaced with ATX, "Advanced Technology Extended"

then that wasn't big enough for some motherboards and so there's also EATX, "Extended Advanced Technology Extended"

computer people are so good at naming things

@foone sudden desire to invent a cursed ISA where the assembly is case sensitive

A and a are different registers. the value of A is always ~a.

conditional moves/jumps work with a flags register like lots of other architectures do. `ADD a, b, c` sets flags, `add a, b, c` does not

`Add` inverts the flags written to the flags register

`aDD` is technically allowed but there's no real reason to use it: it inverts the flags but does not write the inverted flags anywhere

@foone what cursed keyboard layout have you invented where you can definitely type "hello world" but it's unclear whether it takes more or less than one day to do it

@foone distributed keyboard where your friends each have one key and you have to coordinate with them to type anything

@foone is this cloud strife

@foone proposing #include <file.xlsx> at the next C standards meeting

@aburka @foone writing http requests into files in /tmp and then polling for the server to create the response file next to it

they should make a SMD diode package that doesn't consistently land upside down if you drop it

now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I saw this in a @foone post once

my cursed layout isn't even an *original* cursed layout

@foone I see that occasionally. It usually means your ad blocker caught a popup but not the big transparent interaction-blocking div behind it.

@foone hope this helps

@foone here's another picture (SFW) of it in a bathroom, it's bigger than I thought: https://umd.net/media/forum_uploads/7_22/catapultloadedwithpie_uid_126042_1657040781_76027.jpg

I so far have not found a video

edit: I give up. I found several videos of people getting hit with pies, but it seems nobody caters to my catapult fetish.

@foone ... are there videos of this working? Like the thing itself, I have no interest in the associated fetish, I just want to watch the cool machine do its thing

@foone @blp there's an alternate timeline where mice speak ISA and the card is just a bunch of plain traces coming out of some cursed connector, turning 90 degrees, and going directly into the slot

your static ip address shall be 192.168.170.170, because AAAA

$newwork sent me a macbook. It's a very shiny machine. It is also aggressively incompatible with the way I expect computers to work.

Seriously considering just running sshd on it and developing from a Linux machine. (VirtualBox is an option too, but it's yelling at me about the ARM version being a not-production-ready beta, and I don't have a distro I like that has an official ARM version.)

I should deploy ipv6 on my LAN so I can assign all computers addresses ending in AAAAAAAAAAAA because that is how I feel about computers