drewdevault

drewdevault, 6 days ago to random

Anyone know where I can get my hands on one of these?

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Serial_Port

drewdevault, 7 days ago to random

Is there a version of fortune(1) whose database is not maintained by That Guy

drewdevault, 8 days ago to random

All this bias against nagels algorithm makes me feel like not enough people grok good systems programming fundamentals

drewdevault, 10 days ago to random

Any good assemblers and linkers which are broadly GNU compatible but written in C and simpler than binutils?

drewdevault, 11 days ago to random

Wow so today I learned that egregious labor violations are utterly widespread throughout the yoga industry

A friend was describing how they "volunteer" at their local yoga studio in exchange for free classes by working 4 hour shifts at the cash register... of a for profit company... where they report to a manager... and whose owner takes regular expensive vacations and lives in a beautiful, spacious home...

Upon further research I found out that this happens at MOST OF THEM

drewdevault, 15 days ago to random

Closed access science should have been outlawed the moment ARPANET was online

drewdevault, 15 days ago to random

There are not actually many good games for the NDS, it seems

drewdevault, 21 days ago to random

Fuck landlords.

drewdevault, 23 days ago to random

Anything else aside, the Hyprland code is astonishingly bad.

Good luck rewriting wlroots btw

drewdevault, 27 days ago to random

Why are there no good domain registrars

drewdevault, 27 days ago to random

The rule of law is at the very foundation of democracy.

drewdevault, 1 month ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

I installed a nice screen mod in my GameBoy Color

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

Day 3

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/19/2024-04-19-Copyleft-is-not-restrictive.html

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

Restrictions are not the same thing as obligations. Copyleft licenses are not more "restrictive" than permissive licenses, but they do have more obligations. Permissive licenses have obligations, too, such as the inclusion of a copyright notice.

Copyleft is not "restrictive"; it does not discriminate against any field of use, and if it did it would not qualify as free software nor as open source.

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

First 12 months of writing a GUI toolkit: getting text rendering right

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

Oh my god AGI is John Galt

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

Ayo

Just a simple greedy word wrap algorithm for now, and there are some issues with multilingual support despite appearances

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

View of The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

Anyone who cites concern over preservation of property values as justification for any political position deserves to have a permanent state-mandated wedgie at all times

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

The last five times I've been to the local big electronics store I have walked out without buying anything. Never have what I need.

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

License book club: Artistic License 2.0

https://discourse.writefreesoftware.org/t/license-book-club-artistic-license-2-0/339?u=ddevault

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

So hare-unicode's encoded runtime Unicode database clocks in at about 100 KiB and I'm basically fine with that. Some languages get it smaller but whatever, this thing is a massive pain in the ass to deal with

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

Rewatching Evangelion is all fun and games until you realize that you have a Shinji in your life