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mei

@mei@donotsta.re

feline-adjacent genderfluid entity

dm me the microcode signing private keys of an x86 cpu of your choice before following (or don't, i'm not a cop)

slut for functional programming, fancy type systems, low-level bit-twiddling, and typical catgirl catnip (proof assistants, compilers, and osdev)

not beating the allegations of being a big fucking math nerd

very normal about trains

"you're autismic" ~ @ezri
"little plushie full of gender" ~ @iro_miya

pretending to be only moderately deranged here, less sterile account (and whew is that an understatement) at @meithecatte

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whitequark, to random
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every compiler project expands until it creates its own version of TableGen. after that it is swiftly replaced with something that is "not as difficult to use", and the cycle continues

mei,
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@whitequark looks up what tablegen is

oh. god. aaa. yeah, this must be a mess

iro_miya, to random
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@larsfrommars lars from mars

mei,
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@iro_miya @larsfrommars linus from venus

mei, to random
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OH: so here's my first unhinged project... and here's my second unhinged project...

winter, to random
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"this should be a CRIME because I don't like it" is the source of so many problems, but as long as there is such a concept as crime and laws then that is exactly what it will continue to be used for

:queeranarchy:

mei,
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@winter I've found this study that backs up your claim:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0604-8

reading the abstract, I'd argue that the conclusion shouldn't be "prison is useless anyway so we should just give up on trying to deter crime", but "the current prison system focuses too much on punishment and doesn't attempt to actually rehabilitate the individuals". indeed, the study is from the US, where the prison system is very well known to be quite bad

I also found studies conducted, for example, in the Netherlands, where the results seem to be different? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-023-09566-w

indeed, in Norway the prisons seem to work quite well: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-so-successful-2014-12

mei,
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@quasar @winter i mean, yes, prisons should at the very least be massively reformed. basically something that would pull people out of the social margin instead of reinforcing it

mei,
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@quasar @winter okay, that is... definitely a datapoint to consider.

i suspect that it might be partly due to them basically cosplaying being better (I've seen similar stuff happening in many other contexts, such as schools), but my opinion is definitely much closer to "we need to abolish this shit, it doesn't work anyway"

mei, to random
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jailbreaking the robogirl and installing gdb to help it figure itself out

mei, to random
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it's so cool how the Strasbourg public transit also services some nearby over-the-border places like Kehl or Rotterdam

mei, to random
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mimi: "oh, this thing is labeled "spicy", i'm gonna try it"
also mimi: "hi, i can't handle spicy things, do you want to finish this"

silly goofster

phos, to random

Hey fedi, generate som sequences of 1s and 0s for us

mei,
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@phos @matt that’s the ASCII for Hello though 😅

mei, to random
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omg i can finally learn what poly1305 is all about

mei, to random
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fuck computers

mei,
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@domi yes, fuck printers as well

mei, to random
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i got pulled into sysadmining for a research project. as luck would have it, not even 4 days later, Contabo decided to perform maintenance on a Friday evening and fucked up the VPS in such a way that any disk write command immediately freezes the entire VM.

adding insult to injury, support is not even staffed on weekends 🙃

mei, to random
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OH: i'm bisexual! i'm into the people who make cat noises and those who don't

iro_miya, to random
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WHICH ONE ALREADY??? ​:neocat_googly_shocked:​

mei,
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@iro_miya OH: so there's my ex-partner mae, my current partner mei, and in [redacted], my future partner mae /hj

mei, to random
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tfw you meet a cute girl and decide to learn her native language

anyway

toki! mi sona lili e toki pona :3

domi, to random
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PSA: Backdoor in latest version of xz: https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Downgrade if you’re running one of the latest xz versions, it has been compromised. If you’re using mainstream distros, you may be fine (as they lag with versions a bit behind master). If you’re running Alpine or any other non-gnu or non-systemd distro, you should be fine too (the exploit checks for GNU, and also probably won’t work with distro-unpatched sshd)

mei,
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@domi it looks like Arch narrowly escaped being exploitable: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz/-/issues/2

mei, to random
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I really like the concept of FPGAs but when I want to actually get into them I remember that all the vendor bullshit and toolchain bullshit and HDL language design bullshit and I'm just way too tired to actually get through that and get into that ecosystem properly

mei,
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I guess that it doesn't exactly spark joy, but it does spark FOMO

mei,
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let me know when the gay catgirl crusade is done and FPGA toolchains are actually nice to work with

mei,
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@whitequark that does sound relevant. I'm definitely exhausted and sometimes people tell me I'm disabled but I mostly brush it off and pretend I'm fine and normal

what's the trade-off? can I use it to develop bitstreams for all/most FPGAs? (maybe with some compatibility step like transpiling through Verilog?) can I interact with hard IP?

mei,
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@whitequark okay, this sounds very promising! one day I’ll give it a proper try…

amaranth brings python arithmetic semantics to FPGAs

hm, what do you mean? the biggest part of what comes to mind when i hear “python arithmetic semantics” is “everything’s a bigint”, which… surely not? i mean, you probably could do it with something like abstract interpretation but that doesn’t sound like the level of abstraction? the example on the playground actually does specify that count is 4 bits (which is good! but it means that I don’t understand what you mean here)

mei,
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@whitequark oh! yeah, that’s lovely

mei, to random
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fun fact: all diodes can be light-emitting diodes if they just believe in themselves

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