«There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.»
... returns string literals if appropriate, iterates over subsequent flag chars parsing them into bitflags via a small-int-map, checks if a digit's next & parses that as a width, checks if a "."'s next & parses the following digits as the precision or indicates it should be taken from variadic args, looks up the following datatype-char in a lookuptable, parses following chars according to bitflags, & handles any errors.
2/3?
This interpreter's mainloop branching over the result to either:
* Carefully `memcpy()` literals into place
* Possibly-reformats ints into the desired bitwidth before having a helper decode flags, possibly prepend a sign, uses micro-optimized code to output base-8/10*/16 numbers, enforces minimum precision, & assembles the padding, sign, base-prefix, preceding spaces/zeroes, digits, & trailing spaces.
...
3/4?
*Particularly tricky to micro-optimize, its not a power-of-2!
@moses_izumi oh jesus fucking christ you're totally right it is just linus unix
@moses_izumi i still like my retcon https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/117452482831407313
@herr_irrtum Erscheint mir nur folgerichtig. Auch Amöben haben ein Recht aufs Paradies!
Ha - absolut korrekt.
Aber wenn ich jetzt mal weiterdenke. Wenn die Amöbe jetzt das gesamte Gehirn gegessen hat, dann wird sie ja mit wachsen - und irgendwann das Gehirn ersetzt haben. Kann sie dann die Steuerung übernehmen?
Würde das erklären, was derzeit so in der Weltpolitik geschieht? Waren die vielleicht alle mal in Mexiko schwimmen?
Gestern galt es noch als Verschwörungstheorie, heute Realität: Die Zusicherung die Grüne und SPD erhalten haben sollen das Die Linke eine ihrer beliebtesten Abgeordneten aus der Fraktion rauswerfen wollen, scheint in die Tat umgesetzt zu werden.
Es wird nun gegen die mit 46,2% gewählte Abgeordnete Vedi Emde gehetzt, nicht mehr nur von Grüne oder SPD, sondern aus der eigenen Partei heraus: Fraktionsvorsitzender Tobias Schulze nutzt Worte gegen Mitglieder der eigenen Reihen, die für Kritik an anderen Parteien als zu harsch gelten würde: Sie sei eine Abgeordnete „die nicht mit der Partei kooperiert - weder mit der Bezirks- noch mit der Landes- oder Bundesebene.”
Warum? Sie wiederholte lediglich den völkerrechtlich vollkommen akkuraten Satz: Staaten haben kein Existenzrecht, Menschen aber schon.
Das ist der Satz wegen dem Die Linke eine Krisensitzung mit anschließender Pressemitteilung und solch scharfer Kritik veröffentlicht hat. Bis heute kein Wort über Steffen Krachs (SPD) Korruption oder der Befürwortung der Grünen von Waffenfabriken in Berlin. Das sind alles akzeptierte Ansichten und Handlungen mit denen Die Linke Berlin kollaboriert und keinerlei Kritik findet. Für ihre eigene Abgeordnete jedoch schon.
@ErikUden wer wird das dekliniert: „Freund, Feind, Parteifreund.“ ❓🤔
First two:
"enables recipients who access the service through an account to transmit content in real-time to an indeterminate number of other recipients of the service, including through live streaming of audio-visual content;"
"enables recipients who access the service through an account to contact, communicate and otherwise interact with other recipients of the service not part of the recipient's pre-existing connections or subscriptions;"
So, make posts friends-only, and accounts locked.
@rysiek How would Fedi-people find new people to follow if everyone would post only to followers and all accounts would be locked?
RT: @StoneDunk Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
@FranceskAlbs @Silversnapples According to many of the comments it’s AI slop.
@hipsterelectron
call it LINE-UX when you're burnt out on Unix (and derivatives) in general
call it LINE-UX when you're burnt out on Unix (and derivatives) in general
@moses_izumi oh jesus fucking christ you're totally right it is just linus unix
After just one White House press briefing from new Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, Trump has already fired her.
In 2017, Anthony Scaramucci was Trump's press secretary for 11 days.
Katie Zacharia got only five.
@randahl
"Doing a Scaramucci" became a set phrase, dusted off following the dramatic debut of this Trump groupie.
Trump Denies Ordering Starlink Restrictions. Doesn't Know Who Did It. Not Sure It Ever Happened >>> https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117451873071840225
2/n
@mastodonmigration this is how he lies every time!
How to make adjustable baggy trousers (Gentle Living Shop)
Audiobook of "Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Chewie
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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 16 "How do you feel about people reading your works without buying a personal copy?"
Lending books to friends is good. Borrowing books from libraries is good.
I know my books are on piracy sites, but I suspect the people who download them are more interested in amassing books than in reading them. However, sInce my books are on Buddhist practice I hope that people who steal and read them at least benefit from them.
Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀
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When the world’s on the Way,
they use horses to haul manure.
When the world gets off the Way,
they breed warhorses on the common.
The greatest evil: wanting more.
The worst luck: discontent.
Greed’s the curse of life.
To know enough’s enough
is enough to know.
(Dào Dé Jīng 46, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
d@nny disc@
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LOL!! Here's a completely fabricated, completely wrong, nonsense history of FidoNet! What a crackup!
https://gabriellataylor.com/2026/09/18/fidonet-1984-the-birth-of-a-pioneering-bbs-network/
Almost nothing here is correct! What an idiot! It's gotta be slop written.
LOL!! Here's a completely fabricated, completely wrong, nonsense history of FidoNet! What a crackup!
https://gabriellataylor.com/2026/09/18/fidonet-1984-the-birth-of-a-pioneering-bbs-network/
Almost nothing here is correct! What an idiot! It's gotta be slop written.
@tomjennings fidonet is so cool!!! what a shame
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses found recording audio without wearers' consent
The bug is fixed, but privacy concerns remain.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-found-recording-audio-without-wearers-consent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica not bug, feature.
i'm gonna start calling it line-ucks again. never ever trust a project named after the creator
@hipsterelectron
call it LINE-UX when you're burnt out on Unix (and derivatives) in general
call it LINE-UX when you're burnt out on Unix (and derivatives) in general
Noooo still just dries up after a bit of writing just like before. 😭😭 Now I'm like is it the converter, is there something wrong with that?? Maybe I'll just buy her a new pen.
Defeated by that damn pen, hasn't worked since she was given it (new!!) 😞 :(
Chewie
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Forget billionaire algorithms, use RSS. Most sites have them.
Both the Thimbleweed Park Blog and Grumpy Gamer do. Full text feeds.
I've been using and serving RSS since 2005.
All the cool kids are doing it.
