Idiot Hours

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An idiot who likes computers and memes. Currently looking for work doing Linux/BSD administration, and building dumb stuff on the side.

DM and player in several D&D campaigns, bard main.

If you would like to follow, please have at least a short bio and a few posts to check out :)

If you read enough of my stuff, you will run across some _bad_ puns. I won't apologize.

QueerAF
OSAlpine, Arch, Pop OS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
TiredAlways
PronounsShe/They

@neauoire

Yes please!

@neauoire

I've got a few ideas on how this could be made more idiot proofed:

1. Would it be possible to move the @text definition above the ;text call? This way it's obvious to someone who doesn't understand how the assembler works to see the order that operations occur in. Some poking at it myself makes it seem like this doesn't work, though I don't see any reason in https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_labels.html .

2. A short summary of the program directly above it would help orient newcomers for all of the nitty-gritty that comes later: "This program stores the phrase "Hello World!" in memory when assembled. On execution, a pointer to the location in memory is pushed onto the stack. We then loop through, reading from and incrementing this pointer until we reach the end of the phrase. At that point, we empty the stack and break." (feel free to use this phrasing if you like. Don't know if it's accurate or good enough, but it does already exist)

uxntal labels

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@neauoire

Spent a while last night and today (maybe 5 hours total?) debugging my understanding of hello world, took me way too long to realize that ;text denoted a pointer to the data in @text rather than pushing the values in @text to the stack.

It's what I get for skimming text while up late and sick. Managed to write 24 lines of "This is where I'm at" before realizing what I'd done wrong due to deep diving it well enough to write a well formed question😅

Looking at it now, it's hard to see how I could've gotten it wrong, I think what you've got there does explain it effectively.

Working on a project, and need a soundtrack to keep myself focused!

Anyone got an album they'd like more people to listen to? I especially like rock, ambient, electronic, chiptune, punk (esp melodic), emo, folk and tbh most things. Feel free to boost this, hopefully other people find this useful too.

I'll listen to everything posted, eventually :3

#Music #musician #bandcamp

@soph

(L)ittle f(o)xe(s) make (s)miles

Hi all. I'm hating to be writing this post, but here we are.

A little while ago, I was laid off from my SRE job at a government contractor.

If anyone is looking for an SRE with:

- #Linux experience (a lot)
- #BSD experience (some)
- Plan 9 and Haiku experience (a little)
- Experience with a large #Ansible codebase
- Experience managing thousands of servers
- Experience with bare metal and VM management

and who isn't afraid of code - I'm your person!

I try to live my life by moving slow and fixing things - I'd be especially interested in roles around labor organization, #climate action or with a socially conscious #coop if anyone from those communities is looking.

Boosts welcome!

#FediHire

@nora
Oh, and feed the cat [fish|kibble|treats|milk (he should know better)] of course :P

@nora

The wizard must stare into the depths of the [infinite starry sky|azure abyss of the ocean|burning core of the volcano|humming heart of the jungle]

After all, he has to study the elements of magic to be a wizard!

@munin Nope you've got that gay!

@enigmatico

I do like Arch tbh as much as I hate to say it  . not a ton of breakage as long as you stick with kde/gnome, and it does have very up to date software.

Also a fan of Void and Alpine if you've not looked at those yet