0 Followers
63 Following
124 Posts
meat made the machines
pronounshe/him
codehttps://codeberg.org/ckafi/

@kloenk @navi Back when 128 kB was the limit for argv+envp, Google was hitting it too because they passed all the configuration for their whole software stack on the command line as --long-option=value switches.

Their solution? Compress the command line. So every binary started by ungzipping argv[1] and parsing it to get the configuration.

The person explaining this to me saw my horrified face, and said with the perfect Hide The Pain Harold smile: "a series of individually completely rational and reasonable decisions led to this." and I have been thinking a lot about it since.

the eternal struggle to either live paperless because i'm a nerd, or to write down everything with fountain pens because it's ~pretty~
flaky wi-fi is the worst kind of torture
Saturday

we will not stop until the only background allowed for the X root window is the progress pride flag

that... that is how serious we are about making the linux desktop gay

just to be clear, given the coverage of the most recent post, we don't want to be subject to any conspiracy theories arising from that

so i'll just use this opportunity to declare that we are definitely here to further woke agenda by turning free software gay
a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.