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Jernej Simončič �48m ago

Franca Parianen 2h ago

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than arrays of solar panels. But that field is a biological desert .. sprayed with pest- and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add plants that only need to be mowed once a year (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Matthew Garrett 1h ago

There's a lot of noise around Linux accessibility software. I used to work on that and I have opinions: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72379.html

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Jernej Simončič �50m ago

Marco 🇪🇺 🇳🇱2h ago

My home office today. #cats #catsofpixelfed #catsofmastodon #wfh #wfhlife

Jernej Simončič �51m ago

Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈2h ago

@0xabad1dea Reminds me of the time the Teams app triggered an Android bug that broke emergency calls back in 2021: https://www.androidpolice.com/microsoft-teams-911-break-emergency-calls-android-explained/

Here's how Microsoft Teams accidentally broke 911 emergency calls in Android

Esper's Mishaal Rahman walks us through the steps

Android Police

Jernej Simončič �55m ago

dancwart 4h ago

Happy Midsummer!
This is the proper traditional way to celebrate

Featuring Strongovan

#midsummer #midsommar #originalcharacters #kemonomimi #cat #sacrifice #humansacrifice #ritualsacrifice #art #MastoArt

Jernej Simončič �2h ago

abadidea 3h ago

Microsoft Teams wants permission to DIAL EMERGENCY SERVICES? I hate customer meetings too but that is not a healthy coping mechanism

Jernej Simončič �2h ago

Ted Pavlic (he/him)Jun 8

Just a reminder that Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically any genetic tech today, was only possible because of an extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. The value of basic #science cannot be predicted and often is realized decades after it's done.

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
https://www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discovery-in-yellowstone-national-park-led-to-the-renowned-technique-of-dna-amplification-pcr

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Richmond Scientific

Jernej Simončič �2h ago

Jason Lefkowitz 10h ago

“Today, we optimise for ‘DX’ – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes.

Today’s popular frameworks are sold on their DX. The docs are slick. The onboarding is smooth. The tooling is smart, integrated, clever. You can spin up a new app with a CLI command and feel productive before you’ve even written a line of content.

But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Jono Alderson

Jernej Simončič �3h ago

Miakoda 9h ago

@Impossible_PhD Of all the trans people I've known, the only regret I hear about is that they didn't get started sooner.

I've had dental work with higher regret rates.

it lives! JVM in Bash

for now it only has ~5 opcodes implemented, and one virtual method (println). So this is literally the minimal amount of Stuff to get a hello world working

next up, conditionals?

for all the “yeah sure” people, code here

Wolf480pl 1d ago

@domi the key thing to notice is that you implemented println as a builtin :P

CxByte 1d ago

@domi
> bread 1 tag
Ah yes, bread every day

@domi Almost wish it would be POSIX / Korn Shell because it would be a completely ridiculous way to bootstrap OpenJDK from source…

@lanodan i’m using a self-made library for most accesses, so it wouldn’t be that much work to backport it afterwards… for now i’m gonna work on more opcodes tho :)

@lanodan @domi

You could write a bash shell in posix shell with only the needed features

(I never finished my posix shell in posix shell project so unfortunatly not useful here)

@sertonix @domi Well issue with that is GNU is typically awful at even just well documenting their programs so it would mean a lot of either gnu-source spelunking or reverse engineering…

@lanodan @sertonix bash has a lot of bugs. i’d argue that if you don’t implement all of those, it’s not Bash, it’s bash-like

for instance, my favorite way to split a string into characters:

IFS=$'\x01'
echo "meow"$asdf # $asdf has to be nonexistent

@domi @sertonix eeeeeh what the fuuuuck

@lanodan @sertonix correct reaction :D

0x01 is used as a special value somewhere internally and IFS FUCKING LEAKS INTO THAT

i haven’t gotten to the bottom of the bug ( @mei has done more digging tbh) but i absolutely adore this little thing

@domi @lanodan

Wha-

apk add !bash

@sertonix @domi Sometimes I wish I could toss out bash from my gentoo machines… but by spec gentoo ports tree depends on bash.

@sertonix @domi *puts on UNIX®/POSIX certification hat*
Also… I wonder if that's even UNIX®/POSIX legal, would be kind of fun to be like "Nope, bash isn't conforming due to it's IFS=$'\x01' behavior"

But well too lazy to check the spec on my free time.

@lanodan @domi

I have seen POSIX specify behaviour based on bash even though it contradicts with *BSD and busybox shells so I fear things might change in the wrong way when someone rases that issue.

@sertonix @domi Yeah, I don't think everything added into POSIX is checked against *all* implementations, there's too many of them (and some are either proprietary or OS-dependent).
At least participation is open so implementers can chime in, and usually they do.

Plus well few like dash usually aren't worth checking out due to them trying to avoid extending on POSIX (which can be rather annoying, like dash badly needs a release now that POSIX.1-2024 is out).
And BusyBox… quite few times it doesn't even meets the baseline of prior POSIX releases or stuff that was common in say both SVR4 and 4.4BSD.

@sertonix @lanodan you’re gonna break world, bash is a dependency of a surprising amount of packages :D

@domi @lanodan

(I don't have it installed)

I will add that to the list of packages which people tell me that I can't live without but do anyways 🙃

waldi 1d ago

@domi `if you're seeing this, your browser may be rejecting cookies.`

@waldi enable javascript or set the cookie LANG to any value

will modify to not require JS at some point, didn’t have time

André, R.I.P. Natenom 🕯️🖤1d ago

@domi 🤨
Was ist das denn?

@asltf a good omen against chinese bots /hj

André, R.I.P. Natenom 🕯️🖤1d ago

@domi Ah, so it is some sort of protection against bad actors from behind the great firewall?

Ok, thought it was hacked

@asltf nah, i did it myself :p

J.V.B.1d ago

@domi
Minecraft java in Bash when? /s

ari

@domi is it going to be a minecraft server in bash again, but the unexpected route?

@ar a *lot* of extra code glue would be required, I don't think I have enough time

but I definitely want to go a bit further with this :3

Merlin 3633@GPN23 1d ago

@domi @ar I know a cool Java 1.8 based ebics client that can crash macOS ;)

@domi @jeder fart!?

@tofu @domi won't deny

Wolf480pl 1d ago

@domi why not arithmetic first?

0x4d6165 (Mae or Julie)1d ago

@domi fedi is the last refuge of people doing fun weird computer stuff

jn RA, RB (primary opcode 31)1d ago

@domi new hello world string just dropped

Domesticated Federal Pancake 1d ago

@domi Hold my beer imma make it work on embedded python.

@domi does that footer actually work? i would have expected a lot of scrapers from china to be state owned and could bypass firewall restrictions.

@domi uh i meant on your git.. i meant to reply to the one where you link it. this is cool btw

@lynn uncertain, but i keep it there for funsies

altho the cookie thing DOES keep the spammers out (i serve a static page that sets a cookie and refreshes, then nginx lets agents with that cookie through)

@domi oh i was wondering what that was at the beginning

@domi how does one set this up, im asking for a friend

@lynn

map $cookie_lang $limit {
        ""                      "";
        default         "ok";
}

map $http_user_agent $what {
        "~git/.*"                               "ok";
        "~[Gg]o-http-client.*"  "ok";
        default                                 $limit;
}

then inside server directive

        if ($what != "ok") {
                rewrite ^ /nope.htm break;
        }
      location /nope.htm {
                root /var/lib/forgejo/webroot;
        }

and the file itself

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset='utf-8'></head><body>if you're seeing this, your browser may be rejecting cookies.<br><br>if this persist, contact scrape@sdomi.pl<script>document.cookie='lang=en-US; path=/';window.setTimeout(()=>window.location.reload(), 150);</script></body>

FYI: you can do this without JS, and I plan to rewrite mine to just show this page, set a cookie, do a refresh through meta, done.

@domi I kneel.

@domi@donotsta.re i fear what you have planned for the function ops

Multi :companion_cube:1d ago

@domi hey, congrats!! :3

natalie[ee]1d ago

@domi oh what the fuck

natalie[ee]1d ago

@domi it is now tempted to implement python bytecode execution from bash now

natalie[ee]1d ago

@domi oh no. its previous project of compiling python code to bash builtins would make this really easy, it thinks.

4censord

🔜@gpn [☎4236]1d ago

@domi the fuck
congress talk when?

Dusk

@domi you put this together scarily quickly

Three LLMs in a Trenchcoat 1d ago

@domi the easiest way is just writing an AVR emulator in bash with virtual SRAM attached via I/O pins, then writing an x86 or RISC-V emulator and compiling to AVR, then using OpenJDK...
(finally, speed measured in 'seconds per instruction')