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a​ small cryptid caught in time's headlights.
'she/her' unless you know me

in case it's not clear from the contents of my timeline, i don't know anything about anything

apparently this needs saying, so:
DO NOT BARGE INTO MY MENTIONS
TO PICK A FIGHT. i come here to chill
out, not argue. if arguing chills you out,
go somewhere else.

block early, block often,
block right wingers on sight

#nobot #nocops #acab
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i had to watch my tone
for fear of having you feel judged
i was hoping...

favourite instructionex (sp),hl
avatar fromcover of BYTE's Aug 80 issue
header fromMars! https://immortal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mars-surface.jpg
miaowier alt@mewsleah
Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeNov 7
@h3mmy @alice @screwturn @agturcz also, some of us would prefer milk in coffee, but milk doesn't like us... a nice cup of nausea gets old fast
Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeJul 23, 2025
@Rairii @foone @whitequark the VGA BIOS always had the ability to write characters to graphics screens. (so did the original PC BIOS, but only for CGA), and DOS always used the BIOS screen writing routines (albeit indirectly). so i'm not that surprised by error messages such as these.
Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeFeb 25, 2025
@drscriptt @furicle i assume understanding full well why you need admin rights to do X, but still regularly trying to do it without the local sudo equivalent first and swearing when you remember, and then swearing even more when you fail to type your password correctly twice, is perfectly ok though ;-)
leah's tiny pc retirement homeFeb 9, 2025
Andy WingoFeb 9, 2025
new bloggery, in which i am stumped by generational garbage collection https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/02/09/baffled-by-generational-garbage-collection
baffled by generational garbage collection — wingolog

wingolog: article: baffled by generational garbage collection

Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeFeb 4, 2025

@wingo thanks! (but gosh, those slides render slowly on my poor little GX-420GI-based thin client...)

ed. only on xpdf, they're fine on zathura using the poppler engine 🤷‍♀️

@janneke

Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeFeb 4, 2025
@janneke @wingo i can't watch the video, and there don't appear to be downloadable transcript or slides
Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeJan 17, 2025

@tante @brianmerchant the version of Luddism that the people who defeated it made sure was recorded in the history books, a kneejerk rejection of all things technological? or real Luddism, which insisted that technology should only ever be deployed as augmentation to labour, rather than used to replace it in order to destroy labourers' collective power?

because i'm reading a lot of people in your comments here who appear to have taken it to mean the former, and... when the latter is perhaps more necessary than ever before, that's annoying.

Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeMay 6, 2024
@alcinnz @phryk @vertigo not necessarily interpreted - but interactive is a must. incremental compilation to bytecode or threaded code (like Forth, or Smalltalk, or some Lisps) is especially useful, because it combines the compactness of tokenisation (thus making the most of the memory available) with a turn of speed you can't get otherwise.
Show threadleah's tiny pc retirement homeApr 17, 2024

@onepict @fsfe if i only could...

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THIS IS FINE

leah's tiny pc retirement homeSep 19, 2023
Miriam BooshSep 18, 2023

Drew Barrymore pauses the show until the strike is over.

More proof that bullying the rich into making ethical decisions is important and the morally correct thing to do