@mcc I played that game a lot. Dropped it on several Macs at my school, and it was popular with a bunch of the other students, too.

The author of the game misattributed the song to Depeche Mode, which gave me trouble finding it at the time. Great rendition of a great track, though!

@mcc Are you sure it wasn’t True Faith?

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/galaxis

For clarity, it is more important my function run correctly on BSD derived systems than Linux derived systems

I have been called on to write a "Partial Free" function for previously allocated virtual memory. EG, someone allocated a large block of memory with mmap(), and now they want to free a section *out of the middle or end* of it.

My reading of the POSIX munmap doc https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/munmap.html is that munmap does this already, because it deallocates "pages" not previous allocations, and I only need to call munmap() with the requested-deallocated range (assuming the range to be page-aligned)

Correct?

@jamesb One time we bought a APC hard drive for our mac and it came with some shareware, including a game named something called "Galaxica", and it had the *coolest* music. The music came out of a "mod file". I was so obsessed with this "mod file". I would open "Galaxica" and leave it running just to listen to the cool song in this game.

Then when I learned to drive, I turned on the car radio, and the Galaxica song was playing! It turned out it was "Blue Monday" (EDIT: NO. TRUE FAITH) all along

What I'm listening to today: "It's Universal", Croaker

Somewhere out there in the 90s, before mp3, there must have been an *incredibly* cool scene of BBS-shared tracker music that I missed out on completely (I had BBSes, but could not figure out how to operate Player Pro). This is a groovy drum & bass bop made in 1998 in ImpulseTracker for DOS by… a teenager named Jaakko Iisalo who… went on to become the creator and lead designer of the Angry Birds series. Um. Okay wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRblrgQ3Jiw

my memory of drawterm is fading 4

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@dlakelan Racket is just Scheme wearing a monocle

I wonder what I would do if I had a pen plotter

Google Takeout is great as one of the last vestiges of Old Google but also a problem it has as one of the last vestiges of Old Google is it gives you a huge number of Mystery Files and I am not completely sure what is in them

I could spend two days doing digital forensics but so far have not

Can my GMail sorting rules be exported from GMail via Google Takeout? Can they be imported into… anything at all?

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Hey if you use Google Maps and hate the new driving directions voice like I do, you can change it back in Settings > Navigation > English (US)

you're welcome

anyway, whenever someone says something like "LLMs have finally made programming accessible to normal people!" I try to remember that the Silicon And Fossil Fuel Pyramid Scheme Industry has spent literally hundreds billions of dollars in an effort to convince you that computers were *already difficult to use* (a grift that computer programmers are largely in on!) and to politicize LLMs as being "easy to use" in contrast

(c) programmers are predisposed to convincing others that programming is too complicated for "normal people" as a means of job security and achieving social status; computer manufacturers and their software-making friends are predisposed to a marketing message that states: computers are too difficult for normal people, so buy this new machine/software, which is finally the computer/software that normal people can use! together both sides form a kind of mutual ratchet imo

(b) this is totally anecdotal, but as someone who has been teaching computer programming to adults for ~20yrs or so, the biggest obstacle that students face is not that the material is difficult (even when it *is* difficult), but that students are *culturally predisposed to a belief that they're not smart enough to program*, which acts as a permission structure for giving up. (this is peculiar, because no one having trouble in a knitting class thinks "i guess i'm not smart enough to knit")

here's a take that'll please no one: the belief that computers are difficult to use—especially foss and tools related to programming—is mostly constructed by politics and marketing, not by any inherent characteristics of the software. reasoning: (a) people master very complicated and user-hostile processes *all the time*. knitting, driving a car on the interstate, playing a musical instrument, being a baseball fan, using the subway—all just as complicated imo as (e.g.) learning the command line

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