If all goes well, the music on the stream tonight will be Stevia Sphere. If you have any music which either you have made yourself or which is human-made and Creative Commons-licensed, I'd be happy to play it as well. I expect the stream will eventually be viewed, through the magic of VOD, by a small handful of people, maybe.
Ugh. I just got palm-sweaty excited by the thought of getting sound working in my seL4/Idris OS. I think secretly I just want to make bleeps and bloops.
Alright. I'm gonna v-tube on makertube.net tonight, barring unforeseen technical difficulties or familial responsibilities. I'm gonna be reinstalling Windows 98 on my 400Mhz AMD K6-2. Gonna be a lot of watching a progress bar and monologuing.
If it can only be done with LLMs, it doesn't fucking need to be done.
Briefly:
show "some string"
results in the first character of the string being mistaken for a pointer to an integer and dereferenced on arm32 platforms (the zynq7000 platform seL4 supports for "simulation," specifically).
If y'all can get a clean fix figured out ahead of me, more power to you. Otherwise I'll be returning to this problem and posting a clearer explanation of this bug this evening, once I'm back at a terminal.
Yeah, it's a bug. Swapping a couple things around fixed it. Need to come up with a cleaner fix, since it changes other behavior which I presume is NOT broken.
Should probably test to confirm.
Not gonna get the time to open an issue and describe the problem properly until this evening, most likely.
I think I found a bug in Idris 2's "refc" backend on 32-bit platforms. It is late, so tomorrow I will investigate. It's not a subtle bug, so I'm still unsure if I've got the right idea or if I'm just exhausted.
I tripped over this bug, if I understand correctly what's going on, immediately after getting "Hello World" in Idris atop the seL4 kernel. I'd never worked with seL4 or Idris 2 before. Learning curve was steeeeep.
"We do this not because it is easy, but because we THOUGHT it would be easy."
I got a little impatient with the chip on the small bowl and didn't fill it in all the way. You can see a small dip in the lacquer and stone powder mixture I used to replace the missing piece. I was still a few layers away from a good, clean repair, I think.
At the end I had exhausted nearly all my motivation for this project, so I wrapped it up quickly and finally got my makeshift urushi boro folded up and put away. Better to complete the repair than burn out chasing perfection.
One more shot of my goldless #kintsugi work.
The leftmost plate is one of the first I did. I should have accepted received wisdom and broken it the rest of the way in half. The crack I was covering over has lengthened past the lacquer now. I did not make this mistake with the larger plate to its right!
The leftmost plate was also put through the dishwasher, so the lacquer is flaking pretty badly now.
The break on the small cat plate was too perfect to *not* repair.
Realized I hadn't posted my completed goldless #kintsugi repairs here yet.
In the foreground is one of my own bowls, the primary piece I'd wanted to repair. You can see some of my practice pieces in the background.
Traditional lacquerware work is slow and difficult. (Well, it was for me anyway.) The sanding was the worst part. I probably won't do this again for a long time. Certainly not until I wind up breaking one of my other favorites.
In her book, "Eichmann in Jerusalem," Hannah Arendt notes that Adolf Eichmann had no particular hatred of Jewish people, nor of Freemasons (he even nearly joined the Freemasons before getting invited, via personal connection, into the National Socialist Party). He did what he did out of a desire to advance in his career, and he (like other Nazis) told himself that, if he did not do these things, others would anyway.
This is the banality of evil.
I feel like "the banality of evil" gets glossed over as "evil people seem normal" sometimes. I think the more immediately relevant bit for most people is that evil does not require feeling any particular sort of animosity; it only requires compartmentalizing such that one pursues one's own interests without due consideration for the impacts of those choices. It's no more or less than a lack of self-reflection and empathy.
Like, the whole right wing Christian industry is built around this. Maybe that's why Anita Sarkeesian terrified them so much.
I was raised to look at media first and foremost in terms of cultural impact and intended and unintended cultural messages. Maybe that's why the backlash against Anita Sarkeesian's work was so surprising to me, and why it seemed so hypocritical.
When I read UNIX-HATERS a few years ago, it unexpectedly helped me fill a gap in regular expression history.
In its chapter on Usenet, they complain about Larry Wall's rn newsreader. It introduced killfiles, which filter emails using regular expressions.
Well, I had incidentally just been researching historical regular expression engines and trying to trace back the development of regular expressions in Perl 1.0. Since Larry Wall created both, it seemed likely that rn influenced Perl. It turned out that Perl adapted the engine from rn and ultimately from James Gosling's Emacs. Since Perl removed attribution comments, I don't think this had been established before.
When I revisit that project, I'll need to update it for what I learned from chatting with James Gosling at SIGGRAPH.
https://github.com/thaliaarchi/regexp-museum/blob/main/viewers/rn.md
Understand that the bar for considering something a "high control group," or "cult," is way, way lower than what Torres has described here.
You don't need believers sending apostates death threats to clear that bar.
https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-altruism-is-a-dangerous
At least I can rest easy knowing @OpenBSDAms won't be giving money to fascists.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@classwario/117226142331558751
Yep! This is exactly why people who believe in a "just world" tend to be insufferable assholes, while at the same time reaping significant psychological benefits. This is why all the "law of attraction" bullshitters are basically just crunchy proto-fascists.
6. It should be repairable by a person of ordinary intelligence, provided that he or she has the necessary tools.
7. It should be purchasable and repairable as near to home as possible.
8. It should come from a small, privately owned shop or store that will take it back for maintenance and repair.
9. It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists, and this includes family and community relationships."
- Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
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