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curtmack , vor 5 Tagen

@foone I've mentioned in the past that a keyboard with macros programmable in BASIC (via built-in character display) would be pretty great.

curtmack , vor 10 Tagen

@foone Off the top of my head:

• Alphanumeric Display: fires when you write "BANG" to the display
• Braille Display Device: fires when you send ⠃⠁⠝⠛ to the display
• Magic Carpet Simulation Device: cursed in its own right, no further elaboration is required
• Firmware Transfer Device: send it a text file and it fires in morse code
• Watchdog Timer: fires if the Watchdog Timeout expires without timely intervention from software

curtmack , vor 14 Tagen

@foone My interpretation is that A) tattooing does not qualify as "Linking" under the GPL's definition, and B) even if it did, the person's body would qualify under the System Library exception. As such, there wouldn't be an issue, provided the tattoo artist gave the recipient a copy of the GPL and the Corresponding Source for the artwork (or a written offer to receive the Corresponding Source through some other means, for free or for a fee no greater than their cost to perform this service).

curtmack , vor 22 Tagen

@TechConnectify An interesting case study in user experience and error design: if a Linux computer interacts with a real, legacy line printer - which is still possible, because of course it is - it might sometimes display the error message "lp0 on fire." This message was originally written for Linux in 1992 (but still exists today - again, of course it does), but dates back to very early versions of Unix in the 1950s.

curtmack , vor 22 Tagen

@foone "Mechanical limit to cooling" sounds like quitter talk to me. Personally I think we'd have solved this whole "thermodynamics" mess by now if those lily-livers in the physic department had a shred of hustle.

curtmack , vor einem Monat

@foone I just did a CTF where "solve a maze" was a problem, as a matter of fact. (The real challenge was extracting the maze from a binary, but you did have to solve the maze afterward.)
https://github.com/hackthebox/business-ctf-2024/tree/main/reversing/%5BMedium%5D%20TunnelMadness

curtmack , vor einem Monat

@foone That's... not all that difficult to do.

Just wrap GCC in a shell script that faithfully copies all of the inputs and outputs to and from the real executable, except that whenever the compiler exits with a non-zero status, it triggers the shock collar.

curtmack , vor einem Monat

@foone https://xkcd.com/605

curtmack , vor einem Monat

@mahryekuh @foone "What are you gonna do, smite me?" - quote from transfem smited

curtmack , vor einem Monat

@foone @mahryekuh now I want an RTS where you're a god commanding an army of popes to kill each other. With smiting as a limited-use power, of course.

curtmack , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Back in 2016, I was writing a lot of Haskell for personal projects, and I had a dream that the Democratic primary debates were going to be held in Haskell. I was consulting for the Clinton campaign trying to figure out the type of her apology for the BP oil spill.

curtmack , vor 2 Monaten

@TechConnectify I spent a week in Jamaica recently, and it's honestly terrifying how they drive. You have tiny cars on tiny roads full of monster potholes; people are walking in the street because there are no sidewalks in some places; people will pass at any time, while they turn, with pedestrians nearby, whenever; and nobody gives any space to anybody, whether they're in cars, on motorcycles, or pedestrians. (1/2)