Nostr notes by Joe Groff

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2026-10-26T15:24:10Z

Ye OLED English Pub

Your private key must meet the following criteria: - At least ...

2026-10-20T23:49:34Z

Your private key must meet the following criteria:
- At least 2048 bits
- At least one prime factor
- At least one NIST SP 800-186 compliant elliptic curve parameter
- At least one capital letter
- At least one digit

Even with minimal things enabled, NetBSD’s rc script takes a ...

2026-10-07T15:08:54Z

Even with minimal things enabled, NetBSD’s rc script takes a while to finish on a 120MHz ARM9, so I wrote my own rc script that runs in a couple seconds. But it looks like the 30 second delay on shutdown is hardcoded into /sbin/init. So maybe I’ll write my own init too.

There are some things about the kernel that I think could be slightly improved. Maybe I’ll write my own ker

"average clock is only right twice a day" statistical ...

2026-10-02T20:07:39Z

"average clock is only right twice a day" statistical error. Tod Clock, who lives in battery-backed RAM and is synchronized with NTP on every boot and is right 86,400 seconds a day, is an outlier and should not be counted

what are folks' favorite 8x12 pixel fonts with bold and ...

2026-10-01T21:56:27Z

what are folks' favorite 8x12 pixel fonts with bold and normal weight variants?

the year is 1996. i am trying to figure out how to run Motif apps ...

2026-09-29T18:38:57Z

the year is 1996. i am trying to figure out how to run Motif apps on NetBSD

the year is 2026. i am trying to figure out how to run Motif apps on NetBSD

instead of adding “Co-Authored-By:” to all your commit ...

2026-09-27T17:43:43Z

instead of adding “Co-Authored-By:” to all your commit messages, how about extending your author name with “ et AI”

i read an article about syntax highlighting that said ...

2026-09-25T22:50:52Z

i read an article about syntax highlighting that said "don't use bold or italics because they're redundant with color highlighting." but consider,

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2026-09-25T00:14:03Z

we must separate the art from the artist. into the centrifuge you go

the electron runtime is several hundred megabytes. the entirety ...

2026-09-22T20:29:15Z

the electron runtime is several hundred megabytes. the entirety of macintosh system 7.5.5 is about 75MB, and mini vmac is 164KB. if you want to ship a cross-platform native experience, you've got options

👀 the developer of the Haiku Firefox port has been working on ...

2026-09-22T00:32:30Z

👀 the developer of the Haiku Firefox port has been working on a native backend to replace the GTK/Wayland emulation layer! https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/mozilla-officially-gave-us-permission-to-use-the-firefox-name-on-haiku/19582/25

duo? boring. wake me up when your phone can Quattro ...

2026-09-15T22:35:55Z

duo? boring. wake me up when your phone can Quattro

for the time being, it looks like the old trick of "set your ...

2026-09-15T16:48:43Z

for the time being, it looks like the old trick of "set your Siri language different from your UI language" still keeps the LLMs at bay in iOS 27

people abandon social media and online services because of all ...

2026-09-12T04:13:37Z

people abandon social media and online services because of all the slop and surveillance, until the only people left online are old nerds shitposting about their retro computers. dad Internet theory

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2026-09-11T18:10:42Z

don't worry, our surveillance network is LGBT friendly—LG ...

2026-09-08T21:06:45Z

don't worry, our surveillance network is LGBT friendly—LG televisions, Bluetooth scanners

v impressive that they can fit 975 cylinders and 64 heads inside ...

2026-09-06T01:57:15Z

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v impressive that they can fit 975 cylinders and 64 heads inside that SD card form factor

long weekend baby. time to fix the ssp driver so it can actually ...

2026-09-06T01:19:48Z

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long weekend baby. time to fix the ssp driver so it can actually find an SD card in the slot

starting my device driver source files with `/* NEW DRIVER PLEASE ...

2026-09-01T22:19:18Z

starting my device driver source files with `/* NEW DRIVER PLEASE BE PATIENT */`

now i can get a netbsd kernel to boot ...

2026-09-01T03:51:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…ghrx
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now i can get a netbsd kernel to boot

here's the uboot source (GPLv2) ...

2026-08-31T15:47:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…yu3t
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here's the uboot source (GPLv2) https://github.com/digdog/DM30_uboot

and the font i borrowed

hacked up a quick console driver ...

2026-08-31T03:49:15Z

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hacked up a quick console driver

there’s a source dump of the Pomera DM30’s u-boot fork, which ...

2026-08-30T20:50:49Z

there’s a source dump of the Pomera DM30’s u-boot fork, which gave me enough breadcrumbs to hack it and flash some custom code

sorry, but we’re out of today’s soup de jure. but you’re ...

2026-08-29T23:24:26Z

sorry, but we’re out of today’s soup de jure. but you’re welcome to try our soup de facto

improving the performance of overflow-checked integer arithmetic, ...

2026-08-24T17:08:36Z

improving the performance of overflow-checked integer arithmetic, by transforming it into floating-point arithmetic so you can use the FPU's sticky trap bits

"K&R C" is just LSD with all of the letters ...

2026-08-21T23:10:35Z

"K&R C" is just LSD with all of the letters decremented by one. makes u think

this program was generated with LLVM assistance "don't ...

2026-08-10T18:28:46Z

this program was generated with LLVM assistance
"don't you mean LLM assistance?"
no, i mean i implemented a few examples and left the rest as UB for the compiler to figure out https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/hd5Mhdhev

on the eve of beta6, got my things moved in from the old haiku ...

2026-08-08T16:09:48Z

on the eve of beta6, got my things moved in from the old haiku thinkpad to the new haiku thinkpad

the hardest part of computer science is naming things. but I ...

2026-08-08T14:16:14Z

the hardest part of computer science is naming things. but I think the folks who came up with PCI, ACPI, and APIC in rapid succession could have tried a little harder

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2026-08-07T15:55:27Z

Dog escapes containment, hacks neighbor's yard

AI companies: let's buy up all the old discarded books so we ...

2026-08-06T02:41:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…g8y9
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AI companies: let's buy up all the old discarded books so we can tear them apart for training data
AI models: suddenly very interested in writing Perl, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Objective-C

must be all those new desktop Linux users clamoring for GNUstep ...

2026-08-06T02:06:59Z

must be all those new desktop Linux users clamoring for GNUstep apps
https://mstdn.social/@mike_k/117046055789003181

not all applications of machine learning techniques are bad. here ...

2026-07-29T19:29:21Z

not all applications of machine learning techniques are bad. here at google, we’re working nonstop to fix that
https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117004052393948286

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2026-07-29T02:31:13Z

if beef wellington, then why not also beef auckland

oops, i burned the library down. but it’s ok because i already ...

2026-07-25T22:04:18Z

oops, i burned the library down. but it’s ok because i already read all the books anyway. just ask me and for a small fee i'll tell you what they used to say

this is on a ThinkPad X1 Nano 1st gen

2026-07-10T02:42:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…gzkv
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this is on a ThinkPad X1 Nano 1st gen

when you violate the GPL and steal a gtk app’s source code, ...

2026-07-07T17:25:42Z

when you violate the GPL and steal a gtk app’s source code, that’s stolen vala

how bad is the memory crisis? shady guy outside micro center was ...

2026-07-01T21:57:30Z

how bad is the memory crisis? shady guy outside micro center was trying to sell me this for a thousand bucks

time for some vi be coding ...

2026-07-01T00:05:31Z

time for some vi be coding

was disassembling some binaries the other day, and does anyone ...

2026-06-22T19:19:33Z

was disassembling some binaries the other day, and does anyone know what the CFENCE instruction does? it doesn't seem to do anything but the program breaks if i remove it

that’s not what your ai girlfriend said when I was at her data ...

2026-06-17T00:12:39Z

that’s not what your ai girlfriend said when I was at her data center last night

maybe iOS can serve as a real computer yet. @npub1rer…v0z8 ...

2026-06-09T20:58:12Z

maybe iOS can serve as a real computer yet. adam le doux (npub1rer…v0z8) managed to write, build, and run a GBA game entirely on-phone using iSH, textastic, and the delta emulator https://blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-06-08-programming-a-gba-game-on-an-iphone.html

making sure my codebase is properly agentic ...

2026-05-26T20:10:41Z

making sure my codebase is properly agentic

when people argue for consistency in computer environments as an ...

2026-05-24T02:00:08Z

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when people argue for consistency in computer environments as an absolute, i sometimes think of jane jacobs and her argument that urban environments are best when they're layers of old and new buildings mixed together. we have enough generations of software now that it'd be interesting to take that attitude to our computer environments. and there's a lot of old software that could still be useful if it were still readily accessible

a fun evolution of the virtual OS museum ...

2026-05-24T01:55:35Z

a fun evolution of the virtual OS museum (https://www.virtualosmuseum.org/) idea would be to set it up so you can run software from any of the emulated platforms "rootless" like a native app window in your modern desktop OS

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2026-05-23T01:02:24Z

they should make a new pirate bay and call it the Torrent Nexus

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2026-05-22T17:09:58Z

.DS_Nutz

the way all of these successor languages blow complexity on ...

2026-05-22T16:26:50Z

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the way all of these successor languages blow complexity on metaprogramming features trying to get back to dynamic language expressivity, i wonder if the "systems language" should just be an EDSL you piece bits of together inside of a real programming language. what if C but the preprocessor is your smalltalk environment

We welcome your feedback on our Torment Nexus policy. To keep ...

2026-05-15T16:00:08Z

We welcome your feedback on our Torment Nexus policy. To keep discussion productive, we ask that you refrain from the following topics:

- The book, _Don't Build the Torment Nexus_
- The literary use of the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

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2026-05-14T13:46:12Z

realloc(3) — return the real location of an object in memory

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2026-05-10T02:01:57Z

ld, the C postprocessor

my “this is not a golden calf” sermon is raising a lot of ...

2026-05-09T14:37:15Z

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my “this is not a golden calf” sermon is raising a lot of questions that should be answered by the sermon

for that special someone in your life who loves Lisp and Luxury ...

2026-04-20T17:03:21Z

for that special someone in your life who loves Lisp *and* Luxury

computers only produce graphics under distress. that’s why they ...

2026-04-09T21:05:58Z

computers only produce graphics under distress. that’s why they fly the coordinate system upside down, with Y pointing downwards

that sound you hear is every Windows platform engineer pasting ...

2026-03-23T15:32:35Z

that sound you hear is every Windows platform engineer pasting the "Our commitment to Windows quality" post into their AGENTS.md

actually my coding assistant is certified to give medical ...

2026-03-17T22:15:44Z

actually my coding assistant *is* certified to give medical advice. that's why it's called AGENTS.*md*

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2026-03-15T17:23:41Z

__attribute__((inline(tuesdays)))

them: you're going to be left behind me: writing 80386 ...

2026-03-10T16:04:27Z

them: you're going to be left behind
me: writing 80386 assembly for a 1989 japanese PC, on a 2011 macbook air

Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, ...

2026-03-09T15:33:47Z

Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”

set him free ...

2026-03-08T17:25:29Z

set him free

she’s more couch now than dog ...

2026-03-01T05:45:46Z

she’s more couch now than dog

stupid software person question about hardware things. for SoC ...

2026-02-27T22:03:38Z

stupid software person question about hardware things. for SoC designers who these days tend to put the RAM on-die with the CPU/GPU cores anyway, "why don't they just" etch a bunch of DRAM cells into the die alongside the rest of the package instead of competing with A. I. datacenters to buy premade DRAM

as a fan of e-ink, folding keyboards, and obscure gadgets, i ...

2026-01-29T15:45:26Z

as a fan of e-ink, folding keyboards, and obscure gadgets, i can't believe the Pomera DM-30 exists and combines all three

i was rubbernecking a long thread about how linux and other ...

2026-01-28T03:17:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…f4zc
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i was rubbernecking a long thread about how linux and other unixlikes fail to provide a real consistent platform to target toward, and it got me thinking, what would the PICO-8 of server platforms look like?

any "serious" attempt to provide a standard Unixlike environment is likely to end up as messy and complex as the raw platforms (and would only add more noise over existing projects trying to do so). but a "toy" environment with interesting limitations could be interesting

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2026-01-28T00:08:29Z

the fantasy console for server backends — Docker

Ćań śómeóńę hełp. I aććidęńtałły usęd thę Appłę ...

2026-01-26T20:24:41Z

Ćań śómeóńę hełp. I aććidęńtałły usęd thę Appłę Półiśhińg Ćłóth óń my kęybóard ańd ńów it wóń't stóp typińg łikę thiś

maybe try searching for bits of what it generated using github ...

2026-01-14T19:53:31Z

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maybe try searching for bits of what it generated using github code search. this sounds like the sort of thing where there would be relatively few original projects to predict from

guess who has four paws and turned 14 today 🎂 ...

2026-01-06T05:50:28Z

guess who has four paws and turned 14 today 🎂

SHR - shift right SHW - shift wrong

2025-12-10T21:12:22Z

SHR - shift right
SHW - shift wrong

“Award Modular BIOS” suggests that there is also a Penalty ...

2025-12-07T02:51:13Z

“Award Modular BIOS” suggests that there is also a Penalty Monolithic BIOS

Star Wars planet where the contract workers who remote-control ...

2025-12-05T14:33:38Z

Star Wars planet where the contract workers who remote-control all of the droids in the galaxy live

in order to cope with today's DRAM pricing crisis, i propose ...

2025-12-04T19:53:18Z

in order to cope with today's DRAM pricing crisis, i propose we look to the solutions of the past

all these new generation copy-on-write filesystems, and yet no ...

2025-12-01T18:39:24Z

all these new generation copy-on-write filesystems, and yet no one has been brave enough to name theirs simply "cowfs". then they could call the package containing its mkfs, fsck, etc. "cowtools"

well if double-u is so great, how come there's no ...

2025-11-21T17:47:58Z

well if double-u is so great, how come there's no double-doubl—

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2025-11-08T22:25:20Z

your computers so old, its clock speed is measured in backhertz

Have you tried self-hosting? It's on Docker. It's ...

2025-09-20T20:44:14Z

Have you tried self-hosting? It's on Docker. It's literally on Yunohost. It's on Cloudron with ads. You can probably host it on PikaPods. Dude it's on Elestia. It's a Zeabur original. It's on ClawCloud. You can run it on ClawCloud. You can go to ClawCloud and run it. Log onto ClawCloud right now

what does it say that when i hear that "Fooble is forked from ...

2025-09-02T17:48:29Z

what does it say that when i hear that "Fooble is forked from Barble" these days, my first question is "which one's the nazi one"

Our new design language features crisp right angles, giving the ...

2025-08-29T19:48:22Z

Our new design language features crisp right angles, giving the feeling of precision while allowing your content to reach all the way into the corners of our trademark Rectangular displays. Solid colors clearly delineate controls, furthering that feeling of precision while allowing your content to stand out, all while providing ready access to the controls you need. We call it Solid Metal

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2025-08-13T20:59:35Z

nice https://reviews.freebsd.org/differential/changeset/?ref=1420532

save memory in your C++ program with this tip! instead of ...

2025-07-11T22:24:04Z

save memory in your C++ program with this tip! instead of allocating objects on the heap with `new`, recycle existing objects with the `old` operator

alright, which one of you jokers installed macOS Tahoe on my G4 ...

2025-07-07T22:18:21Z

alright, which one of you jokers installed macOS Tahoe on my G4 cube

“printf debugging” implies that there is also “scanf ...

2025-06-30T22:14:52Z

“printf debugging” implies that there is also “scanf embugging”

gcc -O0 country.c -o slovenia gcc -O3 country.c -o fastvenia

2025-05-16T15:19:14Z

gcc -O0 country.c -o slovenia
gcc -O3 country.c -o fastvenia

Greenspan’s tenth rule, “Any sufficiently complicated C or ...

2025-05-11T16:44:47Z

Greenspan’s tenth rule, “Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp”, would later be adapted into a popular song, “Boulevard of Broken Schemes”

Our family has been in the tech support trade for generations. ...

2025-05-04T15:44:15Z

Our family has been in the tech support trade for generations. That’s where our last name Offanonaghan comes from

sometimes the ad stops loading at the perfect spot ...

2025-04-08T04:16:42Z

sometimes the ad stops loading at the perfect spot

“I get no respect” —Rodney Dangerfield “I get no respect ...

2025-04-06T19:26:28Z

“I get no respect” —Rodney Dangerfield
“I get no respect or division operator” —Rodney Dangerring
“I get no respect, division, or multiplication” —Rodney Dangergroup

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel” ...

2025-03-30T02:23:31Z

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

nature is incredible ...

2025-03-29T03:55:00Z

nature is incredible

reading the news like ...

2025-03-24T00:24:14Z

reading the news like

they tasked me with making apple packaging more appealing ...

2025-03-08T00:24:21Z

they tasked me with making apple packaging more appealing internationally given the current environment. this is just a rough draft but i think it'll do the job

qt does at least somewhat try to follow the platform conventions, ...

2025-03-03T00:38:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…sslq
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qt does at least somewhat try to follow the platform conventions, so qt apps on Haiku get the benefit of its better Mac-style keyboard shortcut policy (Alt is for command shortcuts, Ctrl is for terminal control codes)

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2025-03-01T19:45:08Z

to write japanese in disappearing ink, use here-and-gone-a

First, a land acknowledgment—this large language model is built ...

2025-02-22T18:52:33Z

First, a land acknowledgment—this large language model is built on stolen content. Now let’s delve in—

“Canadiano” is a good bit but if i were canadian, then ...

2025-02-16T03:39:06Z

“Canadiano” is a good bit but if i were canadian, then “espresso diluted with water” is something i would let the US take the blame for

still can’t believe they called the low level virtual machine ...

2025-02-08T19:00:38Z

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still can’t believe they called the low level virtual machine WASM and the weird assembler LLVM

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2025-01-29T17:14:30Z

[drops vape] lisp is just AT&T syntax for forth

Lenovo machines seem to generally work decently as haiku ...

2025-01-27T03:43:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…8t8w
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Lenovo machines seem to generally work decently as haiku machines…

kids these days would rather buy a switch 2 than “switch 2” ...

2025-01-16T15:11:35Z

kids these days would rather buy a switch 2 than “switch 2” linux

got it done a week late, but i got through my holiday break ...

2025-01-11T05:01:01Z

got it done a week late, but i got through my holiday break project: translating part I of the FM TOWNS Technical Databook to english https://gist.github.com/jckarter/de5e9fd383d69556fb10b93564628a83