This evening, Saturn will show up right next to a crescent moon:

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Let’s see if I can catch that in a photo.

@eapl.me@eapl.me

Let’s work towards the future we want, not against the future we don’t want.

That would be nice.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. 😅

The good thing is, I wouldn’t have to write an Ethernet driver, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol is a thing, but TCP/IP? Not sure if I want to do that. 😂 I could, of course, come up with my own thing …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww. 😍 Reminds me a bit of a gentoo penguin. 😅

It needs to be said: Retrocomputing and old systems like DOS or OS/2 are fun and all, but a UNIX shell and its userland tools are the most powerful things I’ve ever seen. You can pry that from my cold dead hands. 😅

There’s also this:

; 1**3 + 2**3 + 3**3 + 4**3 + 5**3 + 6**3 + 7**3 + 8**3 + 9**3
        2025

😅

Well, there you go, didn’t take long, a Git repo:

• https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-01-03/1/POSTING-en.html
  
• https://uninformativ.de/git/los86

@prologic@twtxt.net Are those just access logs? 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Huh. I don’t really know how Cloudflare works, never used it. I assumed that the main use case is something along the lines of Anycast (they pick a proxy/cache close to the client). Do I understand correctly that you mainly used it for TLS termination? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org No idea and I don’t have that in my logs. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net There are still people who prefer it over Git. I mean, OpenBSD even still uses CVS. I don’t understand why, but they say it works fine for them … 🤷

@prologic@twtxt.net Yep, I saw this a few days ago. 😃 Haven’t had a closer look yet. But before I wrote my own editor, I considered porting SVED. 😃 (Couldn’t do it, because they use features that my kernel doesn’t have.)

But why, oh why, would people still use SVN these days. 🥴😅

This looks like something @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org might enjoy building: https://imgur.com/gallery/balancing-fisherman-tutorial-YNnsTh1

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I think I already posted this last year, but this is how NYE sounds like for me:

https://movq.de/v/c0084b64f9/MVI_8118.ogg

I live in a tower building and there are no objects (like trees or other buildings) to “dampen” the sound. All the explosions sound massive, extra loud, and very uncomfortable. Also notice that there’s no music or people cheering. Just explosions. I haven’t lived through a war in our country (yet), but I guess it’ll sound something like this. 🫤

2024 was okay for me, but 2025 is gonna be real shit. 😂 So much annoying stuff coming up. Gotta enjoy the moment, who knows how long it will last. 😅

Happy new year, you guys. 🥳

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, it’s all written from scratch, but most of it is written in C (not Assembler) and having a C standard library available helps a lot. It’s not that different from writing a program for DOS, just the syscalls are different. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Scrolling the viewport was the most annoying part. 🥴 The code also assumes that it is running on a “fast” PC. There are no “elaborate” data structures like a gap buffer. (But it does use dynamic arrays, which Wikipedia lists as a special case of a gap buffer. 🤔)

To display text on the screen, the editor writes directly to video memory (https://wiki.osdev.org/Printing_To_Screen). This is a blessing and much easier than fiddling with escape sequences. I wish you could do something like that on a Linux terminal.

@prologic@twtxt.net Happy new year! 😃

Okay, this is pretty cool. My 8086 toy OS running on my old Pentium from an actual floppy disk. 😍 I just love that sound and the feeling of using floppies. This brings back so many memories from my early DOS days.

The cp-unopt program copies a file and intentionally uses small unaligned reads/writes (hopefully triggers more bugs).

The I/O cache works “okay-ish”, I guess. When sha1 runs, it has to do a few reads for the first file and basically none for the second one. Both could have been served entirely from the cache, theoretically. (But even just having an I/O cache in the first place speeds up things dramatically.)

Notice how there’s an EA file. That’s a left-over from OS/2, because I copied some files to the floppy using OS/2. In other words, my FAT12 implementation survives OS/2 writing to it. 🥳 (But I guess it should show up as EA DATA.SF. My current code starts at the left and stops at the first space.)

https://movq.de/v/d4d50d3c74/los86-on-p133-from-floppy-small2.mp4

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Luckily, it’s illegal to sell fireworks other than after the last three days in the year.

Interesting, didn’t know that. According to the following link, it’s even illegal to use it other than 31./1.: https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/wann-wird-feuerwerk-zur-straftat-alles-was-sie-fuer-silvester-wissen-muessen-235257.html

Nobody knows that, apparently. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Certainly the last thing for this year. 😅 (How is this possible? Christmas already over and tomorrow is 2025? Time flies. 😩)