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United Empire Loyalist, computer person, learning to appreciate art & philosophy
GitHub: NattyNarwhal
Web presence: soon
XMPP: calvin@snacki.ca
you haven't seen trailer park boys until you've seen it in the original chiac
since people are talking about it, here's PocketToot, a Mastodon API client (tested with 2.3.3, Pleroma untested but likely compatible) for Windows Mobile 5 in the Pocket PC form factor. (2003/Smartphone unsupported; see README)
ok people who use XMPP; XMPP server has been fixed (and it kept me up a while trying to help fix it)
go bug calvin@snacki.ca - prosody on an ARM powered server! (the server will prob go down briefly a few times as it acquires more XEP)
Interested in lobste.rs? I'm willing to give out invites if you reply with your blog, VCS repos, cool projects you've made, thoughts relevant to the site's scope, etc.
still using cursive here
it's not a mac without copious abuse of ResEdit
irc logs are an extension of the brain's memory archiving systen
tired: regular bovine, existent location
wired: hell bovine, non-existent location
protip: if you want to make something with a UI, don't make your UI so inscrutable people just give up instead
@djsundog late 80s mike oldfield sure is a trip
fixing libtool made my builds go from just over 7 hours if I ran the full test suite down to just under 2 hours
running make on a slow build took longer than *the entire build* after fixing libtool
fucking GNU...
hot take giveth, and hot take.... taketh away?
Happy Canada Day! 
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oh no, it turns out that having friends is bad for your sleep schedule
it's easy to forget how awful things are when you're immersed in them; and a close friend who's an outsider to it reminds you of the reality of the situation
this has currently happened to "playing games on computers"
Please boost for visibility.
#art #mastoart #pencils #artmaterials
just witnessed a 22-year-old not knowing how to close an envelope. they didn't believe the person that told them to lick it. to be fair, it *does* sound ridiculous.
television is reality, and reality is less than television (mild videodrome spoilers)
I have to keep folding it over like this... https://youtu.be/BHGJEdjCoeU
lisp programmers: i HAVE the cdr
@saper $SHELL
tl;dr: libtool wants to be invoked with bash.... autotools is invoking it with /bin/sh because that's what it thinks $SHELL should be, and propagates it through from makefiles generated to a patched libtool in the artifact dir
..../bin/sh on this system is original bourne, so libtool goes through an obscenely long preflight function sanity check EVERY INVOCATION
and it won't let me change it with env vars, and I don't know where it got this idea