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you haven't seen trailer park boys until you've seen it in the original chiac

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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)

github.com/NattyNarwhal/Pocket

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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)

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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.

lobste.rs/

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"

Question for my artists: I really like sketching when trying to do art, and I prefer physical paper. If I colour, I like coloured pencils. What are some good sketchbooks and pencils (and maybe pens if I feel like inking) for clean, lasting work?

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)

youtu.be/xfUX9W5TJIQ

oh hey, I figured it out in the end

big thanks for @saper for figuring it out and @Elizafox for advice hints on trying to profile GCC performance (even if it wasn't what was needed in the end)

@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

...and I can't try my theorized fix because autotools/configure REFUSES to listen to the env var I pass it

my opinion of GNU is in the basement and can only get lower

hahahaha, I think I found out my build system slowness

it wasn't iops, but libtool stupidity

I consider it unfair that my parents' cat repeatedly uses my stomach as a pillow but I can't do the same to her

COMPLEMENTARY GAME HOT TAKES TO LAST BOOST:

* id never made a good game after Doom 2

* once Unreal and other engines came on board, Carmack as some singular programming übermensch is overrated (he's certainly great though)

* id tech is overrated; id tech 5 turned everything it touched into a technical dumpster fire (at least they used to liberate the sources though)

I still say unreal tournament is way better than quake

/me adds "CMake jockey" to list of skills

like button: the considerate conversation terminator

ok I found out again that no one is on fedi on Friday nights 🤔

really wish I could ^F, but for text inside of images on a page