Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's] @ Zvyozdochka @hexbear.net

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Currently sitting in the Tampa Bay area while a category 5+ hurricane comes barreling at me. I'm in flood zone D next to E so I shouldn't have any issues there

Stay safe comrade

Reminds of me of that one lady who thought Hamas was invading London because she saw some paragliders over the beach or something. My memory is fuzzy but it's something along those lines.

Where I'm from I'm wondering why there are so many tractors. We literally have a "drive your tractor to school" day and it's quite hilarious.

Wait until you learn that women in the United States couldn't open a bank account without their husband's permission until the late 1970s or that disabled people in most states can be paid under minimum wage.

The loooooong-distance... dainty dunk!

Your mind rivers on OpenAI datacenters

I know we're not really talking about Git, but since you mentioned a federated GitHub clone of sorts, Radicle is pretty neat and a cool thing to check out!

If it was a nuke test, they definitely wouldn't be doing it that close to the capital and right next to one of the highways connecting rural areas to the capital

I discovered this a week or so ago and completely forgot about it, definitely need to try it out! The theming options look great!

Not even just battle hardened, they basically invented a new kind of warfare. I bet in a few years we'll start seeing drones be used in other conflicts just like how Russia and Ukraine have been using them, flying cheap drones directly into armor and chasing people down.

and drinking entire reservoirs of water for cooling!

75c is not that bad at all, it's well below TJ Max for like 99% of modern chips. This is just another walk in the park for laptop users who are used to seeing like 100c when playing games, lol. I'd definitely prefer my game to not eat up my entire computer for playing a custom radio station, but it's not like it's going to cause nuclear meltdown.

I've also been working on a software rasterizer for 9! Maybe I'll post some screenshots here after I polish it up a bit more, lol. I got inspired after porting Quake 1 (I'm aware a port already exists, but I was bored and wanted to reinvent the wheel as a learning experience) and realizing how well it ran. Like, the Quake software renderer is seriously cool tech, way way ahead of it's time!

My victory plan involves driving my

I wouldn't be too worried about it honestly, I doubt anyone is scanning the internet to mess with public 9 machines. If you're worried, just shove them on their own VLAN to keep them separate from the rest of your network.

You'll definitely not be doing any hardware accelerated graphics shenanigans on 9, there isn't really any graphics drivers or anything of that sort, you just get a basic framebuffer and a library to draw basic 2D graphics which can still be plenty if you do some old school software rasterization.

For hardware support you can see an incomplete list for 9front here: https://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html I'd say you're probably safe to just pick up an old Dell Optiplex and some cheap generic USB peripherals and it'd probably work out of the box. I'd just double check the Ethernet situation so you can have networking since that's kind of the whole appeal of 9. Raspberry Pis are also supported and work fairly well in my testing and 9front provides images for them on their website.

I'm not sure about the Linux world, a quick search reveals https://github.com/ewe2/gopherfs which seems like it'd do the trick.

That screenshot was actually taken running on bare metal (an old laptop)! Everything works great as long as you don't need a modern web browser or WiFi for anything. I've also gotten it running on a bunch of other random hardware I've had laying around, it's very portable and works fairly well on everything I've messed around with so far. I'm also currently waiting for my 10 gig NIC to arrive so I can use an old machine running 9 I have laying around as a router!

Living in a world where everything is connected and computing resources are shared for the betterment of humanity would be so fucking cool.

Right? I'd love to get my hands on an East German Robotron PC 1715, it just looks so good