Day 405 of my 3 day war. I invaded Ukraine to move NATO further away from Russia but ended up with Finland joining it & doubling my border with the alliance. I remain a master strategist.

linux virtual memory fun fact of the day: after a fork+exec to run a subshell, a parent process will page fault on every first write to every single writable page in its address space

Some good summaries in here of "why do we need libc when we've got syscalls"? Though for the majority today I suppose it still doesn't matter because the percentage of Solaris/FreeBSD/whatnot *servers* is so low. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354909…

Please don't just say 'Hello' in the chat. nohello.com

New blog post (in over a year!) Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam In where I refuse to accept that a webcam that I remember from my childhood won't work anymore for Google Meet, and write a userspace USB driver to bring it back from the obsolete dead: blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/quickcam-…

Microsoft Teams is a hot steaming pile of garbage💩. I don't know how anyone can recommend this with a straight face.

I actually use WSL2 😂

Feeling pretty lucky to have lived during the open internet golden age.. see you later guys. it was fun

BUYOUT NEWS: The beleaguered and heavily indebted social network formerly known as "Twitter" is acquired by the X Org Foundation, a 501(c)3 scientific charity "Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland," said a spokesdroid

TIL Arch Linux not only doesn't support ARM.. but it ONLY supports x86-64 🤯

A rendition of what Winamp would look like if it was actual hardware. I can't stop drooling. 🤤

again lets compare programming to magic, which has a distinction between stage magicians and wizards. maybe counter-intuitive but complexity will make you a stage magician. simplicity will make you a wizard.

👀Claude handles an insane request: “Remove the squid” “The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.” “Figure out a way to remove the 🦑​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“