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Kazriko | @kazriko@alcatir.com

The usual. Software developer, former BBS sysop. Atari XE, Dos, OS/2, BeOS, Windows 2000/7 former user, Linux/FreeBSD/Haiku/OpenIndiana current user. The various places I post are listed: https://arkaic.com/

I was able to solve the qcma issue at least, though there's really nowhere to report it to since the libvitamtr repository has been read-only for 4 years. Maybe I should fork it and actually start making it work better...

After years of qcma just working, its now failing with an xml parsing error. I've done a bit of looking with verbose mode and the xml it's parsing looks perfectly fine. I'm guessing there's some stupid change to some xml library that it uses, and now it's extra, extra sensitive to there being a null terminator on the string within range of the length or something...

@LiamOMaraIV Average is dumb, use Median.

@stuff @feld @7666 @sun Amazon's search is also pretty terrible though. If there's any alternative like Newegg in the product category, I try to go there instead of buying on Amazon. It's also absolutely full of people flipping Ali Express, Wish, and Temu garbage.

@union @sun ULA's nothing but an overpriced second source for ISS trips though. Very overpriced.

@barnoid This is why I stopped buying Nvidia(Novideo) cards after switching to linux.

@pro I've since switched to helix instead of vim for most of my editing... but I never really used gvim much except way back when I was still on windows.

@xoxo @polpo I mostly quit when it was just in normal garbage fire mode.

@polpo @xoxo Wasn't it always a garbage fire?

@union @blaaablaaaa @deprecated_ii (Though, I think the Mako is just getting promoted to that because if the Kinzhal qualifies, then the Mako certainly does as well. Prior to that, we wouldn't have considered it hypersonic.)

@developing_agent @PatternChaser @DJDarren I still use a lower end device ($200ish) as my main phone, which means I avoid doing anything unnecessary on my phone. anything beyond the simplest tasks, I'd want to drag out the Steamdeck and hook up to the phone's hotspot.

@union @blaaablaaaa @deprecated_ii Is it terminal hypersonic, or only hypersonic when it's high up? For the former, I don't think even Russia has that yet. For the latter, US has a ton of them already, they're just really big. As for ARRW, I think it was cancelled in favor of the Mako.

@developing_agent @PatternChaser @DJDarren Hard to keep running old devices when the new ones continue getting much faster, and thus the software is being written for devices several times as fast with more memory. Few people test on old hardware so the devs no longer notice if it takes 3-4 seconds to do something there, as long as it's under a second on their shiny new devices.

@etchedpixels @jwildeboer If you think about it like the original structure of the US, 2/3rds of the US government was unelected. The people only elected their representatives, while the Senators were elected by the state legislatures, and the president was elected by the electors that were voted for by the people. The bulk of the EU is currently like the old US Senate, so maybe they just need a house of representatives that the people vote for.

@requiem Smoking, as long as you don't have a proclivity towards doing drastic things in regards to emotions.

@anime Yeah, and that gets expanded on as the series progresses. Though, Maomao knows, she's just not letting it go even though she knows better.

@Cheeseness @Doomed_Daniel With BSD, it's still licensed as BSD, but it can also be licensed as GPL as part of a greater work and modified, or even as a closed source application in a modified form without releasing the changes... The original code is still BSD, but the modified and incorporated code is now covered by whatever license, with the provision that you need to note that it includes this bsd package, and that bsd package, etc.

@Cheeseness @Doomed_Daniel (Though there are some exceptions, like BSD licensing and CC-0. Stuff under those can usually be re-licensed to other licenses.)

@union Degeneracy and Windows...

But I repeat myself.

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