Peter H. Fröhlich
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I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️
I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes.
I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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53m ago
@kalivene Yep, läuft alles "nach Plan" bei denen. Fascho Plan direkt von den überreichen Industrie Faschos, aber auf jeden Fall ein Plan und kein Zufall. Sie könnten natürlich alle AUCH NOCH dumm sein und GLAUBEN was sie so von sich geben laut Plan. Aber das ist in der Konsequenz für den Rest von uns ziemlich egal.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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1d ago
It's funny when "subject X" comes up and you point out that "doing X" supports fascism and everybody turns to you and says, in unison, "You cannot be serious. How could doing X support fascism. Everybody does it. We do it. So according to you we are all fascists. You cannot be serious. You cannot be. You cannot be. You cannot be. We will not let you. You must leave. Leave. Leave. Leave now." and then everybody turns away again to discuss how they need to do "more X" because obviously some poor idiots still don't get it. #LongSentenceIsLong
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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1d ago
If you were a nice person before and are now also an "AI" booster, then you're probably still a nice person, mostly, but sadly you're also an "AI" booster. So get out of my timeline and boost your "AI" drivel somewhere else. Thanks. #noai #vaguetoot
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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2d ago
Tired: "...können wir uns so nicht mehr leisten..."
Wired: "...verkauft den Sozialstaat an den meist-bietenden..."
Inspired: #Merz #entkanzlern
Wired: "...verkauft den Sozialstaat an den meist-bietenden..."
Inspired: #Merz #entkanzlern
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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2d ago
@majorlinux I didn't say it's not necessary. But it's also silly to not consider it explicitly.
Repression is always proportional to how desperate the ruling classes are. So the global increase in repression very clearly indicates that they're already getting desperate. It won't take much to increase to ICE-style levels and worse in most places.
(And BTW the "give everything" propaganda needs to go somewhere else. You and every thinking being knows very well that a decent laptop, say, is worth having quite apart from whether you'd actually give your life for it.)
Repression is always proportional to how desperate the ruling classes are. So the global increase in repression very clearly indicates that they're already getting desperate. It won't take much to increase to ICE-style levels and worse in most places.
(And BTW the "give everything" propaganda needs to go somewhere else. You and every thinking being knows very well that a decent laptop, say, is worth having quite apart from whether you'd actually give your life for it.)
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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2d ago
@majorlinux "attack the very top"
Historically that also almost always involves a huge blood bath. Usually mostly on the side of the revolution. So there's that.
Historically that also almost always involves a huge blood bath. Usually mostly on the side of the revolution. So there's that.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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3d ago
Oh hey, the
"Did you know that Germans are genetically superior? Who are you calling a Nazi? It's just a fact and 'science' says so my dear Untermensch!"
videos have started to appear on the youtubes. I guess this fucking country is poised to (once again) rule Europe for a thousand years? 🤮
Wow I hate all these Nazi fucknuts out there. 🖕 👊
#fcknzs #germany #fckafd
"Did you know that Germans are genetically superior? Who are you calling a Nazi? It's just a fact and 'science' says so my dear Untermensch!"
videos have started to appear on the youtubes. I guess this fucking country is poised to (once again) rule Europe for a thousand years? 🤮
Wow I hate all these Nazi fucknuts out there. 🖕 👊
#fcknzs #germany #fckafd
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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4d ago
@IngridAusOL Noch schlimmer: Leider geht da alles nach Plan. 😡 @Sustainable2050
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 16, 2026
@ron Unlike in Germany it's not as easy for the rich fuckers to hide exactly how rich they are and what they own. You can look up who a building belongs to and what it is worth just like that, no complicated inquiry at some weird counter deeply hidden in the basement of the Rathaus.
And if some dude owns buildings/apartments/whatever in 50 cities across the US, it's pretty easy to figure out that he doesn't live in at least 49 of those permanently. Also everybody will have some address on file for drivers license or voter registration or social security or whatnot. They don't all have to be the same, but I don't think there's enough to use up 50 addresses with "but I am doing X here so cut me some slack on my taxes".
The US is pretty darn terrible BUT there are a few "points of light" in it. This might be one?
What's really messing me up is what will happen if this example works and he doesn't get killed in some mysterious accident soon. Will more mayors suddenly grow a spine and pass things to tax billionaires who own stuff in their town? Imagine the possibilities!
And if some dude owns buildings/apartments/whatever in 50 cities across the US, it's pretty easy to figure out that he doesn't live in at least 49 of those permanently. Also everybody will have some address on file for drivers license or voter registration or social security or whatnot. They don't all have to be the same, but I don't think there's enough to use up 50 addresses with "but I am doing X here so cut me some slack on my taxes".
The US is pretty darn terrible BUT there are a few "points of light" in it. This might be one?
What's really messing me up is what will happen if this example works and he doesn't get killed in some mysterious accident soon. Will more mayors suddenly grow a spine and pass things to tax billionaires who own stuff in their town? Imagine the possibilities!
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 10, 2026
I keep seeing people post this thing like it's an important statement. So I read it...
And it's an entertaining read until you realize that the author himself is an "AI guru" and all he ever says in this piece is "you're doing it wrong" but never "the technology is wrong".
So yes, he characterizes the terrible consequences idiot "AI" decision-making by idiot CEOs has for companies. But he never expresses an iota of concern for the rights of people to their work or for the planet as a whole.
So he can fuck right off.
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
And it's an entertaining read until you realize that the author himself is an "AI guru" and all he ever says in this piece is "you're doing it wrong" but never "the technology is wrong".
So yes, he characterizes the terrible consequences idiot "AI" decision-making by idiot CEOs has for companies. But he never expresses an iota of concern for the rights of people to their work or for the planet as a whole.
So he can fuck right off.
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 10, 2026
"For those unfamiliar, a platform ... is a statement of values that a political party stands for, generally agreed upon by people who stand for election as representatives of the party."
Sorry anonymous person who is super-excited for your new platform, that's not ENTIRELY correct.
More accurately a platform is a STATEMENT of values that NOBODY who gets ELECTED into POSITIONS OF POWER is bound by. And the PARTY will not enforce those values either because it is so very happy to finally BE IN POWER that it doesn't matter anymore. The BASE might still care but it is ALSO POWERLESS to enforce anything. Indeed, after the election, the party MACHINERY will become very busy EXPLAINING AWAY the platform to its own base and EMPHASIZING THE NEED FOR COMPROMISE in a so-called FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY.
In other words, while it may be a lot of work to write a cool new platform, and while it may be a big personal achievement to have been part of it, there's also a 99.993% chance that policies of elected party members will NOT align with it except by accident and in areas where business and industry have no great interest.
(So MAYBE you'll get the new youth club in some economically depressed town. But you certainly WON'T get those additional taxes on air traffic. Just as a fictitious example.)
Sorry anonymous person who is super-excited for your new platform, that's not ENTIRELY correct.
More accurately a platform is a STATEMENT of values that NOBODY who gets ELECTED into POSITIONS OF POWER is bound by. And the PARTY will not enforce those values either because it is so very happy to finally BE IN POWER that it doesn't matter anymore. The BASE might still care but it is ALSO POWERLESS to enforce anything. Indeed, after the election, the party MACHINERY will become very busy EXPLAINING AWAY the platform to its own base and EMPHASIZING THE NEED FOR COMPROMISE in a so-called FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY.
In other words, while it may be a lot of work to write a cool new platform, and while it may be a big personal achievement to have been part of it, there's also a 99.993% chance that policies of elected party members will NOT align with it except by accident and in areas where business and industry have no great interest.
(So MAYBE you'll get the new youth club in some economically depressed town. But you certainly WON'T get those additional taxes on air traffic. Just as a fictitious example.)
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 09, 2026
I have found that SOMETIMES that familiar first impression of "This is terrible, how could they?" one gets when looking at someone else's code simply means that the purpose has not become sufficiently clear yet. 🤔
For example, back when I was still teaching, I found that students who grew up on Java could not AT ALL figure out how some C code I gave them could possibly work without a single dynamic memory allocation anywhere. They promptly rewrote much of it to use malloc/free when there was absolutely no need to. 🤷
And this is not just a "students are inexperienced" issue, I've found MYSELF doing similar things in slightly more complicated circumstances before. 😬
Or ... you know ... it could actually just be terrible code. 🤣
For example, back when I was still teaching, I found that students who grew up on Java could not AT ALL figure out how some C code I gave them could possibly work without a single dynamic memory allocation anywhere. They promptly rewrote much of it to use malloc/free when there was absolutely no need to. 🤷
And this is not just a "students are inexperienced" issue, I've found MYSELF doing similar things in slightly more complicated circumstances before. 😬
Or ... you know ... it could actually just be terrible code. 🤣
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 08, 2026
Well, what can I say, I now have a new favorite 13.2 kB of data. Mad props! https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=aLiuF9k3Xt4&t=2778s #revision2026
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 07, 2026
A system I work on regularly has one calloc/free and one mmap/munmap left. Aside from those it's "statically allocated" meaning the entire life of the system takes place in a bunch of arrays of structs.
Yes quite a few structs have brands and pointers to them are branded as well. That's because it's possible for a reference you are holding to become invalid without you doing anything to it. Think "reference to a USB disk" and someone pulls the plug.
There's a duality here that I've been thinking about a lot lately. Anyone looking at memory allocation behavior would think this to be a REALLY boring system in which close to NOTHING ever happens.
Meanwhile it's pulling sensor data, processing queries from higher-level services, coordinating a network of micro controllers some of which come and go dynamically (and are identified dynamically), etc. It feels, in a way, like I built a custom kernel that runs under Linux as a process. Weird.
The concurrency aspects are also ... well you need to get used to it. There are a few threads that do things that could take "too long" for the main event loop. But those threads don't call into the rest of the system. They do their job and hold on to their data. And when it's convenient the event loop goes and picks up that data. That's where we find locks, but only there. I guess in a way it's "message passing" except that the messages are just "get" functions?
(Proudly self-plagiarized from several 2025 posts from my previous account.)
Yes quite a few structs have brands and pointers to them are branded as well. That's because it's possible for a reference you are holding to become invalid without you doing anything to it. Think "reference to a USB disk" and someone pulls the plug.
There's a duality here that I've been thinking about a lot lately. Anyone looking at memory allocation behavior would think this to be a REALLY boring system in which close to NOTHING ever happens.
Meanwhile it's pulling sensor data, processing queries from higher-level services, coordinating a network of micro controllers some of which come and go dynamically (and are identified dynamically), etc. It feels, in a way, like I built a custom kernel that runs under Linux as a process. Weird.
The concurrency aspects are also ... well you need to get used to it. There are a few threads that do things that could take "too long" for the main event loop. But those threads don't call into the rest of the system. They do their job and hold on to their data. And when it's convenient the event loop goes and picks up that data. That's where we find locks, but only there. I guess in a way it's "message passing" except that the messages are just "get" functions?
(Proudly self-plagiarized from several 2025 posts from my previous account.)
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@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 06, 2026
"THE FEDIVERSE IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOUR DESIRED ENGAGEMENT MODALITIES AND IS UNABLE TO PROVIDE ANY REASONABLE MONETIZATION OPTIONS POSSIBLY CONTRARY TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS. DON'T RELY ON THE FEDIVERSE AS YOUR SOLE SOURCE FOR FAKE FAME, MINDLESS FOLLOWERS, OR INFLATED INCOME. POST TO THE FEDIVERSE AT YOUR OWN RISK FOR HORRIBLE LIFE-LONG NEVER-ENDING WHEATON-SHATNER-PIONEERED EMBARRASSMENT ETERNAL. OH AND ... SUCK A BAG OF DICKS."
#fediverse #TermsOfUse
#fediverse #TermsOfUse
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 06, 2026
@lu_leipzig Don't get the wrong, things like public libraries and the frickin' Bundeskanzler and all that should NOT be on X or any other "commercial" network. They should be in a place like the Fediverse. And while a public library I might actually follow, the Bundeskanzler I'd always block just on general principle. And the current one, well, I'd probably block and report him. 🤣
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
dmv.community
Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 06, 2026
I don't care one bit if "official" accounts exist in the Fediverse. I don't care if this or that newspaper, this or that city, this or that state, this or that ministry/department of some state, this or that professional organization, this or that famous person, this or that ... whatever are here. Indeed I often block those things anyway, even entire "official" instances. I like accounts of normal people best. To me, that's what the Fediverse is for. YMMV.
(Proudly self-plagiarized from a 2025 post from my previous account.)
(Proudly self-plagiarized from a 2025 post from my previous account.)
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
dmv.community
Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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@phf@dmv.community
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Apr 06, 2026
I did not think I'd get podman to work on an old RPi 3 from 2015 but hey, it's-a-buildin' openrsync via an Alpine Linux 3.16.3 container and it's generating a static ARM64 executable that runs natively on the "Raspberry Pi OS" on the host so ... I guess I am reasonably happy?
It's REAL SLOOOOOW though. 😞
This presumably means that I can generate .deb files for ARM64 as well as AMD64 and hence host a repository for at least two architectures. Not going to try to stretch beyond, this is good enough for the #NoAI work.
And I guess openrsync will be the first "product" to test the whole process with.
Not super-happy about the containers BUT it's really the simplest way to ensure that people can replicate the builds if they really want to. Seems hard to explain how to set up EXACTLY the same build environment to get bit-by-bit identical binaries without containers. 🤷
I have no good story yet for the source code though. Seems silly to package it inside the .deb file but pointing to a commit in some git repo, possibly on a terrible site like github, that's kind of dubious too. Put up git mirrors on codeberg? Host .tar.gz checkouts of the commit that was built? Not real sure...
It's REAL SLOOOOOW though. 😞
This presumably means that I can generate .deb files for ARM64 as well as AMD64 and hence host a repository for at least two architectures. Not going to try to stretch beyond, this is good enough for the #NoAI work.
And I guess openrsync will be the first "product" to test the whole process with.
Not super-happy about the containers BUT it's really the simplest way to ensure that people can replicate the builds if they really want to. Seems hard to explain how to set up EXACTLY the same build environment to get bit-by-bit identical binaries without containers. 🤷
I have no good story yet for the source code though. Seems silly to package it inside the .deb file but pointing to a commit in some git repo, possibly on a terrible site like github, that's kind of dubious too. Put up git mirrors on codeberg? Host .tar.gz checkouts of the commit that was built? Not real sure...
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
dmv.community
Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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@phf@dmv.community
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Apr 05, 2026
I am messing around with creating my own .deb files and slapping together my own roughly Debian-shaped apt repository. The plan is to fill it with #NoAI packages that were built using #NoAI compilers and libraries. I am not at all sure if I am really the person to be doing this, but surely SOMEBODY must start? Or maybe this is already in progress elsewhere and once again I don't know about it?
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
dmv.community
Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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@phf@dmv.community
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Apr 05, 2026
Let me get this straight. German politicians think it's a Good Thing (tm) if their citizens need to use identification that can be switched off by two US corporations. It will be the policy of Germany to require all German citizens to use credentials from US corporations for their day-to-day interactions with the German state, for example when getting married or when filing taxes. Just exactly HOW MUCH SHIT is in these people's brains? They don't deserve to make ANY decisions if they're this fucking dumb. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! #Germany #CountriesRunByIdiots #OfficialGovernmentBrainfarting
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Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
dmv.community
Peter H. Fröhlich
@phf@dmv.community
I like old games and old computers. I dig free software and free culture. And I believe that people, not organizations, have inalienable rights. ✊️ I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes. I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they certainly do NOT speak for me.
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Apr 04, 2026
During a discussion of how only power matters between states, not laws (whether international or not, whether long-established or not), I was reminded of Alan Watts' saying "There really is no other problem for human beings than ... [death]" [1] and how that encompasses ALL of the various struggles humanity has been through whether it's against slavery or for the eight hour day or whatever you look at. The threat is always, ultimately, "comply or we will kill you" whether from a state, a corporation, an individual, doesn't matter. And so it is between states themselves as well to a degree. Sadly.
[1] See for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFG999aOCs&t=125s but if you have the time, just watch the whole thing. 🤷
(Proudly self-plagiarized from a January 2026 post from my previous account.)
#AlanWatts #Philosophy #AlanMayBeWrongForYou
[1] See for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFG999aOCs&t=125s but if you have the time, just watch the whole thing. 🤷
(Proudly self-plagiarized from a January 2026 post from my previous account.)
#AlanWatts #Philosophy #AlanMayBeWrongForYou
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