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sirocyl

@sirocyl.bsky.social

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platform sec researcher, OS dev, systems architect, composer; Other (please specify). vintage computer/electronics nut. I am @significantb.it; I also do @styx-os.org blocks: f4f/followbot campaigns mutes: meta, outrage (news), beg/boost campaigns eggbug

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sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 48m

"nosferatussies"

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 49m

one strategic nop-ret later...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 54m

might have to set up my power8 system and send you a 43p to RIPL a BOS off to NIM with

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 1h

oh god how terrifying (I say this about Han Unification too, though)

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 14h

Erratum: The Я comes from Old Church Slavonic. Not Glagolitic, like almost every other Cyrillic letter does.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

ah yes, can't forget the "Grssk"... 😅

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

But because the printing press and the spread of books were important, the existing type casts used for Roman letters were adopted and modified for the Russian language. You had some weird characters like Big Yus ‹Ѫ›, that didn't have Latin lookalikes, so they got dropped and broken up into ‹Я›.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

This is also part of why I dislike "faux-Russian/faux-Cyrillic", because it dilutes the knowledge of the language. The backwards "R" is not an "R". Hell, if you read handwritten Russian, there's no way you'd confuse it for a backward R. It came from Glagolitic as a different symbol, even!

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

The likely reason that the search engines continue to support Volapukized Cyrillic, is the fact that a lot of its characters are lookalikes to Latin characters, and you can't expect someone who isn't already familiar with Russian, Cyrillic and Slavic languages to know the difference.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

And Unicode was still a far-flung dream; the only OS implementing it yet was NeXTStep, Windows wouldn't get it until 1997 with UNICOWS for 95/98 and NT 4 SP3.

So, creative measures were taken to encode PycckNN' language text.

That, or, of course, just transliterating it in Latin proper.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

When Russian-speaking people interchange web, BBS, e-mail and news frontends designed for Western Europeans, pasting Cyrillic would either jumble the letters (as they were overlaid/replacing ASCII Latin) or turn into Mojibake (as they used the high bitplane, chrs 128 and up, in KOI8-R and the like.)

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 20h

it's actually a thing called "volapuk encoding" (nothing to do with the conlang).

There's some interesting history about it, namely that the United States owned The Internet until about five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and as such, character encodings for Russian didn't propagate.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 1d

if both computers have Thunderbolt, they can open a network tunnel across one another. croc would work fantastic over that, as would copyparty

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 1d

Computer Gaming World issue 100 (Nov. 1992), headline "The Sounds of Gaming" pp. 76? Though, I think that's a *different* Sierra musician being interviewed, Ken Allen.

www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/in...

Actually, might not be the right one on a second read, sorry 😅

CGW Museum - Galleries

www.cgwmuseum.org

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

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Sara Dee @trisaratops.bsky.social · 1d

Boiled peanuts (generally, though they're reasonably popular in some places) but specifically boiled peanuts from a roadside stand that says P-NUTS, off a 45mph state road in the south, served up from a vat of liquid of mysterious origin and age. Those bad boys hit like nothing else.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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ms. wendy @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social · Dec 13

some logos I made in 2023.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2d

for atproto devs and protocol watchers, I published an overview of the network moderation architecture.

it tries to cover all the mod actions possible for each service type. this design has been around a while, but not well documented.

this doc is not very polished, but could clarify some details

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderatio...

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 1d

"pyrenax"

A chocolate rugelach.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 1d

And I said "why, why" at the debugger port
I/O racing while I'm tracing through a kernel abort
And the QA team were taking shots of Malört, and singing
"This'll be the final report, this'll be the final report"

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Ossilia Flawol - The Portal Lore Master @ossyflawol.bsky.social · 1d

Valve has updated the Source SDK Guidelines on Steamworks in regards to mod names in response to Team Fortress 2 Classic.

The TL;DR is that they want mods to have clear names that indicate they aren't games by Valve, so you can't use subtitles like 'Source' or 'Classic'.

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 1d

"Hey, you texted me that you found Pyrex at the thrift shop, did you happen to catch if it was upper-case PYREX or lower-case pyrex?"

"Huh? Oh, that. No, It's Rugekh. Soviet import."

"'Rugekh'? I thought you said Pyrex, I was expecting Pyrex."

*pointing at glass* "See? 'р-у-г-е-х'. Clear as day."

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 2d

manga screenshot: "It's All Soup...."

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/siro...

sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 2d

"as federated as federal express"