Pratham Patel
@thefossguy.bsky.social
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Yes, the only real Go targets are
linux/amd64
linux/arm64
darwin/arm64
windows/amd64
(“Things you should be very concerned about the crypto maintainer saying,” if you deploy to any others 😬)
linux/amd64
linux/arm64
darwin/arm64
windows/amd64
(“Things you should be very concerned about the crypto maintainer saying,” if you deploy to any others 😬)
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Yes, the only real Go targets are
linux/amd64
linux/arm64
darwin/arm64
windows/amd64
(“Things you should be very concerned about the crypto maintainer saying,” if you deploy to any others 😬)
linux/amd64
linux/arm64
darwin/arm64
windows/amd64
(“Things you should be very concerned about the crypto maintainer saying,” if you deploy to any others 😬)
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WHAT'S YOUR LUKS PASSWORD
I caught the rabbit on my fucking desk
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
WHAT'S YOUR LUKS PASSWORD
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imagine how much more appealing Bluesky could be to people all over the world if it could fix this single problem
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
imagine how much more appealing Bluesky could be to people all over the world if it could fix this single problem
So what's the firmware stack like?
Qualcomm Begins Posting Linux Patches For Snapdragon X2 Elite, 8 Elite Gen 5 SoCs - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-X2-Elite-Linux-8EG5
Qualcomm Begins Posting Linux Patches For Snapdragon X2 Elite, 8 Elite Gen 5 SoCs
Yesterday at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs for upcoming laptops. In addition Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform too. With those announcements out there, the Qualcomm open-source engineers have been busy in rolling out their latest patches for beginning to enable these new platforms with the Linux kernel...
www.phoronix.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
So what's the firmware stack like?
Been on bsky for months but haven't set a pfp yet but I never fail a nix flake update everyday lol
September 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Been on bsky for months but haven't set a pfp yet but I never fail a nix flake update everyday lol
Thread seems good, gotta add it to my library
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
August 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thread seems good, gotta add it to my library
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"nix fixes this". yes, it fixes everything, your will to live, your bad cooking skills, your boiler that only works when its hot, even your soggy socks.
July 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
"nix fixes this". yes, it fixes everything, your will to live, your bad cooking skills, your boiler that only works when its hot, even your soggy socks.
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Oops I did it again, I wrote a new PEP, got lost in the comments, oh coder, coder.
Oops, you thought I could stop, that I knew better, I'm not that intelligent.
discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-im...
genius.com/Britney-spea...
Oops, you thought I could stop, that I knew better, I'm not that intelligent.
discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-im...
genius.com/Britney-spea...
Pre-PEP: Import name metadata
As threatened promised, here is my next planned PEP (I haven’t bothered making it an official PEP yet in case the idea is considered downright bad, which would save me writing the PoC and translating ...
discuss.python.org
May 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Oops I did it again, I wrote a new PEP, got lost in the comments, oh coder, coder.
Oops, you thought I could stop, that I knew better, I'm not that intelligent.
discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-im...
genius.com/Britney-spea...
Oops, you thought I could stop, that I knew better, I'm not that intelligent.
discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-im...
genius.com/Britney-spea...
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No matter how lonely I am, I would sooner hurl myself into a volcano than make "friends" with software. Touch grass.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
No matter how lonely I am, I would sooner hurl myself into a volcano than make "friends" with software. Touch grass.
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Great, because exactly what we needed is MORE CODE
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great, because exactly what we needed is MORE CODE
Has anyone noticed that Claude's answers are concise and ChatGPt's are not only less concise, it also has a lot of noise with over explanation, intended for someone with minimal coding experience?
April 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Has anyone noticed that Claude's answers are concise and ChatGPt's are not only less concise, it also has a lot of noise with over explanation, intended for someone with minimal coding experience?
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What I’ve learned is that you can basically use macOS like a fucked up linux distribution these days
March 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
What I’ve learned is that you can basically use macOS like a fucked up linux distribution these days
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async-std has been discontinued.
March 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
async-std has been discontinued.
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Good morning! On this International Day of #WomenInScience I'd like to express my strong support and thanks for women bringing their talents and dedication to this field. Every day should be such a day. In this odd time in which social forces would pull us backwards, this is important to reinforce.
February 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good morning! On this International Day of #WomenInScience I'd like to express my strong support and thanks for women bringing their talents and dedication to this field. Every day should be such a day. In this odd time in which social forces would pull us backwards, this is important to reinforce.
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This is your regular PSA reminder to look at all of the fine print of *all* the terms that are attached to technology you can freely download on the Internet.
While the source code may have MIT terms, not all of the required digital material for AI models is source code...
While the source code may have MIT terms, not all of the required digital material for AI models is source code...
DeepSeek just released a new multi-modal open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B. It’s a text-to-image generator which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion on benchmarks.
Since it’s licensed under the MIT license, it can be used in commercial applications without restrictions.
Since it’s licensed under the MIT license, it can be used in commercial applications without restrictions.
January 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is your regular PSA reminder to look at all of the fine print of *all* the terms that are attached to technology you can freely download on the Internet.
While the source code may have MIT terms, not all of the required digital material for AI models is source code...
While the source code may have MIT terms, not all of the required digital material for AI models is source code...
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"AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395"
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D & Ryzen AI Max, Previews AMD RDNA 4 Graphics - https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d-rdna4-ai-max
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D & Ryzen AI Max, Previews AMD RDNA 4 Graphics
AMD's CES 2025 keynote was used to announce a slew of new products. They are just announcements today without any immediate availability or any hardware reviews to publish, but a look ahead for what is on the horizon for AMD in the consumer space in 2025.
www.phoronix.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395"
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hey, if you want to give me a christmas present, why not give my book a review if you bought it? but only if you got nice things to say, if not screw you (no refunds)
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MG...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MG...
December 20, 2024 at 11:08 AM
hey, if you want to give me a christmas present, why not give my book a review if you bought it? but only if you got nice things to say, if not screw you (no refunds)
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MG...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MG...
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Here's @rockylinux.org 10 with #riscv, booted in qemu with emulated hardware using virtio drivers. Next stop is to boot it on a VisionFive 2.
December 14, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Here's @rockylinux.org 10 with #riscv, booted in qemu with emulated hardware using virtio drivers. Next stop is to boot it on a VisionFive 2.
I'd really like it if upstream nix gets the custom schema definition pr merged
December 13, 2024 at 5:44 AM
I'd really like it if upstream nix gets the custom schema definition pr merged
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Oh hey, look at Arm starting to write official "Rust for Embedded" learning material 👀 (spotted by @thejpster.bsky.social)
learn.arm.com/install-guid...
learn.arm.com/install-guid...
Rust for Embedded Applications: Install Guide
Get up and running quickly with the most common tool settings with code snippets, using this Rust for Embedded Applications installation guide.
learn.arm.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Oh hey, look at Arm starting to write official "Rust for Embedded" learning material 👀 (spotted by @thejpster.bsky.social)
learn.arm.com/install-guid...
learn.arm.com/install-guid...
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"zero is not a random number"
December 13, 2024 at 12:22 AM
"zero is not a random number"