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  • comaps@floss.socialundefined

    Release 2026.03.09 is out.

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    girgias@phpc.socialundefined
    @CoMaps yaaaay so me fixing the majority of `fee:amount` and `fee:price` to use the charge tag instead will have been helpful then! :D
  • cybersecurity@poliverso.orgundefined

    What is a Computer?

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    cybersecurity@poliverso.orgundefined
    What is a Computer?On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a screen, keyboard, and mouse and use it as your daily driver? That was the question posed by [ETA Prime] in a video essay and attempt to do so.Our consensus was that it’s the Android operating system holding it back. Some of the applications you might want to run just aren’t there, and on the open side of the world, even more are missing. Is the platform usable if you can’t get the software you need to get your work done?But that’s just the computer-as-a-tool side of the equation. The other thing a computer is, at least to many of our kind of folk, is a playground. It’s a machine for experimenting with, and for having fun just messing around. Android has become way too polished to have fun, and recent changes on the Google side of things actively prevent you from installing arbitrary software. The hardware is similarly too slimmed-down to allow for experimentation.Looking back, these have been the same stumbling blocks for the last decade. In 2018, I was wondering aloud why we as a community don’t hack on cell phones, and the answer then was the same as it is now – the software is not friendly to our kind. You can write phone apps, and I have tried to do so, but it’s just not fun.The polar opposites of the smartphone-as-computer are no strangers in our community. I’m thinking of the Linux single-board computers, or even something like a Steam Deck, all of which are significantly less powerful spec-wise than a flagship cell phone, but which are in many ways much more suitable for hacking. Why? Because they make it easy to do the things that we like to do. They’re designed to be fun computers, and so we use them.So for me, a smartphone isn’t a computer, but oddly enough it’s not because of the hardware. It’s because what I want out of a computer is more than Turing completeness. What I want is the fun and the freedom of computering.This article is part of the Hackaday.com newsletter, delivered every seven days for each of the last 200+ weeks. It also includes our favorite articles from the last seven days that you can see on the web version of the newsletter. Want this type of article to hit your inbox every Friday morning? You should sign up!hackaday.com/2026/03/14/what-i…
  • mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    "Can you show what Cells for NetBSD actually does?"

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    mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    "Can you show what Cells for NetBSD actually does?"Sure.Fresh NetBSD install, deploy a Luanti server from a manifest, backup, restore, inspect processes inside the cell, then nuke everything again.My personal record is <4 minutes.The video is slower because OBS + VM + music nearly killed my laptop.https://www.youtube.com/live/nCPecyk-ejU#netbsd #devops #modernretrocomputing #clt2026 #ccc
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    Today's eldritch coffee is The Great Race of Yith (from Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time"):

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    misjavanlaatum@mastodon.gamedev.placeundefined
    @cstross "lifting the hot beaker of frothing swill to his clammy face, he gazed upon the swirling place where all the stars died"