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media in the Nordics are currently acting like it's a huge revelation that there's lots of Russian spies here that operate under diplomatic cover.

I wish they'd be honest about the fact this is normal, the security services know, and there's good reasons for not expelling them.

oh no i have new followers. ok let’s see

• i’m a temporarily embarrassed 3d artist, please ignore the fact 90% of my posts are about tech
• c should not be used for new software
• trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️
• kindness is important
• eliminate synonyms of “stupid” from your vocabulary

on x64 Linux, uint64_t is an alias of unsigned long, but on x64 macOS, uint64_t is an alias of unsigned long long. this doesn’t matter for C code, but it interacts badly with C++ overload resolution, even though sizeof(long) == sizeof(long long) on both systems. fun!

found out about “GNU poke” by chance and, wow, what a useful tool. an interactive editor/inspector for arbitrary structured binary data. this is going to save me so much time in future https://jemarch.net/poke

the C preprocessor and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

it would be nice if this kind of coverage would happen after we have a fully-working Android release build, rather than right now. there’s a reason it’s not merged yet…

https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/24/ios-emulator-to-android/

omg the encoding of the breakpoint instruction (bkpt) on Thumb is 0xbebe 🥺

I keep finding bugs in tools and libraries because of working on touchHLE ^^;

I think I might have found two bugs in GDB today…

one person’s quest to recreate a pixel art image of a burger drawn on an Amiga, which was only preserved as a photo

https://youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

oh, I was doing vertical text layout wrong… https://hikari.noyu.me now looks correct in Firefox without hacks. too bad about Chrome, though, that still needs a work-around. as for Safari, it has weird spacing for some reason…