nina's little fedi corner

i briefly looked into what it would take to adapt my ffi module to lower the baseline lua requirement to 5.0 and wow

i guess there is a reason everyone kinda chose 5.1 as their baseline version because while it seems deceptively close on first look, the practical usage difference is kinda staggering

for instance require() in 5.0 has like zero customization options in terms of stuff like loaders and can't load shared modules (there is the low level `openlib` function, but it still makes dynamic modules kinda useless-ish because you can't reasonably load them)

and of course there is stuff like... well the language did not come with a length operator before 5.1, so you need to use string.len for strings and table.getn for tables separately, and while there is lua_strlen as the c api equivalent for the former the latter has nothing so... good luck getting array length from c

and there is like a ton of little deficiencies in the api...

i guess it doesn't really matter because noone uses 5.0 these days really

more or less done with go 1.26 update + userland rebuild and as usual gotosocial is the one thing that breaks horribly

and tracking things down is a chore because search on codeberg really sucks

unexpected banger opening song from current anime season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOKQluw_YLU

>see a link to apparently some former sun guy's blog post about "why i joined openai"
>dude shamelessly begins with something along the way of "since ai datacenters are so important and big, i went on a quest to improve ai performance to save the planet"
>briefly skim the rest of it, it's mostly gushing about how everyone uses chatgpt

at least admit it's for money, asshole

these people and their spineless bullshit disgust me

joining this industry was a mistake that i still wish naïve old me would have passed on and went to do something that's actually beneficial for humanity

*having a call with girlfriend, talking about various stuff*

*having a bowl of cereal, see a bottle of coke zero on the table*

"hmmm i just had a cursed thought... could i make pilk out of this" (i never had pilk)

*laughing fit begins*

"fuck i'm going to try it"

(it's drinkable, just... i kinda don't see the point of having that over just drinking the coke)

noone told me two years ago that i would be this gay

today continues my 3 month quest to get an appointment with the spanish police (only 1 place in the city does it and they continue to have no slots) to update my foreigner registration to match my actual ID/passport/whatever, so far unsuccessful, and therefore the local institutions such as healthcare system continue to use my deadname despite it being invalid (meanwhile i updated practically everything in czechia with zero issues)

it's kinda funny how immigration-related systems are explicitly designed to be as alienating as they possibly can

ever think about how much better off we'd be as humanity if we just got rid of a bunch of rich people

after like two years i finally got around to cutting a new release of my portable lua/c ffi module

has some pretty significant bug fixes, now supports lua 5.5 (and every version before down to 5.1), and even better compatibility with luajit's

was fun touching my old code and being like "what the fuck did i do two years ago, how does this work"

still pretty proud of my c parser though, particularly this part https://github.com/q66/cffi-lua/blob/v0.2.4/src/parser.cc#L1565

https://github.com/q66/cffi-lua/releases/tag/v0.2.4

warm take: any signal that by default dumps core shouldn't have the option to have a signal handler installed

projects that set up custom signal handlers for stuff like sigsegv/sigill/etc are annoying and just shouldn't

here's whatever i salvaged from my camera in brussels at night

once again about to fly to madrid, sadness

brussels midi train station is a gift that keeps on giving, i knew it was bad but not "we have a power outage and the whole place is in darkness and can't even buy a ticket" bad

*crossing the street on red*

OH: "we're doing gaywalking"

OH: the crime adds flavor

will be at fosdem in a few hours...

apparently this highway rest stop has a big shop with healing crystals

my girlfriend told me that last year there was also a nordsee

this was replaced by a coffee shop and is no longer there

i guess they had competition in the fishy business

1 year hrt anniversary today

going to fosdem tomorrow

i'll be around on saturday (not so much on sunday) if anyone want to see me for any reason~