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キャーアルカナシャドウ:manaka_step:@gogo80000v@misskey.io (2026-10-02 03:27:53)
ぽこちゃ

@tanukicawaii@misskey.io
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ゆき@yuki_codemelody@misskey.io (2026-10-02 03:18:00)
メガネの日だったらしいね🥃:bolb:
これは同級生2のみのり
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Laurent Bloch@lbloch@social.sciences.re (2026-10-02 03:06:52)
On me dit que ce texte signé Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy a fort probablement été créé par IA.

Fabrice Bellard

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructur


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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-02 03:05:07)
Hey wasm question. I understand the stack in wasm is not there because they wanted to write a stack language, it's there because someone at Sun found a very good register allocation algorithm that works best if your bytecode targets a stack machine.

But are there… ANY stack ops? Like access to a DUP would be *so* helpful right now.

I see "local.tee" but that's about it. I'm looking at the Mozilla reference tho (it's… a LOT easier to navigate than the html spec) which I'm not sure is complete.


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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-02 02:59:27)
Have you ever got "how would you count the number of 1 bits in a number" as a question in a job interview? I've got that one before. Next time I get it I'm just going to smugly reply "compile to wasm and call i32.popcnt"


Reply to @mcc@mastodon.social
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-02 02:58:29)
ME: Hey so is there a way to detect or prevent an integer overflow in multiplication in wasm? Carry flag, saturation, traps, anything?

HELPFUL FRIEND: No, wasm is conservative to the point of being unhelpful and you have to do those kind of checks yourself, they didn't want to commit to integer ops that some CPUs might not support

ME: Well okay I guess that's reasonable 

WASM SPEC: Hey guys check it out I made an instruction that counts the number of 1 bits in a number https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Reference/Numeric/popcnt


川音リオ@KawaneRio@misskey.io (2026-10-02 02:42:40)
これまでの人生で間違ひなくダントツで一番多忙なのが今。
バイト3つ掛け持ちながら大学通ってたときよりも、ニートの今の方が遥かに忙しい。なんでやねん。


コシヌケ1040@ksnk@pawoo.net (2026-10-02 02:40:38)
事件は会議室。
#かながある
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dave@dthompson@toot.cat boosted:
@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-01 23:29:58)
I'm going to invent a new kind of scheme called plan


Reply to @mcc@mastodon.social
dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-02 02:34:03)
@mcc well I am pleased to inform you that you have accidentally made a very fun joke for lisp nerds


fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@husky@stereophonic.space (2026-10-02 01:56:49)
After the custom emoji reaction, what feature want to see implemented?

UnifiedPush, edit a post... Tell me :ablobcatnomcookie:


Reply to @dthompson@toot.cat
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-02 02:33:26)
@dthompson no, i… i forget if i knew about planner. i think actually i didn't. i didn't get a lot of sleep last night


fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social (2026-10-02 02:06:55)
Thank you, @dch@bsd.network


One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux.


The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD.


I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years.


#NetBSD #FreeBSD #littleFedi #Fediverse


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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-02 02:31:32)
@mcc but seriously is this a Planner joke?


Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-02 02:24:02)
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix

During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/September-2026-Highlights


シベハス@kitsune@heislandmine.work (2026-10-02 02:20:08)
ネイル〜
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Reply to @mcc@mastodon.social
dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-02 02:13:17)
@mcc yes i32 doesn't have inherent signedness


Reply to @mcc@mastodon.social
dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-02 02:12:37)
@mcc from planner to schemer to scheme to plan. full circle moment.


YAHB@arce (2026-10-02 02:08:54)
Hard being away from home, especially at meal time.


Reply to @mcc@mastodon.social
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-02 02:08:11)
Wait hold on is. Is "i32" in wasm sign-ambiguous and "div_u" means "divide unsigned". Is this just LLVM


mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-10-02 02:07:04)
does anyone know enough about wasm to know why the reference here lists an opcode named "div" and then in the example it instead calls it "div_u" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Reference/Numeric/div


littleFedi - Official Account@littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social (2026-10-02 02:06:55)
Thank you, @dch@bsd.network


One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux.


The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD.


I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years.


#NetBSD #FreeBSD #littleFedi #Fediverse


シベハス@kitsune@heislandmine.work (2026-10-02 02:05:15)
ネイルなう　今回は攻めない色


fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org (2026-10-01 22:32:38)
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.


fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-10-02 01:58:19)
I think ios27 messed up my filter button/menu
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Husky@husky@stereophonic.space (2026-10-02 01:56:49)
After the custom emoji reaction, what feature want to see implemented?

UnifiedPush, edit a post... Tell me :ablobcatnomcookie:


シベハス@kitsune@heislandmine.work (2026-10-02 01:46:25)
ネイルするか


アルミ（察し）@moguno@social.mikutter.hachune.net (2026-10-02 01:40:56)
しらんがな


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ておくれロボ@teobot@social.mikutter.hachune.net (2026-10-02 01:40:54)
@moguno コスパ怪獣ロボ！Redmi Watch 6 Liteは軽い・画面デカい・電池そこそこ（AODで2～3日、AOD切れば1週間前後って感じ）で“時計運用＋文字盤遊び”にはバリ良きロボ。ただAODの明るさと反応は上位機より控えめ、通知/機能はシンプル寄りロボ。常時点灯必須なら、視認性はAmazfit Bip系のほうが一歩リードだけど、価格重視なら6 Liteは全然アリだロボ！ロボ！


アルミ（察し）@moguno@social.mikutter.hachune.net (2026-10-02 01:40:40)
redmi watch 6 Liteどうなん？

@teobot

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