@domi very informative

@nay @hazelnoot @puniko @green does sharkey make it really easy to accidentally suspend yourself or why does this keep happening?

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the microcode for the Intel 80386 has been decoded.

It was a group effort by a bunch of talented people to extract and correct the physical bits, but the major work of decoding them was done by reenigne - you may know him from such incredible PC demos as 8088 MPH and Area 5150, as well as being the person who decoded the 8088 microcode previously.

Please, check out his writeup.

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

@kemona_halftau meow

@tris

got its corporate charter directly in the state constitution

I thought that kind of thing only happened in Alabama

@kemona_halftau same (my instance exists since 2025-05-05, although I was technically on fedi since 2019 but didn't use it much)

@snow my sleep schedule is currently about halfway there (something like UTC-4), which is worse because the heat wakes me up too early and I have to turn the fan on and go back to sleep

good morning

good night!

@seabass probably the latter

@kemona_halftau mraow

there's no way that I passed

one of the questions was unsolvable: they gave a graph, intentionally drawn without units specified on the axes, and asked for the units. what am I supposed to do about that? just randomly guess the units?

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@nay @decoy what is 🐷?

@seabass @gwenthefops can I join your hypothetical future Mindustry game?

@frogTheSecond hi

@cybertailor @DLC It's not really any different unless you're writing a proprietary program that's linking against an LGPL'd library. If you're linking against an (A)GPL'd library, your program must be free software anyway and it doesn't matter if it's being linked statically or dynamically, and if your program is free software it doesn't matter if you're using static or dynamic linking since you can just provide source code.

The only difference is if you're writing a proprietary program linked to an LGPL'd library, in which case you must provide a way for the user to replace the LGPL'd library (which for a statically linked program would usually be providing the .o files and letting the user relink them)

@gwenthefops same