mallaidh (dork aspect) @mallaidh@witches.town

why do people not read my bio before following

somehow it seems like a bad idea to have a demo of /dev/dsp be piping /dev/random directly to it

cat settled down on my back & started purring. laptop wasn't plugged in, so of course i asked a passerby to help me with that. she's purring quite comfortably, presumably with a smug look on her face.

status of rewriting nix utils for learning: seq, lc, and cat are done, wc is a partial. not sure if i'm going to do any output formatting for wc, at least at this point.

why do people not read my bio before following

if it can get patched into xterm i can probably add it to something that's just 4.4k lines

thinking about patching pledge(2) into st

tired: in an open relationship
wired: in an openbsd relationship
make your polycule secure by default

working it into some of the util rewrites i've done, nice stuff

pledge(2) is a nice syscall

from lseek(2):

BUGS
This document's use of whence is incorrect English, but is maintained for historical reasons.

i really haven't found a language i've liked as much as c

lol python still doesn't have proper tail recursion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606191

consider: enbies

listening to old jazz on headphones, aka drummer in my right ear and clarinet in the left

i feel like neopronouns are the area i should really focus on in my grammar

idk if there's any sort of like, writing drills for using them or it's just practice when you can

like i currently find myself sometimes avoiding talking about someone if i don't really have a grasp of their pronouns because i don't wanna be the person who messes them up

guess i'll just pick this stuff up as i go along?

i will never not pronounce `tty' as `titty' in my head

so every boot i read `setting titty flags` and manpages say `Default is to be interactive when run from a titty.'