serentty

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by serentty 3y ago
I wish I could think of a good long form article about this. The best I can immediately think of is a pretty informative FAQ about Japanese encoding. https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/encodings.html What I will point out tho
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by serentty 3y ago
The narrative that Han unification is this thing imposed by ignorant westerners on East Asian computer users is simply not true. The criteria for which characters were unified was mostly based on the criteria used in legacy East Asian encod
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by serentty 3y ago
It doesn’t matter. If C is supposed to be a language for solving real-world problems, its strings have to be real-world strings. Wishing writing were more elegant gets you nowhere.
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by serentty 3y ago
The inability to represent text in the vast majority of the world’s languages is a far bigger issue than the lack of emoji.
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by serentty 3y ago
There is a lot more to Rust than just “safety”. That gets talked about a lot, but Rust is full of great features that make it worthwhile to use even when you are working in unsafe Rust. On top of that, it should still be possible to write t
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by serentty 4y ago
That is what happens when you have a page which is genuinely tiny even for the early days of the web, served over a modern internet connection, and it is cached so it does not have to go all the way to the server. The web could be so much f
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by serentty 4y ago
I actually added a link to the page to bypass CloudFlare entirely. I wanted the page to remain accessible so people could see what was on it regardless, but CloudFlare helps with that, but I also know that setting the page load slowly from
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by serentty 4y ago
Oh wow, I know you from the README! It really is something seeing you here. It is not a very impressive site at the moment but the immense amount of traffic that I have been getting is encouraging me to grow it into something with some actu
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by serentty 4y ago
Yeah, I find the slow loading really fun. Unfortunately, when I install the Ethernet card I imagine it will get a fair bit faster. But on the bright side, I think it will reduce the need for CloudFlare, which helps in terms of authenticity.
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by serentty 4y ago
Do they not anymore? That’s horrible. Deliberate reduction of the internet into a platform for consumption instead of bidirectional communication.
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by serentty 4y ago
I’m dumb enough to do it anyway. ;)
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by serentty 4y ago
If you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http://trombone.zapto.org instead.
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by serentty 4y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. I am planning on finding a way to keep things interesting and authentic with the hosting, but also accessible to everyone. In the meantime, if you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http:&#x2F
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by serentty 4y ago
I don’t know too much about how CloudFlare works, but it looks like you got a direct connection! Congratulations! My guess is that your DNS does not have the CloudFlare entries yet.
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by serentty 4y ago
There are 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet) cards for the ISA bus, which in practice can apparently be around 50% faster than 10 Mbps Ethernet over such a bus. However, they seemed pretty expensive compared to the ubiquitous 3com Etherlink III that
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by serentty 4y ago
Yeah, I imagine it would. I can invalidate the cache myself, but it would not make sense for a user to do so.
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by serentty 4y ago
I think the 38400 baud connection is a bigger issue than the CPU load. When I get Ethernet working I think there is a decent chance that I won’t need CloudFlare—especially if I can find a full 32-bit server that really uses the potential of
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by serentty 4y ago
This fork is handy for that. It’s fun to play with, but you need to do a decent amount yourself to get it set up. https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos
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by serentty 4y ago
If you come back tomorrow, I can probably turn CloudFlare off. Although I understand not being enthusiastic enough about my novelty website to bother.
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by serentty 4y ago
Just fun, really. There is not much serious about it.
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by serentty 4y ago
Yeah, maybe posting it on Hacker News was a bad idea. I should have tried somewhere with fewer visitors first.
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by serentty 4y ago
If you had visited a few hours earlier it would have been direct. Then the hug of death hit. If you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http://trombone.zapto.org instead.
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by serentty 4y ago
Please see the comments on this thread. It was directly internet facing when I posted it initially. Hacker News managed to bring it down. I had to add a cached reverse proxy. If you have any ideas about how to more authentically keep the si
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by serentty 4y ago
When I first posted it a few hours ago, I didn’t have CloudFlare. You can see lots of people unable to load the page at all in the earliest comments. Unfortunately it got to a point where pages weren’t just slow to load, but the connections
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by serentty 4y ago
It’s fun. Lots of people like doing retro game dev and the like, but often you are stuck with ancient C toolchains that suck even if you like C itself. Getting Rust working is a great way to make it more enjoyable from a hobbyist perspectiv
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by serentty 4y ago
The increased speed is probably because of CloudFlare. I know it’s kind of cheating, but it was the only way to avoid the hug of death. The good news is that the 386 is still serving lots of incoming requests, just not every single one. If
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by serentty 4y ago
I think I have CloudFlare on, and I am seeing requests with a CloudFlare header, but I am still getting a huge amount of traffic. I am not sure what the issue is. Maybe the site is so busy that CloudFlare can’t even load it to cache it, hah
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by serentty 4y ago
Yep, I figured it was the only way to get it to keep working. Interesting that it seems to work for you already. It isn’t yet going through CloudFlare for me when I try to visit it. Maybe DNS cache?
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by serentty 4y ago
It is indeed an SX! I am upgrading it to 16 MiB soon, as well as putting an Ethernet card in it. At that point I think it might end up a much more capable host. I am not sure if I want to find some way to keep this page up long-term yet. If
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by serentty 4y ago
I think it would have fared much better if I had waited until I got my ISA Ethernet card in the mail. But serving this over serial at 38400 baud and watching it try to keep up was tempting. I’ll have to see how well it fares with real netwo

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