<p>when beholding the Cubietruck (or Cubieboard 3), it is immediately obvious that this computer deserves “most surprising Xen hypervisor”. While other computers in the basement may be Xen hypervisors, none of them has executed anywhere near the number of flawless jump scares as the Cubietruck, which has been subject to special security screening on 3 continents.</p>

<p>the title of “most actually useful” is awarded to Thelio r2, a <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@system76" class="u-url mention">@<span>system76</span></a></span> desktop machine I use for normal computer stuff that isn’t weird at all.</p>

<p>the title of “Glossiest” is awarded to “PowerMac G4”, a computer I bought from a radio station via surplus auction and then hauled home on the bus.</p>

<p>Long shot request for help: anyone know anything about the N88 BASIC binary format, or how to transform it into a text representation? Was able to get a .BAS off a PC-98 disk, but it’s in a binary format. Hoping to inspect the source.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pleroma.envs.net/users/easrng" class="u-url mention">@<span>easrng</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I entirely avoided shipping anything that requires WASI on top of JS until jco became available because it spared me from having to touch linear memory directly and then having to validate these implementations and then fix the bugs in the wrappers and fuck all that</p><p>also, jco handles async instantiation for me which is very handy for yosys (&gt;8MB binary)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pleroma.envs.net/users/easrng" class="u-url mention">@<span>easrng</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> the applications I build are one big multiple second chunk of compute that does a little bit of IO at the beginning and end by reading and writing the whole file. it would have to be astonishingly inefficient to actually make an impact</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pleroma.envs.net/users/easrng" class="u-url mention">@<span>easrng</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I don&#39;t care lmao</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pleroma.envs.net/users/easrng" class="u-url mention">@<span>easrng</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I considered that and concluded that it makes me want to slit my wrists</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pleroma.envs.net/users/easrng" class="u-url mention">@<span>easrng</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> this is the only practical way to ship some of the applications i have &gt;.&gt;</p>