<p>I&#39;ve decided to add a new rule to my challenge, which is in addition to doing a different language every week I&#39;m going to try to use exclusively *languages I haven&#39;t programmed in before*.</p><p>If that&#39;s the rule, x86_64 is a stretch as I&#39;ve *written* x86_64— but I count it as valid, because I&#39;ve never written a whole AMD64 *program*, only snippets embedded in a C file or OllyDbg-injected into an exe at runtime. Only ASMs I&#39;ve written whole programs in are MIPS and LLVM in-memory representation.</p>

<p>My language &quot;confidence level&quot; for this week is high, but down to medium-high for step 2 (because obvs I don&#39;t know WHAT they&#39;ll throw at me at step 2). I&#39;m kinda unenthused about the gas macro language. The macro language documentation ( <a href="https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Macro.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sourceware.org/binutils/docs/a</span><span class="invisible">s/Macro.html</span></a> + <a href="https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Altmacro.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sourceware.org/binutils/docs/a</span><span class="invisible">s/Altmacro.html</span></a> , I think that&#39;s literally all they wrote ) is sketchy and unclear. Can macros take a macro name as argument and invoke the passed-in macro? I literally can&#39;t tell. I&#39;m going to uncover syntax by trial and error</p>

<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BabelOfCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BabelOfCode</span></a> 2024<br />Week 3<br />Language: x86_64 assembly [AMD64] (macroassembler: GNU as/gas)</p><p>PREV WEEK: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113783248514095140" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/113783248</span><span class="invisible">514095140</span></a><br />RULES: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113676228091546556" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/113676228</span><span class="invisible">091546556</span></a></p><p>I planned ASM for today and when I saw the challenge *almost* bounced to TCL, because I *don&#39;t* wanna write a parser in ASM. But the language here is exceedingly regular, so probs a state machine is enough.</p><p>Successfully ran this hello world <a href="https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/gasexamples/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/gasexamp</span><span class="invisible">les/</span></a> which I think should be all I need to start.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> I got through most of this book. A couple of points:</p><p>1. The Cholas get a lot of press simply because we have a lot more sources on them. Not just archaeological, but also literary. Many Chola era temples continue to function and preserve the rites and lore of a bygone era, while the temples at places like Aihole are not &quot;active&quot; in the same sense. A substantial chunk of the Tamil Saivite and Vaishnavite canon were compiled around this time and we still have all the texts from this era, and a tradition of reading and singing them that is still alive. </p><p>2. I think the book does a great deal of disservice to Vaishnavism which also begins flowering in this era. </p><p>3. I like the fact that this book discusses trade and communication networks of this era. For example Narasimhavarman Pallavan sending an envoy to China and getting them to trade with his kingdom and talking about the Ummayads kinda shatters the notion that these kingdoms were blissfully unaware of events around the world.</p>

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social @Shatur@mastodon.gamedev.place Liam, I have a lot of respect for everything you do for GoL so I'd like to keep following you here to keep up with that... But it really seems like every other post you make here is just complaining about Fedi and talking about how much you like Bluesky more. I see you getting visibly annoyed whenever people complain about Bluesky, but I don’t see how posts like this are any better. You're doing the exact same thing. If you don't like the my-platform-can-beat-up-your-platform slapfights, then please stop instigating them by constantly bashing on Fedi.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@munin" class="u-url mention">@<span>munin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://woem.space/users/astrid" class="u-url mention">@<span>astrid</span></a></span> depending on the topic i&#39;m actually fine with people self-selecting out of interacting with me if they really hate seeing it un-cw&#39;d</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://woem.space/users/astrid" class="u-url mention">@<span>astrid</span></a></span> </p><p>&quot;reach&quot; without consent means you&#39;re gonna get blocked or muted; </p><p>telling people what they&#39;re in for makes for engaged, consensual contact that leads to stronger social links.</p><p>any fool can see that.</p>

"cw means less reach" comrade, i put some nasty cws on my posts and there's still a bunch of fools opening em

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I was convinced this was AI for a good bit :angery:</p>