after giving up on an e-bike with the awful Shimano drivetrain, i bought a scooter on a whim (i had very good experiences with them previously). Joyor S5 (600W). as it turns out: * this is definitely the right form factor for me * even though i'm not pedaling i am still getting _quite_ a […]

we just spent four hours trying to figure out why wix in wine in the nix sandbox chokes on an unicode filename * wix: works with hanzi * wix in wine on my machine: works with hanzi * wix in wine (from nix store) with exact same versions as my local setup: works with hanzi * wix in wine […]

why is gettext taking longer to cross-compile than qt. what is gnu smoking

another day, another instance of a slop compatibility PR where i used my brain for like 3 minutes and came up with a 2-line patch that works better

do i know anybody who could help me register a wechat accoutn?

existence of Wine, Nix, and Wix implies the existence of Nine in the fourth, mysterious quadrant

@bunnie oh, just noticed you're using zig-pypi over in https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bio-the-bao-i-o-coprocessor/ i'm very pleased with how far it's got! it was intended as a quick hack for the CXXRTL simulator i've worked on that i decided to share

ominous

this tool for making multilingual MSIs rules. the official solution involves several VBScript files in a crusty old SDK https://github.com/RISCSoftware/CreateEmbedLangTransform

> "A web font that makes written content costly to scrape for AI training." > > look inside > > accessibility-breaking slop

compostable intelligence (you know. the normal kind)

funny page https://apps.microsoft.com/unsupported-browser?feature=fetch&hl=en-US&gl=DE

should've rated it M

made some final adjustments to the installer

in about a day's work i learned WiX and built an MSI installer for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer! look at it, it includes everything (Python, Yosys, nextpnr-{ice40,ecp5}, Python libraries, the manual) in a package that is just under 90 MB and fully […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

ok so i spent like two hours tearing my hair out trying to figure out why my .msi cannot install a file in a .cab file which is **most fucking definitely** there tried changing compression ratios, using external cab, giving files explicit ids, everything in the world. eventually found someone's […]

_stares you directly in the eye and regenerates exactly one GUID in your .msi_

why the fuck is this called "Word Count Summary Property" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/word-count-summary

Word Count Summary property - Win32 apps

In the summary information of an installation package, the Word Count Summary property indicates the type of source file image.

learn.microsoft.com

hey wanna see a document that makes you feel like you have carbon monoxide poisoning? https://docs.firegiant.com/wix3/howtos/general/specifying_source_files/

* try to build a dotnet thing in wine * it fails with NU3028 certificate error * it's because of "VeriSign Universal Root Certificate Authority" being distrusted since 2021 (microsoft still uses it) * trying to download it from […]

you know, if there's _one_ thing that had the most impact on my immediate desire to do preventative healthcare like "diet" and "exercise", it is finance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMNcfCbCbMo

💭 `lib.foldl` this, `lib.foldlAttrs` that... how about you fold some laundry

they're still drilling shit on saturday

the first time i've seen this referenced i thought it is satire the second time i looked it up https://www.zillow.com/news/zillow-launches-zillow-for-warcraft-a-new-way-to-explore-world-of-warcraft-homes/

happy mailing list membership reminder day!

remember when windows had service packs

OH: "much like real gambling, the _spider gacha_ has no win condition: there's just lose and less lose"

codeberg is down, post ponies

This one made me laugh for real.

wafer.space Run 2 is now officially in production! 🥳🚀 In short, wafer.space (https://wafer.space/) offers low-volume silicon manufacturing of 1,000 custom silicon chips for the open-source GF180MCU process. Like last time, this shuttle features some […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]