Matt @captainhayashi@toot.cat

I have once again been forgetting to use Mastodon. Argh. I got sucked back into the hellsite :/

sadly I’ve reopened an account on That Other Site and it’s promptly absorbed all of my social energy

oh yeah this exists

I keep forgetting to use Mastodon aaa

if coronavirus doesn’t kill me first, I am going to bring disco back

John McCafé

Balance of Power has randomly become my favourite ELO album, thanks to the peculiar mental machinations that brought you my love of Depeche Mode’s A Broken Frame, Yazoo’s You And Me Both, and Queen’s Hot Space

Derpy Matt left his USB-C charge cable... somewhere. No laptop for Matt today.

once again I find myself singing Beauty And The Beast, but with the lyrics changed to just 'Condoleezza Rice'

oh, that's good. GCC crashed trying to do ./configure stuff for compiling GCC. Oh GCC.

today on Building Lots Of Compilers:

- ran out of hard drive space because the default clang9+ build is 50-60 GIGABYTES of build tree
- GCC4.9 compile failed with 'configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile', which is quite possibly the most 'seriously?' compiler error I've seen so far

A-Z of music tastes:

Alphaville
Buggles
Cars
Dollar (or Depeche Mode)
ELO
Falco
Genesis (Collins era >~<)
Hot Gossip (with or without Sarah Brightman)
Information Society
Japan
Kraftwerk (or Kate Bush)
Lene Lovich
Meat Loaf (but not his politics)
Nana Mouskouri
OMD
Pet Shop Boys
Queen (ofc)
Roxy Music (or Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Sheila B. Devotion
Tina Turner
Ultravox (with or without ‘!’)
Visage
Whitesnake
XTC (or Xymox)
Yazoo
Z… fuck. Zappa, Frank?

Remind me to write do one or more of the following in re my old compiler adventures: write a blog post; make any patches public; make a script that tries auto-fetching and/or compiling the compilers in a principled manner…

update: after having the Pi compile gcc overnight, I stupidly moved the build directory before make install-ing and nearly ended up building it again in the autotools confusion

some things make me stop and wonder what I'm doing with my life

compiling GCC on a Raspberry Pi is one of them

apparently it's customary to have cats on this instance, so here's a very old picture of Sooty, a very old cat