@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-05 15:21:58
Ah, the joys of having a built-in native JavaScript database¹ that can persist and load typed JavaScript objects² and an interactive JavaScript shell (REPL)³ in Kitten⁴ :)
:kitten:💕
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#database
²
![Screenshot of the Kitten shell open in terminal for the currently-running site:
> kitten.db.accounts.findAccountWithHandle('@aral@mastodon.ar.al')
Proxy [
Account {
id: 'ce4c1f2c-2044-47a0-b97e-1bc1a43bfc07',
url: 'https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral',
isVerified: true,
data: Proxy [ [Object], [Object] ],
isScheduled: false,
joinPageIp: undefined,
privatePageIps: Proxy [ [Array], [Object] ],
isTeam: false,
callDays: Proxy [ [Array], [Object] ]
}
get: [Function: bound getHandler], set: [Fun…](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/115/667/639/809/634/637/original/d4faadd522ba9d69.png)
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-06 09:10:00
@schlauschlau@social.cologne2026-01-05 12:48:21
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-05 16:41:00
Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-04 17:20:17
I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
#xml
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-05 06:20:05
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2026-02-05 10:24:10
Almost missed the warning banner, kinda surprised to see a feature documented before it being available, but turns out it was 3 years ago 🫠🫠🫠
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-06 09:51:07
＂… In an 8 GB VM, FreeBSD used a non-trivial 1.8 GB of RAM. …＂
For desktop use: a machine with 8 GB should be fine 👍
Screenshots here show a 1 GB machine running KDE Plasma with LibreOffice, vscode (Code - OSS), Firefox with YouTube and four other windows, htop in Konsole, and YouTube playing very smoothly in Konqueror.
After quitting everything except Konsole: less than 700 M real memory was used, some of which was ZFS ARC – a good thing.
This is not to recommend a …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-05 14:03:51
Like global search and replace but don’t like surprises?
Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).
![Screenshot of me serpl with Search, Replace, Result List and Preview panes in a command-line interface. Search has /setup and [Match Case] mode selected, Replace has /settings with [Simple] mode selected. The Results List shows about 20 items and the selected file is shown in the preview pane with three replacements in diff-style red/green highlighting on lines 27, 28, and 35.](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/116/018/395/920/498/956/original/410fe9292b452830.jpeg)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-05 17:35:49
Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after "strong early traction", without sharing specific numbers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/meta-tests-a-s…
