✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@treehouse.systems
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i find it somewhat amusing that very often, when someone has a Weird Linux Runtime Issue, they can send the binaries to me and i can figure it out in a matter of ~minutes

somewhere along the way i've become a build system / dynamic linker expert and i'm not really sure how. i guess i just like to understand the shit i use?

my grandmother once complained that windows 95 is a step down from MS-DOS because you can no longer "fully understand the system" but (a) i bet she did not "fully" understand MS-DOS either and (b) clealy i can understand both Linux and Windows enough on an architectural level to do things like "trace the path of a syscall or a driver ioctl through the entire chain" which is a level that usually gets you where you want it, or close at least

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