khaled_ismaeel

Recently I've been messing around x86-64 assembly for fun. I can't help but notice that searching for relevant information online is much harder now that it was 10 years ago when I started with programming. It could be related to my particular topic, or I'm just getting old, but bare with me.

Yes, SEO is a major reason for it; ad-infested and LLM-generated pages rank very high in search results. But even if I work around those (with Kagi, for example), it's harder still: Searching things like x86-64, POSIX, ABI's, etc, rarely yields results for me. Authoritative content is thin and spread out across disparate man-pages. Some things are left out completely undocumented. LLM's seems especially helpless dealing with low level topics.

A large portion of this field feels like folklore knowledge, and I didn't even get outside x86-64 on Linux; I can imagine it's much less approachable in the embedded world.

Can you relate? How do you deal with it?

I've recently been interested in martial arts, not as a means for self defense and/or competing, but rather as a path for developing discipline and physical ability.

Do you have any recommendation from your experience/knowledge?

Pony Messenger was one of my most favorite ShowHN posts, now it seems to be down for a while. I couldn't find any information online about it.

I hope this post reaches the author.

I am planning to move to CentOS Stream and everywhere I read about it they mention how it is "unstable" and "prone to breaking changes" etc, though they never gave specific examples. I would like to hear some real world stories about CentOS breaking changes.

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