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Diagnosed with ADHD at the ripe age of 35, after a previous psychiatrist tried to tell me all of my problems were caused by the (lack of) father figure.
Sequence break scenic route any% gender glitch speedrun in progress.
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Socially awkward, and sometimes doing A Stupid™; please point it out if that happens.
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Ari.1337
unfinished projects?:
too many
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yes
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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange that is verbotten!
HDMI is strictly and exclusively for stacking network switches. (old extreme networks gear)
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems after seeing "fully-automated" in the url, i expected "space-communism" after. My disappointment is immesurable :ablobcatwink:
- nie żartuj tak
- wejdź na office kropka com
- nie no, nie zajebali by tak marki którą mają od kilkudziesięciu lat
- mówię, wejdź na office kropka com
- … kurwa mać
meow ,_,
behold, the floppy floppy
TIL: VLC has a puzzle mode
If UK breaks up and becomes Divided Kingdom, will they want to steal .dk from Denmark?
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@jeffmcneill@hachyderm.io @Gusted@social.linux.pizza no, not "algorithm aversion"
algorithms are reasonably well defined and operate with expected outcomes.
slop generators are neither well defined, nor produce outcomes reproducibly.
thus the correct term would be "slop aversion".
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@abmurrow @rperezrosario I deal with debian packaging tooling at work, and the more I do so, the less I want to deal with debian in my own free time.
Nix and nix(pkgs) documentation are absolutely great compared to the mess around dpkg/apt/debhelper/lintian/different debhelper modules.
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@natty@astolfo.social @navi@social.vlhl.dev The weird part is, it's intermittent. And sometimes taking a screenshot toggles it.
future-proofing :ablobcatwink:
boot.extraModprobeConfig = lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" (x: "install ${x} /bin/false") [
"algif_aead"
"esp4"
"esp6"
"rxrpc"
"xfrm_user"
];
@rperezrosario So here's my latest gripe with debian. I've been using debian (or its derivatives) on servers at most of the companies I've worked at, but only because most of my team members wouldn't be familiar with something that's different from "regular" linux distros.
debian packaging tools are funny. I encountered a package (not foss/in debian repos) with a postinst script that under certain (trivial) conditions would keep running forever. here's what happened when I tried installing it:
ctrl+c didn't workkill on the running apt/dpkg processes stopped it, but…it's impossible to remove the half-installed package; apt purge told me: Error: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.spoiler alert: dpkg --configure -a attempts to finish installing packages. that includes trying to run the postinst again, which wouldn't finish.
I could work around that. But I've been using linux for 25 years now, and have been working in sysadmin/devops-like roles for almost 18 years now.
I can't imagine a regular user even knowing where to start fixing something like this.
#debian
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bye bye. you will be missed :blobcatsad:
edit: or nvm, it happened again.
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So I just noticed another silly thing about this whole screenshot stuff. If you look closely, you'll notice that the screenshot has an alpha layer. WTAF. (your instance may have re-encoded this picture lossily)
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@purrperl @krutonium @abmurrow @rperezrosario
The short of it, DHH is racist. You don't need to go further than reading his own blogposts to see that.
https://tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem
RMS has been behaving in problematic ways as well.
Shoving this under "FUD from well-funded closed source software vendors" does not help. The F/OSS community needs to do better.
And maybe don't try to "younger generation" me. I may be closer to your age than you imagine.
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@purrperl @abmurrow @rperezrosario I've been using it since late 2019/early 2020, and - tbh - I didn't notice too many dramatic changes.
The nix language is still a somewhat weird functional programming language. The learning curve is a bit rough if you're not used to functional programming languages. REPL in the "official" implementation needs some love; one of the forks - Lix - mostly fixes REPL in my experience, and can be used on regular NixOS installations.
In my first few weeks/months of using NixOS i was treating configuration.nix as just a silly json, with a slightly different syntax. I think that's a good approach to limit the number of things to learn at the same time.
Flatpak and docker work on nixos, for the things that aren't packaged. AppImage sometimes need some work.
The number of packages in nixpkgs did grow.
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@domi@donotsta.re I do, but I think the last time i saw that was shortly after the release of windows vista.
hissssss!
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@lunareclipse@snug.moe @hazel@shrimp.starlightnet.work I believe that was the idea.
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@backintime @rperezrosario But if anyone feels like reporting this, here's a trivial reproducer: https://code.hackerspace.pl/ar/debian-postinst-silly/
#debian
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@Ember @abmurrow @rperezrosario I'm not saying it is great. It's just that the debian docs around creating/maintaining packages are - in comparison - worse.
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@krutonium @purrperl @abmurrow @rperezrosario ruby can convincingly pretend to be a functional language.
Though I wouldn't want to start a new project in a language that features DHH on the front page.
Perl is something that would put me off from using Nix. I'm happy that some critical NixOS components are getting rewritten from perl into rust/python. I've been using Linux/unix-like systems for 25 years now, and perl did not seem to improve that much in all this time. It gained… function signatures. And for a while it had a "switch/case"-like syntax construct, but that has been deprecated again, apparently.
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@pl@mastodon.social revoked in Firefox; loads iin vandaium; incognito behaves the same way
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@steelman@mstdn.io udziałowcy musieli zobaczyć numerki użytkowników copilota szybujące w górę, więc przemianowano office na copilot app. nie wiem czego nie rozumiesz :ablobcatwink:
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@me@mastodon.cysioland.pl would rather avoid that. I don't know C, and don't want to steal/read code from systemd.
If you were to parse systemd calendar event specification, how would you approach it? Asking for a friend.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @pl@mastodon.social I used that CAD for a long while specifically because FreeCAD was unusable/hostile back then, and the improvements you made to the other CAD helped, but FreeCAD has since become a lot more usable for me (especially around 0.20 and after).
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@fell@ma.fellr.net @demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place win32 is the most stablie linux ABI anyway (half serious)
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@RadND @rperezrosario the other way round: deleted the binaries the postinst script tried to run.
But :> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debian-postinst-silly.postinst would work as well, sure.
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@fox @rperezrosario "you're holding it wrong" is not a good argument. this is purely a tool issue.
I would even argue that the whole idea of postinst scripts is flawed. As is the debian-specific idea of starting services upon installing packages.
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@purrperl @krutonium @abmurrow @rperezrosario
Perl lost function signatures along the way, since they were considered impractical.
I still see them documented in perldoc, and no mention of deprecation.
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub#Signatures
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@purrperl @abmurrow @rperezrosario I think you're underestimating the scope of "replace nix". :ablobcatwink:
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This is a screenshot from https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/The_Message_from_Deep_Space/ and I cannot recommend this game enough. It's fun, nerdy, and tingles my brain in just the right way.
You're a scientist trying to communicate with an alien computer in a meteor by decoding signals. Kinda like the language learning part of Project Hail Mary, but a game.
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@wonderfoxxo@lamp.leemoon.network
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So, it's a Qt bug? https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commit/cb8c193408b82e208504f22fa75aa0a4609b00cb
(freecad.overrideAttrs (o: {
patches = (o.patches or []) ++ [
# Fix transparency issues; see https://is-a.cat/@ar/116238609907729115
(fetchpatch {
url = "https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commit/cb8c193408b82e208504f22fa75aa0a4609b00cb.patch?full_index=1";
hash = "sha256-e4Ki1zGZveEMXCxXwgwbd9f2KTJi648M9WIc1Vn9YQM=";
})
];
}))