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mcepl

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Engineer at SUSE … All your Python are belong to me! … Christian, geek, happy father of two!

#Christian #Linux #Python #European #Czech

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mort, to linux
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The #CVE count of the #Linux #kernel is not looking good these days compared to any other #OS is it. Maybe time to switch to #FreeBSD or some other system which doesn't claim to find hundreds of significant vulnerabilities every day

mcepl,
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@mort Are you listening to yourself? The system which reports fewer security issues is more secure? Really? Then you should switch to , because they hide their security errors best!

mcepl,
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@mort

And yet until yesterday you were using it happily persuaded that it is secure, and if Greg took over FreeBSD and start reporting CVEs on it, you would be persuaded that it is insecure as well? It is just reporting!

mcepl,
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@mort

Have you watched https://youtu.be/HeeoTE9jLjM ?

mirek, to Ukraine
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What?!

mcepl,
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@mirek

This is absolutely horrible. I was just looking at https://floss.social/@noelreports@mstdn.social/112433442215537630, and it made me really sick. Russian generals who sent those soldiers to these stupid situations should be really punished for this.

mcepl,
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@sesivany @mirek

Whatever is their motivation, I feel sick for such horrible waste of human lives. And yes, I am afraid, that similar pictures can be made for Ukrainian soldiers, and I have friend from Dnipro, who always goes to visit her family, shares her experience and I then cannot sleep for week. It is just horrible thing everywhere.

sesivany, to hiking
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The new "money or data" policy of made me explore based apps and I'm really surprised how good they have become.
And ? It's best fun since I was "stumbling" to help Mozilla Location Service 10 years ago. 🙂

BTW any tip for a good map app that shows trails? I like , but I can't make the app show them. 🤷

mcepl,
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@sesivany

I have been using everywhere exclusively for the last fifteen or so years, and especially in Czechia it worked for me quite well (even better than in more rural parts of France or Italy, and poor Croatia … there is really a lot of work to do there!).

BartoszMilewski, to random
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There is very little incentive to publish books through a publishing company. The financial incentive is truly negligible. It's nice to have professional editors, but if the book is freely available on GitHub, readers will correct your errors anyway. I don't think the promotion by a publisher does more than what you can achieve through social media. If you know how to use LaTeX, and you don't want your book to be protected by a paywall, my advice is to just make it public domain.

mcepl,
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@BartoszMilewski

Yes and no. Depends on the type of books. Technical books, perhaps (but does anybody still read those?). But for the fiction books, good editors are a way more than just Grammarly+. Good editors made Jules Verne, Tolkien and other great writers possible. I read a lot of #fanfiction, and I can see how much 99.5% of all stories miss the hand of an editor, who would make them much better.

kev, to random
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1984, the classic book from George Orwell, has been on my to read list for many years. I finally got around to reading it.

https://kevquirk.com/1984

mcepl,
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@kev

I grew up in the Communist Czechoslovakia (I was 18 in 1989) and I remember how reading 1984 was one of those moments where I just couldn’t believe how it was possible that somebody who never lived outside his England (well, mostly) could understand the life under the Communist totality so well. Everpresence of That in the background of our world, but yet still people are mostly concerned with their ordinary lives. I find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel) even better, though.

luis_in_brief, to random
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Love/hate this conference because we just had a brief, in-talk, sidetrack to discuss, and collectively groan over, WITH LGPL-3.0-only.

mcepl,
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@luis_in_brief

Just dimly remember, but isn't GPL 3 never to be -only?

luis_in_brief, to random
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Need a European-audience-friendly version of this image. Poirot, but more sick of the bullshit.
https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/112281412800630779

mcepl,
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@luis_in_brief

No. Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be Björn Borg of a crime detection (are you old enough to understand the comparison?).

dabeaz, to random
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Welp, kid managed to get a drone stuck about 50ft up in a tree. Thus, further reconfirming my earlier claim (prior to him wasting his money on it) that drones are, in fact, the worst toy in the whole toy universe.

mcepl,
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@dabeaz

Why that? That’s the purpose Led Zeppelin specifically wrote “Immigrant Song” for.

mcepl, to random
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Ten years ago this week, Brendan was forced to resign as CEO of .

Article on First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/04/the-anti-fragile-brendan-eich

(and my own blogpost from that time https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/tocqueville-on-the-freedom-of-discussion-in-america.html).

mcepl,
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@djasa

Seems to me like kicking somebody who is already down, and one-sided accounts are always suspicious to me (and yes, I hate that Brave is based on Chromium). However, I don’t know enough to be able to say more. I have added the link to this to my blogpost, and that's probably all I can do about that.

mcepl,
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@sesivany @djasa

Certianly.

dabeaz, to random
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Current dilemma: Go get a donut now or wait until after I delete all of the SSL related code?

mcepl,
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@dabeaz

One now, second after!

myfear, to random
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: Under 1KB each! Super Tiny Icons are miniscule SVG versions of your favourite website and app logos https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons

mcepl,
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@myfear

There is no there! Who can help?

dabeaz, to random
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Pondering whether or not I should do more work on my Curio project (mainly simplification and removal of features). In hindsight, I think my main mistake with this project was assuming that the "community" might have something meaningful to contribute to it. So, if anything, I'd mostly reclaim it as something that scratches a personal itch and not anything more than that.

mcepl,
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@dabeaz

I thought that Curio was officially deprecated in favour of Trio. Wasn’t it?

mcepl,
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@dabeaz

OK, then it is a misunderstanding. We have based on this eliminated Curio from openSUSE (not that any other project depended on it). Whoops!

mcepl,
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@dabeaz

If a tree falls in a forest, … .

(Actually, it was for a moment in SLE, but when I discovered that, I had to step up and get rid of it; too much).

mcepl,
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@dabeaz I know there are many pages on the Internet (and that's where I got my impression from) consider Curio as an experiment, which was productized and further developed as Trio. Apparently it isn’t so, but based on that I thought that it was mostly for you as an experiment, perhaps educational project. But perhaps, as the dying Rabbi said, everything is different.

mcepl, to mastodon Czech
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Every new technology has to have a bridge to where people actually are (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/03/strategy-letter-iii-let-me-go-back/). So, if I would like to be interested in , but I am afraid that nobody I know is already there (and other question: how can I find whether somebody is there?), but I have plenty of people following me/I am following on or . Is there a gateway?

sesivany, (edited ) to linux
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Someone in the IT department of my bank (Komerční banka) is acting smarter than they should be.
When I tried to log in to the Internet banking, I got a message saying that "OS Linux is no longer secure" and recommending that I use an up-to-date OS, e.g. Windows 11.

I thought we were past these times. 🤦

mcepl, (edited )
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@sesivany

Perhaps they share code with my bank (ČSOB). ;)

Informing me, that my operating system (rolling distro, openSUSE/Tumbleweed) is too old, is charming. Yes, sir, it is whole two days old!

(at least, when I tell I am OK, they shut up and not bother me anymore)

davew, to random
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Back in the 80s before most of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that writing to other people, you would print it. And get this the printer could take its input from any of those writing tools. There were no tiny little text boxes. The printers didn’t come with their own editors, you had choice and therefore there was lots of competition. Amazing, right?

mcepl,
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@davew

  1. It is called https://indieweb.org/POSSE

  2. You cannot do it anyway. Nobody on Mastodon et al. wants to read your full blog posts ( has a value), so in the end you have to have at least two systems.

  3. Yes, that textbox is horrible. Use something better.

alcinnz, to random
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Issues with GitHub Fork process - Daniel Siepmann "Coding is Art":
https://daniel-siepmann.de/issues-with-github-fork-process.html

mcepl,
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@janriemer @alcinnz

If you want to see IMHO the best take on git-send-email-driven forge, have a look at (https://sr.ht).

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

mcepl,
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@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

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