chrism

chrism, 21 hours ago to random

The best way to attract users and developers to your project is through continual exhibits of humorlessness. Nothing says "come hack with us" like a scolding email.

chrism, 10 days ago to random

I've burned out many times, and the source of my burnout has always been that I badly want to operate at a higher cognitive level than the one I actually possess

chrism, 11 days ago to NixOS

Report on NixOS Governance Discussions

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/report-on-nixos-governance-discussions

#nix #nixos

chrism, 24 days ago to random

Apathy is underrated.

chrism, 28 days ago to random

If you want to do good, make sure the people who tell you you're doing good are actually good.

chrism, 1 month ago to random

I want an AI to find me YouTube videos with few views and poor production quality featuring an actual person talking about something they actually know and care about.

chrism, 1 month ago to random

The design of this Python "library" https://github.com/plotly/Kaleido/tree/master is a tour de force of how to abuse a system, attempting to shortcut packaging and maintenance duties, trying to make things easier than they can be made for both the packager and for the end user, failing at all of it. It's a Python "library" that ships an ELF binary in it. It's not a shared library., it's directly executable. The ELF binary is statically linked against Chromium. Because of course it is. 1/

hynek, 1 month ago to random

Gentlepeople. You realize that neither Jia Tan, nor Jigar Kumar, nor Hans Jansen are actual people, right!?

Given the time zone of activity, sophistication (high), and time frame (long), it’s pretty obvious this has been a CCP team effort and all names are just sock puppets.

chrism, 1 month ago to NixOS

If you're paranoid about your #NixOS system having xz-5.6.1 cooties, you might run:

nix-store --query --referrers \
$(ls /nix/store|grep 'xz-5.6.1$'|xargs realpath|tr '\n' ' ')

... should print all packages that refer to any xz-5.6.1 on the system. Probably wanna run a nix-collect-garbage -d first.

Alternately use 'nix run "nixpkgs#nix-tree"' press / to search for xz-5.6.1 and navigate to one, then press "w" for why-depends.

hynek, 1 month ago to random

Of the many things that make me pessimistic about the human race, people invariably rating the delivery when they’re supposed to be rating the product and vice versa is really high up.

mkennedy, 2 months ago to apple

I am so here for this. Apple is a bully and one with incredibly thin skin at that. #apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI1TlBfPjQs

preslavrachev, 2 months ago to Nostalgia

"Nearly everything we buy, use and own from the last couple of decades was built cheap and built to be disposed, so we could buy the next cheap thing to dispose so we can buy the next. Since 2004 I've probably been through 5-6 mice? At least three monitors. Four keyboards. And all were replaced not because I necessarily wanted to, but because they broke."

https://aftermath.site/ive-had-the-same-pc-speakers-for-20-years-almost-my-entire-adult-life?ref=feedle.world (found via @feedle

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#nostalgia #plannedobsolescence

hynek, 2 months ago to random

Seeing HashiCorp & Redis unravelling is painful but exactly what the end of free money does to corporate FOSS – no matter what promises were made before. Systems do what systems do. Let’s brace ourselves, this is just the beginning. https://mstdn.social/@msw/112130308202090850

chrism, 2 months ago to random

Every enterprise software project

https://youtu.be/Dt_C0AAGPts?si=Tg4sg1qmDExTgnKo