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creepy_owlet

@creepy_owlet@mastodon.online

Working on Ironic for OpenShift and sometimes OpenStack, maintaining openstack/osauth rust crates. FOSS, hiking, camping, bouldering and music.

An owl from Düsseldorf. Toots in EN, DE, RU. He/him.

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xahteiwi, to random
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Serious question: why is it that so many people apparently have real problems adopting ISO 8601 dates and UTC, in a professional context?

As in, are those somehow fundamentally incompatible with human nature? Or do people just completely lack the cultural awareness to understand that some of their colleagues are used to a different date format than they are, or live in a different timezone, or don't use daylight saving time?

Related:
https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2023/02/10/brown-mms/

creepy_owlet,
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@rhoot @mattcen @xahteiwi this is exactly the reason UTC is not always as great as it sounds, especially for recurring meetings.

creepy_owlet, to politics
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It's driving me absolutely nuts how both American and German progressive circles are indulging in this delusional and childish political take "the Good Party is not perfect so let's not vote at all or vote for a clearly hopeless marginal party and then pretend we're not to blame when the Bad Party wins". Fucking kindergarten.

creepy_owlet,
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@deshipu definitely, but you're not going to fix it in several months (USA) or one year (Germany).

mattb, to random
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One of the few good things to happen during the pandemic: they opened our town's main shopping street to humans, and it was wonderful.

Then they closed it again, of course.

creepy_owlet,
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@tanepiper @mattb my wife and I have discussed it many times: these times had some unusually refreshing vibes to them. The main street of our city was calm and nearly free of parked cars. Everyone picked up cool hobbies.

Were it not for so many people dying.

creepy_owlet, to random
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How does anything manages to burst into flames exactly before a feature freeze? Asking for one very frustrated engineer.

creepy_owlet,
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@deshipu interestingly, it's not just that. Somehow, many factors manage to align each time.

vadim, to random
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>kaltura.com

Imagine picking the worst possible name for a streaming platform

creepy_owlet,
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@vadim @gbraad have you checked the quality though? Maybe they're just honest.

deshipu, to random
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    creepy_owlet,
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    @deshipu I don't think our brain is different enough from brains of other mammals for the answer to be "no".

    A good question is whether we can notice their neurodivergence.

    gbraad, to random
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    The Netflix version of 3-Body Problem is much closer to the original book. Sure, there are rewrites, but they improve the story. Very different from the trash that Tencent created, with weird Tiktok references and stretching the first book into 30 episodes!

    creepy_owlet,
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    @gbraad good to know, I've just been wondering if I should watch it

    creepy_owlet, to Kubernetes
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    TFW when you hit an issue that you believe everyone writing a operator (at least in ) should hit more or less immediately https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/issues/2733.

    And now I'm really wondering if I'm missing something really huge and obvious, or people are just suffering, or.. what?

    creepy_owlet,
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    Once again, I'm wishing that 99% of all documentation, presentations and blog posts was not on the level of "Hello World".

    creepy_owlet,
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    @deshipu well, a few people are clearly doing sophisticated stuff, I wonder how they got to that level

    ElleGray, to random
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    tesla owners finally complaining about some of the cars' features bc apparently your spouse can watch your car's progress on the app at home and see where you stop. you can even see which seats are being used so "both backseats" suddenly registering on the "heat map" is giving away the cheating lol

    creepy_owlet,
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    @ElleGray wait, you're saying that total surveillance and lack of privacy is harmful for everyone? No way. We need to fix it with AI on a blockchain!

    elmiko, to python
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    i absolutely love for whipping up quick automation. i'm doing some cleaning of movie files locally and in about 30 minutes i have an app that encodes my ffmpeg commands with nice cli flags and even doctests XD

    is there a shell that incorporates python as the shell language?

    creepy_owlet,
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    @elmiko you're on a dangerous path, I'd leave this tool to what it does the best :)

    I mean... I understand not wanting bash. But you probably don't want Python in this role either.

    xahteiwi, to random
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    Anyone at Kubecon EU right now who was also at the 2014 Paris OpenStack Summit?

    I'd be interested in your comparison.

    creepy_owlet,
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    @xahteiwi me! The scale here is mind-blowing. As far as I remember, the Paris summit felt cozier. Food was somewhat of a problem as well though 😁

    I am also surprised by some organization decisions here today. E.g. not having enough coffee stands, or places to sit down (let alone hacking lounges), or maps of this enormous venue.

    creepy_owlet, to Russia
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    I'm actually curious why decided to allocate himself only 87% of "votes" and not closer to 97%. He's already shown that he can do anything he wants. And while 13% doesn't sound like a lot, it's still more than 10 million people officially against him. Not the unity he wants to see in the face of a conquest war against the West.

    Anyway, join me in counting those who report on the "elections" as if they were real.

    isotopp, to random German
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    https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/19/python-slots.html

    In which I am trying to check my understanding of Python and find that I know nothing.

    Something makes my Dict based objects almost as small as my Slots based objects, but I don't know what.

    Also, I am storing around 400 bytes worth of data in an object, but it's either 1.6 KB or even 3.3 KB in size.

    creepy_owlet,
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    @isotopp may not explain the discrepancy itself, but I wonder if asizeof takes into account free capacity in dictionaries, which is allocated but not filled with elements. I cannot clearly understand it from their docs.

    xahteiwi, to random German
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    Der Wien-Brüssel hält übrigens um etwa halb elf außerplanmäßig in Freilassing. Damit die Bundespolizei den gesamten Zug nochmal aufweckt, um Reisedokumente zu kontrollieren.

    Schengen? Was war noch mal Schengen? Ach so ja, das liegt nicht in Bayern.

    creepy_owlet,
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    @kurr @xahteiwi nicht wirklich kontrolliert, aber es gibt gigantische Staus, da Autos nur mit (weniger als) 30 kmh durch die zweispurige Kontrollstelle hinkommen. Zumindest in Kufstein.

    creepy_owlet, to random
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    10 years anniversary at the company is apparently important enough for the CEO to write you a personal email. I guess we can have a small celebration at home too :)

    isotopp, to random German
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    Wisst ihr was cool und gruselig zugleich ist?

    Elektrische Bagger.

    Extrem leise, extrem leistungsstark, so viel besser als die alten Dieselblaster. Aber man hält unwillkürlich Sicherheitsabstand…

    creepy_owlet,
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    @isotopp sieht geil aus. Bei 18000 Eur jedoch viel zu teuer (es gibt billigere Wohnwagen).

    creepy_owlet,
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    @isotopp klar, aber vor ein paar Jahren würde ich so was in Betracht ziehen (wenn es nicht wie ein Kleinauto kosten würde).

    xahteiwi, to random
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    How an industry managed to wilfully discard 20+ years of collective experience in software packaging to come up with these containerised kludges is beyond my understanding.
    https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/111780651210584811

    creepy_owlet,
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    @xahteiwi @FunkyBob I don't see any reasons to expect dnf/apt etc to become better if you throw more developers at them. They do their job and do it very well.

    It's not their job to solve problems like "I don't want the proprietary Slack/Zoom guts all over my filesystem (and to give its installer a root access)". Or "this software requires libraries that are too ancient for my Fedora / too new for my Debian".

    creepy_owlet,
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    @xahteiwi @FunkyBob how is lxc any better? And how does it solve the problem from the software author's perspective?

    creepy_owlet, to python
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    TIL: 1) You can create a hard link to a symlink,
    2) allows to opt out of it in os.link, but it's currently broken: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/81793

    Absolutely cursed.

    creepy_owlet, to random
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    Bloody computers...

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