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danderson

@danderson@hachyderm.io

Software developer by day, other kinds of nerd the rest of the time. ADHD says current hobbies are 3D printers, building CNC machines, old computers in space, and general shitposting on whatever grabs my interest.

Nazis, TERFs, other terrible people: please go away, there's nothing for you here.

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kjaymiller, to random
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“Build Abuse Observability From Day 1”

expect abuse. You don’t have to be popular if you have these, then expect abuse will come.

AI is going to amplify this like the number of resumes it can apply for.

swelljoe, to linux
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I know people love hating on but there are so many things that are great about it. The journal is among the best (and the one that people seem to hate the most for reasons I find hard to relate to). Building a service with good logging is literally free, no code required, STDOUT/STDERR goes to the journal, you're done. Ingesting those logs into something like Loki is also free.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

ifixcoinops,
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Linux is a bit shit sometimes,

There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows.

If you're not happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post:

Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not actively malicious, it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff.

Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts.

There's my linux recommendation.

LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™

MLE_online, to random
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This is me! This is why I don't make youtube videos anymore!!

robpike, to random
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My occasional reminder that I once used a ROM burner that, upon power-up, announced on its bright red LED display: "RELF-TEST PASSED".

tef, to random
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i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

dsalo, to random
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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

danderson, to random
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Ask your doctor if yosys logic gate fuckery is right for you

sgf,
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@danderson For four, a GAL? Smaller footprint than an EEPROM, bit less overkill than a microcontroller?

shauna, to random
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Bless you @brainwane for getting all of #PyConUS singing Solidarity Forever

nano, to random
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linux gaming is at a point where every game that doesnt work on linux is a game that i would not install on my computer anyway because i dont feel like having 4 different kinds of exploitable kernel-level rootkits on the machine i store my entire life on

martin, to random
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Our university deployed a mail filter that rewrites URLs in emails to redirect them via a service that checks for bad websites. Somebody clever worked out that PGP-signed emails are exempt from the rewrite rule, so now people are starting their emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" even though they haven't used PGP at all, just to fool the filter 😂

Anybody sending malware links has probably also worked out that trick by now, thereby rendering the entire filter pointless

ghislaine, to random
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Inspired by @danderson I have a PSA for a cheap and easy thing to have on hand in case medical services asks for it: a lolipop.

My college roommate's guest went into diabetic shock in our room. Luckily, Campus Safety had a fellow with a diabetic wife who overheard the call and was in our room within minutes. He asked us for a lolipop or something sweet he could safely use to get sugar into our diabetic friend. I have kept lollipops in a centralized place ever since.

ZevEisenberg, to random
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User: please render fifty million polygons with complex shading and texturing
Computer: no problem

User: here’s 4.2 MB of JSON
Computer: oh no

ktemkin, to random
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apparently there are rumors of lix being “lesbian nix”* and I can only say that were this the case, I would expect the project to be entirely coated in queer iconography down to a bright pink color scheme

checkmate, atheists

PearlescentFerret, to random

Announcing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus.

lzg, to random
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i watched the apple ad everyone is hating on and I hate it too. it feels bad man.

lzg,
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"we'll take everything you love and literally crush it into a soul-less piece of tech" is not the greatest advertising messages of all time

whitequark, to random
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"is assembly typed?", a hellthread on mastodon dot social locked by catherine webassembly after 42069 pages of heated debate

(https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112249686468017517)

ktemkin, to random
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Thanks so much to everyone who hung in this week as we’ve all worked to fix the state of the Nix community. It’s been a ride; but I think things are going to get better.

Here’s the last major piece of the puzzle — the product of several months of work from an absolutely incredible team. It’s not ready for a full announcement, but we’ve opened our beta so people who are fleeing the core Nix community have a place to go.

https://lix.systems

pid_eins, to random
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1️⃣0️⃣ Here's the 10th installment of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.

You might be aware of systemd-sysext: a component of systemd that can overlay immutable disk images (DDIs) on top of /usr/, to extend it in a secure, and again, immutable fashion. It has a companion tool systemd-confext that does the same over /etc/.

Qyriad, to random
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Very glad that we can finally publicly share something we've been working on for a while: https://lix.systems/

It's still a pre-release and we're still setting things up, so this isn't an Official Announcement or anything, but it's public now 🎉

flatcar, to random German
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Find out what's to love about systemd-sysext, and how we're using it in Flatcar:
https://flatcar.org/blog/2024/04/os-innovation-with-systemd-sysext/

It's a and a in one!

piegames, to random
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The #Lix homepage (https://lix.systems/) is really great and impressive. This is the kind of stuff which makes me feel welcome and at home.

If you are involved in the current #nix governance discussions, take notes. That's the bar you have to one-up if you want people to come back.

gsuberland, to random
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I propose a new law of computing: any IRC channel that includes a matrix bridge will tend towards all conversation becoming about the matrix bridge being broken

astrid, to random
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Ansible is a Lisp https://astrid.tech/2024/05/01/0/ansible-is-a-lisp/

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.

The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.

Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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AkaSci, (edited )
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Six months after it suffered a serious brain injury and after months of mind-boggling ultra-long-distance surgery, the Voyager 1 spacecraft walked and talked at full data rate today!

After transmitting a full memory readout on Friday at 40 bps, Voyager 1 switched to the science-mode 160 bps rate, which presumably the DSN site at Goldstone was able to receive and decode today.

Congrats and kudos to all who made it happen.
👏 :mastodance:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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