One of my sons—who is an avid PC gamer—is letting me use a previous-generation gaming rig he built to see if I want to buy it for use as my primary #Linux workstation. It’s a pretty decent box (Intel Core i7-12700K CPU, NVIDIA GPU, M.2 NVMe, 32GB of RAM).
I’m divided WRT which distribution & DE to install. I used #Fedora w/ #GNOME for quite a while, but I’ve also recently been using #ArchLinux w/ #KDE. Is #Ubuntu easier to get NVIDIA drivers working? (I honestly don’t know.)
@scottslowe I don't have experience with NVIDIA, but honestly, Arch has the best documentation on their wiki and great support on their forums.
I'd check the Arch Wiki and forums to see if your GPU is specifically mentioned because their documentation and forums are the best nowadays (imho).
Do you use Encrypted Environment files in Laravel?
I think they are great for some special use cases, but given the prevalence of API keys and credentials found in repos, is it worth it to use them all the time?
There was a bit of a debate about this last time I posted it, so I'm curious to see how we're all feeling about them now. Or maybe I'm just being a old security grump? 🧐
@xakan yeah, character encoding is weird, all the mb_ functions deal with the "multi byte" encodings like utf-8, as a speaker of a language with accents (spanish), I always use those just in case :)
Color me surprised that #antivaxxers might not use the best digital security practices. BTW, if my burner email pops up in that leak, know that I signed up just to monitor this particularly bonkers group of antivaxxers.😂
Still very WIP, but I am revamping the #obsidian UI for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Dhivehi, Hebrew, Farsi, Syriac, Urdu.
So many little questions I had never thought about:
Which way does a "back" arrow go?
Do progress bars fill right-to-left?
Are slashes in paths reversed?
Do window buttons get mirrored on major OSes?
This has been an eye-opening experience. Using start/end values rather than left/right is something I will think about with every project going forward.
Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there
I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.
@eliocamp related to this, the book "Guerrilla Science: Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist" really changed my perception of what "doing science" and "research" really is about and how important answering the small questions is. Specially because contrary to many people's belief, there's still a ton of small questions we (humanity) have unanswered.
Yesterday I found a bug (thanks @hananc !) on my bot server that caused the posts from all the bots would only be delivered to the server of the first follower (🤡). It is now fixed so if you're wondering why now you see messages from some of the bots on bots.uy that you didn't previously, that's the reason.
It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.
Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.
I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.
