eniko, 10 days ago to random

The problem with outsourcing your chat or forum to third parties is that you don't own them. That is correct

The problem with self hosting those things yourself is that 1. nobody will use them because why aren't you just using this 3rd party app that everyone is already using and 2. have fun doing your own spam control

Seems like a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation if you ask me

khionu, 16 days ago to embedded

Explicitly seeking recs

I'm wanting to polish my #embedded skills, but I want to make sure I don't miss critical areas. The main focus I want to make sure I'm good at atm is #PCB design and relevant #electrical eng.

I highly prefer thorough online articles, but books are also fine. I prefer avoiding YT videos because I do lots of back tracking to reinforce understanding.

Thanks in advance!

khionu, 23 days ago to random

Hey all, I have a referral code for Pixel Dice - TL;DR really well designed Bluetooth/RGB dice. While the software story is still evolving, it's already pretty impressive what you can do. It's all OSS, too. I have a couple already, and can say they're 100% what they promised 3 years ago on their Kickstarter, which is an amazing success story.

They could use your support to keep going
https://gamewithpixels.com/inspiration/?raf=ref9668958

khionu, 26 days ago to random

Work that fails to get tracked is work that people can't use to support their contributions. Putting out fires often gets lost in the sea of all the other work, but is distinctly critical compared to planned P0s. We've chosen at #Edera to adopt "P-1", to highlight the priority of unplanned but essential work.

khionu, 28 days ago to random

https://save-nix-together.org/

This is what revolution looks like. This is change, immediate and unavoidable. I'm proud of those in the Nix community standing up like this.

I encourage @nixos_org to take this very seriously. This is a make/break point for the Nix Community, and your choices will have immediate, drastic repercussions.

You will hurt people, it's unavoidable at this point, but are you going to hurt and fracture your community, or a small set of people who led you here to begin with?

fasterthanlime, 1 month ago to random

brb moving to zed preview

https://zed.dev/releases/preview

khionu, 1 month ago to rust

I'm absolutely floored. I've been hired by Edera as a Founding Principal Engineer!! Looking forward to working with @alex @ariadne and Emily Long (no masto) bringing guaranteed memory safety and stronger security to virtualization. #fedihired #womenintech #edera #krata #rust

Elucidating, 1 month ago to random

The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.

khionu, 1 month ago to random

Someone please tell me why Windows thinks it's acceptable to reboot 5 times for a fresh install.

(This is a trap, I will drag you with me to the psych wing, and we'll get the help we deserve)

hazelweakly, 1 month ago to random

I love explaining complicated subjects in a quippy way that isn't necessarily wrong. For example:

Kubernetes is 20 while-true loops in a trench coat pretending to be a container orchestration platform.

What are your favorite quippy ways to explain a complicated topic? It could be anything! I'm just curious what y'all have :)

timClicks, 2 months ago to random

Who needs a sufficiently advanced compiler when one has sufficiently competent engineers?

hazelweakly, 2 months ago to random

Writing me the good code todayyy

Set all variables to their known defaults if they aren't already set

set_if_unset() {
key=$1
current_value="${!key}"
array_value="${base_variable_defaults["$key"]-${derived_variable_defaults["$key"]}}"
if [[ $current_value =~ "WARNING: UNSET" ]]; then
printf -v "$key" -- "$array_value"
fi
}

khionu, 2 months ago to rust

I'm still looking for contract work! Architecture for computer services and products of pretty much any kind, software and infrastructure. Rust and Elixir are strong suits, distributed systems as well. I'm available for short term and long term contracts.

No crypto.

#fedihire #rust #elixir #infrastructure #architecture

whitequark, 2 months ago to random

what does it mean for DisplayPort to be "open-source"

what is the source of DisplayPort

recursive, 2 months ago to random

Still amazing to me that I did a couple gender-presentational things that alleviated some dysphoria in the past couple months and basically further confirmed that my gender is basically "androgynous dyke".

It's going to be really wild someday when I finally complete all the major quests.

eniko, 3 months ago to random

why are blender tutorials all like "now click here. now press this button. not connect these nodes"

my dudes. how about making a blender tutorial that actually explains what shit is and what you're doing

recursive, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Technical words that sound worse to people outside of that particular field:

degenerate (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneracy#Science,_mathematics,_and_medicine)
regime (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_shift)

I'm trying to think of others. Please no outright slurs, we can let those die.

(Edit: folks on Discord mentioned:
"reaping zombie children" (Unix process management)
"performed an illegal operation" (computers in general)
"exploit" (compare resource usage vs. computer security)
)

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Is it possible to build and operate a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) without crypto / blockchain? How would you do it?

Keen for ideas!

hazelweakly, 3 months ago to random

Anyone else struggle with feeling like that sound extremely rude online if they don't use emojis constantly as punctuation? Just me? 👀