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Programmer and free/libre software enthusiast. This is my primary account on the Fediverse. See my website for an authoritative list of accounts.
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5am, to linux
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I'm curious to know how others version control their private configuration files / docs / wiki. For now, I've created a #Gitea #Docker stack on my home network. Instead of copying the files I want to track into another folder and pushing from there, I've created hard links. Any other suggestions? #git #config #versioncontrol #linux @gitea

me,

@5am I use a combination of GNU stow and a private self-hosted @gitea repository.

me, to infosec

Sitting in a waiting room in a medical imaging place and they have an ad for their app to get your results on a mobile device. Among other things, it reads:
"Permanently store them with bank level encryption" (emphasis theirs)

In my experience, if banks are their gold standard of , I really don't want my medical data anywhere near this system. Just sayin'.

me, to random

Words I never thought I'd say while making a coffee: "hang on, I'll get the pliers."

Mrfunkedude, to ADHD
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This week with my brain...

Start a project.

Half way through get an idea for a different project and start working on it.

Half way through realize that you've forgotten about the first project and go back to work on it.

Realize that for whatever reason you just don't care about the first project.

Go back to work on the second project while feeling bad that you abandoned the first project.

Half way through get an idea for a different project and start working on it.

Rinse & repeat.

me,

@Mrfunkedude This feels strangely like every week with my ADHD brain, though I've made some decent headway on my current project.

eniko, to random
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python is a great language until you realize that you have to somehow distribute your software to end users and that's the point at which i went from a heavy python user to a non-python user

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@eniko I just make sure my source can be easily compiled and distribute that with a good README.

This would probably not be the best approach of I were doing this commercially though.

me, to random

I have a complaint about #C.

I don't like that a literal 0 is accepted as a null pointer. I just spent an embarrassingly long time tracking down a segfault because in an attempt to zero out a buffer, I accidentally used memcpy(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf)) instead of memset(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf)).

The compiler should've been able to catch this.

me,

@m00dy Yeah, I haven't figured out acid, yet. I'm curious what the arguments in favour of that decision were though.

me,

@m00dy then I suppose my complaint is with C itself. ;)

Binder, to random
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Considering picking up Haskell & Kotlin so that I can be annoyed at myself in more languages.

me,

@ashtardeza @Binder I work primarily in Haskell. It does take some time to fully wrap one's head around it.

augieray, to random
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I dedicate this post to everyone who keeps saying, “COVID is just the flu now.”

In the most recent complete report weeks:

hospitalizations: 15,756
hospitalizations: 1,607

COVID deaths: 1,262
Flu deaths: 14

Most COVID deaths in a week THIS YEAR: 3,866

Most flu deaths in a week SINCE 2019: 1,048

Yep, exactly the same!

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

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@augieray It's also worth noting that if these numbers are reliable, the COVID mortality rate is about 10x higher than the flu (8.01% vs. 0.871%)

Edit: 9.19 times higher, but I digress.

davidaugust, to scifi
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A very specific reaction.

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@silverwizard Weirdly, in high school, I was "Ian's brother".

Or at least I was in OAC (when he started grade 9). Before that, I was that weird guy in the corner with the laptop.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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i’m testing out the DuckDuckGo browser for iOS. Can someone tell me why I shouldn’t be using this browser?

Thanks.

me,

@jud @Mrfunkedude yup, use the tool that works best for you. It might be different from the tool that works best for someone else, and that's okay.

me,

@airwhale @Mrfunkedude though not completely untarnished.
www.techradar.com/news/duckduc…

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Are you ready to go?

me,

@Mrfunkedude I don't know where this is going, but I want to be a part of it.

me, to random

Katy and I have made the trek out to this little place downtown Kitchener almost every Sunday for the past several months now. Every time we do, We're once again shocked at how good it is. You'd think we'd have just gotten over it by now, but not so.

me, to random

Thinking about looking into Matrix, even though I still don't understand what it offers that XMPP doesn't, primarily because I can get an account as part of my @SDF membership. What clients do y'all recommend? I need one for Android, and one that will run in a GNU/Linux (Debian) terminal.

TechConnectify, to random
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Who you callin' pinhead?

(it's a new video!)

https://youtu.be/ue-1JoJQaEg

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@TechConnectify @alcinnz I suppose some of the relays you covered could also be considered memory (e.g.: the A, Z, T, E, and C relays)?

vwbusguy, to ruby
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These are the two lines of code (minus some constants and file operations) that saved me a while lot of tediousness, today...

It ended up being a bit more involved than my post earlier, but was able to script it to automate the patching and PRs. It looks terrible, but I'm pretty happy with the end result.

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@vwbusguy I'm confused about what's happening by the third character of the regex. That's impressive. I didn't think a question mark could follow an open paren unless it was an escaped literal.

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@shellsharks I've been participating in @SDF's Plan9 bootcamp, but since I've finished the current challenges I was just reading random documentation and tweaking my account today.

me,

@shellsharks It's very different from what I'm used to, but I kind of like it. It feels like a solution in search of a problem at the moment.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Hey Linux fans. I've got a question.

What do you think Linux provides, that Windows can not, to the average user aside from a smaller footprint on their hard drive?

I await your response.

me,

@Mrfunkedude I'm curious as to what these two programs are.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Quickly. While no one else is tooting!

Tell me, what made you smile today?

me,

@Mrfunkedude Figured out how to transfer files off of an old TOPS-20 system using the Kermit protocol.

me, to random

It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.

I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.

Edit: typo

Mrfunkedude, to random
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The Fedi is slooooow today.

What's up with that? C'mon people ENTERTAIN ME!!!

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@Mrfunkedude
juggles flaming chainsaws

me,

I have edited the post to include a sixth part that recently came out.

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