Hot take after an afternoon un-fsck-ing a #CMake project: *Config.cmake files are so much harder to debug than *.pc#PKGConfig files, so not only are you trying to make sense of a Turing complete project definition but all the transitive dependencies that happen to use CMake too
@Conan_Kudo for the 10% of the most complicated use cases maybe. But when something goes wrong with meson+pkgconfig the issue is obvious. With *Config.cmake... definitely not
It's Chef vs Ansible and Gradle vs Maven/Leiningen all over again
@lanodan@Conan_Kudo yeah... ideally a build system has an extension mechanism. But I still maintain that #KISS should be a guiding principle. Whether meson might be too inflexible, maybe
But yeah on the RISC V issue the RISC V people themselves are ... causing unnecessary trouble with their weird defaults
I used to be keen on that architecture but now am souring on it. On that @Conan_Kudo was right several years ago 🫠
@freakazoid being a US tech hub probably is a factor? I'm reminded of all the billboards reflecting various tech fads.
More investment and more interconnection - BART is louder than the sister metro in DC, Caltrain station is not connected to BART but only to M, BART doesn't reach much of the peninsula (by design, thanks snooty local councils)
@webology@kfdm Upgrade Django seems to think Django 3.2 is EOL already (since April 1) while upstream Django just says April and eoldate interprets that as end of April, which one is right?
In-person seating is limited with extensive COVID-19 precautions (including mandatory masking, self-testing negative, and a venue hosting MERV-13 filters), and the event will be livestreamed for global viewing (with ASL interpretation available).
Nice. I missed out on the time when mandatory testing was in place, and now mandatory masking is also very rare 🤕
We have a peer review crisis in computer science, and recent evidence of ChatGPT written peer reviews is just more evidence. Meanwhile, here are things I've been hearing re: benefits of gen AI:
(1) We can draft papers faster!
(2) We can do research faster for things like qualitative analysis of large data!
(3) We might not even need to run human subjects studies, since we can use AI to simulate participants!
Anyway, expect the "way too many papers being submitted" problem to get way worse.
Did someone calculate the carbon footprint of the advertising industry yet? Banning it – and making companies pay their advertising budget as taxes that go directly into journalism and culture – feels like an easy win to me.
@partim one interesting thought exercise is to check how many servers Meta operates (the numbers are not exactly public but you can extrapolate based on the public DC locations) and compare with how much supporting the sort of userbase and the kind of posts and commenting activity if ads are not involved.
(Modulo how much algorithmic feed costs to run, and automated content moderation, but those who dislike ad-based social media tend to dislike algorithmic feed anyway)
"The time for tinkering around the edges has passed, and like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the only hope to be found today is in seeking to tear down the edifice the tech industry has erected and to build new foundations for a different kind of internet that isn’t poisoned by the requirement to produce obscene and ever-increasing profits to fill the overflowing coffers of a narrow segment of the population."
@aral GNOME 45 is nice and performant, but I had to install this plus find another way to inhibit sleep when it's connected to an external monitor and I turn it off 😐
@zobier it should be up in the next few days hopefully! FOSDEM auto-records all talks, so in the best case scenario of the speakers finding nothing wrong with it they should be put up soon (and the talk page updated)
@raymondpert I have been wondering / half dreading when a columnist will write this up since the news broke
A bit unfortunate he lumped together critical race theory and identity politics. I have yet to see a non-partisan take of anything wrong with the former.
Remember how I posted that our car got totaled a couple weeks ago? We bought a new car partially with the insurance payout from that (well, still used, but by far the newest car we've ever owned). It's a plug-in hybrid, which is completely perfect for our rural living situation! I'm excited.
But WOW, it's the first car I've ever had that's not a beater, and it feels like driving a freaking spaceship. I think I'm going to actually have to sit down and read the owner's manual. Any tips?
