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rcarmo

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I fix things other people designed broken. @microsoft @Azure for Operators. Previously https://mastodon.social/@Sapo, https://mastodon.social/@vodafone, https://mastodon.social/@Accenture.

Opinions mine, at taofmac.com for 20+ years.

Doing #5g #linux #telco, as a UNIX/Mac guy trapped in a Windows world.

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film_girl, to Rabbits
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OK, this is a walkthrough of the weird VNC thing #rabbit #r1 uses for connecting accounts. Again, I'm not saying there is anything necessarily wrong with doing this. I am saying there are way better ways to do this. And the clipboard button workaround is very funny.
https://mastodon.social/

rcarmo,
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@film_girl that is the jankiest integration possible. Also, your password is known to the remote VNC server before you paste it in and they could conceivably log your keystrokes remotely... Engineering-wise, that is not even defensible, because I have to wonder how they're capturing the Spotify access token to bind it to your account (non of the answers are comfortable to contemplate).

rcarmo, to ai
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and have transformed computing indeed: we moved from a completely deterministic approach to telling computers what to do to one where we mumble various spells and incantations and hope they achieve something.

Truly a wonder of our age.

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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And here is this week's and news podcast:

https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/fedora-wants-ai-nvidia-wayland-is-fixed-us-gains-privacy

rcarmo,
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@thelinuxEXP Random question, since I don't remember you doing it: Have you looked at Fedora spins like https://projectbluefin.io and http://bazzite.gg?

rcarmo,
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@thelinuxEXP Well, Bazzite has been working great for me as a Steam server (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/03/2000), and I’m getting comfortable with Bluefin as a dev box because it's so much less hassle to manage. YMMV, but I think the immutable spins are on to something here.

ctietze, to random
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@rcarmo Can I ask for an accessibility tweak to your site's CSS?

I usually read your blog in my feed reader, but wanted to look up the link to your Gist with writing feedback prompts. So I was scanning a post for links on your site and had trouble finding them.

I have red/green color deficiency. To me, the link color blends in with the text. If you grayscale a screenshot ("Douglas Hofstadter" is a link, surname is grayscaled) you notice that there's no difference in tone to body text.

rcarmo,
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@ctietze hmmm. I chose red and removed underlines because I was sick of blue. Have you tried dark mode? I used blueish for that.

rcarmo,
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@ctietze ah, I seem to have gotten rid of blue in dark mode too. I’ll see what I can do, but messing with CSS is very far down my TODO. Maybe there’s some ARIA stuff I can turn on.

rcarmo,
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@ctietze yeah, I can add underlines on hover, for instance. It’s just that I have to rebundle all the CSS and rebuild the entire site…

rcarmo,
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@ctietze check the source. I bundle the entire CSS and version it to greatly improve caching and loading speeds (having a zillion CSS files is the worst possible thing). But I can do p:hover, so you'll only need to scrub the mouse over the text to see all the links pop out.

rcarmo,
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@ctietze try this:

.blog-namespace p:hover a.duplicate, a {
color: ;
text-decoration: underline;
-webkit-text-decoration-skip: ink;
text-decoration-skip: ink;
}

rcarmo,
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@ctietze that nested hover is already in the current CSS, but not without the underline. I’ll make sure it goes into the next bundle.

rcarmo, to random
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And then there were two. I think this is going to be my standard SBC desktop from now on…

rcarmo,
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@ctietze this is the Radxa Zero I use as a sidecar. This time I may snapshot the config.

JenMsft, to random
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When you're a frog, every day is 🐸

rcarmo,
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@JenMsft

rcarmo, to OpenAI
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Well, that escalated quickly.

Paging @cstross because he'll fully understand the degree of gibbering madness that lies just ahead.

rcarmo,
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@cstross not the best, I'm afraid. Not enough eldrich horror.

rcarmo,
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@cstross but I'm fine tuning the prompt for the “enthusiastic VC marketing pitch" version, and that should be properly horrifying and brain melting.

rcarmo, to random
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Work-life balance

rcarmo,
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@djlink Parallels for ARM, running on my Mac. Rock solid.

rcarmo, to random
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Oh goodness me. @cstross, you don't want to see this.

Anyway, Mixtral gets it somewhat right:

>>> no, what is the relation between Accelerando the book and lobsters
My apologies for any confusion earlier. In Charles Stross's science fiction novel "Accelerando," lobsters play a symbolic role in the story. The
character Manfred Macx discovers a group of sentient lobsters while exploring the Virtual Realities (VRs) created by an advanced artificial intelligence
named Panoply.

rcarmo, to proxmox
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Mad idea of the evening: Controlling my VMs with / :

rcarmo,
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@AngryAnt that is exactly my use case. But I don’t want to use the Proxmox API, I’d rather trust well defined MQTT messages.

rcarmo, to RaspberryPi
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Well, this is finally published: https://github.com/rcarmo/openscad-minidexed-rpi3a

JenMsft, to random
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I really love sunrise alarms - feels so much better to wake up to, esp when it's super dark in the winter

rcarmo,
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@JenMsft I have the exact same one!

geerlingguy, to random
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Look at my HUGE RACK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1-9JRJ6UA (moving vlog , new rack and move-in day!)

rcarmo,
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@geerlingguy whoa. No content warning? :)

rcarmo, to internet
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This is getting a bit ridiculous

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