Looks like installing the bsky pds server is done via the "curl this opaque installer.sh and run it". This isn't necessarily so bad, but if you look inside the installer.sh it turns out to silently install Docker. That's… interesting. I feel like that's a surprising thing for a script to do silently and in the background. Isn't that kinda heavyweight?
Strange science facts: In nuclear power, functional nuclear fission reactors were constructed as early as 1942, yet nuclear fusion remains elusive and can only be achieved for short periods. In jazz, on the other hand, jazz fusion was invented in the early 70s, and jazz fission remains purely theoretical even today
Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on
In UI circles you sometimes see a (usually derogatory) label of "hover tunnel" given to a UI widget, like a clickless contextual menu, which requires you hover over an element then continue to hover over specific elements in order to keep the widget active. I would like to propose the term "Reverse Hover Tunnel" for the current YouTube front page, where you must move the mouse in strict and meticulous paths to avoid it beginning to autoplay random crap, possibly forever showing it as 10% watched
Due to the extremely large number of basic functions "systemd" has usurped from other parts of the OS, a natural and interesting project would be to see if systemd can now exist independently apart from Linux, or rather, to ascertain what is the most minimal alternate kernel that could serve as a life support system for successfully running systemd. Since calling this "System System" would be absurd, the most logical name for such a project would be "d OS", or "DOS". In this Mastodon post I will
@mcc If you really hate systemd there are alternative distros like Devuan: https://www.devuan.org/ I'm not a fan of systemd, but I think it's too late to go back now - too many things rely on it. The best we can hope is that its limited as much as possible to core functionality.
By the way, if of interest: Here ( https://github.com/mcclure/twitter-archiver/tree/cmdline-only ) is a command-line (Node) version of @darius 's Twitter-archiver web app ( https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ ). The advantage is the cmdline version is easier to use with very large files (the web version has a 2GB cap because of browser limitations). The idea is you feed in the archive .zip Twitter burps out when you download your Tweets, and it spits out a web-friendly static site. I am still tweaking on the layout and such for my own purposes.
By the way, if of interest: Here ( https://github.com/mcclure/twitter-archiver/tree/cmdline-only ) is a command-line (Node) version of @darius 's Twitter-archiver web app ( https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/). The advantage is the cmdline version is easier to use with very large files (the web version has a 2GB cap because of browser limitations). The idea is you feed in the archive .zip Twitter burps out when you download your Tweets, and it spits out a web-friendly static...
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@mcc especially if you use NSIS and some of its more... obscure... features. You can do some amazing stuff if you're comfortable with assembly and/or ghidra, but it's far from easy
@mcc The absolute worst part is writing migration guides when you've spent too long having fun introducing new features. I have made my bed, now I must sleep in it.
The Tautological Algorithm is the only currently known O(0) algorithm, and is an algorithm for creating a universe. The algorithm works on the principle that in order to be invoked, there must already exist a universe for it to be invoked in, and it supplies this pre-existing universe as output.
“...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Used to some things had rounded edges and some did not and I think that was pretty good but now everything has rounded edges and now that everything has rounded edges I want nothing to have rounded edges. I'm edged out. I simply cannot take any more edges
Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:
A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.
Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.
Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA
Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:
A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.
Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.
@mcc while this is nice to hear, and not unexpected, i must object to calling this "nerdsniping" as if linux users were somehow bamboozled into doing free work here.
the linux community operates under an unwritten cooperative social contract: users co-own the software & in return go the extra mile to improve it. even when the game provided is closed and for-sale, users still hold up their end of the deal; mostly out of habit, but it also renders the developer indebted to the community.
@mcc isn't that because a lot of Linux users work in IT and are themselves developers? I'm a dev myself and I frequently report bugs I encounter in any software I use.
Consider: People often remark that cats often suddenly stop and stare in strange directions, seemingly looking at nothing at all. What humans don't understand is that the cat is in fact not looking, but *listening*; the cat has heard something, and is turning its head so its ears are cupped in the direction of the sound.
Implication: If elves were real, they would often as a group swiftly turn their heads to apparently stare at nothing at all, swiveling their ears slightly as they do so
@mcc Euh, not sure I follow you ??? Mastodon is an OS agnostic software. I mean sure you will have different implemetations according to the OS but you will find a client and server software for all OSes (hem server for MacOS ?? not sure)
Something really cool that dropped on the FPGAming discord this weekend: Someone named Tom Salvo is making an FPGA core for UXN! (That's the 100 Rabbits fantasy console: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) This allows UXN to be run on Analogue Pocket and potentially later on MiSTers. This is the first pure-hardware (well, gateware, but that counts) implementation of a UXN execution environment I am aware of.
Something really cool that dropped on the FPGAming discord this weekend: Someone named Tom Salvo is making an FPGA core for UXN! (That's the 100 Rabbits fantasy console: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) This allows UXN to be run on Analogue Pocket and potentially later on MiSTers. This is the first pure-hardware (well, gateware, but that counts) implementation of a UXN execution environment I am aware of.
Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.
The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:
Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.
The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:
@mcc this was such a relief to read. I never doubted that I would be reading such a thing but it was still great to read it. thank you, thank you, thank you for everything.
1 AM. I cannot sleep. Went looking for cursed content on the internet. Succeeded harder than I intended to. Now I still can't sleep, but for a different reason.
@mcc I am so glad that I just started learning enough about working with Cmake just enough to understand this isn’t just compiling C code for raytracing using Cmake, but is indeed actually delightfully cursed
"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…
[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"
"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…
> Kimathi Bradford, a 16-year-old Oakland tech repair intern, has looked into whether there was a way to replace the outdated Chromebook software with a non-Google brand, but it ended up being a lot of work, Kimathi said, and the open-source replacement wasn’t up to par. > “It’s like the Fritos of software,” he said. “No one really wants to use it.”
*blink-blink* I beg your pardon?
If I have to choose between "not up to par" and "absolutely unacceptable" like sending thousands of laptops to e-waste, I will always choose the former any day.
> Kimathi Bradford, a 16-year-old Oakland tech repair intern, has looked into whether there was a way to replace the outdated Chromebook software with a non-Google brand, but it ended up being a lot of work, Kimathi said, and the open-source replacement wasn’t up to par. > “It’s like the Fritos of software,” he said. “No one really wants to use it.”
@mcc@Sonic_Little Since there is an excess of the same hardware would it be possible to start a volunteer effort to support a Linux distro dedicated to security updates and drivers for that specific hardware? A community effort that allows older systems to have a new life while still getting security updates? We have charitable organizations why not open sourced projects to do the same?
@mcc This planned death of technology, for no real reason, other than to force the purchase of more technology, is absolutely disgusting. It should be illegal.
Looks like installing the bsky pds server is done via the "curl this opaque installer.sh and run it". This isn't necessarily so bad, but if you look inside the installer.sh it turns out to silently install Docker. That's… interesting. I feel like that's a surprising thing for a script to do silently and in the background. Isn't that kinda heavyweight?