Gregory's Server
People who put "Git" on their résumé as a skill are precisely the people, whose git log looks like this:
$ git log --oneline
reformat code
fix last time
fix
fix all
implement
Initial commit
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I just got the best idea ever. In my side job, I have to manage a lot of PCs, and when an error comes up, I need to look it up online. By default, DuckDuckGo comes with a bunch of settings I don't like. So I redirected a subdomain of mine to the DuckDuckGo bookmarklet: when I go to ddg.kytta.dev, it redirects me to the search page set up in the way I like it. All it takes is a very minimal Vercel config: https://github.com/kytta/ddg/blob/main/vercel.json I was cleaning up my code folder and stumbled upon a website project I didn't touch since December 2020, so, two years. Nothing extraordinary, just a #Pug + #Sass + #Bootstrap portfolio website, built with #Gulp. Well, after trying for about 30 minutes, I still couldn't bring it to build properly. It was error upon error. 🙄 This is why I dislike the #JavaScript ecosystem so much. Even in #Python, it wouldn't be that critical, let alone something like #C or #Java. Yesterday, it was Gulp, today, it is Vite, tomorrow, it is esbuild or Rome or whatever else gets invented. And after two years, all of that is dead and unrecoverable. ‘So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.’ This is gold. https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker @kytta ah yes, now I remember why I don't miss the #CorporateCube. I did my 25yrs hard-time in the cube. I'm contemplating whether to purchase a simple #NAS for home. Mostly for photo storage and backups. I can get my hands on either #WD #MyCloud Home or WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra with quite a big discount. Does anyone have experience with those and could recommend (or advise against) any of those two? I like how slim and cheap the Home is, but I don't like it having only one hard drive with no RAID possible. But the Ultra is twice the price 🙈 @kytta twice the price for twice the storage (raid) seems reasonable. True backup should ideally follow the 3 2 1 rule - There should be 3 copies of data on 2 different media with 1 copy being off-site. Home NAS is convenient for device sharing and immediate access, but I generally recommend a service like Backblaze for backup. I am writing my bachelor's thesis this semester, and I had some trouble finding good papers to cite. I decided to ask #ChatGPT about it. Prompt: I am writing a bachelor's thesis and need help with the sources. The topic is X. Can you recommend me a couple of papers to cite? ChatGPT: […] Here are a few that I think would be relevant: *four non-existent papers*. This could be a failure, but as I was looking up non-existent papers, I stumbled upon some actually good ones. A win in my book 🤷🏻♂️
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@kytta Which leads to the long-winded humour of: @kytta non-existing references ("hallucination") is a known issue of #ChatGPT. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672 I finally got myself a monitor for Christmas / New Years. It's 32″, and it's so overwhelming to work with it after being stuck with a 14″ laptop 😅 Anyone who has ever contributed to @kev's #512KBClub, have you also just received an email in Chinese telling that the repo “doesn't have any security risks” or am I the only one?  @kytta Another package: It'll arrive on Tuesday. Saturday (today): Both package arrive. Lovely. 2 hours spent writing a custom #Django migration for a huge model refactor And oh my God, it was worth it, since I have already found two bugs I would've just miss otherwise. Learning a lot along the way, too: #pytest, #faker, #FactoryBoy. So exciting 🤩 I think I definitely picked the right career path 😅 The video actually means “Learn DevOps in 60 days, and on the day 15 we'll learn YAML”, but I legitimately first thought that the author needs 60 days to explain YAML 🥴 Dear website developers, if your #JavaScript code fails to execute in my browser, it's not because I am using #InternetExplorer. Sincerely, Some things never change. Like #LastPass being an insecure piece of garbage 🫣 https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-incident/ So many new people come to Fosstodon, and so many of y’all have incredibly beautiful personal homepages! 😍 Every single one inspires me to finally finish mine. Maybe one day… :D I have really f-d up today. I wanted to create a new OpenPGP key for me, which would use ECC instead of RSA. So I did it on my offline machine, and then I wanted to move them onto my YubiKey. I tripel-checked that I have the backups of both the new and the old key, and did overwrite keys on my YubiKey. Well, the backup of the old key was apparently done after such transfer, so now I have basically lost my primary subkeys :blobcatnotlikethis: I can't decrypt older files and email messages any more, and I can't even add [S] subkeys to the old key because of some weird SHA1 signature that keeps popping up :ablobcatcry: I've spent the last four hours tinkering with all this, but I think there is no escape and no cure and all is lost, forever :/ @kytta I just read this older article (linked from another post): https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-matter-with-pgp/ PGP was great, but nowadays causes more headache than help. (I know this isn't strictly a problem with PGP, but it's adjacent.)   @kytta @musl @alpinelinux Thanks! Migrating project accounts has been on my TODOs for a while. |
@kytta Can confirm, this is true.
@kytta Mine is a bit like that, especially the private repos. At least with the public ones, I try harder to think of synonyms for "fix". :P