 Obsessed with the current bad Magic: the Gathering combo meta "Win the game for 30 mana assuming the Goldbach conjecture is true" "Force your opponent to factor an arbitrary integer at instant speed" "Force the judge to factor an RSA key to determine the outcome of a game" What's cooking on #SourceHut? September 2024 https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-09-16-whats-cooking-september-2024/  @drewdevault nice! but.... I don't know the workload but k8s you have a ton of working to manage... dhh follow another path for deploy containers Early notice for Redict 7.3.1 security release https://redict.io/posts/2024-09-16-redict-7.3.1-early-notice/ @drewdevault do you think you (or anyone else) will try to merge into redict the big performance boosts integrated on valkey 8.0 ? White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom | The Nation If you were educated in a predominately white culture you probably missed out on learning about the Haitian revolution. I highly recommend it as a subject for self study if so. We're aware of users experiencing issues accessing SourceHut. Our upstream network provider has reported an outage that affects us and is working on a solution. Ideally, a fix is expected within 15 minutes. Things appear to be coming back up. The issue is largely out of our control but the optimistic view is that it's back for good. Quoting a friend: "I had (on my hard drive r.i.p) an article from a scientist that said they were done with assessment for public policy because nothing changed And then they reluctantly did the last one in the US and was 'well actually things are starting to change it just take a lot of time'" Ring any bells? Please boost.
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I don't disagree with the sentiment, but went looking for whether this could be attributed to Keynes: https://stevecotler.com/2009/07/07/keynes-nastiest-wickedest-capitalism/  @m0xee @drewdevault @gloopsies @phel Heh, earlier version of POSIX didn't have that one[1] and of course the reason is… GNU (and AT&T ksh *sigh*): https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1640
1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/true.html @lanodan @gloopsies @m0xee @phel thanks for the link, I figured as much but couldn't look it up @lanodan @gloopsies @m0xee @phel ultimately POSIX is subservient to implementations, not the other way around, for better or worse  @phel @drewdevault
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  @drewdevault IMO that's correct behavior, but I could see a mental framework where someone could disagree. What I can't see is a mental framework where it's correct that both `/usr/bin/true --version >/dev/full` and `/usr/bin/false --version` say exit(1). Are `--version` and `--help` modes that change the meaning of the exit status or not!?  @drewdevault Actually, the developers are aware of this edge case, because the write failure is happening outside the source, and you can only be hitting it with "--version" or "--help". I don't think it's fair to bash (no pun intended) a utility which only accepts a couple of flags and handles them explicitly, and even says that you can do what you have done in the source code, which is not typical usage of true in the real world. The entire computer market: "THIS IS THE BEST AI HARDWARE"
97% of customers: "Okay but can it run Chrome and Minecraft" If anyone’s wondering what the dude who sang “chocolate rain” is up to these days, he’s dropping absolute bangers about housing and he’s fucking right
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 @Daojoan I want a pied a terre tax but this post overstates things a lot. There is no significant supply hoarding. And there is no reason to think that owner occupied housing is inherently better (edit: especially if people have to spend a huge part of their income to buy it). Many people don't have the capital to maintain a building. The basic issue is a lack of supply, especially supply of very inexpensive, durable homes for low income people. We should be building them and giving them out.  @Daojoan  drm subsystem maintainer take on the entire apple agx gpu driver and more larger rust in upstream discussion https://lwn.net/Articles/988881/ cc @airlied  The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
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 @hailey In situations like these, I always think about how many people like to talk of the "social contract", and how that mysteriously only ever gets invoked to place obligations on individuals, and never on states or corporations (as evidenced here once again). Like, people aren't outright pirating because cultural interests are supposed to be balanced by legal exceptions. And leaving aside whether that has ever actually been balanced, if publishers now decide to object to that balance... well. @hailey@hails.org Book publishers are the scum of the earth. I wish all authors just let me send them money directly for their work. Their hostility towards actual preservation via DRM and "purchasing" (actually lending) ebooks online is fucking ridiculous. I haven't bought a book in years now because of shit like this, this is just icing on the cake. When you find yourself facing an "apolitical" space, ask yourself: who gets to decide what is political or not in this space, and why
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@drewdevault And then thank your lucky stars you’ve found a space amid the noise?  Does anyone know how to get an autoconf ./configure script to enumerate available features for which there is an --enable-* or --disable-* flag available @drewdevault wild guess `grep -E -- '--(en|dis)able-' ./configure` ? (I probably didn't use the correct regex flavor from memory, so might need a bit of adjustment, but you get the idea!j  @drewdevault Best thing I could figure out: Grep for `enable_[_a-zA-Z]+` in *.m4, configure, and Makefile.in files |
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@drewdevault and that's how we learned that, no, we didn't actually need quantum computers