ActivityPub – The evolution of RSS ⌘ https://notiz.blog/b/70W
ActivityPub – The evolution of RSS ⌘ https://notiz.blog/b/70W
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Gentoo bands use of “AI” tools
Gentoo, the venerable Linux distribution which in my headcanon I describe as ‘classy’, has banned any use of “AI”. A proposal by Gentoo Council member Michał Górny from February of this year banning it use has been unanimously accepted by the Gentoo Council. The new policy reads: It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools. This motion can be revisited, ... ⌘ Read more
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We’ll have to see how this policy will be implemented, but I like that Gentoo is willing to take a stand.
Me too😅
I just found out about last(1) and lastb(1) while wondering about /var/log/wtmp. This can come in handy! The filenames remain a bit mysterious: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127211/why-are-utmp-wtmp-and-btmp-called-as-they-are
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One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh wow! Better not mess up with that responsibility. :-)
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@lyse Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, thanks for sharing, @bender@twtxt.net! :-D
IBM has realized it’s cheaper to buy Hashicorp than to buy Vault licenses
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I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, things like that can really make one ill.
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After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I can’t think of a single one. Pretty lucky so far.
@bender@twtxt.net Holy cow, congrats on that title. I do have plugged in the more important equipment in a power strip with surge protection. The weird thing was, that only one of the monitors went black for a second. The other one (both are behind surge protection) remained operational the entire time. Maybe EMP? It was closer to the window than the other one.
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X11’s
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WM_NORMAL_HINTS property is a property that can be set on a window. Part of that property is width_inc and height_inc. They tell the window manager to only increase/decrease a window’s size by certain steps.
I don’t know why or how, but using gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() has the desired effect (now?). Reading GTK’s source code is too convoluted to find out what’s going on here. I can’t find a corresponding Wayland protocol.
Sway gets very slow when resizing such a window, so I’m a bit inclined to think that GTK does some weird trickery to get this to work. 🤔
Either way, xiate now sets geometry hints again and floating windows have the correct size now. Finally.
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@lyse Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 I saw this too and immediately thought
I have to stop using Terraform
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@lyse it seems you don’t have a decent UPS with surge protection. Invest in one! We have one everywhere there is a constantly-used valuable appliance in the house, including refrigerator.
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@bender@twtxt.net Oh my 😱
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@lyse Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.
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Well, looks like I’ll be using IBM software after all … 🤣 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm (We use Terraform.)
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@lyse it seems you don’t have a decent UPS with surge protection. Invest in one! We have one everywhere there is a constantly-used valuable appliance in the house, including refrigerator.
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@prologic@twtxt.net ha! If you lived in the lightning capital of the US you would do it too! 😅
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Hmmm the feeds service needs some kind of deduping 🤔 Slashdot seems to be the most frequent culprit 🙄 For example #oc2vksa and #wbx7ioq
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@mckinley@twtxt.net I’m not sure to be honest I think it’s just a straight up duplicate post. This actually does happen, it’s not a bug, it’s a “human problem”, but yeah it’s annoying, so it’s making me want to figure out a way of keeping some kind of similarity db to strip duplicates out like this.
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Hmmm the feeds service needs some kind of deduping 🤔 Slashdot seems to be the most frequent culprit 🙄 For example #oc2vksa and #wbx7ioq
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@prologic@twtxt.net Are they changing unique IDs? I hate when people do that. If I ever do that with any of my feeds, feel free to mock me relentlessly.
Hmmm the feeds service needs some kind of deduping 🤔 Slashdot seems to be the most frequent culprit 🙄 For example #oc2vksa and #wbx7ioq
🕝 Hi, the current time is about a half past eight in the night 🌃.
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@lyse it seems you don’t have a decent UPS with surge protection. Invest in one! We have one everywhere there is a constantly-used valuable appliance in the house, including refrigerator.
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Oh wow that’s a lot of UPS(es) 🤣
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After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it seems you don’t have a decent UPS with surge protection. Invest in one! We have one everywhere there is a constantly-used valuable appliance in the house, including refrigerator.
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I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.
No, it’s not IBM. 😅 I won’t say what it is. 🥴 I don’t think I had contact with any (contemporary) IBM software since around 2010. I love toying around with retro IBM stuff (cause that’s what I grew up with), but really no idea what they’re up to these days. Even the IBM building in our city is long gone.
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After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. That’s a bit scary.
Hmm, how many hardware devices have you lost due to lightning over the years? 🤔 We lost a modem once, but that was it.
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I am supposed to come to office today, but I have caught the same cold bug wife has had for the last three days, so I am staying remote to spare cube-mates. Nose stuck, dripping, and a general slight sense of malaise is what I am feeling right now.
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Speedy recovery, @bender@twtxt.net! Ouch, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!
One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_9.html
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After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.
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I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Such piece of shit software makes me want to quit. Esp. if it is just for useless compliance garbage that never helped anybody accomplishing any real improvement. Is it from IBM? We once had to build a threat model with some terrible generator and my goodness, you can’t believe what a myriad of hopelessly useless, wrong entries it produced. Thousands of thousands of lines. At least it was markdown. We basically removed like 99% of its output after reading through every single item. Did this once and refused to touch it ever since. All hand-written now and actually helpful.