Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....
@icedquinn oh yeah, udev functionality is cool too, from what I see runit only sets up things once and doesn't respond to changes. So I'd have to install something that does that. I assume there's a lot of other "bloated" systemd functionality that is quite useful and installing separate tools to do all of them so that they don't have to be coupled with the pid 1 would exceed the bug surface.
@tk it's back for me and my friends, sadly.
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the two macos genders
i am quite good at computers but i am tired of the bullshit
OH NO TWO BUTTONS I'M SKERD
i am quite good at computers but i am tired of the bullshit OH NO TWO BUTTONS I'M SKERD
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Now that HDMI has rejected open-source, normalize DisplayPort on everything. It's open-source, the port is easier to plug in and locks into place, allows for video through USB-C (HDMI doesn't) and it supports the same high resolutions and refresh rates as HDMI. It should be way more common, at least on TVs, consoles, and laptops.
@icedquinn I think I count as people and I expect PID 1 to not just start stuff but also monitor it and make it available under a consistent API and consistent logs, so that I can use it to control the system instead of babysitting every single daemon their own way.
From what I can tell trying to muh unix philosophy to split it into different services that still do those things instead of falling back into bad ol' anarchy would just require a few different services that have the same basically infinite permissions and accomplish the same thing but with more bloat, attack surface and weird shit.
I guess if you prefer the anarchy disliking it makes sense tho.
@icedquinn if this level of unfathomably based requires systemd I'll happily accept systemd. Besides, I still haven't heard sensible arguments against it, only variations of "but it enforces a sensible API", "but it uses 5M of memory, that's way too much" or "but there's a bunch of related tools you can optionally also install so systemd itself is bloated 
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I spent the last week scraping through a terabyte of GeoCities archives and collecting ALL THE #88x31 buttons! In the end, I gathered 29257 unique buttons (75k with duplicates). They are available at https://hellnet.work/8831/
Check them out!
I also have the dataset (~160MB), stats and a bit about the scraping process here: https://hellnet.work/8831/stats.html
@icedquinn nixos itself is the better gentoo tbh
@icedquinn skype probably deserved to be called a finely crafted desktop program those 15 years ago when it wasn't yet bought by the likes of MS and enshittified, and didn't yet have sensible competition. From what I remember about using it like 8 years ago it was already buggy and very annoying back then.
@BrodieOnLinux having it build for 4 hours just to restore those parts of the config and have it rebuild for another 4 hours was the cherry on top, great system.
@BrodieOnLinux my favourite moment when installing Gentoo for the first time was when I carefully configured the USE flags to fit what I want, got thrown into the deepest circles of dependency hell and after painstakingly trying to solve it learned that you first have to build it without USE flags and only then configure it because apparently after all those decades Portage is still too stupid to resolve dependency issues like "package A needs package B only due to a USE flag and vice versa gee I wonder how I could solve that problem".
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For the last few years I have been really annoyed with companies that advertise so called "Gaming routers". None of them are ever capable of running any games!
So @manawyrm and I built what I consider to be the first real gaming router.
It is based on a classic, the TP-Link TL-WDR4900 WLAN router with an AMD Radeon external GPU connected via PCIe and can run GTA.
@davidbisset
>the common way to make content screen reader only is to position it absolutely far off the edge of the screen
how is front-end so cursed?
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This is a *fascinating* concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.
@freemo good analogy, since in the household despite everyone sharing things the "ruling class" of parents has 100% of the ruling and resource distributing power and if they are bad at it the children can do nothing but suffer.
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watched the Theo Netlify video since this is a topic that's important to me.. kinda an L take
any sort of pay as you use platform should support soft and hard limits, no exceptions
additionally, those limits must be on by default, especially for a "free tier"
I get the point about not wanting to ruin your moment.. but also just seems out of touch. Unless you're VC backed or have large coffers, you're always going to want some sort of upper limit in terms of spend.
People who prioritize availability over spend should be able to choose that, but that certainly shouldn't be the default.
Support shouldn't be the first line against unexpected overages. There is no guarantee there. The existence of reconciliation is not an excuse for the absence of a safety net.
And if the traffic is legitimate, yet unexpected, it's unsure what support would do in that case. They'd technically be in their right to refuse to refund. You'd want limits there.
For example, if my personal page was on one of these platforms, and an article blew up overnight on HN, I'd rather have it inaccessible to users rather than incur a large bill that the platform doesn't cover. Traffic != Revenue in this case, so I wouldn't want unlimited scale.
Lack of proper spend management, limits, and safety nets is absolutely a reason to avoid these platforms. It is absolutely irresponsible as a company to allow for unbound spend as a default. The fact people see this is acceptable is baffling. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
