josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

I'm not fond of people who say: “Don't reinvent the wheel.” I say: “Yes, reinvent the wheel! Maybe yours is better. Maybe your work leads to some awesome, unexpected discovery on roundness or friction or aerodynamics.”

Regardless of your opinion on its outcome, this is how a referendum should be presented to the people:

https://www.electoralcommission.ie/referendums/referendum-information/what-are-you-being-asked-to-decide-on/

#Ireland #IrishReferendum

I'll believe an LLM is on the road to AI when, instead of bullshitting its way through the conversation, it asks: “What do you mean by that?”

Whenever someone tells you: “Why do you need so many partitions? There's no reason to have more than a root one, another for /boot and a third one for swap. And even that may be overkill.”, just reply: “I know this guy whose ass has been saved many times by having separate /opt, /usr/local, /var/log, /var/www, /root and /home partitions, so, when things went wrong and he was forced to reinstall, the data on those partitions was always safe.”

Seriously, it makes no sense to me to have essentially _no_ partitions. That seems to me like Windows thinking.

#linux

Thrown exceptions are just socially acceptable gotos.

#programming

Not a fan of Sean Tilley, and the article has several glaring errors, but I'm glad someone else agrees with me on the Fediverse not being the Utopia many made it out to be. It is the most toxic place I've ever been on the Internet. The only reason I'm still around is that there's good people too, most of them _not_ on Mastodon.

I sadly have to take those words back. Not the best wishes or the appreciation towards PV and his work, of course, but the comment about us slackers being less grumpy than other computer users.

Ever since I moved from lilo to GRUB (I know it's not related, but it all started at that point), Slackware -current has become increasingly unstable for me, and several updates have gone wrong, some of them terribly so.

#slackware

The one thing that pisses me off about qoto's migration is that it is now hosted on AWS. I have everything (well, that's probably not true. Let's just say a lot of) Amazon blocked in my firewall.

I was happier when qoto was hosted on OVH, or wherever it was, but what am I going to do? I am a guest here. I shouldn't even complain.

Today I could test chatgpt for the first time and I must say I am not the slightest bit impressed. I had hoped it would be more human-like in its conversation, but its answers are mostly boilerplate and legalese.

I thought at least it would be fun to use it to help me learn stuff (like Math or practicing foreign languages), but apparently getting it to do something like that would be a full-time job _for me_.