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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

booba tea

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CursedSilicon@restless.systems ("Cursed Silicon") wrote:

HEY #retrocomputing lovelies!

I gave a talk at LinuxFest NorthWest about #Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net

You should give it a watch <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJsGNIDjtc

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Everything will be wrong about it. It is architected and implemented in confusing ways under conflicting demands you will likely not have insight into and, of course, too little time.

To reduce your frustration, you must accept these things. The prior developers did their best just as you will now do your best. Be at peace with that.

You will be tempted to throw up your hands and rewrite everything! That is folly. Despite all the apparent (to you) imperfections, the code or device now works as intended. Any changes must be done cautiously with an eye to only making necessary improvements or fixing bugs.

After all, if things stop working after one of your "improvements", it will now be *your* problem and it will reflect on you, not the people you inherited the project from.

There will be opportunity for new development, but you must choose your moments.

Add tests as you can! Automate builds! Document! Leave it better!

You are doing your best!

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

when adjusted for inflation, that means Brent crude oil’s all-time high probably occurred in June 2008 at approximately $186 per barrel in today’s dollars.

Iran does not need to win Trump’s War, they just have to not lose. buckle your seat belts, Gentle Humanoids. these next few years may be a bit of a rough ride.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

you know sometimes you get asked something and your head just fills with the most inappropriate joke and you have to stop yourself?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

if memory serves me, Brent crude oil reached its highest price in history at about 139 or 149 dollars per barrel in March of 2022, following Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine. I will be surprised if we do not see that record smashed within 90 days.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

@jalefkowit micro-dosing economic reality

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

pringle shape

okay yes, this is much better than 'saddle' for describing negative curvature. i grew up in the countryside and i know what a pringle looks like better than a saddle

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

The sooner this bubble pops, the better.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

lake inferior

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

that's this hull btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston%5Fupon%5FHull

if you didn't know (and frankly why would you if you aren't from the uk?), it's a shithole, literally the butt of jokes for the rest of the country.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

setoid hull

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

omg.lol downtime may run a little longer than planned, but will be back up and running shortly. Very sorry!

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
oldperl@mastodon.online ("Ortwin Pinke") wrote:

Durch Zufall auf den interessanten Ansatz von @adele mit #smolweb gestoßen.

Finde die Idee eigentlich richtig smart, gerade so mancher (#Wordpress) Blog könnte sehr von einem einfacheren Frontend profitieren.
Was ich nicht gefunden habe, ist ein Demo-Frontend und ein entsprechendes Repository.

Kennt jemand Seiten, die mit smolweb umgesetzt sind, außer den Seiten auf
https://smolweb.org ?

#webentwicklung #web #webseite #development

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Doing a bit of emergency maintenance, courtesy of Copy Fail (https://copy.fail, CVE-2026-31431). Everything is being patched and rebooted. You’ll see brief downtime across omg.lol & Neatnik services. Sorry for the inconvenience and short notice! Critical vulnerability remediation happens on its own (unpredictable) schedule. 😬

When all maintenance is complete, https://status.neatnik.net will be updated. Sorry, again, for the disruption!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@Wally/116495532638300189

this is the Cat Hicks Experience

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh wow and thank you again to the person who immediately signed up within minutes of these posts. any support is tremendously gratifying but it's also particularly nice to be reminded "oh right, self-promotion isn't totally pointless, people can't offer support if they don't know that it's a thing"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I was early to this party, talking in 2018 about you, as one person, can only do one person's worth of contribution and you need to get used to that idea. Pretty sure it was in this fairly well-attended talk, even. And yet even I have trouble keeping it in mind. <https://pyvideo.org/pygotham-2018/the-automatic-computer-and-you-a-meditation-upon-the-history-and-future-of-software-development.html>

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

trying to Trust The Process as I copy-edit my own writing and absolutely l,oathe reading it, because although the sensation is not good it is a real leading indicator that I'm getting close to done

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Uhhhh does anyone here know someone at Canonical

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It is a very casual patreon, even $1/mo means a lot, as this functions as both literal money that can pay bills but also social permission to Do Valuable Stuff that fits into my sort of gonzo open source mainatiner / writer / Poaster internet presence. Anyway thanks for reading this chaotically scheduled halfhearted self promotional update

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Alternately, you can sign up via https://github.com/sponsors/glyph . Fewer fees that way so I should support it but Github is way more annoying about Copilot, so it sort of balances out. Feel free to use the one more convenient to you and congruent with your interests.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Speaking of limited spoons, thanks VERY much to the random patreon who just signed up despite my utter lack of self-promotion. I am so far behind on updates. But if you want to get some when I do finally finish this Writing Project From Hell and start writing those again, https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

as someone who, in the last six months, has seen my own daily spoon quota go from like 30 to like … 5 … this is particularly acute

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

there is no alternate technology which can actually do all the work that the AI is pretending to do, there is no life hack solution to the “comprehension debt” problem that every software developer with a microphone has been talking about for months. the solution is to sit down and do the slow and difficult work of comprehension. there is no VC pitch for this

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mike@chinwag.org ("Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]") wrote:

Once again, my professional recommendation in response to the latest Linux kernel vulnerability in the news is that you should gather up all your electronic devices, cast them into the sea, and retreat to the woods.

Each night, gather your children and tell them tales of the Before Times when the hubris of humanity grew so large that we made idols of sand and spoke to them as equals. Remind them that the sand, of course, did not speak or think, but we imagined it could, and let it guide us to folly.

Should a stranger ever come to your village with a glowing rectangle, encourage the youth to beat them with sticks.

#infosec

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

so much of the “AI” mania is just that we are all asked to do too much, to be too many things to too many people, to be “on” all the time. every job is 9 jobs, every project is a startup side hustle even if you have zero equity. the answer to “well if I can’t use the ‘AI’ to do these other 8 jobs that aren’t really my job what else can I do” is just… break the wheel

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
packetcat@tenforward.social wrote:

I think mayhaps we have been a little bit too romantic about the idea of the c-suite

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

That time Jerry (from Rick and Morty) goes to his computer and clicks a folder called "stuff" makes me laugh so hard for some reason. It's like the least helpful name for a folder

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek