@bender@twtxt.net I guess all I can do is unblock the domain and sit down and rethink the “Discover” view’s design and behavior? hmmm 🧐 Alternatively, build a new yarnd 2.0? as a single-user pod only?

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah I could get behind that. Define minimalistic though? What features (if any) would we drop? Would it be mobile-first or desktop-first?

@bender@twtxt.net I couldn’t agree more 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net I never see problems on my end, so I suspect this has to be Cloudflare doing this occasionally. I’ll have to poke around there again. At least I have a close enough timestamp :D Maybe message me your IP and approximate timestamp?

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This happens more often than I would like. 😢

@prologic@twtxt.net now, the mention of multiuser pods brought an idea. What if you design, and code, single user pods that are extremely lean (extremely low processor, memory, and storage footprint), and brutally minimalist?

@prologic@twtxt.net I think trying to please everyone is a mistake. 😈

@prologic@twtxt.net “let it go, Indiana”. Evidently Assistant Professor Faria can’t—or doesn’t want to—engage in civil discourse. Using Her Majesty’s proper: fuck it!

I think multi-user pods were a mistake.

@dfaria@twtxt.net Sorry this has pissed you off so much (unintentional) – Also why the irrational outburst?! 😱 That’s no way to have discourse or help improve anything 🤦‍♂️

If you have ideas for improvement we’re all ears 👂

@dfaria@twtxt.net Cancelling is a strong word. I’d you follow your other feed yourself it’s still visible to you!

This whole exercise just reenforces that the idea of the “Discover” view was and is a terrible idea. 😢

I think I’ll be doing this again:

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchallenge-v2-rtc.html

The source code of “DOS 4” was released:

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0

Not without issues:

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-not-to-release-historic-source-code/

(Hence “DOS 4” in quotes, is it 4.00 or 4.01? Probably the latter.)

More DOS 4 history:

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/

Well, there was one subtle bug: jenny did not fetch archived twts from your own feed (only from other people). I just happened to wipe all twts/cache from my disk, so I noticed that all my old stuff was missing. It’s a corner case, but it’ll be fixed in the next release.

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net

We’ll have to see how this policy will be implemented, but I like that Gentoo is willing to take a stand.

Me too😅

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

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

Je découvre Kalandra à cause de <@fredg@pouet.chapril.org>, j’aime beaucoup : https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Vcpe23dG-jk

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh wow! Better not mess up with that responsibility. :-)

@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

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, things like that can really make one ill.

@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.

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.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 I saw this too and immediately thought

I have to stop using Terraform

🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Oh my 😱

Well, looks like I’ll be using IBM software after all … 🤣 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm (We use Terraform.)

@prologic@twtxt.net ha! If you lived in the lightning capital of the US you would do it too! 😅

@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.

@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

Oh wow that’s a lot of UPS(es) 🤣

@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.

@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.

@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.

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

😅

After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.

@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.

Thank you very much, everyone!

@bender@twtxt.net It is very proprietary, yes. 😂😭

@movq@www.uninformativ.de ay ay ay ay ay! Don’t envy a bit on that one. I assume the software you are forced to use is proprietary, and very specific?

@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon!

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(And thanks for not being one of those “it’s just a cold” guys.)

One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.

Even Word 97 could do shit like that …

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@bender@twtxt.net good idea 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net thanks mate! I am trying to isolate, wearing masks at home, and washing hands constantly, to see if kid can be spared.

@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon! 🤞

@bender@twtxt.net Oh dear. 😭

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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.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de we had one of those at the beginning of the pandemic, when everyone was sent home. It truly was painful. Now we are having another university to evaluate our processes, and procedures; not much security based, but still a pain.