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cstross, 28 days ago to random

Fuck Starmer.

The man's a Pink Tory, a reactionary in a Labour rosette. (Also transphobic, racist, and probably homophobic on top—he just keeps the lid on it in public.)
https://mastodon.online/@zzypt/112415113979879102

VZ, 1 month ago to random

We're preparing to release #wxWidgets 3.2.5 next week and any help with testing the latest 3.2 sources (see https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.2.5-rc1) would be very welcome!

VZ, 2 months ago to debian

Does anybody know why would #gdm under #Debian (Bookworm) decide to use X11, rather than #Wayland, for the login screen even though I have WaylandEnable=true in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf (same thing happens with it commented out entirely)?

I can't find any reason for this to happen, and yet it does, which is especially annoying because X11 doesn't work on this machine, while Wayland does perfectly.

b0rk, 2 months ago to random

I have a few very small ideas for usability improvements to git. Been idly thinking about whether Wizard Zines could pay a developer to investigate and see if a couple of them are feasible

in theory I could do this myself, but I have never written real C code in my life and I think I'm very unlikely to actually do it

no idea what the probability of actually doing this is (maybe low? hiring developers is expensive!) but it's something I've been thinking about

b0rk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

poll: in git, do you think of "detached HEAD state" and "not having any branch checked out" as being the same thing?

mort, 2 months ago to vim

Does anyone know how to get #vim or #neovim's C and C++ indenter to indent switch statements sanely? I don't want this sort of alignment at all, and I certainly don't want it to align with a mix of tabs and spaces

#CPP #C

gregeganSF, 3 months ago to random

I am happy to report that in C++ accidentally adding a new variable that was intended to be an int to a line of declarations for bools can lead to hours of endless fun and bamboozlement, with no spoilsport warning messages to curtail the enjoyment.

bool n;
n=2;
if (i%n == 1) …

VZ, 3 months ago to random

Today I learnt how to write a unit test failing exactly once every 4 years: just do something like

date = date.today()
date.year -= 1

and enjoy completely unexpected test failures in all CI builds. Especially great if you ran your tests before pushing just before midnight, on Feb 28.

I hate dates and calendars.

b0rk, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

i just understood today that the reason I feel stressed out about merge commits is that you can't figure out the contents of a merge commit by looking at it with git show

for example in this screenshot I have two merge commits (merge1 and merge2). They both have the same parents. They display the exact same way with git show. But they have different contents.

(edit: I think the solution is just to use git show --first-parent!)

VZ, 3 months ago to Ukraine

Some nice #Paris #streetart celebrating #ukraine resistance.

gregorni, 3 months ago to random

Please don't provide an option in your app to switch between light and dark mode. No one wants that. Just use the system preference, there's a reason it's a system preference.

#DarkMode #LightMode

VZ, 3 months ago to raku

I really like #rakulang, in theory, and would like to use it more, but whenever I have something to write, I still often end up with using #perl for it.

Just the latest example: I had to write a simple text-wrangling script that needed UUID generation. With Perl, I used App::Fatpacker to embed UUID::Tiny to make the script runnable just about anywhere without any extra dependencies, but there is nothing like that for Raku AFAIK and it just didn't seem worth it to do something more complicated.

kzimmermann, 4 months ago to NoStupidQuestions

Hey Fedi, quick #question. For a while now, I wanted to make my (already self-hosted) #git repository available on the web, but only in a bare-minimum, read-only way. The stuff big forges use (gogs, gitea, gitlab, etc) is too big and featureful for the quick'n'dirty thing I want. No accounts, no writing. Simple.

So what do you recommend? I think something like the https://git.kernel.org interface could work, maybe even simpler. Would it, without anything extra installed allow git cloning?

cstross, 5 months ago to random

Teleportation: if we ever get them, they absolutely MUST exhibit some behavioural commonalities with a relational database—notably they must exhibit ACID properties: atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

If teleportation isn't ACID you ain't getting me in that booth!

shaft, 5 months ago to debian French

Avec un peu de chance, #OpenSSH 9.5 arrivera dans #Debian Testing (aka #Trixie) d'ici le début de semaine prochaine.

En l'état, OpenSSH est bloqué car il migre après OpenSSL. OpenSSL dont la migration de 3.0.x vers 3.1.x est bloquée par nodejs, qui est bloqué par node-babel7 (qui est en cours de déblocage)

Joie de la dépendance :)

briankrebs, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

I've grudgingly come around to the notion that there is only one way out of the ransomware problem: Make paying a ransom illegal. This is not very different from laws that make it illegal for US companies to pay bribes to foreign officials.

I really don't see any other way out of this mess. Yes, some victims will unfortunately ignore any laws that say they can't pay, but enforcement probably will not be hard.

What will be difficult are the situations where peoples' lives are at stake in ransomware incidents This sounds callous, but we can't afford to take the short view here anymore, and our other alternatives aren't great either.

I'm quite certain this is an unpopular view, but we have already seen the cost of doing nothing. At least in the interests of congruity for our financial sanctions vs Russia, we should probably make this change sooner rather than later.