The scripts in this self-hosting guide will create 9 containers: one TLS-offloading proxy, 6 services which run on various ports, and two supporting ones, which are not publically accessible:" Geeze, all I want is to setup my own #Firefox account server, what is this 9 service containers nonsense? https://github.com/michielbdejong/fxa-self-hosting
i have something to say about this but i haven't really considered it enough to put into words, but it's a lot to do with how C programmers wrongly believe that C is a "low-level language".
i read a great essay about this a while ago, but unfortunately i can't find it now. but the basic argument was that while people think C is a "low-level" language, it's more accurate to say that C is an emulation of a PDP-11, which makes little sense on modern hardware -- it's more accurate to say that C targets a virtual machine modelled after the PDP-11.
and yet C programmers still cling to this idea as if they're writing "low-level code".
if you want to write C, okay, great, you do you. but if your idea of "C" is to take features from C++ with a worse syntax and defend this because you're "more low-level"... no. fricking stop this. what nonsense.
From gratuitous use of superfluous language features (a cleanup handler, for a single fd, srsly?) to inappropriate use of standard POSIX APIs (using connect+write on a socket that only sends one message and then gets closed, really?) Older compilers don't even support a cleanup attribute, and this code is used as a model of portability??
@hyc "RAII patterns supported by all compilers that matter and used by the kernel and other major Linux projects are garbage bloat, asckchyually" is exactly the kind of elitist drivel and delusion of grandeur that I was expecting, bravo, bullseye, 9/10
that was the last show before their summer break, and in my boredom over the summer I wrote this story immediately following it. http://highlandsun.com/hyc/TheReturn.txt
I posted it in parts to Usenet and later it was published in some Trek fanzines...
Nonsense like this is why the #OpenLDAP Project has always discouraged using any forums other than the official OpenLDAP mailing lists. The true subject matter experts of open source projects don't use 3rd party for-profit forums. https://mastodon.social/@trisweb@m.trisweb.com/112396412105342949 We also maintain a presence on IRC but since that isn't archived or searchable, it's still an inferior choice.
Independent projects must own all of their data. Information you give to Stack Exchange, Quora, etc doesn't belong to you.
It was warm and sunny earlier today, and my cats decided to snooze on the cat tree. Both cats are in the 1st pic, but you need to boost the contrast to see the 2nd one... #CatsOfMastodon
Most sci-fi stories involving time travel involve a mechanism that's incredibly rare and/or difficult to operate.
What if complete plans for a working time machine, including its power source, were published anonymously on the web, in a decentralized fashion? (Impossible to identify who published it, or from where, and thus making it impossible to go back and prevent the publication.) What if anybody could build their own, using commonly available parts and tools?
It's only April and my PV panels have already hit a peak output over 10% over their rated capacity (yesterday). The power graph from today clearly shows the jump around 9am when the sun is finally in front of the house. The house faces SSW so the panels aren't getting direct illumination from sunrise, though they're still producing a tiny bit of power then.
Tfw you're midway thru the red-eye return flight to Europe from the US, and you're going to swap the US SIM card out of your phone, and you push a paperclip into the SIMcard holder's eject hole, and it pops out suddenly and you see the microSD and SIM cards go flying into the darkness.