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asmodai

@asmodai@mastodon.social

Professional problem solver; DevOps; buddhist, dreamer and sometimes thinker

You cannot solve social problems with technology.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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jpmens, to random
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Sometimes I check a program's man page to see if there's support for doing X, and then I stumble across being able to do Y, something I've wanted for ages.

Today, in `man ag':

ag --pager 'less -R' ...

which keeps coloring, whereas

ag ... | less

obviously doesn't.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

asmodai,
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@jpmens Alternatively, export PAGER="less -R" so it works for multiple tools.

hynek, to random
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FUUU

Bartender is the ONE app I can’t use my Mac without. :(((

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/

asmodai,
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@hynek That explanation the new owners give is very vague.

asmodai, to RadioControl
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The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer

In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.

https://www.wired.com/story/fengyun-shi-espionage-act-drone-photography/

asmodai, to random
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Oh nice, #OdinLang added #NetBSD support.

https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/releases/tag/dev-2024-06

asmodai, to random
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Whoever wrote the DPD track and trace system or the specifications for it, it's bad.

So I ordered something and I am expecting two deliveries with two unique two parcel codes via the supplier.

Both codes redirect to the same package, the first code, when entered on DPD's website.

To confuse matters more, I received the second package. But since both codes redirect to the first code, for whatever reason, it obviously shows as delivered. But it's not. DPD support confirmed that.

#DPD

asmodai, to random
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I had seen the request to remove the EU flag, but hadn't seen the follow-up. Chef's kiss.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-69056186

asmodai, to random
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In case you missed it, definitely explains part of the shitty state of Google Search:

An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

daniel_collin, to random
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The US election is depressing. I don't like any of the candidates (but obvious one is better than the other). I just hope there is a US left so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become president.

asmodai,
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@daniel_collin @neilhenning Bernie and AOC support Biden for now, as it is the obvious choice to have a chance to save their democracy. But they definitely don't hide their more European social/progressive stance, which is good. But the Democrats are vested against that as well, look at the insider trading with e.g. Pelosi.

asmodai, to random
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So I was looking at Ruby on Rails (RoR) due to something. Isn't it dangerous to keep building your product on this (e.g. GitLab, Mastodon)?

The major RoR maintainers (3) seem to be all from Shopify by this point.

Ruby is dropping more and more on language popularity charts and is hardly picked by people to learning coding with. The pool to be able to fish developers from is rapidly slinking. Heck, Lua is more popular when it comes to new people learning the language.

asmodai,
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Not a dig against the language or the tool, but if I was a product owner or doing hiring, I'd be very concerned.

It won't immediately be a problem, but contrast with C/C++, C#, Java numbers, it's just steadily collapsing. And that's ignoring the Python elephant in the room.

Another big Ruby using example is Puppet, contributions to that have also dropped heavily in the past 4 years.

asmodai,
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@tomw Ah. Yeah, there's also that aspect of it. Had conveniently blocked that I think. 😅

asmodai, to EldenRing
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Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree story trailer going live in ~60 minutes (17:00 CEST, 15:00 UTC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uT8wGtB3yQ

asmodai,
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@pervognsen Oooh, good one. I should load my current games and save them again.

Yeah, I hear you. At the same time, I wonder how early some of the new gameplay/fighting mechanics become available, bringing fresh enjoyment for existing fights.

asmodai,
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@pervognsen Good question. Some of the weapons seem like they will be drops in the expansion, but unarmed, for example, seems weird to suddenly get majorly revamped only in the expansion. So uncertain.

asmodai, to ScarlettJohansson
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Scarlett Johansson statement on the OpenAI voice abuse (from https://x.com/BobbyAllyn/status/1792679435701014908)

#ScarlettJohansson #OpenAI

jpmens, to random
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    asmodai,
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    @jpmens Just be aware, having jumped through various hoops with it myself recently (messing with JWT), there are various limitations though as it is a restricted subset of JavaScript.

    The documentation is also not the best.

    asmodai,
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    @jpmens Let's just say while working with it, I let out a few expletives, yes. :D

    pervognsen, to random
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    Trying to hit all the Danish classics, today I went to the baker several hours before morning opening time and bought some grovbirkes straight from the oven.

    asmodai,
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    @pervognsen Sounds similar to the loss of boulangeries in France.

    In the Netherlands we have a bit of a revival with some more traditional bakers rising up again.

    asmodai, to random
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    Cool, my upstream Zabbix Ansible PR got merged, making Zabbix script maintenance a little less cumbersome in the future.

    netbsd, to random
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    New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

    https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

    asmodai,
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    @daniel_collin True, but at least having a policy is something that can be fallen back on in dubious cases?

    asmodai, to random
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    Huh, looks like Assassin's Creed Shadows seems to contain Yasuke, the African retainer to Oda Nobunaga.

    So that's the latter part of the Sengoku period (1580 onwards).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovkzbtYBC8

    pervognsen, (edited ) to random
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    Had a very weird first 24 hours back in Europe until I realized (after noticing this for two different kinds of bottles with screw-off plastic caps) that the plastic caps don't detach anymore from the collar. That's new since last year. EU regulation apparently?

    asmodai,
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    @pervognsen Yep! Reducing plastic litter. Also, many countries now having or introducing deposits for small plastic bottles and/or aluminium cans.

    In other news, Tetrapaks that moved from just folding to open to plastic caps seem to move back again in at least my country, but possibly others as well?

    asmodai, to random
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    Sheesh, even Tango Gameworks?

    I don't get Microsoft. They piss away more money on things that ultimately never see the light of day, but sure, let's close down a succesful studio.

    asmodai,
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    @pervognsen @Sharlock93 Hi-Fi Rush seemed like the typical game for the platformer and speedrunner crowd. I am sure that that could've been a promotional angle as well.

    asmodai,
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    @pervognsen @Sharlock93 Ah, I had only seen a few trailers, and it seemed more like a Metroidvania-like platformer over a DmC. But still, solid crowd for that kind of game to play and speedrun. :D

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