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paul

@paul@snac.notnull.space

Hello, it's @paul here, testing out snac2

Both accounts will be in use, but follow me on either... why not!

Husband
Dog owner
Cat owner (multiple)
FOSS Enthusiast
IT Professional
Coffee, no milk, no sugar

I've made some stuff like these things below:
https://codeberg.org/pswilde/note - a simple pastebin (inspired by bin)
https://codeberg.org/pswilde/nemini - a gemini server
https://pswilde.codeberg.page/threadlogging_docs/threadlogging.html - threadlogging library for #Nim
https://codeberg.org/pswilde/gts_emoji_importer - an emoji importer for GoToSocial
https://codeberg.org/pswilde/fedi_auth - a basic fediverse authentication library for #Nim

I've also made a cool website for wholesome responses to error codes. Check it out here: https://errors.notnull.space

I make no apologies for using H2G2 puns. We apologise for the inconvenience.

#noBridge

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lunareclipse, to random

I should just never buy any drinkable liquids in plastic bottles ever again

<- has been hit by the latest "all bottle caps must be attached to the bottle" EU directive

paul,
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@lunareclipse People just cannot be trusted to put both bits into recycling so the really nice lovely government had to step in to look after us

joel, to Miyoo
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Not a , but extremely tempting...

RG35XX SP (horrible name but still).

paul,
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@joel I have the non-foldy version of this and it's very good.
Better with GarlicOS than the pre-installed OnionOS - but both work fine I guess so all good

paul,
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@joel Oh yeah, my mistake, they come with a stock other system

Anyway, you can run GarlicOS on it which is epic anyway 😄

paul,
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@fedops @joel the USBC is for charging and gamepad - so technically I think you could plug a keyboard in

Not sure about non-game-centric distro

sotolf, to random
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You see this is what I was trying to getting at. People who haven't learned Rust think it behaves the same as C. The correct answer is Rust will not compile code which has logical errors, you must explicitly enable unsafe code, so no unsafe code, no bugs. Try learning about Rust

🤦 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️

paul,
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@sotolf "no bugs"
Yeah, Rust can stop you writing bugs, it's amazing! 🤣

paul, to random
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Yep, just checking my instance logs and anything related to alpha.polymaths.social is getting a 401 Unauthorised response.

Any other instance admins getting these? I'm seeing it on 3 of my instances, I don't think it's just me!

@amin

theaardvark, to random
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Cast - A band I've come to appreciate more now, through live music at festivals, than I did back then.

paul,
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@theaardvark Whenever I'm reminded of cast I think of The La's (for obvious reasons), but yeah, the cast had a load of good music

I have walk away in my head now, takes me back!

Codeberg, to random
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Bugfixes for long-standing issues incoming - now deployed to Codeberg!

In Summer 2022 it was discovered that the RSS implementation had issues for project feeds which duplicated entries.

With the help of Codeberg's financial support to , this bug is now fixed in the next release and already deployed to Codeberg now.

Your donation helps improving Codeberg - thank you all for your support!

Original bug report: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/684

paul,
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@Codeberg Wooohoooooooo!!!

paul, to random
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Well, that was fun - thought I'd do a little filesystem cleansing and ended up accidentally (I did not check my work, tut tut tut) removed fedi VM ( I thought it was on a different disk, whoops!) - joy!

are available of course and restoring now. being the easiest to restore so that's back online first! I've lost today, but that's OK I've been pretty quiet!

thelinuxcast, to random
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So Hyprland is buggy, we knew this. So I can't use it at the moment. So I tried out qtile wayland again. And while it's stable, it is still so far away.

What's a guy gotta do to get a stable, fully functional, wayland compositor that isn't Sway?

paul,
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@thelinuxcast I've tried to test so many TWMs in Wayland, and just keep hitting problems

nothing, NOTHING, works properly in any of them
The best hope we have is river (with river-bsp-layout) I think, but even then things aren't quite right

no decent keyboard daemon's either, I cannot do without sxhkd. swhkd is close, but not quite right still.

I don't need bling, so X with bspwm and sxhkd is perfect for me. Want me to switch to Wayland? Make bspwm and sxhkd clones (not swhkd) and we'll talk 🙃

paul,
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@lhp @thelinuxcast I appreciate that, and it doesn't make much sense I agree. I was probably over simplifying what I meant. To put it another way, of all the wayland twms, the key command handlers aren't quite as useful (to me) as sxhkd. I am probably an edge case I guess, I'm not sure many people use as many sxhkd "chords" as I do, but hey - that's half the fun!

For example, I have a command $mod + c ; b ; s, which, to put in a "mode" based config would mean I'd have to have a mode "c" (change), which has a nested mode "b" (background) with a final key command "s" (space), which is a lot of work to just get a new space based background image from unsplash.

Anyway, x still works, it does what I need, and there's no reason to switch for me yet.

sotolf, to random
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Big catastrophy at work today, one of our postgres clusters completely went down, some kind of problem with the disk it seems, so the db corrupted, I don't know well enough how to eventually fix it since it seems like it was trying to recover and then just segfaulted every time it tried, and no start.

So in the end we had to recover from a backup from midnight, and stuff is running, it's just annoying having to reimport everything.

And I'm still at work 1 1/2 hour after I should have finished.

paul,
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@sotolf Ouch. Not a nice situation.

paul, to random
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Business Site A requests change to system regarding Business Site B
It would be logical to assume Site A has communicated with Site B about this... right? RIGHT!?

I'm having one of those days where it seems everyone is irritating me

paul, to IT
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Oh yeah... thanks client trying to ring me... leaving a voicemail saying they're trying to log into someone else's computer as the other person and even including the other person's password in the voicemail... nice

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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Do you have a blog at Wordpress.com? Congrats! You will soon be feeding all your content to an AI, unless you opt-out. Same with Tumblr! (Why I self-host, reason #4711) Source: https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/ and many more

UPDATE: Seems it already happened. Content from 2014-2023 has already been shared. So your opt-out will just be honoured going forward. If and how already sent content will be handled by the receiving 3rd party after you opt-out remains a mystery

#WordPress #Tumblr #AI #MidJourney

paul,
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@jwildeboer Sometimes a news article comes up that vindicates me on things I said we should be concerned about years ago

I'll send this link to my friends, they may even start listening to me but probably not.

aral, to random
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Don’t you just love getting monetised? I know I do.

paul,
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@aral please subscribe to me for $9.99 per month to receives replies

PCMag, to random
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After Elon Musk insists that you can't set up a new Windows PC without a Microsoft account, Community Notes fact-checks him, twice. And he's not happy about it. https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-picks-another-fight-this-time-with-xs-own-community-notes-feature

paul,
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@PCMag what a prat!

I literally set up PCs with Windows 11 and no MS account daily because I do not have access to the customers MS account details.

Also, Elon, you of all people don't get to talk about how algorithms are bad

orbitalmartian, to random
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I need to get back into listening to podcasts, I'll start doing this next week whilst flying next weekend.

Any good ones people recommend?

My list at present is:

  • The WAN Show
  • The Linux Cast
  • The Linux Experiment's Linux and Open Source News podcast
  • Tech Over Tea
  • Waveform - MKBHD's podcast
paul,
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@orbitalmartian

A few different genres to the ones you mentioned, but a few of my common listens are:

99% invisible
No such thing as a fish
The Infinite Monkey Cage

paul, to random
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Is it just me, or is https://nimble.directory down at the moment?

paul,
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@thindil @srtcd424 ah good, yep I see it's back too!

amin, to random
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Is there any way to get Codeberg to display dates in 24-hour time?

paul,
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@amin I've just run through my own Codeberg account and my self-hosted Forgejo instance so I can check admin settings and can't see any option for it!

Maybe @Codeberg or @forgejo can help out.

tulpa, to random
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I can remember a 4-word passphrase. But 6 words usually defeats me.

paul,
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@tulpa @Linux_in_a_Bit I use a full sentence/line from a song or poem or something and then take the first letter of each word to create a decently long, but random looking, password.

Increase entropy by sometimes using the first few letters of a word instead of just the first, add some garnish by replacing some characters with numbers/symbols, then season with a sprinkling to capitalisation and I think it gets to a pretty good place, which is also easy to remember

paul,
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@tulpa @tulpa @Linux_in_a_Bit I feel I should, but really I shouldn't, mention that using the main "hook" line of a song or song title is a really bad idea for this...

pixel, to random
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LMAOOO this note for Bluesky self-hosting

> Initially to join the network you'll need to join the AT Protocol PDS Admins Discord and register the hostname of your PDS.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

paul,
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@pixel @ErikUden Kinda like the thought that some poor soul may be putting all these instance names in Google Sheets or something that each other instance is then hard coded to lookup and check against before allowing federation with that other instance.

stefano, to linux
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25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.

Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.

In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'

Please boost and share your experience!

#Linux #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #TechJourney #GoogleAnniversary #Debian #MacOS #BSD #WindowsJourney #Mastodon #TechLife #GeekLife #Google #Windows

paul,
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@stefano probably about 20-25 years ago I started looking into using Linux, and tinkered with a few distros (Debian, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE) in dual boot set up or as VMs, to test the waters of having a system I could configure for me, not configure myself for it.
Ultimately I made the absolute switch about 15 or so years ago (Arch...btw, and servers set up with RHEL based, Debian or FreeBSD) and haven't looked back.
I still have a Windows VM which I can spin up for those times I need it, but it's pretty much just 2 uses I have for it, I can do everything else on Linux or BSD.

Of course, I still have to support windows as part of my daily work... But of course I provide solutions via Linux or BSD

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