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mcc, to random
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listening to ambient record

hm, this is kind of boring

puts on second ambient record at the same time

ahh, much better

tef,
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@mcc somewhat aside you've reminded me of when i was listening to this

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

and opened it in two tabs at once about 30s apart

and it sorta worked?

tef,
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@mcc the bookhouse theme goes with everything

glyph, to random
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For OPSEC reasons I cannot disclose whether I recently had, or may soon have, a birthday, but I probably was born at some point. In honor of that fact and inspired by @mcc's excellent #Glitch4Andi hashtag, if you are so inclined, please post a story about or picture of a time (ideally in the last ~year) that a computer did something cool and fun and improved your life in some way, using the hashtag #FunTech4Glyph .

(Bonus points if it looks cool and/or uses Python, but very much not necessary.)

tef,
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@glyph saw an old 8bit computer with a dect phone and tape reader in the case, so it could dial up to get the conference schedule

as the talk descriptions were too big to fit in main memory

tef, to random
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i thought seeing someone do the voice for thunderstruck would be the peak karaoke moment at EMF, but no

it was "Call me al", a crowd favourite, but i did not expect the singer to stop during the tin whistle solo to announce "I will now fill the time with quotes from Sun Tzu" and then did exactly as promised

tef, to random
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anyway yeah, big week, met a crow

tef, to random
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pleased to announce that the basil i bought from the supermarket hasn't died yet and it's been two weeks

tef,
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it's such a thirsty little guy i was worried that it would wilt while i was at emf, but i am pleased to report my basil plant is thriving

mcc, to random
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Long shot: Can anyone recommend me structureless harsh noise. I'm doing a really mind-numbing code maintenance task and I need something to blast all thought out of my head

Currently I'm listening to https://impermanence.bandcamp.com/track/ii and if I can't find a good thing to switch to after that I'm going with this YouTube asmr recording of a washing machine

tef,
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@mcc merzbow? 1930?

tef, to random
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this car is so packed it's basically amigara fault on wheels

glyph, to random
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@mcc me thinking about using systemd: "I don't understand why people are so mad about this, launchd is better than sysv init, this is just launchd for linux, I guess they couldn't just port it because some low-level stuff is different but I'm sure it's basically the same"

me actually using systemd: "fuck fuck what is this shit what the fuck why didn't they just actually port launchd to linux, there's no excuse for this"

tef,
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@glyph i think x would have been a lot better if it arrived later instead of being filled with things like xfig which predate gui conventions homogenising but yeah hehe

News isn't dead if you count the canvas element

tef,
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@glyph i feel entirely hoist by my own petard here as i'm normally the one bringing up display pdf's secret history

tef,
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@glyph so in the case of the linux kernel and devfs i think it was something like this

  • let's say we integrate devfs, we now need to write policy over which device goes where, and then try and enforce this on vendors
  • wait, device driver writers will 100% hard code a name across their driver, and distribute a binary kernel module
  • maybe we'll need to have some way of managing this namespace to let users move things around
  • that sounds an awful lot like what we did already, pre devfs
tef,
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@glyph now in an ideal world, the userland stub of the linux kernel would be developed inside the same repository

but well, that stub becomes a great place to do hotplug, to do suspend, to do service mangagement

as it actually knows what the hardware is, and when it's available...

and then, well, yeah, systemd

tef,
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@glyph again i'm not trying to say these are the best ideas around but yeah

moving things out of core development to go faster shouldn't come as any surprise to a python dev :-)

tef,
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@glyph alas as i repeatedly rediscover, writing a good interface between components is harder than writing components with a good enough interface

so although i do think we could live in a better world where we admit to ourselves we're writing a microkernel architecture, it's a lot harder than bolting freebsd to the side of mach and calling it a day

tef,
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@glyph i think the only sign i've matured as a developer is that i have lived through so many what-the-fucks that i can reverse engineer the good intentions that paved the way

well that and i don't use "butts" as a placeholder word as much anymore

tef,
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@glyph punting out to dns is a great idea but it does tend to remind people of Java, which is the main downside afaik

tef,
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@glyph @xgranade hi this is prolog calling

tef,
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@glyph i like telling people things like "a hard problem is one not amenable to brute force" or "a complex system is one where local changes have global effects" and sometimes "scale is when the one-size-fits all stops fitting"

but i do absolutely love detailing about the butchery in how the sausage is made, yes

tef,
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@xgranade @glyph

i think my fav version of this is the hype cycle

  • a new idea arrives, and has a new name attached
  • people attach this name to whatever they're doing so it looks cool
  • the name now means whatever the most popular project says it is

i might stop here before i start breaking out into "roy fielding's thesis was about web browsers" though

tef,
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@glyph every day we stray further from god's light (using UUIDv4)

tef,
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@glyph @xgranade honestly, prolog's just regular expressions over sql, so if it did escape the lab it would be one less query language to write

tef,
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@glyph @xgranade i think my favourite thing about "building restful apis" is that we've gone on to build electron apps, or browsers, but for exactly one website each time

despite everyone using json no-one uses the same json, i guess

it is genuinely a miracle that html is so widely used in a mostly interoperable way, but yeah i said i wasn't going to go off on one

lzg, to random
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the worst part of genocide is now. but the second worst part is after 20-30 years when sooo many assholes will say to your face "there was no genocide" and netanyahu gets turned into an inoffensive grandpa who gets gushing obituaries in big newspapers. people will try to make you feel like you're exaggerating the horror, this old crazy person, like you didn't SEE IT. like you didn't see the mass graves.

tef,
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@lzg at some point we're gonna see tiki torch marchers flying the flag of david in support

i mean, far right people fly the confederate flag and the star of david

tef,
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@lzg northern ireland, same group

the red hand ulster flag with a star of david

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