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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 so you know how ticketmaster gouges people on tickets but in practice a lot of the venues are in on the game?

like, the thing about systemd is that it's in response to problems kernel maintainers had, not problems users had

so although systemd gets a bad rep i do think it's a lightning rod for complaints about linux

tef,
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@glyph so where i'm coming from is devfs

i loved devfs and the kernel maintainers hated it "it puts names in the kernel, names should be in userspace", and so back then the idea was born

then introduce things like hot plugging, or suspend, and well, your old filerc ain't gonna cut it

sure enough systemd has had some showstopper issues but it exists because linux devs want systemd to exist, not because systemd turned up and started taking over

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@glyph it's just yeah the way people talk about it, it's like pottering turned up with a gun outside alan cox's house etc

tef,
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@glyph i think the idea is "mechanism not policy"

tef,
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@glyph also linux users are gamers now

and i'm an old who had to write XModeLines by hand , get off my lawn linux has always been horrible

tef, to random
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must be really hard for starmer, he keeps wanting to say "britain first" but can't

not without sounding like someone on their way to murder a labour mp

tef,
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it is funny to be that every photo of keir starmer giving a speech is against a union jack and the word britain on it

like, you'd never guess he was a labour mp

tef, to random
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"are you excited for emf" nah just the usual anxiety and spiralling before a large social event

on the plus side i've made sure not to volunteer myself for things so maybe this emf i'll get to see more than two talks

tef, to random
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ha ha remember when google was a search engine?

[checks notes] back in 2008 before they merged with DoubleClick and moved to being an advertising company

tef, to random
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good day: got to post my favourite gzip fact

(you can concatenate gzipped files together, and you still have a valid gzip file. it will uncompress as if you concatenated the inputs then compressed them)

tef, to random
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do you ever think about how, for years, we used X- or x- in front of experimental or yet to be standardized names, only then to find that the x- prefix had fossilised

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6648

lzg, to random
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i’ve realized i have about 5 scripted things i say to neighbors on morning walks, but they are all slightly odd and maybe need a little workshopping

tef,
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@lzg i too mask my autism

tef, to random
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big "what am i doing with my life?" energy has i do exactly nothing with my life

tef, to random
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here's the iTerm "Pls No AI" gitlab issue https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11475 so i guess it's not a popular move

tef, to random
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i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

tef, to random
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blinked and realised i've been using irc for over 25 years

lzg, to random
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the idea that someone flashes their status by wearing an expensive watch is so beyond me, it's like reading about the behavior of another species. I have never, ever noticed an expensive watch. maybe a cool one, with a lil calculator.

tef,
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@lzg i only learned recently about a literal nail as a fashion object

tef, to random
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today i've been learning how automatic transmissions work

i know how manual ones work, physically changing which gears are interacting, with or without synchromesh

but i didn't realise that automatic ones work on a different principle, using planetary gear boxes and applying a clutch to the ring gear to change the output ratio

that, and planetary gearboxes with clutches to change gears go back as far as the model t

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not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

tef,
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for context, slack is launching "AI Features" trained on global data

and you can tell it's being launched without purpose as the list of benefits includes "emoji autocomplete"

like

no-one in their right mind would go "so we're going to make every sabox customer panic so slack knows if to use the party hat emoji or the party baloons emoju by default"

tef,
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this is the funniest thing slack's done since they rebranded themselves as a tool for remote work, despite years of "no-one gets remote work at slack"

tef,
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moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

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Either my N95 stealing skills are still crap, or they don't do much against industrial strength cleaner fumes. Guessing the latter.

tef,
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@bitprophet n95s don't do much against volatile organic chemicals

well, they do, but

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/639110O/3m-respirator-selection-guide.pdf

tef, to random
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i still miss pre sugar tax irn bru

tef, to random
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the future will be incredible. i'm looking forward to proving i'm a human so i can talk to a robot

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