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virtulis

@virtulis@loud.computer

Hi, I'm Danko, 34, from Riga, 🇱🇻 #Latvia

Mostly #webdev, mostly #TypeScript, sometimes #Rust. Curly braces, semicolons, tabs.

#Linux noob since 2005.

Straight white cis male 🫤 trying to keep my myopic takes to myself, sorry if I fail.

I like loud electronic music, twin-stick shooters, and cats.

Atheist, left-leaning. Very boring.

My perfect date is methylphenidate, with mask mandate a close second.

#fedi22

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eniko, to random
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So are there like a lot of big servers that have defederated from mastodon.social?

virtulis,
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@eniko did they do some new and exciting bullshit or just more of the same old selling out?

virtulis,
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@eniko oh, you're considering signing up there...

Well, uhh, you do what you prefer, but honestly, I don't think anyone should sign up on a big server if they can find a small one that fits.

They know no one will defederate them (I won't!) so they will absolutely continue to do whatever the hell they want. And it's quite clear what they want is a business.

And, if that dead horse will forgive me, you are not the customer.

What worries you about joining something smaller? If you want to ensure you're seen on .social, a single account from there following you will achieve that.

virtulis,
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@eniko can't say I follow the logic. Your current account seems to be doing fine :)

I know instances randomly shutting down is a thing that happens, but I can't recall any cases (not even .lol!) where that didn't come with at least some heads-up to transfer accounts somewhere else (which isn't ideal but at least it preserves all follow relationships). Well, there was the queer.af situation, but i think that got remediated at least somewhat?

Unless you mean actual security as in vulnerabilities, that can be an issue if the admin completely ignores the security updates, yeah. But should there be some 0day, I'm sure .social will be the first target anyway.

RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

virtulis,
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@RickiTarr I need an option of alone time at all times, then I'm fine.

Nice chat, I'll take a break and think about it, talk later. Good game, I think i'll skip the second round, call me if you're having a third! Nice talking to you, I'll step outside for a bit for some air. Make yourself at home, I'm tired as hell and go lie down for a bit.

If I can do that if I have to, it's fine (and I probably will come for the third round!). But the moment "it would be rude to leave", it becomes exhausting.

Or in other words, it's less about days and more about hours, if not minutes.

18+ virtulis, to random
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A guy submits his manuscript to a publisher. The publisher skims over it for a few minutes and says:

The plot certainly has some potential, however your words are rather crude and repetitive. Perhaps you should read more of the classics, see if something inspires you.

The guy is dumbfounded:

I think you misunderstood. I am a writer, not a reader!

(it me, I'm that guy)

virtulis,
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In my defense, most of the existing code I read really makes me feel like so is everyone in our industry.

So, to make something out of this: is there a codebase you know of that you would sincerely recommend for someone to read? As a general example of something well-written.

mcc, to random
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May be useful

virtulis,
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@mcc needs more VC backing

virtulis, to programming
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Funsies: node-gyp is broken on latest kernel.

Likely some other libuv stuff as well. In case you're experiencing more weirdness than usual, consider a downgrade :blobcatthumbsup:​

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/53051

#nodejs #linux #libuv

virtulis, to CSS
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Just found a trick that's so simple and useful it should be common knowledge, and yet I can't find any mention of it.

Sometimes you would really prefer that, if a sentence doesn't fit on the current line, it would just go on the next line as a whole.

The usual hack for this is to put it in a span with white-space: nowrap. This is obviously a very bad idea, because it can and will break layouts.

A better option? display: inline-block. Yeah, that's literally the whole pro gamer move.

Each one of these sentences is an inline-block. It breaks inside when it doesn't fit, but goes on the next line when it does.

How the hell did I not know this.

mcc, to random
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Linux question:

In bash, I can write:
(cd .. && ls)
and it will run "ls" in the parent directory, but after the command executes I will not have CD'd. The CD is confined in the subshell in the ().

If I try this same command in the alternate shell "fish", it prints the error "command substitutions not allowed here" and nothing is executed. Is there a fish equivalent of "run this single line of commands in a rubber-room subshell whose variables and pwd do not escape"?

virtulis,
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@mcc Well (pushd ..; ls; popd) seems to work, but it's three commands technically.

Edit: it's most certainly not a rubber room either. Is it in bash?

bagder, to random
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Reminder: a hostname is not necessarily the same as the SNI name, since hostnames can have trailing dots and SNI names cannot.

This is a mess than will never go away.

virtulis,
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@bagder is there any practical reason to not normalizing hostnames to without a dot at first convenience? I'm not aware of example.com. meaning anything outside of DNS zones specifically.

virtulis,
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@bagder that do - as a feature, or as an oversight?

I realize standards are standards, it just doesn't feel like something anyone ever would actually want.

virtulis, to random
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Since has decided they don't need Linux customers anymore, are there any other hosted (or self-hosted) alternatives? Need multiple users & multiple devices, tasks/projects and basic reports.

Preferably not as a part of a task management system (multiple clients, multiple workflows, would rather have something centralized).

Can be paid, but reasonable (Toggl is already on the expensive end for as little as they do, and now they do less.

:boost_requested:​

(I am looking into search results now, but opinions are appreciated!)

virtulis,
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Ok, looks very good actually.

Kemai (the separate Qt app) definitely needs some work. But "mostly works" is more than TogglDesktop does as of today, soo, yeah, I'm good.

futurebird, to random
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tumblr's link system for posts does not support links with @ in them in some cases.

This makes it hard to link from tumblr to mastodon.

"Ooops! Link type links are not supported here"

What the heck is a "link type link"?

virtulis,
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@futurebird you can also do this: https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/112280655777724444

(not saying that's easy, but possible if you really wanna)

Edit: /users/futurebird works for user link too

VeryBadLlama, to random
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starting a cleaning service for people with ADHD. I won’t be doing any of the actual cleaning, I’ll just be calling you at random times to tell you I’m on my way to your house and I’ll be there in about 45 minutes

virtulis,
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@VeryBadLlama see, the problem is you'll still have to actually show up at least 20% of the time (but also make it truly random, like it could be ten times in a row in theory). Otherwise we tend to learn very fast.

Seirdy, to random
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the sheer terror of knowing that one of my text/html webpages isn’t well-formed XHTML5 right now.

virtulis,
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@Seirdy XHTML5 isn't real, it can't hurt you.

(but it will judge you)

mcc, to random
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Hey Linux people. Do you like LXC. Like just if you know what it is, do you like it

virtulis,
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@sen @mcc I'm guessing the question is about doing something flatpak-like, and perhaps that's what sysext is meant for (again, first time hearing of it). And pretty sure systemd will have more low-level ways of achieving exactly what you want.

As for nspawn, pretty sure it's possible to just bind mount /bin, /usr and so on into it if you want. Will probably end up being more work though. But yes, it still does run its own silly systemd with its own silly "target wants" and services of your choosing. Not just a chroot.

whitequark, to random
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it's honestly really impressive that my absurdly, almost indefensibly low bar of "do not go out of your way to proactively enable the military contractors of the most powerful empire in the world" is met with:

  • whining from overpaid bay area pieces of shit like dtolnay
  • whining and inaction from the foundation board of everyone's fave os nixos
  • whining and inaction from the foundation of everyone's fave language rust
  • "no, we can't do better" from ostensible community leaders
virtulis,
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@whitequark what a radical stance wow

lauren, (edited ) to random
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If an extraterrestrial civilization ever does visit Earth, will they:

virtulis,
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@lauren I think we greatly overestimate our significance.

Someone would prob write a blog post or two about it and move on.

virtulis,
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@lauren yep.

Sci-fi tends to paint us as strange and surprising in one way or another but I bet any other silly little civilization writes that kind of sci-fi.

steveroy, to random
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Imagining how surgeons introduced themselves if they talked like software engineers…

“Are you backend or frontend?”

“I’m top-end.”

“Oh wow cool.”

virtulis,
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@steveroy scalpels do not deliver scalable performance, so we switched to bone saws, and roomless architecture allows us to operate on any number of patients simultaneously 🚀​

RickiTarr, to random
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Type "Women are..." and/or "Men are..." and let predictive text finish the sentence.

virtulis,
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@RickiTarr I think my keyboard is an asshole:

Women are not good for me to figure out what cmyk values are for the code.

Men are very good and they are not required to match the same thing.

Hm, how about

Predictive text is not a creative color and a lot of the same thing.

Yeah.

virtulis,
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@RickiTarr Guess I have to train the stupid thing myself!

Women are good. Women are good. Women are great. Women are wonderful. Women are amazing. Women are smart. Women are fun.
Women are the best.

alinanorakari, to random
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from now on when people say they like using vim i'll be looking for additional context clues

virtulis,
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@alinanorakari bit scared to think how emacs looks

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Anyone know of a practical way to make a PDF file appear darker when printed, when printer settings for this purpose are unavailable? Thanks.

Addendum: This is a 100+ page file. I'm not going to manually make changes on it as an image file page by page.

virtulis,
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@lauren umm, didn't quite get from the replies, is it a text pdf or scanned? From the problem it sounds like a gray scan, so yeah, need to do some image processing to it. Don't know a user friendly tool for it but can do it for you if it's not a private doc.

If not a scan then don't really understand the situation.

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