Cube6392

joined 1 year ago
[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

i think some big project, something really important, needs to migrate for the masses of devs to move too

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

read up to date current docs and know they are for the current working state of the system, potentially when i don't have a net connection because i'm troubleshooting PID 0/1

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

that's a great example of bad docs.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this is everything i see monitoring Linux boxes everyday. we've shifted mostly to OpenRC about it. i can't imagine defending SystemD if you have experienced anything other than it and SysInitV. yeah compared to SysInitV, it's really nice, but to say it's good and stable? that's like praising your landlord for all the work they do and the reason they haven't fixed your broken dishwasher is because they're so busy from what a good landlord they are

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)

In fact, the situation has gotten much worse. The coupling of SystemD's components to each other has gotten tighter. The coupling of things that aren't SystemD to SystemD has gotten tighter. SystemD itself has gotten less stable. The overall result? Our operating systems require more, not less, troubleshooting, and they're less, not more, enjoyable to use and develop on

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

SystemD has been such a frustration the last couple years with the wonderful simplicity and stability it used to provide managing a system completely out the door as its main development company (RedHat) has stopped giving any kind of a shit about being a positive force in the world. We all shoulda listened 10 years ago when the greybeards were telling us not to fall for an init system trying to do too much.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

signal has been eroding it's trustworthiness, and all the stuff you said is why myself and most folks keep using it despite its downsides. in a perfect world more of us would be working to make xmpp a viable option for most people but as it stands it's a touch too technical for the average person's mom and dad, who are ultimately who you have to appeal to

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

telegram did something important by being the first mass market "private" messenger that people were aware of. it has outlived this usefulness by nearly five years now. even the things that replaced it at this point are getting run into the ground and require replacing.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

Piped cracks CAPTCHA blocks meant to ensure YouTube maintains access to their hosted videos. That CAPTCHA includes a EULA that by engaging with the captcha to continue using youtube you agree not to circumvent google ads. Piped intentionally (and correctly, from an ethics perspective) circumvents this

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

the EULA for YouTube says they own all videos uploaded to their site. watching through something like Piped is a soft (and important) form of piracy

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 12 points 4 days ago

how'd you do that?

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the issue is that this marketing consultant didn't build anything. They just prompted an LLM to generate output

 

I dunno. I just feel less like I'm experiencing a fun new tool for communication the last few weeks. The communities here on Beehaw are still great and fantastic and aren't what I'm bothered by. It's just when I venture out in the world (which I often do) that I notice conversations are much more argumentative than I remember them being.

How's everyone else doing? Is this a minor vibez check?

 

(I mostly need this link for work tomorrow, but I thought maybe some folks here would be interested)

 

The Hacker News and reddit.com/r/vim take on NeoVim is frequently that NeoVim has done tremendous harm to the overall Vim community and that the NeoVim developers aren't respectful to Beam. Having been involved in both commubitues, I have never been able to track where that idea came from. Vim has accelerated in features drastically since 2013 and the NeoVim team often goes out of their way to speak well of Bram.

JustinMK, the main organizer these days of NeoVim has pinned this issue to increase its visibility. I'm not really fully certain what should be the most fitting tribute, but its hard to express how much impact Bram has in the world of software development through his flexible improvement to a text editor from 1975. He's also been an excellent benevolent dictator for life over the Vim community throughout its existence and it feels like the world of open source software got just a little bit worse for his loss this week.

 

This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

 

The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article's body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we all make our own decisions.

I thought there was some interesting stuff in there about the Fediverse at large, even if that wasn't expressly what the author was getting at.

 

I just went for my run. And wanted to talk about it with some of my new social connections here on the threadiverse. I used to run a lot. Like a lot a lot. 100 miles a week sometimes. I was a long distance specialist trying to qualify for Olympic marathon trials. Injuries and old age have ended that chapter of my life and I often find myself needing to remind myself to be proud of my ~10mi/w workload because that's more than a lot of people my age in my profession do.

Today I just ran around my neighborhood. There's a nice park nearby but I don't get to go to it very often because the street I have to run down to get there can be pretty scary. I think access to green spaces is something that often goes neglected in community planning in my country

 

It gives me hope for the future of beehaw refederating with that instance. They host some interesting communities. To be clear, I fully support beehaw defederating, it's just heartwarming to see instance admins do things that move things forward

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