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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 28 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

ALL MY AWPS GONE negative

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

From my (admittedly, limited) experience, sign-offs are often relatively shallow sanity checks. Nothing about this patch looks egregious? It solves a known problem? It makes it though the CI pipeline? Approved. When dealing with languages like C, where very subtle mistakes can introduce defects and vulnerabilities, I would not trust a LLM to do the brunt of the due diligence which would ordinarily be coming from the contributor (who typically spends a lot more time thinking about the problem than the person signing off on the patch). I'll admit this isn't a novel problem, but the amount of scrutiny applied to submissions will definitely need to increase if this becomes a standard process.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm just circlejerking really. Both have their niches. Fedora is solid. I've never had a botched update (meanwhile, my Windows machine at work gets stuck in a boot loop every other update). When I'm doing tech support for people, it is the first OS I reach for. It's also great for machines that you don't use regularly (low maintenance). I personally have a lot of tech related hobbies from software development to astronomy to ham radio. I originally decided to switch from Fedora to Gentoo to run a kernel with the older iptables firewall instead of nftables (because Docker took a while to transition and Fedora likes to introduce the newest shit immediately, which is usually a good thing).

My shit is definitely broken in unique ways, but it's functional in unique ways as well. Someday I will switch to Guix and have a machine which is broken deterministically.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There is nothing in ActivityPub specifically regarding pronouns. They are treated as one type of optional metadata or another depending on the implementation. Mastodon users take an ad-hoc approach of setting a "pronouns" tag (which receives no special treatment in the software, but people can see it when looking at a user profile). Hexbear appends it to the display name. It would be interesting to get something like this standardized, but at the moment it is entirely ad-hoc as far as ActivityPub goes. You will find no official documentation (though you might find some discussions out there).

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

I am rather fond of Fedora. I still use it on my laptop. At the end of the day it is a glorified testbed for Red Hat (read: IBM) though, so yea. yea

A bit surprised Ubuntu didn't do this first, but then again Ubuntu is actually widely deployed as a server OS for some reason, while Fedora is primarily used by end-users and GTK developers. If Ubuntu made the first move, the Internet might actually stop working and we'd all have to touch grass.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 31 points 7 hours ago

Legal, and common practice.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Gentoo stays winning big-cool

In my opinion, a closet full of small skeletons is even more shocking than a closet full of adult-sized skeletons.

I was training a coworker to use the coordinate measurement machine a couple days ago and he didn't know where the tab key was. Like, it hasn't moved since they put them on typewriters about a hundred years ago 🫤

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it is long past time to write an epitaph for the "Progressive Movement." "Long arc of history" libs, epitomized by the Congressional Progressive Caucus. There is no need for the intelligence agencies to run ops when these people gladly elect billionaires, fighter pilots and intelligence agents in an effort to out-do the chuds demonstrating loyalty to the empire as an electoral strategy.

 

October 10, 2025, 6:08 PM

Truth Social, an American alt-tech social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American media and technology company majority-owned by U.S. president Donald Trump, announced in a press release earlier today their plans to activate a feature known as "federation," allowing the platform to interoperate with a large number of volunteer-run social media servers known collectively as "The Fediverse."

 

I'm not even close, but I have about 200 lines of SQL and some very rough documentation so far.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
 

SQL is good actually. Using your database system to define your data model along with all of its constraints is much better than just scribbling out some Rust/TypeScript/Go datatypes and shitting them out into a schema with a new database migration every fucking commit.

Your SQL application does not need to be portable. You don't need an over-engineered rube-goldberg solution where you can slot out OracleDB for SQLite for fucking CSV documents. Your code SHOULD be ANSI/ISO standard, but it just needs to run on PostgreSQL. PostgeSQL is portable.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

 
 

same-as-it-ever-was

 

okay I'll post a real song

 

The original soundtrack by Magnus Pålsson was composed in 8 bit chiptune style and also slaps very hard.

 

I've been working on these parts in the machine shop for the past week where I need to bang on them with a dead blow hammer to return the outside diameter to the print tolerance of +0.0000 -0.0005 inches. Every time I bang one of these things I go like "ba doing doing doing."

These things suck. I hate them.

 

(Blink 182 Cover)

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