I didn't look into it yet but I heard that the replacement for the Dept of Labor after Trump fired the last one for "fake jobs numbers" released their report and it was the same numbers essentially
When I heard this I started uncontrollably laughing. He couldn't even find a patsy to give him fake numbers?!
To me, the worst part of what is being called the "largest supply chain attack in history" is the fact that there are over "2.6 billion weekly downloads of those NPM packages"
What the actual fuck?! [says a guy who used to curate SQL queries because the results took too long to deliver over 9600bd]
are you sitting down? The Debian repository for Helm had 7TB of downloads per month. For a 20mb package. github.com/helm/helm/issues/31… That's what happens in CI pipelines when everyone starts from scratch on each run...
I maintain the Debian package/repo for Helm here https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/#from-apt-debianubuntu . The bandwidth has gotten to be enough that it's no longer feasible to host it myself (~7...
This is both terrifying and fascinating: (UPDATE, this is from personal observation & post-emergency news reporting featuring WhatsApp screenshots from government people)
They’re not just loud—they unleash a jagged mechanical howl, a pitch that swings between jet engine and chainsaw, cutting through walls and windows. It’s a sound that never settles, a rising and falling whine that forces itself into your head until you can’t think. Noise pollution at its most aggressive.
Then there’s the exhaust. Two-stroke engines that spit out more pollution in an hour than a car does all day. All so someone can clear leaves a little faster.
The only reason they’re still legal is because politicians chose the landscaping lobby over the public. That’s it.
"tgeczy merged commit 3ebf816 into main " - well, there we go, folks. Vibe coding for lunch done. I added two new features to my CLI tool: A feature that does custom URLs, so you can type in a radio station URL not listed in that Radio-browser database, and the ability to import an M3u8 playlist. I debated on splittinng out functions. Making it better, since the new helpers for custom URL and playlist handling are perfect to do it with. But then I thought to myself, "Why not just make more spaghetti code and lengthen the strands of pasta instead!" So that is what I did. Yep yep. It's an 85 KB file now, 2317 lines of code. Woah what a dump of Python! Ahahahaha I love it. Also not, but at least function blocks are denoted well with comments so you know what's going where. That will make a job of a later split way easier. github.com/tgeczy/radio-browse…
A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up. - GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public ...
How many people are going to search a repo they want to grab from Git now for a branch with the name "codex" in it, either stale or opened, just to know if the author of that repo used Vibe coding? Makes you wonder. Hmm.
If you want an idea of scale of trojan attempt - 'color' alone had 32m downloads in a week, the combined attempt was pushing a billion due to upstream dependencies.
Hunt tip: look for registry.npmjs.org in proxy logs, package names are in the URLs.
FreeBSD jails have an annoying quirk where if you don't specify jail_list in /etc/rc.conf it doesn't show you the jail names as they're starting.
This is not a solvable problem without a fairly large overhaul of how the jails are started. When no jails_list is provided, it assumes "_ALL" as the default value and this makes the jail(8) command parse all the jail config files and start them all up.
Then after startup, it prints all their names.
And then after printing their names, it writes their pidfiles.
This also means that if the startup crashes part way through it leaves jails running with no pid files which means the next time you try to start the jails you'll get errors about jails already running.
France’s parliament voted to topple the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday after the PM surprised even his own allies by calling a confidence vote to resolve a months-long deadlock over his austerity budget.
@archos A oni je pucujou od osmi od rana? Vsak se proste strci stoly na kraj, prinesou plenty a zalepi urna. Staci treba ukoncit vyuku ve 12 a zachranis detem 4 miliony hodin vyuky.
Has anyone written the Strunk and White _Elements of Style_ equivalent for defining test cases? That is, a guide to writing thousands of test cases (whether or automated or manual) in such a way that the test cases optimize for clarity and brevity of expression, focus on the essential rather than incidental, and are easy to navigate?
Wow, watching GPT Codex work is a bit fascinating. It relies a lot on the terminal to read your code bit by bit, search for things through it quickly, and so the `sed` command is its best friend. Then, it uses patches to apply changes to the file per lines. Very clever. It even tests the changes it made and to make sure there's robustness in the script which is really nice. I'm impressed. It's such a non-human way to work with code though, wow. However, it's way more efficient than coding with it through a canvas, because it is able to split that code into such tiny blocks and make changes without re-writing the entire thing from the start onto the canvas either. Anything to save precious tokens!
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Just became aware of this from @thecarpentries — they had to say no to a huge grant from the US government because of their commitment to diversifying the software industry. I donated and hope you’ll think about it too.
In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program.
so there are new open-source drivers that I haven’t tried because I think they only work for newer GPUs? But the proprietary one is a bit annoying to work with depending on the distro, you have to make sure it has DKMS modules etc if you reinstall your kernel often. But when they’re set up they work fine nowadays, they even support Wayland just fine now.
I've been using the GeForce 4070 Ti Super on Nobara (KDE Plasma + Wayland) for a while.
Last year it was rough (ex: freezes that require ctrl + alt + f3/f2 bouncing in and out of a terminal to fix).
The last few months it's been fine.
Make sure to give yourself quite a bit of /boot space... like 5ish GB to be safe. I'm on 1GB and I'll occasionally get kernel updates that fail because I forgot to clear out old kernels.
@scottmichaud eventually I want to upgrade my pc, and for various things I like, it seems like Nvidia is the best option. My last two builds have been AMD builds since the Nvidia drivers were unreliable
I haven't really carefully tested features (ex: adaptive sync, HDR, etc.) but, apart from a little fiddling, things mostly work.
Can't say whether AMD or NVIDIA would be your best option, though, of course. Also I haven't used other desktop environments like Gnome since the driver quality got better, so I'm not sure if there's anything you'll run into there.
Guys at @thunderbird I Love what you have done to the email client, it's now beautiful, fast, lovable, well ... thank you so much! BTW ... I run it in @opensuse #Tumbleweed on the excellent #gnome DE
The package `tsu` provides the sudo command on Termux installations, but it is several years out of date and is broken on newer Magisk versions due to changes in the location of the `su` binary.
But do not worry! The `sudo` package replaces the old version with a binary that works on all Magisk versions, and will be kept up-to-date with every version.
Due to complaints on the internet about the broken package, we will remove it within 14 days.
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@Nimbius666 it's almost identical with a worse license and the devs care more about trying to make it do ActivityPub than anything else.
Also they do a bad job of backporting fixes for certain things. e.g., they left some LDAP functionality broken for ages and I use LDAP internally on my network for everything I can...
Sticking with Gitea which has funded development and a sane roadmap.
@Nimbius666 no, I don't think it really works beyond a basic social contract that is too easily violated. GPL also causes real world problems people don't want to admit.
to elaborate, I have a server/service written in Elixir that's kind of like my "command and control, internal network homepage, etc" and it does all sorts of things for me even reading data from some APIs and turning it into Prometheus metrics. It's a swiss army knife as in the Elixir world all these things can live in one codebase very comfortably and the "everything can be a process" internally makes it all perform incredibly well.
ANYWAY
I generate Oban jobs (think Sideqik, whatever) that can retry thousands of times if necessary to POST to the Gitea API. Though I'm reminded now for something this important I need to make it send me a push notification if the job fails so I can investigate it ASAP... time to make an issue to do that!
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel com…
Companies like Walmart and McDonalds have historically paid minimum wage so that they can get their employees on benefits: it's a type of corporate welfare where the government functionally pays a huge amount of the employee's salary.
Two reasonable guesses:
First, something shifted so that this isn't viable anymore. McDonalds higher ups can't outright tell the franchise stores "yeah this is what's up, the jig's up, pay your employees more or you won't have employees." So they're asking the government to do it.
Second, McDonalds can pay more and is trying to squish notable competition that cannot.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating "McDonalds" restaurants are usually not owned by the corporation, but are independent franchises. So it's *that* business owner that would need to be able to afford the wage increases.
Anyway, the reason is because their data shows people making less than $100k per year can't afford to eat there anymore.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating I think there are a lot of tech and business folks who make over $100k that use it as the fastest way to eat lunch and get back to work
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating McDonalds is largely a real estate conglomerate in 2025 hence why all McDonalds look sterile. To avoid the "old pizza hut" look and capitalize on lend lease agreements.
@NonPlayableClown @ceo_of_monoeye_dating dude we went to Taco Bell a few weeks ago on a whim thinking "this will be cheap and quick, let's suffer the digestive consequences, it can't be that bad"
at the window they're like "your total is $42" and my brain glitched out
but I haven't voluntarily eaten McDonalds since... 2007? I usually get tricked into it by some family members once a year who are like "our shitty kids won't eat anything else, we HAVE to do lunch at McDonalds"
I actually have not stepped foot inside a McDonalds for about 7 years, and the last time I did so was to get the Rick and Morty meme sauce for a friend.
im looking forward to finding the right places when i move .. meat and veggies are possible enough here. the butcher has a store next to it , that has veggies but bread is a different matter
@ins0mniak @fknretardlol @NonPlayableClown @ceo_of_monoeye_dating get into sourdough, it's worth the little bit of effort and there are no-knead recipes so you don't need the bread maker. All you need is a bread pan and your oven. Cast Iron dutch ovens work great too.
Seen on an audiogames.net forum thread about a new online game:
"Honestly I would prefer to gatekeep this one to keep the game away from blindy drama, but it is what it is." (sic)
I'll spare you from the long rant as much as it pains me to do so, but like... Way to go, us. This it the response we give developers who show interest. We're doing fantastic. Let's gooooo
Yeah, then we wonder why no one actually cares about us, and when someone does, we do crazy crap like, whatever's on audiogames, that I haven't read yet because I just finished making many funny Spanish sentences, so now I am going to. I don't even need netflix if there's a drama of blind people every week, I can save up so much money! It's sad, though, the way some of the blind people go about this towards people who are actually interested in contributing to accessible stuff, or making such stuff. It's awful. It makes me extremely sad, in moments like this, I wonder why I am even helping/working /inwith accessibility, and then I remember there are actually genuine people who will benefit from accessible stuff. Sadly, the unaware people of their own actions exceed the ones who generally care, so we have this happen.
![["STOP DOING MATH" meme format - plain text on light blue background]
STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS
• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "[bright magenta pixel]"
• "Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied
LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)
[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image "PNG_transparency_demonstration", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image "PrismLenses", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors "bleeding out" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]
""Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha""
They have played us for relative fools](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/702277 "[\"STOP DOING MATH\" meme format - plain text on light blue background]
STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS
• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called \"[bright magenta pixel]\"
• \"Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel\" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied
LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)
[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image \"PNG_transparency_demonstration\", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image \"PrismLenses\", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors \"bleeding out\" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]
\"\"Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha\"\"
They have played us for relative fools")
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