Hey y’all. I’m going to a music festival next week for the first time ever. Louder than Life in Louisville. I’m only going the 19th. I was wondering if anyone on here is going. I’m also wondering if any of you have been to festivals like that and if you have any tips for me. I feel pretty well prepared, I studied the guidelines of the venue and I’m bringing an external battery, a seat cushion, picnic blanket, tp in case toilets run out, hand wipes and sanitizer, I even bought some hiking shoes. I’m just still nervous because it’ll be a lot of activity, a lot of people, a long day. I bet it’ll be super fun too! I’ll be seeing Sleep Token perform as well as several other good bands. Just can’t shake the nervous feeling though. I’ll be going with a group. I’ll be the only blind person. That’s not what I’m nervous about though. Anyway…
Ничего обещать не могу, но попробуйте пнуть меня через несколько дней. Моя жена печёт совершенно охренительные печеньки, по вкусу похоже на магазинные, но ей нужно повторить, чтобы записать рецепт и сделать фото — в прошлый (первый) раз всё умяли 😂
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I spent part of today learning about Django-Unicorn as an alternative to Phoenix LiveView. Sadly Unicorn doesn't support push events- they just abstract away the AJAX calls and re-rendering.
Django Reactor does support events, but then you have to use async all over the place, and even then the components don't get state pushed to them, they send a message to the client which then makes an AJAX request for a state update.
I love that on fedi I will frequently come across posts which say things like, "I'm switching my LobNar configuration from Dexxxxus to Qzzzzp, because while I appreciate the LBND support, Drippz doesn't play well with *screeching sound repeated seven times at precise intervals* and my ¿~™€€÷¿ port is 33759904.5 so I can't install 🍒🍒🍒 without voiding my warranty."
And I'll look at it and wonder idly what the fuck they're talking about, but I don't have to care, so I let it flow over me like the lifeblood of the universe, while secretly harboring the suspicion that no one, not even the poster themselves, knows what the fuck they're talking about.
I love your description of our birdspeak. Although I apologize on behalf of all of us, any professional environment has its own slang. Being in software development, music and some other domains, I know it for sure.
@menelion Having been a professional computer toucher myself at one point, I appreciate cant and shop talk. That's part of the reason why I find fedi jargon so fascinating, because even though I vaguely know what some of it is talking about, it's all still mostly Greek to me, which is awesome.
Do they have a certain dress code? My grandfather went to the nobel prize in sweden once and he told me he had to get a custom suit tailored just to attend
Today I set up a laptop with #Windows 11 for my sister-in-law. The Windows UI is definitely more polished in 11 than it was in 10, but boy, it is cluttered and distracting: "Here is the weather forecast and how about stock prices? News? You surely want to read the news! And BTW here is this cool app from our store." 🤯
@mks_h the laptop came with pre-installed Windows. I just helped her install some apps (mostly open source), set them up and migrate data. The last thing I want to get into is maintaining Windows. 🙂
ChatGPT leaked private Gmail data to attackers by Friday. 🤦♂️
Because #promptinjection is not a problem these "PhD level" AI assistants have solved.
Look at that calendar invite. That text is all it took for taking over someone's #ChatGPT connected data. Allowing the attacker to use the same #MCP enabled tools that are supposed to make AI useful at work.
It really is as stupid as @davidgerard keeps telling in Pivot to AI.
@patrick_h_lauke I think Elon musk gets on drugs and spews all this nonsense because he can. If he doesn't even know how many years it is to the next election, that tells you something about how much he really cares about he says. Gosh, why doesn't he just shut up and take care of his failing businesses? :)
It's the first time in my life that I became a lucky winner of Elon Musk's whatever some sort of money. The problem is that I need to send my winning number to some email address and then the money would be sent to me via a cashier’s check or an ATM card. Ah, last but not least, the congratulatory email ended with words “God bless you!” That really gave it away! LOL
@Lprazdnik I was wondering about the same. I guess they would like to establish an email conversation first! It's a good practice to do so if you are serious about a business transaction! :)
Re: last boost (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…), I wonder if Windows is also becoming less popular with blind kids. My immediate reaction was that they're an exception, because Windows still has the best screen readers. But my sample size of younger generations of blind people is too small for me to be sure.
And, that post really makes me feel like an old guy set in my ways, because I've settled into being pretty comfortable with Windows; I've gotten used to just ignoring the shit that Microsoft keeps piling on.
i know in canada it's a lot more mobile phones but with PCs still dominating schools and it's what work is being done on often. e.g. my daughter just started in university and that's what she is using... and the university has a M365 subscription and is heavily Microsoft oriented
I finally have a #pixel10pro. Now it's going in the drawer, and I'll be rooting for the #GrapheneOS developers to finish support for it as soon as possible.
@decathorpe finally because I couldn't wait to check out the hardware, but I never planned to use it before I can get GrapheneOS on it. The main reason why I got it now is that there $250 cashback only until the end of the month. Waiting for GOS would only make the phone more expensive.
@andrew773 yes, I already have a Pixel 6a with it. It's a good entry phone for GrapheneOS because you can get it for ~€120 and it still has 2 years of support. A good way to try GOS out without spending a lot of money.
Nice one! Will probably buy one too when Pixel 11 will come out (I'm buying older Pixels when the new ones come out as there are usually good deals on them). Tbh, I'm interested in the desktop mode a lot - it seems it's really close to the official release now - and Pixel 10 may be a good device to run a Linux VM smoothly enough to be useful in the desktop mode.
@kayla I was thinking about getting Pixel 9 because 10 isn't a major upgrade and I wouldn't have to wait for GOS, but at the moment with the cashback 10 is for the price of 9.
Fascists killing other fascists over their fascism not being fascist enough is not an uncommon thing in fascist history. And then blaming "the left", "communists" or a "secret cabal" for everything also isn't. #JustSayin
Ano, problémový toot jsem už ráno smazal a uživatele kontaktoval. Snažíme se věci řešit co nejrychleji, ale ne každý sedí u počítače nonstop. Jen upozorňuju na tohle chování – místo aby proběhla komunikace, hned se sahá po #fediblock celé instance.
@schmaker Ano, někteří to tak prezentují. Můj postup je: první přestupek = varování a smazání příspěvku. Mazat účet hned po prvním průšvihu nechci – pokud by se problém opakoval, pak už ano.
@schmaker Vážně řešíte někoho, kdo provozuje cosi s názvem “pizza.enby.city”? Kolik to má lidí? Tři? A tbh přijde mi ten toot na hraně, ale asi ne přes čáru.
@Unreed Ten maník z pizza.enby.city mi je úplně u zadele. Jde o to, že podobně „chytrého“ může napadnout udělat seznam blokovaných instancí, vytáhne je z hashtagu #fediblock a pak se to tu začne šířit.
Ostatně podobné seznamy už kolovaly při migraci z Twitteru a některé CZ instance je tehdy také importovaly. @schmaker
@schmaker Takže na vycukání adminů stačí chodit a hulákat jeden hashtag? Ten seznam bude úplná blbost. Co když začnu používat fediblock na svoje skříplý pravý rameno?
myslim to roztleskávání fediblocku. u autora příspěvku se pořád nemůžu rozhodnout, jestli bydlí někde Neštěmkách u Mojžíře, nebo jestli to odkoukal u alt-right kolegů z Xka
jo me kdysi přišlo hlášení ze “overtly racist”. Přišlo na me. Za příspěvek kdy jsem řekl ze za mlada jsem mel za sousedy cigany a půlka z nich byli nepřizpůsobivý průseráři a druhá půlka naprosto v poho 🤷♂️ tak snad zas něco nepřijde když to tu opakuju
jo, tohle přehnaný blokování je zvláštní. Na takové instanci bych nechtěl být. Takhle mě dlouho blokoval mastodon.art za to, že provozuju fedisearch. Vůbec nebyla možnost se bránit, prostě ke mě doputoval příspěvek typu "tenhle týpek indexuje posty na fedi a není jak se opt-outnout, zablokovat" a bylo hotovo. Nikomu nevadilo že to není pravda. Neindexují se posty, ale accounty. A opt out způsoby mám asi 3. 🤷
I posted about adding pthread_cancel use in curl about three weeks ago, we released this in curl 8.16.0 and it blew up right in our faces. Now, with #18540 we are ripping it out again.
I think it's reasonable to declare that pthread_cancel() is effectively broken for any nontrivial use on contemporary OSes and it is unlikely to be fixed any time soon.
(I suspect it would actually be easier to cajole libc maintainers into adding an async friendly version of GAI() than to make GAI() cancellation safe.)
If you want a cancellable thing from which you can make blocking calls, the only near-universal option is subprocesses. Unfortunately there are reasons why in some ecosystems it is impolite for a library to start a subprocess.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 15. September, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/8152… #make #blind #inklusion
I did not know or follow Charlie Kirk until I heard of his death recently, but man. All these people claiming the world would be a better place without him/such persons are not a single bit better than what they claim him to be. Crying around about how he hated people, or encouraged to it? WTF? Do you realise you're supporting that this guy got shot, murdered in front of his family? The world is broken. RIP and god bless.
Oh and before anyone thinks this is any sort of political statement, since he was also connected to Trump. I really don't like everything Trump does, firing disabled people from federal jobs, for example. But honestly, hearing close family members say how it might've been better if the shot back then had hit him too, and even laughing at it... I seriously have to wonder what's going on these days.
It’s hard to communicate sometimes just how legacy and niche the concept of a desktop workstation has become. The idea of sitting down at a dedicated space to do computer things is outdated. If we—desktop Linux I mean—are building solely for that experience we’ll die out. If you’re not building towards notebook, tablet, and mobile workflows you’re building for the past cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…
Kids nowadays get Chromebooks at college, MacBooks for uni, use Android or iOS on their phones and game on PlayStation 5 and Switch.
Windows is this legacy thing forced on them by old people in business.
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fediblock of mastodon.arch-linux.cz. Providing a screenshot so you don't have to visit the instance, and even if it's deleted later, we retain evidence. The issue was this sort of thing has been reported up to the instance admin and they have not done their proper job moderating.
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Yes, I am aware of the report and the user has already been contacted. It’s not always possible to respond immediately – not everyone can just sit down at the computer right away. Some of the reports were handled in the morning, and I will finish the rest after returning home.
I take moderation seriously, but running the instance is a volunteer activity that I do in my free time. If any further issues come up, please feel free to reach out – I always review reports as soon as I can.
I don’t understand why you immediately issue a fediblock. Is it really the case that if something isn’t resolved within five minutes, the whole instance gets blocked? I honestly don’t get it.
There's a famous computer joke that goes along the lines of "we needed 4K of RAM to send people to the Moon, and now we need <e.g. 4GB to keep a grocery shopping list>".
I think it is a fine illustration of the Jevons paradox in computing, and one of the "computing Murphy laws", known as the Parkinson's Law of Data - "Data expands to fill the space available for storage". I also think it's quite intriguing to highlight observations of a similar phenomenon related to compilers, especially in the context of #permacomputing
Yesterday I read a book on a minimalist compiler written in the 00's, having a remarkable footprint of merely 424 KB of RAM.
And then I thought about Turbo Pascal for CP/M that ran with 64KB of RAM. And then various compilers that worked on micros with 16KB or less.
And then I read about things like the ALGO compiler, an ALGOL clone, for a first generation/vacuum tube computer Bendix G-15 (yes, the one Usagi Electric has): 2160 words of 29 bit RAM, no more than 370 op/s.
In world political news that went under the radar over the past few days: the government of #Nepal has been overthrown by youths following a governmental move to block social media, and accusations of corruption.
A new PM was elected over #Discord, and has been accepted by the military. They aim to hold elections within 6 months.
I repeat:
THEY ELECTED A NEW GOVERNMENT
OVER
DISCORD.
And no second ammendment was needed to rise up against against tyranny.
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