in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

In light of the message on this pillow, I'd like to issue my thanks for your service. curl was very useful to me while I was troubleshooting a particularly difficult server bug this week. The bug related to a specific combination of headers and only happened on http/2, not on http/1.1, and curl was the tool I needed to easily switch between header values, http versions, and urls to nail down the parameters of the bug. I still haven't identified the root cause, but I was able to work around the issue (the fix was to set a cookie and perform a 302 redirect to refresh the page in a certain situation) and get a webpage back online.
From one of those billion people using your service, thank you!

God, can someone please finally take #Firefox out of the hands of #Mozilla and their damn "AI" bros?

When they started adding all of this nonsense I went into my about:config to explicitly set "browser.ml.enable" to "false", but apparently even doesn't save you, as the new "features" will just not give a damn. 🫠

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in reply to Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

I personally am not happy about it. On the other hand I see that ordinary users, I've installed Firefox for, appreciate it. "Hey, I can have ChatGPT in the side panel instead of going to chatgpt.com!"
I'd rather have this for them in Firefox than losing them to browsers which gave up user's privacy to AI services completely.
As long as there is clear borderline between what AI gets access to and what it doesn't and it's possible to turn it off I'm content with it.

Go read this GotoSocial feature request. No, really. Then tell me if you'd love to be bitten. This won't change anything, but still... It'll make sense, trust me.

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The only remaining part of my computing world that is not yet on Linux is my audio/music production work. Formulating a plan to try and make a move there, too.

Would love to connect up with anyone doing this seriously on Linux. I'm totally okay with re-tooling a bunch of my software stack, but I'm trying to figure out a good, solid audio interface that will work well for serious use under Linux.

#linux #music #production #studio #foss

Sometimes I wish my work had a (locally hosted) LLM that could answer questions about Git projects. When did this function get added? Has this branch been merged, and is it in staging yet? Who changed this line most recently?

I know there are commands for all of this and more, but I don't always remember them. Plus, some things are surprisingly hard, such as seeing if a branch has been merged.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Powersports parts distribution, of all the random things. But our team is small, and our software is almost all used in-house. We're not making publicly distributed apps, we don't need extensive CI/testing setups, we're not spending tons of money on high-end servers to compile huge projects. Basically, we're small enough that all self-hosted is actually viable. I'm also lucky enough to have both a manager and a boss that understand IT.

#WenkoffRetro No. 258 🎶❤️

Pohodový pátek? Jen s #retromusic ! 😎

18.10.1967 se *Bee Gees* dostali na vrchol 🇬🇧 hitparády s písní *Massachusetts*.

Nádhernou píseň napsali BG v New Yorku během US turné. Původně byla určena pro australskou folkovou kapelu The Seekers. Shodou okolností se však s nimi BG minuli a nakonec píseň nahráli sami. Je také známo, že BG v době psaní hitu nikdy v Massachusetts nebyli, jen se jim líbilo, jak jméno znělo.

A takhle BG hit zpívali v r. 1967 a po 30 letech: 😍

in reply to thweologin

Allein die Followerzahl taugt m.A.n. nicht zur Beurteilung bzw. dem Vergleich der Reichweite.

Aussagekräftiger finde ich die sog. Organic Reach Rate in Kombination mit der Followerzahl.

Bei Facebook lag die im verg. Monat bei 3%, Quelle siehe unten.

D.h., um bei Facebook mit einem unbezahlten Post (theroretisch) genausoviele Follower wie im FedieVerse zu erreichen, also in Deinem Fall 306, wären auf Facebook, wenn wir richtig gerechnet haben, 10.200 Follower nötig.

Denn im FediVerse gibt es keine Algo's die, die Reichweite bestimmen. Sondern sie liegt bei (theroetisch) 100% der Follower.

Ich hoffe, ich hab mich nicht zu kompliziert ausgedrückt 🤒Und wenn ich da einen Denkfehler habe, bin ich für Hinweise dankbar.

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I read general news and current events only once per week (sundays, usually). If it’s important enough I’ll find out in person sooner organically. I rarely read or engage in any general news on social media, only in person or official news outlets. At worst I’m out of touch for 7 days. I find this makes my me happier and more at peace and avoids the shock driven news cycles.

The last 2-3 days there was a significant slow down with message sending, sometimes 15 seconds, via the default #chatmail relay .... Wasn't a CPU/RAM or other resource problem but a software configuration / implementation problem. After some hours of debugging it was solved by providing the "speed-adjust" proxy option to #postfix. message sending should be back to sub-second. No message was lost. Lesson learned: just search for "speed" in postfix docs first (and fix the offending module later).
in reply to Ondřej Caletka

That is a symbol for the Pro-Choice movement. Never Again! Prior to Roe, desperate women used coat hangers to perform at home abortions. As you might imagine, many died as a result. It is horrific that they will happen again.
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Not all of our progress is headline worthy! But steady, detail-oriented work, described in our latest development update, is a firm foundation for the next leaps forward.

#Thunderbird #Email #OpenSource

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Showerthought: the biggest advance of the distributed web over the next 10 years is going to come from board teenagers. They want to socialize without parental supervision or being told by governments and corporations they can't, they want to read/see/talk about sex, and they don't have money for servers so will have to do it peer to peer out of mom's basement. Decentralization is gonna get weird and wild, y'all.

In a HN thread yesterday someone said Elixir and Erlang are too hard to use because you have to search github for libraries if they're not listed on the Awesome Elixir github page because it has no package manager like good languages

... how the fuck have you never heard of hex.pm, it's where all the libraries for everything come from

For some silly reason, I looked up "Shure Beta 58" on Ebay. Lots of listings for new Beta 58A's for $33 to $37. I'm thinking "Clone, clone, another clone, probably the same clone..."
I bet you're basically getting a Behringer XM8500 and paying almost twice the price for it.
A real Beta 58a goes for the much not worth it for what it is price of $199 or so.
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Admittedly, I haven't played audiogames or otherwise used self-voicing programs in a long, long time. But, the only program I've encountered that can properly read out numbers/concatenate numbers is Math Flash from APH. The numbers come together perfectly. In audiogames when scores are reported, every number is spoken "on its own": one. Thousand. Three. Hundred. Points. Just an interesting observation.

#OpenAlt conference program is out. I've got two talks accepted: :linux: #Linux Desktop Migration and :peertube: #PeerTube. I will also help with an #endof10 workshop.
If it isn't too far for you, come to #Brno on Nov 1-2. It is worth it!

openalt.cz/2025/program/

#openalt2025 #conference

Végre! 🎉 A Microsoft új, ingyenes segédprogramjával a Windows automatikusan válthat a világos és sötét témák között. 😎🌙☀️ Akár a napszakhoz igazodva is. Ha te is unod a manuális váltogatást, próbáld ki! Ingyenes! 💻

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in reply to Bubu

Der letzte Film war nochmal sehr, sehr sehenswert: variety.com/2024/film/news/qui…

Leider hat die Q&A session danach mit einer der Personen aus dem Film nicht mehr in den Zeitplan gepasst.

#hiqff

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🌐 Please share widely across your professional networks!

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#openscience #jobs #culturalheritage #horizoneurope #FAIRdata

now I wonder how language packs work on Linux too. Is it that apt upgrade won't update some packages without the proper lang pack? I have a huntch that even if UpDown Tool's ISO included all 37 languages, they did not include all speech, handwriting, and input components. that would do it. If any are missing the LCU can fail like that.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

yeah

but that also means i can't really test how rsvg changes things because the thread stack is always implicitly large

tbf i really don't see much point in musl's small stacks outside pedantry (but musl is pretty big on pedantry, so...) and several times considered bumping them to something more reasonable like 512k, considering thread stacks are virtual pages anyway and even in an overcommit-disabled system it really shouldn't matter unless you have *lots* of threads (and you probably shouldn't, because threads are expensive and and stuff that uses lots of tasks should probably opt for some kind of coroutine approach, or enforce their own pthread stack size value when creating them) and in a system with overcommit it will never matter at all

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in reply to nina 🔜 eth0

@q66 @aperezdc Yeah, I fully agree with this assessment. I don't know if glibc's stack is "too big" but I do know that it has been tested over many years on a lot of software. Regardless of musl's attitude about being different, changing the environment that programs assume, to a reduced one, will exhibit failure points, and I think that is to be expected. Fortunately this one is a clear resource limit, unlike the other mysterious problem we have with thread local storage which I have no idea.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

BTW would a 9P protocol be interesting within curl? It is used for communications with some VMs etc and the addresses can be expressed as urls (although in Plan9 typically as directories mounted under /n)

example implementation:
github.com/0intro/libixp