#Git on #Plan9 is borken in weird ways.
Want to rebase branch A on top of branch B? No you don't. You want to change A to match B and drop all other commits.
Want to merge A into B but there's a conflict? Let's just arbitrarily take the line from A and ignore the one from B. That's what you wanted, right?
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God help me, I've started to like using #ed.
Is it the most efficient way to edit text files? No.
Is it weirdly fun to figure out how to manipulate it into doing what I want?
Kind of.
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I'm thinking about opening a Redbubble.com store with some of my drawing/designs.
Would you be interested on it?
If so, what would you like to see there from mine ( Flying cars? Batrachian figures? Spaceships? ) and what kind of product would you like to have available for it?
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I have a complaint about #Plan9 #C.
I don't like that a literal 0
is accepted as a null pointer. I just spent an embarrassingly long time tracking down a segfault because in an attempt to zero out a buffer, I accidentally used memcpy(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf))
instead of memset(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf))
.
The compiler should've been able to catch this.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.Ars Technica
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If you live somewhere that recently reverted to Standard Time, remember that Dubious Goals Committee will air ONE HOUR EARLIER according to your local clock.
🕢 19:30 UTC is ALWAYS 19:30 UTC.
Don't look at me, I didn't invent Daylight Saving; I think it's stupid too. 😖
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So my boyfriend went to a bioinformatics hackathon in Spain and his team was all people from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, built into an old church
This is TOTALLY the place to go if you want to create god
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We need a news wire service.
We need a distribution network.
We need to embrace the technological realities of our modern age and bring forth the promise of distributed manufacturing.
(This is not a new thought for me, or for the world. I've got pages on how it could/might work, and even a url attached. https://meansofproduction.org/ the time has come, the walrus said.)
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@drwho As far as I can tell, it's mostly a matter of labor.
There were half a dozen indie news services historically.
Spent the morning meticulously reworking the budget, and was feeling rather proud of myself.
This evening a visit to the emergency vet undid a bunch of that work. Guess I have to revisit it again tomorrow, but at least @Benny is going to be okay.
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So, I recently switched from an #AMD64 #VPS to an #ARM one, and I'm trying to gradually bring all the services I was running back up on the new server. It has generally been pretty easy since most of the actual hosting is being done on a local machine and the VPS is serving as more of a router, but I am having some trouble with my #Owncast server.
I can just reinstall it, but I don't know how to carry over the federation information (and associated keys). I have a backup copy of the owncast directory from the old server, but given that it contains AMD64 binaries, I can't just copy the whole directory and call it a day. Is ther eany way I can copy this data out of the old directory and import it into a fresh installation?
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To every person who's publicly and proudly transgender, queer, gay, lesbian, ace, poly, pan, bi, black, indigenous, a person of color, disabled, neurodivergent, plural, autistic, ADHD, etc:
Thank You
Visibility matters. Simply being yourself can impact the lives of others in ways you cannot even fathom. I would not have found myself if not for people like you
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I'm not much of a Starbucks person. I find they lean too hard on sugar to make their drinks palatable, which isn't great if you're diabetic.
That said, #today our niece (a Starbucks connoisseur) introduced us to matcha. I think I finally have a go-to drink when Katy wants to go there.
Edit: It has been brought to my attention that their matcha mix contains sugar. 🙁
Just to make you aware, their Matcha mix contains sugar:
https://www.ohhowcivilized.com/starbucks-matcha/
Starbucks Matcha: Best Drinks & Why It's Not So Healthy - Oh, How Civilized
Get the lowdown on all things Starbucks matcha, including matcha drinks on their menu and where you can track down the matcha powder they use.Jee Choe (Oh, How Civilized)
Communication is manipulation.
Seriously. In the literal sense. You make a physical event occur, particles collide, electrical and chemical signals result, and no matter what, it acts as new training data.
I’m thinking of some type of ActivityPub Etsy, that isn’t its own ActivityPub service, but aggregates stores from opt-in ActivityPub users via hashtags.
This isn’t fully thought out, and I’m just the idea guy (and my mom is in the hospital, so I just wanted to put it out there before I forget it). So here goes.
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ESTY has rss feed capabilities which means any ESTY store's RSS feed could be populated by a rss to mastodon bot, which there are many already.
Someone would need to curate what stores and or products are posted via the ESTY rss feed and do so unlisted. https://rss.app/rss-feed/etsy-rss-feed
Create Etsy RSS Feed
Instantly create Etsy RSS Feeds from any webpage or section (Bags and Purses, Dresses, Party Decor, Toys) with RSS generator.RSS App
How unfortunate! I was born in Saskatchewan, but we left there when I was 10 months old. The sadly ironic thing is lack of trust such laws engender for children and their parents. If a 15 year old with a healthy relationship with their parent informs or asks for a pronoun change why would we (i.e. the government) want to step in? If the relationship is unhealthy it is not likely a law will remedy the situation.
And ultimately it is very likely the issue is one of some adults being uncomfortable with a shift in society. I'm in my 50s and processing that too. However, as my daughter (she's 20) suggests, just ask: What are your pronouns?
Take care, -Randy (He/Him/His)
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It seems like many people on Bluesky foam angrily at the mouth when Mastodon comes up. It's the stuffy place they don't want to be. It breaks our heart a little.
We've been here since 2019 and it's mostly been enjoyable. We've learned so much more about open source and the people who stayed after Muskrat bought the birdsite have been a boon.
We never found Mastodon to be difficult to use, it just requires a bit more patience at times.
Hey
#Kitchener
#Cambridge
#WaterlooRegion
peeps, there’s a lot of #COVID-19 out there right now, so be aware, and #MaskUp 😷
https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-and-wellness/covid-19-wastewater-surveillance.aspx
COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance
Summary dashboard of wastewater surveillance at three wastewater treatment sites in Waterloo Region for evidence of COVID-19 circulating in the community.www.regionofwaterloo.ca
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Shantell, I just saw your post. I hope you’re feeling better & you recover completely.
I’ve never stopped 😷 either. It’s not perfect, but 😷 & vaccination are the best we can do individually. My partner and I are both high risk as well. So far we’ve been lucky. We are getting flu + COVID #6 on Friday. It’s frustrating because our public health communication has really let us down; we’re more vulnerable now because too many people think it’s either gone now, or not dangerous. 🫤
https://jlamothe.net/blog/2023-10-20
#ADHD #software #FOSS #productivity
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Unknown parent • •@pixx I don't know if it's something weird about the version of git that's on SDF's Plan9 server. Perhaps it's out of date, but I've created an example repository that illustrates what I'm talking about.
You can clone from https://git.fingerprintsoftware.ca/9p/example.git and consult the README.md file for details.
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Unknown parent • •@pixx There's also the rebase issue where it seems to just drop the commits in the branch being merged and moves the head to the base branch.
Again, I don't know if this is just a problem on whaever version of the software SDF is using.
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syntax. What's happening there?