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One day I will use Krazy Glue without getting it all over my fingers. Today is not that day.


#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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@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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@pixx I don't recognize the @{...} syntax. What's happening there?
@pixx


Surely, I can use this void pointer safely...

*SEGFAULT*




Content warning: whinging about Rogers (Canadian telco)




I just straight-up watched a cat use a crosswalk. He walked up to a busy intersection, sat patiently looking across the street, and as soon as the lights changed giving the pedestrian crossing the right of way, crossed the street.


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.

#ed
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I am an old guy that used TECO — that was weird fun too as I remember. Very powerful but totally obtuse.
in reply to Brian Sullivan

@Brian Sullivan I should look into TECO as well. I have an account on SDF's TOPS-20 system that I like to play around with from time to time.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

One of the guys I worked with in the early 70s wrote an entire text star wars game in a TECO macro.
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Like vi/vim then, although their aficionados would never admit it.


Welp, my internet connection is absolute trash today. Hooray for monopolies!

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Hi there"
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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Evolution and morphological figures are pretty harmless though 😀
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@Ailantd Sikowsky I can dig a Vitruvian Man design with a Batrachian figure instead. I will have a hard time explaining the joke every time someone asks about it but it's worth it.

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From a data privacy perspective, cars are just cell phones on wheels now and I hate it so much.

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are we going to see a retro throwback “Luddite” trend of people fixing up old beater Honda Civics and 1980 VW Beetles?
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I think it's worse than that. At least with most Android phones you are allowed to replace the OS, disable tracking, etc. It might not be easy, but it's possible to do without losing the functionality of the phone (not Samsung, they're pretty bad). Tesla warns you that opting out of their data collection program might result in your car ceasing to function. If they stop being vehicles if you don't let them spy on you, then their primary function is not as a vehicle.
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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.

#c #plan9
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

There is a reason why go removed all implicit casts.


How do I know I'm getting old? I've finally reached the age where I routinely find myself asking: "do I really want to bend over to pick that up?"



The thing about writing a unit testing framework from scratch is that you can't use test driven development to make it, but hey, at least I'm not building a compiler from scratch.


@Benny has decided that he wants to help me work today. I'm getting the impression that he does not know C at all.


Been doing some work in C lately, and I have to admit, I miss lambdas. It has function pointers, but they're not the same thing.

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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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@tob This is why UTC is the One True Timezone.
@tob

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Apparently, querying YouTube's RSS feed (that they admittedly don't advertise, but do provide) is a violation of their Terms of Service?

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I feel personally attacked by this cartoon.

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Content warning: Off-topic: data privacy, AI

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Content warning: Off-topic: data privacy, AI

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Content warning: Off-topic: data privacy, AI


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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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in reply to Andrew (cold)

I wonder... Is building a newswire as conceptually easy as it seems?
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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.

in reply to The Doctor

@drwho It is tempting, and would be valuable, but our org would be better participating, rather than leading such an initiative.


Been writing a little extension for acme mail in #Plan9. It's been a while since I've touched C though.

I, being me, am making it harder on myself by going full #TDD on this project.



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.



It turns out that #ed is a surprisingly good editor for working with #markdown formatted files (especially notes). Hint: g/^#/n will give you a nice table of contents.


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?

#AskFedi


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More people should swing a baseball bat in their house blindfolded

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this is the modern evolution of the useless plastic wiimote shells

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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 :heart_pride:

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OK that's cute and getting printed out and put on my front door


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/


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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Just to make you aware, their Matcha mix contains sugar:

https://www.ohhowcivilized.com/starbucks-matcha/


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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.



Content warning: old man rant



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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.

#Fedi #ActivityPub

🧵

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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

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in reply to Paul Chambers

@paul It seems like that could be paired with hashtags to give the store owner control over what gets posted where, when.

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Content warning: cdnpoli: Saskatchewan

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

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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over on bsky they're having a problem with an influx of nazis and im just like "wow that sucks. over on mastodon any place that nazis congregate just gets yeeted into the sun. also we can post gifs"
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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.

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I saw an article the other day that claimed blewskie is open source and distributed, so they just need to create a new instance and block the instances that contain Nazis. Oh, you can't do that? I guess it's neither open source nor distributed.

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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

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I never stopped masking in public, have had 7 COVID shots, and I was just diagnosed with COVID for the first time on Monday. I’m high risk, and so is my housemate who was diagnosed on Tuesday. This strain is extremely contagious, and felt like a mild head cold/sniffles at the onset. Please mask up.
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@Shanmonster

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. 🫤


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