Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

A Linux audio driver walks into a bar

Bartender: "what would you like?"

pulseaudio[18814]: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_04_00.1.hdmi-stereo"

Bartender: "I can't hear you?"

pulseaudio[18814]: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Did not receive a reply

luring all the corporations onto a mastodon instance and then throwing the server down a well, thereby killing all the corporations instantly, the curse is lifted

Mozilla please stop trying to make Firefox into an "experience" I just want to look at stuff online

Inventing a new type of person in my head, they’re in their late 30s, devopsy and they fucking love capitalism and also think mastodon is a brand new toy just for them, that nobody else had discovered til November 2022

@joepie91 some people have truly learned absolutely nothing about inviting corporations into open source projects

Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.

They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.

This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".

[1] https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md

Actually having queer friendships and relationships, participating in queer culture, and learning queer history have proven time and again to illustrate how the bigots and hate mongers of our world have either completely misunderstood us, or have willfully obfuscated the reality of who are and what are about.

They are forced to misrepresent us, because their arguments wilt when faced with the truth.

Want something to be the sacrificial lamb in the event you run out of memory?

OOMScoreAdjust=1000 makes Linux think of your process first when it brings out the OOM killer.

Y'all need to learn a few key things, as a demographic.

1. Your good intentions don't matter for shit. Stop using "I didn't mean any harm" as an excuse for not taking responsibility for the effects of your choices.

2. Your ignorance has zero excuse. No, not even that excuse. Zero. It is not the job of everyone else on the planet to educate you. Shelve your sad little egos and put in some effort to learn under your own power. I know not having the universe handed to you for being you are feels scary and unfamiliar. I promise working on yourself won't kill you.

3. Your bubble of privilege gives you no right to invalidate the experiences of literally every other group of people on the planet. See also number 2. Not knowing something is part of being human. Willful ignorance is part of being a shitty person.

4. Quit whining when the rest of us have had enough of your childish bullshit and decide to dump your ass in the cold. Just because not all of us are fortunate enough to be able to escape from you doesn't mean anyone deserves to be subjected to you.

Sincerely,

~ Basically everyone else on Earth.

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.

Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.

Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055

#astronomy

LGTM is an ancient spell used to ward off bugs and edge-cases

This is... not entirely surprising

"Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI's codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622

On Aug 27 2022, a transgender activist named Malte C. was beaten to death for defending two lesbians against homophobic abuse. On cue, TERFs mocked him for dying and claimed that he would have been able to fight back had he been born male. The transandrophobia cult reflected the same sentiment. I won’t forget Malte’s sacrifice. What happened to him could have happened to anyone, but he is the one who chose to act. I think about this a lot.