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i'm sure railway operators don't act like little spoiled kids in a playground wanting to protect their castle at all cost and be all defensive about letting anyone else use the same sandbox

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wow Europe is so good at international cooperation and can agree on so many things i'm sure they have figured out everything about railways and #CrossBorderRail in general that it's not a problem in the slightest to quickly, cheaply and comfortably cross the continent without flying

there are certainly no problems with booking, changes, responsibility for problems with trains crossing borders or any of that

right?

right????? 😅

something feels so off about this article on the unveiling of Aaron Swartz's statue. I'd never describe #AaronSwartz as a tech bro 🙄

"The 312-pound statue, carved from Carrara marble sourced from Italy, was crafted using a mix of AI-driven robotic milling and traditional hand carving. Peniche invested $10,000 of his own money into the project, with the remaining $53,500 scraped from donors that included Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe and Mana CEO Max Novendstern."

I am willing to bet that if Aaron Swartz was alive today, he'd not be happy about SF's capitalists using his name to sound like they give a damn about what Aaron stood for..

Pretty productive day, honestly.

Cautiously went back to (some) paid work after my surgery (I have bills to pay!), cleaned up a good chunk of my e-mail inbox by creating an absurd amount of folders and filters, migrated my Forgejo, and made a start on a little automation project.

Definitely hadn't expected to get this much done today when I woke up this morning!

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Todo: delete the many many spam accounts that have accumulated because Gitea/Forgejo do not really have any meaningful spam prevention

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To me, advertising is fundamentally adversarial. You try to colonize my thoughts with your brand, and I try to remain as unaware of your business as possible. There's these billboards I've been seeing for like a decade that don't contain enough information to figure out what the fuck they're advertising, just an inflammatory url that they're trying to intrigue you into looking up. Today I saw one where they actually talk about what business they're in and I'm so mad to know that now. I was winning the war for my neurons, at least on that one small front, but they couldn't let me have it

The migration involved:

1. rsyncing a few data folders over to the new (not really new, just different) server
2. Cut-and-pasting my NixOS/morph config for Forgejo from one machine definition to the other and running the deploy script
3. Fixing some file permissions due to a user/group ID mismatch, oops
4. Changing an internal port because I hadn't realized there was a port conflict, oops
5. Switching over the CNAME with 5 minute TTL in my DNS over to the 'new' machine's host

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galaxy brain techbro takes that require brain bleach 

Some highlights, paraphrased:

"Forgejo is just another fork by people who do nothing except take other people's work to earn money from it"

"If you want to see a company that successfully figured out how to make open-source work for a business, look at Gitlab"

(For those unfamiliar: Gitlab is open-core, not open-source)

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Finally got around to migrating my Forgejo to a different hosting provider, it's no longer horrendously slow now

I tried to read a HN thread about Forgejo. That was a mistake.

Timeline cleansing pointless thought for the day:
Does the concept of a "warp core" for a spacecraft engine imply the rest of a warp fruit with warp peel on the outside?

US politics 

if you're in a position where a government doing terrible things is relying on you to help do them, this is an opportunity.

do NOT quit in protest, do a bad job on purpose.

accidentally forget to make backups of important information.

send back subtly wrong answers to questions.

wrap everything in as much red tape as you can get away with.

you're smart and competent, turn your thinking around: how can I make everyone around me less efficient.

Doom läuft auf allem, auch im PDF – warum nicht auch Linux? Das dachte sich ein Tüftler und startet ein Minimalsystem im PDF-RISC-V-Emulator.

heise.de/news/Linux-laeuft-im-

I do not enjoy how small programs routinely take up several hundred MB of RAM each nowadays, for no clear reason.

And no, I'm not talking about Electron here.

Things that I want: PS2 running Linux and hosting my mastodon instance.

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