Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

So, just to recap:
Hungary has a new law that forbids any queer content to be presented in any form to people under 18. This involves all books with any reference to LGBT+ (including, ironically, Harry Potter). These books can only be sold wrapped in plastic, and in the adult section of bookstores. Stores have already been fined for millions of Forints for not complying. This week, they are also being taken off the shelves in some stores completely.
I feel helpless.

Linguistic terms I want to make mainstream:

The Chewbacca agreement.

The peculiar situation of two bilingual but not fully competent individuals that results in each speaking a different language to each other without ever changing to the other speaker's language, that nevertheless produces a perfectly intelligible conversation to them.

Named, of course, after how Chewbacca just howls and chirps but everyone understands him and replies in English.

It is a very frequent situation in regions where more than one language is common or dominant.

I love diy medicine I'm such a big fan of diy medicine i wish i had a pill press so i could [there is a knock at my door] educate everyone about the dangers of diy medicine you should never do diy medicine

Here’s an alternative to scrum poker that I find really good, I call it “ADHD”:

Just fix the problem with the biggest and loudest warning messages, have some caffeine and ANC headphones and it’ll be done tomorrow night at 4AM

Is there any Mastodon web client where one can enter a Mastodon access key for an account?

I want to give someone posting access, without giving them the full password. I could make a new application key (& secret) and give it to them. If they turn evil, I, with the root password, can revoke it. 🙂

#AskMastodon #feditips

My wishlist for the federated web is an activitypub-enabled phpbb clone (complete with the themes and emotes). I'd kill off my (mostly disused) discord server for Tangerine for it if I could pay a company to do the basic administration for me like you can with mastodon (keeping on top of updates and so on).

If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.

The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.

Good. The whole concept of cash bail is that people should be detained pre-trial based on how much money they have, instead of whether they're a flight risk or a risk to the community. It's an indefensible system. It should be abolished everywhere.

"The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail when the new law takes effect Sept. 18."
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/illinois-supreme-court-upholds-far-reaching-law-ending-cash-bail

This opinion will light my butt on fire, but mailing lists are absolutely the worst way to contribute code in modern day and age.

It took me 2 minutes to write and form a patch. Now I have to remind myself how to send it to upstream properly.

UNIX timestamps were the biggest innovation in timekeeping since the 1st of January, 1970

to any game dev ever, but Especially if using a pixel based font: make your text bigger.

even bigger than that.

and a little more.

now its readable

I mean, LLMs would make perfect CEOs

- Confident
- Persuasive
- Well read
- Never admits a mistake, and will degrade you if you point one out to it
- Can make up reasonable sounding bullshit on the spot to explain their every action
- Relies on exploiting the unpaid labor of thousands of people
- Lives in a reality they invent for themselves
- Fundamentally uncreative

Just to recap the latest in the #Redhat RHEL vs downstreams not offering them any value drama:

Redhat publically states that downstream rebuilders offer them no value, and the RHEL community should all be working in the Centos-stream sandbox, because that's where the community is, because it has community right there in the name, and that's where the code fixes can land, and community is only about lines of code in the repo.

@almalinux goes "alright, no value in us being a 1:1 rebuild of RHEL, then we're cutting our own path while being based on Centos-stream, staying ABI compatible with RHEL, but we'll fix our own bugs when we find them"

Alma Linux then finds a CVE in the iperf3 server impacting everyone in the Enterprise Linux 9 ecosystem, so they release the fix for AlmaLinux, and then immediately open pull requests for Fedora and Centos-stream to land the fix upstream. Which would seem to be exactly what Redhat was asking for this whole time.

Redhat's response to the centos-stream pull request? "There is no current customer demand for this fix in RHEL, so we're not interested in this fix"

The astute will notice that the pull request is feeding into centos-stream, and not RHEL. But they're making merge decisions here based on immediate customer demand in RHEL.

So maybe this whole "Centos-stream is the community distro" line was bullshit and it really is just the beta testing ground for RHEL, just like all of us kind of thought it was while getting shouted down by the centos-stream advocates this whole time.

So Redhat is still doing great.

https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/iperf3/-/merge_requests/5