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@xuu well, it does right but only with special LD flags?
@prologic Yeah that is probably what was happening. I wish that go build could embed the values that go install does.
@prologic Yeah that is probably what was happening. I wish that go build could embed the values that go install does.
[47°09′08″S, 126°43′17″W] Sample analyzing complete -- starting transfer
I havnt seen any emails about the outage at work. I know i have the mac crowdstrike client though. My buddy that works at a hospital says they wernt affected.
I havnt seen any emails about the outage at work. I know i have the mac crowdstrike client though. My buddy that works at a hospital says they wernt affected.
@abucci i love this talk
@abucci i love this talk
@abucci i love this talk
@movq This outage did affect me, though not much, via the university where my wife teaches and where I teach sometimes. They actually sent out an alert in their emergency alert system (the one they use to alert people of extreme weather events and bomb threats, mostly), telling people that all IT systems were down.

A friend of mine elsewhere pointed out that they pushed this change on a Friday, which of course no software developer with any experience would ever, ever, ever do. I have to assume there's some toxic management at CrowdStrike, but who knows. Even more reasons to sympathize with the poor folks who are probably going to be working nights and weekends to clean up this mess.
@mckinley Hmmmmm, yeah, sounds like jabber is not the right thing for us then.

@aelaraji To be honest, I don’t like Matrix that much myself. We don’t use any of the fancy crypto features and all that, no federation either. And clients like “FluffyChat” look and feel pretty much like any other chat client. It’s a rather simple setup. Problem is just that it’s not WhatsApp and *people want WhatsApp*, nothing else. 🫤 (Hence I have little hope that Signal would be a big success.)
@mckinley Hmmmmm, yeah, sounds like jabber is not the right thing for us then.

@aelaraji To be honest, I don’t like Matrix that much myself. We don’t use any of the fancy crypto features and all that, no federation either. And clients like “FluffyChat” look and feel pretty much like any other chat client. It’s a rather simple setup. Problem is just that it’s not WhatsApp and *people want WhatsApp*, nothing else. 🫤 (Hence I have little hope that Signal would be a big success.)
@mckinley Hmmmmm, yeah, sounds like jabber is not the right thing for us then.

@aelaraji To be honest, I don’t like Matrix that much myself. We don’t use any of the fancy crypto features and all that, no federation either. And clients like “FluffyChat” look and feel pretty much like any other chat client. It’s a rather simple setup. Problem is just that it’s not WhatsApp and *people want WhatsApp*, nothing else. 🫤 (Hence I have little hope that Signal would be a big success.)
@mckinley Hmmmmm, yeah, sounds like jabber is not the right thing for us then.

@aelaraji To be honest, I don’t like Matrix that much myself. We don’t use any of the fancy crypto features and all that, no federation either. And clients like “FluffyChat” look and feel pretty much like any other chat client. It’s a rather simple setup. Problem is just that it’s not WhatsApp and *people want WhatsApp*, nothing else. 🫤 (Hence I have little hope that Signal would be a big success.)
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@lyse

> Anyone who reads the CrowdStrike self-description and then buys the product has really earned a major fault.

The nasty thing is: Sysadmins don’t decide this, do they? The management does. And *they* don’t have to clean up this bloody fucking mess.

All the fellow sysadmins who were hit by this have my sympathies. 😂
@lyse

> Anyone who reads the CrowdStrike self-description and then buys the product has really earned a major fault.

The nasty thing is: Sysadmins don’t decide this, do they? The management does. And *they* don’t have to clean up this bloody fucking mess.

All the fellow sysadmins who were hit by this have my sympathies. 😂
@lyse

> Anyone who reads the CrowdStrike self-description and then buys the product has really earned a major fault.

The nasty thing is: Sysadmins don’t decide this, do they? The management does. And *they* don’t have to clean up this bloody fucking mess.

All the fellow sysadmins who were hit by this have my sympathies. 😂
@lyse

> Anyone who reads the CrowdStrike self-description and then buys the product has really earned a major fault.

The nasty thing is: Sysadmins don’t decide this, do they? The management does. And *they* don’t have to clean up this bloody fucking mess.

All the fellow sysadmins who were hit by this have my sympathies. 😂
IT policy: Fuck computers, turn them all off, do something else it's Friday!
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@prologic One of these days I'll turn off registrations
@prologic Hello!
@movq Somewhere or another, I think in a William Byrd talk, I heard it suggested that the best ideas in computer science should fit on an index card (ah yes it's this one: https://paperswelove.org/2017/video/will-byrd-most-beautiful-program/ ). He was referring to the basic principles of LISP/the lambda calculus, which have sometimes been called the Maxwell's equations of computer programming (by Alan Kay). Simple, short, elegant, but very densely packed with meaning--generations of people have spent their whole careers unpacking what those simple rules can do.

Much of modern software feels like the polar opposite of that. Not only can you not write it on an index card, you never will be able to because people who write software don't seem to aspire to try. I wish more people thought this way though!
@New_scientist No.
@New_scientist It's insane that a single botched software update can have worldwide impact. We've messed up badly.
@prologic @movq Haha, didn't affect me or my direct workmates either. But our scrummie logged off with BSOD and another workmate also told me to have already experienced three with successful reboots, though. Another branch was completely offline and I heard rumors about factories being shut down, too.

Anyone who reads the CrowdStrike self-description and then buys the product has really earned a major fault.

This is exactly what's going to happen, movq. Zero lessons learned. No consequences. Maybe just a bit more snake oil on top.
@movq Yeah didn't affect us either
@movq Yeah didn't affect us either
@prologic Everything’s on fire. We’re going to be complaining for a couple of days, then we’ll continue as usual, repeating the same mistakes. Nothing to see, carry on. 🫤🥴

(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
@prologic Everything’s on fire. We’re going to be complaining for a couple of days, then we’ll continue as usual, repeating the same mistakes. Nothing to see, carry on. 🫤🥴

(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
@prologic Everything’s on fire. We’re going to be complaining for a couple of days, then we’ll continue as usual, repeating the same mistakes. Nothing to see, carry on. 🫤🥴

(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
@prologic Everything’s on fire. We’re going to be complaining for a couple of days, then we’ll continue as usual, repeating the same mistakes. Nothing to see, carry on. 🫤🥴

(I’m just glad it didn’t affect us at work.)
[47°09′55″S, 126°43′16″W] Dosimeter fixed
❤️ 🎶: Honeybee by CHUU
@slashdot So this is this "Crowdstrike Outage" my wife told me about a few mins ago hmmm 🧐 wtf is going on here? 😅
@slashdot So this is this "Crowdstrike Outage" my wife told me about a few mins ago hmmm 🧐 wtf is going on here? 😅
I re-blocked this feed (_if anyone really wants it, please let me know!_) and nuked it from the cache. It's full of garbage AFICT 🤦‍♂️
I re-blocked this feed (_if anyone really wants it, please let me know!_) and nuked it from the cache. It's full of garbage AFICT 🤦‍♂️
[47°09′41″S, 126°43′13″W] Dosimeter malfunction
[47°09′40″S, 126°43′05″W] Non-significative results -- sampling finished
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@movq I couldn't agree more@I have many projects and tools like this that are just "done"
@movq I couldn't agree more@I have many projects and tools like this that are just "done"
Hmm I thought we blocked this rubbish anonymous gopher feed before? Has it change its location? 🤔
Hmm I thought we blocked this rubbish anonymous gopher feed before? Has it change its location? 🤔
@aelaraji you're welcome. 😅
@aelaraji you're welcome. 😅
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, New Ground https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/07/18/new-ground.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
@prologic LOL Thanks to you, even I started using signal.
@prologic LOL Thanks to you, even I started using signal.
@movq TBH I don't like Matrix... It feels a bit messy, my conversations and servers I join tend to get mangled, some stuff tend to have some sub-stuff... etc. I don't hate it though, because I know I may have been using it wrong.

But hey, have you ever tried Databag ? Your family might get a better user experience with this one.
@movq TBH I don't like Matrix... It feels a bit messy, my conversations and servers I join tend to get mangled, some stuff tend to have some sub-stuff... etc. I don't hate it though, because I know I may have been using it wrong.

But hey, have you ever tried Databag ? Your family might get a better user experience with this one.
@movq I think the fact we can see posts from it in here (twtxt.net) is odd. It means someone (withing this Yarn pod?) follows it, no?

I asked @prologic and got no answer, but I wonder if there is admin-only tool built-in on Yarn, that allows the admin to search which user(s) follow a certain feed (for moderation purposes, or otherwise).
[47°09′55″S, 126°43′42″W] Raw reading: 0x66996631, offset +/-3
Base: 7.00 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:08:01 duration
base again. felt good but my HR was a little elevated earlier than expected.
#running #treadmill
Base: 7.00 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:08:01 duration
base again. felt good but my HR was a little elevated earlier than expected.
#running #treadmill
Base: 7.00 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 01:08:01 duration
base again. felt good but my HR was a little elevated earlier than expected.
#running #treadmill
@movq Yeah, I don't get it either. Some "security" scanner at work also complains about "dead" libraries all the time, just because the most recent commit is a few years or even just months old. What a giant joke.

This mindset _might_ come from today's kids who can build stuff only with gazillions of dependencies. And plenty of these suck, are full of bugs, vulnerabilities and bad code in general. So they have to be patched constantly. If one is always surrounded by that, it just feels normal. One might even come to the conclusion that it simply has to naturally be that way. And then, the incorrect deduction is that the project is abandoned, once there are no new commits in a week. It maybe doesn't occur to these people that it is actually possible to work out differently.

To be fair, there is also a lot of unfinished and truly dead code out there. So that assures their theory even further, once they stumble across one of those projects.

And the same doesn't only happen to private projects. All enterprise software systems also pull in so much stuff, that there is always something to update.

The lack of proper planning, just building and delivering buggy banana software in cycles and the mindset of shipping fast and often and doing things agile in general does not do this any favor. It just feels like today's sofware is never ever finished. And if it finally reaches such a point, it must be dead.

I know of some otherwise reeeeaaaaally great software developers who also think that way. I don't understand why they disagree with us here. :-?
[47°09′47″S, 126°43′49″W] Transfer aborted
@movq Why would that be surprising? :-) They definitely fit my style of music. Well, I don't wanna know how much a ticket is. And the Wasen is also a terrible location. :-D

The overcrowded train was run by GoAhead, the S-Bahn by DB. They're interchangeably bad.

Over fifty kilometers is a very long bike ride. That at least doubles my commute to more than six hours in total. No, thanks. ;-)
@lyse

> Then there comes in feature creep.

This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.

All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.

It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.

A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
@lyse

> Then there comes in feature creep.

This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.

All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.

It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.

A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
@lyse

> Then there comes in feature creep.

This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.

All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.

It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.

A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
@lyse

> Then there comes in feature creep.

This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.

All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.

It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.

A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody *maintains* it anymore.
@mckinley Last time I tried jabber was probably 10 years ago. How’s group chat these days? Is it comparable to “modern” chat systems, does it feel the same?

I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
@mckinley Last time I tried jabber was probably 10 years ago. How’s group chat these days? Is it comparable to “modern” chat systems, does it feel the same?

I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
@mckinley Last time I tried jabber was probably 10 years ago. How’s group chat these days? Is it comparable to “modern” chat systems, does it feel the same?

I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
@mckinley Last time I tried jabber was probably 10 years ago. How’s group chat these days? Is it comparable to “modern” chat systems, does it feel the same?

I guess it’s irrelevant which platform I’m going to propose as an alternative to WhatsApp. It’s the same old problem: Almost all their contacts are on WhatsApp, so that’s what they want to use, end of story.
@lyse You had me in the first half, I thought you were going to their concert. 😅 That would have surprised me.

I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.

Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
@lyse You had me in the first half, I thought you were going to their concert. 😅 That would have surprised me.

I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.

Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
@lyse You had me in the first half, I thought you were going to their concert. 😅 That would have surprised me.

I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.

Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
@lyse You had me in the first half, I thought you were going to their concert. 😅 That would have surprised me.

I had some pleasant experiences with public transportation lately, but that wasn’t Deutsche Bahn.

Would a bike or an ebike be an alternative for you? 🤔
@prologic @bender It’s a twtxt feed that anyone can post to via Gopher: gopher://g.nixers.net/1/%7eanon/

Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
@prologic @bender It’s a twtxt feed that anyone can post to via Gopher: gopher://g.nixers.net/1/%7eanon/

Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
@prologic @bender It’s a twtxt feed that anyone can post to via Gopher: gopher://g.nixers.net/1/%7eanon/

Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
@prologic @bender It’s a twtxt feed that anyone can post to via Gopher: gopher://g.nixers.net/1/%7eanon/

Do we think this is a problem? 🤔 If so, you should be able to contact the admin in #nixers on libera.chat.
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Have you ever felt like something was billions of years away? Well, that's how I felt today when I thought I had forgotten a PGP passphrase.
[47°09′03″S, 126°43′10″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
We need more goopheeers...
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′47″W] Not enough data -- sampling finished
[47°09′22″S, 126°43′56″W] Re-taking samples
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1034 ARCHIVED:76828 CACHE:2318 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14
Hi everyone. This is kinda cool. Hello from my boring cubicle in sunny LA!
@bender Yeah I dunno wtf this feed is 🤣 Looks like a gopher feed. Either their client is fucked up, or this is just pure spam 🤔 Anyway found some bugs in yarnd that I should fix because of this feed.
@bender Yeah I dunno wtf this feed is 🤣 Looks like a gopher feed. Either their client is fucked up, or this is just pure spam 🤔 Anyway found some bugs in yarnd that I should fix because of this feed.
@prologic indeed.
@bender hmmm
@bender hmmm
@movq Same
@movq Same
@movq It requires heaps of discipline. Lots of.
@movq @prologic Good analysis! Another aspect is: Trying out new stuff is appealing to a lot of people. I'm certainly not unguilty of that either. But when you experiment, things will naturally go wrong somewhere at some point. You probably don't even know that at this point in time and realize this only much later. If at all.

To make it better, throwing things away and starting over with the newly aquired knowledge would be the right thing to do. But that doesn't happen for a myriad of reasons. So you ended up with overly complex stuff.

A bit like building a prototype and keeping it alive forever. "Denn nichts hält länger als ein Provisorium." – "Nothing is more definitive than the temporary."

Then there comes in feature creep. And preliminary optim^Wfeatures, "hey, maybe somebody would like to bla in the future, let's add this".
I just heard AC/DC play live in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt for the first time in my life!

Well, when I was waiting for my train home on the station platform. I didn't recognize that it was Acca Dacca, and I tried hard. In fact, the stage was 500 meters away, so it was just some music-like sound that found its way into my ears. Still kinda cool to know that I heard them live.

I had a barbie with my old workmates. That's why I have a story to tell now. On the way there, the train was hopelessly overcrowded with AC/DC fans. You couldn't fall down, simply impossible. It was like in the videos of Japanese subways, where guards press in passengers to utilize every square centimeter. At later stations, plenty of people didn't get in. Not a chance. This caused quite some delays. And boy, was it hot in there. Streams of sweat running down everywhere.

Originally, I wanted to meet up with a workmate in a city train for the second part of the trip. Due to a signal failure, his train was delayed, though. It got delayed even more and more and was finally cancelled altogether. I eventually got my connecting train while he was still stuck and decided to abort mission and go home after 40 minutes. Catching my connection was another adventure. It was rerouted to another platform, of course without announcement. Because why would you? Fuck the passengers! Luckily, I noticed that it took a different branch at the switch on arrival and ran down and up the stairs to the other platform. The delay counter in this train showed 40 minutes when I finally got off.

With the exception of Acca Dacca, the way home was pleasantly uneventful. Just a few minutes delay and a relatively low passenger volume.

I'm so grateful for not having to experience all this shit on a daily basis anymore. Not looking forward to the next time I have to go into the city. Not at all.
[47°09′27″S, 126°43′11″W] Analyzing samples
I wonder who follows this one. Is there a way for a pod admin to know this, @prologic?
[47°09′51″S, 126°43′39″W] Taking samples
Base: 8.00 miles, 00:09:40 average pace, 01:17:16 duration
kept it easy in speed
#running #treadmill
Base: 8.00 miles, 00:09:40 average pace, 01:17:16 duration
kept it easy in speed
#running #treadmill