@Z_Zed_Zed Yeah I'm surprised there aren't more.
Guessing they have a bolt cutter crew standing by just out of shot around the corner. ;-)
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Apr 03, 2026
@janeishly Our fuel might be twice as expensive, but their truuuucks use five times as much of it.
The poor diddums.
The poor diddums.
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Apr 02, 2026
@bert_hubert Funny I feel the same way. Been somewhat of a space geek all my life, my dad's a space geek too. Got a Lego Saturn V on my desk and all, so this _should_ really excite me.
And yet, somehow: Shrug.
And yet, somehow: Shrug.
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Apr 01, 2026
@th @cstross @quixoticgeek @tante I am so conflicted about this sort of thing.
On the one hand, cool, neat tricks.
On the other hand, at some point we were hiring Perl coders, and it was hard work to filter out all the ones that were mostly interested in this sort of stunt coding and couldn't write boring maintainable code to save their life.
I mean, look, it's very clever that you assigned a value to undef, but you're not getting any of that shit near my codebase.
On the one hand, cool, neat tricks.
On the other hand, at some point we were hiring Perl coders, and it was hard work to filter out all the ones that were mostly interested in this sort of stunt coding and couldn't write boring maintainable code to save their life.
I mean, look, it's very clever that you assigned a value to undef, but you're not getting any of that shit near my codebase.
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Mar 23, 2026
@woozle Yeah, BTDT.
I flipped back and forth between Mac and Linux every couple of years, getting annoyed with either the fragile never-quite-right project nature of Linux or the slick but rigid somebody-had-a-meeting-and-decided-you-can't-do-that nature of the Mac.
I now have both: A personal Mac and Linux on the work Thinkpad. :-)
I flipped back and forth between Mac and Linux every couple of years, getting annoyed with either the fragile never-quite-right project nature of Linux or the slick but rigid somebody-had-a-meeting-and-decided-you-can't-do-that nature of the Mac.
I now have both: A personal Mac and Linux on the work Thinkpad. :-)
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Mar 22, 2026
@cstross @jgg There is plenty to moan about in Linux land, certainly if you run Ubuntu. Which I do, here too the changeover cost is high and it hasn't sucked quite bad enough yet. Mostly.
Yeah systemd is shitting on "the UNIX philosophy", but the core system does work and offers some quite nice upsides over /etc/init.d scripts from a sysadmin pov.
Flip side is that it's a lot less simple and transparent so if something does go to shit it's more work to figure out WTF this time. Mixed blessing.
Yeah systemd is shitting on "the UNIX philosophy", but the core system does work and offers some quite nice upsides over /etc/init.d scripts from a sysadmin pov.
Flip side is that it's a lot less simple and transparent so if something does go to shit it's more work to figure out WTF this time. Mixed blessing.
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Mar 22, 2026
@truh @j404 @rootwyrm @graydon @cstross Nah.
It's cutting it close for us nerds. I'm not in the market for a Neo either, though it'll probably actually do 90% of what I want.
But my wife's been running a base config (ie, 8 GB) Air for a few years now and it's *fine*. Even with the obligatory 50 tabs open, it does ok.
She would have absolutely been in the market for a Neo. $600 takes away the main pain point for a lot of people looking at Macs.
And it comes in yellow, too. ;-)
It's cutting it close for us nerds. I'm not in the market for a Neo either, though it'll probably actually do 90% of what I want.
But my wife's been running a base config (ie, 8 GB) Air for a few years now and it's *fine*. Even with the obligatory 50 tabs open, it does ok.
She would have absolutely been in the market for a Neo. $600 takes away the main pain point for a lot of people looking at Macs.
And it comes in yellow, too. ;-)
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Mar 22, 2026
@jgg @cstross It's probably possible to use a different tool if the absolute need arises, but converting a primary process like that tends to not be cheap, if only in mental energy. (Though probably in reduced output too which readily translates to actual money.)
As for systemd, I don't mind the core system, the unit files work pretty well from the user end. It's all the extra shit like resolved I can do without, and it's run by a plonker with what seems like an "it works on my laptop" approach
As for systemd, I don't mind the core system, the unit files work pretty well from the user end. It's all the extra shit like resolved I can do without, and it's run by a plonker with what seems like an "it works on my laptop" approach
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Mar 22, 2026
@cstross Mmmh. Don’t want a Neo, but I may have to ponder a new Air after all.
The 2020 M1 doesn’t actually feel slow yet, which makes an impressive change from intel era macs, but it is getting on a bit and the thought of running it for another 5-10 years is a bit um.
The 2020 M1 doesn’t actually feel slow yet, which makes an impressive change from intel era macs, but it is getting on a bit and the thought of running it for another 5-10 years is a bit um.
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Mar 22, 2026
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Mar 20, 2026
@ellie @TheDutchChief @Keab42 @Flamekebab @jsr Yeah. We had guests from Australia get stuck in England, one hop away from Amsterdam. And guests who had made it wondering how to get back home.
One person from Finland bought a cheap used car and drove, via Tallinn. Lots of impromptu adventures.
And about a quarter of the guests not making it to the event. That sort of thing tends to stick in your head. ;-)
One person from Finland bought a cheap used car and drove, via Tallinn. Lots of impromptu adventures.
And about a quarter of the guests not making it to the event. That sort of thing tends to stick in your head. ;-)
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Mar 20, 2026
@TheDutchChief @Keab42 @Flamekebab @jsr 2010 was definitely memorable for me.
Was organising an international convention and less than 24h before it started that bastard unpronounceable volcano shut down all of Europe’s airspace.
Fuck 2010.
Was organising an international convention and less than 24h before it started that bastard unpronounceable volcano shut down all of Europe’s airspace.
Fuck 2010.
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Feb 28, 2026
@GerardThornley @RupertReynolds @pheonix For me it was never about telling a company something they either don’t want to hear or aren’t equipped to understand. It’s about killing that address after the transaction is done.
Especially nowadays where you don’t even have to wait for them to get hacked but they spam you to death with review requests and other needy bullshit.
Especially nowadays where you don’t even have to wait for them to get hacked but they spam you to death with review requests and other needy bullshit.
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Feb 16, 2026
@jimgar @InternetEh Even without ai it’s way too easy to fuck up this kind of data handling.
I work a lot with timeseries data and you’d be surprised how often you find dashboards taking say the max of a network packet counter instead of its derivative to see which interfaces are busy.
No wonder the “eh that’ll do” machine won’t get it right if it’s learned from averaging out human understanding. Or lack thereof.
I work a lot with timeseries data and you’d be surprised how often you find dashboards taking say the max of a network packet counter instead of its derivative to see which interfaces are busy.
No wonder the “eh that’ll do” machine won’t get it right if it’s learned from averaging out human understanding. Or lack thereof.
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