It's very sad to see #rsync getting polluted with LLM slop now.

Even more sad, given who is doing it.

People are talking angrily about "the maintainer" and suggesting "this guy" [should have his commit bit revoked] etc. apparently not realising that "this guy" is Tridge, both the original author of rsync and creator of samba. His PhD thesis "Efficient Sorting & Synchronization Algorithms" describes the original rsync algorithm. Still worth a read, even now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell

@skinnylatte The best steak pies in London are available at the airport. Just catch a flight to Australia...

🛫 🥧

On this day 25 years ago I arrived in the UK with enough money to last (almost) two weeks, no credit cards, no return ticket, nowhere to stay, and no job waiting for me.

We drown people of colour for less, even if we just bombed their country of origin, but I was white*, so I was alright.

I think about this sometimes.

* and male, and a native English speaker

@rysiek They called it SimpleX ? I do hope none of their posts go viral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus

@band

I've found the following guide quite useful. It's more or less what I use with my projects:

https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/

@skinnylatte One of my personal favorites. I love the smoky flavour.

We were in Canberra in January 2020 during the bushfires and visited a tea shop. Bought what I thought was something similar, but it turned out that was just bushfire smoke I was smelling, and the tea was quite mild when we got it home 🙂

The quotes on Francesca's website seem more relevant than ever today:

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead

"If you think small things don’t matter, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito" - Dalai Lama

"Do your little bit of good where you are. It’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world" - Desmond Tutu

"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi

I picked up a cigarette packet on our walk today and was reminded of Francesca Saunders who founded People Against Litter (PAL).

For 20 years she ran a one-woman quest to get people to pick up #litter

Franscesca would ask people to sign up to be PALs and promise to pick up one piece of litter per day. We used to host her website.

Franscesca is retired now, but you can still be a PAL. Just pick up litter when you see it. One piece per day. More, if you want to.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170206132406/http://www.peopleagainstlitter.org/positive-pals/

People justify continuing to use #GitHub in all sorts of ways.

"OK, they're owned by Microsoft who has spent decades trying to crush FOSS, but..."

"Yes, they steal code to feed their planet-destroying LLMs, but..."

"Sure, they help ICE enforce fascist policy, but..."

"Yes, they're supporting genocide, but..."

There's no "but" clause that justifies supporting all of that.

Values require sacrifices. This is the price we pay for the world we want.

Don't collaborate. #Resist #GiveUpGitHub

@Gargron @jonny @onepict As far as I can tell all public and unlisted posts are being posted publicly on the web by nodebb and have been picked up by search engines.

I realise everything on here is effectively "public" including DMs, but there has been strong resistance until now from the community to making the fediverse searchable.

NodeBB has broken that expectation.

@Gargron @jonny @onepict Instantly updated and searchable 🙂

Can anyone tell me what is #NodeBB and why is it scraping and republishing fediverse content without consent?

@onepict It is forum software, but is scraping posts from the fediverse (incl. Mastodon and PeerTube) and reposting that on the public web for search engines to discover.

AIUI making the fediverse searchable is an explicit non-goal in the community, and every previous attempt to do so has been met by blocks and defederation.

@onepict

Hi @ordnung

Are you aware that posts are being scraped and reblogged by community.nodebb.org?

The #nodebb software is reposting content, including unlisted posts and effectively making the fediverse searchable.

This looks like a #Fediblock to me.

Can I just take a moment of your time to point out how awesome the folks are at @liberachat

We take #LiberaChat completely for granted. Like the floor we walk on, or the air that we breathe it's just there. It works. We use it every day with #Librecast and it works so well we mostly forget there are real people that make it all work.

Thanks, while I remember. By tomorrow I'll have forgotten you exist again because you do your job just too damn well.

I've had a #LinkedIn account for 20 years this year. I have not once, in all that time, found a use for it.

It is 100% desperate self-promotion, spam, and AI-generated garbage now.

Everyone who has ever contacted me on there had better contact details for me already. Why msg me on a proprietary platform when you have my email address?!

My email address is literally on every commit message on every repo I've every contributed to, so I'm easy to find. I even have a website.

Time to delete.

I was going to leave it a while longer after giving notice yesterday, but frankly I just want to get off that hateful space. Anyone who wants to contact me already knows how.

Done.

#LinkedIn

DebConf is in France. Hurrah!
I live in France. Hurrah!
I have software in #Debian. Hurrah!

I have #LongCovid from my last conference over 5 years ago
So it may as well be on the Moon.

If you are going to #DebConf, please #WearAMask because #CovidIsNotOver and you may also wish to go to the next one.

His owners seem like good people and care and fuss over him. However, they both work a lot, and so he's left at the house with another dog during the day, and I don't think they get taken out for walks. The other dog never leaves the property, and they hoped she'd encourage Alonso to stay.

OMG! Alonso is here!

Haven't seen him for a week, as his owners apparently made good on their threat to lock him the garage.

But he's escaped (of course).

He's a bit fearty, but he's back!

We have missed him.

Previous Alonso thread was here:

https://chaos.social/@dentangle/113917922178493188