I knew once she brought up dogs everyone would flip…where was this widespread condemnation and outrage in the press for all her other horrific things she did/advocated for
Fucking dog people man, I don’t get it. But whatever gets people off their asses?
i never trusted brew - i've had to help too many developers fix up their environments after brew got too crafty for its own good. fortunately pkgsrc/pkgin works really well on macOS and pretty much every other unix.
@feld@alex I think it’s the same thing as everyone thinking you can only “do OPS” by using k8s. The thing is if he just had a small server and Apache his site would have fallen over during the ddos and a) would have realized something was bad and b) probably had a chance to stop the attack. Small is good lord of times.
But everyone needs to pretend their shitty site is a FANG company and then get all surprised when they learn it costs real money to have that scale.
@malwaretech my fav pro-move from them is the "Women shouldn't work, they should raise kids at home" - then suppress wages so that's not even an option for most people.
@georgetakei omg this just makes me feel worse about selling the Windows XP launch event sign that said “All bags subject to search” that I nicked from their NYC launch party. I never thought it’d be worth more than an few laughs 😳
instead of shipping the new lenses to my Dr's office like they always have, they now require me to send my frames to them and i'll be without glasses for "7 to 10 days".
@nettles@feld Libxo gets a lot of flack but I’m really surprised it never caught on in the Linux world. It’s pretty ideal if you are building an appliance. I suspect it’s a bit of NIH syndrome…maybe if it was written in rust 😁
Trains used to bring in huge rolls of paper from the port of LA, then robots would stack and load them onto spools. Above the spools three or four story tall printers could create something like 20k papers a min or something 🫠
Its an end of an era, and was a pretty bittersweet tour. The only thing that kept going through my head was how basically fbook and goog destroyed an entire industry in america that employed so many people in so many fields (mechanics, engineers, photogs, artists, journo's to name a few roles) - and basically were rewarded for this while bringing so little of value to society in return.
My instance is running Pleroma (https://pleroma.social/). It is running on a smallish FreeBSD VM via my personal colo server. I already run my own mail, web and other services here (and I'm a sys admin by training), so I would say its worth it personally.
I looked at Mastodon first when I considered moving off of my prior fediverse server and I wasn't too interested in maintaining a Ruby webapp. I have quite a bit of experience supporting Ruby and have nothing against it, but its just not my cuppa tea. Pleroma is written in Elixer/Erlang which I also have quite a bit of experience with and IMHO its more fun to hack on, so that helped tip the balance.
There are also some other lightweight fediserverse servers out there since I choose Pleroma, one of which I'd probably take a close look if I was doing this today is Honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk).
Having said all that - I *like* hacking on computers and really want to control my internet footprint as much as possible. So this have been an overwhelming net positive. The support overhead for Pleroma/PostgreSQL isn't too much, and if something breaks i'm the only one effected.
@feld It was a fun day when we discovers they’d just mail a shit ton of these to you for free if you asked. It was the best stoner reading material ever if you wanted to make house guests uncomfortable 😅
@feld It’s just wild how fox news and trump programmed them to be the victim at all costs. Even when they hit the retirement lottery while being well bellow average in every measure.
BSD and Unix mechanic/malcontentaka @nomadlogic@bsd.network Dreaming of a future where there are taco trucks on every corner and no more billionaires.he/him