Notices by JP (froztbyte@mastodon.social)

@hipsterelectron this feels like it’s one of those things where will regret learning more

@ryanc iima, how did you approach/run the scaleout/job management for this? some diyolo once-off, or did you have something for it around already?

@GossiTheDog I don’t touch windows much at all these days, what particularly makes it non-automateable? I would’ve thought things like pxeboot’d scripted run envs or something could be viable, albeit that’s with a heavily *nix-background talking

@thomasfuchs “messy but doable”

You could pull the package archive metadata, unpack+read that, and compare (for this you’d need to keep state of remote version or compare at runtime)

there’s also apt commands but those would need execution somewhere that could run apt

Also you could have the host report its current and delta, then monitor the reports?

(Dunno what you’re trying to solve for, so just throwing ideas out)

@cstross haha yeah, systemd continues to be in that “it’s a nice idea, but it’d be nice if it were good” bucket

Admittedly I do tend to use it on a lot of things but pretty much _always_ with some swearing added in (because there’s always _some_ new flavour of bullshit localised)

@hipsterelectron I've been thinking about that and I'm not really sure how one would go about getting it done (in the sense that I don't have sufficient domain knowledge, and there's also the thing about different regulatory zones)

and there's some interesting philosophical questions about rights/restrictions in the scope of it too (nature of enforcement, etc etc)

would love to do some reading about it if there's someone who's done the thinking and writing about it

@pettter I'll bite: how?

@clacke @ShadowJonathan @Loukas @Nonilex thanks, I hate it

(I'd ask "wtf is wrong with these people" but I know. gah.)

@emilygorcenski this is so exhausting and dispiriting and depressing to watch unfold exactly like all of us said it would :|

@thomasfuchs haha it said 751MB for my M1 (but I guess it’s a two-stager as was mentioned in that post that was recently kicking around), but I had the same reaction

Even checked the security announces, nothing there. Keen to see a patch diff