Notices by Jeff (overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social)

@silverwizard If you are going to go with Slackware, you're going to want to run -current and treat it as a semi-roll-your-own rolling release distro. Which I don't want to do, and I'm tired of run-Slack15-but-with-newer-kernel-and-pkgsrc. (I've been a Slackware user for over 25 years, it was the closest thing to BSD with a Linux kernel for a long time. I hate anti-recommending it.)

I need a new Linux reference platform. I've been toying with Slackware-but-rolling-release-and-replace-sysvinit or Alpine-with-a-real-userland, but I'm not excited enough about Linux these days to actually work on it (partly because I know how much work it is).

@q66 Chimera looks _dope_. I'm going to throw it on my OS test laptop this week.

@silverwizard I have to go rebuild the main battlestation, and I expect I'm just going to wind up triple or quad booting it with some combination of NetBSD, OpenBSD, Chimera Linux and Bazzite. With the last one being a bit of a "fine, I give up, at least it's not windows" install.

(It's dual booting Slackware and NetBSD right now, but the slackware installation got hosed, and that was getting to be a bit too much of a maintenance headache.)

Anyway. Don't use xlibre. I'm dropping devuan from my toolkit after their vocal support of xlibre. Like, it's a huge breach of trust. It puts devuan in the same category as ubuntu. It will probably mostly work because it's based on Debian (it's hard to break Debian, even the systemd versions), but clearly the people in charge have weird ideas/bad judgement and shouldn't be trusted with technical changes.

I'm a wayland dev who hates systemd. I'm an SRE for day jrrb: I've used a lot of Debian and CentOS in production over the last decade--I have many years of professional experience with systemd. I gave it a real shot. I really don't like it. It just doesn't work consistently and it's a bad supervision suite. I still use X11 for specific tasks (3d printing, retrocomputing), but I love my compositor.

I'm really sick of the X11+sysvinit vs Wayland+systemd culture war.

@ariadne @ed1conf @mwl Not...really. Alpine uses Busybox for its userspace utils, and the busybox ed(1) is complete garbage.

@KayOhtie

@jwz I piholed nyt on my home network. It's in the fake news/misinformation section of the block list after infowars, where it fucking belongs.

A mastodon filter would be a good addition. Great idea.

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.

All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.

#crowdstrike