Notices by popey (popey@ubuntu.social), page 2

I suspect this might be quite niche knowledge, but if you know me, you may know I'd do this.

Bit worried absolutely nobody will get this. :D

A clue will be provided if nobody gets it, in a couple of hours. :)

CLUE: it’s one command with one parameter. No internet connection required for the command to complete successfully.

CLUE 2: The command (and parameter) doesn't modify anything on disk. (other than adding to my bash history, and the stuff in /dev or /proc or /sys which is required by the kernel for the process to function)

CLUE 3: This is the server I purchased and ran the command on. The image contains a clue.
(note I am now getting in my car to drive home from London so won’t see replies for at least an hour maybe two)
Enjoy!

@doctormo @mairin @mattb @fedora Also, I talked about the Ubuntu Social mastodon instance in episode 1 of @linuxmatters - https://linuxmatters.sh/1/ - section starts right at the beginning.

@doctormo @mairin @mattb @fedora I'd love to help in any way I can. Been running ubuntu.social for a while now. Seems to work okay. :D

@itsfoss Your article says you need to install flutter to use the new snap store. You do not.

Southern California Linux Expo 2024 (SCaLE 21x) Call For Papers is open. One of my favourite nerd events, is back again in March 2024...
https://socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/cfp

'"Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose," the team's paper concluded. "Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style." Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong.'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

@killyourfm Where you heading? I'm off to Portland tomorrow, in case you're around :D (I know, USA is massive)

I deleted all my comments on Reddit earlier in the week. Reddit have undeleted them!
I'm not alone, others have seen this. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14agh7d/reddit_starting_to_bring_back_deleted_comments/

Two years have passed since Andrew Lee took over freenode (with the help of Christel Dahlskjaer) and essentially destroyed it. I logged in yesterday to take a look, and sure enough, it's a ghost town. Turns out, "we" keep getting burned by egotistical, narcissistic rich dudes who screw with stuff then walk away. Who knew.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/

@ThePlant There's over 1000 people in #ubuntu on libera. 🤷

@ThePlant It's not that I love irc, I just hate the alternatives :D

@ThePlant I am "in" 50 discords. It's a shitshow when you only want to be in one channel, but have to join an entire discord to converse briefly. I agree matrix is a mess tho. :)

@boilingsteam @thelinuxEXP @jorge Dude, that's just a bug. Once fixed it's fixed for everyone in every distro. Do you think there are no integration bugs in any other packages? Think debs, rpms and the aur are some kind of panacea? It's just software. It can be fixed.

@boilingsteam @thelinuxEXP @jorge Jeez dude, get a grip. It's not working as designed. That's a bug. Whether Keepassxc say it is or not, it is. It's a bug in the design, or the implementation. It's not a massive catastrophe that means Flatpak is completely unusable. It's one application not working well when confined. It'll be fixed, but not everything gets fixed immediately. These things take time.

@killyourfm It's a metaphor for Linux. Nobody cares that you spent money supporting an impoverished developer, and hand-compiled the artisanal, bespoke packages. They don't like it.