Notices by R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)

I'm so done with this debate.
Join it. Don't join it. Just stop trying to convince me.

#Fediverse4Life #VCNoThankYou

#LossyPNG

@craftyguy

What's wrong with apt?

@craftyguy

Try brew or pkg_add, and get back to me. 😄

Watching #FloofDaughter #Mira following the selection cursor (and then the mouse cursor) onscreen was a cuteness I wasn't quite ready for. XD

cc: @amin @mirabilos

@pinskia @cobweb

lol, CPAN-chan is doing her best, leave her be. XD

Yes, it's about pip and rust. And basically everything else that calls itself a package manager (or something suggesting a package manager), but "mails it in" for essential features.

pip removed the search feature years ago, and I'm still salty about it. ;)

Dear Programming Language dev teams,

If your language has a package manager,

it NEEDS to be as fully-featured and easy-to-use as apt.

No more "use the website to search for packages"
No more "it installs, but not upgrades or uninstalls"
No more "Ok, it installs, but it isn't necessarily fully functional"
No more "It installs, but you need arcane options for the upgrade to function."

MAKE IT AS EASY AS APT,
Or don't release a package manager.

</rant>, a.k.a. Fin.

Merci.

Does anyone use #AlpineLinux on the desktop as a daily driver?

If so, why, and what's it like?

@MediaActivist

#TIL about RadioDroid!
Neat program!

@lanodan @mirabilos

I wish I had done it six months prior.

One year was a too long to wait.

#oversharing #fomo #LossyPNG #GiancarloEsposito #WeAreNotTheSame #meme

cc: @libreleah
(You might find this humorous, in a train-wrecky kind of way)

Reading this feels like a fever dream:

https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/

#malibal vs. #coreboot

1.2GiB RAM for Signal desktop on a fresh bootup.

This is not the way.

@MattTheQuick

If you're in the US, hamstudy.org is great prep for the test.

If you're looking for more general info, look for "hoshnasi" on youtube

@clacke
Forgive me, but the hashtag needs to be #KTHxbai 🤣

Sorry, just some random circa-2007 internet sillies still working its way through my nervous system. 😆

@dexter

How the heck is JS lighter than Perl?

Get the pitchforks and torches! XD

P.S. What the crap, Rust is #2? Have they ever tried compiling rust?!? It requires its own nuclear reactor!! 😄

@me @dexter

I figured, but man, that's annoying.
It's one thing if it's compiled "once" and run a million times, but when compiling it yourself is the only option (like in the case of a lot of minor projects), rust is decidedly *not* environment-friendly, I don't care what the hype machine says.

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Relative: Amazon Prime
Me: (Oh shazbat.) Umm, forget it. You'd have to pirate it, first.
Relative: I ended up just turning on closed captioning.
Me: Yeah, that's about the only option in that case.

#DRM #DRMsucks #DefectiveByDesign

At the lunch table:

Relative: Is it possible to reduce the volume of music in a video to make the speech more intelligible?
Me: Well, maybe?
Me: (Looks up ffmpeg options, sees that there's a bandpass filter with examples for speech boost)
Me: Actually, yes! I can even batch-convert it.
Relative: Oh, wonderful!
Me: Where's the video at? Youtube? That's not too hard to get a copy of. (Thinking: please not facebook)

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@tedchoward

Someone still uses GNUStep!! :o