Notices by christian mock (cm@chaos.social)

@leyrer Well, if you're among the lucky ones that did not sell Crowdstrike... Thoughts and prayers to the ones that did, tho.

@Das_blaue_Pony @GreenSkyOverMe Given that we keep hearing of attacks on same-sex couples for just walking in the street holding hands, this is either false, or homophobes have a very broad definition of "fucking".

@silverwizard yes, and most of the rest of Perl is pretty straightforward (regarding built-in function names, let's not get into the syntax)...

What I really hate about #perl is the Carp module, with "carp", "croak", "confess", "cluck" which make no sense as names, as opposed to "die" and "warn".

@silverwizard That's a shitty situation!

Maybe you can find some other BT dongle that has an external antenna?

@silverwizard No. You'd also probably need to disconnect the PCB antenna for it to work.

@silverwizard @Gammitin Here is what I could find at the moment; there was also a set of hand-labeled 4.0.1 3 1/2" disks, and since I have the 4.0 manual I think I also must have the original floppies, but where under all that dust? I also seem to remember that I had something in 5.25"...

@Gammitin Yes, and I still have the manual (and probably the floppies) around. The manual was very good and helped me build the basics of my Unix knowledge...

@gnutelephony @Gammitin I would guess NE2000 as that was the "standard" network card back then?

@tk @kaia @clerie hey, that's reserved for emacs!

@silverwizard (although getting the UUCP map software to run on any OS from this millennium might be a big task)

@silverwizard I guess you even could run a medium-sized full postfix node on some android phone you pull out of the drawer, given what previous generations of hardware we ran stuff on.

Also, the best protocol for unstable connections is UUCP.

@silverwizard whyyyyy?

@silverwizard Oh. I'm at it for a few weeks now, some evenings. Definitely a steep learning curve and a reminder of how much, for me, programming is about being familiar with a language and not constantly having to look up basic syntax...

@silverwizard You might need to get better at the idioms surrounding it, at least I feel I'm not there yet. Like the whole "let ... match" shebang...

@silverwizard Yes, I'm also struggling with that. Not so much with the types themselves ("Make invalid state unrepresentable" is a good proposition), but with the borrowing and lifetimes and such. I'm fine with unwrap(), because I tended to use the usual "-1" or "undef" as a return indicating failure, and then not checking it.

@silverwizard Yeah, right? Coming from C and Perl and not feeling constrained by the strictness is unexpected...

@silverwizard It seems like kiddos who want to use all the newest shiniest features and completely ignore the booooring stuff like /home. Also, that "now you have n+1 standards" xkcd. But, alas, I'd rather not compile a bleeding edge FreeCAD branch if I can avoid it, and I have a model that's broken in the builds I have...

Today I had the need to use one of those new-fangled "snap" packages that I've managed to avoid so far. Well, now I have the need to bang my head into the wall -- because it didn't fail because of that thing not checking whether SElinux is even enabled, not because it expects a specific DBus configuration nothing else ever needed, but because IT CANNOT COPE WITH MY HOME DIR NOT BEING UNDER /home.