Notices by Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)

@wolf480pl For some reason this made me curious so I found the docs say:

"io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch provides compatibility with classic UNIX/glibc NSS user records, i.e. converts struct passwd and struct group records as acquired with APIs such as getpwnam(1) to JSON user/group records"

Then I prompted Google Search's AI with
1. io.systemd.NameServiceSwitch
2. <your question above>
3. Can you show a C implementation of this?

And it produced... something. Maybe it works?

@wolf480pl https://pastebin.com/eQ4cnmZm

@gabriel Eventually these prompts will brainrot into "Claude, write me something good for the thing".

@splitshockvirus @benis_redux You walked around NYC wearing a jacket made entirely of handguns didn't you.

@splitshockvirus Annoying they didn't include a script to update the filenames.

@splitshockvirus @prettygood He thinks "twelve"==12

Cuts to #UK #physics funding. #science
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr0zmzzp84o

@SuperDicq Isolating these things from your actual system seems like a legitimate use of VMs. Run it in a "disposable" computer...

The #snow this morning.

I had to wade through 2ft of it to get near the car. Your feet go vertically down and make holes, but I fell over backwards at one point and it was quite difficult to get up again!

Woman's shock as #goose smashes through front door.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3wpwg4e0qo

GIMP has a lot of brushes, can make a mess.

Merlin's Mound in Marlborough.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwv44ey144o

Made a Midori sour @splitshockvirus

A 2021 PC won't upgrade to Windows 11 but I'm plugging the new one into a monitor that says "Works with Windows Vista" and has a VGA port. Still works fine.

@splitshockvirus That gacha lifestyle.

Been tired with a sore throat and a few random aches and pains this week. Time to use my stock of honey/lemon/paracetamol (🐝🍋💊) hot drinks. They're already past their sell-by date.

45mins to #Starship Flight 11 launch. #SpaceX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcpnn_PO-A

@splitshockvirus Are you putting your video storage inside the VM?

@splitshockvirus Characteristic time of about a year between
"There's too much UNCERTAINTY, we shouldn't hire"
and
"Whoops, we need to have employees to do stuff."
Kind of an overcorrection cycle.

@splitshockvirus @benis_redux Your other posts are mostly "my life will get better in 65535 years, just gotta follow the plan"