Notices by waffles 🇨🇦 (waffles@masto.yttrx.com)

I love the form factor of my iPhone 13 mini, but I don’t love its battery life. If I’m out all day or will be out in the night, I need to also carry a battery pack.

I think I’ll keep my 13 mini with an active mobile service but get the 17 pro as my daily driver.

This’ll allow me to keep my 13 mini for running errands when I don’t want a bulky device, but otherwise I can have a nice bigger screen and big battery.

I’ll have my cake and eat it too please.

It’s the little things. One of my Pis has been grinding away; its active coolings bearing were trash and I’d almost gotten used to the sound.

Today I decided to swap its case out for a fully passively cooled one, and the sound in my bedroom is now so much nicer at night.

I was afraid to watch #alienearth as I’m a huge fan of the alien aesthetic and was concerned that seeing earth would ruin it for me. The movies always take place far away and really underscores the ugliness of the corporate endeavors.

But so far I’m really enjoying it!

Why its time to bring #irc back

https://www.newnet.net/article/why-its-time-to-bring-back-irc.php

Damnit -- something changed in my mailserver configuration and dovecot lmtp wasn't accepting connections for a while (about a week).

Crap.

I love/hate/love running email

Are there any #homelab mailing lists? I miss using mailing lists and homelabs feel like a great topic for back and for discussions.

@badnetmask @stefan I have a dedicated truenas machine which simply receives datasets from my main nas every night and then weekly syncs it to hetzner box via rclone (using file level encryption and sftp)

The initial sync took about 7h but now it runs in about 5min. I use it to archive my photos/vids/docs

It’s my version of 3-2-1 backups

@badnetmask the natural progression is

Slackware > gentoo > arch > Debian > centos

When it comes to choosing which os to run on your bare metal hosts :)

@mekkaokereke it’s human nature to protect yourself emotionally from the fear that you too could become homeless, and the best way to do that is to invent reasons why a person is homeless. Alcohol. Drugs. Mental illness. The reason doesn’t matter, so long as it can assuage your fears because “that would never happen to you”.

The things we tell ourselves when we’re living paycheque to paycheque and living life on the edge of homelessness.

@gnomon @cks @nev hahahaha I’m rooting for you!!

When I interviewed for my current job I did the programming solution in Perl.

“I don’t think that’s valid syntax” the interviewer said 🥲

@gnomon @cks @nev I just assumed that most network protocols using crlf was a teletype thing

I still remember learning Perl for that job with you gnomon— *shudders*

@badnetmask I do find that tools like these help to remove the tedium of writing unit tests. So much repetition that these tools often get that right with a few well placed tab completions

The web was born on a machine like this

https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/113632896900081547

@mekkaokereke

“It's stressful to feel responsible for people's careers without these skills.”

I stopped smoking weed once I went back to being a SWE.

@mekkaokereke a weak manager will do poorly at representing their reports’ work. A strong manager will recognize this type of work and ensure that the other managers in the room during calibrations also recognize the value of this work.

Fix the shitty managers.

@liztai from what i've seen, tools like chatgpt are surprisingly accurate at providing working python based on prompts. It would really accelerate that initial "I know what I want this to do, I just don't know how to express that" frustration that comes with learning a new programming language.

@liztai The colour of the houses on the left are so cute!

Seeing app developers lose api access has been a stark reminder that the internet is neither free nor open.

If you have the means, support your “local businesses”, be they instance operators, or mobile client developers.

A dollar here, a dollar there. Every bit helps to keep the internet decentralized by supporting those who help to make it happen. The internet will never be free, but hopefully it can be open.