Notices by David Bremner (bremner@mathstodon.xyz)

@cwebber That was a different Google though. These days a shareholder value focused datacenter has to have a side hustle as a private prison, live fire killer robot training range, or something similarly patriotic.

@humberto @cwebber Bear with me a second, but it was actually impressively fast before, considering ... it was compiling the entire system from .rkt to bytecode (.zo) on every startup. That's a lot of compilation, and I think the Racket byte code compiler does a lot more than something like Python.

@humberto @cwebber Oh! I finally have some aarch64 hardware so I'll try to revisit that. I think when I looked at it before the difference was not as dramatic on the Debian porter boxes.

@humberto @cwebber Well that's embarrassing. The file /etc/racket/config.rktd is actually architecture dependent, but we've been shipping the amd64 version on all architectures in the package racket-common. I'll have to figure out the right long term fix, but for now a search and replace of x86_64 with aarch64 (two places) should fix it. If not, please follow up on the Debian bug, or here.

Them: "UBlock Origin: this extension was turned off. Chromium recommends that you remove it."

Me: OK, I guess I trust google to give me good advice:

$ sudo apt remove chromium

I asked google "is google search getting worse", and here is the "AI overview"

Yes, studies and user experiences suggest that Google Search results have declined in quality, with more spammy, low-quality content dominating searches, particularly for product reviews.

"I've gone off the idea of progress. It's overrated."

Arthur Dent, episode 1 of the #HHGTG radio serial (and about 73% of Fedi).

@ricci Chat here is obviously French for cat.

@cwebber Note to self: do not try to out-nerd Christine.

@cwebber metric or imperial minute?

@TheGentleKlingon I'm a vegetarian, except for the pickled hearts of my enemies.

@liztai Watching "kill me, love me" with my mom as Christmas TV. I think it was your recommendation that convinced me, so thanks (also thanks from my mom).

@cwebber I hope you're gonna top-post the whole thread

@drandrewv2 The "no reviews" rule goes double for software and services I am forced to use by my employer.

Shout out to my 2nd year students writing tail recursive JavaScript because nobody told them they couldn't.

User of free software X: The X team should be split into 3 teams in the following way ...

Me, nervous: the X team is me.

Saw someone using "spit in the face of God" as a transphobic slur. I now kind of want to reclaim this as a defiant expletive for use in difficult circumstances. I think in Spanish from Spain there is a similar spirited (but stronger) curse "to shit on God".

TIL (thankfully second hand) that running "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" will delete /home in systemd 256 [1]. Apparently if you think linux is mainly for running cloud services, this seems reasonable to you. Or something.

[1] tested with systemd-tmpfiles --dry-run --purge on debian. I guess it _could_ be a Debian addition, but I'm guessing not.

@clacke Missed opportunity for a pun on "wig".

@liztai I hope it is more relaxing than the name suggests!