Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

“Palestinians are forbidden from gathering rain water for domestic or agricultural needs.”

– Third Periodic Report of Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

(September 2011)

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-195880/

But, yes, this all started on October 7, 2023.

#israel #palestine #gaza #westBank #occupation #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #water

Today is backup day! Every day is backup day. But today is the day I'm actually doing it.

I tried to host a #GitLab on my #NAS yesterday. It was nice to see it working, but not so nice to see how it eats all available RAM. Then I discovered @gitea )

#selfhosting #selfhosted #synology #SynologyNAS #homelab #HomeServer #git #gitea

I swear, a whole team of professional writers wouldn't be able to make up how absurd this decade is.

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot of @TauriApps, a security-minded toolkit for making desktop and mobile apps at #NGIForum23. "Security is not something you trust. You verify. NGI and NLnet enabled us to pay for the first security audit by Radically Open Security.

"With a new NGI0 grant we are working together with the shelved Servo project from Mozilla on Tauri + Servo. In 2024 you can build browsers with Tauri + Servo. So thank you from the community."

Pouhiou Lafon Roudier of @Framasoft presents @peertube at #NGIFORUM23 "We built a videoplatform based on old internet values such as decentralization. Not one big platform but many small federated platforms." More than a 1000 instances & a million video's. All that in six years and one paid developer. (A 2nd dev recently joined. Yay!)
"With little means we can do a lot in the open source community",

The pure irony of life.

I have a custom cloudflare powered DOH resolver which supports EDNS and is 2 ms to the ping.

I still use my dinky raspberry pi with bind. You know the original DNS resolver aka what the internet was built on. I started using it as a joke/dare while discussing it with @hiway about a decade ago during the pandemic era (it feels like a decade?) and its been that stable.

Like you know the software the internet was built on

A friend posted a link to this article. It seems a young'un has discovered #Plan9 and sees its distributed design as the future of operating systems.

I ran a #9p grid in the 1990s doing distributed computing research, and ran #Plan9, Amoeba, Sprite; so many utopian operating systems. They all were wonderful, and they all are very lonely. It really hurts seeing good ideas completely ignored for something good enough, but I hold out hope that some young buck will rediscover all these ideas, and pretend to have invented them. It really is the best case scenario.

@NatalyaD So true. If you consider what the #software world has accomplished in the mean time, it almost feels like a giant #scam that just exists to waste the amazing increase in #hardware resources that has happened. I find the software world appalling now to be honest.
One important reason why I prefer to work in the #embedded world. Unfortunately, it seems to be sliding down a slope into the same quagmire as well...

@cliffordheath @reyjrar lets see lets see, l1, alu, tpm… ahh v8 soc 😀

I can't help but notice the new Apple laptops rate "Video Playback 22 hours, Web Browsing 15 hours" under battery life.

Congratulations web developers everywhere, it's now more computationally intense to render a webpage than video playback!

I think when I switched from the old OS to Debian, something about the printer config got lost because now, printing always leads to paper being stuck. But when I print from my wife's Mac on to the same printer, no problem. It's 2023 and printer problems are still a thing.

@22 The #SQLite syntax diagrams are produced with the #pikchr tool, by the same author as #SQLite and #fossil D Richard Hipp.
"Pikchr (pronounced "picture") is a PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation. Pikchr is designed to be embedded in fenced code blocks of Markdown or similar mechanisms of other documentation markup languages."
https://www.fossil-scm.org/
https://pikchr.org/

@m00dy then I suppose my complaint is with C itself. ;)

visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing

Out of 1200 #curl contributors, 800 have contributed exactly once, and all their contributions were valuable (paraphrasing @bagder).

Think of that next time you speak disparagingly of "drive-by contributors".

#pyconse #pyconse2023

Is anyone working on a version of ActivityPub that’d allow fediverse servers to communicate with something more efficient than JSON? Just curious.