Posts by erincandescent@queer.af
(DIR) Post #AcpiLErNJz66bACpKy by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-15T12:06:37Z
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I wonder how much Facebook spent paying engineers to implement ActivityPub...Certainly infinitely more than anyone involved in the protocol's design ever received
(DIR) Post #AcuhX2Cz3ZKMfiApQO by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-17T15:59:38Z
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The ActivityStreams2 Link object is such a cause of confusion(Slightly facetiously): Linked Data did not need Links
(DIR) Post #AcwEJFevk2DnyoEzTM by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-18T15:31:18Z
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@carnage4life Health hazard: Pooh is public domain in America, but not the UK. Depending upon local copyright terms, he may or may not still be copyright protected in your locale(International copyright normally follows "law of the shorter term", which means something becomes PD at the earlier of when it would become PD under local law or the law of the country of origin)None of this caveat applies to Mickey: entering the public domain in the US (his country of origin) makes him PD everywhere
(DIR) Post #Ad52yqcnVloeRXr5zU by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-22T21:27:23Z
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@mcc gzip is "deflate with gzip headers" and "deflate" is "deflate with zlib headers"why do we have both? historical reasons...
(DIR) Post #Ad52ysDha2vjOI859U by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-22T21:30:19Z
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@mcc generally yesOld (we're talking ancient) versions of IIS would send a raw deflate stream for "deflate" (without zlib headers) so everyone has shied away form it and preferred deflate ever since(who can blame them, the encoding token should be "zlib"...)
(DIR) Post #Ad52ytdcJBFnmxGIBU by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-22T21:32:23Z
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@mcc browsers these days tend to prefer "gzip" over "deflate". webservers often only implement "gzip"all this becuase nobody has ever misimplemented gzip, but Microsoft did once in the 90s misimplement "deflate"
(DIR) Post #Ad52yuMdbnGa2aKFMG by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-22T21:32:44Z
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@mcc the (difference between "gzip" and "deflate" is gzip has 12 bytes more overhead and a slightly slower checksum)
(DIR) Post #AdDE50k7SVgCK16Jge by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-26T20:16:57Z
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I totally forgot about the .ing sunrise period Uh. I guess I should figure out what to do with federat.ing and defederat.ing...
(DIR) Post #AdHpNzhW1ye9Wpdbc0 by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-29T00:25:18Z
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@james CCC has always been more of a nerd get-together rather than a conference. Yeah, there's talks, but basically nobody spends the majority of their time at the talks.Congress (which i've been to three times, though not this year) and the vaguely-overlapping camps (CCCamp, EMFCamp, the Dutch camps which change name every time) is kinda just a nerd gatherhing where everyone goes all out with the lighting/aesthetics/etc and friends from all over the continent gathered in one place. Its kinda incomparable to a typical conference.But also yeah there are increasing amounts of disagreement between many of the attendees, the various volunteer teams (NOC, VOC, POC, etc) and leadership at CCC eV ("the" Chaos Computer Club) and CCCV (the speical-purpose-events-company)
(DIR) Post #AdHpO1pk6MPq8vVCiG by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-29T00:35:58Z
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@james anyway basically CCC (and the similar but smaller events) are kinda unique in many ways and so you end up with a situation where people moan about them and try to complain from within because there's not really any alternative equivalents
(DIR) Post #AdHpZ3DnHWTtdJ0YWe by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-29T00:48:43Z
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@james @jonty so one thing to note (which I understand completely) is that enforcement would have to be done by volunteers and basically nobody wants to do that miserable job; it's my understanding that typically they can barely get people to check tickets/wristbandsBut even given that, the lack of a recommendation is disappointing (and imo says things about the head orga team)
(DIR) Post #AdK6snSqCDLEDvCeWG by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-27T21:04:56Z
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@wilbr @aeva @mcc yeah so its service <servicename> <subcmd> but systemctl <subcmd> <servicename> and it does trip me up going between alpine and systemd-linuxen but its hard to be mad about eitherservice basically just forwards the rest of its command line on to the /etc/init.d/foo script (so doesn't care or have to validate at all) while systemctl implements the subcommands itself (because they're not just shellscripts! and many of them are unrelated to service units!)
(DIR) Post #AdK6soRSYppZFvZ40O by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-27T21:05:55Z
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@wilbr @aeva @mcc but on the whole everything systemd is a text file, its just often a different text file
(DIR) Post #AdK6sqhq8u7cHJFAoa by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-27T21:17:09Z
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@wilbr @aeva @mcc I'll never memorize wherever systemds files are/etc/systemd if you created them, /usr/lib/systemd if your distro shipped themthere's also subtleties like I'm pretty sure mysqld is actually mysql but only sometimesthats your distro's choice/fault, nothing to do with systemd, in fact during the transition the recommendation was to replace /etc/init.d/foo with /usr/lib/systemd/system/foo.servicebecause the latter would automatically override the former when using systemd as init
(DIR) Post #AdK6ssHgH8NxAl1JJo by erincandescent@queer.af
2023-12-27T23:59:26Z
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@wilbr @aeva @mcc we're two very different people here because I dispise installed config files (because they make tracking what configurations I changed on my system hard)But I'm also an enjoyer of all of NixOS, Kubernetes, and Alpine in diskless mode
(DIR) Post #AdVXj7ZnOp0RCocsrY by erincandescent@queer.af
2024-01-04T16:21:47Z
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I see two genders of responses to the Microsoft copilot key announcement:"Ugh, another useless key taking up room""Sickos yes, I'll finally have enough keys for Emacs"
(DIR) Post #AdXGdN8zIS36qUgCW0 by erincandescent@queer.af
2024-01-05T12:23:54Z
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E-Presceriptions in the UK:I e-mail/phone my doctorThey prescribe me somethingDrugs automatically appear at my chosen pharmacy next day (my chosen pharmacy can even post them to me!)E-Prescription in Germany:I still need to physically go to the doctor every 3 months for them to scan my cardI still need to physically go to the pharmacy each time to give them the prescriptionPharmacists are no longer allowed to do substitutions if my specific medication is unavailable but e.g. the same thing with half the dose is?Digitalisierung!
(DIR) Post #AdXGdNtmUTTnBcZZS4 by erincandescent@queer.af
2024-01-05T12:24:40Z
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It feels like the German system is "We took the paper system and put a computer in the middle which has one purpose: arbitrarily saying no sometimes"
(DIR) Post #AdXK125DYFoOL5tEqu by erincandescent@queer.af
2024-01-05T13:00:07Z
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@lanodan Don't worry Germany also runs on Doctolib
(DIR) Post #AdXKKyY0PHFVAIrgK8 by erincandescent@queer.af
2024-01-05T13:06:26Z
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@lanodan I don't think to anywhere near the level it is in FranceBut all the competitors are much smaller