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  • “Can’t share item,” was the header. “You cannot share this item because it has been flagged as inappropriate,” read the body text.

    FAFO.

    We’ve been fanfaring for a decade and a fucking half for people not to see “the cloud” as a miracle solution, and to use it carefully. We’ve been warning that it is a blatant invitation to vendor lock in, that it is singlehandedly creating oligopolies, and that exactly this would happen.

    Did people listen? No. Did they aggressively confront (or passive-aggressively ostracise) us? You bet your bottom dollar they did.

    And now? Now they come around with surprised_pika.gif faces and whine to whoever listens that they are victims, and that they couldn’t “possibly have seen this coming”.

    No. They are enablers of abusers, they themselves abused anyone with even a modicum of common sense, and they brought this upon themselves a thousand times over.

    FAFO. And at this point, reading such story fills me with the most powerful schadenfreude I have ever experienced.

    "Well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions" meme




  • 7heo@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat distro should I use on my potato?
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    7 months ago

    Note: this comment is long, because it is important and the idea that “systemd is always better, no matter the situation” is absolutely dangerous for the entire FOSS ecosystem: both diversity and rationality are essential.

    Systemd can get more efficient than running hundreds of poorly integrated scripts

    In theory yes. In practice, systemd is a huge monolithic single-point-of-failure system, with several bottlenecks and reinventing-the-wheel galore. And openrc is a far cry from “hundreds of poorly integrated scripts”.

    I think it is crucial we stop having dogmatic “arguments” with argumentum ad populum or arguments of authority, or we will end up recreating a Microsoft-like environment in free software.

    Let’s stop trying to shoehorn popular solutions into ill suited use cases, just because they are used elsewhere with different limitations.

    Systemd might make sense for most people on desktop targets (CPUs with several cores, and several GB of RAM), because convenience and comfort (which systemd excels at, let’s be honest) but as we approach “embedded” targets, simpler and smaller is always better.

    And no matter how much optimisation you cram into the bigger software, it will just not perform like the simpler software, especially with limited resources.

    Now, I take OpenRC as an example here, because it is AFAIR the default in devuan, but it also supports runit, sinit, s6 and shepherd.

    And using s6, you just can’t say “systemd is flat out better in all cases”, that would be simply stupid.






  • 7heo@lemmy.mltoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2916: Machine
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    7 months ago

    It’s being DDOSed. Too many users. Too many submits. The rendering code is light enough on the server that it still works (most of the work is client side, the sever just serves a bunch of json files), but the submitting code definitely crashes.


  • 7heo@lemmy.mltoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2916: Machine
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    Cool, but it’s now impossible to submit anything, as the server is being DDOS’d. Not out of malice, mind you, there are just too many geeks out there, and this is a Sunday…

    Still, one can read the titles of the already posted rooms with:

    env URL=https://incredible.xkcd.com \
    curl -SsL $URL/machine/current \
    | jq .grid[][] | grep -v '^null$' | tr -d '"' \
    | while read uuid; do printf '%s: ' "$uuid"; \
    curl -SsL $URL/folio/$uuid \
    | jq .blueprint.title; done
    

    (Useful to find out if your room made it to the public set)









  • I think Time Cop answers your request the best.

    It is on f-droid (ca.hamaluik.timecop).

    Unfortunately, even tho it works well for your use case (you would have to turn on the option to have only one task at a time), it makes very basic use of notifications, and has no widget… It could be so much more.

    Edit: I discovered it yesterday while perusing this thread (I have been searching for a time management software for a long time, so I checked all the suggestions one by one on f-droid, and when searching for “a time tracker”, I found it), and I have been using since. Very cool software. Works well, very usable. I highly recommend it.