alrs

if you're running brew on Linux, throw in the towel, it's over.

If they're public IRC channels, do you mind mentioning them here? I'm trying to find the remnant. :)

It showed up kind of late to the Munin game, but I wrote a library for making plugins in Go. https://github.com/alrs/muninplugin

aside from running into fire trucks, isn't that their primary claim to fame? https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-fire-shanghai-parking-ga...

The good news is that Rust is going to need to get serious about first-tier support for all architectures supported by the Linux kernel if this is to go anywhere.

I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and guess that the author wasn't a fan of the GPL to begin with, and is hitching his wagon to the FSF news cycle.

"Heavy competition" is overselling the threat that Linux faces from Windows in the Internet server space. I'd go with something like "Linux roundly dominates, save for some legacy environments that have largely been picked off by cryptolocker breaches over the last several years."

My feelings aren't hurt, I've collected a datapoint on the prevalence of kinda-naive super-fans in the nix community for the low price of three Internet points.

The merges-straight-to-master give me the willies.

https://botsin.space/@complainingaboutmastercommits

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I run Firefox myself, but you can't really blame developers for not wanting to deal with the whims of Mozilla.

The patents on Trackpoint must have expired by now. I need 3 physical buttons, at minimum.

"Modern," huh?

To their credit, when they write about Los Angeles they usually prepare by re-watching "LA Story" and writing about the tourist spots they visited 15 years ago. In this case they actually had a writer on the ground in Texas.

Hosted in Texas, maybe?

We have 13 years of compulsory education in the United States to convert children into "We the People." Your ideological opponents (whoever they are) are not victims or imbeciles.

I'm a huge fan. Here's my Docker-ized take: https://github.com/alrs/full-text-rss-docker

EDIT: full-text-rss + newsboat + nyt screenshot: https://lsngl.us/@alrs/105652475456016345

Microsoft has been on the 1.0-is-useless, 3.0-is-tolerable track for over thirty years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0

What complicated it is that usually when you were coming to Debian you were coming from Slackware or a BSD, so everything you knew about init systems and software distribution went out the window. Where's rc.local? Why did ./configure && make && make install destroy my system? Also: we're talking about 20 years ago: everything was harder then.

I'm surprised that you're surprised.

fighting with XF86Config, hoping not to fry your monitor.

Standard? Someone in vfx would have to answer that, but my understanding is: not really. There is a lot of vfx work that happens on Linux workstations.

https://vfxplatform.com/about/

The HP T620+ is fanless, draws very little power, and has a PCIe slot so you can run multiple network interfaces. 4 cores, 25W TDP.

  model name      : AMD GX-420CA SOC with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics

I'm usually in #tildetel and #tilderadio. https://tilde.chat/

LED lighting, especially in its application to bicycles.

Tell that to Friendster.

A workstation is not a desktop PC. I can guarantee you've never seen a workstation used as a kiosk or a POS.

No need to pivot, they invented cloud computing.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240061933/Sun-enables-o...

The heavy lifting in Python is usually happening in CFFI, so even if your Python house is completely in order you're still on the hook for having the just-right versions of C libraries like 'libxml2' installed. There's a good chance that upstream development is happening against bleeding-edge libraries that were installed via homebrew, so if you're developing or deploying to anything not-Darwin you can expect a bumpy ride.