pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

@pietercolpaert
Ik zag onlangs een weerstation op de Shelly website:

https://www.shelly.com/products/ecowitt-ws90-7-in-1-weather-station

Ik heb er zelf geen ervaring mee, maar heb wél ervaring met andere Shelly-producten. Hun protocol werkt zonder cloud en kan rechtstreeks (lokaal) in home assistant geduwd worden. Dat geeft je meteen open data?

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

meep meep (yes, beep beep, I know)

Needs more anvils, rockets and ACME bird seed

Edit: as people in the threat pointed out, this is potentially AI generated

@foone
Might be required for a tag that needs to send data back to a station which it's driving past at whatever the legal speed limit is in the relevant jurisdiction?

(probably "have some AI generate a wall of text" rather than writing it themselves, but, hey)

Why do people write a wall of text when a simple "hey, Fedora 43 is out, can you provide packages?" would have sufficed?

I will never understand that.

@amydiehl
I moved to South Africa in 2019, having lived for 40 years in Belgium before that.

Belgium has DST, South Africa does not.

Before the move, I thought the DST change affected me for about a week or so.

I now know that it actually affects me the whole year round. My daily rhythm has stabilized over the past few years. I consistently wake up with the Sun now, which I could never do before the move.

DST is a terrible idea.

@GyrosGeier
If ramen make you sleepy, do the ramen thing.

If not, well, you got me.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
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https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/

@dysfun
That's not a problem if I use Firefox 😉
@cliffle

@dysfun
Oops, correction. The docs suggest Google only, but the GitHub page shows it does support DDG.
@cliffle

@dysfun
I love the idea and now you made me so want it

Unfortunately that add-on only works with Google. I've been not been using them, in favour of duck duck go, for years...
@cliffle

Turning Points USA was set up by two young Republicans to spread misinformation about COVID and gun violence.

One died of COVID, the other by gun violence.

I don't even have to write a joke about that.

@jpmens
I tend to just configure my git remotes to not accept pushes to the main branch, only merges. After that it's just a matter of simple git history editing.

@nina_kali_nina
Fun fact: the reason it was dropped from later versions of Windows was because it made a number of assumptions that were not true in 64-bit Windows and it was deemed too expensive to port.

Also I found a download somewhere and can confirm it works just fine under wine on Linux 😉

@david_chisnall

> I've read about model collapse for LLMs

I haven't, can you provide a reference?

@wolfr
Ik woon in Zuid Afrika en heb al jaaaren een desktop sip-telefoon aangesloten bij 3starsnet (grandstream hardware)

Zijn sindsdien wel overgenomen en heten nu anders, maar werkt gewoon goed, ook met andere sip providers.

@neverpanic I found out in the mean time through a quickly whipped up docker container that 15.6 doesn't support it, but 16 does (at least as far as "rpm --import" not complaining with "rpm -qa|grep gpg" listing the key).

I'm fine with dropping RHEL9 and OpenSUSE <15 from our supported distributions 🤷

@neverpanic actually we're supposed to have already dropped 15.5 since... January. Heh.

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