pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

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

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

@foone
... Except that ed25519 isn't ECDSA, it's EdDSA.

Similar enough that it doesn't really matter for the above advice, but still.

@foone
Anything ECDSA will do really, though some curves are better than others.

Personally I have an RSA key for annoying old machines and a NIST P-384 key for everything else, but ed25519 is pretty popular too and in the same ball park.

Some people don't like the NIST curves because the NSA muddled with Dual_EC_DRBG, but that incident was suspected before confirmed by Snowden, and no similar suspicions exist for the NIST curves.

@mirabilos
When you mention something like that, it's good style to link to an example for those of us that are interested but lazy ๐Ÿ˜‰

@foone
There are, however, plenty of tools that convert markdown to HTML, and VB6 is able to display that.

So all you need is something that runs in your build system to convert the markdown to HTML and you're golden.

According to https://metacpan.org/release/BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.000031/source/Makefile.PL, perl's Text::Markdown runs on perl 5.8. I would be very surprised if you couldn't get that to run on Windows 98?

But then, big amount of yak shaving, that.

@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 wรฉl 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)"

@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.

@dysfun
That's not a problem if I use Firefox ๐Ÿ˜‰
@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

@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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

@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 ๐Ÿคท

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

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