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• Jenkins

  This is where I spat my tea: not because jenkins is super old but because I still have residual PTSD from using it.

  My sympathies.

  on I'm gaslighting them for the greater good in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2h ago

• They made us use ansible at work. Then they made us use an LLM .

  Onencanceks out the other, IMHO. None of the things I wanted to do are represented here, forced to slop some yaml together instead of building and maintaining actual software. Ai use kills any recall, expertise, or enjoyment.

  But here’s the thing. I never want to think about how to affect a change via a bad listing grammar. I never want to recall the decisions I made while doing so. I never want to learn how to make better ansible. I never want to show my friends that code either.

  I’m absolutely tickled to give it to the slop machine and let it accomplish the goals with very little investment from me. Fuck Ai, but also fuck ansible.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@beehaw.org · 21h ago

• We need to report the error. Daily.

  on AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps in c/technology@beehaw.org · 1d ago

• In one world, a lot of people are blaming themselves over this terrible tragedy, and remembering in cruel hindsight how they could have stopped it – if only. Parents realize they could have locked the safe (or had one), police can trace back to instances of evolving behaviour problems, school representatives can see the holes in the doctrine of care and monitoring they’ve been working under and how it’s not effective. The province… . I dunno; allows too many rapid-fire deadly weapons in one place?

  Anyway, we’re not in that world, because they’ve been able to project their own guilt at a vendor.

  on Canada’s BC sues OpenAI over ChatGPT role in Tumbler Ridge school shooting in c/technology@piefed.social · 2d ago

• Then we shall report the error.

  on AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Dear Every Gov Org in Canada;

  Why are you still using outlook and oneDrive for all your important stuff? Do you not get it yet?

  (I went to pay my mom’s LTC bill for her because she gets confused now. I needed to ask them out something. It was outlook. Then it was visa - no really - for payment. So I’m putting 1500+ a month onto visa while she waits for space. The whole government setup - from comms to payment - would collapse overnight. These people are so flustercucked that I’m expecting their DR and BCP plans amount to a TNG Samaritan Snare.)

  Sincerely, Me

  on 75% of European businesses fear a US tech kill switch could deal an economic 'death blow' – driving a search for sovereign alternatives in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 2d ago

• Lapdog. I think you wanted “lapdog”.

  on Trump working on deal to buy potash from Belarus for lower price than Canada in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago

• I thought it was “messy, generated code with little cohesion and only barely functional”, but really it’s the cohesion part.

  on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago

• Garbage trucks have had cameras for a while now; just not fed into Ai for the nickels and the dimes.

  Garbage trucks get run into or brake-checked aggressively, and they need the dashcam to show the entrapment. I dunno about you, but I was stunned to hear that people specifically target rubbish trucks.

  on Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras To Score Your House and Clock Code Violations in c/technology@beehaw.org · 6d ago

• softwares

  Not a word. That’s like saying “2 helps” or “5 happies”.

  Go check SLSA.dev .

  on How "secure" is your setup? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• Because they regret criticizing America?

  We all have regrets. I regret taking a security guard job for 2 weeks, and feel I should rather have starved. But my regret is not an apology to security guards.

  on France apologises for human rights criticism that sparked US walkout in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026

• has ran into

  Ha! You’re not European. That’s American.

  on The state of European cloud providers in 2026 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• This. The question is always how long it will take to break even. A year? 6 months? The big number is just for shock value.

  on Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026

• Declarative is awesome.

  on Portainer 3.0 is coming, and here's what it means for you — Portainer in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Phew. Dodged a bullet just by adhering to SLSA.

  on Portainer 3.0 is coming, and here's what it means for you — Portainer in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• In fact, the systemd suite does dozens of things

  …poorly.

  on Devuan is a dutch Linux distro free of systemd in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 10 Sep 2026

• With a hammer.

  on New "Siri Recap" Feature for Apple Watches Can Create Summaries of Your Conversations Throughout the Day, Apple Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• There is no issue with systemd. It has been a huge improvement over what was there and it is still improving.

  Everything you just said is false.

  on Devuan is a dutch Linux distro free of systemd in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 10 Sep 2026

• “fucking in school suspension” sounds like I want to know whether the fucking caused the suspension, or vice versa; or whether someone forgot a hyphen.

  on soon™️ in c/vocaloid@ani.social · 10 Sep 2026

• When the enterprise OS company I worked for in 2k1 was considering forking a Linux distro to offer as a freemium product, they evaluated enterprise Linux and Debian.

  Debian lost then as its package format had weaker validation and consistency guarantees. It’d’ve been harder to support.

  The packaging in both hasn’t changed much, except RH forgot how to use /etc/alternatives properly and now has some ungodly rinkydink thing supplementing it like a colo bag on the side, but the validation difference is still there.

  Maybe that was why. Both are riddled with fridge art - oh hi Systemd, network manager, et al - but both are generally similar other than packaging and pipeline.

  on Unraid 8 Moves to Fedora in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• It’s like a bleep on YouTube over some naughty word a guy says before he mows bad guys down with his machine gun. YouTube wants to protect its already-confirmed-adult viewers from hearing the spicy words as it could detract from the purity of the bloodshed.

  on Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• The Gripen definitely will not have an American kill-switch on it.

  on What’s the difference between F-35 and Gripen fighter jets? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026

• high maintenance costs of VLANs

  Said no one ever, until now.

  on How to physically isolate a camera with OpenWRT, tagged VLANs and Docker in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• and I’m out

  

  on openDesk: Germany’s Open-Source Office Suite Goes National in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 5 Sep 2026

• at what number is the media will stop numbering their space walks?

  The exact moment they become equal. Apparently the news isn’t ready for that yet as it’s still calling it out like Timmy made a painting.

  on Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026

• Noooo. It’s seen revenue decline as it’s continued to shift from wood to slats to paper-filled shit.

  The rising cost of living is a problem completely unrelated to the cheapflation of Ikea’s offerings.

  on Ikea cuts prices as customers struggle with rising cost of living in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026

• OSs

  OSes

  C’mon, man.

  on Linux (and other FOSS OSs) are exempt from age verification in California in c/foss@beehaw.org · 31 Aug 2026

• I looked at .deb as well and boy are there weird things there.

  There are many similarities between RPM and pkgbuild for Arch, so I could easily copy almost entire pkgbuilds from AUR and merely adapt a few variables but whatever the inventors of .deb concocted is crazy.

  That build method dates back super-far, and probably mirrors unix packaging of the day. This is not a good thing, in that it did miss out on some validation features that RPM and NIX have, and that’s a problem that hasn’t been fixed (in unix or debian) even now (25+ years after we noticed it in the enterprise OS company I worked at, and which invalidated debian even then as a product we wanted to support alongside unix).

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• What I’m trying to say, is that when people said “just use nix”, they probably really mean to use nix as a platform to build other packages withouth doing extra work.

  What you should be saying is something that recognizes that not all systems adhere to FHS. It needs to account for the non-compliant ones, and that includes Lennart’s delightful deviations when he obviously just knew better than the Industry.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.

  Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn’t share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.

  At best it’s XKCD 927.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• I’m pretty sure that, with a bit of fiddling, you could even put them on a github pages site.

  Harbottle does this. It’s very well-done.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• The user adds the repository to the list of repositories their package manager is using,

  Fun fact: when we were doing devops as config management, we distributed repository configs AS packages … which we updated as required.

  and the packages in that repository appear as normal packages for them to select. When the author publishes a new version of their package it’ll appear as an update in all users package managers.

  So easy.

  These days, with CI, ya berge your patch and the fix is built and sent to testing immediately, ready to be assessed for promotion, which then signs and pushes the artifact into the pipeline for synchronization and application everywhere.

  Aside from the actual smarts to build a good package, the tooling makes every other part of is zero-friction.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• that defeats the purpose of a package manager

  I suspect you’re confusing the package manager with the supply chain. This should always be separate, lest we get some systemd-like spongiform blob with no ability to swap out and improve parts without discarding the whole.

  Unless you’re Lennart, it’s a bad idea.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Well, that sounds really immature.

  Heckling introduces stress, providing incentive for improvement if the misbehaving member has that potential; otherwise shunning.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• some aspects of the ecosystem seem to have not been thought out

  Absolutely. But this is a natural effect of ditching mentors and documentors more than 20 years ago – coders now have no idea in general how to do supply-chains right; nor why.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Just give the source away. Don’t package it at all (or at most, do so for your own distro). If your software is good enough, others will do the packaging for you.

  As someone who’s developed and shipped software you may know, who’s worked in rel/eng, OS security, escalations (we research the fix for the sploit and build the artifact for the update pipeline; everyone calls it something else) before being just an admin to manage hordes of machines; with the knowledge gained in every post I’ve ever held, let me say:

  THIS. ABSOLUTELY THIS.

  If you are a great coder but suck at packaging or hate it, then don’t. You’d produce something sub-par anyway.

  Let the knowledgeable enthusiastic obsessively-detailed people do it for you and you’ll be happier and so will they.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• So what’s wrong with just releasing a monolithic static binary for each architecture you want to run it on?

  Release engineering works on something that has only recently been codified into a SLSA scale. At the top end is nixos and their very firm validation of code all the way along the supply chain.

  At the bottom of the scale, a SLSA score of 0, is “here’s a monolithic binary I found on the website of someone on the interwebs. Even though we don’t know how it was built, nor can we reproduce it or confirm it’s what he built or look at any of the parts to see whether the statically-linked libraries are now at-risk, let’s just run that.”

  You … do see how irresponsible that is on every level, right?

  Like, 20 years ago I dropped a patch in for Apache, and these days I manage reams of machines using apache, sendmain, winbind, nginx, postfix, etc; to manage those without a proper infrastructure is absolute madness.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• How it started:

  • “hey portal, call my kids” and it shows up on the fucking TV. That’s the workflow. It lights the TV, switches inputs and starts a call. Boom.
  • microphone array works from everywhere
  • digital-ptz camera was game-changing
  • "hey portal, answer call" when the TV was off would light the TV, select the right HDMI and start the call. The workflow again was a single command.
  • setup: plug in HDMI, plug in power . Use QR to auth the unit to your account.
  • it was loss-leadered at like $100, which is why we outfitted the entire family during covid for the cost of a single tablet.

  How it’s going:

  • the M agent is dead, so its voice control for calling no longer works.
  • the Alexa link is dead, so it no longer works as an Alexa agent for home control
  • the streamer apps are dead, so it can’t do Netflix, britbox, prime, etc
  • zoom is too weird to set up with the remote, so no zoom
  • video works
  • Cam still crushes it
  • sound still rocks
  • poking the remote HDMI-CECs over to the portal still, like what voice commands did

  But it still - and here’s the thing - is a single set-top appliance with an easy UI and controller that puts video chat on the damned TV

  Grandma can no longer use her voice, but she can use the tivo-style remote to start calls. And, again, they’re on this gorgeous big screen so nana can see everyone.

  I simply cannot describe the difference between a phone, even a tablet, and a monster fucking TV image to make you feel really connected with people of normal size. I’d say it again if I thought it’d make a difference.

  on New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Flatpaks and snaps are two examples of deliverables with terribad integration and low SLSA scores. They should be considered toxic.

  on Rule in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Now do the Portal TV!

  (Which has been a life-changing device for us, by the way)

  on New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Videos are too slow.

  on Flock banned tech YouTuber from its event, so his team Flocked it in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Nah. The right to refuse service - which allows a hotel to boot guests for things like naziism without a court case after - unfortunately allows a hotel to boot a guest without saying whether it’s because a large booking was going to pull out if it didn’t.

  on Flock banned tech YouTuber from its event, so his team Flocked it in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Some regions have stopped observing standard time because of the accident risk with so many drivers, surgeons, and heavy equipment operators, for instance, working on a circadian rhythm issue. Yet, we cause sleep deprivation to a huge number of people more often each year with little concrete benefit we can tie causally to the amber alerts.

  Whom do we sue for loved ones injured by amber alerts and sleep-deprivation?

  on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• there are ALPR cameras everywhere, and it’s very hard to imagine John Q. Public is going to have a hot tip before our dystopian AI panopticon does.

  I’m not sure whether you’re for the seeming proliferation of camera surveillance - you say “everywhere” - or against it.

  I’d normally consider the stress level of a surveiled population as a tangent, here.

  on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• You were SO close.

  StarePods

  on New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Wonderfully succinct. Thank you for caring about strangers representing themselves best and better.

  on Observability in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• it sounds like “the freedom to work in one’s best environment” is the ideal policy.

  on Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Yeah. They’re suffering, but Render Unto Caesar.

  on Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• If I want to choose freedom over “security”, I should have the option to do so.

  You can, but it’s a careful sequence of steps.

  1. Discard, replace, and forever avoid anything apple. You controlling your device is really not their deal.
  2. Graphene on … something
  3. This step intentionally left blank
  on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• it does rather beg the question

  Nope. It just raises the question.

  on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees: while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026