Mastodawn

@timnitGebru Never in my life did I think I'd see software development, a field that's spent decades building best practices and being concerned with security and code quality, destroy itself in a matter of months.

At this point these people might as well be just reading tea leaves, or casting chicken bones on the ground.

Ada S Mar 31

Daniel Mar 30

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms

Ada S Mar 17

Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Mar 17

Heh heh…I'm starting to see a NEW hype cycle emerge. This hype cycle is: walking back from the embrace of slop machines!

We're just at the early adopter phase now, but it's gathering momentum folks. Some big names—BIG I tell you!—are just now starting to make waves about this. You might want to get in on the ground floor before it's too late! You don't want to be…left behind.

Human skill, expert review, intentional accountability. *Mindblowing stuff.* This is the future folks. Totally.

Ada S Jan 9

Calling out to all #Guix hackers!
I'm having some issues cross-compiling `perl-net-ssleay`. It uses XS for its FFI, and there's a note in the #perl build system definition saying that cross-compiling wont work for programs that use FFI mechanisms like XS.
I would greatly appreciate some extra eyes on this so I might be pointed in the right direction. It seems fairly byzantine, and I'm not too familiar with perl myself so I don't completely understand its conventions.
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/5477

`perl-net-ssleay` does not cross-compile on Aarch64.

`perl-net-ssleay` does not cross-compile on Aarch64. Below is the build output: ```text starting phase `build' "/gnu/store/ns98r6hs7kaqp91r8nmw6rbsdl0l6wh2-perl-5.36.0/bin/perl" "/gnu/store/ns98r6hs7kaqp91r8nmw6rbsdl0l6wh2-perl-5.36.0/lib/perl5/5.36.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp" -typemap '/gnu/store/ns9...

Codeberg.org

Ada S Nov 8

Martin Bishop Nov 8

The early 1990s were the heyday of #Perl, a language that embodied the spirit of the early web: flexible, pragmatic, and unapologetically messy. Perl quickly became the tool of choice for system administrators, #CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programming, and anyone who needed to glue together disparate systems quickly. Its rich text-processing capabilities and easy integration with #Unix tools made it indispensable for automating tasks and building early dynamic web pages.
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Ada S Nov 6

I'm going to install #Guix on my freshly assembled PC tonight - I wanted to try and use #LUKS to encrypt my install.
I remember hearing murmurs about the grub support for LUKS improving on Guix and I want to make sure I'm using the most up-to-date method.
Does anyone have any examples, tutorials, documentation that could point me in the right direction? The Guix manual has *some* documentation, but nothing too exhaustive. (An entry in the cookbook would be welcome!)
Thanks for the help!
#linux

Ada S Sep 30, 2025

Congrats on the mesa-updates merge everyone!!!
#guix

Ada S Sep 29, 2025