Mastodawn

chendo Jun 7

Are you scared of geckos?

I'm asking because I've found someone who is terrified of them.

Huh, aren't they kinda cute?

95.7%

Terrified.

Show me the answer

4.3%

Poll ended at Jun 14 at 11:19am.

chendo Jun 5

Lincoln Stoll Jun 4

You can hate LLM use in software as much as you want, but boy does taking it out on tridge over the rsync issues feel bad. The sense of entitlement to dictate how a maintainer of open source software that you're not paying for should do their work isn't it. If you care deeply I'd suggest volunteering to be a maintainer yourself and just let the guy go sailing. Also not like rsync was issue free before!

chendo Jun 4

deepfryed Jun 3

I think everyone should take a timeout and think before tooting. It's easy to pile on someone you don't know and disregard their contribution to OSS.

Just take a step back and read what he has to say, put yourself in his shoes and try to understand why he's doing what he's doing. Stop with the pitchforks and rage bait.

You don't have to like what he's doing & can disagree, but provide a more logical rebuttal that's both meaningful and respectful.

https://fosstodon.org/@davidgerard@circumstances.run/116685928292897697

#rsync #opensource

Fosstodon

chendo May 26

Magnifica Humanitas has some paragraphs which could be straight from a cyberpunk novel:

> Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information. Entire regions, especially those marked by structural fragility and limited geopolitical relevance, are currently subjected to a new mindset of extraction: that of health data, epidemiological profiles, genetic maps and demographic information.

chendo May 23

It seems extremely unlikely that I have two smoke alarms that both started doing the low battery beep the same night considering I replaced the battery in just one of them 2 years ago and the other has been going on for 5-6 years

chendo Apr 27

War and Peas 🧿Apr 26

chendo Apr 18

I installed Orion to give it a shot cause I'm sick and tired of 1Password extension just breaking in Safari and it played a full screen video with some homage of previous browsers in space and it was thoroughly unnecessary and a waste of space.

chendo Apr 14

Kind of happy there's another player in the photo editing market. I thought DaVinci was just like "oh we do still RAWs now" but they've gone and added a bunch of specific photography-centered features... gonna have to give it a shot at some time, even though I quite like Photomator apart from Apple buying it and it hasn't received any updates since..

chendo Mar 30

How does one figure out the right threshold to tell the world that there's a big rock flying at us that could be a real problem?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/mar/30/asteroid-warning-earth-un-office-for-outer-space-affairs

‘This was the real thing’: Meet the woman who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit

Aarti Holla-Maini of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is primed to spot a potential planetary strike – and a year ago, she thought the moment had come

The Guardian

chendo Mar 26

Protip: If something is sounding an alarm and flashing, don't turn it off because it's annoying, especially if you don't know what it's doing.

In this case, some fuckwit turned off the sump pumps in the basement and it flooded. I guess it was probably broken and sounding the siren, but.. turning it off is not a solution, especially when it's currently raining a shitload.