Darren du NordOur home #internet service has gone out during this snow storm. I still have mobile. But I also have offline access to #Wikipedia and #ProjectGutenberg on my laptop, thanks to @kiwix !
Last month I downloaded a 110GB zim file and repurposed a Raspberry pi to serve this content offline.
Its great that these priceless repositories of knowledge are free to access and use, and made available to self host. For me, this just a fun project, but for an offline school in an under developed country, this same tech can help kids learn or provide access to knowledge in an emergency.
Robin Palotai
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Source code archeology and table tennis.
Mr TapsDoes computer #history interest you, or maybe you're just curious where well-known and well-used tools come from? I've just updated the History of #Unix #Manpages, https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html, with the content you didn't know you wanted til this very moment. Learn about how the "man" program came to be, and just why are manpages styled like that? It includes snippets from Cynthia "Cindy" Livingston, who wrote the manpage language "mdoc"; John Eaton, who wrote the first GPL man tool; Doug McIlroy, who helped to divide manpages into sections; and more. Did you know that serving manpages online was part of one of the original http daemons? Or that an xman existed before X11R6, in X10? Enjoy!
David Revoy
BSD Cafe AnnouncementsToday, we're introducing three things.
The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes.
The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts come in. No walled gardens, no algorithms, no tricks.
The third is a Bar. A place to sit down, talk to strangers who happen to care about the same weird things you do, and stay as long as you want.
A forum. A Fediverse platform. A bar.
Are you getting it?
These are not three separate things. This is one thing.
And we're calling it Billboard.
And no, we checked the calendar. We know. This is not an April Fools' joke.
We're just really bad at timing.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements
This will intersect very few people, but #Severance E1 intro theme's blipping at 1:17-ish resembles #Beatles' Only a Northern Song 2:57-ish.
Magnus Ahltorp@bodil ”it was great for filling in boilerplate”
There’s your problem right there. Computer science should work towards getting rid of the need for boilerplate, not invent ways to write more of it.
Every piece of boilerplate is a failing of the language or library that you’re using, and is technical debt. Editing generated code doubly so.
TaggartThis is a big deal. Already seeing evidence of this by way of OpenClaw installations.
Politician: "The topic of children should not be used to make political capital from!"
wait a minute..
Looking into switching a Grafana/Prom/Loki stack to something else.. so far experimenting with #VictoriaMetrics / #VictoriaLogs (keeping Grafana as the UI), and it seems very handily configurable.
The docs are a bit all over the place, but at least more than less.