Mastodawn

The `left-pad` incident was 10 years ago today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

Thankfully, we've completely solved software supply chains in the years since.

npm left-pad incident - Wikipedia

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦2h ago

f_ 🇵🇸5h ago

No one is happy with age verification, in the one hand.

But in the other hand, *please* don't harass maintainers. It only makes things worse.
Don't listen to stupid people who don't know what they're talking about like lunduke.

It really does not help.

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦1d ago

FULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿1d ago

reminder that firewalls are for cowards

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦2d ago

chaotic enby 2d ago

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦3d ago

FULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿3d ago

linux 7.1 introduces virtual swap space, where if the system finds itself low on permanent storage space it can page out some stuff from the disk into the dedicated portion of the system ram

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦6d ago

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Wanja Mar 15

@jn I pronounce it never because the only situation in which I might say its name out loud is when explaining to somebody why my Bluetooth audio stack is broken again and then I won't because they couldn't hear me anyway.

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 15

Michael Opdenacker Mar 15

I feel so lucky to live in Europe. Fresh and natural food is widely available, you can easily travel everywhere without making the climate worse, you have quality and affordable health care and education, laws that protect your privacy, a lot of cultural diversity, and most people I know are nice to each other.

People criticizing Europe these days are jealous 😁

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 15

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FULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 15

oh the pdf viewer was replaced by a pdf viewer that takes more memory, and the old viewer was ported to a toolkit that takes yet more memory and now it's too big to read the files it read yesterday.

good upgrades all around the place

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 14

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Oleksandr Natalenko, MSE

Mar 14

Bash scripting is building a bomb shelter with fused mines instead of bricks.

Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 12

niconiconi May 12, 2023

"Companies stop creating their own brands for pre-existing industry standards as if they have something special" challenge (impossible).

Simultaneous Multi-Threading, found in all serious CPUs? No, we have Hyper-threading™ technology!
ATA/ATAPI Command Set's power management feature? No, we have PowerChoice™ technology!
PCIe spec's extended memory mapping features? No, we have Smart Access Memory™ technology!
Ethernet and USB ports with ESD protection, which must be included in all competent designs)? No, we have Full Spike Protection™ technology!
Memory pages without execution permission, found in all serious CPUs? XD bit™ technology! Enhanced Virus Protection™ technology!