My "production stuff":
- https://github.com/festivus-es/festivus - public holidays calendars for Spanish cities
- https://github.com/remote-es/remotes - companies hiring in Spain for remote positions
Usable WIPs:
- https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/ - track self-hosting package updates (such as YunoHost)
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/ubpkg/ - package manager for "upstream binaries"
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/termflux - Miniflux terminal client
I learned of Python's pathlib.Path.(read|write)_(text|bytes) too late. Now, every time I see a with statement to open a file and read/write the contents in one go, I think that the word should be spreaded more.
Besides the declarative Linux distributions, Talos is another innovation about Linux. Besides being a Kubernetes now operating system, it is also a Linux system without shells, managed instead via APIs https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/discussions/10008
I'm not sure I agree a lot with https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/ , but it's certainly an interesting read.
"Throughout the history of software development, employers have consistently preferred to fund tools that deskill and attempt to abstract expertise away over tools that genuinely improve productivity and the quality of the output, but also happen to require expertise and skill.
This has worked so far because the software industry is usually flooded with money."
- Catching up with @baldur's essay from earlier this year: *"React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity"*
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
@coder I'm told that powering a RPI with a laptop port is not a good idea- the RPI might draw more power than the laptop provides and bork the laptop :(
The last couple of days I've been fiddling with Ventoy alternatives. Asking around, I was reminded of hardware devices that do a similar job, but are much more reliable. Researching about them, I see people using Linux USB "gadget" mode to do this.
Just tried, worked in a few minutes. Magical!
(The time I've wasted looking for more esoterical alternatives.)
TL;DR: you can use a Raspberry Pi (or whatever) to present a file with an ISO as a USB disk. Works like a charm.
@dawnslayer@lemmy.world Have you registered the domain you want to use? Is it resolving to the IP address?
Stuff I made progress this year:
- selfhostwatch is quite usable, and contains most data from YunoHost, updated daily.
- ubpkg can install 23 different pieces of software and packaging stuff is easy.
- termflux is usable as a Miniflux terminal client
- epistle is a simple email client on top of imapsync/notmuch that can do a few things already
Things I'd like to work on:
- news-rss scrapes articles from Google News RSS
My "production stuff":
- https://github.com/festivus-es/festivus - public holidays calendars for Spanish cities
- https://github.com/remote-es/remotes - companies hiring in Spain for remote positions
Usable WIPs:
- https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/ - track self-hosting package updates (such as YunoHost)
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/ubpkg/ - package manager for "upstream binaries"
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/termflux - Miniflux terminal client
I feel I'm a bit out of steam, but the project I posted a month ago:
https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/
Is now IMHO in a useful state. It scrapes daily updates for "official" updates of stuff such as Nextcloud and the corresponding updates from Nextcloud. So you can see how dilligently YunoHost updates packages.
I feel YunoHost and similar stuff are great, but I feel it's daunting to commit to using them if you don't know how they handle updates.
If you come to FOSDEM, don't miss my talk about modern IRC!
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6407-chatting-on-irc-in-2025-grandpa-what-s-up-/
GMail sent the second Copilot email to spam.
(Yes, I need to get off both GitHub *AND* GMail.)
Github telling me that I can now use Copilot is a reminder that you, yes you the free software developers with a project on Github, are the one preventing me to delete my account.
Seriously. Get your public projects out of Github.
@coder the mentions of LG use in TVs and Toyota for cars is also interesting. Android is not working out well in those spaces, IMHO.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/celebrating-flutters-production-era/
So I rarely do anything that would make sense to do on Flutter, but I'm surprised by how little I hear about it. Dart has a few surprises. Also, the article says:
> In the Apple AppStore it has grown ... to nearly 30% of all tracked free apps in 2024!
Most likely, most of those free apps are not good, so we don't know how much Flutter is used for *good* apps.
@coder the main linked study saying that RTO makes companies lose their top performers matches my intuition, but I really found nothing of substance in the link.
https://sfba.social/@drahardja/113672539568958321
leads to:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4757876
> We study the return to office (RTO) policies ... Consistent with the model's predictions, we find that office rents in the firm's headquarters city determine RTO policy ... Finally, we find no significant stock market reaction to policy announcements.
@cadey I have a need to know the names of cool concepts.
Very nice article, by the way.
Hello I wrote a thing about how Android made a good privacy improvement and in the process apparently made key attestation far less useful for certain use cases https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70630.html
When it comes to non-free firmware I think there's two reasonable positions - treat it like non-free code running on a remote system (suboptimal, outside the scope of current free software priorities) or treat it like software running on the primary CPU (all code on the local system should be free software, no matter where it's running). I think the FSF's position is unreasonable: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70895.html
@cadey I think it's extremely unlikely that you are not aware of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law , but just in case. (I do not think it requires attribution. )
Soylent Green is people
@epilys I am a horrible person, because there's only like a 0.000003% chance you are in a scenario where this is not the worst idea ever but... you could invoke a program. pretty sure everything except Linux has a guaranteed known executable you could use, and there might be acceptable strategies if there is not.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology/#1-operating-system
27.7% of professional developers use Ubuntu as their "primary operating system for work". (Plus a few other Linux are there.) I don't really trust the survey (how can primary choices total more than 100%, and how WSL and Cygwin are there?), but if it's remotely close to reality, that "Linux is not viable for work"...
(Better data welcome.)
The way that "ChatGPT outputs libel about person X" was solved by adding a kill switch for his specific name doesn't really suggest these AI engineers have much influence over what their models are saying.