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My boot config gets lost so damn much, across multiple disk arrays across different hardware, I'm just about ready to give up on freebsd
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard Is this your “I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been able to send only one innocuous-looking social media post but completely out of character for my friends” canary?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan It does fucking look like it doesn't it.

I'm so fucking annoyed. This is three times I've put together a valid zpool and then booting from it fucked up. On three HBAs and two chassis. I've also replaced all but 3 disks




in reply to Jay Hannah

@Jay Hannah oh - is that because it's good or real bad?

I am trying to write a card game for fun - but in order to do that I wanna put routines on cards, so that means objects. But uh.... blah

in reply to silverwizard

Conway's OO Perl book from 20 years ago was AWESOME at the time, changed our code very much for the far better. :)

Nowadays OO Perl is Moose metacpan.org/dist/Moose/view/l… or one of it's many lighter-weight alternatives (lightweight is unnecessary for your use case).

~Soon-ish OO Perl will probably be Corona, but it's only (partially) in bleeding edge Perl for now, if I understood correctly. Check out @ovid for his many posts about that if you care about bleeding edge Perl stuff.

in reply to Jay Hannah

@ovid Happy to chat you through it if you like: discord.gg/W3hu4e8r2w
in reply to Jay Hannah

@Jay Hannah @Curtis "Ovid" Poe ok yeah, I've used moose a lIttle, not sure what edition my OO Perl book is (again, bought as joke), but I think I saw Moose in it

I am kinda... anti bleeding edge, I like stable and boring.

But thanks!

in reply to silverwizard

@ovid if your OO Perl book has Moose in it that's probably a modern book that's good to go. My OO Perl book was ~20 years ago, looooong before Moose was invented. :)
in reply to Jay Hannah

@ovid Moose was invented in 2006 apparently, and it's been backwards-compatible the entire time as far as I know. So anyone anywhere writing about how to use Moose is probably all still solid and completely usable on latest stable perl (5.38.0), no problems. :)
in reply to silverwizard

@deafferret If you want to take a risk with the new OO syntax, ask me anything. I'm the lead designer 😃 (though I'm fortunate that I had a great design team who helped me avoid some major screwups)
in reply to Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

@Curtis "Ovid" Poe @Jay Hannah Well I'm great at being a major screwup, so, sure, if I am gonna learn something it might as well be the new thing, I'll do my best to bug report, but uh, I am not doing anything strenuous or complicated, and only when I'm too tired to work on something important, but have time to do something for fun, which is rare.
in reply to silverwizard

@deafferret Be aware that it's still experimental not not complete! `perldoc perlclass` should tell you which features are implemented.

The MVP for the core itself is here: github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/maste…

You can use the latter to see what will be coming up. @leonerd is doing the implementing, so he might have an idea on the time frame (though I don't think there is one)

in reply to silverwizard

@deafferret

Also, for a more realistic view of what can be done now, check out @perigrin 's Roguelike Game Tutorial using the new syntax. He's up to part 6 now.

chris.prather.org/perl-rogueli…

in reply to Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

@ovid huh. I thought github used to render POD? Did they stop? Is there a HTML render of this anywhere? github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/maste…
(This is the landing page for people (like me) who want to learn how to use Cor?)

(Apologies for calling it Corona, that was NEVER the name. Whoops! 🙂)

in reply to Jay Hannah

@deafferret I drank a Corona last night. Perfect for hot weather, so I've no complaints about that mistake :)

Yeah, github not rendering POD there is disappointing, so I created a better version a while ago: gist.github.com/Ovid/4cc649c1e…

in reply to Jay Hannah

@deafferret @ovid Honestly for OO theory from a practical standpoint I think Conway’s Object Oriented Perl still stands up. I was recently thinking about how Corinna finally introduced a fly-weight pattern that I didn’t find exceptionally painful like I did when I first tried it after reading Conway’s book.


I am starting to get auditor questions like "Do you use any cloud computing". And this is super frustrating. These are mostly banks asking if we use offsite stuff like AWS or Azure mostly I think. But I need to be like "We manage code in BitBucket?" because what even is The Cloud.

When legal and financial teams adopt your buzzwords without defining them then you've made it as an industry I guess?

in reply to silverwizard

I'd probably be tempted to reply «of course not! I only trust infrastructure I configured myself». 🤣
in reply to Lapo Luchini

@Lapo Luchini Is this because you don't trust yourself and therefore trust the Stack Ranked Hellhole with your infra more? Or because you are lucky enough to actually use real computers?


Sorry, I'm reading that Excel will now phone out to a random Microsoft service, shove your sheet into it, and then run arbitrary python code? Whenever you type "py("?

Is that what I'm reading?



It's upsetting how different a movie A Midsommar's Night Rave is from A Midsummer's Night Rave

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in reply to silverwizard

Yes, an obscure Rave Culture movie from 2004 is obviously more in my brain than Shakespeare, what else would it be?


My favourite acronym is GAI for Generative Artificial Intelligence

It's good for discourse and 100% not designed to fuck up the world




Today telling son a story, I theorized that Ghost Ships can only sink in salt water


Elon is mad that Jack is considered a better twitter CEO than him, so he's trying to wipe Block off the earth.

I assume.



I'm starting to realize that my favourite Scooby Doo are the two crossovers with Wrestlemania because they are a stable context to make jokes about the situation, rather than attempting to modify them into "complex characters" or force overly complex situations.


Last night I was trying to debug an issue with upgrading Ruby, so I spent an hour *causing* the issue somewhere else, and then had to go to bed.

Meaning I spent all my debugging time causing the problem I was fixing.

Aw computers



Thinking about the day that Google tells us that Analytics or ReCaptcha are going down in the next 30 days



Been playing Baulder's Gate because BG3 was just released and reminded me I have the game

And the fact that my travel is like "1 day" and I travel and show up at the dungeon and my characters are like "I'm so tired" - fuck - camp while you travel



I broke a coffee mug over the weekend, it was new, I wanna fix it.

Looks like stake of the art is Epoxy and most epoxy isn't food safe?

Art Resin brand Resin is FDA certified food safe (they say FDA certified and in Canada and Great Britain and 13 other countries, which is a claim you can't make without getting in very fraud, but also worthless), but it only allows up to 50°C before that's worthless.

The MSDS on other resins and epoxies seems to be not food-safe?

Anyone know how to fix a coffee cup?

Was thinking maybe finding some non-PB tin?

#ceramics
#repairability #repair

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Surly Amy
@semiotic_pirate @artcollisions you can’t use the gold to eat out of tho. It’s not food safe. Just decorative. And not strong enough to hold a handle.
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Surly Amy
@semiotic_pirate @artcollisions that’s a good question. I’ll ask my dentist in two weeks!



So thinking about openai.com/gptbot-ranges.txt

Hear me out:
We need to make a project to make a site with infinite links all of which are autogenerated garbage, just for those ranges

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan yeah - basically

In university I wrote a tool called The Eye of Argonizer (makes text more like The Eye of Argon) and a wikipedia dump and the Eye of Argonizer ported out of ancient java, easy to do

Put OpenAI on a tarpit that serves the Eye of Wikipedia on the fly, and and distribute it as a plugin service



Fuck - holy shit - Datadog! Don't rescale my percentile graphs!

If I suddenly see a DB capping out utilization I *panic*.

If I realize a second later it's because the Y axis tops at 50% I am so angry.



I should do the courses, become a certified SOC/ISO/whatever auditor, and then dye my hair blue

I have some of my most fun work conversations with auditors - but ... uh... the auditor stereotypes always make me laugh

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan It's just

I love talking to auditors, they seem so refreshingly dedicated to work. And yet whenever I talk about audits people are like "auditors are boring" and so ...

I would make a normal audit person - right? Make people being audited explode



A horrid thought entered my mind, and the internet delivered
etsy.com/ca/listing/1523389419…


One thing I am noticing in my auto-complete location bar, and my searches, is that top level pages are getting ignored.

If I go to "example.com" it will show "example.com/blog_post" but will only fill example.com at the last minute.

It feels like we're being dragged by automation toward the less Destination Web and more the Search Web.

(to be clear this is with DuckDuckGo and Firefox not even with Google/Google)



Ug, I wrote an #UnknownArmies module about a group of ex-coworkers from <closed news service> infiltrating a rave run by a cult in order to out magic for a <billionaire trying to drive traffic to social network>, but uh, Sleepers, Cultists, and personal Drama.

And then I never got to run it!

#ttrpg



This bothers me
I've washed more Yubikeys in the washing machine than I have been attacked by SIM swapping attacks. Has anyone dealt with this as a security question yet?

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HOWTO Security: Throw everyone's data in a shoebox labelled Secret Docs protected by a techobro who knows NodeJS and AWS


Hey - uh #mail #admin types

I am spotting mail getting into people's spam folder more as my users use ChatGPT to write their emails, anyone else seeing this?

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Digging, washing, and drying dandelion roots because my kid wanted to make "kid coffee"


After this year I think I need to submit a talk to BSDCan entitled:
I'm An Idiot And So Can You:
A Guide For Homelabs


Listen, I am your sysadmin - but if an issue is urgent for me - it gets to be urgent for you.


Ug - I need popup blocks for the web.

Why the fuck did JS thing drawing over a page was a good thing to allow?!

in reply to silverwizard

It's the whole history of the web.

SGML was intended to overcome proprietary file formats for documents, marking text semantically, leaving it to the user to decide how to display it. HTML was originally an instance of SGML.

From the beginning, people were trying to thwart the design of HTML to force people to see pages specific ways. The early books on web design were mostly about how designers could abuse the standard with "tricks" to control the experience of users.

in reply to FoolishOwl

I had a job in a bookstore in the 90s and remember getting into an argument with two customers. One wanted to get in to web design, so I recommended some O'Reilly textbook that starts with explaining the underlying principles of HTML. An older guy got angry at me pushing pedantic nonsense, and recommended some glossy book on creating websites for advertising, how to create entrance and exit tunnels, do everything with image maps instead of text, etc.
in reply to FoolishOwl

Of course, I was making $7.50 per hour working in a bookstore, and I'm not a web designer now, so the market decided I'm wrong.


I am the office Windows expert. Also the Office365 expert.

This is maddening, strange, and annoying.



I just realized that my gopher phlog has null.hosts over its gophermap because I put it in a chroot.

I should be more responsible and write a less defaulty gophermap

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There's a theme in my Burning Wheel game that our spellcasters have:
Read
Calligraphy
Symbology

but not the Write skill, it often ends up leading to very funny situations.

Our belief is that Wizards can Spell but they can't spell



They should modify USB-c so that there's a host and a client version - that way I can tell which way some adapters are designed to go and make the standard a little more robust and simple


Completely seriously starting to think that if I ever got super high and did E or Molly - I'd probably end up in the middle of rave - dancing as hard as I could trying to explain network failure domains to someone


I wish I had a tool to manage my webapps separately from my web pages. Maybe a way to launch individual services and update them separately from my reference tool.

#sarcasm

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard I don’t quite get it. Are wishing web apps were standalone programs?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan yeah - I am

I am wishing we wrote standalone software rather than just being like "let's make the web a complication target because driveby malware is too hard and installed software is too easy to learn and get used to"


in reply to silverwizard

you could say those articles were left without a porpoise

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My son just gave me a piece of his food so that he could ask for a bite of it