Pico

Pico

@mrpickles.co.za

Software engineer: Python, Linux, Nix, Vim Creator of sarcasm South Africa

581 followers253 following528 posts

The abandonment of github.com/nix-communit... makes me sad on a regular basis. I tried jupyevn today which also seem heavily unmaintained and one of the low hanging fruit bug fixes is that poetry2nix used cython 0.29.34 as a dependency for PyYaml, but the new PyYaml and python versions require

github.comGitHub - nix-community/poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=]Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=] - GitHub - nix-community/poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=]

a newer version of cython. I could probably submit a fix but the project is now dead. I wonder how many other projects collapsed along with poetry2nix? #nix #nixos

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It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgHow Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICEA few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

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Does digital information feel permanent to you? Well, it isn't. A 2023 study found that in just 10 years' time, 38% of pages from 2013 went missing and 23% of news articles linked to a dead URL.  Learn more by clicking this functioning link ➡️ w.wiki/hrU

So used to the slop, was not expecting this.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

lol sad this post isn't about me. I also found 3 real ghostty bugs using LLMs despite being a complete ignoramus github.com/ghostty-org/... github.com/ghostty-org/... github.com/ghostty-org/... x.com/mitchellh/st...

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if you are not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship. true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else.

Signal is awesome. Probably not for classified information but it's the gold standard in private communication for ordinary citizens.

Signal@signal.org

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

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If you damage the businesses of the richest man in the world, his friend the President wants to put you in indentured servitude in another country. If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

A merge conflict in your flake lock seems like a bad way to start the day. Do people use git-attributes to set the flake lock to a binary file type?

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Really neat new blog from Planetscale that includes explanations and interactive visualizations of kinds of storage media and how writes/reads and sequential/random performance is based on physics constraints. Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit. planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...

planetscale.comIO devices and latency — PlanetScaleTake an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.

Yikes, this problem seems to be getting worse for MS every time.

Brodie Robertson@brodierobertson.xyz

We are 7 months away from Windows 10 EOL and Windows 11 market share is going down and Windows 10 going up amongst gamers, I don't know what there plan is but Microsoft better be thinking something up or they're in for some trouble

Wow, mystery solved bluetooth keyboard continuously reconnecting causes the entire app to refresh. I thought I was going mad.

Pico@mrpickles.co.za

Why are BlueSky feeds refreshing periodically like twitter 😭😭😭 Just me?