I switched permanently to i3 when Gnome 3 came out and never looked back. I tried Sway and Hyperland every once in a while, but Wayland is still total dog shit and Xlibre fixes a lot of the outstanding xorg issues.

i3+Xlibre is the future for me.

YouTube keeps flagging me as a bot and telling me to login. I wrote a frontend for yt-dlp that rotates through various proxies so I can just download the video and not use their shitty web interface:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

I hate that I know what song this is, or that I ever owned this CD.

Simple Plan was really the worst and whiniest of the Emo Punk era.

Do you know if people are actually dead? There was one American non-profit with spooky CIA links reporting thousands dead and it all seems like a psyop. Like do you personally know someone who died or is this all off reports from outside the country?

Your leaders aren't killing their own people (bad for business really), it's likely the CIA who is.

@whimsical I've never had to do this. SSH supports keep alive. Do the .ssh/config options or /etc/ssh/sshd_config options not work for you?

Make Ram Affordable Again!

O'riley Book Title: "Ways to generate unmaintainable trash"

Really? That's the thing pissing you off? Not the sex trafficking of children/teenagers and wondering what the fuck "beef jerky" is coded language for?

@jestdotty They will? I've always kept my work account and personal account separate. Every job I open a new Github account just for that job.

I've stopped using my personal one since they forced 2FA on it, so .. fuck them.

I never EVER use a 3rd party sign-on. E-mail or nothing. I wrote this back in 2018:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

So fuck Tailscale. They don't allow e-mail signup. They allow OAuth, but I could never get one working. It was to help a client of mine, as I've never needed Tailscale (I know how to setup my own Wireguard. It's dead simple, and doing basic port forwarding is much easier with iptables than with Tailscale's batshit insane JSON API configuration).

I was going through some of it yesterday and there's a lot of just weird random shit in it:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxjw6xa

masturbate

My team doesn't understand the basics of using `--fetch all` and `--rebase`. (Which is really what you want to do, not pull/merge).

Learning `--force-with-lease` is import from rebasing on branches shared by multiple developers.

I recently started using submodules. I'm not a big fan but they're useful in limited amounts.

Git worktree is ... eh .. could have been implemented a lot better.

I wish there was a way to share a workspace as it's being worked on without committing it, so you can move it across machines.

I've been meaning to try out Fossil.

Do you use `git stash` and `git stash -u`?

If you don't know any of that, you probably wasted a lot of time at various points or got stuck in rebase hell when you didn't need to be. It's worth learning more than the bare minimum.

I have gaps and was able to get hired. The secret is to make it into a nice looking chart/timeline:

https://battlepenguin.com/resume/

Taxation is theft

Wasn't that Windows Vita? ... minus the ray tracking part. I think everything post Windows 7 uses a composer of some kind now.

On my main Gentoo box I was having crashing issues on my amdgpu (machine was still running but screen would totally freeze on one image. The mouse cursor still worked and I could click on something like a video and hear it play, but screen updates were frozen unless I SSHed in and restarted the display manager).

Just switched it over to xlibre from xorg. No crashes or issues for well over a week now! I really do think xlibre is the future of Linux display. Once they get HDR support in and get it implemented in VLC and mpv, it's pretty much over for Wayland.

@Lensflare

Level 4: Kill all Humans

@whimsical The Greenland thing goes back to the 1970s Club of Rome. There was an ideology shared among leaders in the EU, The Bilderburg Group, etc. that wanted to see government consolidated into 11 major kingdoms. Seriously go look up the map. It's crazy.

The USSR was one of those such kingdoms, but of course it completely fell apart. I guess one of the saving graces is these leaders have often failed terribly at these plans.

@Lensflare Taxation is theft.

Isn't 90k € a lot in most of Europe? Back in 2016 I was living with a friend in Germany looking for work and people laughed at me and never called me back if I asked for € 60k as a senior engineer (Scala, Java, Python, etc.) It seemed like the average was € 50k~55k.

@D-4got10-01 I couldn't make it through the 2nd one. I only know of the animated versions because I saw the character LORAs on some AI model sites.

@iSwimInTheC It's still microservices. All the code is just in one repo that is used to create all the individual services, so we're not repeating all the same shit over and over; fixing it in 20 places instead of one.

I've written a whole thing on Microservices:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

ah yes, Rubberducking

Pretty sure kiki finally starved to death

@D-4got10-01 It's Decemberween

I'd be interesting in your tool. I've often archived all my data on dying platforms or platforms I've deleted my account from:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

There are some old posts of mine that are difficult to get to without a lot of backtracking; would love to just have all of them in a nice JSON blob.

Pretty neat set of tools. I'm not sure if I like the idea of generating SSH/GPG keys from a passphrase. Seems like that can lower your entropy, but I generally like the idea of self-hostable tools.

That's weird. I bought Cyberpunk 2077 on GoG on opening day and it ran fine on my old i7-9x series + 2080-Ti.

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

I started playing Control but never got far in it. DaVinci Resolve should run on anything .. I've run that on ancient hardware.

Are you running on like a 6th gen Intel or something? How old is your system that stuff won't start? Does the error say it's because of your hardware?

With the newer Windows package formats, it's nearly impossible to correctly implement "Open with.." in a cross-platform way. Here's my unanswered question on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Here's where I gave up in my applications:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

and here are the loaders for "classic" and "appx":

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

It's a fucking mess.

I took two big breaks, once for 11 months and another for 5 months. It was nice, but I was never able to get any side projects going or get into a PhD program.

I miss the old job I got laid off from. As bad as some things were, I could use Linux and my workflow felt fairly kino. New place is all shitty Win 11 corporate .NET with crazy group policies and 4 year old Intel 11th gen laptops that run like shit.

I'm glad I took some breaks though, even if they didn't quite work out:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...