Friendly reminder that if you download software updates for Fedora or AlmaLinux from London, there's good odds that your software updates are coming from an HP thin client sitting in a road box in Surrey.
This is perfectly fine, and how free software / the Internet actually works.
#MicroMirror #Fedora #AlmaLinux #Linux #FOSS
Context: @warthog9 and I run a managed appliance service called MicroMirror, where we take cash donations (https://en.liberapay.com/phirephly/) and use them to deploy free software download mirrors based on the cheapest hardware possible.
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2023/05/building-micro-mirror-free-software-cdn.html
The B4SH ISP in Surrey volunteered to host one of our appliances in their network, so they donate space, power, and transit capacity for the server we ship them to just plug in. For some reason, this was the best spot for them to plug this server is. 🤷
We are up to 35 of these Micro sized download mirrors worldwide. Because these sorts of things just tend to get out of hand for me.
As should surprise no one, based on my past projects of running my own autonomous system , building my own Internet Exchange Point , and bui...Kenneth Finnegan (Blogger)
A fellow student has completely hosed their RStudio installation by running code they got from ChatGPT and is now struggling to get their statistics assignment done which is due tomorrow.
Let this be a cautionary tale.
nuintari's rules of networking 0x3a:
Problems that mysteriously go away all by themselves, tend to mysteriously reappear all by themselves.
1st Corollary:
If you rebooted it and the problem went away, the problem has not really gone away.
I have found this vending machine. It's full of delicious meat and sausages! Would you buy something for the hungry blue wolf? 😇
#FursuitFriday
📸&🪡 @Areksim
My photos from the 2024 SotonFurs Summer Party now up!
> https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBFv6N <
Taking place on Sunday 25th August at The Papillon on Commercial Road of Southampton in Hampshire.Harry Curly (Flickr)
If you haven't yet tried a wetsuit or a rubber catsuit underneath one-piece leather motorcycle suit. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!?!?!?!?!?/1/onequestionmark.
#gear #gearfetish #fetish #kink
Ooooh. that sounds dreamy o.o
Have worn it under fursuit. That was /WARM/ but os so nice!
I've had a few folks ask me how I make https://www.thestopbits.net load so quickly.
It's a boring answer: it's tiny.
There's almost nothing you download when you visit. There's no JavaScript and we use whatever font you have as the default.
It's not a trick, it's just how things used to be. It has to load on a 28.8 modem, so on your modern machine it's going to feel zippy.
Modern websites can feel zippy too.
A nerdy rock band made up of YouTubers. Yes, we made this website with AOLpress!www.thestopbits.net
I sometimes think about trying Rust since they've fixed some of the major language design issues I like and the community evangelism and extreme hype is starting to die down. But I just can't help but think of the last time I tried it, the getting started guide “hello, world!” equivalent added one dependency that then pulled in 25 separate transitive dependencies totaling 97 megabytes of source code (as in, it would likely take actual years to read through it all to see what it all does). Left a very bad taste in my mouth that that's the very first thing you do in the official guide for a hello world program, and that the guide does it without even a word spared to “oh wow look at all this shit that's downloading!”
I think when I posted about it originally someone actually went in and made a PR to remove a number of the dependencies because it was a bad look, but the fact they had to go in afterwards because of bad optics rather than just not pulling the dependencies in in the first place still says volumes to me
TIL that sharks (a group of fish) are an order of magnitude older than Polaris (literally a star)
Sharks: 419 - 359 million years
Polaris (α UMi Aa): 45 - 67 million years
I’ll need to sit down, stare at a wall for a bit, and process this.
"fun" fact for those of you who weren't aware:
**the first version of a hashtag that's used is the canonical case** (as in lower vs upper case)
that means if you create a hashtag, **camelCase it!!!** on the first use!!!
otherwise the autofill will forever suggest the lowercase version and people will often default to the autofill. this creates a less accessible fediverse.
Marching along on the fursuit walk at Sotonfurs Summer Party last weekend! It was a fantastic time!
📷 Dracorum Order
🪡 @selkiesuits
⌚ #FursuitFriday
Aww gosh, thank you so much! ^///^ 6 years on and I still love my suit SO much, Selkie did such an incredible job with it. ❤
Contributing to open source is a privilege. It doesn't mean you have cheated to do it or that you don't deserve praise for doing it!
It only means that not everyone can do it. You need the skills, time and will to do it in addition to doing whatever you need to have a good life.
Not everyone has that time. Not everyone works in the field.
We must acknowledge it to meaningfully convey the value of open source in society.
@foone The strategic need to get money outside of Google and nostalgia for the Netscape Navigator days seem to drive everything.
(TBF having a source of funding beyond Google’s desire to have nominal competitor for antitrust proceedings, is very important, and extremely difficult given how vocal a minority of users and employees are.)