I spent a not insignificant part of today hoping that a solar storm would come and make computing impossible for a little while.

Imagine if #Firefox, #Chrome, and their derivatives could render Markdown, AsciiDoc, LaTeX, EPUB, and Gemtext as seamlessly as they handle PDFs. This could revolutionize the way we publish lightweight websites, making it as simple as dropping a text file into a directory.

#smolweb #smallweb #indieweb

(somebody knows an influential person at @mozilla ?)

@allsystemsgo i heard that some systems are actually not go today

@lkundrak
actually periodontitis is more prevalent in male population :) maybe ladies rubs more borshtsch into their gums
@oleksandr

@oleksandr
maybe it will be beneficial to gums as prevention of periodontitis
@lkundrak

@oleksandr
depends on fineness of grinding probably. dehydrated soups were never sniffing friendly. except some pea soups i recall from childhood, it was powder only
@lkundrak

A tribute to Daniel Bristot de Oliveira from Linux Plumbers. https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2024/07/06/in-memory-of-daniel-bristot-de-oliveira/

I'm really really really not interested in computers getting more powerful.
I am super interested in them being more repairable and modifiable, drawing less power, lasting and being supported for way longer etc. That stuff still gets me excited

@hny

@vbabka @oleksandr @pony @lkundrak

@lkundrak
aktualne na ceste z michalovec do prahy pres kosice bez brejli na cteni :/
@oleksandr @pony

@RezzaBuh
znc v brn v narodnim? jinak outfit dobry :)

In software architecture you have to recognize when you're adding a rocket stage.

In rockets and aeroplanes it's a simple truth that weight adds more weight. To carry more you need bigger engines, a bigger fuel thank, more fuel. More weight becomes even more weight.

For rockets to make it out of the atmosphere they use multiple stages. Each stage carries the rocket to a certain height, once the fuel is used up the stage is ejected so the next stage can push forward a lighter rocket. So adding a stage will get you further, but at the cost of much more machinery, engineers, and complexity. You now have a much heavier rocket to launch.

Switching to kubernetes, kafka, microservices, a single page app, ... is adding a rocket stage. Maybe it's what you need to get where you want to go, but be clear about the extra weight, operational cost, engineering overheard, mental overhead.

@lkundrak
maybe time to migrate back from cmake to autotools
@mansr

@nowster
put vegetable, meat, noodles to stock and you have soup. remove it and you have back stock :)
@liw @pwaring

@me

to bylo v ceske edici chip. uprava autoexec.bat a krok do neznama. nekdy v 97.
v r. 98 ceskej red hat 5.1 manhattan za 150kc. sel jsem tehdy kupovat knizku o delphi a misto toho brozurku s cd. pamatuju si tu euforii, ze mam legalni operacni system :)
@RezzaBuh @mkyral

@mirek

predpokladam ze okno bylo otevreny, nikde krev a sklo. netroufam si odhadnout silu vetru, ze ji dokazal dostat po odkvetu tak daleko od stromu

@mirek
jak to vypada, kdyz odkvetou a kdyz dozrajou plody? :)

The toot length version goes like this

🌸 Open source is a public, common resource. Anyone can contribute, and everyone benefits
🌸 That makes it a "commons", or perhaps many commons
🌸 Commons need long term organized care to sustain them. That's called governance
🌸 The governance of the open source commons has been neglected for a long time, and that burden falls on maintainers
🌸 What if we didn't do that?

https://jenniferplusplus.com/the-free-software-commons/