K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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@Foxboron we do have something in the works to replace our web of trust already -- hopefully coming in the next couple of months. I was already planning to start allowing ssh keys at that point, so hopefully we'll have paved ourselves a way out of our OpenPGP dependency by mid-year.
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@Foxboron Also, an established web of trust is non-trivial to replace. It's a similar problem to "everyone is still on facebook because that's where everyone is."
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While the screams and roars of the "plz no more #gnupg" crowd can be heard, do consider viable ways for the Linux community to replace it.
It's very easy to point at minisign/ssh and similar projects and go "use that". But it misses the convenience of binding an identity to a key, along with having a key distribution mechanism.
I think standardizing `.well-known/public-key` for lookups, and explore a path where we can jam a tlog into it would be interesting.
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Edited 12 days ago
Instance moderator's life.
(It wasn't all that bad, actually...)
(It wasn't all that bad, actually...)
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I believe this falls under "dem's are fighting words," quite literally.
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Meko #nowar
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Oh by the way.
Everyone knows "Carol of the bells", right?
You may not know but the roots of this song are in a pretty famous here Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk.
Source of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSdYUYNoqs
Everyone knows "Carol of the bells", right?
You may not know but the roots of this song are in a pretty famous here Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk.
Source of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSdYUYNoqs
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@TheyOfHIShirts That depends on the rulebook. There are actually multiple sets of rules for baseball. The MLB uses the "Official Baseball Rules" rulebook (OBR). US high schools have a different set of rules called the NFHS/FED. And then colleges have a yet another set of rules called NCAA. The three major rule sets are *mostly* the same but field dimensions requirements do vary. The MLB/OBR rule set does define minimal distances for the outfield, but not much more than that, which is how you can have huge fields and relatively tiny fields in the same league.
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@vegard Yeah, I guess "poop fart" jokes write themselves in that case.
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Me: (finishes explaining something basic about computers)
A very self-sure 6-year-old beaver scout: "Buddy... Buddy, that's not how any of it works."
A very self-sure 6-year-old beaver scout: "Buddy... Buddy, that's not how any of it works."
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creepy_owlet@mastodon.onlineThere is no shortage of #AI criticism here, but not all of it is actually well backed by facts. Here is a pretty chilling account on why #OpenAI is not just bad for us, it's actively evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg
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@TheyOfHIShirts traditionally, the strike zone is whatever the umpire says it is. :) The MLB strike zone is a 3-d shape above the home plate. It helps to imagine it as a 5-sided column that starts at the "hollow below the knee" and goes to the midpoint between the batter's belt and armpits. It's never defined in absolute measurements because it always scales with the batter. When a robo-umpire is used, I believe the player's parameters are pre-calculated and uploaded into the computer ahead of time.
The most important thing to know about the strike zone is that younger levels are going to have a larger strike zone. If you're watching a little league/youth game, don't expect the umpire to be calling the MLB strike zone -- the upper, lower, and outside boundaries are going to be expanded, otherwise the game is going to be a boring everyone-gets-walked-to-first slog. Parents watching from the side don't appreciate this nuance, so they always get mad when you call a chest-high ball a strike on their 10-year-old kid, but that's a sign that the umpire is doing the right thing -- the goal is to encourage kids to swing even at less-than-perfect pitches.
The most important thing to know about the strike zone is that younger levels are going to have a larger strike zone. If you're watching a little league/youth game, don't expect the umpire to be calling the MLB strike zone -- the upper, lower, and outside boundaries are going to be expanded, otherwise the game is going to be a boring everyone-gets-walked-to-first slog. Parents watching from the side don't appreciate this nuance, so they always get mad when you call a chest-high ball a strike on their 10-year-old kid, but that's a sign that the umpire is doing the right thing -- the goal is to encourage kids to swing even at less-than-perfect pitches.
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@Klepsis the runner decides to steal a base before the pitcher even fully winds up, so they can't know if it's going to be batted foul or fair. However, if the ball is batted foul, the runner must return to the base they last legally reached at the time of the pitch, so there is no such thing as stealing on a foul ball.
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Congrats to Julia Lawall for making it to the LF Technical Advisory Board!
https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/20251221125206.99296-1-ojeda@kernel.org/
https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/20251221125206.99296-1-ojeda@kernel.org/
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@Klepsis all pitches are appropriate occasions, just may not be very smart decisions depending on what else is happening on the field. It's a constant game of chicken between the runner, the pitcher, the catcher and the fielders working those bases. Unfortunately, it would require writing a whole essay to properly explain the right time to steal a base from the wrong time to steal a base.
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@corbet I know, right? It feels so dumb to have 80kwh sitting useless in your driveway when you have to wear a headlamp to go pee.
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@orionkidder to clarify, if you hit a pop fly and it lands on your own head? Then that depends if you're still in the batter box or out of it. If you're still in the box, it's a foul ball. If you're making your way to a base, then that's interference and you're out if you're touched by the ball in fair territory. If you're touched by it in foul territory, then it's a foul ball.
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This is the most country thing you'll hear today, except it's in Norwegian. You're welcome.
https://youtu.be/Kkk0J99Fsnc?si=J3kjEb0lSyBKdLZS
https://youtu.be/Kkk0J99Fsnc?si=J3kjEb0lSyBKdLZS
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