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zaik

4,386 karmajoined 5 anni fa
In love with Internet Standards, free software and open data.

Interests: XMPP, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata.

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Package Management as Org Chart

nesbitt.io
2 points·by zaik·11 ore fa·0 comments

AI could keep poor countries poor

newsletter.deenamousa.com
3 points·by zaik·l’altro ieri·1 comments

DOGE Shrank the Payroll, Not the Deficit

rubbishtalk.com
19 points·by zaik·4 giorni fa·0 comments

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

blog.prosody.im
193 points·by zaik·5 mesi fa·209 comments

Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

mastodon.matrix.org
141 points·by zaik·anno scorso·169 comments

comments

zaik
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Link to the actual research?
zaik
·5 giorni fa·discuss
No packages yet: https://repology.org/projects/?search=sneakerweb
zaik
·5 giorni fa·discuss
Gajim recently got a modern PGP implementation: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-06-18-gajim-2.4.7-released/
zaik
·6 giorni fa·discuss
Thank you for contributing! The task of mapping every street and business in the world sounds impossible, but openstreetmap.org does really well.
zaik
·10 giorni fa·discuss
I run an XMPP server (Prosody) on Arch Linux since 2020. I upgrade and restart once every week and so far catastrophe has only struck once.
zaik
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU
zaik
·18 giorni fa·discuss
> sooooo much technical misinformation

Especially for math, were I feel like people generally agree on what is true and what is not, this seems unusual. Can you point to an instance of misinformation?
zaik
·19 giorni fa·discuss
I usually just consult my handy sheet of BNF rules while speaking Japanese.
zaik
·20 giorni fa·discuss
> everyone will have forgotten how to understand source code in 50 years

I don't think this will happen. Human desire to understand how things work will still be around in 50 years.
zaik
·20 giorni fa·discuss
Is the formula for E_a[X] trivial? I don't see it immediately...
zaik
·21 giorni fa·discuss
You don't have to get a patch into nixpkgs, just use their machinery.
zaik
·22 giorni fa·discuss
That sounds like a good application of Item Response Theory (IRT).
zaik
·22 giorni fa·discuss
If you decide to create a package for the project in nixpkgs, patch-shebangs.sh should do it for you, no?
zaik
·30 giorni fa·discuss
If the bunch of graphics cards becomes truly more efficient, business owners who want to hire humans will not be able to compete.
zaik
·mese scorso·discuss
Yes, but I believe there is a symlink from /etc to the Nix store, so systemd can find them.
zaik
·mese scorso·discuss
Spoiler: In the end it is revealed that the surveillance screen wasn't actually switched off. Let's see how it works out in Meta's case...
zaik
·mese scorso·discuss
b) Or you could take the compiled units from /etc/systemd and copy them wherever
zaik
·mese scorso·discuss
Since AI is so smart now, these problems will surely be fixed in no time!
zaik
·2 mesi fa·discuss
https://archive.ph/oMcFr
zaik
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> who immediately send that money right back to the tech companies to pay for subscriptions, automated food delivery, or digital entertainment.

Very optional consumption.