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zaik

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

Interests: XMPP, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata.

Submissions

Package Management as Org Chart

nesbitt.io
2 points·by zaik·8 godzin temu·0 comments

AI could keep poor countries poor

newsletter.deenamousa.com
3 points·by zaik·przedwczoraj·1 comments

DOGE Shrank the Payroll, Not the Deficit

rubbishtalk.com
19 points·by zaik·4 dni temu·0 comments

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

blog.prosody.im
193 points·by zaik·5 miesięcy temu·209 comments

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

mastodon.matrix.org
141 points·by zaik·w zeszłym roku·169 comments

comments

zaik
·4 dni temu·discuss
Link to the actual research?
zaik
·5 dni temu·discuss
No packages yet: https://repology.org/projects/?search=sneakerweb
zaik
·5 dni temu·discuss
Gajim recently got a modern PGP implementation: https://gajim.org/posts/2026-06-18-gajim-2.4.7-released/
zaik
·5 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU
zaik
·18 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
I usually just consult my handy sheet of BNF rules while speaking Japanese.
zaik
·20 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
Is the formula for E_a[X] trivial? I don't see it immediately...
zaik
·21 dni temu·discuss
You don't have to get a patch into nixpkgs, just use their machinery.
zaik
·22 dni temu·discuss
That sounds like a good application of Item Response Theory (IRT).
zaik
·22 dni temu·discuss
If you decide to create a package for the project in nixpkgs, patch-shebangs.sh should do it for you, no?
zaik
·30 dni temu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Yes, but I believe there is a symlink from /etc to the Nix store, so systemd can find them.
zaik
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
b) Or you could take the compiled units from /etc/systemd and copy them wherever
zaik
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Since AI is so smart now, these problems will surely be fixed in no time!
zaik
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
https://archive.ph/oMcFr
zaik
·2 miesiące temu·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.