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zaik

4,386 karmajoined 5 yıl önce
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·9 saat önce·0 comments

AI could keep poor countries poor

newsletter.deenamousa.com
3 points·by zaik·evvelsi gün·1 comments

DOGE Shrank the Payroll, Not the Deficit

rubbishtalk.com
19 points·by zaik·4 gün önce·0 comments

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

blog.prosody.im
193 points·by zaik·5 ay önce·209 comments

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

mastodon.matrix.org
141 points·by zaik·geçen yıl·169 comments

comments

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