Drew DeVault

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Does not want to talk to you about cryptocurrency or AI

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2024-11-08 16:49:00

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@npub16c2…xaj2 I swear bro there's no cryptocurrency it's totally a coincidence that everyone involved in it is a crypto techbro and all of the software has cryptocurrency integrations it's just a protocol man don't worry about it

2024-11-08 16:41:01

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@npub16c2…xaj2 I don't feel the need to explain why cryptocurrency is bad in the year of our lord 2024, go annoy someone else
*taps the sign*
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2024-10-20 17:27:35

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Credit where it's due, the "someone" who reminded me of le Guin is @npub10lz…0m9n

2024-10-20 17:26:11

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@npub1utq…uaxe oh nice, Kim Stanley Robinson isn't one of my favorite authors but I've always enjoyed his books.

2024-10-20 17:19:57

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@npub1xts…kk5s I finished writing my recommendation of House of Suns just as your post came in :)

2024-09-13 14:01:03

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Things appear to be coming back up. The issue is largely out of our control but the optimistic view is that it's back for good.

2024-09-13 13:57:27

We're aware of users experiencing issues accessing SourceHut. Our upstream network provider has reported an outage that affects us and is working on a solution. Ideally, a fix is expected within 15 minutes.

2024-09-10 16:50:04

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2024-08-31 09:27:58

Jesus, the eagerness with which the Rust community jumps to answer my discourse not with any kind of good faith, but with personal attacks and put-downs and horrible ad-hominem nonsense is just... insane. It's almost as bad as when I post about "woke" stuff and the far-right descends on me with harassment and death threats.
Your community has a big fucking problem, Rust, and cosplaying as inclusive and healthy and welcoming is disgraceful in the face of reality.

2024-08-28 07:49:04

We should reclaim "gender critical". By all rights it should refer to a critique of social norms surrounding gender as a binary trait assigned at birth. The term for someone who enforces patriarchal gender roles and denies the existence of trans people is TERF, transphobe, or misogynist, whichever applies best to the situation.

2024-08-25 20:59:20

Scones suck, biscuits are where it's at, get it together Brits

2024-08-14 07:54:03

The two genders of Linux discussions
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2024-08-12 11:00:29

Reviewing git contributions via email: git-am.io
https://git-am.io
The long-awaited sequel to git-send-email.io is here 🎉

2024-08-12 10:48:49

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@npub109f…lxyh IP reputation, blocking commercial ISPs, heuristics/spam detection on post-registration behavior, rate limiting, etc

2024-08-12 10:41:32

I am really, really, really sick of captchas
When are we going to admit that the bots won and move on to others ways of curbing abuse that don't make me want to jump off of a bridge every time

2024-08-09 15:55:33

I broke my glasses last night and the user experience of pretty much everything when zoomed in far enough for me to just barely read it is terrible
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2024-08-08 06:19:35

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@npub16c2…xaj2 HN is an aggregator, not a news source

2024-08-08 06:14:47

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I'm pretty sure that the only news site whose software component delivers on the promise of "read the article you clicked on" is text.npr.org

2024-08-05 14:41:08

The internet with ads is such total ass

2024-08-02 19:38:46

The "it's not turing complete without Infinite tape" snark annoys me

2024-07-28 13:46:42

I like HL: Alyx but it's a bit long to be playing 20 minutes at a time (max playtime before I start feeling nauseous)

2024-07-26 21:47:27

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On the subject of games I got the VR rig out again and am finally playing through HL: Alyx and getting some Beatsaber in
Got partner to try out Persona 5, though, and consequently the gaming PC has been monopolized for the past few weeks

2024-07-26 21:33:34

Recommend good couch multiplayer/co-op for PC for 2-4 players? Linux/Proton support mandatory

2024-07-13 20:20:56

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences

2024-07-02 17:49:56

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@npub1e9t…3q57 might become a talk

2024-07-02 15:35:39

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The way we need to do this is through decentralization and solidarity. We don't need to restore a heiarchical vision of the movement, instead we need to foster a distributed culture of mentorship in not only our techniques and practices but also in our values, our philosophy, and our culture. Stand up to be a leader, to empower burgeoning leaders around you, and to take personal responsibility for the issues enumerated in this thread.
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2024-07-02 15:35:30

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The FSF is dead, but its message cannot die. Free software is the philosophical superior of open source, and its lost a lot of ground due to the FSF's negligence and incompetence that we must recover. We need to underscore the political and philosophical meaning of free software independent of them and reclaim our movement so it can succeed without them.

2024-07-02 15:05:25

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To address this we need to better educate people on how money and free software can co-exist in a way which does not threaten FOSS, and for people to learn and *grok* the social and economic dynamics of free software. The commercialization of FOSS is not a bad thing -- so long as the *critical* provisions that all users are equally entitled to share that wealth and capitalize on it on equal terms is upheld.

2024-07-01 21:19:08

Did the US just abolish the rule of law

2024-06-06 14:02:03

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(Obligatory "fuck elon musk" before anyone gets catty in the replies)

2024-06-05 06:46:12

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@npub1qfq…lsc4 it doesn't have to be deliberate to be there -- eugenics was mainstream for a long time and has had a lot of cultural influences and it's not that difficult to end up drawing on it

2024-06-05 06:44:35

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@npub1qfq…lsc4 I'm not necessarily saying the creators are themselves eugenicists or looking for themes across their collected works... but just saying that this is the eugenics movie. It's a classic dysgenics dystopia

2024-06-05 06:21:29

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@npub1qfq…lsc4 I mean, even if this is unclear (I don't think so) the movie's themes and setting can be traced pretty directly to Galton's work as an influential eugenicist

2024-06-05 06:14:12

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@npub1qfq…lsc4 the whole premise of the movie is that intelligence (or lack thereof) is heritable

2024-06-05 05:51:12

Idiocracy is the eugenics movie, no matter how you feel about the state of the world it's not really a great comparison to make #subpost

2024-05-28 08:34:39

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@npub12na…npsu I don't think you understand just how bad NL is compared to everywhere else

2024-05-28 08:28:07

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The housing market is absolutely bonkers in this country

2024-05-28 08:27:16

Send leads on apartments in NL within 2 hours transit to Amsterdam? Min 60 m² max €1500/mo. If you know someone with a place for rent, please get in touch
Boosts helpful :)

2024-05-24 15:38:34

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@npub1tx6…rtam osdev wiki for sure

2024-05-24 15:16:34

Bunnix - Writing a Unix clone in about a month
https://drewdevault.com/2024/05/24/2024-05-24-Bunnix.html

2024-05-18 18:23:05

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@npub1qfq…lsc4 gotta be x86-64, that's all

2024-05-18 17:22:11

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@npub1qfq…lsc4 ebay is iffy tbh

2024-05-17 12:31:21

Anyone know where I can get my hands on one of these?
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Serial_Port

2024-05-16 17:50:47

Is there a version of fortune(1) whose database is not maintained by That Guy

2024-05-13 16:44:27

Any good assemblers and linkers which are broadly GNU compatible but written in C and simpler than binutils?

2024-05-02 15:47:41

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This rental agency is demanding, at a _minimum_, a copy of sourcehut's profit/loss statement, my tax return, a statement of registration (no older than 1 month) from the chamber of commerce, copies of mine and my partner's passports, three paystubs, two bank statements, a statement from our current landlord, an a copy of our debit card. Just to _apply_ for an apartment.
What the fuck is wrong with this country.

2024-05-02 15:43:48

_Fuck_ landlords.

2024-04-26 07:32:15

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Day 7, taking a break to hang out with a friend who's in town, more to come tomorrow

2024-04-23 20:54:38

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Bonus points if anyone can identify which version of Pokemon this is

2024-04-23 20:03:09

I installed a nice screen mod in my GameBoy Color
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2024-04-23 08:56:08

I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning a Unix-ish operating system
Day 3
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2024-04-19 13:31:04

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@npub14ws…drhu the CDDL doesn't actually make any such restriction. The CDDL and GPL have incompatible obligations.

2024-04-19 13:18:08

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 name one?

2024-04-19 13:02:55

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 oh no, it prevented you from making proprietary software, what a tragedy...

2024-04-19 12:34:09

Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”
https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/19/2024-04-19-Copyleft-is-not-restrictive.html

2024-04-15 13:01:55

Suggest a license to cover in this week's license book club on WFS?

2024-04-11 15:20:25

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The only reason I ever need a GUI to manage files is when I want thumbnails

2024-04-11 15:10:54

Are any of the Linux GUI file managers good and if so which ones

2024-04-11 08:09:36

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@npub1zdp…j5tj a barrel connector with no documentation on the correct voltage or polarity would be even better

2024-04-10 17:56:58

Discuss
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2024-04-03 11:57:22

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@npub13f0…2mvp oh my god imagine *renting* GPUs for a business model which is entirely dependent on GPUs, how stupid can you get

2024-03-27 18:03:20

This week's theme: FAANG employees who work on open source for a living encounter the ideas of free software for the first time

2024-03-23 08:36:44

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@npub1e9t…3q57 MPL is copyleft

2024-03-22 21:00:30

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By the way, Redis did not have a CLA, and the copyright is still collectively held by all contributors. The new non-free Redis distribution is sublicensing the BSD distribution *in the exact same way* that Redict is, only they're using the non-free SSPL whereas we're using the free LGPL.
The more you know 🌈

2024-03-22 20:58:22

So, you're confused about Redict using the LGPL. I thought you weren't allowed to change the license of a FOSS project like that?
Well, you're right to raise an eyebrow at that, but note that this only applies to copyleft projects. Permissive licenses are characterized by, perhaps even defined by the fact that you can sublicense them.
To relicense a copyleft project you would need all of the copyright holders to agree. A CLA is designed to grant a single entity[...]

2024-03-22 20:56:18

I think we're in dire need of a reminder about the Cathedral and the Bazaar in FOSS communities

2024-03-22 12:22:20

Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis®
https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/

2024-03-21 19:48:25

Can everyone stop mansplaning licenses to me, I do know how they work

2024-03-21 13:46:03

WIP Redis fork:
https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

2024-03-21 08:21:21

Soliciting names for a redis fork (take note of the trademark)

2024-03-20 11:17:29

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@npub1a0y…dvt2 next time add a much bigger dose of politeness to your question, please

2024-03-09 11:35:56

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More specifically it's not that it gives poor routes but that it never calculates one at all. Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, none of them work for me

2024-03-09 11:01:19

Is there some kind of trick to getting transit nav to work in OsmAnd

2024-03-05 14:33:47

Things I want to see in an SoC, in order of preference:
1. Mainline support (Linux and u-boot minimum)
2. Lots of I/O
3. Good boot story (mainline u-boot or edk2 via Flash)
Everything else is nice to have. VisionFive has all three and a lot of nice to haves, so I like it.

2024-02-29 16:18:18

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@npub14ws…drhu you can report to certain ISPs like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, cloud stuff. For residential botnets there's jack all you can do about it

2024-02-29 15:53:03

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@npub1xzp…x4fk oh, and while I have your attention, please ship laptops with u-Boot on an SPI flash or similar pre-configured with UEFI support

2024-02-29 15:50:57

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@npub1xzp…x4fk I don't know much about the differences between these chips so I'll go with "whichever one has the most upstream mainline Linux support"

2024-02-29 15:42:15

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@npub1xzp…x4fk hm, I guess I'm curious... but I'm not in the market for a new laptop or keyboard so it's unlikely to convert me anyway; I don't want you to go out of your way

2024-02-29 14:22:34

SourceHut is currently blocking on the order of 80,000 networks due to a variety of malicious traffic patterns, mostly layer 7 DDoS attacks

2024-02-29 09:47:22

If you're thinking of building some project with AI, don't

2024-02-28 16:59:49

I hate to be That Guy but I'd probably love the MNT Reform if it weren't for the keyboard
I wonder what the power utilization is like

2024-02-20 09:58:10

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@npub1tfk…cgad @npub1g7x…c8jt actually the solution is collective action and worker's rights

2024-02-19 09:21:32

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@npub1xzp…x4fk the main thing holding back indie hardware for the past N years is x86-64 being withheld from the hobby/low-volume market imho

2024-02-19 08:41:17

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Perhaps the onset of this was encouraged by the chip shortage, but nevertheless. The bottleneck to higher fidelity is labor, not hardware, and we're well into the diminishing returns

2024-02-19 08:39:03

Hot take: video games have peaked in terms of resource requirements and there's not much need to keep making better and better GPUs etc. Hardware has been more than enough for several years now

2024-02-18 11:38:26

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Check out https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/abused to see if this is something that you may be interested in using or collaborating on

2024-02-18 11:38:09

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"outcome": "PASS"
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2024-02-18 11:37:58

#spam
We're working on anti-spam tools at SourceHut and there might be some opportunity for collabo with fedi admins & software developers
Our pitch, summarized, is a daemon that tells you if a sample is abuse or not.
Input: {
"ipAddress": "1.2.3.4",
"email": "foo@example.org",
"username": "foobar",
"rateLimit": "registration"
}
Output: (see next in thread)

2024-02-16 11:46:46

SourceHut is dealing with a huge spam attack, 36% of all new user registrations in February have been spam so far. I hear over the forge grapevine that a lot of other platforms are dealing with a huge surge in spam, too.

2024-02-14 17:07:19

Someone on Mastodon definitely has a DEC terminal or the like hooked up to a modern Linux computer, right? If that's you, please reply to this post with a picture of your terminal displaying uname -a

2024-02-14 13:44:31

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Also, the docs are not clear on this, perhaps someone out there knows
The process whose pid matches the pgid is the "process group leader"
(1) what of it
(2) what happens to the other processes in the group when the leader exits

2024-02-14 13:43:06

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@npub1t54…tsy4 man 7 pty and man 7 credentials are good places to start

2024-02-14 13:40:22

The Unix TTY subsystem is a freaking *mess*

2024-02-08 14:57:55

Look, it's not that complicated. Transgender people are _valid_. *Emacs* users are _not_ valid regardless of their gender identity.

2024-02-01 15:16:37

SourceHut merchandise!
https://www.hellotux.com/sourcehut
Thanks hellotux for putting this together :)

2024-01-31 13:33:03

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@npub1tjg…gye3 I keep a pair of cheap emergency headphones permanently installed in my backpack, along with other important-but-easily-forgotten things, like USB cables and wall chargers

2024-01-17 10:30:37

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Full service has been restored for all SourceHut services.

2024-01-17 09:24:17

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Done (underpromise, overdeliver) 😄

2024-01-13 14:18:25

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Update 2024-01-13 14:17 UTC: We will need to find a new transit provider to mitigate the problem. We are in talks with a provider to address the problem and we will begin the engineering work shortly. Further updates to come as we have them. Thank you again for your patience.

2024-01-13 12:58:01

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Update: availability is impacted. We are working on the issue.