Gobbel2000

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[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It really is amazing that the Orbman was supported both by Trump and by Putin. This is a great win for all Europeans, but of course especially for the Hungarians. Let's hope that Peter Hungarian will be able to live up to his expectations.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I get the idea, but it seems hardly reasonable to pay companies for the bandwidth they use. Wouldn't that incentivize wasting bandwidth?

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Which makes total sense given that video hosting is insanely expensive, especially at the scale at which YT is operating. I forget the exact number, but I heard that over half of the global internet bandwidth is used for video streaming from just a handful of websites.

That said though, I still choose Ublock Origin.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 46 points 1 week ago

Can you verify this? Maybe we should require Debian contributors to prove they are adults. /s

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Truffle Pizza can be very good and is relatively common in Italy. I couldn't tell you how to make it, but you can certainly find recipes for it.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, that is the proper reaction. Much better than cutting taxes on petrol and effectively subsidizing people burning fossil fuels, which Poland is planning to do.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 59 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe the systemd haters were right all along?

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm living without alcohol and caffeine (except in tea and chocolate) and really never have the feeling of missing anything. Can recommend.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not dystopian, just democratic. Any democratic constitution reserves a very universal right to protest. You still have to notify the police beforehand so that they can reroute traffic. Of course the police also ensure that the protest doesn't turn violent, but first and for all they provide for the safety of the protesters.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago

Crucially, Russia uses the same Iranian-designed Shahed drones that Iran is deploying now. And Ukraine offered the US assistance for defending against them already last August. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/us-ukraine-anti-drone-offer

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nope, never use it. I know how to write code myself.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

But you can just as well make an exception to allow errors when -e is enabled with something like command || true, or even some warning message.

I feel like, while it does occur, allowing errors like this is more unusual than stopping the script in an error, so it's good to explicitly mark this case, therefore -e is still a reasonable default in most cases.

 

I saw this article by Nathan J. Robinson on Current Affairs and wanted to share. I do agree with the idea that the twitter format discourages deep conversation and debate. Lemmy is in general much better in this regard, but even still it is affected by the wider internet culture of our time, and a proper debate culture takes effort.

Even on Lemmy I frequently see more nuanced takes being shut down by quick, snarky comments pushing the conversation into absolutes. And yes, a democratic society absolutely requires healthy discussion of difficult issues, not just outrage.

 

I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.

While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?

The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?

 
 

As seen on Marszałkowska street.

 

Der Sturm heute hatte den Ausfall des gesamten S-Bahnnetzes zur Folge.

 
 

I just think it's pretty cool that Felix, who has never really mentioned anything Linux before, chose to go with a Linux distro for the PC he put together.

Link to video : https://youtu.be/tsu0Rw3Nqi8?t=1554

 

Now that Advent of Code 2024 has concluded, I wanted to get people's opinion on what puzzles they especially liked looking back. This could be because of the puzzle mechanics, the description, because you are especially proud of your solution that day, or for any other reason.

Feel free to answer even if you only saw part of the puzzles.

My picks would be:

  • 14 (Restroom Redoubt, robots moving into christmas tree shape). Even though it caught me off-guard in the moment, I did like that part 2 had this very imprecise requirement for once. Definitely made for varied, creative solutions.
  • 15 (Warehouse Woes, robots pushing boxes) The second part was a fairly big complexity spike with just a minor change in the tasks. Basically a form of simulation where the hard part is finding a good data representation for the setup. I liked this one because debugging was such a visual process for me, by printing the grids.
  • 17 (Chronospatial Computer, running a machine code) For me the first really tricky one, but still doable. These assembly puzzles are just neat. A lot of computation is started with a pretty small input, and the task is basically to really understand how this "computer" works.

What have been your favorites?

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