entwine, entwine@programming.dev

Just set up wireguard and use that to connect to your home network when you’re out.

Q and Picard are the real Ying Yang Twins

Yeah it’s weird, I was just being lazy with wording, but now I want to defend BMI a little since it’s not that stupid. (I meant to say he didn’t look like the stereotypical image of a morbidly obese person, which in hindsight isn’t very productive)

It’s true that BMI is only useful for “normal” people, which excludes pro-athletes/body builders with a lot more muscle than the average person, and people with conditions that affect their weight. For the vast majority of people, it’s a useful metric for overall health. Anyone who cares about longevity and quality of life shouldn’t ignore it just because it’s uncomfortable to think about or “seems wrong” based on some self assessments. Obviously, there’s a lot of stigma around being labelled as obese, but people are judgy assholes about everything. What’s basically guaranteed, though, is that if you do lose weight to reach a “healthy” BMI, you will feel a lot better physically (and probably also mentally). Pains you didn’t even realize you had will go away, you’ll have more energy, etc.

I’m not saying you should lose weight, idgaf. Your life isn’t mine, and I’m not here to give unsolicited advice. I just feel compelled to add some extra context so people don’t draw hasty conclusions.

That’s almost 300lbs! The reflection rules out morbidly obese, so are you tall as fuck, jacked as fuck, or both?

Wikipedia says her dad is Mike Gabbard. Are you saying Mike Gabbard is actually Chris Butler, or that Mike Gabbard is a cuck?

Either way this is the first time I’ve heard about this lmao. What a fucking joke we are as a country.

How about you ask the friend that gave you those files? It’s impossible for us to know what these things are through a screenshot.

I have been unfairly biased against fish ever since Phil Fish became public enemy #1 many years ago. I don’t even remember what the controversy was about, but fuck him and the unix shell he has absolutely nothing to do with.

Look into “Oh My Zsh” or similar plugin managers. OMZ is bloated as fuuuck and you’ll probably want to replace it with your own custom configs at some point, but it’s the easiest way to see what a decked out zsh feels like. It’s a good starting point for sure.

Personally I’m down to just 4 plugins with minor config tweaks on top of a bare zsh install. I’ve read good things about Starship but I’m happy with my current setup.

Thank fuck I switched to Zsh

It is an MIT-licensed open source app that…

People never learn. If this gets popular, some proprietary fork (probably owned by a US company) will win, become incompatible with the open source version, and maybe even hire the original devs and kill off the original project.

He might be wrong about many things (like a child’s ability to consent), but Stallman was certainly right about software licensing.

I thought Anki was just a flashcard app? That’s like hello-world tier software. I don’t understand why there would be a whole business around this.

I haven’t actually, I just assumed it would be pretty straightforward to do, but apparently not :/

That issue is full of cringe though. Not a good look for either side, and not productive. It’s not clear whether the ublue people don’t feel like supporting it, or if it’s actually not possible due to SELinux issues.

I think distro maintainers need to do a better job highlighting the actually important differences between distros rather than what fancy wallpaper is enablednby default.

The most impactful difference between the major distros:

• Debian prioritize stability at the cost of shipping outdated packages
• Fedora prioritizes modernity at the cost of some stability
• ArchLinux says “fuck it” and tries to ship the latest software as soon as it releases, at the cost of stability
• other distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Bazzite, Manjaro, SteamOS, etc are usually derived from one of those three (Ubuntu is derived from Debian)

So there’s kind of a sliding scale of linux fear/comfort for users, and your distro choice should reflect where you fall on that scale. Fedora generally provides a good middle ground and doesn’t break often, but will eventually break things (esp if you install updates frequently), so you should be prepared to fix them.

Nowadays, atomic distros change this up because they support rollbacks, meaning a broken update can be fixed without any tinkering or Linux knowledge required from the end-user. Also, they’re theoretically less likely to break and easier to test due to their immutability.

I’m not saying it’s okay for Bazzite to have shipped a broken update. That’s sloppy.

But you really are being a dumbass here. The solution for your problem is a rollback. That’s the whole point of atomic distros: rollback when something breaks using a single command (or just reboot and pick the grub option). Why bother with atomic if you’re not going to use one of the killer features?

And in case you didn’t know, Flatpaks aren’t part of your OS, so you can still do flatpak update even if you don’t update Bazzite. There is literally zero cost to doing a rollback, and that’s by design.

I wonder how many Nix cheerleaders are aware of OSTree based systems like Silverblue, Kinoite, Bazzite, etc? They provide the same immutability guarantees, but none of the pain and standards-defiance of NixOS.

I think Nix (the package manager) is a much stronger sell than NixOS. You can use Nix to install your apps on top of another immutable OS, whereas otherwise you might go with Flatpaks, containers, AppImages, etc. It’s certainly better than adding Homebrew or some other manager like Pacman.

For devs, Nix is nice for people who can’t or don’t want to use containers for any reason (or want to use both!). I just don’t see anyone benefiting from using NixOS except for Nix addicts.

Well, fuck. I just learned about this drama, and it doesn’t seem very positive for Bazzite’s future. What is it about Discord servers that turns adults into spoiled brats? Idk whether Antheas’ version of events are 100% truthful, but he’s at least one point about some of the questionable changes recently, and I’ve seen some power tripping from the Bazzite devs wrt Ptyxis and Bazaar.

Luckily, since it’s ostree based I can switch back to eg Fedora Kinoite with a single command if things get too bad. It would be a real shame if Bazzite died though, as it’s one of the best out of the box experiences for gaming PCs/handhelds. For now, I’m sticking with it.

Are we entering the Linux 11 era?

The study is about the impact AI use has on learning. Their experiment seems to test just that, unlike what you’re describing.

The title is literally “How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills”. Memorizing APIs isn’t what most people would consiser a “coding skill”.

Debugging, systems design, optimization, research and evaluation, etc are what actually make someone a useful engineer, and are the skills a person develops as they go from junior to senior. Even domain knowledge (like knowing a lot about farming if you’re working on farming software) is more useful than memorizing the API of any framework. The only thing memorization does is it saves you a few minutes from having to read some docs, but that’s minimal impact, and it’s something you pick up normally throughout the course of working on a project anyways. When you finish that project, you might never use that API again, or if you do it might have changed completely when a new version is released.

remembering what you did an hour ago seems like a real world problem to me.

Sure, humans have shitty memory, but that has nothing to do with AI code assistance. There are plenty of non-AI coding assistants that help people with this (like Intellisense/LSP auto complete, which has been around for decades)

I think the more interesting experiment to watch is what happens when someone gets so throroughly lost in the sauce of vibe coding like this guy. Hopefully he had a psyche evaluation or MRI before this so science can learn from him.

Here is an excellent free book on the subject by the guy that invented RCU: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.2024.12.27a.pdf