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every day

bloatness

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experiences

experience

I used a linux desktop in 1995 or so. Never since. Even when I was working with the company building unix and linux - to be clear, building and selling AT&T Unix and a Linux distro - our standard kit was windows. It was less hassle as winamp, vanDyke and Mozilla ran better as-is.

I haven’t used a linux desktop in 30 years of linux. Maybe this year?

Ohai, let’s load our own individual copy of everything separately. Since - we hope - it’s all bult from pristine sources and unlikely to match versions, all that static code load isn’t shared with anything else.

It’s gonna load slower, take up buckets of space, and not care whether it’s some crusty old thing with sploits aplenty.

I miss when we had mentors to remind us not only How to be better, but also Why. My mentor was like if obi-wan was born in Dublin. His sarcasm cut deep if you could parse what he was saying.

Quick reminder: because flatpak hides your installation state from the system, part of flatpaks could be wildly out of date or toxic releases and your system will.not.care nor even show you anything about it.

Enterprise tools - or normal stuff that acts like them - that check remotely what you have installed and let you know you’re potentially out of date (like tenable but not junk) will not learn anything about flatpak content.

Good luck. Every good thing about enterprise packaging is thrown out the window. Flatpaks are toxic.

ALL of them? Not at once. Usually.

Also, try not to take my words out of context.

Clarify the part where you said it’s like when you were back in college.

The hard part here is that while you get a chance to restate your point, readers may already expect this one to sound belittling and you’ll have to try harder so this one also doesn’t sound like you’re calling people naive.

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Yeah, honestly, kinda fuck off a bit.

I see from the github ticket you need 3.10 .

There’s an EPEL clone, apparently, that bundles a python3.10 package.

MAYBE this is your process:

yum* install dnf-plugins-core
yum config-manager --add-repo=https://pkgs.dyn.su/el9/base/x86_64/
yum install python3.10

Then use it like /usr/bin/python3.10 . Remove it and the repo after.

*I avoid using DidNotFinish(dnf) even though I know it’s an alias.

Forgejo ran better than Gitea considering it’s a fork.

Only a master of Evil, Darth.

radicle also has an own cryptocurrency, and is entangled with web3.

And that’s where it breaks the rule of “Do One Thing Well”.

And while it’s super popular to spread and consume everything like a big sticky blob - oh hello, systemd - doing many things poorly (yes, we see you, systemd) needs a lot of diplomacy and help from others - hi, Kay - to keep the code flowing. It’s often not worth it, as we’ve seen but don’t want to admit … with systemd.

(if you’ll excuse me, I need to go change the location where I look for static nic config files and use a reader more complex than ‘.’ because the windows format is way better and I’m old if I think otherwise)

It’s nice to see open-source things copying what dot-coms do when they’re bored.

Wait. No it’s not. It’s actually worrying.

I worked for a company named essentially “The Portland Office”, and it had that name for 30 years; because, honestly, who cares about a name? The product should stand out.

why I am so puzzled that it also does full rescans

Because they’re not so foolish as to believe that inotify is infallible and complete.

Seems to be container-dependent. I did too much security for that. Thanks, though.

pipeline schedules

Ah. Cron but from inside the garden. Okay.

No need to talk about containers. Having worked security (and build/rel) they present no net value.

I can clone external repos on a schedule

Some cron deal?

Woodpecker CI.

Fucking YAML. Nope.

Thought this was abandoned?

We can’t answer this question as written. Only you can confirm what you were thinking.

GitLab which I don’t use anymore self-hosted

This. Gitlab swapped out the performant webeditor for a VCS clone that runs like a fucking dog all.the.time, and they’re in a phase where they just can’t control their memory consumption while they focus on whole-sale vendoring of shit projects inside the code – they’re actually considering bringing in pulp as if they can figure out 20 kind of artifact storage but RPMs are a special snowflake requiring the worst bloated pig of an add-on ever.

I need gitlab to get better as I really like their CI specification and how not-fucking-YAML it is.

true for open source software though, a lot of open source devs are mini dictators

When I ran my open source project, I was discerning as to what code I’d accept from people.

Does that make me a little dictator if I don’t want to then maintain shit code from someone who doesn’t know what a comma splice is, like above?

Sorry if you do code better than you write.

Flatpaks are a cancer. Got anything else?

fed up with democrats funding fascism and genocide

Instead of being fascist and genocidal? It’s a weird and stupid frying-pan/fire take on things, as if people can’t do simple math.