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do you ever roast a whole chicken
| yes: | 61 |
| no: | 55 |
| i don't eat chicken: | 17 |
| other / show results: | 8 |
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@eniko used to, very occasionally. Never even tried it (despite cooking since childhood) for most of my life, and was shocked by how easy it was for all the fuss people made
@eniko (voted 'yes' fwiw)
@sinvega i've never bothered before but i'm considering it because chicken is weirdly expensive here but a whole chicken is cheap
@eniko Assuming your oven is big enough and you have a good dish for it* plus a good sized knife, and you don't mind getting your fingers in there to get all the meat out for maximum value, I'd give it a go. It's really not as much hassle as it sounds
*(I dunno the name, but used a deep ceramic baking thing, with some unpeeled veg at the bottom that cooks into the juices, which can be strained into gravy)
I used to but I pretty much stopped when I realized that our locally grocery store makes better rotisserie chicken than I ever will
@eniko I'm more likely to buy a whole roasted chicken than roast it myself, but generally I stick to filets and such.
@eniko I did once 'cause I wanted to impress someone. It could've gone better.
@eniko I voted for “other” because although I have never personally roasted a whole chicken, we do have “girarrosto” shops here that basically sell just that
Have I told you lately how much I love my Dirtywave M8? 😍
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also were there some birds outside your window?
@max haha, could have been! appreciate knowing that chat was busted. I was genuinely surprised no ne had anything to say 😂
@max 😅 I feel much better LOL
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@TwoClownsEating@beige.party
Your regular reminder that at his wedding to Iman, Bowie had a group photo taken with Bono, Ono and Eno.
I refuse to believe this was an accident.
I once consulted for a fortune 100 and 10% of the time was writing software (it was finished). 90% was meetings. And then they scrapped the project and spent 10x on an off the shelf solution.
So no I don’t think most companies will now build everything themselves.
on linux: what arguments do you use with netstat or ss? (and what situation do you run it in?)
the only thing I can think of is `netstat -tulpn` to show all processes that are listening on a port and the PID (so I can kill the offending process) but I feel like there must be one or two more useful ones
(I say "linux" because linux netstat is a bit different)
@b0rk the command most programmed into my fingers is 'netstat -nte | less -S'.
Often I run it because I suspect network trouble; hence -n to stop netstat from trying to look up all the DNS names, since it might well not work. If I see a lot of connections in SYN_SENT, or a lot of things with a backed-up Send-Q, then that confirms the theory of network trouble. But maybe I see that that's only happening for connections to one site, in which case it's not _my_ trouble.
Another reason is because the system is running slowly and I'm wondering what's going on. If netstat shows a bajillion incoming connections to the SMTP or HTTPS port, or a bajillion _outgoing_ connections to some particular machine, then that gives me a clue what might be going on.
-e to show the inode number so that I can compare it to socket links in /proc/NNNN/fd. I probably ought to use -p instead, cutting out one step, but -e has been programmed into my fingers since before I learned about -p. (Same reason I'm still using netstat instead of ss.)
Oh, and one other reason to run netstat is "dammit, has that TIME_WAIT connection gone away yet so that I can re-run the network software I'm testing?"
"Oh, you want me to avoid technology created by immoral people?? I guess you have to give up THE INTERNET hurr hurr!!"
Nobody cares that you use a technology invented by bigots who died half a century ago, my brother in TELNET. Just maybe don't lend rhetorical support to the technology that's funding and empowering the people who are currently commiting atrocities.
Radio Shack's "Easy Home Video Editor" from the mid-1990s. A Videonics product in disguise? @themaritimegirl
@max @vwestlife reminds me of Blade Runner/CSI. 🙂
I guess it’s a notch or low pass filter to remove high frequencies which will remove some colour artifacts and also soften the picture.
What is your favorite color?
| Red: | 19 |
| Orange: | 28 |
| Yellow: | 8 |
| Green: | 60 |
| Blue: | 44 |
| Indigo: | 16 |
| Violet: | 35 |
| Something monochrome: | 8 |
| Something metallic: | 7 |
| Other: | 22 |
Recommend telling your kids that back in the day the length of time it took to dial a phone number was proportionate to the sum of its digits
Slowly realize that everything is terrible: sadness.
Quickly realize that everything is terrible: comedy.
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@drikanis/116107120926277506
I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.
Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.
If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.
A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space
Ffs, YouTube. Either let me cast Shorts, or don't show Shorts in my feed when I'm connected to a TV. Why do you insist on making this so annoying?
@max Seriously?!
@attoparsec also fun: if you use the cast API directly shorts cast just fine
Regardless of what TheGuardian says, your musical life doesn't have to end when you hit your 30s. Not only because this might be a case of #enshittification 's "revealed preference", since this is apparently about listening data from Spotify, but also because, thank gods, other places that have #music still exist!
E.g. at https://somafm.com real human people select music of various genres for you to enjoy at your leisure, and they do a wonderful job at that 📻
@khobochka Also, don't underestimate the power of asking people for music recommendations! I keep finding new gems in new genres all the time, in spite of being a bit above the big 3-0.
In bare-metal or embedded programming environments, a natural kind of simple example program is one that just counts up from zero, on whatever output device you have – 7-segment display, or in binary on a row of LEDs, etc.
But it's quite confusing if the manual refers to it as a "counter example"!
@simontatham yeah, and most of these are for actual 7segment displays, so there is no counter point to the implementation
having a normal day where I try to install windows 98 drivers for my 3dfx voodoo 3 card
I rebooted and now it made me reinstall my ethernet card
windows 9x was wild
I think I was trying to install Voodoo 1 drivers for my Voodoo3
no wonder it didn't work
installing the 3DFX tools made me agree to a EULA.
I wonder if there's any legal weight to signing a eula for a company that doesn't exist
man having used modern (Windows 8 and up, I think?) Start Menus makes you look like an idiot when you're back on Windows 98.
I'm used to just hitting Windows and typing what I want. That doens't work on win98
@foone had the exact same experience with XP, recently.
Also, hate that almost every single program wants to have it's own company folder on the start menu. Ah, yes, the common software categories: accessories, Multimedia, Games, Administration, Maxis, Sierra, Cryo.
Come on
Wondering why a bunch of my network infrastructure was weirdly slow and finally discovered that the cable to one of my switches had come loose on my router and the eero plugged into that switch had lapsed back into wireless backhaul and was happily routing everything else plugged into that switch via wireless instead but my wireless backhaul is absolute dogshit so everything sucked
My network topology does not seem especially complicated but it's already complicated enough that things can break in ways that cause abject confusion so clearly I should just get into BGP because how could that possibly be worse
("Why do you post like this, Matthew" I hear none of you say, but I respond anyway. Because growing up I never saw people who knew things about computers talk about how everything was broken most of the time and so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, and now I am here to tell you that despite being *extremely* computer my stuff is randomly broken all the time and it takes me far too long to figure it out, so it's not you we just build things that humans are bad at handling)
@mjg59 I constantly worry that at some point I am going to die and then my family are going to be left with the complete mess of a network that they see as "working perfectly" but actually requires constant poking to keep running smoothly
@Mossop I have meaningful documentation along with a "If this is too complicated you can do this instead and it will work less well but it will work" plan
Ahh, so your family's definitely completely sunk then.
My wife keeps asking me "So what could I do about the network if you die before me?"
I gave her a couple names of the network tech people I used to work with who would have an idea how to do things, but it's not really an answer.
@mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are
@ryanc Ok but printers are broken for *everyone*
@mjg59 My printer works fine, but I do keep a baseball bat next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.
@ryanc I recently introduced a printer I found on the sidewalk and I am astonished it has not tried to murder me in my sleep
@mjg59 How do you know it hasn't tried to murder you, though? Maybe it's trying really hard, but as a printer, the logistics of murder are very difficult.
@ryanc @mjg59 my husband is a lawyer, I am not the first beep booper he’s been involved with, and he asked me with a very frustrated tone why every beep booper he knows is always like “hang on, the computer I’m using can’t display in color atm, but my good monitor is hooked up to one with a broken ethernet port, just give me a few minutes to code up a way to transmit jpegs over speaker and mic and I’m sure the meme you sent will be very funny…”
@0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 Beep boopers keep things that other people would just throw away because the beep booper knows how to fix it and will get around to it one of these days, honest. In the meantime: Heath Robinson workaround because the borkedness constraint makes it a Fun Puzzle.
Edit: if you faved this toot you have to take one (1) thing out of the pile and fix it this weekend as penance for encouraging me.
@mjg59 The by far most valuable conference for me as a sysadmin is a fairly small recurring one where people are actually willing to speak about "this disaster happened, this is why, and this is how we fixed it" and "we tried this, it seemed like a good idea but didn't work out for reasons...".
And it is so rare, because most of people talking at events or in blog posts are "we are so awesome because we do everything the way of awesomeness".
@mjg59 But could it be that the more "computer" people have more, and more elaborate, stuff. And that stuff breaks more easily?
If I think of the last couple of things that broke at home, its more the out-of-the ordinary stuff instead of the basic things.
@mjg59 I always figured that familiarity and confidence (if not hubris) makes people feel they can deal with weirder situations. And then they get into weirder situations, and reality ensues.
@mjg59 This is what happens when people try to make the computers too smart. It saw that cable drop and went "OH! I know what you want!" and just changed your whole network topology without even telling you! Madness!
This is why my whole network runs off an ancient Dell I bought at a thrift store years ago for $25. It doesn't do SHIT without explicit instruction :)
I don't want smarter machines, I want them to be Lego bricks.
@mjg59 I remember back in the 1990s being told that while decommissioning one of the university mainframes they discovered why it crashed so often, it turned out that the earth was not connected properly so anytime someone with a static charge touched the case it would change memory or register bits randomly. It had been like that for more than 5 years.
@mjg59 I just swapped out my wireless mesh. "Oh," I thought, "All I have to do is give it the same SSID and password..."
Three days later and I think it has finally settled down.
i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time
icymi, local net person Cory Doctorow has decided to give up his unofficial role as the fediverse's Emotional Support Celebrity in bombastic style by coming to the defence of "open source" LLM's https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/ (not tagging him to avoid a pile on) Tante has a good write up about the strangeness of his argument here I also wanted to add that Cory deploy's all this rhetorical barrage in service of... having a robot proofreader. His use case is not restoring justice and dignity to the underpaid, traumatised transnational workers who built the models he uses (
@kalviter I usually don't even get to the ethical aspects of why I won't use llms in my thought process. They are just shitty and inefficient tools. "Typo catching" was a solved problem like 40 years ago on machines that were less powerful than your car's keyfob. Such a bizarre argument in favor of using that shit.
when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have? (like git, openssl, rsync, curl, etc)
(edit: no need to say "i use --help then man")
| I’d look there first: | 843 |
| Only after trying other options first: | 483 |
| Never: | 93 |
| Other / not sure: | 42 |
@b0rk it depends somewhat on the program, and somewhat on what I'm trying to find out.
Man pages are usually good for finding out what an option does, if you already know the name of the option. Not all of them are so good for going in the other direction – if you know _what_ you want to do, and are trying to find out if there's an option that does it, and what it's called. Understandable, because the former is easier to write. But the latter is surely _more_ often what people want!
(Although not 100%. Reading other people's scripts is a common way to find out the name of an option you didn't know and now have to look up what it does.)
Usually I'll try --help before the manual, simply because it's likely to be shorter, so it's quicker to look through all the options and pick out the one I'm likely to want. Maybe if anything's still unclear I'll try the man page and hope it goes into more detail. But of course in some cases they do the same thing anyway: 'git foo --help' is no different from 'man git-foo'.
Of course, if you're starting from some task you want to perform another possibility is that you don't even yet know which _program_ you want to use, in which case a straight-up search engine might be the place to look first, looking for something like a Stack Exchange post that suggests a combination of program and options.
@simontatham @b0rk I agree with this answer. I selected, "I'd look at man first", but I actually check "--help" first, and I only really use these options if I think I know which command-ish or API I want to use.
This is my most frequent use case because I usually remember the shape of what I want but not the details.
If I don't have any clue - search engine.
@simontatham @b0rk "... another possibility is that you don't even yet know which _program_ you want to use ..." apropos is your friend, my friend
i'm very curious about everyone who says "I'd look there first", if I want to figure out how to do something new I think I'll usually google how to do it rather than look at the man page, and then maybe later look at the man page to look up the details
@b0rk for me, I think it's a combination of an 'old people' thing and a 'highly suspicious of a lot of the modern Internet' thing.
When I learned to use computers, competent search engines and rich online resources like Stack Exchange were a long way off – even having the Internet in your home without paying per minute wasn't around yet. So you had to develop the skills of finding stuff out from the available local resources like manuals, because that was all you had.
Then good search engines came along, but I was always aware that there's a risk of depending too much on them and losing the ability to figure stuff out yourself. Even now, I sometimes find myself coding without the Internet (or effectively so – laptop on train with terrible connectivity) and it's useful that I can still get things done.
And now search engines are all getting enshittified, and/or monetised, and/or straight-up _worse_ (Google doesn't return the results I actually wanted nearly as often as it used to). And the less said about 2020s answers to this kind of question, the better. So I'm doubly glad I haven't abandoned my old approaches to things. More and more I feel it's important to keep external corporately-provided "do it for you" services at arm's length, and not base your whole workflow on them to the extent that you're a captive market or dependent on them not going down.
@simontatham yea i think part of the reason I'm newly interested in man pages right now is that search engines are so much worse than they used to be
@simontatham @b0rk Slightly different area, but for programming I’ve had good experiences with devdocs and devdocs.el as long as the programming language has a large standard library and good docs (doesn’t help with third-party libraries).
@rudi @b0rk yes, programming languages that have a strong culture of good docs are definitely a plus.
Still on the subject of decoupling myself from Internet dependence, I've been working hard on my Rust workflows recently so that I more often use local `cargo doc` or `rustup doc` instead of just going to docs.rs/foo or doc.rust-lang.org/bar. Partly that means I can still consult the docs if the Internet is out of reach, and partly it means I get the version of the docs that matches what I'm actually using.
("Working hard" in the sense that first I had to fix some annoying problems that meant those commands didn't even work for me, like Ubuntu wanted to open the rustdoc output in Abiword, or rustup put its docs somewhere that the apparmor restrictions on snap!Firefox didn't let it read.)
In *theory* you should be able to follow this test user:
@你好@i18n.viii.fi
But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.
If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂
@Edent it doesn't work on my Mastodon client which I wrote myself. But I don't know that my client is to blame. It logs all its HTTP operations so I can see what exactly it sent to the server (vital for debugging), and I can see it sending this HTTP request to my instance …
GET https://hachyderm.io/api/v1/accounts/lookup?acct=%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD%40i18n.viii.fi
and getting a 404. I don't see anything incorrect in the UTF-8 there, so I'm inclined to wonder about the server, rather than the client.
@Edent … I suppose a question I should have thought of earlier is: does that instance i18n.viii.fi have any plain ASCII user on it? Then I could check that too, to distinguish the failure modes "hachyderm can't see i18n.viii.fi at all" (which maybe has nothing to do with the complicated Unicode) and "it can, but only if the user has a boring name".
@csilverman ooh, i love the highlights on that pin. i wanna reach out and touch it!
@latte thanks! I wanted to give a sense of a metal buoy/lighthouse; the sort of thing you'd find on a remote island in the middle of the ocean.
@csilverman gorgeous! So well done and a clever idea. As usual, but this one has something different, probably the mix of whimsical and real. I love it!
@koalie Thanks! As is the case with a number of the landscape-ish ones, this was partly inspired by places I wish I was.
Like, a job just going from island to island maintaining the Google Maps pins sounds positively serene.
@csilverman This one has this late 80s early-mid 90s illustration aesthetics and feel, but with bright colors.
I love how simple it looks, yet how deep it is.
Great work, congrats.
@bayindirh oh interesting. I didn't notice that aesthetic. What aspects of it remind you that? I'm honestly not sure I could define a specific style for late 80s illustration, although I think I remember that mid-90s through early-00s featured curvy people with disproportionately large bodies and earthy pastels. I'm sure that depended heavily on the purpose, though.
There are generally accepted to be 6 stages in human history, based on the material that is most fundamental to the economy:
Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Industrial Age
Information Age
Like and Subscribe Age (the final stage of human development).
@existentialcomics …
Stone Age II, but some of the stones are magically warm. If you get too close to them you get sick for a few days, then feel better for a few hours, then die.
@existentialcomics "what if we tried not thinking about things?"
I can't find the specific comic where some early Greek says "what if we tried thinking about things", but it comes to mind often in these AI hype times. Thank you!