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• Post #4369054

  I setup a test install of Fedora 44 on my actual workstation, to see what the situation is like, and unfortunately nvidia on linux is still full of edge cases and "oh yeah it works but..." So that's remaining a soft blocker, for the time being at least

• Post #4369053

  On this Caturday, the old man takes a nap with his favorite toy.

• Post #4369052

  PyPI now rejects uploads of new files to existing packages after 14 days, which sure is an improvement, but I was sitting there wondering why these are mutable at all, and why not like, hours instead of two whole weeks. Turns out: it's because the "legacy" (current) API does not support staging releases at all. I hope when the new one drops this can be improved.

• Post #4369051

  Sentences that immediately signal the opposite of their meaning: - It's not a cult - I'm not racist - This management change won't affect your day to day - I don't have a folder full of pictures of bare feet - This food definitely doesn't contain poison

• Post #4369050

  Ruff 0.16 has a bunch of new rules enabled by default, most of them good, but holy shit are some of them agressive. #python #ruff

• Post #4369049

  I really want to like HomeAssistant but their security approach is baffling. They insist haos doesn't need console security because it's inherently local, and then don't provide any support for tls on their web app at all, with a healthy vibe of "you only need TLS for the internet" alongside it. And then their only option is essentially "pay a sub to support the project and get a cloud proxy with SSL so you can access it remotely!" I h...

• Post #4369048

  Sometimes I want to make one of these 45 minutes long youtube video essays on profoundly specific nerd shit, odd forgotten stuff form the 90s that just disappeared. I could call it "Where are they now?" and episode 1 would definitely be about the Briefcase in Windows 95.

• Post #3988622

  A thing that bothers me in the "mozilla are doing things they (rightfully) should be criticized about" discourse is that it always comes with a huge serving of "This is why you shouldn't use Firefox". And like, realistically, use what? One of the proprietary closed source browsers? One of the arguably more evil webkit/spark/chromium re-skins? That one fork of firefox that depends on upstream? That one browser made by the worst person you know?

• Post #3871920

  On the third week of vacation, and it's only now genuinely feeling like it. I was really overdue. I've been writing a lot, and it's been fun, I had missed having spoons for creative endeavours.

• Post #3871919

  Major 3.0.0 release of Exosphere, my simple, agentless CLI and TUI driven patch reporting application for remote UNIX systems. Major highlights are: inventory sorting, reboot status, operations from the TUI command palette, CLI docs and help polish pass, and much more. It's been cooking for a while, and I'm glad to have it out. If you're using my silly little tool, thank you, and I hope you find this update useful. https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v3....

• Post #3871918

  Current track I'm listening to that I think you should probably hear too: A Yamaha YM2151 arrangement/remake of "Goin' Down the Fast Way" from Rise of the Triad (DOS, 1994), which on its own is a banger, but this cover is beyond sick. The harmonies with the vibrato hit just right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0qmmlRzy0 #chiptune #SegaGenesis #LeeJackson #RiseOfTheTriad

• Post #3871917

  Is that exosphere in Debian Sid repositories? Why yes it is! It feels strange to have something I made just (eventually) casually be available via apt-get. https://packages.debian.org/sid/exosphere

• Post #3871916

  I bought a cute MP3 player in an attempt to maybe return to owning my music collection and reduce dependency on stream services, and now that I'm trying to figure out how what kind of workflow makes the most sense for managing my music library and syncing it, I'm discovering the software landscape has been more or less stagnant since I last used something like that. Are there any good multi platform solutions or should I just use mpd and rsync basically?

• Post #3871915

  I was thinking of Earthworm Jim on Genesis today. The cartoon art style was so uniquely endearing that it's one of the rare things where my Dad, who had zero interest in video games, sat down and watched me play as a kid, laughing uproariously at the sounds Jim made, and the way he moved. The way he used his own head as a whip, and just in general, his idle animation really got to him. I didn't realize it at the time, but looking back, it really highlighted how unique the animat...

• Post #3871914

  I'm realizing that No Man's Sky is actually a pretty good Couch Game, with a steam controller. I hadn't finished the story in spite of over 160 hours in it, and it turns out that got genuinely good after Atlas Rises. This whole thing suffers from terraria syndrome, where there's now so much content I barely know how to start, so that'll be fun to return to. Good times

• Post #2918176

  The weekend has been full of trying to catch up on sleep and failing due to having to give my cat medication and saline injections at set intervals, but on the huge upside, the old boy is doing super well, and starting to be a piece of shit again, which is all you can ask for in your beloved friend. I'm glad to have him back home.

• Post #2918175

  I'm working on a reasonably complex Python project and have decided for the first time to consciously step away from systematic OOP and into the realm of somewhat-functional (but none of it is pure and it won't ever be). It's a comfortable hybrid for what I'm trying to make. I haven't yet fully internalized my own conventions for it and keep doing inconsistent stuff that turns into bugs or "oh wait no that's garbage I shouldn't do...

• Post #2918174

  This kind of shit is MUCH harder to implement than anticipated, but I think it was worth it? (I'm making a thing that lets you assemble a manuscript structure and render it from markdown files that you edit using your favorite editor, whatever that is) #python #textual #terminal

• Post #2918173

  Tomorrow is a holiday here so today is Saturday 2. I hacked at my thing, showered, hung out in my bed with the cat while reading manga and relaxed. Feels great.

• Post #2918172

  I'm possibly being E X T R A about basic things again, but turns out I quite enjoy making nice TUIs. #python #textual

• Post #2918171

  Listen I would 100% prefer a crudely drawn, shitty mspaint image to support your article or be your stupid thumbnail than one of these shitty orange AI images that all look like they came straight out of the same corporate PSA about not pissing against the wind

• Post #2918170

  I would be less upset about Typer vendoring Click in 0.26.0 if they didn't rip out the entire part where they'd let you use Click objects directly to cover the massive gaps in their own API. If your codebase does that you're basically left to piss in the wind. I understand the problem they are trying to fix, but they created a whole ass new problem instead. #python #typer #click

• Post #2319969

  The wording on this is alert is incredible.

• Post #2319967

  My old man cat isn't doing well, he hasn't eaten much if at all and just remains on the couch, so I think it's time for an emergency vet visit Hopefully it's some bullshit and not "wow no your cat is 14 that's out of warranty sorry"

• Post #2319966

  Went to visit my cat at the animal hospital today and they book you a private room and do stuff like this, which is super human and comforting. It's a good place, honestly He is NOT a super cuddly cat at the best of times, more of a "I will sit very close to you no matter where you are" guy, so after having been touched and picked up by a bunch of people he doesn't like very much, he was kind of full of anxiety, but he calmed down when I picked him up like I d...

• Post #2319965

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/116540226887278653 I really miss the era of Cassette Future Aesthetics storage media, tbh

• Post #2319964

  You know, I might actually be decent at this TUI thing. I spent over a week cobbling together a Qt GUI with Pyside6, QML and QtQuick, and while it was nice at first, I hit so much friction with the stupid toolkit, needing to wrangle my nice data classes back and forth with thin adapters to wrap thinly veiled C++ types and I hated it so much I ripped it all out in a blind rage, and returned to Textual, where this WIP UI for my new secret projet took shape in about 3 evenings, and looks absolutel...

• Post #2307976

  The Convalescent Old Man is relaxing, just in time for Caturday #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

• Post #2095467

  Sometimes, the powershell autocomplete from history thing unearths amazing things I have no immediate context for

• Post #1963334

  I don't really do the "plug the stuff you made" thing super aggressively, but it feels exceptionally relevant today: If you're sitting there wrangling updates for your homelab or small to mid size network on debian or redhat likes, because of a certain CVE, and you wish there was a a way to simply get a view of the state of that across all your systems, in one place, you could give my tool a go. It has a nice UX and requires nothing except ssh. https://github....