Dmitry Marakasov @AMDmi3@octodon.social
#FreeBSD developer and packager, F/OSS #gamedev enthusiast, #openstreetmap contributor, general libre sw/hw/data supporter
python3-by-default build of all FreeBSD ports finished, took 3 weeks. This is OK, as I can't keep up with fixing the fallout anyway. Well I'd say that #FreeBSD is mostly ready for #python3 by default as it is - there only were 311 failures, and most of these are not directly related stage-qa problems (shebangs mostly). Still there is stuff to fix, yay!
My #bsdstart was on my second year in the university - out of a clear sky I've decided that I should know some *nix system. I don't remember why I chose FreeBSD, but I've obtained an extra antique PC somewhere and installed 4.7 on it.
As time passed, I've set up more and more services on it, and suddenly I felt familiar enough and pleased so much with the system that I've switched my main desktop to it from windows. Ever since, I use FreeBSD on all my computers.
RT @vonhonkington@twitter.com: really excited for the olympics this year
https://twitter.com/vonhonkington/status/962407540888932352
wheee new strip
https://herpaderp.party
Congrads to me on my first package on #PyPI. It's https://pypi.python.org/pypi/libversion, module for version string comparison based on C implementation which was born with #repology project.
Needless to say that is 10-100x faster and much more correct than any version comparison facility #python world currently offers.
FreeBSD on laptop works amazing. suspend/resume works, WiFi works, pkgs just work, intel graphics work, Lumina desktop is amazing. ah so happy :3
#FreeBSD
Most popular search query which leads people from Google to repology.org is `xvideo`. Well it's obvious they've meant the very specific unrelated site, not the X11 video extensions related packages...
I wonder: what if some huge site uses Google #captcha, but requires it to be solved _incorrectly_?
It will still work: robots either won't attempt to solve it or, having high solving success rate, will fail. And users will still have no problem with it (as long as it's clear to them that it should be solved incorrectly), while #google will get incorrect statistics and hopefully break in some way.
There's been some activity in #poudriere repository related to test support. Supporting tests and making them mandatory (failed test means failed package build) would really make #FreeBSD #ports even more reliable.
I should also convert more ports to the new test framework (do-test: target or TEST_TARGET=<target>).
This is an important new #Tor feature for relays and the entire network: The new denial of service mitigation got merged into the MASTER branch.
If you can't wait for the next alpha release to try it out, you might be able to use provided nightly builds if you use a debian-based OS.
https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/
#privacy infrastructure
#Winter finally came to Moscow. Who would expect:/
My personal rule is that a day without contribution to anything libre (software primarily) is a day wasted. Since there are days when it's physically impossible for me to commit (being too far away from keyboard), I have a couple months worth of minor commits prepared and a script which commits them for me.😜
How tolerant of advertising would we be if we called it propaganda instead?
Who would think a computer display could hang. Well #Dell 2007FP can easily hang when returning from sleep.
Hmm, #FreeBSD #tor relay I run worked for years without problems, but now it requires severe tweaking of maximum socket buffers size and total number of sockets, otherwise it eats all available kernel buffer memory (mbuf clusters) and effectively makes the VPS unreachable via the network.
I wonder what has changed recently so that problem arise and whether that's Tor or FreeBSD problem...
