streetlight @jelle_dc@octodon.social

paperclip inequality

@boobs_idiot I think nuclear winter might actually cause the water levels to drop a bit? Though according to wikipedia, it's disputed how bad a nuclear winter would be.

If global warming is past the point of no return when a nuclear war starts then I suppose the water level would eventually just continue to rise.

slightly out of tune ice cream truck driving by. Very a e s t h e t i c

@catdad long story short gargron implemented trending tags, people were concerned about potential for abuse, caused a lot of discourse, gargron reluctantly dropped the trending tags feature after some drama and that got people concerned about the benevolent dictator model so they're planning a fork that's truely governed by the community

@kimdanes I'm using some bee&puppycat concept art from http://hanstseng.art/bee-and-puppycat/ which is reasonably aesthetic imo

all my other wallpapers are homestuck trash tho

I should be studying for my finals rn but the sun decided to be the most inconsiderate exploding ball of gas so it's 30°C and I'm dying

@kimdanes right, I keep forgetting libgen is a thing. Think some of my stash of textbook pdfs originated there. I got most of them 'secondhand' off some other students though.

Remember kids, sharing is caring

@kimdanes apparently epubs are zips with html and css in them (which emacs handles just fine)

also I just spent 10 minutes looking for an epub to test this on because I only have pdf's. Shout out to project Gutenberg for hosting epubs of Tolstoy.

@grainloom I cute, therefore, I am

@starbreaker @walruslifestyle the popular options among my friends (we're all poor CS students) are cheap VPSes (time4vps is really cheap but not super reliable), putting an old server at your parents' place, and getting a cheap dedi (usually from hetzner), running VMs on it and sharing it with friends, splitting the costs

Ofc in Belgium we don't really have to worry about healthcare or tuition fees, so, uh, yeah, sucks to be in your situation :I

@starbreaker @walruslifestyle oh and I should probably mention, we plug straight into the belgian academic ISP's backbone and we get the basement from the uni, so space and bandwidth are basically free for us so it's even worse if you're not a benevolent student organisation

@starbreaker @walruslifestyle my experience running a dozen of old servers in a basement with 20 volunteers

- needs airco running 24/7
- used to draw too much power causing a voltage drop, destroyed a UPS that was compensating for it
- upgrading a building's power capacity is, put mildly, non-trivial
- uni pays power costs because it would bankrupt our little non-profit
- a good UPS can bridge an hour-long power outage so that's nbd

not sure why you want collocation but I'd just rent a dedi

@starbreaker @walruslifestyle fwiw with the JVM, it's more like oracle dictating the byte-code spec the same way intel dictates the x86 spec. (And I think they handed off JVM dev to the openJVM crew? But the java ecosystem isn't very clear tbh)

Also you can compile your go with gcc (but concerns over google dictating go's design are still valid)

Gitlab is ruby on rails so it doesn't have those issues but it /will/ eat all your RAM, and only Gitlab Core is Free

if the fork off people host their code on gitlab, that'd be a killer strategic move

@icefox gitea has been working on that for some years now, but they don't seem to have enough contributors to make any decent progress (though the github drama could fix that)

anyway that's my hot take, I'm going to bed now and then in the morning I'm gonna regret rambling like this at 3 AM

goodnight fediverse