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  • Just the thought of sex robots depressed me even more than the state of the world already had.

  • Android has always been developed in a closed-source manner by Google engineers, the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability for developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).

    This is explained further in this article:

    While some OS components, such as Android’s Bluetooth stack, are developed publicly in the AOSP branch, most components, including the core Android OS framework, are developed privately within Google’s internal branch. Google confirmed to Android Authority that it will soon shift all Android OS development to its internal branch, a change intended to streamline its development process.

  • Do it! Do it! Do it!

  • In France it's dirt cheap, I'm paying 23,99€/month for symmetric 1Gbps FTTH.

  • It's for far more than just deploying VMs: you can create pretty much anything you can on a cloud provider, such as databases, network rules, access tokens, object storage, etc.

  • Terraform is part of a movement called "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) which allows engineers to define their cloud infrastructure using code.

    This is extremely useful as it allows you to:

    • version infrastructure changes
    • automate resource and configuration creation and management
    • have reproducible environments (think production and staging envs, or deploying a new production env to another datacenter)

    Terraform (and OpenTofu) is different to most IaC project as it is agnostic of cloud providers: you can use it to deploy infrastructure to multiple providers, where their competitors are limited to their own platform (I think of AWS's Cloud Development Kit)

  • I might be lucky, my Gen 1 Pebble still works (though I have not tested how long the battery lasts in use, I only know it stayed on for under a week idle).

  • Which language are they going to use? Because for some languages (thinking of Java or Node) they definitely would want more than 4GB of RAM. And I'm not even speaking of IDEs that tend to store data in RAM for their suggestion features.

    On that note, if the RAM isn't soldered to the motherboard, I would strongly advice to upgrade the capacity.

  • I believe Linux Server builds images every day for most of their containers, even though there has been no code changes.

  • Have you read the article? The fourth paragraph lists improvements systemd timers bring over cron:

    Cron is easy, very simple and robust mechanism to execute periodic tasks on a *nix server, and is available by default on all popular Linux distributions. However, cron suffers from some issues:

    • If the system is down when the cron needs to run, the cron will be missed
    • There is no built-in status monitoring
    • There are no built-in logs
    • If you want to execute pre/post commands (for example by pinging an external service for success/failure) you have to do it inside the script itself

    All of these issues are addressed with systemd services and timers, as the authors explains in details.

  • The author fails to mention you can also use timers to do schedules like "every 15 minutes, 5 minutes after the systemd started". Very useful for scheduling automatic updates or backups.

  • Verification on Mastodon requires a rel="me" attribute in the link to your profile, unfortunately since Lemmy's profile description uses Markdown and not HTML, you can't add that attribute.

  • The first one also has better code coverage and way more pulls on Docker Hub.

  • I've had fruit baskets and unlimited coffee before (the coffee was terrible). I wouldn't say no to free snacks and fruits, as well as tea.

  • What an absolute a-hole

  • I compiled the RSS feeds I follow here, with lots of web-dev blogs and newsletters.

  • Most likely someone submitted a pull request that abused the GitHub token of the Action running on new PRs in order to edit all the other pull requests.

  • If you watch the PRs history, you can see that the user github-actions edited them. This user is the default one when a GitHub Action (the pipeline OP refers to) alters the repo. So someone probably submitted a pull request abusing the GitHub token when the Action ran on their PR.