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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Systemd's Nuts and Bolts: A Visual Guide to Systemd

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  • I don't think having a textual article auto-scrolled and voiced adds anything at all, and people who do want that can do it themselves, and have it set to their choice of accent, speed, etc.

    Video links tend to do worse than text links on Lemmy, so you'd probably have been better off all round just posting your original blog post.

  • Systemd's Nuts and Bolts: A Visual Guide to Systemd

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  • This is just a bad text-to-speech reading of a Medium blog post.

    Edit: I see the author has satire in the list of tags, so perhaps if I'd stuck with it longer I'd find it's a joke...?

  • TIL about the existence of the "Cannibal Snail", a species of snail described as a "fast and voracious predator" which eats other snails whole or sucks them out of their shells

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  • That elongated, streamlined shell made me assume this was a joke or hoax at first.

  • Forgejo monthly report - May 2026

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  • I hadn't heard about the carrot disclosure stuff, but I hope this doesn't become a common thing. Just saying "I can hack you" with some purported output from a script is pretty useless feedback.

  • There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science

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  • Geoffrey Challen, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, plans to offer a new course this fall in which he will teach students to develop software “without writing, reading, debugging, or viewing a single line of code,” he told me.

    Is that meant to say reviewing? Either way, I can't see how this would lead to good results, even with a comprehensive test suite. Security? Scalability? Maintainability?

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  • Have they taken out the AI generated papers? We know that training LLMs on LLM-generated text leads to an absolute collapse in quality, and we also know that AI has been showing up in papers so if they haven't, then this will be quite unreliable.

  • After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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  • Figuring out how to solve a problem on an OS I’d used for a few weeks fortuitously solved a problem I’d created trying to solve a different problem on a different OS a few years ago. We learn by doing!

    I loved this bit, I think everyone in tech has a similar story of some kind.

  • The early days of Linux

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  • Bah, I see this was already posted here a year ago - only two comments showed up when I searched for the url before posting!

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    The early days of Linux

    lwn.net /Articles/928581/

  • TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.

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  • Ériu, Banba and Fódla are from Lebor Gabála Érenn, Ireland's creation myth, and they each wanted the whole country named after them (and still can be, poetically). This is a mythologised history, not etymology.

    Also, downvoting someone you're debating with is extremely bad form.

  • TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.

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  • The names Ireland and Éire both derive from Old Irish Ériu, which in turn comes from Proto-Celtic ɸīweriyū meaning "fertile soil". The Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland, Ivernia, also comes from this same root

    Not sure why you're mentioning Ireland, did you think it was named after Kathy Ireland?

  • TIL there is only one ocean.

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  • Also, there's things like the Mediterranean that is much saltier than the Atlantic, despite plenty of water flowing back and forth. There's sealife that's only found in the Med, like the Mediterranean monk seal.

  • xkcd #3217: Home Remedies

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  • The bot appears to be down

    Oh, thanks for telling me...

    Bot is back online.

  • X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”

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  • X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”

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  • You scrolled past the (annoying) "read more" button and are now on the next article.

  • Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download

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  • Yeah ok, I guess that's what's meant.

    I'd be interested to know how the patterns changed - perhaps requests moved to IPv6 which made grouping request origins harder, or maybe too many unconnected users were coming from a single IP and getting false positives (leading to bad UX and support requests).

  • Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download

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  • Throttling efforts led to "brownouts" via 429 errors

    Does this mean for the (ab)users, or for the repo? If it's for the bandwidth hogs, then the brownouts are properly a good thing, as it'll force people to pay attention to these otherwise unmonitored systems.

    Also, if it makes the upstream service seem flaky and unreliable, it could convince users to set up the proper caching proxy just for self-interested availability reasons.

    I can see some companies happily paying for access, as they'll think it's easier than paying someone internally to manage a proxy/mirror, especially as on-prem is unfashionable lately.

  • recharge time

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  • Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I've seen on Lemmy for ages

  • 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died

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  • Bad news on the backboneI couldn't scan a single ASN

    I'm trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like "berckben"? Pronouncing ASN as "a-sone"?

  • My self hosted badges of honor

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  • edit: FYI, this shop is OP's shop

    Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn't name (or knew I'd got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn't Commodore 64).

  • My self hosted badges of honor

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  • These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #3040: Chemical Formulas

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Zellij 0.41.0 released with its solution for colliding keybindings

    zellij.dev /news/colliding-keybinds-plugin-manager/
  • commandline @programming.dev
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    Zellij 0.41.0 released with its solution for colliding keybindings

    zellij.dev /news/colliding-keybinds-plugin-manager/
  • Rust @programming.dev
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    Bacon v3 released

    dystroy.org /bacon/
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2990: Late Cenozoic

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2937: Room Code

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    This year's (belated) April Fool's XKCD is written in rapier.rs

    xkcd.com /2916/
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
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    xkcd #2896: Crossword Constructors