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Re:The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory on Saturday July 25, 2026 @12:30PM (#49048985)
Mmm, COPR and Koji I think use the same mock configs but someone else would have to confirm that :)

It's definitely possible that one of a packages build dependencies pulls in something that a package /should/ depend on and then when it drops it suddenly the build fails. That's why I think we mostly want 'autogenerated' BuildRequires nowadays that are generated based on the upstream source or packaging format to make that less of a figuring out excercise.

Re:The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory on Saturday July 25, 2026 @12:19PM (#49048893)
There's a guide! It's here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ (or: https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-contribute-to-fedora/)

Personally I feel a good way to get involved is to test updates in bodhi for those packages you care about, or to take part in the process that happens around release time where we go through several freeze cycles and have 'blocker bugs' that need their fixes to be validated: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process

Re:Incident with multple GitHub services on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:42PM (#47877932)
I mean; this is the normal mode of operation for GitHub at this point.
Re:Linux Tidbits and Collecting Pebbles on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:50AM (#45798481)
It would probably be a good idea to verify some of the ideas you're posting; some of them are oversimplified (or wrong) :)
Re:Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:42AM (#44809436)
Ah yea then I misunderstood. That's right you can't easily switch out the cells for protected cells yourself :(
Re:Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:37AM (#44809394)
Sure, that means the idea of using unprotected cells was already there when the holders were selected :)
Re:ESP32 WiFi Superstitions on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:17AM (#43377396)
Thanks, fixed!
Re:ESP32 WiFi Superstitions on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:15AM (#43377394)
Thanks, I've written that one down in my notes as well it definitely fits the superstitions because it sounds like it should work well.
Re:ESP32 WiFi Superstitions on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:14AM (#43377390)
Yea, it's not super clear but that's indeed what I meant to say :)
Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:49PM (#42676806)
The activation of the virtualenv is unnecessary (one can execute pip/python directly from it), and the configuring of your local pyenv interpreter is also unnecessary, it can create a virtual environment with one directly:

  pyenv virtualenv python3.12 .venv
  .venv/bin/python -m pip install pandas
  .venv/bin/python
Not quite one command, but a bit more streamlined; I guess.
Re:Did DORA's last update create an encryption loophole? on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:44AM (#41968338)
Betteridge's law applies:

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Re:Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:36PM (#41612519)
No, it looks different from this.
Cool idea. I would be interested in knowing the concentration you achieve and flow rates (LPM/CFH). This wouldn't work in my workshop as we don't treat our equipment nicely enough and we don't have sparkies to tend to it.
> Roberts, 38, now only gets fast food "as a rare treat".

I feel that that is it should be? When I was young it was important enough to mention at the monday class circle if your grandparents had taken you to visit the Golden Arches and everyone would be very jealous.

Re:Secure Randomness in Go 1.22 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:19AM (#40282898)
I've often thought about why the default implementation of many randoms around programming languages is to use LSFRs, MTs, and other fast RNGs in the 2020s.

It seems to be better to err on the side of 'people dont know if they want a PRNG or a CSPRNG' and switch the default to the latter with an explicit choice for the former for people that know what they need :)

Re:Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:45AM (#39861565)
Really the only web interface I consider putting on my machines is this one as it uses the normal system as available instead of doing everything custom.
Re:Arraymancer – Deep Learning Nim Library on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:44AM (#39861559)
Yes, Nim macros can fiddle with the AST: https://nim-lang.org/docs/macros.html

You can also see another (I think) neat example in `npeg`: https://github.com/zevv/npeg?tab=readme-ov-file#quickstart

Re:Story of the SHA2017 Badge on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:42PM (#28856626)
A longer read on the design and delivery process of a super fast hardware project for a large hacker camp :)
We use 'e': latines, etc.
Re:DigitalOcean Has an Ongoing Outage on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:26PM (#27452745)
It sadly seems that information on the outage is slow and far in between, stuck on an update once every 8 or so hours apparently with a bunch of VMs sadly still being unreachable and unresponsive in the management console :(
Re:_hyperscript: A jQuery and JavaScript Alternative on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:26PM (#26891768)
This doesn't remove the object from the DOM after the animation is over, which the example on the website does. You'll need to add something that removes the element after the transition is over which would be a bunch more code (the eventlistener for transitionend) :)
Re:Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:57AM (#24786781)
Perfect, all except markAndSweep/go, thank you!
Re:Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:49AM (#24786726)
Congrats, Nim is really becoming more and more mature as time goes on and showing new features like these are great though they do come off a bit as "a not done language"?

What is the plan for ARC/ORC stability and possible default? Are we looking at 1.6 or later (1.8?). Will the GCs (since ARC isn't really a GC) be deprecated at that time?

Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:16AM (#23582582)
What is unwieldy about hex strings? If you'd want to solve this perhaps a prefix would be easier?

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