Oh wow, did they maybe search for someone with skills of a “server” and the Indeed algorithm soup got that mixed together with skills in server technologies…?

I mean, folks here might not know that. I didn’t realize that’s what was meant. Of course, someone selling ham should probably be aware of this being one possible meaning…

What makes sense to me, is that unlike capitalism, communism requires a government to function. Well, and how do governments fail? By turning into a dictatorship.

I know that QMMP has a built-in visualizer, and the webpage says that the visualizer is call projectM, which you can apparently also run standalone: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Today, a colleague couldn’t do docker login for an internal registry. Constantly got an error which just said “unauthorized”.
The password couldn’t be the problem, because you actually generate a token on the registry webpage, so we tried all the different ways to spell his username (uppercase, lowercase, e-mail address) and tried different URLs for specifying the registry, tried toggling the VPN, a reboot etc., even though we knew what should work, because the login worked for me.

Eventually, we gave up and figured there must be some permission problem in the registry. Ten minutes later, he tells me that it works, without doing anything different. Now I’m wondering, if the IT saw our desperate login attempts and quickly fixed the problem. 🫠

I would be surprised, if you couldn’t also sell an account with a bunch of stars on the black market to bot farm operators…

It won’t rise much beyond that, since you only get one update per package. Whether it’s upgrading Firefox from version 120 to 121 or to version 130, it doesn’t change much in terms of download size, nor the number of updates.

At least, I assume, Arch doesn’t do differential updates. On some of the slower-moving distributions, they only make you download the actual changes to the files within the packages. In that case, jumping to 121 vs. 130 would make more of a difference.

If you do want lots of package updates, you need lots of packages. The texlive-full package is always a fun one in that regard…

Thanks. 🙂

Damn, don’t think I’ve seen so many links in an article in quite some years.

I would recommend just downloading the fonts and putting them onto your web server as static files. It used to be common advice to use a CDN for fonts, with the idea that if multiple webpages would include the same version of a font from the same CDN, then your browser wouldn’t have to re-download it for your webpage.

But improved sandboxing in modern browsers has nixed that advantage. And with everything sitting behind HTTPS and potentially HTTP/2, it’s now generally more efficient to pull stuff over the same connection as the webpage.

Well, unless your goal is to reduce the amount of traffic that reaches your web server. Then a CDN would still be useful.

https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/

Interesting, I always assumed they would be using a pretty optimal algorithm with their .tar.bz2 format, because they obviously benefit quite a bit from smaller downloads. Good to know that .tar.xz is actually better.

Yeah, particularly for downloading Firefox Nightly, these self-contained archives are extremely helpful.

I think, you’ve answered your own question? There’s a lot of different formats for Linux. Getting them all correct and working on the different distributions is significantly trickier than just bundling a self-contained archive.

Having said that, they do actually provide a DEB repo since a few months ago: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended

Right, so this is the part where I get to sound like a smart ass, because I snuck a “tons of” into there.

What you do always need, is tests serving as a specification of the intended behavior, to document it for your team members and your future self.
But the thing that static typing is an alternative to, is integration tests for many code paths. For example, in dynamic languages you have no reassurance that a call to your database library still works, unless you have an integration test which actually calls into the database. Similarly, you hardly know whether the many error-handling code paths are working, unless you write tests for those, too.
In static languages, we don’t test this stuff outside of the specification-like integration tests, because the database library and the error handling library are already separately tested, and the type system ensures that we interface with them correctly.

Is TWP “Translate Web Pages”? Android Firefox has a built-in feature for that, since like this version or so. 🙃

I’m on “I still don’t care about cookies”. As opposed to Consent-o-matic, it doesn’t attempt to opt-out, which makes it more reliable, but you want to use it together with Cookie AutoDelete.

Eh, it’s most definitely part of it, but the biggest time sink that I expect when working with Python is fixing the build system every two weeks on different devs’ PCs. I do imagine, if you eventually find a solution that works on most PCs that this workload will go down, but we had a substantial Python part in my previous project and over the course of the 1½ years that we worked on it, it really felt like we were making negative progress. Near the end of it, I couldn’t use PyCharm anymore, because I couldn’t figure out for the life of me, how to make it recognize the dependencies again.

Personally, my estimate doubles when we’re asked to implement something in Python…

Yeah, the alternative to static typing is to write tons of unit tests, which definitely adds a lot more code to your codebase.

So, this is definitely not a diagnosis, as I obviously don’t know more about you than what’s in this post. But your post sounds quite a bit like the stereotypical autistic experience:

• Being really enthusiastic about specific topics
• Bonding with other folks on the autistic spectrum (that friend also very superficially sounds like they might be there)
• Decidedly preferring texts over calls
• Walls of text
• Feeling like you don’t fit in with the rest of society

Now comes the usual disclaimer: Autism is a spectrum. You might just have these few autistic traits as part of your personality and nothing else to do with it. But yeah, it could also be that you’ve got more such traits and that you’ll find it easier to bond with other autistic folks. You can check out some of the autism communities here on Lemmy to try to gauge, if your experience matches that of others in more ways. There’s also some questionnaires online, where you can get a rough score, which tells you the likelyhood of autism. For a real diagnosis, you’d need to talk to some doctors, though…