patrickdavey
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Comment · 10 days ago
I've been trying to update my (noble 24.04) server and an apt update is not showing the 8.5.12. It looks like the binary has been built but not updated in the index http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/noble/Relea... (last update 14 yet. https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php/+build/338... suggests it finished at ~ 17:00 UTC
Though quite possibly I'm missing something ;)
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edit: as I was typing the index was updated. So, as far as I can tell only just now (18:20 UTC) was it available for updating!
Comment · 15 days ago
"Tbf, it's worth pointing that many large legacy systems already work like that (sort of), with "Claude" replaced by "whoever happens to be maintaining it this year".
The real difference as I see it is that in the human maintained old style system, the human would take things slowly and ensure they understand any changes. Claude let loose will just say "yes, I know how to do this" and bork the system, because it doesn't have a concept of humbleness in the face of complexity!
Comment · 18 days ago
What did you end up doing? Doing something with a bunch of like minded folks is the dream (as long as you can pay the bills!)
Comment · 23 days ago
How are you sharing tailscale with your family and friends? do you run the server yourself?
Comment · 24 days ago
P.s. loving the recommendation! Thanks!
Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks for that. Dune used to be my favourite sci-fi, but, The Expanse maybe trumps that now. I'll definitely check these out once I finish The Long Earth :)
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not clear to me: do we need to both apply the patch _and_ check if our themes are vulnerable, or just apply the patch?
Edit: looking at the patch itself it looks like it fixes the root cause and so it shouldn't matter what themes are doing themselves. But possibly I'm reading it incorrectly.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sure this is a basic question I should already understand, but, what is actually in it for the bot farm? They spend your money (annoying), but, does Google actually pay them somehow? I don't get what they are "farming"
Comment · 3 months ago
I've been helping to run a meetup in Christchurch, New Zealand: https://christchurch.ruby.nz/ for about 10 years (maybe longer, I've lost track!). I _completed_ agree with the article that the best thing you can do to avoid burnout is to organise it with someone else (or better still, two or more others like we do).
The other thing which really worked for us: We were getting fed up trying to badger people to help give talks etc (or just doing it ourselves). Completely exhausting. Ended up saying to the community: "this is your meetup, we just help run it. If we don't get 11 speakers for the year we're going to shut it down". We asked in January, got 11 speakers for the year (Dec is social), and we've been doing it like that ever since. Works an absolute treat. You do need to be prepared for no one to step up, in which case, it's sad, but, shut it down. You're not the community, the community is the community!
Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, this collection is _awesome_. I'm currently enjoying the Towers (just do it on 5x5 simple, and find it quite relaxing!).
Comment · 4 months ago
I haven't looked into it thoroughly yet, but, at some point it'll be worth looking at getting a static IP address and using Cloudflare tunnels to serve toyish projects from your home netwerk. Just need to work out how to firewall it properly from the rest of the home network.
Comment · 4 months ago
Can you point to an article on how to do this? This sounds _amazing_
Comment · 5 months ago
So you have an article you can point to?