Notices by Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com)

I'm going to work full-time on free software

https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html

Imagine an alternate reality where the only chat protocol that ever proliferated was IRC

Now how do we get to this reality...

As of today:

i3: 36,562 lines of code

sway: 35,416 lines of code

Finally finished setting up the new backup server for sr.ht. 52 TB of ZFS goodness with daily automatic snapshots. Now fielidng real-time postgresql replication (which is suitable for use as a failover database as well), and taking hourly backups of git.sr.ht, 2,500 miles from the primary datacenter.

I was *pretty* confident in my redundancy and backup setup before, but now I have no doubt that sr.ht's data isn't going anywhere.

Worth a blog post on the subject?

https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle

swayidle has been split out of sway into a standalone project, it's compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the KDE idle extension (which includes most wlroots-based compositors)

Chromium has blacklisted nouveau on Linux, which is one of the most egregiously wrong moves they could make against open source and the health of the Linux ecosystem.

Tell them what you think via graphics-dev@chromium.org. Remember to be firm in your convictions but polite with your complaint.

Seeking someone with passable creative skills and some free time an interest in making a logo for a fake company. Compensation is $50. I know this is well below market, but since this a fake company the quality isn't important and I'm not going to be picky.

cc @Curator

I just love putting my email into new forms knowing that I'm going to have the shit spammed out of me forever

In response to "AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones":

"It's a strange comfortable flexibility we have developed around truth. It's almost as if "freedom of speech" means you can massage the truth if it increase sales but god forbid you make a drawing of 90 year old cartoon mouse."

TomMckenny on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18737230

Amen

If you use Google Analytics in your open source project, you're a narcissistic asshole.

Alpine Linux on RISC-V is officially self-hosting, which means bootstrapping is done!

Offering $50 via PayPal to the first person who completes a working Mastodon patch to switch from uws to ws. Only this file is affected afaict:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/streaming/index.js

@phoe IRC is king, text-only is a feature not a bug

@chuck NO

Listen.

DON'T

USE

SLACK

FOR

FOSS

PROJECTS

@Wolf480pl hardware RAID is a mistake

That feeling when you put the blade into the rack, boot it up, and everything just works

Don't use JavaScript to mess with scrolling please

Actually, don't use JavaScript please