Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@djsumdog @Flick @HebrideanHecate It's an old joke about asking someone if they're a Freemason

@djsumdog @Flick @HebrideanHecate Sorry I meant to ask "are you not on the square?" etc etc

@djsumdog @Flick @HebrideanHecate The photo?

@Flick @HebrideanHecate Sam Harris has tackled 'the JKR thing' and it's a pretty good listen. Had my differences with Harris recently but I remain fairly open minded, this is a good chunk of it https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/314-the-cancellation-of-j-k-rowling

@adminkirsty @arstechnica@geeknews.chat @GossiTheDog @campuscodi thank you!

@nyx Going down etc etc

@nytpu I remember seeing the new ones around 1987 in England

@vriska You would, Rod Stewart tells me, have more fun

@checkervest YES

@arstechnica@geeknews.chat @adminkirsty Big banner about this on the Crowdstrike dash this morning. We're not a customer, so that particular headache avoided. Curious to learn how they got the adulterated package signed, although it made me think of CVE-2013-3900 which is not remediated by default on Windows

@justizin A few years back I used to use Slackware's config and suddenly the number of options after makeoldconfig (I think??) rocketed upwards so much I just chose the option to accept all defaults

@justizin I remember when Gentoo started providing binaries for things like Firefox and Chromium because people were just *over it*

@justizin I dread to think about a build now with a P166. It would be all night!

@nuala This is lovely.

@justizin I enjoyed things like busybox init and learning to get along with Sway which is pretty awesome once you figure it all out. I noted in the blog post though that even the creator of Kiss provides a flatpak build script which amused me no end, but he really dislikes dbus (so no bluetooth and some other limitations.) It's a nice exercise though.

@justizin I had a lot of fun with it, but lost a lot of time screwing about with the kernel config because Kiss encourages everything in kernel (no initramfs although it's optional) and it's a job to get the storage stack behaving

@justizin Oh sorry, it's an actual project! https://kisslinux.org

@justizin KISS is cool too, I liked the clear-headed philosophy behind it.

@justizin It's been an inspiration in Slackware Multilib, that much I do know

@justizin It's a shame some shops don't encouraging packaging anymore, like Plex and occasionally the devs bundle a better package in their flatpack repos which isn't feature matched by the maintainers of distros.