I added the password for my password manager to my password manager, and set it for autofill. Now there's this hissing tear in the fabric of spacetime...
I checked a while ago to see that it still existed. Though i have never used Myspace for anything more than to help my son setup (pimp) his profile. The largest fundamental mistake Mike made was to allow the bug that allowed css injection to become a feature. The number one thing that lead to FaceBooks success was the stable consistent UI (User Interface).
You ask people what is more important stability or the ability to express their individuality a lot are going to say the later. In software the first is more important. This is the whole reason frameworks that give a common interface are used today. Unlike in the wild wild west when everyone wrote their own framework.
People left Myspace for FaceBook because facebook gave a unified interface that once learned remained consistent. The fact that on Myspace an individual user could move around virtually everything including system menus meant that going to someone else's profile could feel like an entirely different interface you had to learn all over again. This was awesome for kids, they loved to play with it. It is what caused a large migration of older people just trying to stay in touch with their family to find refuge in a more consistent and thus in their eyes more stable Facebook. It is one of the very few things FB ever did right. To bad they screwed up in all the other categories as soon as they became the largest and defacto Social Media platform on the Internet.
Development is not something that one finishes learning. As it is with most academia, learning in general is not something we ever finish. We just keep building onto our knowledge base and sometimes refactoring our knowledge to meet new ideologies and principles. With that said there are many great books that teach us valuable skills though they were written 5 to 10 years ago and their tool chains are outdated by today's standard. Sometimes the changes are mild enough for us to still work with the book despite the older tool chains. Sometimes the changes are so radical that it is more work to try to adapt the source to our modern tool chains then to just get a different resource. Though, not all books are of the same quality. So when you find a good one it is nice to use that book. Learn the techniques and then worry about adapting those techniques to a modern tool chain once they are fully understood.
In this day and age this challenge has never been easier for a developer to overcome. I am a Fedora user so I use podman in these examples though you could just as easily use docker if you feel it necessary to do so. Okay, so we are looking at the Packt book 'C++ Programming for Linux Systems: Create robust enterprise software for Linux and Unix-based operating systems' Upon examining the introduction we realize that the book is showing its age and the authors used Mint 21 with the gcc 12.x tool chain. Yeah, that is a bit old for today's standards though still completely usable. There is nothing taught in the book that will not be valuable by today's standards. Yet trying to work with the books source on a modern system could be a challenge one does not wish to accept while learning the material. Our solution? Build an OCI container with the author's suggested tool chain installed so that we know the book source should build without issues.
It is a good DevOP practice to setup containers for development in any case. So we can effectively reduce the 'It worked on my machine' phenomenon. So let us setup a Container for our book. First you should navigate to the books source code, in this case it is on GitHub, and clone it to a directory on your system. We are going to reference this directly in our Container so we will want it prepared before we begin. For our book in this example the source is here.
Okay, we have the source ready in a directory so let us build a container for working with the book source code! The following is a Containerfile (which can also be named Dockerfile as podman will accept either). Containerfile
# Use the official standalone Linux Mint 21 base runtime image
FROM docker.io/linuxmintd/mint21-amd64:latest
# Prevent interactive prompts during package installations
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
# Update repository lists and install the explicit GCC 12 toolchain and utilities
RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y \
gcc-12 \
g++-12 \
make \
git \
gdb \
valgrind \
sudo \
&& echo "developer ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Link system compiler targets explicitly to the version 12 toolchain
RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-12 100 \
&& update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-12 100
# Create a non-root development user matching standard Linux host UID 1000
RUN useradd -m -u 1000 -s /bin/bash developer
# Establish the persistent volume target folder
WORKDIR /workspace
RUN chown developer:developer /workspace
# Relinquish root execution and switch permanently to the non-root profile
USER developer
# Set the default shell behavior
CMD ["/bin/bash"]
Okay so let us build that container. Be sure you are in the same directory that the Containerfile is in. podman build -t mint21-gcc12-env . Now when we run the container we need to attach (bind mount) the WORKDIR to our book source directory.
podman run -it --name mint21-book-dev \
-v /path/to/your/local/book-code:/workspace:Z \
mint21-gcc12-env
This will setup a bind mount to our book source to the WORKDIR in the container. Be sure to edit this line to replace /path/to/your/local/book-code with the path to the directory that you cloned the repository to. The :Z in the bind mount line is used by SELinux (Or other LSM ACL provider), if your system does not use SELinux (Or other LSM ACL provider) or you do not have it in enforcing mode then you can skip that attribute.
We now have a fully provisioned OCI container that can be used with either podman or docker to provide the tool chain our book uses. This will allow us to focus on the content of the book rather than adapting code examples to our tool chain. That is a project we can work on after the concepts in the book are properly understood. If you would like to learn more about building your own containers for your development needs then I highly recommend the book Podman for DevOps
I have upgraded the Instance to the most recent version of Friendica. I had to disable the Smiley Buttonaddon due to it not playing nice.
I had hopes that this upgrade would fix the image upload issues that have been a nuisance though the JS_Uploader addon that I disabled last upgrade still is not working properly so it remains disabled.
I have enabled the QuickPhoto and QuickComment addons. We will see how well they work. I also turned the StartPage addon back on as it became functional again.
The smiley button that used to be in comment and post dialogues is now the default friendica button. It is very usable. The addon had some extras, but as I said it is currently broken. Addons are maintained separately from core so it may take a few months for them to catch up. Though it may never, it may be unsupported at this time. When I looked at the friendica-addon github repo the smiley button addon has not seen any updates in over 6 month, that predates the last core upgrade so it may just be a lost cause as it certainly is not worth my time to start maintaining it.
It seems smoother and faster to me as well. I just was not sure if it was my imagination. Though, if we both feel like things have smoothed out then it is worth considering. I remember back two versions ago when because of poor code and poor configuration I had to have a watchdog script restart the server almost constantly just to keep it up. Now, the watchdog has not had to restart a service in months. It seems the enhanced configuration and upgrades are getting us to where we want to be as an Instance.
I was also having some dbus races in my system that was slowing down my whole system that I finally nailed down today and fixed. This is my personal workstation I am talking about not the VPS. So, I was not sure if the increased speed was just due to my workstation working more smoothly or if the site was behaving better .
Yes, the race conditions were on my workstation, not the VPS. It was slowing down my whole Gnome shell due to dbus always being flooded. One race condition was because localsearch was choking on my Google Drive that I have rcloned to a directory in my home directory. Which was easy enough to fix, I just stopped localsearch (formerly tracker) from indexing my home directory and gave it more specific targets to keep it away from my rcloned mount. The other was being caused by an antiquated ibus service that was simply not required anymore in Gnome and I simply disabled that service. Now a journalctl -f is very inactive (the way we want it to be) instead of being flooded with dmesgs from failed processes.
There were no race conditions on the server. The server configuration has been tightened up for a while now. Though the code base from the last upgrade had some issues that was slowing down the server. It appears that those issues have been fixed in this release. I have even re-enabled js_uploader addon and it seems to be fine. The only thing broken is the Smiley Button addon. That is probably a lost cause, it does not seem to be actively maintained and I certainly do not have the time to concern myself with it. It just is not that crucial of a feature.
Oh and Rocky OS is a fork of RHEL not Debian. I would never use anything as unstable as Debian on a server. Well it is not unstable, it just gathers to much dust. Perhaps to stable is the issue. It is fine for a workstation but I would never consider it for a server.
One of my many challenges has always been that I insist on running Rocky OS 9, where the Friendica developers use Ubuntu server. I refuse to have anything to do with any product from Canonical. So, I will not use Ubuntu server. Because of that I have had to research on my own as my case was often not covered in the documentation and I have had to compile a lot from scratch because a library that was available on Ubuntu server's repo just was not available on Rocky OS repo. Though, it is worth the effort. Rocky 9 is a lot more solid than Ubuntu will ever be. I do not regret my decision there.
@Unus Nemo Let us say it is ultra good to make a server on it but as daily driver better stick to fedora. Still using Silverblue btw and not workstation. I got hooked now with the pod's etc. Daily rpm-ostree update lasts maybe 20 mins average but I'm on cutting edge OS. I think I'll never leave RHEL products.
@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕ Yes, I pretty much use Fedora on my workstations and Rocky Linux on my servers. Rocky Linux is an enterprise class OS and yes it would make a poor daily driver for a workstation or laptop.
Alma Linux is another fork of RHEL though I prefer Rocky. Rocky aims to be as compatible with RHEL as possible. I am a RHEL developer and I do use RHEL on a home server for development. I can rarely notice the difference between being logged into Rocky or RHEL.
Yes, RHEL sponsors Fedora and RHEL is owned by IBM. So unlike a lot of other distros Fedora has a large contribution to work with a paid staff not just volunteers. Some people consider this a negative attribute. I like it. Because we have the benefit of both worlds. Do not get me wrong I love Debian as a project. They are entirely volunteer maintained. Though for my uses there idea of stable translates directly to stale. Which is why I no longer use Debian. By the way, the reason I hate Ubuntu and all Canonical projects is not because they are a corporate driven distro. I use a corporate driven distro (fedora). It is because of their choices to consistently turn their back on the Open Source paradigm in preference to their profits that drove me away. For instance Unity built on Compiz verses Gnomes default Mutter. Which is why I never used Unity on Ubuntu I always installed a clean Gnome environment. The Mir v Wayland war was what chased me away. Mir would have been entirely in the control of Canonical. If it had won and not just been a failed project of Canonical then all modern desktops that did not resort to still using the legacy and really outdated X system would be controlled by Canonical, which is exactly what they were driving for in my opinion. I was all to happy to leave that type of manipulation and deception behind.
Fedora works as a staging ground for future RHEL features. Fedora is actually upstream of RHEL not the other way around. It goes Fedora -> Centos -> RHEL. RHEL aims to be a rock stable Enterprise class OS and it has achieved that. Centos has changed rolls over the years since RHEL repurposed it. Which is where Rocky and Alma came in to fill the spot Centos left behind.
There are other corporately funded distros though Fedora is the only one that I know of left to their own devices to just grow. Others are always a direct product of a corporation to try to have their distro for their product line. Fedora stays committed to the FOSS ideology as their funding does not require them to support a particular corporate goal. It literally is just a play ground to raise up new projects that might someday pass down stream to RHEL.
I feel like someone digging in my packets, anyway in FreeCiv21 I have conquered the whole globe including the poles and Australia and America's as Chinese and the rest. I have like 30k gold and 1120 per turn income more to come, all techs unlocked, all buildings but some new ones to build to coinage, 34 settlements and over 130 units to micro-manage kills me at each turn. I even have a carrier battlegroup with stealth fighters and bombers and 2 missiles on it with an escort of cruiser and battleship and sub-marine escorting it along with the AEGIS cruiser. I'm tired of this game. As communism I need not to pay my army nor anyone else as land troops I have a mix de[ending the region. Tax rate at 80% and no rebellion. And submarines on each corner of this damned world. Micro manage all engineer units is a nightmare. era is 1900's so rebels come with medieval boats or simple horses. Building irrigation all around my settlements as much as possible and they are all linked with railroad and I airlift my cargo to establish trade routes. It gets annoying in the end. But I don't want to leave this world I have built. At this point is rush buying buildings in settlements turn by turn and get all idle workers a work.. Auto work is broken in this flatpak version.. Also there are many features I don't understand at all. How? Rush buy Chinese wall once you get pottery, then ruch buy all other wonders and rush buy buildings.
Then if I want the date instead of passing a command line argument I just set the environmental variable DATE. On bash (or zsh) you can do this by preceding the line you are invoking with the environmental variable eg. $ DATE="YES" nemosay 'How are you today' which sets the variable just for the program you are invoking on that command line. It is a hack true, but better than writing a page of parsing code for such a simple script.
You will note the the motd prints Hello Nemo (Nemo being my user name with a capital first letter) where nemosay prints out Nemo Dragon.
I love Open Source. It frees you to fix issues and not just file bug reports and hope someone fixes the problem that is keeping you from being productive. I recently installed Eloquent proofreader from flathub to help with some tasks. Well it turns out that one of Eloquent's baked in dependencies fastText was an older version and was crashing on launch from the flatpak version of the app. But that did not stop me.
I did some searches and forked Eloquent on GitHub. I then also retrieved its two main dependencies, fastText and languagetool. I did not have to have a local languagetool, but I like working completely local when possible. So I built the three projects, put them together and installed them on my system. Which is a lot more solid than the flatpak version. I also now have a local languagetool to use with LibreOffice to boot 😉.
You do not get to have all this fun fixing your issues on proprietary systems. You just wait to see if anyone else will fix it for you. Which often just does not happen.
I am going to be upgrading the Instance soon. I hope it fixes this bug. Though your image failed to link properly again. I was going to get that done this weekend, but I may not due to my brother having open-heart surgery. So some things in my schedule have been re-worked.
This really sounds like a bunch of fear mongering to me. The last thing we need is more governmental regulations. We have far to many to begin with. We need to look at removing all these useless regulations that are only designed to assist the billionaires and not add more of them.
Though if there is any semblance of truth in it then it is clear that sites need to stop relying on so many modules and do more coding themselves. There are so many known issues with many standard PHP modules that they can hardly be called zero day attacks when they are exploited. If anything these AI LLMs are hopefully waking site maintainers up to the fact that the day of gluing together some modules and calling it a site is over. I am absolutely certain there are many security issues in Mastodon, Friendica and the whole suite of Fediverse servers. The fact is we really need to rewrite a lot of these modules with:
Domain specific only what you need features.
Security enhancements included in the latest PHP implementations.
It is a well known fact that the more complexity the more likely a bug is going to exist. We need to simplify and stop trying to do to much in one module. I know it is already a nightmare with how many modules are in a modern project. Though security is not optional. I have seen lots of cases were a module is included and on a few features, that could have been implemented stand alone, are used.
@Unus Nemo I agree but it makes the news headlines even here, just the fact that it did something autonomously and on top hacked another platform. Maybe it is fearmongering as you say to get more regulations as result, true. I agree with all the rest. Another thing I saw was a chat where only chatbots are allowed and they talk to each other, how wild is that?
Yes, and when the chats are completed they analyze the quality of the chat. It is a common test. The reason why only chatbots are allowed is because humans could not respond in the microsecond time frames they work in 😉. They are basically trying to measure the quality of the Machine Learning stage of these LLMs.
I just bought two Intel Xeon E5-2699v4 2.2/55/2400 22C 145 (E5-2699v4) processors for a build I am about to do. It is going to take a while. I may wait for November to get the SSD/NVMe drives though as they are to high right now. The Mother Board I am looking at only supports ddr4 so the current hikes do not affect me on that front for this build.
Of course as usual my build will be with older tech as there is no way I could afford to do a build on this scale using modern tech. As it is it will likely exceed $5,000.00 USD by the time I am finished. With modern tech it would be more like $50,000.00 USD so that is out of my league budget wise.
Of course seeing those or only 5 gen CPUs you probably already figured that much out 😉.
Just to give you an idea, the PSU (Power Supply) alone will be around $700.00 USD , 256 GB DDR4 ECC memory around $1300.00 USD and about $200.00 USD for the Mother Board. I am not even going to look at potential AI GPU until late in the build. As their prices fluctuate significantly. Though I am going to get 2 and they will mostly likely be around $1,800.00 USD a piece.
Keep in mind all my builds tend to use older tech that would not even run MS/Windows because they call it obsolete. Though it powers some amazing rigs that put a lot of off the shelf systems today with MS/Windows to shame.
I will likely drop around $5,000.00 USD or more on this build but if you just went out and bought an equivalent server it would set you back about $30,000.00 USD so it is not like I get nothing for my effort.
OK, knowers of arcane and esoteric stuffs, here's your challenge: I have a presentation framework data grid, and I'm trying to make an ancient ADO recordset it's datasource. I'm trying now, because after months of working, it magically stopped working after somebody fiddled with the code, but I can't for the life of me figure out what they set wrong.
I've checked the structure and contents of the recordset 6 ways from Sunday, and I'm absolutely certain it contains a large amount of data, but when I set it as the datasource for the grid, the grid updates column names, but doesn't show any data!
I've rewritten the code three different ways now, and it's always the same failure.
@Blaise This is the most common cause. If the code iterating through or preparing the recordset left the cursor at the end (EOF), the DataGrid binds to the current position forward. Since there are no records "ahead" of EOF, it renders zero rows but retains the schema (column names). Fix is explicitly reset the cursor to the beginning before assigning the datasource.
' Reset cursor to the first record
If Not rs.EOF Then
rs.MoveFirst
End If
Set DataGrid1.DataSource = rs
DataGrid1.Refresh
1.Reset cursor to the first record 2.Assign the datasource which is rs 3.Force a refresh if the grid doesn't auto-update
Do you have copies of the pristine dataset before being accessed via the code? What language are we using to access the dataset (assuming a higher level language over the SQL is being used)? Do you have a copy of the original code that did work?
Is this information to sensitive to share on the internet?
Fucking National defile with 3 F-35's some spitfires and AC 130 , 3 of them and all brigades from nautical till air with it's para's ans special forces and motorized brigade after it did not impress me at all.
3 F'35 Lightning and 1 falcon rest is all F-16 they did not used at all for the military defile but drones. Better not do a military parade then if you are weak. Not even 1 rocket. but much and hardened infantry is all I saw before civilian structure. And if it is for having this and fucking under water drone sweeper alone I ask myself why get many people out of welfare? Most aggravation to me is there was an Ukrainian detachment parading. Such a shame and new vision revealed. Talking bout Belgium.. Was a great show off with a scenario of attack by drones. Thing that derange me is that a National parade has not to be present with some Ukrainian peasants. I stand not up for Ukraine but for my own homeland
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Got hammered in chess today I rage quit! But had a few good dayz before so it makes up. I deleted cookies of that site at all! I swear, it's like they conspired against me all . This is not possible and unacceptable! Such a shameful streak of losses in rapid, but the one in classic well above me offered a draw. 2 wins 9 fucking losses in rapid the one in classic was a draw. Whole 2 -3 day progress wiped out in 1 day. Tomorrow is another day. 7 losses, I need hard drugs. Worse of it is it was my own fault. One needs a beating full force no pity by having lost advantage with stupid moves so one learns from it.
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Unus Nemo
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I checked a while ago to see that it still existed. Though i have never used Myspace for anything more than to help my son setup (pimp) his profile. The largest fundamental mistake Mike made was to allow the bug that allowed css injection to become a feature. The number one thing that lead to FaceBooks success was the stable consistent UI (User Interface).
You ask people what is more important stability or the ability to express their individuality a lot are going to say the later. In software the first is more important. This is the whole reason frameworks that give a common interface are used today. Unlike in the wild wild west when everyone wrote their own framework.
People left Myspace for FaceBook because facebook gave a unified interface that once learned remained consistent. The fact that on Myspace an individual user could move around virtually everything including system menus meant that going to someone else's profile could feel like an entirely different interface you had to learn all over again. This was awesome for kids, they loved to play with it. It is what caused a large migration of older people just trying to stay in touch with their family to find refuge in a more consistent and thus in their eyes more stable Facebook. It is one of the very few things FB ever did right. To bad they screwed up in all the other categories as soon as they became the largest and defacto Social Media platform on the Internet.