Notes | Brutkey

I did some LAN troubleshooting at home. It seems one of the inter-connection cables is wonky or was badly in its RJ-45. Things work now.

I saved Christmas again.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I wanted to add an option to run a command repeatedly until a time limit is reached to my repeatcmd program. The internal logic got so convoluted that I rewrote it all to use a command interpreter pattern. This let me fix several other problems too.

And that's how I saved Christmas at 05:00 today You're welcome.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I am often deeply disappointed in the computing field and my younger self. For almost everyone in the field, the goal is quickly growing businesses and revenues as big as possible, by any means possible, even if they are harmful.

I was into startups once, hoping to get rich. I'm not happy about that.

I am now convinced that every business must have the short and long term well-being of their staff, customers, and humanity at large as their primary priority.

I'm not yet happy with myself.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I hereby declare that the term "smart" in combination with a device such as a TV or phone is short for "surveillance machines are really tedious". Now you know.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

My latest startup venture develops self-propelled goalposts for debates and all kinds of football (soccer, rugby, armpit-egg). It uses large language models (what pundits who don't know what they're talking about call "AI") to detect when movement is necessary and in what direction to allow you go win an online argument or make a goal.

My email is open for investment proposals. Serious proposals only! I don't have time for jokes or investors without billions to give me.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

My wife, @dokumentaristi@mementomori.social , is an artist, and has some beautiful artwork for sale.

https://en.taiko.art/soilemottisenkangas

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Various organizations choose either a monorepo (put all projects in one tree) or per-project repositories. I've tried a monorepo for Debian by importing all source into one Git repository, in one commit. That was fun.

Should I try the other extreme, with as small units of source code per repository? What would the unit be? File? Byte?

Why? To see if I can. Because obviously I have too much free time, says my subconscious.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

Wake-on-LAN is a magic goodness in my little home lab thing where I'm not willing to invest in a KVM device. But it doesn't help if I wake up the wrong computer.

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

On this day in 2002 version 1.0 of the creative commons licenses were first released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#History

#OTD #OnThisDay #CC #CreativeCommons

Lars Wirzenius
@liw@toot.liw.fi

I was young once. For a few frames at the start of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd3P-68at9E