<![CDATA[nixers - Off topic]]> https://nixers.net/ Tue, 05 May 2026 08:01:08 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Some fun engineering advice blog]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Some-fun-engineering-advice-blog Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:24:45 +0000 freem]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Some-fun-engineering-advice-blog Maybe there is a better forum category for this, if so, please move the thread accordingly.

Anyway, here's the link: https://grugbrain.dev

Enjoy!]]> Maybe there is a better forum category for this, if so, please move the thread accordingly.

Anyway, here's the link: https://grugbrain.dev

Enjoy!]]> <![CDATA[Rocky's Sketchbook]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Rocky-s-Sketchbook Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:14:58 +0000 rocx]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Rocky-s-Sketchbook

The smash hit sequel to "Why rocx is Fucking Amazing" has finally arrived for its 9-ish-year anniversary, curated by the box himself. I finally got a working tablet again from a thrift store and feel like getting back into shitposting with visual diarrhea for the unwashed masses to suffer through.

On the plus side, you're getting 100% genuine artisanally-crafted garbage not even robots can beat.]]>

The smash hit sequel to "Why rocx is Fucking Amazing" has finally arrived for its 9-ish-year anniversary, curated by the box himself. I finally got a working tablet again from a thrift store and feel like getting back into shitposting with visual diarrhea for the unwashed masses to suffer through.

On the plus side, you're getting 100% genuine artisanally-crafted garbage not even robots can beat.]]> <![CDATA[Cyber hunt]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Cyber-hunt Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:06:08 +0000 z3bra]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Cyber-hunt
It's been quite a while since my one, but I'm here with a new Internt Scavenger Hunt !
This one has been cooking for the past year, and this is with great pleasure that I advertise it to the community ! Without further ado, here's the link:

⠵ CYB3R HUNT ⠫

It is much more involved and narrated than the other hunts I've made, and benefits from all the feedbacks I got, so brace yourselves ! There's also a whole story line going with it, and progressing through the hunt will unfold the plot.

I hope you guys will enjoy it! Don't hesitate to share it outside of this community, I made it for the whole internet! You can join other hunters via IRC at #cybfarm on libera.chat.

Also if you have questions, I'll happily answer them! (but I won't give any hint 😉).

Note: the hunt only starts on the 31st of October 2023, so everyone gets a chance to top the scoreboard!]]>
It's been quite a while since my one, but I'm here with a new Internt Scavenger Hunt !
This one has been cooking for the past year, and this is with great pleasure that I advertise it to the community ! Without further ado, here's the link:

⠵ CYB3R HUNT ⠫

It is much more involved and narrated than the other hunts I've made, and benefits from all the feedbacks I got, so brace yourselves ! There's also a whole story line going with it, and progressing through the hunt will unfold the plot.

I hope you guys will enjoy it! Don't hesitate to share it outside of this community, I made it for the whole internet! You can join other hunters via IRC at #cybfarm on libera.chat.

Also if you have questions, I'll happily answer them! (but I won't give any hint 😉).

Note: the hunt only starts on the 31st of October 2023, so everyone gets a chance to top the scoreboard!]]> <![CDATA[RIP, Bram Moolenaar]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-RIP-Bram-Moolenaar Tue, 08 Aug 2023 03:44:59 +0000 ckester]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-RIP-Bram-Moolenaar https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/

I'd noticed that updates to vim's git repository has recently been more sporadic than usual. Now I know why and I'm even sadder.]]> https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/

I'd noticed that updates to vim's git repository has recently been more sporadic than usual. Now I know why and I'm even sadder.]]> <![CDATA[industry buzzwords]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-industry-buzzwords Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:29:51 +0000 ckester]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-industry-buzzwords
https://bob-cd.github.io

Unfortunately there are so many unexplained buzzwords on that site that I haven't the foggiest idea what it's talking about or whether this new "bob" thing is anything worth looking into.

"CI"? "CD"?

Seems to have something to do with "DevOps", whatever that is.

The site quotes Einstein on the front page:
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
It seems to me they've gone below that lower limit, and could do with a little more complication in order to explain themselves.]]>
https://bob-cd.github.io

Unfortunately there are so many unexplained buzzwords on that site that I haven't the foggiest idea what it's talking about or whether this new "bob" thing is anything worth looking into.

"CI"? "CD"?

Seems to have something to do with "DevOps", whatever that is.

The site quotes Einstein on the front page:
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
It seems to me they've gone below that lower limit, and could do with a little more complication in order to explain themselves.]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Microsoft-GitHub-is-being-sued-for-stealing-your-code Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:10:10 +0000 jkl]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Microsoft-GitHub-is-being-sued-for-stealing-your-code Good news, everyone:

Quote:Today, we’ve filed a class-action law­suit in US fed­eral court in San Fran­cisco, CA on behalf of a pro­posed class of pos­si­bly mil­lions of GitHub users. (...) By train­ing their AI sys­tems on pub­lic GitHub repos­i­to­ries (though based on their pub­lic state­ments, pos­si­bly much more) we con­tend that the defen­dants have vio­lated the legal rights of a vast num­ber of cre­ators who posted code or other work under cer­tain open-source licenses on GitHub.

Yeah!]]> Good news, everyone:

Quote:Today, we’ve filed a class-action law­suit in US fed­eral court in San Fran­cisco, CA on behalf of a pro­posed class of pos­si­bly mil­lions of GitHub users. (...) By train­ing their AI sys­tems on pub­lic GitHub repos­i­to­ries (though based on their pub­lic state­ments, pos­si­bly much more) we con­tend that the defen­dants have vio­lated the legal rights of a vast num­ber of cre­ators who posted code or other work under cer­tain open-source licenses on GitHub.

Yeah!]]> <![CDATA[What Do You Do for a Living]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-What-Do-You-Do-for-a-Living Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:13:50 +0000 venam]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-What-Do-You-Do-for-a-Living What do you do for a living, or have done?

A lot of members work in different fields, some not even in tech-related field. There's quite the diversity of fields. It's good to share or know what others have/had as work experiences if we'd ever want to discuss or ask questions on a related topic with them. It can even inspire others about new fields they'd want to venture in.


NB: Please keep this somehow tech related, don't go too much off-topic, yet if you don't work in tech, still mention it and what you do as it's always interesting to know.

Found a previous thread.]]> What do you do for a living, or have done?

A lot of members work in different fields, some not even in tech-related field. There's quite the diversity of fields. It's good to share or know what others have/had as work experiences if we'd ever want to discuss or ask questions on a related topic with them. It can even inspire others about new fields they'd want to venture in.


NB: Please keep this somehow tech related, don't go too much off-topic, yet if you don't work in tech, still mention it and what you do as it's always interesting to know.

Found a previous thread.]]> <![CDATA[Upcoming time_t party]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Upcoming-time-t-party Thu, 03 Sep 2020 16:29:30 +0000 movq]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Upcoming-time-t-party
Code:
$ date -ud '@1600000000'
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 PM UTC 2020

Mark the date. Take a scrot, drink a glass of whiskey, or whatever. :-)]]>
Code:
$ date -ud '@1600000000'
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 PM UTC 2020

Mark the date. Take a scrot, drink a glass of whiskey, or whatever. :-)]]> <![CDATA[Sci-fi and Futurism]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Sci-fi-and-Futurism Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:33:36 +0000 venam]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Sci-fi-and-Futurism There are two intertwined topics that keep resurfacing on IRC: sci-fi and futurism. Let's have a thread about that to share all the interesting content and ideas we have.

I'll start, here's my list of favorite sci-fi books:
  • Childhood's end by Arthur Clarke
  • Artemis by Andy Weir
  • Arrival/Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • irobot by Isaac Asimov

I got a list of apocalyptic-survival/alternative-societies ones:
  • Station Eleven by St.John Mandel Emily
  • The stand by Stephen King
  • The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
  • The handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

Series that are interesting:
  • The Outer Limits
  • Serial Experiments Lain
  • Star Trek
  • Stargate SG-1

Some youtube channels:

Nothing else comes up to my mind right now but I'm really looking forward to all your recommendations.]]> There are two intertwined topics that keep resurfacing on IRC: sci-fi and futurism. Let's have a thread about that to share all the interesting content and ideas we have.

I'll start, here's my list of favorite sci-fi books:
  • Childhood's end by Arthur Clarke
  • Artemis by Andy Weir
  • Arrival/Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • irobot by Isaac Asimov

I got a list of apocalyptic-survival/alternative-societies ones:
  • Station Eleven by St.John Mandel Emily
  • The stand by Stephen King
  • The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
  • The handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

Series that are interesting:
  • The Outer Limits
  • Serial Experiments Lain
  • Star Trek
  • Stargate SG-1

Some youtube channels:

Nothing else comes up to my mind right now but I'm really looking forward to all your recommendations.]]> <![CDATA[this week work?]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-this-week-work Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:37:10 +0000 freem]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-this-week-work
Since I'm a bit bored and fails to find motivation, I think I could share the themes of this week:
I intend to work on:

* redundancy of my lab VMs: it implies doubling a full pxe infra, maybe port the fallback infra to systemd, just to learn and have both working together?
* integrating cfengine3 to the mess
* continuing to work on converse, my dialog alternative

And you?]]>
Since I'm a bit bored and fails to find motivation, I think I could share the themes of this week:
I intend to work on:

* redundancy of my lab VMs: it implies doubling a full pxe infra, maybe port the fallback infra to systemd, just to learn and have both working together?
* integrating cfengine3 to the mess
* continuing to work on converse, my dialog alternative

And you?]]> <![CDATA[Hobbies]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Hobbies Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:19:18 +0000 fre d die]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Hobbies
What hobbies do you guys have and how do they tie in with nix?]]>
What hobbies do you guys have and how do they tie in with nix?]]> <![CDATA[The hunt for Windows console text editors [2018]]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-The-hunt-for-Windows-console-text-editors-2018 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:21:40 +0000 jkl]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-The-hunt-for-Windows-console-text-editors-2018
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/...r-windows/]]>
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/...r-windows/]]> <![CDATA[Carte blanche]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Carte-blanche Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:13:30 +0000 venam]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Carte-blanche Here's an interesting question:

If you had an empty check where you could write any amount, to which software project would you send it to.


I personally would send it to the Linux kernel team in charge of peripherals, especially Bluetooth related.
As a fallback option maybe I'd send it to the Wayland team.

So what do you think nixers, where would you send your unlimited money check to?]]> Here's an interesting question:

If you had an empty check where you could write any amount, to which software project would you send it to.


I personally would send it to the Linux kernel team in charge of peripherals, especially Bluetooth related.
As a fallback option maybe I'd send it to the Wayland team.

So what do you think nixers, where would you send your unlimited money check to?]]> <![CDATA[what are you listening to?]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-what-are-you-listening-to Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:34:26 +0000 sth]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-what-are-you-listening-to i'll start:

SVFFER - Systematisierung - https://svffer.bandcamp.com/album/empathist]]> i'll start:

SVFFER - Systematisierung - https://svffer.bandcamp.com/album/empathist]]> <![CDATA[Homestuck]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Homestuck Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:23:03 +0000 josuah]]> https://nixers.net/Thread-Homestuck https://invidio.us/watch?v=S0ximxe4XtU

TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!!

What's the tunnel snakes? That's us! and we rule!

In that post-apocalyptic world scene, with everyone stuck home due to a world-wide-threat. What a falloutish landscape.

Us the snakes, those who are good with VPNs, maybe we even setup these for the others, we always was ready to have access to everything from remote.

That's us! The *nix users of all kinds, always around with the piping of the systems, following the inside of the engines like snakes in a maze of underground galleries, while everyone else not kind of the darkness of the limbs of technicalities stays out of the pipes.

In that extreme context, most of us stuck home living everyday from remote, us, these kind of tunnel snakes, we're at our ease, and we rule!]]> https://invidio.us/watch?v=S0ximxe4XtU

TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!!

What's the tunnel snakes? That's us! and we rule!

In that post-apocalyptic world scene, with everyone stuck home due to a world-wide-threat. What a falloutish landscape.

Us the snakes, those who are good with VPNs, maybe we even setup these for the others, we always was ready to have access to everything from remote.

That's us! The *nix users of all kinds, always around with the piping of the systems, following the inside of the engines like snakes in a maze of underground galleries, while everyone else not kind of the darkness of the limbs of technicalities stays out of the pipes.

In that extreme context, most of us stuck home living everyday from remote, us, these kind of tunnel snakes, we're at our ease, and we rule!]]>