The majority of posts on Mastodon right now are about how to get started, discussions about various features or making fun of the dumpster fire that is the birdsite. This is mostly unavoidable as new people sign up, but I've tried to keep using Mastodon as an actual social network…
Couldn't find a #btrfs snapshot backup tool that I liked so I just wrote my own: https://crates.io/crates/fridge-backupIt automatically takes daily snapshots and then you copy them to external drives, that's it. (Automatic cleanup is a TODO)Also, you should put your butter in the fridge so it doesn't go bad.
I spent a good amount of last week debugging go templates and finally discovered today you need to end the {{ template name }} block with a period so the variable context is passed through.I was going to complain that making a period at the end crucial to the meaning…
https://hynek.me/articles/semver-will-not-save-you/ matches up exactly with how I feel about versioning and semver. Semver is great, but at the end of the day it's a best effort by maintainers and not perfect. It's also not applicable to literally everything and shouldn't be used as such.
#Signal has had group calling for a day now and my family keeps using it at every opportunity, it's fantastic.https://signal.org/blog/group-calls/
The #QubesOS survey results are out!Personally, I'm a bit shocked that more people would prefer #Debian as the default and not #Fedora.https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/11/26/qubes-survey-results/