farcaller

A birb in engineering. Everything is a lisp if you try hard enough.

The opinions are my own and do not represent the such of my employer.

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2025-07-15 18:30:12 CEST

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@nprofile…x3yv oh, it looks like they finished the UI work? I might give it a second look then. Hopefully there's a data migration story.

2025-07-15 18:24:53 CEST

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@nprofile…x3yv I considered openbao but I'm not there yet. OpenTofu was an easy switch, but I already have vault in my infra and it works and it's the piece of infra I don't want to modify much; too many things depend on it being rock-solid.

2025-04-21 10:59:31 CEST

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@nprofile…x0kw @nprofile…l6za Lists is a relationship concept in tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/#Introduction%20to%20Lists). Basically, instead of a child declaring who's its parent, the parent declares the list of its children. This allows for straightforward multi-parenting linking with custom sort order wherever required (tiddlywiki allows to change the sorting on query).
It's a simple concept that's extremely useful in practice in TW specifically because the wiki is built around it and almost every relation is defined within the same framework of lists.

2025-04-20 09:41:15 CEST

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@nprofile…x0kw tags don’t answer the question "what was the next note in the series" which I tend to ask myself every once in a while. He only thing that came close to these IDs but automated was tiddlywiki's list field.

2025-04-19 23:29:17 CEST

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@nprofile…x0kw https://zettelkasten.de/folgezettel/ will have all of them but tl;dr is that there's an ID to each note that defines the relationship between siblings (notes related by overarching subject) and children (notes expanding directly on the subject of a given note). You can mock that with e.g. parent relationships but I always found those a bit clunky.

2024-12-12 13:34:57 CET

Let’s talk about #stalker2
On one hand, it’s a massive win for Ukraine. It’s all over the news, it’s breaking charts, it’s hugely popular. People around the world get to experience the truly amazing Ukrainian voiceover, some amazing songs.
On the other hand, as a game, it’s... not really that good.
Releasing the game in such dire circumstances is heroic in its own and that’s why I think the upvote on Steam is deserved. That said, it’s one of those games where I keep thinking: I am not having fun.
When Cyberpunk 2077 came out, I rated it 6/10, playing it on launch. There were some technical issues (more for other people, less for me), but the game loop was solid. Stalker’s game loop is something they didn’t finish figuring out. The game is tough as nails and you will die a lot (there’s even a death counter). Yet, it’s not a roguelite. The game punishes you, but doesn’t have a mechanism for you to learn to get better other than pushing it through.
Here’s one example: you get outfitted for a main quest and you, several hours into the game, know the reasonable amount of gear to carry. You keep in mind that the gear will require excessive repairs when you’re back, meaning you need to carry back some good loot to offset the expenses. During a sudden chain of missions that you cannot break, you realize that you are really REALLY underestimated it. You’re out of ammo, your main gun is broken, your armor is in shreds. You either keep bashing your head against the wall, or you load a save 3 something hours ago and do the same thing on repeat, now hoping you had enough to make it work. It’s like quest softlocking but only because it’s on you. The game, though, never teaches you how to prepare for a quest proper.
After I had to enable the console to work around an actual softlocking, I had little restraint to not cheese my way around one boss fight. It was so tough it was actually dumb. I know people won it fair and square. I’ve seen numerous guides online. If stalker was advertised as soulslike I’d have just skipped it altogether. But it’s not a soulslike, it’s just widely unbalanced.
The story is good, though. And visiting the locations from the first game brought a smile to my face, thinking back when I was waiting to pick up my very first preorder videogame ever being the first stalker.
This game makes me feel so conflicted. I want to like it, I want to enjoy it. I just can't. It's too raw. Maybe, in a year's time, they will fix it enough for me to try again. As of now, I'll just finish the last two story quests with spawn ammo cheats and I am totally going to give up on the carry capacity and scarcity aspects.

2024-11-05 21:05:50 CET

This is legit the best ever explanation of "curl google.com".
Sound on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw

2024-08-24 19:36:12 CEST

Envoy gateway doesn't support ipv6. Right, who even cares about that obscure protocol in 2024 anyway? ipv4 is a solved problem.

2024-05-05 22:28:38 CEST

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@npub1q0k…trsm why not k3s on nixos tho.

2024-05-02 15:46:25 CEST

It's a funny observation but ffs #nix (as a language, no the #nixos) feels so clunky, error prone, and annoying after the elegancy of #clojure.

2024-04-18 16:56:58 CEST

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conduit's RAM use is up to 712Mb RSS, 2.4Gb VSZ. That's 3 rooms in nixos.org and 2 more on matrix.org federated after another day.
#matrix is sure web 3.0 scale
https://hdev.im/system/media_attachments/files/112/292/804/493/986/231/original/5b81eff36936227b.png

2024-04-17 12:38:08 CEST

Looking at my server's memory usage it's a bit insane that the top processes are basically the infrastructure that makes everything work (k8s and its CNI). And then the federated stuff. Wordpress is so low its usage is comparable to a DNS server, lol.
https://hdev.im/system/media_attachments/files/112/286/124/418/949/329/original/b0e6167f2bbf61e0.png