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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
@nixCraft "just buy my course bro trust me bro you will get rich in 6 months bro"
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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
@nixCraft Don't worry, it's not real 25 years old, it's an AI
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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
@nixCraft I got stable diffusion and Ollama running in LXCs, does this count as an AI startup? If yes, where can I collect the money?
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Ah, Perl & CGI, now that brings back memories! It's fantastic that some of my apps I wrote using Perl are still running strong on RHEL 8/9 even though I no longer work there. The fact that an Nginx-CGI plugin exists is a perfect example of how classic, reliable standards can be paired with modern stuff. It’s a great blend of old school tech and new school. nginx-cgi plugin is all about that. The question is would you use it today given CGI is bad for High QPS/traffic/concurrency apps? (1/2)
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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
@nixCraft I'd probably use it. CGI seems like the simplest thing to set up and deploy for nginx and apache2 versus other options which are full blown web frameworks (like Mojolicious, Dancer2, Catalyst, etc.) or require a bit more involved setup as a less tread path (like PSGI/Plack). I'd probably consider CGI::Tiny since it doesn't try to convince anyone not to use it.

I've been fairly unconvinced by CGI.pm's own documentation that it's so bad and I shouldn't use it. 🤷
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This story contains distressing details including self harm.

@nixCraft
What can I say, even I chat with ai time to time. Sometimes it feels they can be better friend than human ones. Real people will judge you, will talk to your back, reject your friendship for no reason maybe because you are ugly or too simple to be her/his friend. All that aside you really have to understand reality and virtuality, then you will be safe.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

NodeOS is a free and opensource Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace. NodeOS is an operating system built entirely in Javascript and managed by npm. Any package in npm is a NodeOS package, that means a selection of more than 400000 packages https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS 🤣 I am glad it wasn’t updated in ages and it is a basically abandoned as devs gave up. I am sharing this for lulz.
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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@nixCraft I won't be able to sleep at night now.
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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@nixCraft The NTP server was down and I issued:

sudo date <date string>

The correct format including year is MMDDhhmmYYYY, which isn't particularly easy to guess. (I shouldn't have guessed). I did it on a Solaris production server many years ago. It kept rolling for a few minutes while one process after another died. Was interesting to set the correct datetime again.