luciole (they/them)

What Baikal stuff? The thing’s dead and gone.

bro it’s volunteers all the way down

I’ve used Mint for a while and then I started getting curious about all these sexy Arch setups. I was intimidated with the install process though, so I tried out CachyOS and Endeavour. I ended up staying with the latter. It’s got that bleeding edge Arch flavour while easing you into it. I prefer Endeavour’s approach (we’ll help you learn) to CachyOS’s one (it just works).

This would be meaningful if the findings were not produced by the corp trying to sell you the product being hyped. Big tech has a history of “faking it till you make it” and I can’t help but doubt that this is really just Claude Code mostly autonomously finding issues.

FOSS provides a way to exercise digital freedom in a digitalized world.

For example the Canadian Charter of Rights considers these freedoms fundamental:

• freedom of conscience and religion;
• freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
• freedom of peaceful assembly; and
• freedom of association.

These can all be threatened through centralized, authoritarian digital mechanisms.

While FOSS can be used to oppress, FOSS is most importantly a useful tool to fight against oppression by escaping control and as such it is precious today.

Corporations are the opposite of private property and that’s the problem. Their modern form was born in 19th century imperialist England and conviently evacuates all responsibility into the black void that is a moral entity or whatever that’s called. The ownership is zombified into a creature hungry for nothing but abstract profit, everything else be damned. I trust many businesses, but never a corporation.

(I hope I’m not bugging you! Disregard if your’re done with this thread.)

About the category column, your approach does violates database normalization in particular that all columns must be atomic. It’s not a sexy topic but it’s how you make the most of a relational database. None of this stuff really matters at small scale but if your site lasts through the years and you end up with numerous posts and categories, getting all posts of a category will perform terribly because the database will be unable to index properly.

Congrats on your progress! You’re learning 100x more then if you adopted a framework right away imo.

Database creation is something you usually only do once.

In an ideal world. In this world you absolutely have to plan how you’ll make your site (and its database schema) evolve while preserving your precious production data. Check out migrations.

Here’s an example of my trick

Be careful with tricks. Your future self prefers boring code to clever code 100% of the time. Way back when, I had made up a whole system for doing aspect oriented programming in JavaScript after reading some book. I was so proud, then after a while I hated myself so much for it. Finally I was so relieved when that monstrosity went offline.

instead of having newpost.php and validate_and_insert_post.php files doing separate jobs, my newpost.php is the page has the form and also receives the form in order to validate and insert into the database

This is a fine pattern don’t worry about it.

single column where categories are manually written in, separated by commas

If I’m understanding well and you have a database field containing a list of comma separated IDs, this is a code smell. Your site won’t catch fire if you don’t fix it, but you’ll limit yourself with the kinds of queries you can make against your relational database. You have a lot to gain by representing many-to-many relationships with a junction table.

Sorry for the lengthy comment, I enjoy talking about “the craft”. Wishing you lots of fun with your project!

And as for all things Windows 11 a tutorial is needed to painstakingly wade through every inch of bullshit.

This is all fine and dandy but the whole article is based on an interview with “Dorian Smiley, co-founder and CTO of AI advisory service Codestrap”. Codestrap is a Palantir service provider, and as you’d expect Smiley is a Palantir shill.

The article hits different considering it’s more or less a world devourer zealot taking a jab at competing world devourers. The reporter is an unsuspecting proxy at best.

An old PC of mine as been promoted to becoming my first personal server ever and I went for Debian without UI. I’ve dealt with Ubuntu servers at work for a while. For me Debian felt so incredibly lightweight yet so familiar. I heartily recommend the move for a home server.

If anyone else would rather read text as text: https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/

Nice advertisement. Classic unavoidable single path of progress bit. I hope NYT charged Anthropic for it at least.

What the hell. I sure ain’t letting a Python script in Alpha stage written with Claude mess with my PC’s partitions. You can totally create a small FAT32 partition yourself, get the ISO’s content in there and boot from it. No USB key required.

Also the take that it’s not Free Software if you’re buying a USB key is so plain wrong. It’s free as in freedom, not free beer. You still get to pay for the hardware, but with free software you get to own it too.

I have yet to spot anybody complaining about Firefox not having enough AI features, or hoping for opt-out instead of opt-in.

something something programming socks

Aw man, I feel for your colleagues. If you’re the boss you’re the boss I guess. I gotta say though, imho being pedantic comes with the territory when you hang out with a code interpreter all day. It’s just a question of getting things done.

You’d have a problem if you felt like you made something perfect. You can improve those “wrongs” in any order but getting something up and working first and foremost is a very sane way to get some practice in.

A template is literally an HTML file with some PHP tags sprinkled to feed in the data. Echoing large swaths of HTML is weird. And PHP tag syntax is actually <?php hello(); ?>.

That sounds pretty awesome for real. You’re going way further then I’ve dared so far! Best of luck to you.