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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@gitlab.com , you should take over the site. Or make one in the same vein. The "99 bottles of beer" program is simply the best program to illustrate basic language features such as I/O, looping, and conditionals.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What happened to the "99 bottles of beer" website? #Programming #99BottlesOfBeer

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I love #Polars The lazy evaluation pipeline is *Chef's Kiss* #Python #PythonProgramming

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Look it's almost 3am I can't promise I'll make coherent posts.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I stand by my opinion. I'm going to die on this hill. STOP . MAKING . "Hello, world!" 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, you take one down and pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall. 98 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer ... #Programming #ProgrammingLanguage

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Damn, this made me chuckle.😆

barbwritesstuff: I have learnt today that my library refers to me as "the specific and highly active user" and has denied some of my purchase requests because "we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific and highly active use."

I did suggest roughly 100 vampire books for purchase last year. I think this probably has something to do with that.

Dragon-in-a-fez: op is there any particular reason the librarians would feel safer not invoking you by name?

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It seems asking people to think on their own is today such a difficult challenge. #ArtificialIntelligence ? More like #ArtificialUnIntelligent #MicrosoftCopilot #Copilot

A screenshot of the article, saying "Sheesh - if you're going to have to actually *read* that stuff, you might as well just cut Copilot out of the loop and do the thinking yourself."

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Shouldn't need to worry It's "Local Privilege Escalation" meaning: Someone needs to login to your system first. A.I. here helps in finding hard to discover vulnerabilities. End result? Linux becomes more and more secure.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In this case, A.I. speeds up the fix. It's good to have an automated system to find vulnerabilities. Plus, the vulnerability requires "Local Access" It's not remotely-exploitable. For a personal system, that no one else is using, this vuln is not really concerning. #Linux

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The former only shows I/O to console. The latter: - Shows iteration - Shows decision (if..then) - Shows string building - Shows I/O to console Isn't it much better more basic mechanisms shown?

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I wish language creators will provide not only "Hello World" but also "99 Bottles of Beer" as examples of their language. #Programming #ProgrammingLanguage

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I do prefer it that way. Not because of gatekeeping, but because despite the polish, CachyOS is still Arch. And Arch is really not a distro for newbies. When someone's reached at least intermediate level with Linux, then they'll naturally discover CachyOS and we'll welcome them.

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That Photo Guy @thatphotoguy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Scotland is calling me. I cannot wait to return to the beautiful Scottish Highlands.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ah. The nostalgia. Back in highschool, I was part of the Library team. Typed A LOT of catalog cards. DDC, anyone?

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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Look at that sky Edinburgh Castle, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So, the conclusion: #CachyOS is NOT for Linux newbies BUT It is for #ArchLinux newbies. #Linux

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The point I was trying to make is that CachyOS does not hide the underlying complexity of Arch Linux. It just provides assistance. You can still go down into the trenches armed with an Arch Linux wiki and do things you want.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#CachyOS is not " #ArchLinux made simpler " It's still Arch, but with assistants. #Linux

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Okay ad hominem stranger paid shill. Whatever you say.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I wouldn't say less reliable, unless there's a clear statistics. But definitely more expensive, and requires more footprint in the area of operation. Anything can be made super reliable if lots of redundancies are put in which make them even more expensive.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Does anyone expect A skiddie to have OpSec?

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Sure sure straw manning stranger on the Internet. Keep the attacks going. Keep moving the goalposts awayyy.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Okay, ad hominem. The onus is on you. Similar to you branding me a troll, I shall brand you a paid shill then. Good day to you.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Okay of course. Ad hominem all the way.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm used "family" loosely. Stop moving the goalposts.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Please describe the gameplay. What gameplay exists in this supposedly "game"

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As a 'narration', probably good. As a 'game' though... It's more "A movie where the audience can participate sometimes"

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It ain't a game. There ain't a game in it. It's a movie with some viewer participation, period.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

People defending the #Mixtape 'game' Are either paid shills Or doesn't understand what defines a game But probably both.

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Mitchell Volk @mvolk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Erin Brockovich leading the charge on tracking AI data centers across the US

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

PS: Apparently, this is just a myth. The reality: Bees will keep delivering until they drop dead of exhaustion. When their old bodies no longer able to extract enough energy to keep on living. I don't know if that's better or worse than the myth.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I don't know if this is true or not... But reading this did make me shed a drop of tear...

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bees are cute 🥰 And they are vital for humanity survival as well! #ProtectTheBees

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Well, forensic facial reconstruction is based on the known, still living examples. That's why they know how high the flesh needs to be built up for key bone positions. Palaeontologists don't have such luxury so they build up the flesh speculatively based on other species of the same family.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Oooh! I love me some Bézier Curves! Where do I buy? Is it on Steam?

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I rarely use the word "based" But in this particular instance #Hawaii is #Based youtube.com/shorts/7Tvvz...

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A Deserved Downfall

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Plus, You can easily check/validate the final rendered state file Just run the file through a Jinja2 renderer Then run the result through a YAML parser No need to re-implement Ansible's "special workarounds" to handle repetitions.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I personally find SaltStack's approach to be both more intuitive and more powerful. An advantage (among many): Can easily repeat and customize states from dict.items

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The difference between #Ansible 's YAML, and #SaltStack 's YAML, is in the rendering process. In Ansible, the YAML is parsed first, then every value is Jinja2-rendered. In SaltStack, the file is Jinja2-rendered first, then it is parsed as a pure YAML. #DevOps #CICD

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

FUN FACT: He advised Queen Elizabeth to pardon her son 3 years, 5 months & 12 days after she passed away. Please add "UNINFORMED" to my list. Thank you for your attention to this embarrassing matter.

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The more LLMs replace humans, The faster they will collapse. No #LLM can survive ingesting LLM-created text for extended period of time. #ArtificialIntelligence

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pepoluan @pepoluan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I have sweet memories of Xen specifically, XenServer. It was my first virtualization platform in an Enterprise setting.

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