Hacker News: Sir_Cmpwn

An old-school shell hack on a line printer

Sir_Cmpwn — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:24:51 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/30/Line-printer-shell-hack.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399436

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:54:29 +0000

Yes, it was. Thanks, I edited it.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:50:20 +0000

Thanks! That context is sorely needed in their web channels.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:38:22 +0000

I don't understand, what changed? This was last updated on the 24th. They said they'll be re-evaluating it and returning later, but afaict they haven't made any statements about a blanket cancellation of the telemetry roll-out.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:42:17 +0000

Something similar to pull requests is being worked on. I summarized this on Reddit recently:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dmkzgv/gitlab_...

There's already a ticket tracker. HTML email isn't going to happen, though.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:11:55 +0000

There's just one rule which does it for me:

Thanks for your bug report! The next step is to submit a patch fixing the bug. If you need help, ask questions in our chat room at...

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:55:10 +0000

I generally use my blog to announce new projects:

https://drewdevault.com

I'd been talking about SourceHut here and there in passing in various blog posts, and reaching out to people to invite them to a private alpha in the months leading up to the public alpha, then the service was somewhat seeded when the public alpha announcement went up:

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:04:37 +0000

The same reason I start all of my projects: it didn't exist and I thought it ought to, so I made it.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:53:06 +0000

There are lots and lots of reasons, but one advantage that comes to mind is that you're entirely in control of the data, you can just take your mail spool and leave for greener pastures whenever you want. You don't even need an export process, you already have all of the emails in your archive.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:20:18 +0000

Less so in SourceHut's case, where all of the prices are basically arbitrary and the financials are public.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:44:14 +0000

These are two of the major unsolved problems blocking the graduation of alpha to beta. The latter problem falls under single-sign-on, and the former problem falls under the project hub milestone. Rest assured, both are known and going to be taken care of, and part of why it's still considered an alpha. Your patience is appreciated :)

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:08:02 +0000

PGP mail seems to work afaict. Make sure your key is up-to-date, I might have edited it at some point to remove the expiration date.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:11:15 +0000

There's a summary of what the alpha status entails here:

https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/

And a longer explanation is coming in two weeks, for the anniversary of the public alpha's commencement.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:04:10 +0000

Will keep this in mind for the next one, cheers.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:04:02 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report"

Sir_Cmpwn — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:03:43 +0000

Heh, I wish.

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "“May You Live in Interesting Times”"

Sir_Cmpwn — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:32:58 +0000

There's also a book based on this quote by the legendary Terry Pratchett:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_Times

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Thanks Gitlab"

Sir_Cmpwn — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:29:39 +0000

SourceHut is on different infrastructure than my personal Mastodon instance, it can take a lot more heat :)

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Thanks Gitlab"

Sir_Cmpwn — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:26:11 +0000

Regarding that screenshot of GitLab:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/linux/tree/master/arch/arm/boot/...

New comment by Sir_Cmpwn in "Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry"

Sir_Cmpwn — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:43:54 +0000

I don't have a reply for most of your comment, but with respect to this part:

>If that is the situation, where does SourceHut stand? The site makes little sense to me. The URL is sourcehut.org, but there is no statement about it being a non-profit, or any discussion about a board that manages it. There is a pricing page, but no contact us page. I don't know where it is based, and I can't find a reference on Crunchbase to get any idea of who owns the company.

I own SourceHut as a sole proprietor, you can reach me at sir@cmpwn.com with private questions or ~sircmpwn/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht with public questions. Archives here:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/public-inbox

The business is operated transparently, here's the latest quarterly financial report:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-21-sourcehut-q3-2019-fina...