Tuesday, 2024-04-23

fungihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhH_VpSleZE is a podcast interviewing a former openstack contributor and ptl about open source security topics16:46
* fungi is using the term "podcast" without being entirely sure what it means16:47
JayFI think that's an actual podcast you can get on your phone, too16:48
JayF100% is, just search for "my open source experience"16:49
* JayF is publishing "episode 0" of his own GR-flavored podcast in a couple of weeks and doing the similar "podcast but also on youtube" pattern16:49
fungiyeah, my loose understanding of the term is that podcasts are things people with an ipod can download a recording of and listen to asynchronously, but it seems like the term has taken on additional meanings16:49
fungiperhaps in part due to ~nobody having actual ipods these days16:50
* fungi wonders what it would have been called if the target device was a sony walkman16:50
JayFI think "youtube podcasts" is the first really ... abuse of the term16:51
fungimakes sense16:51
JayFbut generally a podcast is something that provides content (video/audio) with an RSS feed that is in a standard format16:51
JayFany other meaning is marketing :D 16:52
* fungi plugs his headphones back into his walkman and ignores the past 30 years of technological advancement for a little while16:52
JayFI was podcasting podcasts into my Zune before some openstack contributors were born :D 16:53
JayF(hint: the podcast, and iPod, are both *well* over 20 yrs old now)16:53
fungicould be time for a poll on how many people remember what a zune was16:53
JayFbwahahaha16:54
JayFthe big brown thing people who liked money more than style would buy in the early 2000s :P 16:54
fungielsewhere i found myself describing the y2k scare to people who weren't born when it occurred16:54
* fungi shudders16:55
JayFhopefully people know the 2^32 seconds scare is coming, too :D 16:59
JayFtime_tpocalypse16:59
fungigranted i'm not old enough to have solid memories of the gasoline crisis of the 70s and waiting in line for hours to fuel up the family car, so i sort of equate that to stories of the generation that came before me, much like they don't remember food rationing during wwii16:59
fungidebian's almost done with their time_t64 transition, painful as it has been for those of us running the unstable suite17:01
JayFI need to look in detail, but I believe for 64 bit systems, the new gentoo profile did the trick for us too17:08
JayFbut I know they were upset about glibc's original swing at it, it'd be interesting to see how they got around it17:08
fungigentoo probably has less baggage around recompiling things than debian, just based on their respective distribution models17:09
fungiseems like something gentoo is able to absorb the impact of a bit more easily17:09
JayFwell, basically the major thing they always try to avoid is needing a boot disk for upgrade ... and the profile update last time, even though it included a breaking change (gzip -> zstd compression for some things) it was able to be done no-boot-disk17:10
JayFsome early proposals aiui basically eliminiated the possibility of 32bit-time_t code and 64bit-time_t code from working alongside17:11
JayFbut that was when openstack got busy and I had to turn off "Distrocenter" on ESPN :P 17:11
fungiin debian it's been endless transitions since around november of last year, replacing built libs (mostly) with alternative 64-bit time variants and then updating ever other package which relies on those libs to require the 64-bit time versions of them17:12
fungikeeping in mind that some binary packages in debian are 15-20 years old because they just haven't needed a recompile in that timespan until now17:13
JayFYeah, in Gentoo for a package to stay around it's gotta build and pass it's own tests so we tend to drop those things. It's actually kinda annoying. Even some old packages are now binary-only (e.g. ncdu-bin superceded ncdu) because they can't build in a modern gentoo set of libraries/compilers.17:15
fungidebian does at least flag packages for removal when they stop successfully building from source, but whether there are any post-build tests conducted is a per-package-maintainer decision and tends to only really be added for more actively maintained packages17:20
fungiby which i'll readily admit that the one package i'm maintaining in debian doesn't have any post-build automated testing17:23
JayFI'll note that "it must pass its own tests" and "it has tests" are two separate checks, Gentoo does the earlier but not the latter lol17:43
fungifor anyone not following the foundation-board ml, there's a call organized at 15:00 utc this thursday (2024-04-25) forming an informal working group around the intersection of project security efforts and regulatory compliance: https://lists.openinfra.dev/archives/list/foundation-board@lists.openinfra.dev/message/PR6DOBAWMKHWWRTPPWIY4EFH46O2JOMB/22:05

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