Jayaram Hariharan @elbeejay@fosstodon.org

1st toot - Hello #fosstodon, I'm a fan of + more, and keen to continue learning and developing FOSS

learned I need to run lastools through wine to use it on Linux... definitely a rare experience to run into scientific code that won't run natively on *nix

Do people commonly re-run continuous integration pipelines before merging pull requests? We've managed to merge code that broke our CI due (presumably) to some change in underlying dependency libraries between time PR was opened (and passed CI) and when it was merged (and didn't pass CI). Despite that timeline being <24 hours 😢

can't wait to code an error in Python 3.10 and see one of these more useful error messages

If pinging/ssh over a local network fails, this is usually due to a firewall, yes?

If so I'm not excited at the prospect of messing with the router/firewall settings...

Is "Flosstodon" an instance for dentists?

Navigating American health insurance is just a horrible experience... I guess it is impossible to do anything in a straightforward way

"Electro Swing" is a previously-unknown-to-me genre of music that I've found to be quite pleasant to listen to 🎶

Ah yes, random loss of power/connection to the USB ports. Linux has been so good to be lately I'd wondered if all these "quirks" were gone

Finding out first-hand that the fun of using an alternative distro quickly ends when you need software to work... and the installation and maintenance process is much better for something like Ubuntu

Is there an easy way to mute all the bots on the federated timeline?

What's the proper file extension for YAML files?

I find myself using both `.yaml` and `.yml` which is inconsistent and creates problems for me.

Because I am "insecure" 😂

Looking for recommendations on how to set up a Raspberry Pi cluster - lots of stuff out there, not sure what is worth reading.

End goal is to be able to dispatch various Python jobs to different cores and save job outputs to some NFS drive.

First day with a Pi Zero! Got a little screen and found someone's repo (https://github.com/sar02/crypto-watcher) to push images to it.

Looking forward to customizing that display. It's good practice with ssh for me

After some thought, I've decided I can call myself a "software developer". I'd previously been disqualifying myself, but I've made some small pip-installable packages and contributed to a handful of projects... so might as well stop gatekeeping myself

Ledger or Trezor? Decisions, decisions...