My experience of the #fediverse :

[sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog]

@david_chisnall I mean… after bouncing thru a bunch of the hot languages the last couple decades I’m seriously thinking of returning to C.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@stefan @daj man 5 crontab could help.

I advice against disabling mails from cron, though. It is a very useful debugging tool.

If you have a command whose normal loud output is on stdout but which writes to stderr, use this instead:

program | logger -t cron-program-daily

That will make the output go to syslog instead of /dev/null so it’s not lost.

If it also writes to stderr in normal operation but exits nonzero on error, either of these three will do:

mksh -o pipefail -c 'program 2>&1 | logger -t cron-program-daily || echo failed'  # if mksh is installed

bash -o pipefail -c 'program 2>&1 | logger -t cron-program-daily || echo failed'  # if GNU bash is installed

{ { program || echo >&4 failed; } 2>&1 | logger -t cron-program-daily; } 4>&1  # for standard sh

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@daj @stefan and, if a cronjob that simply says echo test does not send a mail to you but instead writes to a logfile, fix your system (usually by installing a local(-only) MTA)

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@reini @_elena @david_chisnall hab ich auch schon gemacht, ist aber ab nem Punkt kein Spaß mehr. Und halt unportabel (ja, ich hatte schon die Versuchung, mksh in Assembly umzuschreiben und nen i386-Emulator in C mitzuliefern…)

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@EI3JDB @david_chisnall @_elena I contest that: it’s less safe than Assembly, due to all the UB.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@dragonfi @david_chisnall @_elena that’s just the top 1%

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@dragonfi @david_chisnall @_elena
anarchists who pick a programming language that excludes anyone without the privilege to have new computers that can compile rust programs in under a month

btw, /me is trans anarchist and as such has a strong loathing for rust and appreciation for c's ubiquity

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@mirabilos that's brutal, i love it

[jenshansen@jens.metodistiudine.nohost.me]

@_elena wow. I am on mastodon for years now and last year in august I bought two small pc to setup a server for my church and one for me. Both with yunohost which I find really great. Next cloud, my own mastodon instance, searxng, readeck, firefoxsync, writefreely and castopod and matrix.
I am curious on what you mentioned in the year 4.
As a side effect: in January I left WhatsApp and I am now metafree

[amministratore@parrocchie.masto.host]

@jenshansen @_elena Grande 😀