mastodon 4.7.3Crowdfunded full time free software developer. Maintainer of the open source crowdfunding platform @Liberapay@mastodon.xyz I launched in 2016.
I'm interested in too many things, including politics, economics, history, physics and other sciences. I like to understand how things work.
French, he/him, cishet, white, thirty-something, single, not a father.
Tip: you can reduce the heat your laptop/desktop computer generates by limiting its CPU frequency.
To restrict all cores to 800MHz on Linux, run one of these two commands as root:
cpupower frequency-set -u 800MHz
echo 800000 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
#heatwave #laptop #desktop #computers #downclocking #EnergyEfficiency #Linux #shell
Today's fact from #OurWorldInData: “Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked in 2017”
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-sales-of-combustion-engine-cars-have-peaked
#cars #electrification #ClimateChange #diesel #petrol #PeakOil #transport
A year ago I published https://github.com/Changaco/python-memory-inventory. The cost of RAM has since skyrocketed because of the AI craze, so memory optimization has become even more important.
This module might help you improve your understanding of Python, so you might want to look into it even if you don't have any immediate need to optimize your code.
If you missed it, the original announcement included some interesting facts: @Changaco@mastodon.cloud
If you're part of the open source movement, or even just interested in it, you might want to watch this impressive documentary by @chadwhitacre.com@bsky.brid.gy.
It was partly filmed in Ukraine and covers some of the war's consequences, but it isn't about the war.
If you don't know Chad, I think it says a lot that he entered a war zone for a documentary about open source.
New vulnerability affecting #ArchLinux: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/19/6
Mitigation: rmmod rds_tcp rds; printf 'install rds /bin/false\ninstall rds_tcp /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/pintheft.conf