‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

To be clear, the point of this is to demonstrate the power and flexibility of a new Linux feature in a “haha only serious” way.

Zampieri is clear that this GPL-2.0 licensed project is a “scientifically dubious, cosmically hilarious” work. It definitely isn’t recommended for use in production systems - not because of bugs, but because it works as intended… The dev is still looking to add “more cosmic chaos” to scx_horoscope, so contributors are welcome.

  • justsomeguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    We shouldn’t stop with the kernel but also apply this to our workflows.

    PM sends you an invitation to a meeting? Venus says no.

    I want cosmic chaos in my work day.

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Chaos nothing. Can you imagine a week with zero meetings because your seventh house of Saturn or whatever says it’s a bad week for collaboration? Amd this isn’t random movements. You can plan around this for years.

      If anything this might actually be a way to introduce seemingly random prohibitions or days in which you only do certain things. Honestly, that doesn’t sound terrible.

      • mermella@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I mean that’s kind of the point of astrology, energy ebbs and flows in different houses or areas of life. You just become aware of the energy so you can maximize it rather than fall into the shadow versions of it. Morally it’s not good or bad energy, it’s just energy.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Oh dear god.

    So they’ve functionally formalized a specific variant of astrology.

    … At least it would be consistent in how it is ridiculous, unlike 99.99% of current day astrologers.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Shit like this is how we accidentally end up making ‘magic’ real, 100 or 1000 years in the future when are back to only 5% of the population being any kind of literate, and ‘everything is computer’, or at least computer relics.

  • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This gives me a sort of Temple OS vibe. I have a feeling this developer will soon develop his own operating system based on Zodiac signs.

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
    0·
    3 months ago

    Boss: “Have you finished that new feature yet? The deadline’s coming up and the client is getting concerned” Lowly Mortal Programmer: “Sry, you’re gonna have to tell the client that Mercury is in retrograde at least until this time next Earth-year”