Rob does toybox and mkroot, writes linux docs, worked with j-core.org, long ago co-founded Penguicon and Linucon, wrote for Motley Fool, taught at ACC, etc. Trying to learn Japanese and make Android a self-hosting development environment.
He/him. Answers to "they/them" just fine.
Joined: 2022-11-05
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I'm impressed that the Android discord app has found a new way to fail.
I type a message, I press send, and it posts but the entry field does not blank. If I press post again it will repost […]
2024-11-25 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@EveHasWords "why should I bother to read it if you couldn't be bothered to write it".
2024-11-25 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@RuthMalan Open Source is largely based on the difference between ownership and attribution, something copyright (and capitalism) never served.
2024-11-25 landley ┃ 3👤 ┃ RE: cstross
@cstross @vwampage @exchgr @jalefkowit Fines are buying indulgences from the law.
2024-11-25 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@SNerd Capitalism is the state religion that replaced Catholicism.
They put "in god we trust" on the money because money is their god. It's an instruction to worship the money. "Insert worship […]
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2024-11-24 landley ┃ 4👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@vwampage @exchgr @cstross @jalefkowit Eh, blaming a company and not the people running it is like blaming clothes instead of people.
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@cstross See the story I want to hear about is who funneled a whole bunch of energy soldiers into an escape room they couldn't get out of? That's some Leverage shit going on right there.
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@RuthMalan Then add in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart… and how half the big innovations in any industry are just figuring out a different analogy to use as a metaphor organizing your […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@shadowsminder Please note that dreamhost's email servers allow email to be sent to and from facebook.com.
How dare they.
When someone puts every post they ever make behind a content warning, what's the point of retweeting them? Even if they say something interesting nobody will ever […]
Starting the long process...
mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/1135174692…
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@graydon making things harder often makes them more brittle. The difference between a firework and a grenade is the steel shell containing the explosive.
I'm waiting for the Boomers to die. We […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@Apiary I grew up on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands between Hawaii and Australia and still wear flip-flops everywhere.
I spent a year in Pittsburgh, commuting by bus with a significant walk […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 2🔗 ┃ RE: landley
Perun agrees the Russian "ICBM" basically wasn't, in his review of the first 1000 days of Russia's 3 day special operation:
youtu.be/vf2vSoWsmgI
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2024-11-24 landley ┃ 2🔗 2👤 ┃ RE: ?
@albertcardona @RuthMalan I generally link to that article when grumbling about this topic in my blog, which makes it easy to find. For […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 2🔗 ┃ RE: landley
Re: "fascists keep retrying", this 1988 George Carlin routine complaining about Reagan sounds a LOT like project 2025, doesn't it? Attourney General investigated by 3 special […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: eaton
@eaton @RuthMalan I found it ironic when the essay on loss of institutional memory itself fell off the net.
If you go one level up from that URL, the index page is all "original, local mirror" […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 3🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@eigen
landley.net/toybox/ is chugging along. I should ask Elliott (the Android base OS maintainer) for an updated status from his end ala lists.landley.net/pipermail/to…… because I'm realizing […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: dalias
@dalias @evacide You realize your level of puritanism leaves you zero allies, right?
Just checking...
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: ?
@serichards That's a @molly0xfff question.
I remember when Richard Dawkins ossified into a loon. JK Rowling wasn't always Slytherin. The Dilbert guy used to punch up.
I have never unquestioningly followed anyone. People […]
2024-11-24 landley ┃ 1🔗 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@RuthMalan This essay was anonymously posted in a pastebin so long ago it got slashdotted back when that meant something. The original has long since gone down, but I mirrored a copy. It's […]
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So putin ran out of all the ammunition Iran and North Korea could sell him, and was reduced to launching a 40 year old cold war ICBM at Ukraine (except probably not because they no longer work) […]
2024-11-23 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@pzmyers My free web host is going away, therefore this internet thing was a fad?
I had a half dozen email addresses and as many websites before I broke down and bought my own domain. […]
2024-11-23 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@b0rk I just download my archive and use grep. I have a sed cutter to chop the json salad into lines somewhere...
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2024-11-22 landley ┃ 4🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@KorinnaAllhoff
Scrolling immediately up in my feed: vmst.io/@SuperSelena64/1135284…
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2024-11-22 landley ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@wongmjane Woodhull foundation?
I'm confused, the same guy duct taped a _fourth_ banana to the wall, why is it being treated as a new thing?
bbc.com/news/articles/cy87202v…
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Marvel movies stopped being good when they ran out of Stan Lee cameos.
That's just math.
It's nice to see one finally admit it: most "formal methods" comp-sci research was a "looking under the streetlamp for my lost keys because I can see better over there" fallacy:
"formal […]
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