OhMeadhbh

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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
sure, but when I worked there, the only abbreviation I remember seeing was LLNL for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. But the T:L producers could easily have just used LLL as their own abbreviation.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
lol. I remember seeing LLLSDL go by when I originally saw the movie. The funny but is I had just written the internet draft for LLSD, so I was wondering g if someone on the writing staff had been following our work at Linden Lab. More li
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
As a long time emacs user, I appreciated the inclusion of EMACS as an error code. When I moved from TECO to gnu emacs in to 80s, elisp was an advance. Now I have a perpetual todo item... "rewrite emacs in fennel or janet or even mini
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I upvoted this post because a) I love hearing people's memories of their first programming interactions and b) Susam's website is delightfully straight-forward: no ads, appeals to download AI apps and the videos are in support of
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
and Pagemill and Sitemill. At Bell Canada we had a very early web dev team in '94-'95. At one point pagemill came out and we could hire mostly non technical designers to build web pages. At the time it seemed like magic. We did
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
join the party.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
This kind of misses the point. Or rather... it's necessary but not sufficient. If the goal is to get code you can trust, then you have to trust each package. Origin Integrity will help you with this if you have a list of trusted dev
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
And there were some amazing RAD and prototyping tools in the 90s (mostly for DOS, but also for Windoze desktop apps.) You're right, we sort of gave up on the idea when everyone wanted to be seen as a "real" software engineer
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
If Google can reuse the "Flash" brand, I'm re-branding myself as "Meadhbh the Merciless."
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
IPCMSes make it somewhat easy to MitM SMS. If your system poops a cookie in the wrong place it doesn't matter if the secret is in someone's head or if it's in a hardware dongle, like you say... the hacker is "in".
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Also... Money is Theft and The Economy is a Lie. Education inoculates you against new facts. Our meritocratic democracy ensures government by the mediocre. As Paul Virillo once quipped, "the invention of the ship was also the inventi
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
All revolutionary fervour aside, I'm a fan of Kurz. My bread is buttered more on the David Harvey side, but Kurz is no fool. I'm not sure the headline "Capitalism has to become more humane" is the best distillation of
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I'm going to start singing the Internationale here in a second. (not snarky. I'm feeling pretty revolutionary after that last comment.)
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Oh man. Don't google "sackler family" or "purdue pharma". [EDIT: Added after that one person upvoted this comment.] Slavery was big in the south because there wasn't enough low-skill labor to feel threatened.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Isn't the point of modern capitalism that you don't have to be humane. Or that the best way to be humane is to do what's best for company management?
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I miss Apple during it's hey-day. There was a time when Apple was the sine qua non for #a11y and #hci. Then Steve came back.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Am I really so old that when someone says "Flash" my immediate response is... "consider HTML5 instead" ??
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
For people coming to this later. A day later, I bounced my router and got a new public facing IP. All my problems went away. Willing to bet GH thought I was a horrible H4XX0R based on my previous IP.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Yup. There's a reason that all the AppKit classes start with 'NS'.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I have issues with the Librem community. But... if you like them, I certainly won't dis you (or them.) I don't think they're bad people or bad developers, they just have a style that sets my teeth grinding. That's a
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
What will cryptography buy you in this instance? Do digital signatures imply virtuous behaviour? Does the lack of a signature imply vice?
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
No. It is partially due to trivial dependencies. With so many dependencies it is very difficult to evaluate the security posture of all the teams that are inserting themselves into your code. When I publish commercial software for Unice
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Sure, but the Python community isn't the paragon of software risk management excellence you may think it is. Both Python and Node users (metaphorically) asked for a loaded revolver... They got a metaphorical high yield thermonuclear d
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I initially read this to mean NPM has a pro-concealed-carry policy, which I don't think it does and I don't think is what you meant. But... Node's culture does not reward "rational" policies with respect to dependen
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Well, hell. I only new Peter peripherally, but every time I met him he was a wonderful human. I built cryptography libraries in the 90s and Peter was responsible for expanding my thinking about the systems surrounding security controls an
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Performance, memory efficiency, some security nits (but compared to Leenucks, it's not that bad), bug fix cadence (there's a bug I filed against NeXTStep 2.2 in 1993 that was finally fixed in 2015), support (they keep changing t
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Coming from Xfinity with a dynamic IP. Could be the person who had this IP before me was running a bot that hammered them.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Not sure. I thought the FuriPhone's advantage was that they were making it in conjunction with the ODM so you didn't have to use halium to call into Android. But a quick google search tells me I'm mistaken. Maybe I was thi
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Was recently looking at the FuriPhone (linux phone that runs Debian) and now I'm thinking it would be a fun project to port HaikuOS to it.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Though I think it also boots in a VM if that's your preference. Also very cool that it's on real hardware.

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