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by brennen 10y ago
Welp, we're fucked.
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by brennen 10y ago
At this stage, I'm in the "systemd is in practice fairly bad, but there's not very much I can do about it" camp. It now seems unfortunate that its ideological opponents have behaved so poorly in so many cases; I'm
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by brennen 10y ago
In order to roughly scale how much technical knowledge this actually represents, remember that most humans, even most humans with home networks, do not know what routers and networks are .
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by brennen 10y ago
I think SQLite stands a better chance of still being readable in 30 years than many possible storage mechanisms, but I'd hedge my bets if I were you: Export the SQL routinely, like pryelluw suggests, and make regular backups. Other th
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by brennen 10y ago
It was, hands down, the single most clever and effective use of a technical tool to increase polarization and hostility online I have ever seen. This seems like a nonsensical assessment at best. Use of the script was
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by brennen 10y ago
There's some interesting stuff here. Builtin templating and macros are cool, and I don't immediately hate the syntax. I'm not sure if I'd want the Node dependency, but...
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by brennen 10y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the pointer to dvtm. I'm not sure I can see using it when I'm already fairly hooked on tmux, but it does seem kind of nice.
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by brennen 10y ago
I'm broadly in favor of HTTPS-everywhere, but this does seem likely to happen in a number of cases. Then again, I'm not sure it will be all that impactful in a situation where everybody's already leaving the open web for Fac
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by brennen 10y ago
> I owe my career to free software. Me too. :) I'm not giving up - and I agree that both as an end user and a developer, there's plenty to appreciate right now. Still, I think there are a lot of hard, complicated thoughts to b
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by brennen 10y ago
Sure. My thesis is just that: a) open source as a technique and a body of work has become indispensable (or at least, for the moment, quite important) to a lot of industry and to the structure of the existing network that enables it. I do
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by brennen 10y ago
Since it was unclear from my comment: I consider myself an active (if entirely unimportant) participant in the movement, and the state of affairs I describe is one I'm deeply concerned by. I still see it as broadly true that we'r
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by brennen 10y ago
> I feel that we're in a post-revolutionary phase of open source It seems increasingly clear to me that this is true, albeit in the sense that the revolutionary aims of the FOSS movement (if we can genuinely lump things together) ha
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by brennen 10y ago
Here's a bet (confidence level: I don't know if I really think this, but I might think this): Long-term, the size constraints of "mobile" displays are likely to be an aberration for most applications. We'll get so
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by brennen 10y ago
I am increasingly inclined to do exactly that.
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by brennen 10y ago
Yeah. If he stayed away from politics, race, sexuality, pop culture, and guns (and toned down the hyperbolic "community luminary" pose) he'd be in general a fairly entertaining writer. I'm certainly glad I read this bi
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by brennen 10y ago
Perl is still, I think, the gold standard for quoting and string manipulation syntax. I am to this day routinely perplexed by the verbosity and ugliness of simple operations on strings in other languages. (Of course, this may also be one o
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by brennen 10y ago
> Your junior year high school dance? Don't see pictures and video of it, live it again. The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough.
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by brennen 10y ago
This had the effect of making me want to spend time with both languages, so good work, I'd say.
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by brennen 10y ago
> mindless consumption It's funny how rarely I see people describing their own actions in these terms, though. I mean, I'm sure it happens, but the dominant mode seems more like "my behavior is authentic, those other pe
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by brennen 10y ago
The Wayland transition will, itself, probably leave people with my preferences (tiling WM, a stack of other small customizations that depend on X) high and dry for a while, but I guess one can hope that it'll be a solid foundation for
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by brennen 10y ago
In my more conspiracy-minded moments, I conclude that the overall trend towards garbage keyboards even on high-end machines is long-game industry collusion to force us all, eventually, into pure-touchscreen interfaces. I glimpse the future
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by brennen 10y ago
Not to speak of, but I have friends with earlier models who I think did experience some weirdness. ISTR something about a BIOS update fixing it?
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by brennen 10y ago
> Linux isn't really there yet. It really isn't, quite. I'm using a brand new Dell XPS 13 with the way-too-many-pixels option, and there are a lot of things that have to be tweaked, particularly if you're not running
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by brennen 10y ago
Same. Seems like the wording on some questions could use tweaking. Not bad overall, though.
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by brennen 10y ago
There's DrawIt: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 ...but really I'd like to figure out a good workflow for dropping screenshots and MyPaint sketches into vimwiki diary entries.
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by brennen 10y ago
A low-end Wacom is, IMO, probably worth trying. I've been using one in combination with MyPaint[0] for a few years to do quick sketches and cartoons. It definitely hasn't replaced paper for me, but it's a good way to get so
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by brennen 10y ago
> a medium where identity is irrelevant I find it baffling that this sentence could have been written in earnest at the present historical moment.
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by brennen 10y ago
Yeah, in my head, the model of this doesn't necessarily tie a given AI (or a community of AIs, or a pool of we-can't-even-model it intelligence that only sometimes bothers with splitting itself into identities) to a ship all that
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by brennen 10y ago
It's a damn shame the brain eater got to Simmons. Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion are pretty amazing work.
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by brennen 10y ago
It's hard to generalize here. ST, in its various incarnations, is fundamentally an anthology and (as things progress) a collection of character studies. It's routinely absurd, but plenty of individual episodes are certainly good

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