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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I was on the "just use makefiles" boat way too long, except it was Just at the time that was calling for my attention. At first glance, they look similar. Make's already there, so what's the big deal? And then I use Just
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Why wasn’t Kermit used by BBSes? Even at the time I remember having read about it in computer magazines, but I got my first modem in ‘82 or so and I don’t recall ever seeing it in the wild. My first actual contact with it was uploading firm
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
BTW, this is darn near to being bullet journaling. It’s also almost exactly how I ended up taking notes after experimenting with bullet journaling and throwing out the parts I don’t really use.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I gladly pay for Kagi because the experience is so much better that it’s worth it to me.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I think it's amazing that this project exists, and I have much respect for the authors. Well done. Still, I don't want to get stuck lying to my OS to make its features work on my hardware, and I don't want to have to trust th
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Synology is truly dead to me now. I used their stuck mostly happily since my first DS412+ way back when. But this thing with locking down features to require their own branded drives is madness. No way, no how. Last year they tried restrict
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Excellent point. We absolutely should not care that the people we hire to protect are are sometimes convicted of harming us. It's only a few hundred victims a year so we should utterly ignore that it's happening. That traditionall
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
You keep saying that but I disagree strongly. Having looked at both fnox and secretspec, there are some obvious similarities because they're both in the same space, interacting with many of the same tools, and there are only so many wa
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Seconded. I've also had great luck with the same author's fnox secret manager, especially because you can tell it to fetch some secrets from the user's laptop's OS keychain, and some out of 1Password, and some out of AWS
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Who did Doctorow run out of business?
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
For a short while in the 80s, little plastic or rubber face protectors were trendy. They had little vertical bumpers that covered the watch face from top to bottom. That’s how my friend didn’t see the “A” and the “N” on his “ASEIKON” watch
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I LOLed. Amazing. Bravo!
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I'm not familiar with it, which makes me want to add it to the reading stack.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Not them, but I read Moby Dick last year. Man, I felt like I'd been lied to. It's kind of a laughing stock reference to giant old-timey books that were famous for being famous and such. So wrong! It was hilarious in parts. The n
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I was prepared to read how its console logging function could reorder writes so that log('a'); log('b'); could result in b a or something, which would've been no less surprising.
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
1. What a freaking miracle. Growing up in the 80's, the notion was terrifying. I was straight and it was something my friends and I discussed. I can't imagine how awful it must've been for gay communities. Again, what a mirac
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
That all makes sense. A couple things I’m still not clear on: * If someone has a negative test after treatment, but that’s not counted as “cured”, does that imply it could (or maybe will ) come back if treatment is stopped? * What’s the im
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
I understand the difference between those statements, but confess that I'm not clear on the important distinction. Are there situations where untreated HIV doesn't progress to AIDS? Is the virus more transmissible in someone with
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
What’s the Venn diagram of 1) HN users, 2) on Windows, 3) willing to paste something tagged as malware into their own systems to verify? Given that the asker isn’t experienced enough to know for sure, erring on the side of giving all the in
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
I do this literally several times a week. “Hey Droid, this looks like malware. What do you make of it?” It’s the best sandbox I have near at hand for investigating things like that.
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
Not directly answering your questions, but I just wanted to say: Great instincts! You saw something unusual, then 1. Stopped what you were doing. 2. Investigated to see if this was legitimate or malicious. 3. Identified a place to asked oth
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
Or we could have healthcare that doesn't profit off human misery such that his wife could take her full, prescribed medical dose. The idea of someone cutting pills in half because their insurer is reporting record profits drives me nut
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
That just about broke my heart. I can imagine how awful and hopeless I'd feel in that situation, at least as a first reaction. Great. Just I'll just plan on not planning until I can get the doctor to send a new prescription, whic
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
Hear, hear. I've fortunately not had to personally deal with depression, but have been around those who have, and "just go to the gym" is right up there with "have you just tried not being sad?" on the list of unact
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
No. Auto-formatters have a way of getting people out of the mindset of arguing about it and just accepting that's the way it is. It's not that different from, say, using a compiled language instead of assembler. You and I might ha
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
Historically, yes. At some point, one person who likes to work with narrow terminal windows gets fed up with long lines and starts reformatting stuff as they go. Another person with a widescreen editor hates looking at code clustered around
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
I genuinely think you're on the wrong track there. Someone can express their artistry different from your ways and still take pride in their artistry.
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
That's an uncharitable take and I urge you to reconsider. I also take great joy and pride in the art of writing beautiful code. I have no desire to be a cog in a machine. However, my ADHD brain is delighted to not have to make a millio
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
Anubis’s silly, harmless images do a good job of driving away the traffic I don’t want on my personal site. Anyone who couldn’t abide seeing a cartoon for half a second wouldn’t likely be fun to interact with.
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by kstrauser 3mo ago
Excellent! When I put Anubis in front of my home Forgejo server, it blocked about 600,000 IO-expensive queries a day. I’d love to think it’s costing some moron $2000 to scrape my site the most idiotic way possible instead of just running gi

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