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by rollcat 3y ago
I would like to protest, mg(1), unlike Word, is actually a perfectly usable text editor. < https://www.rollc.at/posts/2022-01-23-mg/ >
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by rollcat 3y ago
That's a very pessimistic take. I think defense in depth works exactly as advertised: you need progressively disproportionate resources to mount successful attacks, to the point where you need state-level actors/funding. E.g. mode
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by rollcat 3y ago
I really enjoyed participating in Solene%'s Old Computer Challenge 2022: < https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchalleng... > I adjusted my rules a bit to make them fit into my setup (WFH, Homek
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by rollcat 3y ago
Agree, also sqlite might turn out faster than a filesystem even for much more practical cases: https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html However it still tickles my curiosity and exercises an interesting pathological case. As a
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by rollcat 3y ago
I like what Go does (I know, the irony). Buy a domain name, that's your namespace.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Yeah, thinking is cheap, building (successful) stuff is hard.
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Putting up all sorts of requirements on where and how to build is not helpful [...] Well that's the general trajectory of what I'm thinking about - NOT hurdles, but infrastructure AND incentives for developers, that will help
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by rollcat 3y ago
My random €0.03: - I see "stores" such as Flathub or App Store mostly as infrastructure, and infrastructure should be a commodity. Still, whenever you can choose a supplier for a commodity, you should make a conscious decision bas
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by rollcat 3y ago
I think an appropriate apology should address the overall situation, not a particular event. Say you're loading some data over the network, and it's taking unusually long. You decide to display a message, "sorry that it'
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by rollcat 3y ago
> The shell is not a sane programming environment and was never intended as such. There are 10kloc C programs that could be 10 lines of shell and there are 1kloc shell programs that could've been 100 lines of C. Both kinds are nowad
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by rollcat 3y ago
> And I was particularly disappointed when Mozilla laid off the Servo team, I feel they let go of the most important thing they had. Gotta pay out those CEO bonuses somehow. In a sick plot twist Mozilla gets shocked back to its senses, r
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by rollcat 3y ago
I think it could be a very good target for a Rockbox port, however they very specifically emphasize Lua and hackability among their goals (check out the UI code samples); they're also developing the hardware+software platforms in tande
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by rollcat 3y ago
It's a bit more bulky (classic iPod sized), but check out Tangara: < https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara >. Stock, easily replaceable parts, USB-C+3.5mm+BT, SDXC slot with 2TB limit, standard li
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by rollcat 3y ago
USB is usually too complex for something like a simple split keyboard; the TRRS runs I2C with sth like a MCP23018-E/SP IO expander in the other half.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Me&family spent like €5k on Apple devices (incl. smart speakers), then another €20+/mo on various subscriptions such as Apple Music. So I play through AirPods from a Mac using Music.app and from Apple's catalogue... the librar
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by rollcat 3y ago
I propose that we shall use bananas as the unit for request rate (one banana = one request per second); it's obviously appropriate as: 1. Bananas are the de-facto standard for measuring the relative size of things posted online. Reques
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by rollcat 3y ago
Yeah, I don't pick up calls unless they're from someone in my contacts. Too much spam, scam, and scum. Also: push-to-Siri is maybe the least convenient, but also least annoying and most consistent trigger. Apple Watch comes with &
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by rollcat 3y ago
Rakarrack < https://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ > has a GUI written in FLTK. It was my earliest adventure with guitar effects and DSP (ca 2008); it ran on a potato laptop and still kept up, which made the whole setup act
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by rollcat 3y ago
I used to build my blog with Pandoc, make, and a little bit of Python/Jinja2 glue to generate indexes/tags/RSS. The amount of glue tends to get out of hand as the project's needs grow though.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Oh yes, systemd in general and timers in particular do have a whole bunch of awesome stuff - I just tend to forget any of it exists, it's my coping mechanism for dealing with "heterogeneous" environments. I still have CentOS6
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by rollcat 3y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but how would this fare against a simple, purely mechanical connection, like wiring terminals, like the ones used for home electrical installations? (Or more specialized ones, since we're talking Military Grade.) I
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by rollcat 3y ago
Adding a little bit of random delay to any scheduled / triggered actions is always a good idea, and is usually very cheap to implement. If you're on OpenBSD, their cron supports randomized ranges using the ~ operator (see < htt
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by rollcat 3y ago
For encoding, it's like riding a bus vs pushing a bus. AWS sells a $100k 1u encoder box to broadcast companies. They buy that because there's hardly a 2nd best to speak of. Encoding 15min of 8k source material on i9 9900k (that wa
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by rollcat 3y ago
> (if (display-graphic-p) This right here. Emacs actually supports graphical output (X11, Cocoa, Win32). Additional bonuses include: Esc is actually Esc; you can bind Ctrl+Shift or Cmd; you can use more than one font at a time; you can d
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by rollcat 3y ago
The characters in "Star Trek" are well aware of the holodeck's limitations. Data can "see" the walls: https://youtu.be/uWWn0fPbcRs?feature=shared&t=192 B'elanna Torres (and many other chara
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by rollcat 3y ago
100x this. One of the smartest, most compassionate, successful, and resourceful people I've ever met, is a high school dropout. Even the story of that dropout alone is amazing (he managed to secure a huge grant for the said school, and
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by rollcat 3y ago
I've been re-implementing a bunch of coreutils as an exercise, and got stuck on dd input/output block sizes, AND disk/partition block sizes for a while. (As far as I understand it, for dd I need a ring buffer the size of max(
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by rollcat 3y ago
Sometimes we get cookie banners, sometimes we get EC 261, Schengen, or USB-C. The root cause of the cookie banner problem was implementing third-party cookies in the first place. Regulation is like violence; in both that if it doesn't
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by rollcat 3y ago
Nothing a quick regulation can't solve. If EU could make Apple use USB-C and enable non-Webkit browsers, I'm sure same could be done to fix eSIM.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Interesting idea, however in practice: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#g=0 (779 products) vs https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/ (1369 products), and this is mostly just deskto

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