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by strenholme 2mo ago
The key difference is this: Areal is a proprietary typeface. Nebula Sans is an open source (SIL) typeface.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Actually, the correct solution is Mastodon, which is an open protocol which can not become a walled garden the way Threads (based on Meta’s activity with Instagram and Facebook) will inevitably become a walled garden.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
You’re talking to the wrong person. You need to be explaining this to the government officials who use Twitter/X to post important updates, so that said officials use something more open than Twitter, such as, I don’t know, Mastodon.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
The Facebook of 20 years ago is very different from the Facebook of today. 20 years ago, one’s Facebook timeline was filled with whatever your friends were posting. These days—and I think this started about a year ago when AI made it real
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by strenholme 2mo ago
To be fair here, X also engages in moderation: I had my account on X suspended multiple times, for supposedly “posting spam”—something which never has happened with any other social media account I ever have had (and I have had them since t
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by strenholme 2mo ago
This is part of the enshittification of social media: Places which used to be open for anyone to read, logged in or not, have become walled gardens, where you can only read the content if you log in, allowing the social network to use brows
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by strenholme 2mo ago
I met a guy who fell for the romance version of that scam over and over again. He was living in an assisted living facility by himself and was very isolated there. He would, as we all do, get those messages via email/Instagram/o
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by strenholme 2mo ago
A few years ago, someone recorded a phone call with a Comcast retention rep who kept trying to tell someone to not cancel their service; it took nearly 20 minutes for someone to cancel their service: https://arstechnica.com/
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by strenholme 2mo ago
I don’t have a transcribe button in the Windows app, but my Android phone has a transcribe button.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
This is the problem with subscription based software. In the days when people owned the software they used, a price increase like this would simply not be possible. People would be able to upgrade their own software on their own timeline.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
The way I handle those, especially with the people who leave me 8 minute long voice notes, is to have WhatsApp transcribe the voice note for me. Or, if that’s not possible, either ignore the voice note or listen to it at 2x speed.
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Here’s a Reddit thread on Adobe being shouted down on BlueSky: https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1juptdx/adob... If that doesn’t open (Reddit has become a walled garden): https:/&#x2F
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by strenholme 2mo ago
Getting RISC-V to have better performance is a matter of in-chip optimizations (caches, pipelines, etc.) and high quality performance oriented fabs. The dominance of x86 after the dot-com bubble popped shows that one can get incredible per
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by strenholme 2mo ago
I believe there will come a day when RISC-V has comparable or better performance than ARM and x86_64. This is based on history: I remember when x86 performance compared to the DEC Alpha, PA-RISC, SPARC, etc. was a joke. There was a time wh
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by strenholme 2mo ago
As someone who is moving my static sites over to GitHub pages: While they are free and work really nice, the problem is that GitHub frequently doesn’t deploy updates to the pages. I have frequently have had to update a GitHub page, push the
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by strenholme 2mo ago
I have a low cost VPS (actually two in two different pre-AI datacenters) and it runs fine. I use nginx to serve the web pages, and the content is about 99% static content. The vBulletin and PHPbb style forums have issues with slowdown (I ha
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by strenholme 3mo ago
Exactly! As an open source developer who has a notable-enough-for-Wikipedia 25-year-old project out there (MaraDNS), let me tell you, a lot of “security bugs” found by AI-assisted researchers are anything but security bugs. Just some exam
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by strenholme 3mo ago
Agreed. This blog entry was really good, but then it started getting really left-leaning and making leftist cancel-culture type arguments by the end. Why is it relevant that Odin’s developer follows Matt Walsh on Twitter? Would Matt Wals
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by strenholme 3mo ago
I have read the entire blog entry while waiting for all of MaraDNS’s automated tests to pass so I could release MaraDNS 3.5.0038. My impression is that I generally agree that people on social media upvote and make go viral what we called “f
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by strenholme 3mo ago
I agree with you about the notability aspects, but using the word “proprietary” has a very specific meaning and Odin may be many things, but it’s not “proprietary”—it’s open source. When I saw you use the word “proprietary”, I was initially
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by strenholme 3mo ago
>Apparently [Brainfuck] is "notable" but Odin is not Brainfuck has been extensively discussed in the following journal papers: https://doi.org/10.1080%2F07350198.2020.1727096 https://doi.org/10.
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by strenholme 3mo ago
>Odin is a proprietary language What do you mean by “proprietary language”? To me “proprietary” means closed source, where one can only download binaries, not source code. “proprietary” can also have source code available, but with a li
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by strenholme 4mo ago
I’ve seen a lot of blog entries using typography so horrible, I had to use reader view to read the page—there was a trend in the mid-2010s to use pencil-thin fonts and there is now and then still a blog out there using one of those unreadab
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by strenholme 4mo ago
AI is a huge bubble, just as dot-com was a huge bubble (I remember when people spent huge amounts of money to have key .com domains; as much as people paid for linux.com back then, the domain essentially went nowhere), and just as buying ho
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by strenholme 4mo ago
The solution is simple: If using an AI-assisted scanner and a guardrail gets hit, then the code is obviously malicious and needs to be automatically flagged (and refuse to run the code!). As an aside, I got hit by the “PC App store” adware
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by strenholme 4mo ago
The Southwest thing is confirmed: https://archive.ph/20250311162848/https://www.cnbc.com/2025/... “Southwest has been under increasing pressure to raise revenue and improve returns after activist he
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by strenholme 5mo ago
This looks interesting, and it’s good to have alternatives to Lua in the embedded space, although MiniScript is an awful lot like Lua on first glance (e.g. using keywords instead of brackets to end loops and conditionals). The things which
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by strenholme 5mo ago
xz is pretty universal across POSIX and clones though. It comes with any modern Linux distro, Busybox even has an .xz decompressor, so `tar xvJF file.tar.xz` does the right thing in *NIX land, which I presume includes MacOS with Brew. For
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by strenholme 5mo ago
For people who are interested, here is the solution. In standard PGN, the solution is: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4 4. Qe2 Nxd2 5. Nc6+ Ne4 6. Nxd8 Kxd8 7. Qxe4 a6 8. Bg5+ Be7 9. Qxe7# In the Stockfish notation this engine uses, White’
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by strenholme 5mo ago
Very good question. I can tell you why I chose Lua 5.1 for MaraDNS: • Lua 5.1 is smaller than Lua 5.4 • Lua 5.1 is LuaJIT compatible; Lua 5.4/5.5 isn’t as compatible LuaJIT is a version of Lua 5.1 which is an incredibly fast scriptin

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