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solrize,

I just use Debian and it’s fine. I don’t understand the point of using “Debian-based” instead of just plain Debian. Maybe I’m missing something but we have some Ubuntu machines at work and it’s hard to tell much difference.

solrize,

That would be Guix, I think. Debian is pretty traditional.

solrize,

Why do they insist on writing “billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang” instead of 10^-33^ seconds? I had to sit there figuring that out. Otherwise an interesting article.

solrize,

You might not remember that the original Macintosh had 128KB. That’s KB with a K.

solrize,

In a way that is less terrifying than a smaller imbalance could be. Like if your neighbor is a cop or maybe a municipal judge in your town, they can really mess with you. But a SCOTUS justice–what are they going to do? Grant emergency cert to your opponent from some Internet debate? Good luck with that, Alito. I’m just me but it doesn’t sound like much to worry about.

Linux on old School Machines?

Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...

solrize,

The biggest demands will come from the browser and its media players, not the OS. An i5 with 4gb RAM will be ok. Anything less will be marginal or worse. The modern web sucks. Did you know that mobile phones are starting to come with cooling fans? OMG.

solrize,

I mean the media players that browsers and the web use. People want to click on youtube links. It all sucks.

UE mini boom Bluetooth speaker

I was looking at my little speaker the other day and thinking to myself about how well it has done. My husband bought it for me about 10 years ago when we were just dating and had moved halfway across the world together with little money. It seemed like a big splurge at the time and we were using it to watch tv shows on our...

solrize,

If the battery isn’t in a commodity form factor that you can easily change yourself, it’s not BIFL, sorry.

solrize,

How about improving ROCm itself? Is it still a big problem like before?

solrize, (edited )

Nobel Laureate is a bit of an overstatement but she was part of an organization that won the Nobel Prize, similar to how Amnesty International has won it a few times:

The 61-year old climate scientist was part of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change team that would go on to share a Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in 2007. Now, Sheinbaum — who has grandparents who escaped the Holocaust — will hold the most powerful office in the country.

She was a contributing author to the 2007 IPCC report, maybe not a huge deal (there were 100+ authors) but it is reasonably relevant. Here is a chapter that she contributed to (I don’t know if there is more than one) and her earlier work is cited.

solrize,

Named after astronomer Vera C. Rubin (1928-2016), I guess.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

There is also an observatory under construction in Chile named after her.

solrize,

Micro SD is probably the least reliable but all these media kind of suck. You need redundancy and frequent testing etc. A pain. I think it gets worthwhile when you have enough data to fill several spinny drives so you can set up a RAID. That means at least 20TB these days. My own stuff right now is on Hetzner Storage Box plus several mongrel servers.

solrize,

Do you mean it downloads all the posts whether you read them or not? Is that basically running your own instance?

solrize,

Yeah I don’t see mention in the article of (so far) any observable reaction from the US pharma industry. It’s maybe reasonable as conjecture but not something we can claim as a fact.

Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.

solrize,

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya…”

solrize,

The idea is to be able to read the password with your eyeballs, so you can type it into another computer. This fails.

solrize, (edited )

I will have to check whether the font in the address bar has the same issue (edit: yes it does). But the reason the “make password visible” feature exists at all (instead of just “copy password to clipboard”) is to make the password readable by eyeball. It fails to do that. That failure is why there is an open Bugzilla ticket. If it worked properly, there would be no ticket or it would have been closed. But making it work is treated as an enhancement rather than a fix. Gack.

Also, pasting the password into the address bar drops it into the search system and maybe leaks it, who knows. Not a good idea.

solrize,

Have you ever compiled Firefox? If not, it’s best not to suggest that to others. It’s not for the faint of heart.

Anyway the usual fixed width fonts like Courier work, or they could put it in about:config.

solrize, (edited )

Hardy har har. I have a saved password on my phone and I want to use it on my laptop. This happens now and then but not often enough to want to introduce another software dependency and its security problems. It’s a password (randomly generated, but still), not War And Peace. Simple enough-- read it off the phone and type it into the laptop, but no. They used a font that makes some characters indistinguishable, there is a 2 year old open ticket to fix it, and you sit there making wisecracks. Found the issue:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification

solrize,

This is on my phone (Android Firefox), not the computer (desktop Firefox). Yes some of the characters in the font are indistinguishable. That’s why there’s a ticket open after all. And even if crappy workarounds exist, it can and does still suck. Thus, JMINS.

Why do you defend this crap? I never understand what makes people do that.

solrize,

That’s interesting. Last time I did it I had to manually install a ridiculous amount of dependencies one by one, among other things. I will have to try Nixos (or Guix) sometime. Computers are faster now too. I remember taking way more than 2 hours but it was on a slow machine by today’s standards. Thanks.

solrize,
  1. I didn’t open that ticket. I encountered the issue, went to the tracker, and found there was already a ticket open.
  2. Tickets have priority labels. The existence of a workaround like pasting the password to a program with a different display font means this bug is not a showstopper. That doesn’t mean it is not a bug.
  3. No it’s not just this one bug. There are plenty more. I can link more tickets if you want. I was going to do that but the discussion about the password font bug spiralled.
  4. What is happening is mostly an attitude problem, it seems. People like you, seeing a code bug, instead of fixing it (or in this case at least recognizing that it should be fixed), go around searching for rationalizations for leaving it unfixed. It being unfixed while Mozilla continues to bloat up the browser with more new crap is instead evidence of Mozilla’s priorities being screwed up.
solrize,

Plain text or org mode file.

solrize,

Ah thanks. I stopped reading when I saw the light being reviewed wasn’t anduril. I really don’t care much about non-anduril lights without other unusual features.

Could they possibly do an anduril version of the Sofirn SC13? Or revive the LT1 Mini? Either would be nice.

solrize,

Hmm ok. That doesn’t sound too hopeful then. Thanks.

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