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railmeat

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Software Epistemologist, aspiring star traveler, perpetual beginner. Wallowing in accidental complexity. Stumbling towards recovery. Twitter says I am a midwit.

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brouhaha, to random
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TIL: When you download Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Professional, what you're downloading is an installer. Not an installer for VS2022, but an installer FOR THE INSTALLER of VS2022.

railmeat,
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@brouhaha

There should be a text editor on every system, by default.

railmeat,
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@oclsc @brouhaha @ed1conf

I never really tried ed. Learning it does not seem worthwhile now.

annika, to random
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For Lent, I'm giving up Rent

railmeat,
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@annika

Does that mean you are buying a house, or moving into your car.

Or does this refer to something altogether more interesting.

shanselman, to random
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I bring a Microsoft Wireless Display adapter so I can throw/cast my laptop screen to the hotel TV. Three monitors on the road baby

railmeat,
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@shanselman

Do ever forget it?

cassidy, to iPhone
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I’d lightweight been considering trying an once a few of my nits were solved—and appeared to be systematically addressing them over the years:

Default apps, , , …

But now they’re throwing a monumental tantrum and behaving in the most entitled, anti-consumer way possible—if you wrote it into a fictional plot, you’d get dragged for being unrealistically over the top!

So I’ve again lost interest. Apple can keep poisoning their walled garden; it doesn’t affect me. 🤷

railmeat,
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@cassidy

Do you use an Android? They have some problems too.

shanselman, to random
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buckle up kids it's SUDO for WINDOWS https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/

railmeat,
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@shanselman

I read that. It seems very strange to me. In my limited understanding the windows and Linux user and security models are completely different.

Also Windows has had runas for a long time. Why add this now?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Current desk status

railmeat,
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@thomasfuchs

What kind of display is that?

timbray, to random
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So, I sold an antique tube amplifier on Audiogon, which is a pretty decent used-audio-gear marketplace. Shipped via Fedex. Fedex destroyed it. Huge hole ripped in the side of the high-quality original shipping materials. Claims denied. No recourse offered.

Anyone got experience with a situation like this? I am angry enough to be willing to pay a lawyer.

railmeat,
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@chrishuck

Who do you ship with. FedEx is the best of them in my experience.

@timbray

malwaretech, to random

We haven't done any layoffs, we just happened to relocate our office to the worst state in the US, resulting in many of our employees leaving.

railmeat,
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@Hiker_Scott @malwaretech
Canada is better than the US in some ways.

protonmail, (edited ) to random
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Now you can access Proton Pass in your favorite browser without installing the extension.

Securely generate and store unlimited credentials with Pass on all your devices: https://pass.proton.me

railmeat,
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@protonmail

Are you planning on making a desktop version of Proton Pass?

ai6yr, (edited ) to Dogs

Hmm, a very large dog just came up to the window (outside) here where I am working--about 5 feet way from me--and starting a loud howling for a few minutes, and left. (not my dog). Last night there was a raccoon there all night, and a coyote wandering around. Now I am wondering what is so interesting right here outside.

(I think it was a dog, because it was wearing a reflective collar... but now, I am not so sure).

(For the record, the dog here inside was very confused--but not alarmed--about why a strange dog was howling at the window)

railmeat,
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@ai6yr

Where do you live? Do you live in a rural area? How is there so much wildlife around?

lauren, to random
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The high today in my corner of L.A. was about 53F. Currently at 7:20PM it's about 35F. Don't let anyone tell you that parts of L.A. can't get chilly during the winter sometimes.

railmeat,
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@lauren

Dam that sounds rough. That would be enough to make me put on long pants and a jacket.

scy, to random
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So is now partnering with , i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich.

A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation".

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

railmeat,
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@scy
Considering the company founder’s political views may not be a factor for Pelovac,s evaluation but it will be for his users.

accretionist, to random
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    railmeat,
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    @accretionist

    I vote every chance I get. Since I vote in California my vote does not count in federal races. All California’s electors will go to the Democratic candidate, my senators will be Democrats and my congressional representative will be a democrat.

    My vote might affect state and local races.

    We cannot get ranked choice voting soon enough.

    I like the phrase “A vote is not a love letter…” I will have to use it.

    martijnbraam, to random
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    Well logbookd works, sddm doesn't

    railmeat,
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    @martijnbraam
    I can’t imagine a better way.

    railmeat, to random
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    You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk | Defector https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk

    18+ mekkaokereke, to random
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    As I've said on here before, you can't war crime your way out of an insurgency. Every war crime suffered just tells the civilian population to fear you more than the insurgents.

    And yes, giving soldiers orders to shoot shirtless civilians waving a white flag, is a war crime. "But we thought that they were shirtless, unarmed, Palestinians waving a white flag!" is an even bigger problem.

    Dropping bombs doesn't rescue hostages. "Shoot civilians on sight" doesn't rescue hostages.

    railmeat,
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    @mjf_pro @mekkaokereke

    I thought there was hope that October 7th would be the end for Netanyahu. But now I am not so sure.

    I think Netanyahu will survive and in another five or ten years we will see history repeat itself.

    brodriguesco, to random
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    Unironically better than a laptop

    image/jpeg

    railmeat,
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    @brodriguesco What is all that?

    railmeat,
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    @brodriguesco Looks convoluted to me. But if it works for you it is good.

    More stuff to experiment with some time.

    lauren, to android
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    Unclear to me why people use apps that collect all sorts of data with lots of permissions needed, when there are equivalent apps that collect much less or no data with few if any significant permissions needed.

    At one point dropped showing the permissions in the Play Store, but wisely reversed their decision on that (thanks for listening to feedback on that, Google!), but really, if you don't check this stuff before installing, it won't do you any good.

    railmeat,
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    @lauren
    It is completely clear that many people do not care about security or privacy. Lots of people don’t know, but some who know still don’t care.

    I think this has been amply demonstrated.

    railmeat,
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    @lauren
    I disagree. Many people know that there is privacy and security risks from using computers and mobile phones and don’t care enough to learn more or do anything about it. I base this on my personal experience.

    Of course there are many who don’t have a clue. Education might help them. But I am not so sure.

    mcc, to random
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    So I've been using Rust more or less exclusively now despite not really… idk, liking it (it's ok), and my sole reasoning is that the tooling is so good. Sometimes this feels silly—

    But then this project.

    We're building binary blobs for a nonexistent embedded CPU a collaborator generated for FPGAs from LiteX. Say I want to build an app.

    Rust? You run cargo +nightly build. It figures it out.

    C? I had to build my own GCC (15 GB) then install java, scala, meson & something called "sbt" (1/2)

    railmeat,
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    @mcc
    What are extremophile conditions? It sounds interesting.

    anderseknert, (edited ) to random
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    railmeat,
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    @anderseknert
    Is this real? Did he really write that?

    misc, to random
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    Is there a 12 foot ladder or archive.is for The Information?

    railmeat,
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    @misc
    I just tried both and they both worked. I used Safari on an iPad.

    12ft.io usually does not work for me, archive.is usually does.

    dbc3, to random
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    I endorse this message.

    railmeat,
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    @dbc3 Better public transportation in the US is a good idea. It won't work very well for much of America which is suburban. Too spread out for public transportation to work well.

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