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beejjorgensen

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej’s Guides.

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I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I’ve already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

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I took my money from YouTube and started giving it to Kagi. 🙂👍

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I’m a gray developer and nothing makes me more get-off-my-lawn than too many levels of abstractions. :)

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Turns out if you get rid of ads and the algorithm, you end up back in the land of sanity.

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I haven’t tried it, but anything that’s interoperable is fine by me.

beejjorgensen,
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Louis Rossmann: “when the pirate experience is better than the paid experience, you have a problem.”

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I was a premium subscriber for a long time, and probably still would be if Google hadn’t turned so evil that I can no longer in good conscience pay them any money.

But what pushed me over the edge with an ad blocker was a page I got to where every paragraph had a video ad in between. That was it.

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I don’t know how it renders, but the idea was you could mark the address at the beginning of the block and the address at the end of the block, and then address finders would try to guess the intermediate addresses if anybody asked for them.

I think they’ve fallen out of favor and now people just add addresses to every building. Maybe.

What Linux options exist for passkeys?

I see Google and Apple really embracing passkeys lately and I’m trying to understand the hype, but it can be challenging. I also see that Bitwarden and 1Password are embracing them too. As far as I can tell, passkeys are just key pairs that behave like FIDO2 tokens (e.g. my yubikey) but are backed up to some cloud and usable...

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It’s my understanding that the passkeys are stored encrypted so this is not an issue.

Google deciding to disable your account for no reason is something to fear, though.

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I would be so much happier with this than relying on a third party like Google to provide access to my passkeys.

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I’m guessing conversion of those boosters to electric would be part of the process…? But I don’t know.

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User base is the value.

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It’s Qatar.

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“substantial similarity is a mandatory feature of all copyright-infringement claims”

Is that not a requirement? Time for me to start suing people!

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Definitely. And your best self wants to buy these fantastic products.

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I still go to Reddit subs when something interesting appears in my RSS feed.

As soon as they kill RSS (and honestly I’m pretty surprised they haven’t yet), I’ll never go there again.

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I hypothesize the failure of AI in this arena will be due to the fact that English is a shit programming language. It can take many times the amount of English to be precise compared to the equivalent computer code.

beejjorgensen,
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Not even the Constitution is immune to change or deletion, as you mentioned.

Democracy is hard. The natural state of government is dictatorship.

beejjorgensen,
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Use the right tool for the job, I say.

I made a decent chunk of change with capitalism. I have a modest house and am well positioned for a middle-class retirement.

Now I work for the government in a field for which I find the capitalist options wanting.

I give away my programming guides for free online with no ads, but sell paper copies of the books for profit.

Could I make more money by charging for the online versions? Sure. But some things are worth more than money.

The quest for money doesn’t ruin everything, but it sure ruins a lot of things.

Bell Labs of yore would be my dream company to work for.

beejjorgensen,
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beej.us/guide/

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I still have this poster!

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In addition to the summary, I’d add that in his book, he makes the argument that interoperability is the key factor in getting control back. The trick is getting it, of course.

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Also remember that companies like Google are working hard to make it impossible to create anything outside of the walled garden.

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What’s the backup login mechanism when you lose your biometric sensor? How do you pair with the new sensor?

beejjorgensen,
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Compensations are light years behind whatever’s coming next. 🙂 And I don’t think of them as “core”. They’re practically syntactic sugar. If you can write a comprehension but can’t write a loop with a conditional in Python or FORTRAN, you’re missing the core.

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