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mcc, to random
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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc,
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@nazokiyoubinbou It was too hard. I tried to play it and it was too hard

My friend who is a Mega Fan however says the ZX Legacy Collection on Steam and Switch adds difficulty settings tho!

mcc, (edited ) to random
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I don't know if I can communicate to cis people the horror of going through the wrong puberty. Your body is being turned against you from the inside and it goes on for years. The transphobic wedge strategy decrees there are no legitimate trans folk under 16, so puberty blockers are a kind of compromise— freezing the poison in your blood in place until you turn 16 and are allowed medical self-determination. The Conservatives have made even this half-mercy a criminal act. https://lgbt.io/@gendercensus/112564150066141141

mcc,
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Note: The original form of the above post said "18", I have double checked and per the official docs the NHS says trans people are eligible for HRT at 16. I am not in Britain. I don't know how that "16" line is modified by other policies, harassment campaigns ( https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/04/02/tavistock-britains-biggest-gender-identity-clinic-has-closed/ ) and/or the Conservative emergency order. What I have heard from every British trans person is that getting the NHS to prescribe HRT at all is like pulling teeth from a gorilla.

mcc,
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Again I'm not in Britain, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know how to read this order (I think I know how to read American laws and executive orders, but this no), the exceptions section is spaghetti.

I'd argue that if (for example) a cis woman gets treatment for gender incongruous effects of PCOS, that's treating "gender dysphoria or gender incongruence" but I'm assuming that's not legally the case here. The intent seems to be a carveout where cis people can get the drugs but trans people can't.

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A quick PSA: the async method adapter.requestAdapterInfo() is being replaced with the attribute adapter.info. You can try it now in Chrome Canary!

https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/commit/9e908a7dca56215132ec7afc8962b18f993bbd2d

requestAdapterInfo will stick around in Chrome for a little bit while we monitor usage, but we plan to eventually remove it and leave just adapter.info. From what I hear Firefox and Safari are considering only shipping the adapter.info variant.

Read on for a thread about why!

mcc,
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@tojiro So do I understand adapter.info is not a new API or something being added to the standard, it's just that the tier-one/fallback api is now going to be the only api?

mcc, to random
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"You must restart your computer to complete the installation of this software, as if this were the 1900s"

mcc,
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@jonfr600 ewww :(

mcc,
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@jonfr600 This is why when people say "Don't worry about Microsoft Recall! You can turn it off!" I stay worried because I keep turning off things in Microsoft products and later realizing they're still on

mcc,
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@jonfr600 Good luck! I switched to Linux on my laptop and now my computer sometimes doesn't wake up again when I close the lid to sleep it :(

mcc,
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@jonfr600 In the very newest Ubuntu there's also apparently a separate problem where every time you close the laptop to sleep it and reopen to wake it, the CPU becomes 5% slower. There is no way to reverse this process except rebooting. It is not clear to me if my system is affected.

mcc,
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@apgarcia Thank you. I did not know this

mcc,
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@jonfr600 Making a computer sounds hard.

mcc, to random
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Asking for a friend.

In Visual Studio Code for Mac, what determines the environment variables of VSCode and the processes it spawns?

More specifically ("what are you trying to do?"): When Visual Studio Code invokes msbuild (for example, launch.json contains a "type":"dotnet" "request":"launch") and the msbuild contains an <Exec> task, what $PATH does that <Exec> use? Can this $PATH be configured on a per-system basis?

mcc, (edited )
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The documentation for launch.json https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/debugging lightly documents an "env" and an "envFile" key you may place into a particular launch entry. However, there are two things I cannot tell from this doc:

  • If one wishes to amend an environment variable (for example, prepend a directory to $PATH), as opposed to replacing it, is there a syntax for this?
  • If no such env key is present, what determines the defaults?
mcc,
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My friend (She's a very close friend. You could even describe her as a "pal".) has some testing and discovered that for <Exec> tasks that launch a #!/usr/bin/bash .sh script, you can affect the environment by adding lines to .bash_profile. However, .bash_profile will only be loaded for these purposes once, when VS Code launches. This is… workable, but is extremely surprising, so it seems like a problem that I can't find any of these behaviors explicitly documented.

mcc,
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It seems like this is a Problem and the way it got this way is Visual Studio Code was written first on Windows, where the answer to all these questions is obvious (right click on My Computer, click "Properties", set the environment variables). But on Mac it is not so obvious. Maybe I should feel bad I don't know how to set the environment variables for a Cocoa app system-wide? I feel like normally you wouldn't need to do this, if you did need it the app would expose a GUI. But VS Code doesn't.

mcc,
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@hisham_hm In testing, .bash_profile worked, and .bashrc did not. This is a little besides the point however because it only works for .sh <Exec> tasks and you could of course invoke any kind of program there.

mcc,
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@glyph Finder. The Dock

mcc,
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@NeoNacho I do not think I would rely on such a process

Migueldeicaza, to random
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After a fine day reimplementing the debugger UI, a treat:

mcc,
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@Migueldeicaza I am moved to tears by the beauty I here see

mcc, to random
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I'm trying to edit the code from a Unity project with Visual Studio Code and I'm not getting any of the "IDE features", like, no mouseover type popups, no autocomplete, no "Go to definition". If I look in my plugins I have "C#", "C# Dev Kit", "Intellicode for C# Dev Kit", and "Unity". This is the VSCode project created by Unity when you double-click an error in Console, there's a .sln file listed in file explorer and all. But VSCode is acting like it has no IDE capabilities. What could be wrong?

mcc, (edited )
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Ok so:

  • After some discussion I realized that Unity has two projects listed in the package manager, Visual Studio Editor and Visual Studio Code Editor.
  • I had Visual Studio Editor rather than Visual Studio Code Editor.
  • So I uninstalled Visual Studio Editor and installed Visual Studio Code Editor.
  • Immediately, Visual Studio Code started giving an error that it could not find the Visual Studio Editor plugin.

Maybe it just wants me to switch to Visual Studio regular. Maybe that's just it :(

mcc,
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@onelson I think… I think Visual Studio Code Editor is just not real, and Visual Studio Code uses Visual Studio Code Editor. I think the other one is just sort of a trap. Something that was used before 2022 and is only there now to break things if you accidentally install it on a modern Unity

mcc,
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@allpurposemat the thing that fixed it for me was installing a newer version of .NET

mcc,
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@allpurposemat The dream…

mcc, to random
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The Kensington Market petrification wizard is back https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110379663517628624

I think I must not be the only one kinda weirded out by these fliers, cuz I saw at least one where someone had ripped out the image of the woman being turned to stone while leaving the contact numbers untouched

mcc, to random
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Men are always saying this https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/112547724546996006

mcc, to random
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Neologistics

mcc, to random
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Has anyone else started seeing a problem with the scrollwheel not working in the Mastodon "advanced" UI? This started for me about 72 hours ago and has persisted across reboots, upgrading Chrome, etc. I get it ONLY on the specific configuration of Chrome+Windows+mastodon.social. (Chrome+Windows has no such problem on any other website. Firefox doesn't seem to reproduce the problem on either Windows or Linux.) https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30537

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