mhoye

mhoye, 15 hours ago to random

This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

mhoye, 3 hours ago to random

Love it. One stray bracket and it all falls apart.

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

There is only one thing that I disagree with in @baldur 's excellent article on "the deskilling of webdev" - https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/ - but I feel like it is a significant omission.

Baldur even touches on it here, earlier in the year, but doesn't explicitly connect the dots: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

It's the passive voice of the title.

Development isn't mysteriously becoming deskilled. It is actively being directed, to manage the employment market, by the largest players in that market.

mhoye, 20 hours ago to random

Rummaging through old 302 slides, found this gem:

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

Getting an "unknown item compatible with the Find My network is with you" notification when I'm at home, at three AM, is... curious.

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

I thought this was widely known, but I suppose not:

https://438punk.house/@xyhhx/112507818857555419

There's also code built into printers, scanners and close-source image editors programs that recognizes currency and prevents you from scanning, printing or manipulating images of money.

Remember, there's no such thing as "printers" or "scanners". There are only computers, often network-connected, that happen to have printing and scanning features.

https://youtu.be/1c-jBfZPVv4

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

If I say "kittens and pop tarts" and your mind goes here instead of nyan then you owe @jonrosenberg a few bucks of brain rent: https://www.patreon.com/jonrosenberg

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

!!??

mhoye, 2 days ago to random

Incredible: https://newatlas.com/materials/concrete-steel-recycle-cambridge-zero-carbon-cement/

mhoye, 2 days ago to random

Question: is there a linux installer out there that makes some effort to save or recover data from the target system?

I feel like an installer that branched off into something like, "backup one or more user accounts", "take a drive snapshot" or "please run PhotoRec" would be extremely welcome by people nervous about their first Linux install, I've just never seen anything like that. It's always "yup we're gonna just burn this to the ground and pave over it."

mhoye, 2 days ago to random

The article I was looking for a while ago about the feel of cutting - "kireaji", sometimes translated as the "flavor of cutting" - was this, from TW Lim, called "Forming An Edge"

https://www.scopeofwork.net/forming-an-edge/

This is, I think, a wonderful paragraph:

mhoye, 3 days ago to random

Toronto friends: is any sort of industrial or commercial space out here always like $20/sqft/mo and always up in the thousands of square foot range? Does anyone rent out, like, 300sqft industrial spaces for non bonkers money?

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

ok everyone's gotta pick a corner and then we can put this week behind us

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

"Every empire's fall begins with a peasant's hunger" is far too powerful a line to be a half-misquoted remark from a middling comic book villain in a middling comic book.

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

I do love this city in the summer tho

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

I'm generally in favor of nationalizing and dismantling companies if remediating the damage they've done to the world will cost more than they're worth.

mhoye, 5 days ago to random

TIL the Ingenuity - the little martian helicopter that could, parked for good after a hard landing and no longer able to communicate with the Perseverance rover that's rolled over the horizon - got one last software update patch saying, "once a day, wake up, take one picture, measure everything you can and go back to sleep."

It can't send that information anywhere, but it might run like that gathering data in place for 20 years.

At some point we'll need go to get it.

https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-team-says-goodbye

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

Not sure what comes after championing "unvaccinated" and "unpasteurized"? Unsoaped maybe?

Apparently some of them are already out there wearing diapers, what's the over-under on "soap is woke", do you think?

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

I kind of love how pitch-perfectly Elon Musk this is.

"Neuralink is looking for new approaches to this compression problem, and exceptional engineers to work on it."

What have we tried so far?

"Zip."

Yuuuuup. Ok, guy.

https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

mhoye, 4 days ago to random

Sitting here idly thinking about copyright, code scraping, licensing, just wondering to myself what might be different if most of our prominent open-commons licensing bodies hadn't decided they'd rather be low-functioning personality cults and sit out the 21st century instead of interrogating their own ineffectiveness and doing anything different.

mhoye, 5 days ago to random

If you're of a "try out linux distros to see what you like" bent: I don't see a lot of people out here showing it a lot of love but KDE is very good, and has been for a while?

mhoye, 5 days ago to random

TIL: Trees aren't a thing, trees are a strategy. It's not that some plants are trees, it's that some plants find being a tree to be useful.

mhoye, 6 days ago to random

@ArneBab has added the missing third panel to XKCD 538.

https://mastodon.social/@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social/112489316274442437

mhoye, 7 days ago to random

As always, domestic abuse is the flagship infosec threat model, the one where the victim has the least resources, the least recourse, where they're closest to immediate physical harm.

That this industry has failed at and mostly abandoned the idea of even pretending to try dealing with a threat model that's difficult and unprofitable and mostly hurts women is not news, but this new Windows Recall feature is next-level professional negligence.

mhoye, 7 days ago to random

Software is just other people's decisions.