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suetanvil

@suetanvil@freeradical.zone

Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet.

Joined 2017.

White, cishet, able-bodied male (aka Easy Mode).

Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers.

Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid).

Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion.

This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here.

#nobot

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suetanvil, to random
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Mesh-based cloud computing via plastic bags of reflashed e-waste phones hanging off powerlines and charging off the EM leakage.

zoomar, to random
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One of the most difficult parts of dealing with emotionally immature people for me is that they don't really experience time in the same way. Regarding interactions with people, they experience each one as a discrete moment.

So, if they are late, they can't see they have been late many times. Just that you were meeting them for lunch and you got angry that they were a little late.

They are incapable of linking situations together and experience them as cause and effect.

suetanvil,
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@zoomar

Forgiveness is not the same as trust. It's perfectly valid to say "I forgive you, but you're still not allowed to come to my house."

nyquildotorg, (edited ) to random
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I've heard the story about how the A&W 1/3 lb burger at the same price as McDonald's Quarter Pounder failed because America is bad at fractions, but I do not believe that's the whole story.

Incredibly important factors:

  1. A&W burgers sucked.

  2. McDonalds was already an advertising juggernaut by that point. No kids have ever begged their parents to go to A&W to get a burger, which means the parents don't need to buy a bigger burger.

suetanvil,
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@nyquildotorg

These days, (Canadian) A&W is one of the better burgers, but that seems to be a recent(ish) development.

Alice, to random
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I like when people tell me they unfollowed me as if I’m a subscription service that's somehow losing money as a result.

suetanvil,
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@Alice

Huh? Then where's that monthly credit card charge coming from?

jame, to random
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the browser after dealing with the loss of a core developer and the entire project going out and having to be revived by a new developer, as well as the original website being taken over by wordpress SEO slop...

released a new version after 9 years!!! and they are on fedi!

their website said to spread the word in order to support dillo, and you know what? i didn't know they were still at it, so now you know too. so go try it if you have some supremely crappy hardware, i know i do and dillo runs great on it.

thanks besties @dillo :steamhappy:

https://dillo-browser.github.io/latest.html

suetanvil,
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@jame @dillo

I really want Dillo to work. I need a browser that's small and fast and does an okay job rendering documents.

pixel, to random
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TIL why the default Ethernet MTU is 1500!


https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/04/24/magic-numbers/

suetanvil,
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@pixel

(Note to visually-impaired readers: the image is just the text of the linked blog post.)

suetanvil, to random
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BTW, for those Canadians who haven't yet started doing their taxes, I'd like to point out that StudioTax is $15 (or free if you make less than $20k) and is made by a company that, to my knowledge, has never lobbied the government to keep taxes complex in order to sell more product.

https://www.studiotax.com/home.html

suetanvil, to random
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Obsidian Announces a Much Better Fallout Show

https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/obsidian-announces-a-much-better-fallout-show/

be4foss, to KDE
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I wonder how software licensing fits into this new EU right-to-repair directive. It seems pretty critical for repairability!

Press release: Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers

"Manufacturers [...] will be prohibited from using contractual clauses, hardware or software techniques that obstruct repairs."

@kde

(h/t GNOME Berlin)

suetanvil,
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@be4foss @kde

I'm now envisioning the EU sending sternly worded letters to FOSS devs who don't properly document their code.

nyquildotorg, to random
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"If we had a trillion humans, at any given time we'd have a thousand Mozarts" makes a lot of sense if you're hoping to sell the work of more Mozarts to more humans.

Makes zero sense otherwise.

suetanvil,
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@nyquildotorg

We probably have a couple of dozen already, but they're all too busy paying the rent by working at Amazon warehouses to study music.

Weird Al Yankovic was the only one who made it out.

astrid, to random
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going to the jedi temple to learn more about this "internet engineering task" force

suetanvil,
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@astrid

"Follow not the way of anger, for anger leads to hatred and hatred leads to ISO 7498."

patrickworld, to random
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Look at this image while opening your eyes completely and you’ll see Nicholas Cage

suetanvil,
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@patrickworld

Whoah!

suetanvil,
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@patrickworld

Yeah. That's an impressive effect. I wonder how it works.

brainwane, to random
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A short thought by a colleague from a few years ago, in a discussion that strayed into the question of what would/wouldn't be effective in a maintainers' strike

https://discuss.python.org/t/stop-allowing-deleting-things-from-pypi/17227/70

(I was reminded today because someone linked to that thread from https://discuss.python.org/t/an-index-for-deleted-pypi-packages-versions/50515 )

suetanvil,
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@brainwane

I skimmed this, and the first thing I thought of was, what if you just start publishing new versions under the AGPL or ACSL?

suetanvil,
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@brainwane

I meant "you" as in "one". I had a related idea that seemed relevant and I wanted to share. Apologise if I came off as mansplainy.

jsr, to random
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You would be surprised at how much I would pay for this, if it actually existed.

suetanvil,
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@MojoBob @jsr

You'd need a screen for the visualizer, another for the artist/title line, and a third for the playlist on the bottom.

Also, the position slider would be nightmarish to do mechanically, so I'd probably just replace it with a touch screen as well.

(Why yes, I have overthought this.)

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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what's your favourite way to simplify your life with git? mostly interested in slightly unusual tricks to reduce the number of git features you're using, like:

  • never using the stash, just creating temporary branches instead
  • deleting your main branch so that you can never accidentally commit to it
suetanvil,
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@b0rk

A thing I do a lot is:

  • have a messy personal work branch
  • when I'm done or at a waypoint, create a new branch at the work branch's root.
  • git merge --squash work-branch and add a detailed message

This has most of the advantages of rebasing but isn't destructive.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, maybe it's just the random assortment of books I read, but it seems like social media has been a mental health calamity for teens, especially girls? I'm always wary of theories that Things Were Better in My Day, but it does seem like smartphones + addiction psychology + social media is a dangerous combination for developing brains.What's the argument against?

suetanvil,
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@glyph @rstevens @ZachWeinersmith

No, FORBID THEM from using RSS and make sure they know it's because it's WAY TOO COOL for kids their age.

SFRuminations, to scifi
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K. W. Jeter (1950-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?592

L, uncredited, 1987; R, Josh Kirby, 1979

image/jpeg

suetanvil,
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@SFRuminations

The Glass Hammer is such a cool title that I kept trying to read the book and bouncing off of it. This was more on me than on the book, FWIW, and I did eventually succeed in reading it. It was... a cross between Bruce Sterling and Philip K. Dick? Maybe?

Also: Gnosticism AND liberation theology!

suetanvil, to random
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@b0rk

Oh, wait, you mean without first typing 'git branch'?

Never mind.

astrid, to random
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this is such an informative chart i now know everything i need to know about object oriented programming

suetanvil,
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@astrid

False! No "regrets" or "three million line methods".

suetanvil, to random
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Y'know, it occurs to me that there's one easy way to dramatically slow down spam registrations on fediverse sites.

It's... sigh proof-of-work.

When registering an account, part of the process becomes evaluating a JavaScript function to reverse a partial hash, tuned to take maybe 2 or 3 minutes on a modern device and browser. It's completely automated and painless (if slow) for the applicant.

(ctd)

mhoye, to random
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I just noticed that Enlightenment, the always a niche but incredibly lightweight Linux window manager, had a release in December of 2023.

https://www.enlightenment.org/news

Lazyweb, a question: what free software projects have surprised you by just ... still being out there, still quietly getting updated without fanfare?

suetanvil,
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@mhoye @ak

I mean, I still use it on a couple of computers. It was my go-to until ~2020 when I finally got sick of having to work around its quirks.

But it's a perfectly fine desktop and they never do anything disruptive with the UI.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How do you feel about boycott bans?

suetanvil,
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@evan

Also: Not to be confused with anti-BSD laws.

AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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The abandoned Seagrams Distillery in Baltimore. Dangerous conditions inside led to at least two deaths after it closed in 1990. It was demolished after a fire in 2017.

Take a look inside: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/seagrams-distillery

suetanvil,
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@beeoproblem @AbandonedAmerica

Are you in Waterloo, Ontario? 'Cuz (something like?) that happened in Waterloo, Ontario as well. I've never been in one of the condos but they look nice from outside.

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