FandangoRanger

Reflections on trusting trust?

Judges are merely lawyers who have pupated.

I wish Google had just licensed Java from Sun.

Starlink is going to be brutal for these combined entertainment slash Internet mega corps.

emacs + tramp

He starts out with a false premise, “ There's no serious debate at this point about whether meat consumption as we've been doing it in the last ~50 years is harmful to the environment.“ Then he shovels a litany of weasel words in our direction.

I’ll just keep eating my grass fed beef, thanks.

I used to be a person but then I became a consumer and now I've become a row.

Can't cite the passage or book but it's in Decline And Fall.

I agree but I'd add that cheap digital shooting brought the cost down from film-tier to video-tier for takes and shoots. That, CGI, and its handmaiden, green screening, have all contributed to a film making culture that knows that reshoots, retakes, and taking 300 takes of every scene is basically how things can be done. And if something's gone wrong you can fix it in post. The ultimate effect is a haunting, soulless empty feeling, like a movie is a pantomime of what could have been even at the best.

No I mean, the entire dataset. It's being jealously guarded by the "free" press.

To me the big value in Mathematica is the curated datasets.

Most people agree that TV and movies died some time before 2007.

Hey where can independent researchers obtain the Panama Papers? I don’t think people can be expected to simply “trust us guys.”

It’s a little known fact that China and India both had delegations at Caesar’s inauguration.

Huh, just right before they get hauled before Congress again. Very interesting timing.

No mention at all about the press and experts lying and saying masks don't work so there was lessened demand. And then admitting they lied a few weeks later. Any intelligent observer can see the media and experts contributed to the misinformation infodemic.

Now, and in the future, when the press and experts say something one should be very skeptical. Are they simply lying for some hidden purpose which they believe is the greater good? Nobody likes to talk about this, seems the experts and press would rather we all forget.

That's just the thing though, Apple isn't going out of its way to tell me their plans.

A couple years ago Apple decided to get rid of all my notes I had made in files in the Get Info tab's notes field. They switched the field to "tags" and simply threw away all the notes in all the resource forks, rather than even converting them to tags. About ten thousand notes, destroyed, no notification this would happen, nothing.

What? LOL this isn't the 1990's, there's gait detection now.

I never upgraded from Mojave and plan not to, I will retire my Mac Mini as an OS X machine sooner or later (once Apple stops updates). Mojave just seems like a giant pain and I have some iTunes Applescripts from ages ago that I don't want to mess with or re-engineer for Music or whatever it's called now. Does Apple even still support Applescript? I don't keep up on Apple any more.

It's pretty easy to understand, Rust is huge. You can't build it on a Pi 3, it'll run out of RAM if you try to compile it.

This is going to be great. I don't think there's anybody left who actually likes the social media barons.

Why does it need to go away? I never said this. MS will use Wine.

My objection isn't to repackaging emacs with new defaults, but promoting forks and such on the emacs site. That's not what GNU does with other forks historically either.

What'd be the point of it all? There are perhaps dozens to hundreds of personal takes on emacs on Github and around the web. emacs will remain as it is, it isn't for some people and that's OK.

I don't think any of the Wayland developers worked on X before RedHat became an essential sponsor to X.org which is, in essence, finished software.

What's the function of the X.org maintainers now? Mainly merging drivers. It's been like this for over a decade, heck back in the old days several bold moves were made for network transparent 3D acceleration with X.org including working patches but it was never realized.

With everybody else going their own way, it might be time to revisit and reinvigorate these efforts.

Just set your new tab page to some searx instance, it's quite a lot better than Google at this stage especially when it comes to filtering SEO'd results.

SEO is the cancer that killed the web.

I think Windows as a for-pay layer on Linux is going to be the end goal. WSL is going to be LSW.

Didn't Knuth say this 40 years ago?

>In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.

This is the core criticism that's been advanced since a decade ago. X is the standard, it's an actual standard. Wayland is apparently both a protocol which is defined by an XML file, a reference implementation, but yet not a standard. It's going to be tough to get it into deployment until it is standardized and finished, so to speak.

It also doesn't give me any benefits, the programs I use all use X so Wayland becomes a parent process to X and that's apparently its job. Why not just skip it? X is very time worn and honed to a sharp edge, it can run on incredibly minimal hardware. Wayland depends on a lot more.

It seems they're trying the opposite but they could go either way. If they deprecated Win32 or even used WINE they could handle legacy stuff and port whatever "Windows" is to any platform. Sure it's not quite Java because it won't be platform agnostic but hey.

The thing with OpenBSD is that it's probably the most old-school even including its parent, NetBSD. Even though OpenBSD is a research OS, and has modern features often before any other OS, the way you administer and maintain it is much more old-school.

One great example is wifi, you create one config file in /etc/ for each interface, and then decide how you want it to be handled. To control wifi, you use ifconfig as you would any other interface. Why not just treat it as an additional interface and make it work with all the normal Unix type utilities and workflow?

This is correctness.