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coldacidon The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore

you just need to join the right instances ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

coldacidon The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore

Don't be too sure of that. Plenty of instances have preemptively blocked Meta and it's likely that if and when Threads goes AP, more will follow. Some of us still remember Eternal September and would like to avoid a repeat.

coldacidon Spyware being used by 13 federal departments

It's both that (which is reasonable) and on/against the general public (which is not).

coldacidon Windows-as-an-app is coming

Everything going to "the Cloud" is just a backslide into the mainframe era, but with shinier graphics. I feel like the age of micros has ended, killed off by clueless users with flashy phones.

coldacidon Spyware being used by 13 federal departments

I love how the MoE is essentially claiming that they're using spyware to save the environment!

Every day I hate our government a little more.

coldacidon Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

>So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory...

You might have missed this from GP's comment:

>>I’m not sure I can identify exactly who is liable to start a coup

In other words, at least once these people have pulled the wool over their eyes during the hiring process.

coldacidon Red flag questions to ask in a Linux interview

> Most large places have legacy tech you’ll work on, but an “ain’t broke don’t fix” approach to technical debt is a red flag. A push to web apps is a green flag.

Very happy to see this up near the top so I know I can disregard the rest of the article. That's the attitude that helps drive enshittification of everything.

coldacidon Frutiger Aero

Search engines and their consequences have been a disaster for the human internet.

coldacidon Room 641a

Worse, people don't even seem to care anymore that the government's Hoovering up everything they can on them.

coldacidon HTML Web Components: An Example

There _is_ a <template> element[0] for this purpose, but so far it falls short on being able to inject parameters like that, and is essentially useless if you don't have Javascript.[1]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/te...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...

coldacidon Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral

Shakespeare was about a century and a half after Gutenberg.

coldacidon Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs

One of the great things about Emacs is that I can run it on a terminal when needs be, or as a GUI application when I have a graphical environment up and running. Doing something like rebasing it on WebRender means I wouldn't be able to use it in the terminal anymore.

There are plenty of problems in Emacs that need to be resolved, but this is NOT one of them.

coldacidon Ask HN: What is your favorite article about programming?

This is amazing

coldacidon Escaping the Edge sandbox: A bug that speaks for itself

Yes, they work for Microsoft.

coldacidon Curl on 100 Operating Systems

Considering that DR-DOS is a linear descendant of CP/M with MS/PC-DOS ABI compatibility, it's certainly a separate OS. Same for FreeDOS. There's enough difference "under the hood" for each of them, however.

coldacidon Curl on 100 Operating Systems

March 2023, actually -- 3.2.2.

coldacidon Frutiger Aero

Today I learned that CARI[0] exists.

[0]: Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, https://cari.institute/

coldacidon DALL-E 3 Is So Good It's Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping

Don't tell me that DALL-E is good. I'm still waiting for it to generate hands instead of shoggoth tentacles.

coldacidon Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)

There's a difference between knowing how to use a thing and "[knowing] how [it] works fully". Don't conflate them.

coldacidon Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API

Maybe the GP is also insinuating that Google is full of reptilians?

coldacidon Clippy: Really??

Some people just hate fun.

coldacidon Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions

I'd be interested to know both of your ages; I'm assuming, mananaysiempre, that you're probably under 30, and that mellosouls, like myself, is over 40. With some exceptions it seems like there is a generation gap between those of us who prefer the written word on paper, and those who prefer it on a screen of some sort, with the latter group tending to be those who've essentially grown up with digital gadgets of all sorts.

coldacidon X Won't Demonetize Russell Brand, the Company Tells Pro-Censorship British MPs

This is why the value4value model is morally superior to the advertisement financed model.

coldacidon X Won't Demonetize Russell Brand, the Company Tells Pro-Censorship British MPs

Not just in the UK!

coldacidon OSM River Basins

I hope that you do get it going with unnamed streams too!

coldacidon Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

Already (implicitly) mentioned in the gp.

coldacidon Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

Move to Britain, change your given name to Graf (that's German for the title of count/earl), and get a passport. I'm curious to see what the result would be, myself.

coldacidon OSM River Basins

Nice but it definitely needs to support waterway=stream as well.

coldacidon Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution

A cat would look at both sides in a battle, yawn, and wander off while the stupid humans kill each other.

coldacidon The History of Windows 2.0

A stupidly overpriced SDK didn't help much either.