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mfro··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
This is the point I think many people fail to understand about consumption. Yes, it is usually perfectly sustainable to spend most of your free time scrolling tiktok or playing high-reward video games, yes you can live without regular exercise or a strict diet, but there are hard to quantify effects on an entire range of other things in your life. I think it is very important for the modern person to pay close attention to their mental state with and without the things they turn to the most, especially if experiencing problems with focus or motivation.
mfro··on Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964)
I think it’s funny nobody I am aware of from this period predicted the attention economy, and even funnier that Asimov predicted boredom would be a genuine societal issue. Just goes to show Asimov was quite full of himself, I think
mfro··on Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964)
This makes so much sense in retrospect. I think the review I wrote of the last novel was that I felt it was a cash grab.
mfro··on Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964)
Yeah, unfortunately I felt that the last few novels in the series were uninspired, maybe even lazy.
mfro··on BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
DN42[1] provides a playground for routing technologies. I wouldn't recommend digging in if you don't want to dedicate a lot of time into it. As someone fairly well versed in networking, WAN routing is still confusing to me.

GNS3 is probably the easiest way to get hands on experience with any networking technologies.

[1]: https://wiki.dn42.us/home

mfro··on eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
No, it means I didn't spend any time on a random specification that will rarely be seen in a production environment. I feel I gained a lot of networking knowledge.
mfro··on eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
...the author of the post linked a wikipedia article about the mechanism in their article. That is how they found out about it. What point are you even trying to make?
mfro··on eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
Not everyone spends their days digging through networking specifications. I for one earned CCENT and CCNA certifications was entirely unaware of this mechanism.
mfro··on Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online
That's the best part. :)
mfro··on How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
I imagine this just mitigates the need to make the site reactive for mobile users. Everyone gets the mobile experience.

I actually prefer reading like this, even on desktop. It feels like it causes less eye strain. Though I might prefer if it was closer to 65rem.

mfro··on The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
As the commentor that asked previously, "Is it really necessary to spin up an entirely new distro for an XFCE+GTK theme?", Blue95 makes much more sense in the context of bootc usage. I was completely unaware of bootable containers until reading this. Though I will admin I would still prefer something that can be installed easily over a base system. Perhaps see NsCDE[1] for an example. Great post!

[1]: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

mfro··on JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
This quote claims it is 'powered by Claude'

“JetBrains and Anthropic share a commitment to transforming how developers work. Developers rely on Claude’s state-of-the-art performance in solving complex, real-world coding tasks. We’re excited to see how Junie, powered by Claude, will help the global developer community create innovative things within the trusted JetBrains IDEs that customers love.” Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, Anthropic

Kind of confusingly, in today's release of Rider 'Junie' is mentioned nowhere I can find. The AI assistant tab, which was already available (paid), just has options to pick from popular models (4o, o1, o3, Gemini, Claude) or LM Studio / Ollama

mfro··on Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
Very cool that ScummVM was allowed to host IDA Pro 5.0 for free. I will be playing around with that tonight :)
mfro··on Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball
This mouse is very similar to the Protoarc EM03, which is the best trackball I have ever used. Unfortunately it seems it was discontinued recently. Still waiting on a reply from Protoarc as to why the shop page is down.
mfro··on Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
Russ Cox is an absolute legend for committing to this joke.
mfro··on Where does air pollution come from?
I ended up purchasing a Lasko Air Flex[1]. It fits standard HVAC filters. It doubles as a white noise machine for me, it is quite loud. This review[2] indicates it works well but a bit power hungry, and it definitely gathered a visible amount of dust over a 1 year period.

[1] https://lasko.com/products/lasko-air-flex-2-in-1-20-inch-box...

[2] https://youtu.be/daayXtlpg_o

mfro··on Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
I see, it still seems like the kind of project that would be much better suited to a DE packge-group style release. I think very few people will want to reinstall their OS just to try it.
mfro··on Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
Is it really necessary to spin up an entirely new distro for an XFCE+GTK theme?
mfro··on DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
The Apple Music integration in dj studio is currently completely nonfunctional for me on macOS. I get a listing of tracks in my library but I cannot use them even after downloading locally.
mfro··on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees
I genuinely don’t understand this sentiment. It seems perfectly fine to me. I can understand how a non-technical user would get confused, but I appreciate the granularity.
mfro··on Even the worst mass extinction had its oases
I think it's safe to say she learned 3D art in the early 2000s and has not updated her PC since.
mfro··on Even the worst mass extinction had its oases
The artist appears to be committed to the bit:

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/corey-ford?tab=artwork

mfro··on The Burnout Machine
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mfro··on A powerful free and open source WAF – UUSEC WAF
Definitely a bot.
mfro··on A look at Firefox forks
There is a search bar in the settings page. Search 'fingerprint', uncheck 'Enable ResistFingerprinting'
mfro··on A look at Firefox forks
It does that. Users have the simple option of disabling it in settings with one checkbox.
mfro··on A Look at Firefox Forks
I switched. I have been on the fence for some time now, what with the pocket nagware and the various 'sponsored' features showing up in FF. Very easy for me to start using librewolf. It even seems to be faster.
mfro··on Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
Librechat + ollama is the best I have tried. Fairly simple setup if you can grok yaml config.
mfro··on Tailscale is pretty useful
I know it's not just wireguard. That's why I said it's 'functionally' just a VPN. For the average user, it provides VPN-like functionality
mfro··on Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads
Year of The Adult Depend Undergarment
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