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moltke··on Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics
No. I've never really liked anything about Chicago the city (although I have some fond memories living in a nearby suburb for a few years as a child.) I don't like the food, I don't like the politics etc.

I do like the font though. It's a bit like the Plan9 font, it just feels comfortable.

moltke··on Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics
Am I weird for liking Chicago?
moltke··on OpenSSL security advisory: Infinite loop reachable when parsing certificates
>provide the public key

Which format?

What algorithim?

How do you prevent it from being sent to the wrong domain and enabling MITM phishing?

X.509 has a lot of issues but they've thought through a number of things. Whatever you replace it with would have similar problems. Even if you "just sent a key" it would have to be parsed in some way (Say it's RSA, you'd still have to pull the module and exponent out before you could do anything with it, if the channel is text you'd probably do some base64 decoding etc.)

moltke··on New Secret Service report details growing incel terrorism threat
Yes, they attack our relationships because these make us strong and make the globalist/capitalist/politicians/Propagandists weak.

Monogamy in particular also leveled the playing field to some degree with dating so that you didn't get the "winner takes all" situation you have today. I think the both the death of monogamy and masculinity are the underlying causes of the "incel" phenomenon. The worst part about it is that many of the effected people push for neoliberal ideas harder because they've been brainwashed to think of them as the solution.

moltke··on The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It
Right, I think local rules make way more sense than DST for situations like that just like they make more sense for places close to the equator.
moltke··on New Secret Service report details growing incel terrorism threat
I think we're finding out now just how bad an idea destroying it was.
moltke··on Russia is spiraling toward a $150B default nightmare
Banks: try to shutdown Russian economy

Also banks: "Why can't we get our money back out of Russia?"

Sometimes I can't tell if all of this is just a dumb joke.

moltke··on The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It
Many parks do this. It makes a ton of sense. IMO the best system for businesses that need rigid times would be to have separate winter and summer hours or just make the opening time <x> integer hours from sunrise.
moltke··on Ask HN: Does being single hurt your productivity?
My most productive time was when my girlfriend lived with me for two years. I could just focus and didn't ever feel like I needed to leave. She was happy doing house keeping and I was happy working. She left to go take classes and get a job (she's convinced she wants to do that before getting married.) I've watched her become unhappy, restless, and depressed the same way I have.
moltke··on New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
>So here's to hoping the next iteration will.

I've completely given up any kind of hope for iOS.

I hoped for years iOS would do reasonable things like allowing side loading or multitasking or push notifications. Apple knows these things would improve the platform, they don't do them because it would cut into their profits. If these features are ever added to the platform they will be handicapped in some way that makes them almost useless.

moltke··on Ask HN: Why can’t I run desktop Linux in my browser?
>No filesystem

It's limited but there is filesystem access and you could always just make your own ramfs.

>No network

Websockets are allowed to connect to arbitrary IPs. It would be nice if you could give apps permissions for TCP/UDP but what most people do is have a websocket "adapter" server of some kind that at least lets you connect to the local services. Others (like jslinux) will do TUN/TAP over websockets which is horrendous but does technically work.

moltke··on Ask HN: Why can’t I run desktop Linux in my browser?
I'm not sure how much sense a Linux port to webasm would make. Maybe you could get UML to work in some way but the binary loading and lots of other stuff would look very different.

What you could port is the GNU userspace (which is probably closer to what you're thinking.) One of the issues with porting software like that though is it expects complete control over its own process (and will put eg long running loops in it) which isn't how browsers expect software to run. Maybe you could do something fancy with continuations in the C runtime (emscripten probably already does) but it wouldn't be so strait forward.

I'm not sure what advantage having a shell in the browser would have over just running the individual apps as webasm ports. There's less to worry about then.

>retro gaming and opening legacy files

I don't think a webasm OS port makes as much sense for these use cases as a webasm VM. There are plenty of those: jslinux.org gives you a full Linux VM with an optional paid file sync service and internet access. Archive.org automatically opens com/exe files in the emscripten dosbox port, you can even run Windows 3.1: https://archive.org/details/msdos_win3_1

It would be kind of neat if more open source software had online "try me" pages that let you run the app in eg jslinux or dosbox before downloading and installing it.

moltke··on Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
>It's definitely a millennial gaming system.

In fact I can't think of another product that's more quintessentially millennial than the Wii.

moltke··on Ask HN: Is there a pure SMS based UI?
JMP.chat does pure SMS by default, you have to ask to be part of the MMS beta.

I've only really tried AT&Ts gateways in the US from gmail, maybe something has changed but it never worked for me.

moltke··on New Secret Service report details growing incel terrorism threat
I think the free love thing in the 60s likely exacerbated this by destroying monogamy.
moltke··on Ask HN: Is there a pure SMS based UI?
I've never had the email/MMS gateways work. Personally I prefer JMP.chat which gives you a nice XMPP/MMS gateway and is much easier to work with.
moltke··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Most non-packaged apps are just `./configure && make install` sometimes `cmake . && make install` It's hardly one step much less 10. If you know so little about some random software you found that you can't compile it I'm not sure installing it is a good idea.
moltke··on There are not enough BTUs
>there's a bus route for all corners in the USA.

Lol. Are you from Europe? Neither the town I grew up in nor any of its neighbors have any kind of public transit whatsoever. Want to go to court and then go to the library while you wait for your friend to pick you up? (since you can't bring a cell phone) I hope you have a good pair of walking shoes.

The place I currently live (just 8 miles away from the capital of a coastal state) has very dodgy transit. I think it might stop twice every weekday or something like that and just goes strait to the hub downtown. It's completely impractical.

moltke··on Ask HN: My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help
In the future: Do not use Google. It's too big to be practical. They are entirely incapable of telling legitimate access from fraud. I logged in to my childhood email from 20 years ago to prove I was who I said I was, I've been locked out for 3 years with no recourse.
moltke··on The walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating “Change Password”
> just decline to operate at all until the password is set?

This truly is the right way to handle PSK auth. The "UX" for it isn't as nice as some people would like though.

moltke··on Firefox removed Yandex search option
Might as well use elinks honestly. I can't remember the last site I went to that really needed a modern browser and wasn't just a replacement for an "app." Firefox is there for my bank account, my brokerage, and Discord. Everything else is either handled by open source tools or elinks.
moltke··on Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer
Linux with eg OpenBSD CWM with xterms.
moltke··on Kids don't need tools for kids
11 year old me would have hated it.
moltke··on Ask HN: Do I have to host all data in the EU to comply with GDPR?
>the spacetime position of the magnetic moment encoding if I clicked in the big red button or not.

That's not what it's about, it's about weather you consent to third party cookies or not.

moltke··on Ask HN: Do I have to host all data in the EU to comply with GDPR?
Yup. The spirit of GDPR is "do the right thing."
moltke··on PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library
Meh. CGI was one of the easier to consume interfaces that is really not hard to rebuild from scratch. I suppose it makes sense that python has (or had I guess) a library for it but it's really not necessary. Enough of the primitives are there. Those that need it could easily write a shim.

It does make you wonder why it was removed though. I can't imagine it was difficult to maintain.

moltke··on Kids don't need tools for kids
The visual equivalent of a syntax error is not being able to find the button/block/thing you need on the screen, or using the wrong block and wondering why you can't find the right control on it, or not hooking up some required reference/wire/whatever.

The advantage to syntax though is that it's all verbal which makes it far easier to communicate. Visual stuff needs multiple images and often video to fully communicate which is slow and more constraining.

>Learning syntax as a filter

Syntax is one of the most universal things about our psychology. The idea that some people have it and others don't seems a little absurd to me.

moltke··on USDA announces plans to support innovative American-made fertilizer
"Sustainable" will be used the way the words "racism" and "diversity" are used now; they will be used to push whatever is profitable for the elites.
moltke··on My Pinephone Setup
The modem is a wakeup device. IIRC there's a separate GPIO line with interrupts specifically for this.
moltke··on My Pinephone Setup
It's pretty fantastic for it. I've never had a better dev environment on a PDA.
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