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This post/example/thing completely misses the point of Markdown. Yes it's clever in stringing together edge cases to try to claim it can identify specific parsers. But it's also pointless.

Markdown is for writers.

Markdown was designed up front to mimic common conventions in text-based communication, particularly email.

It was designed to be easy enough to read and edit as plain text, while also being easy to convert into basic HTML.

It was primarily designed for prose.

It always supported an escape to bare HTML where direct handling of how things are represented is needed.

It's not a programming language. It's not an object encoding language. I see no expectation that two different parsers would deterministically return the same thing when the language is based on common convention with a lot of flexibility built in, rather than a strict specification.

In my opinion it has gained widespread adoption well beyond it's original design as a parser for blogging precisely because it's imprecise.

I knew it was "Half 1" and "Half 2", but didn't know the rest.

And now that the season bias is pointed out it seems obvious, but I never thought about it before.

"Sell used items with fake photos that don't accurately show the condition of the item." Is that the play here? It sure looks like it.

Funny, I just got a lease renewal email today and they want another 7%. Call me skeptical.

Commuting from the Springs to Denver every day, so 22-23 days a month, 60-70 miles one way...

Is that worth $500?

Quick math:

$4/gallon, 35 mpg, 120 miles a day, so $14/day in gas, plus extra maintenance, and the 3 hours a day of your life you'll never get back.

Couldn't claim with a straight face myself that the math works.

This is disgusting.

That happened last year, when they changed their license terms and started shaking people down for money. I wouldn't touch it.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ...

https://licenseware.io/retrospective-on-anacondas-2024-licen...

https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4173/anaconda-threatens-lega...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/intel-sued-copyrigh...

I'm really angry about this outage. I have a small linode in Newark that runs a couple of things but mostly a Miniflux instance for my RSS feeds. And on Sunday I opened my feed reader app and it kept timing out. So I tried to load the reader in a browser, and it timed out.

Worried, I logged into linode's management interface. There was no outage notice on the front page, no banner, for example. And there was nothing noted on the manager page. The dot next to the unresponsive system in my list of linode instances was green.

At this point I assumed the system had hung, or (worst case) even that it had been hacked. I tried to connect to it over the LISH console, and the connection timed out. So my conclusion was a fully hung system. So I tried rebooting the system from the management interface and the task just hung. For hours. I still assumed this was something broken with my machine. There was no outage indication in the management interface. I searched the internet for how to hard reset a linode. I nearly tried to clone it from a backup to a new system before deciding it wasn't mission critical on a Sunday.

Monday came around and I got an email at some point that the system had finally booted and I went in and spent at least an hour digging through logs to see what had happened, why the system had hung up. I took the time to look for evidence of hacks, checking SSH keys and system login data records and history files and quite seriously considering nuking the system and rebuilding in case it was hacked.

And later that day, after a couple hours spent on this I got an email informing me about a ticket related the datacenter outage.

Again, no banner on the front page of linode.com. No banner on the linode management interface. A GREEN LIGHT on the status indicator for the list of active systems.

You could say "why didn't you check the status page" and sure, that's sensible. But in the 20+ years I've had dedicated servers and VPSs outages are almost always my fault, so that's where I start. And if the Newark datacenter was dead why wasn't that posted straight to the top of their entire web interface? It's ridiculous.

Not particularly interesting (but very ad-infested), especially since many of these I am not familiar with, and the ones I know I do pronounce correctly according to them. Wow. Great.

I prefer several types of modern mechanical key switches to the buckling spring switches for several reasons including sound, feel, travel length, and activation force (gaming and typing have different optimal force to me, for example) but you're correct that the switches are what make it special. And Cherry blues are my least favorite modern switch. All the noise, but not great feel.

While I agree with the base statement that makes up the title, I cannot get behind the rest of this idea that the heaviest users somehow "matter most". They cost the most, certainly. But how do they matter the most?

But hey, this is just a sales pitch from one company I wouldn't trust by taking a dump on another company I wouldn't trust.

Windows has the worst font rendering of all modern operating systems. Wanting anything like Windows font rendering is insane. Windows 10 makes it near impossible to properly turn off subpixel hinting without also turning off all anti-aliasing, which on a QD-OLED screen makes for horrific color fringing. Windows 11 is better, but still pretty weak. Linux is roughly as good as Mac OS, both of which are miles better than Windows.

Mac OS dropped the subpixel garbage (it really is garbage if you're at all sensitive to fringing or use anything other than a standard LCD) in favor of high pixel density screens. Sharp, readable text and zero color fringing. This is the way.

No. Was that hard?

Grub doesn't have to be ugly. Mine loads into a 4k framebuffer with a nice graphical setup. Only issue is secure boot and fonts don't seem to play nice so those are still basic monospace.

The purpose of the NYT article is to protect the rich from the rest of us by smearing someone. I mean wait until you hear what Cuomo has done.

None of these companies have room to talk about the others' ethics or safety culture. They're all guilty.

Our small group uses The Lounge web client for IRC which is a very good PWA, acts as a bouncer, has history search (not unlimited, but pretty long), supports image upload, and basically builds a modern group chat on top of IRC as a backend. We have a few folks who still use traditional IRC clients, but almost everyone just uses the web app. It's not a bad middle ground.

1Password demonstrating definitively why they don't deserve your money and in fact deserve to die. They have one job, but still chase trends like "AI" that are not related to their reason for existence.

"But agents!" you may say. "Agentic AI is changing the shape of work" they say. Bullshit, I say.

The ROMs should not be included but they almost all do it. The main exceptions are some of the pricier android-based handhelds. They market with things like "X,000 games" rather than on the capability to emulate.

If an end user receives one of these handheld machines and loads it up themselves then the choice of sourcing ROMs is entirely on them. They could use their own SNES cart rips and Playstation disk images and it would conceptually be no different than loading MP3s from CDs onto an iPod. Or they could make the conscious choice to pirate. And that I have no problem with. We have agency and can make our own choices.

But it's pretty sketchy to be selling ROMs for money. And you'll find them baked into the system images published by the vendors (which is why some firmware updates are 50+ GiB, ridiculous). I think it's a bad practice but doesn't seem to be changing.

That's a 33% increase (1/3 of 150 is 50).

This is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen.

> Mercedes‑Benz and Microsoft are also working together to integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot into the latest vehicles. This will be one of the world’s first application of its kind in a car and will help users prepare for upcoming meetings with the aid of advanced AI. Using voice prompts, drivers can summarise emails, retrieve or query client preferences and details, and manage daily tasks without distraction. Microsoft 365 Copilot has the potential to transform the vehicle into a third workspace, complementing the office and the home office.

Drivers are already dangerous enough.

Until you do. These articles never age well.

Because he's a stupid piece of shit. And so is everyone around him.

Bad headline.

This is specifically referring to the AdBlock Plus "acceptable ads" program. So not "ad blockers" as a category, but rather a specific advertising company that pretends to be an ad blocker.

Just adding some AI slop generators they want you to use.

It probably depends quite a bit on what you're looking for. It's an older machine but should still be plenty capable with 16 gigs of RAM.

Linux is the obvious choice for a non-Windows OS, but which flavor will be a forever argument. I currently run three different Linux distros on different machines (four, if you include the Steam Deck, but let's not). Hardware support for the T431s should be quite good.

Arch Linux is a good choice if you want to be on the bleeding edge. Install it and the KDE Plasma Desktop and you've got a really capable OS with good tooling and a great UI. However, it almost always requires using the terminal for maintenance tasks and the dependency resolver sometimes needs manual intervention.

Arch has a helpful community forum, and excellent wiki. I run it on a Framework 13 with 16 gigs of RAM.

Fedora is not as bleeding edge as Arch, but it's close. It does try to make everything more user-friendly and GUI-oriented. I highly recommend the KDE Plasma version, but I really can't stand Gnome so that's personal preference.

Fedora handles updates through a reboot process. It may be cleaner, but if you are averse to rebooting you might find it frustrating. Also, unfortunately they've shipped some very annoying, near showstopper bugs recently, with kdewebkit not rendering at all on AMD GPUs and most recently screen locking breaking entirely. These have both been resolved and had workarounds, but probably shouldn't have made it into production. I run Fedora on my gaming PC as I wanted something more "mainstream" than Arch, wanted to stay near the bleeding edge, and refuse to engage with the Ubuntu organization for personal reasons.

Linux Mint is pretty good, and I have it installed and running well on a 2013 Macbook Air with 4 GB of ram. Booted into a full desktop with Firefox it uses about 1.5-1.8 gigs of RAM (before you start loading up on tabs) and is very quick and responsive for such an old machine. I wouldn't personally use Mint on a workstation myself. While it is more stable, it also means that key application and kernel updates I want to use take a long time to filter in. It's very polished though.

Last, I used to use Pop!_OS on the Framework machine. Interesting, but honestly I much prefer the vanilla Plasma desktop to anything else I've tried.

Marketing garbage.

We'll need actual photos of the actual product displaying actual photos to be able to tell if it's any good. I didn't have the impression color e-ink displays had sufficient vibrancy in the colors to reasonably substitute for a printed image.

This would be more interesting with a few examples of overly long variables and a revised approach with a comment. Ideally realistic ones.

We know, discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44368854