stuartd

The actual title is better:

> 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work

There was a decent BBC Radio 4 adaptation of this in 2016 - no longer available on iPlayer but it’s on YouTube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdMXfoOOrP8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048jcvg

I remote desktop from my Mac into Windows for work. I used to then remote from that Windows into another Windows server, at which point figuring out what the keyboard mappings were became extremely difficult!

Part 2 - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/fuzzing-rust-minidump-for-...

Archive link - https://web.archive.org/web/20250114101154/https://ireland-c...

For anyone (like me) who doesn’t know what 18F is:

> 18F is a digital services agency within the Technology Transformation Services department of the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States Government. 18F helps other government agencies build, buy, and share technology products. The team consists of designers, software engineers, strategists, and product managers who collaborate with other agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve public service through technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F

Archive link - http://archive.today/Ez5q6

> is this idiomatic C?

This is how I use AI at work for maintaining Python projects, a language in which I am not at all really versed. Sometimes I might add “this is how I would do it in …, how would I do this in Python?”

I find this extremely helpful and productive, especially as I have to pull the code onto a server to test it.

2015?! Wow. Did not realise that. (I have to use Windows for work, but that’s Server 2022). You are quite correct, that does change the perspective.

The reason for the TPM requirement (I heard, anyway) was so they could dump a decade or so’s worth of compatability fixes. Which is fine, but dropping support for Windows 10 is just gouging from organisations who require support, and potentially leaving consumers who are ‘just fine’ with their PC and Windows 10 without security fixes - [0] ‘Windows 10 will lose security support in October 2025’

[0] https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/windows-10-will-lose-se...

I hadn’t realised this had resurfaced after snpp.com went down! Pleased to see I’m still listed as a contributor to the computer list - https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/guides/computers.file.html

Tab groups are on by default in nightly, and though I haven’t been on the computer much this past week they seem well realised. This article suggests they can be enabled in other versions, but I only really use nightly so I haven’t tried it..

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/12/03/how-to-enable-tab-groups-i...

Been using Firefox as my browser since 0.2 (Minefield, Phoenix was later) on Mac since around 10.3 and I don’t recognise what you’re seeing at all?

It can be done, and if my 2016 IMac dies then I am going to do it. An amazing display.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Convert+an+iMac+Intel+27-Inch+E...

There’s a Mac version coming (very exciting!)

https://x.com/linqpad/status/1820379112651026587

Thanks, edited

I’ve been a Mac user for more than 20 years and I may be in a minority of one, but I prefer the new settings. When I use my old Mac with the old settings I find myself thinking “so which image do I need to click to do what I want?” but in the new settings I can find what I need from the text labels.

A bash script to set a config value…?

I’ve been blocking ads in Firefox since you used CSS to do it [0] but let’s face it, advertising isn’t going away.

Advertising is annoying, but tracking is evil and I hope initiatives like this can pave the way to having ads while not compromising user privacy.

I’ll still block them, though.

[0] https://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/css/ad_blocking.cs... (love it that site is still up!)

http://archive.is/QX8wm as accepting all cookies is the only option available

I just ordered another copy of Seveneves as I have given up on getting mine back from the person I lent it to. It’s consequently been a few years since I read it, but I feel it will be hard to do the book justice on TV. Much like any Stephenson book, really. One can only hope..

They mention one reason in the release notes:

> unintended SSE CPU requirement present in previous releases has been removed.

They don’t need to know that.. and the extra 10k for the new role feels derisory. Given the tax situation you want to push past 125k per year so ask for more than 100k but accept 100?

Read the whole series (1-7). Unbelievable callousness.