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weaksauce··on Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift
I have never wanted to read ai outside of me asking it something specific. If someone writes a blog post using it I consider it a sin.
weaksauce··on The weekend is 100 years old
it wasn't much more than 50 years ago before being able to go to the ER to be saved in an emergency in the us was a right without having to show proof of payment/insurance.

a lot of what we take for granted are very recent things.

weaksauce··on Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification
i mean with the rise of flock ad campaigns of "think of the children" and them installing platereaders all over the place this kind of thing is something that people want to capitalize on and make a buck. i can definitely see the lobbying pushing for more and more invasive versions of this.
weaksauce··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
that is the start of a lot of bills like this... they really only ever increase in scope and invasiveness.
weaksauce··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
> came with the tradeoff of not cleanly _uninstalling_ software either. config files etc were always left over.

That's no different than windows or linux. The uninstallers leave configuration bits all over the place be it in the registry or config folders.

weaksauce··on Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
the sun is energy so i’d expect there to be a correlation there.
weaksauce··on Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
the original Myst was created using HyperCard... which in and of itself is a crazy app with a huge impact on gaming in general.
weaksauce··on America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
I was speaking in general terms of the trend that spanned a long time and not to the rapid lefward swing in a few recent elections of a few candidates... the general trend of the party went rightward even if there are outliers. those elections were a reaction to how disastrous the republicans have been these past two years.
weaksauce··on America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
> Also, the Democrat party has steadily moved leftwards over time.

the only way someone thinks this is if they have fox news blaring all day every day. the dems keep moving rightward step by step to appeal to "moderates" while the right wing keep moving the overton window even further right.

weaksauce··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
yeah, I'm in agreement with you. other crimes the ill gotten gains are taken back and additional penalties are levied against the perpetrator. just saying why should these crimes be treated any different?
weaksauce··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
In any other crime you get caught doing you do not get the benefits of the ill gotten gains. why should this be any different?
weaksauce··on Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
> The point being made is: If one isn't re-entering their passphrase after suspend, how are they surprised that the encryption keys are somewhere in memory during suspend?

If that was the case for the people using the debian extra secure extension that should have wiped the memory clean then someone would have found this bug much earlier than two years. Their password was required to be re-entered even though the key was still in memory somewhere.

weaksauce··on The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections
The thing that stuck with me is the awful reasoning by the judge: "Judge rules Fenwick Island's corporate voting does not dilute human votes"

How could corporations voting not dilute the human votes by the very nature and reason of voting in the first place?

weaksauce··on Steam Machine launches today
1488 is a white supremacist racist dogwhistle.

dhh has been parroting tony robbins stuff and other vaguely white supremacist stuff on his blog.

weaksauce··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
just change the name to mocaW
weaksauce··on Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash
probably a hobby but a 421 is a high performance dual engine with a pressurized cabin... that's a lot of plane and dual engines are difficult to fly with a lot of technical knowledge and practice to handle an engine out procedure safely. this kind of plane very commonly kills doctors and other high earning individuals that don't have the time to keep their time in the plane to stay recent.

a lot of time people do buy multi engine planes for travel so it's not certain it was just a hobby.

weaksauce··on AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit
typically attacks happen when the URL for the source code or binary gets changed significantly... or like in this attack someone adds something to the post_install section which does something like add an npm install command. a lot of updates for binaries are just version bumps and SHA hashes changing which are easy to vet if you trust the source to not be compromised.
weaksauce··on Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
you might be interested in https://github.com/boyter/cs

pretty fast and neat project to search code interactively with a lot of optimizations on finding the right thing

weaksauce··on Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
yeah security researchers at security companies are the ones we are talking about.
weaksauce··on Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
security researchers not the ones shipping the faulty code.
weaksauce··on Love systemd timers
the thing for me is I started using the init system and while it was fine it always felt brittle for some reason. systemd feels solid and robust like it was well thought out. maybe i'm off base and didn't know how to use init effectively but it was my feeling.

that and cron always felt fragile too with a lot of quirks and limitations you had to work around instead of being a robust thing from the start.

weaksauce··on Love systemd timers
you can organize them however you want on your system and then use symlinks to make them available.

there's also `systemctl --all list-timers` to view them.

weaksauce··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
it's a probabilistic model so, while you can put that in there, it has some probability of just ignoring you and doing it anyway.
weaksauce··on Local Git remotes
It's useful for me to have a "production" website remote that i just run on my computer for myself locally. rsync could also work but tagging with rollbacks make it easier if something goes wrong. it's not a common thing but it's nice to have that as an option. just because you can't see the utility of it doesn't make it useless
weaksauce··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
considering nvidia has garbage gpu drivers in linux land and amd has pretty good ones i suspect you’re correct.
weaksauce··on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
the more I look at it the more I think this is AI yeah. sigh. I'm tired boss.
weaksauce··on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
what's funny is the website looks AI generated though that's just the style of the time i guess.
weaksauce··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
navidrome is pretty good.
weaksauce··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
it's because you're the product and they want the designs i think
weaksauce··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
they could do it like they do it for accessibility settings. you have to opt in for an app and you need to know damn well if it is a reputable app before giving those controls over. there's enough friction in that that it is not done by many apps but not hard enough that it's a huge ask to whitelist the app.
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