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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/zenethian; my proof: https://keybase.io/zenethian/sigs/nzvX8hbHms88Z76nGX9SIyyJxk0RRqnJeI0BOXB3HlM ]
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zenethian··on People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters
I had to think about what a “slimming jab” would be. Interesting terminology for weight-loss injections.
zenethian··on I program without syntax highlighting
We definitely had syntax highlighting in the 90s. I distinctly remember Turbo Pascal supporting it as early as 1992.
zenethian··on Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps
This kinda sounds like hell for low memory machines. RIP shared memory optimizations.
zenethian··on The PGP problem (2019)
Keyservers already “solved” this problem without needing federation because we only needed one keyserver anyway. Federating them isn’t going to do anything. Web of trust is a broken system that sounds super cool until you try to really use it. It has so many flaws that there’s really no way to revive it. Keybase tried to do something about it and also failed.
zenethian··on Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal
This is a false equivalence. The iPad would have to be 45 years old and, after the artist had sold the art many times before to others, had the iPad rediscovered by someone after it had been lost in their mom’s attic.
zenethian··on Librarians tired of being accused of hiding secret books that were made up by AI
You didn’t click into it, did you? The top level post did not have that restriction, but instead the post it replies to does. Go look.

The actual message in the bsky widget could be improved to state that the label is masking the original post and not the reply.

zenethian··on Go away Python
What a weird bunch of hacks just to stick it to Python.
zenethian··on Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
Okay but has this process actually improved anything, or just substituted one process for another? Do you have fewer defects, quicker ticket turnaround, or some other metric you’re judging success?
zenethian··on Questions engineers should ask future employers in interviews
If a question like these are a red flag to a company, that’s a big red flag itself and I personally don’t want to work there.
zenethian··on Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago
This website is a mess on mobile. Cool concept though!
zenethian··on AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago
Neither company were like they are now back then. Intel needed a second supplier for their chips because nobody trusted manufacturing from a single source provider.
zenethian··on Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults
Is anyone else really bothered by the title of this? Super Mario Bros is a specific game, but what are “Yoshi” games? Feels like the none of the researchers had ever played video games before.
zenethian··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
Too little too late. I’ve already ditched Amazon for ebooks in favor of Kobo’s ecosystem. It’s not flawless but it’s not soul sucking either.
zenethian··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
This seems kind of childish to be honest. Why not just fire the person?
zenethian··on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Another big long AI-generated article. Sheesh. Bonus points for replacing the emdashes with regular hyphens to try to cover it up.
zenethian··on Write ReactJS in Rust
I hate this with every fabric of my being.
zenethian··on How fast can browsers process base64 data?
That’s nonsense. Firefox has telemetry built in, it’s just that you can opt out of it. Your answer doesn’t explain why at all but instead just takes a wild guess at what might have happened. You don’t know if this was discovered in Chrome or in some other use of V8. Or maybe it was always fast in Chrome! What a weird non-answer.
zenethian··on A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
Nix seems like a cool tool but nix users are becoming increasingly irritating.
zenethian··on UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'
Ok but what if the owner wants to be different? Why do you care?
zenethian··on UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'
That’s right, excluding potentially bothersome or predatory people to provide others safety is indeed “excluding” them.
zenethian··on UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'
Your behavior feels wildly more intolerable than theirs. They want to provide a measure of safety to the place. You don’t have to go. There are plenty of places that will take a lonely person like you. But some people will prefer to frequent an establishment specifically for this, so going that they go out of business just because you don’t like it is an awful position to hold.
zenethian··on Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
> When I was still using Manjaro Linux back in 2019, I got a nudge to try i3wm. It was my first experience with any window manager

Is the author saying that until 2019 they used Linux on the desktop without using X?

zenethian··on Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad
I was very excited when ortholinear keyboards started to catch on, but then something happened and this ultra-minimalist stuff started pouring out with column staggering and now once again long for someone to make a good ortholinear split keyboard with all of the proper buttons it should have for being actually useful for software development or gaming.

Do all of the users of these just spend their time in vim? I cannot fathom how they’re used otherwise.

zenethian··on An individual can change an organization
A neat story, but it can be a bad trait too. Someone who can’t take no for an answer can be incredibly toxic and forcing a change by incessant badgering until everyone gives in is not the right way to go about this. I’m not saying that was the case in this particular instance, but it happens all too often.
zenethian··on One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on
It feels like so much work has been done to just end up going full circle back to Django-style website applications. All of these frameworks have continually re-solved problems that were already solved in something other than Javascript, and then people write blogs about how they're surprised about it. It feels a bit uncanny to see.
zenethian··on TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency
As an aside, what happened to the rumors about TP-Link stuff being compromised and used for botnetting by China? Was it true or unfounded?
zenethian··on [dead]
This whole article is just AI slop itself. I couldn’t read past the first paragraph before the emdashes and the stench of GPT crept in.
zenethian··on "COBOL supports close to 90% of Fortune 500 business systems today."
This site is obviously just an ad, but it does remind me that I do want to learn about how modern mainframe systems work. I understand the basics of COBOL but I understand nothing about how mainframes execute it in such a way that it can process the sheer volume of data that is crunched. The OS and execution environment sounds wild and completely foreign to me. Does anyone have any good resources on how to learn about the computational model of modern mainframes?
zenethian··on 'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app
Yeah I've used TIDAL for 8 years now and I've loved it. The fact that they pay artists better and even have a system for paying the artist you listened to the most each month is pretty neat.
zenethian··on 'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app
It's literally brand new for lossless to come to Spotify.

Also that's a really rude comment. Curated playlists are great for those of us who aren't regularly exposed to new music in any other way.

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