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> the piracy landscape has become much more ergonomic over the last few years.

I've already been considering the idea of just buying my media when I want it and see how that compares to my streaming bill. I'm willing to pay for things. I think that's important. I'd just like to make sure I'm getting what I want when I buy in, and the proliferation of services has come with the likelihood that not only will the ones I have not have specific content I'm looking for, some shows aren't available at all, which means I have to buy anyway.

But ads in things I'm already paying for are a new level of problem that are an expression of contempt for both the customer and the product. Streamers: it's not enough that I'm paying you for access to the content you've made or secured a right to so that I can give it my full attention? You also want to actually dilute the value of that by requiring me to divert my attention somewhere else?

That's an outright invitation to media piracy. If you're going to spend your attention on something extraneous to the actual media, the digital literacy skills involved in piracy are more generally useful than an advertisement. Not to mention the satisfaction in sending a message to people who'll erode the value of their own product to bump profit margins.

I might accept a price raise. Lots of streaming was probably underpriced in the first place. Add $25-50 a year to my bill and I'll keep paying for it if the value is there. But subtract from the value and I'll find a substitute.
Personally I hope gaming decks get faster and faster at draining battery. I hope someone makes a Strix Halo deck next year, a just monster apu with quad channel ram. Battery life at full bore of 20 minutes? Sure, sounds great!

The thing about it is these chips are so good at clocking down or running partially disabled. Just turn down the dial if you want battery life!

But then you get to a destination, and wouldn't it be nice if your little deck had a dock with an extra fan builtin and can draw 200W (and over USB pd extended power range). Suddenly it's a fire breathing beast! Yes please! Head towards the absurd, make this happen!
Yes and no.

Instead of PDF, use Markdownload (on iOS, use a Safari web content to markdown file extension):

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload

And save in a journaled folder like "YYYY-MM-DD - Page Title.md" with a YAML frontmatter of all available metadata.

Have this as a folder in your PKM of choice (Obsidian, Foam, whatever).

These days, point some text embedding at it, and let it generate your own LLM brain.

But you can also static-site-generate that back into your own web knowledge site or base.

If you don't need it locally, and depending on the capture you want, consider pinboard.in or historio.us:

https://pinboard.in/

https://historio.us/
The flip side of this is that chord shapes (in terms of hand shape, not intervals) are constant on the guitar (assuming no open strings). Learning piano after guitar, I was intimidated by the fact that – for example – an Am and Bm had different shapes, whereas on the guitar it's just the same shape transposed up the neck.

Anyway, I've noticed some music youtubers can read and write midi notation just as fluidly as sheet music. Which can result in some fun shenanigans[^1]

[^1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_0mMcj0Q8
"that churn out history and economics videos"

Can you provide some examples?
in go or rust?
"hey did you do something weird with this machine? Like reimage it or rotate SSL certs or change the DNS entry so it's actually a different machine?"

"I dunno."
modernity is magnificent.

it is worth paying over one thousand currency units for a thing, entirely for the sake of destroying it rather than correctly using it, because most likely you can make more thousand dollars by recording this act for others.

those others will watch the recording, and may even watch advertisements in order to gain permission to do so. or pay to skip them.

teams of humans work to ensure this is possible.

simply stupendous.
I'm interested at your suggestion that Digicert et al are doing some sort of "keeping the streets safe" checking. I have zero experience of using them but I thought all they were doing was confirming the applicant represented some entity that matched the domain name. If I manage to get a company registered called G00gle, buy a corresponding domain and then send them my $500 are you suggesting they're going to refuse to issue a certificate?

My impression was the CA's made the likes of Standard and Poor look rigorous, but I'm happy to learn more from actual experience of them rejecting such an application.
If possible, also ditch that if.

Swift replaces it by guard. I’m not a 100% fan of its syntax (1), which is

guard <#condition#> else {
<#statements#>
}

but do like that <#statements#> must return. So, guard… else semantically can be replaced by if !, but is a bit more limited, thus making it easier to recognize the pattern.

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...:

“The else clause of a guard statement is required, and must either call a function with the Never return type or transfer program control outside the guard statement’s enclosing scope using one of the following statements:

- return

- break

- continue

- throw”

(1) I can’t think of a much better one, but think I would have picked

requires <#condition#> else {
<#statements#>
}

or (getting rid of that weird else):

ifnot <#condition#> {
<#statements#>
}

Eiffel’s preconditions (https://www.eiffel.org/doc/eiffelstudio/Precondition) look even nicer:

require <#condition#>

but do not allow specifications of what to do when the condition isn’t met, and aren’t supposed to be checked in procession code. https://www.eiffel.org/doc/eiffel/ET-_Design_by_Contract_%28...:

“It is in fact part of the Eiffel method that a routine body should never test for the precondition, since it is the client's responsibility to ensure it. (An apparent paradox of Design by Contract™, which is reflected in the bottom-right entries of the preceding and following contract tables, and should not be a paradox any more at the end of this discussion, is that one can get more reliable software by having fewer explicit checks in the software text.)”
I think you've phrased the problem better than I did.

> As(k) a player playing through steam to download the item and then send it to you.

If anything this might be my biggest critique of Valve's handling of the situation. Even with the DRM on top of Workshop mods, community mirroring of locked-down games would be possible to do in a way that was convenient for end-users outside of Steam... if Valve didn't occasionally just straight-up send cease-and-desist letters to those services.

It wouldn't cover every game, it would still be a problem, there would still be legal and ethical questions about distributing mods without modder consent, but it would be a lot better than the current situation. Right now if a game has those restrictions turned on (which Valve seems to specifically encourage) you kind of have to go underground or interact with shady services or ask players directly, and so coordination between communities becomes very difficult.

I can't read Valve's mind, but I lose a lot of sympathy for them when they're both not supplying any option for users to get access to mods without rebuying the game on Steam and stopping anyone else from trying to solve the problem Steam created for them -- at that point it's very hard for me to avoid thinking that Valve is being deliberately anticompetitive.

I'd still have criticism of a less locked-down system, but it would be easier for me to assume Valve just doesn't see it as worth the effort to support rather than thinking that they seem to be taking a lot of active steps to make the situation worse than it needs to be.
Out of touch with the US, maybe.

Here, I can be sick for 6 consecutive weeks and still get my full salary (and 70%-90% of my full salary for up to like a year). I get money from the state when I'm unemployed (as long as I'm actively trying to find new employment). And if I have kids, I get additional money from the state (couple hundred euro per month per kid).

We simply don't have any need for things like Food Stamps here...
So yeah, sorry if I'm "out of touch" with the backwater ways of the US of A ;-)
I think people call this a "TUI" now.
I get that this is the UK, but 600 miles being something people don't drive is sorta hilarious to me as an American.
Thank you for justifying a steam deck for me. Right now, I have to move my desktop over to the TV to play there, but with a Deck I don’t need to do any hauling. I’ve been looking for a good excuse haha. Are you using just the 1st party dock?
The index/vector strategy is also perfect for basic trees, if you need to have cyclic dependencies between the nodes, and as a cherry on top it serializes super well.

Requires a bit of boilerplate in the beginning, but pays off when actually needing to work with your data.
> Give people a screwdriver and they'll find a way of using it as a hammer.

I feel like feature flags aren't that far off though. They're fantastic for many uses of runtime configuration as mentioned in another comment.

There's multiple people in this thread complaining about "abuse" of feature flags but no one has been able to voice why it's abuse instead of just use beyond esoteric dogma.
1 is to build utilities for 2, IMO. It shouldn't have repository specific information inside and should be easily useable in other workflows.
I think this kills the CMS market—-companies like Contentful & Sanity that charge $400/mo+ just for a team to be able to edit their own website. There’s been a lot of money made (and web stack complexity added) because of how much domain-specific skill is required to created and edit html content.

The only missing piece is direct framework integration (Next, Astro, etc) but at the rate of development I've seen for these projects we'll have that by next week. Then you have an intuitive site builder that operates directly on the page code just like another dev on the team.

One thing Vercel got really right is being able to click on any element in the page for it to become the context of your prompt. That way, you don't have to type "change the top icon inside the third pricing box to red". Also you'll get faster responses because you don't have to feed the AI the entire page / component each time.
If it was Ruby or Python or Perl, would you say the same?
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can't they just hide an air tag deep inside the car in random locations so you'd have to disassemble the whole car to find it, and then there could be more than one, who knows? Air tags are like under 20 bucks probably a lot less if you're a big car manufacturer who can source them directly from China
I... guess? Compared to an editor written in Rust? Sure? But how much CPU will an editor really consume?

As with most things outside of tight loops in games, good architectural decisions are going to matter a lot more than language choice. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, but if I see that the algorithm is inefficient in practice I'll change the algorithm.
Things have a long tail. The world is unstable. Politics can suddenly change and now you're throwing tons of things in the trash not because the items cannot be fixed, but that Apple directly cannot sell you parts.
It also happens that living in an apartment in the middle of a city is depressing to many people, who wish for green spaces, gardening, and a bit of s p a c e.
So I just disagree that suburbia is hell, and high-rise living is next to godliness.

I would live in a world where I was near wilderness, working remotely, but occasionally commuting to work through ultra high speed transport.
But does that room come at a higher carbon cost than commuting to the office (45mins each way(!) afair on average in the US) and having an office building that's entirely empty at night. That building needs maintenance, gardening, cleaning, ...
> Apple has never once, over multiple decades of failed attempts, demonstrated "resistance to penetration attackers with a moderate attack potential" for any of their products. To be fair, neither has Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Crowdstrike, etc.

So, OK I guess?

It's worth noting that CC evaluation does not score the actual practical security of a device or system, but the level of testing it was submitted to, which is consistent with pretty much every single governmental certification out there.
I think it's less you are cutout for a thief, and you just not considering thieves are real people with functioning brains. Any rational human will do some risk/reward analysis. Furthermore, Apple introduced Activation Lock in iOS 7 in 2013. I doubt any statistics would show a "drop" given smartphone growth exploded over that same time period. Lastly it seems iPhone theft, today, has been regulated to more sophisticated crime rings who will go through the trouble of sending the phones to china where they can be either stripped for parts or trying to trick the original owner into unlocking the phone.
Ah yes - mac is particularly difficult to get that interaction right

Thanks for pointing out the typo. I'm really bad for those!
Hybrids can have batteries that are simply not worth charging. I think my 2005 hybrid has a 50Wh battery and certainly no way to externally charge it.

From article:

The government also confirmed that under the revised plan all [sales of new] hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars would also be banned from 2035
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It seriously shoots any Zero Trust claims a corporation makes in the foot if people are "yes"ing through that dialog.

Of course, to really have Zero Trust you have to make it impractical for users to "yes" through the dialog.
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It is not necessarily that they don't matter, but rather that something which is difficult must be rewarding otherwise it will just not be done. When reading, writing and arithmetic were absolutely necessary fir a young person to enjoy and fulfill their lives they would invest gladly. Even a paperback Western is too hard to read today, amd there are alternatives.
In a few years reading long form will be a rare skill in the younger generations, or will be found mainly in special populations, such as highly religious groups that have large collections of religious texts.
If anyone's ever wondered how it got the dumb name:

Back in the day, I worked for an automation company. The software was called "Blade Runner." This was in the era when blade servers were all the rage.

Turns out you can't use a copyrighted name, so they changed it from "Blade Runner" to "BladeLogic." (All the directories are still "BR" btw.)

A bunch of the people from BladeLogic pulled a Mark Zuckerberg and moved from the Boston area to the Bay Area and founded SumoLogic, hence the name.
"Glorious" and "simplicity" are definitely words I've never read about ctypes before.

"Wonky" and "terrifying", a lot more. ctypes is... useful, but it also uses somewhat strange terminology which can be hard to match to C's as it's trying to bridge C and Python. And when getting it wrong is an UB, it's pretty frustrating.
> It’s interesting how some complain companies don’t listen to them, and others say that it doesn’t matter if changes are made after (rightful) complaints.

That's because many folks recognize that the fundamental problem is not the proposal, it is the mechanism by which that proposal was crafted, refined, and finally approved that is rotten.

Walking back the proposal is fine in the near term, but without drastic change to the fundamentals of the company and its leadership, you'll just end up in the same situation in the future, it is just a matter of when.
> I've played a few dozen games against it now, in positions that have never occurred online before, and it still plays remarkably well.
>
> Let's take a moment to be being truly amazed at what's happening.

I'm truly amazed.... that someone can determine a position has never occurred online before!
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> This is overly reductive.

No, as a user I really don't want my usage data leaving my machine. There is no justification worth that to me.
> can't fight the jargon drift forever

Within reason, yeah. But it's obnoxious to have the ambiguity, and what term do we use now for an editor that you interact with from the shell's command line (eg. sed, I guess?), or principally from its own command line (eg. ed)? While we're at it, if we're coining new terms, ideally we could distinguish those two.

sed in particular is "the streaming editor" but "streaming" isn't the category I'm looking for, which would also include something like nmh for mail (vs the traditional mail client behaving like ed, or things like mutt/pine that run in the terminal but provide more of a GUI that happens to be rendered in text).
Why wouldn't you charge when you take a break? That's what I'm saying. You take a break, plug in, leave the car while you stretch your legs, done.

The UK isn't the USA. 600 miles gets you most of the way from Land's End to John o'Groats.

If you're regularly making that trip then, yes, I'll concede you need a massive battery. You probably also want to reconsider your life choices.
True. Also depends on what the target is. I.e., if the attacker wants to impersonate machines that are only avaliable on the local network, then it's probably reasonable to conclude that a machine which was never seen on that LAN before also hasn't yet connected to the impersonated host.

However, that isn't true for "public" SSH endpoints, such as github, gitlab etc - e.g. if the attacker is impersonating the wifi if the nearest Starbucks to snoop on all the hipster solo-devs there, he'll probably be unable to impersonate github, because even people who use that wifi for the first time have probably connected to github before, on a different network.
> Right, corporate lawyers are ideological activists trying to kill GPL.

This is a pretty cynical "assume the worst" outlook, and it badly violates Occam's Razor. I think a much more likely reason that corporate lawyers disapprove of the GPL is that one of their main jobs (in some cases their entire job) is to protect the company's IP, and the GPL is a huge threat to IP. Any lawyer who didn't advise avoiding the GPL would be negligent. I personally love the GPL and encourage its use whenever possible, but I avoid it in decisions for my employers and customers because of the risks. I think generally speaking the risks are not nearly as serious as most people I think, but they do exist (otherwise the copyleft philosophy of the GPL would be pointless!)
I tried a Steam Deck but ended up selling it. Coming from high-end PC gaming from my younger days, the Deck just wasn't quite enough, between the low-medium graphics and the lack of mouse/keyboard + big monitor (yes, you can dock it, but then you're running at a super low FPS even on ultra-low settings, especially without DLSS support). It was also really loud. These days I usually play with GeForce Now, which can do ultra graphics with minimal lag, works great on my ultrawide, is totally silent, and doesn't eat up the battery.

In fact GFN works so well I ended up getting a Logitech GCloud (https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/cloud-gaming/cloud-...) to replace the Deck, because it has a much better screen, battery life, and is like half the weight. It only streams games though (cheap Android hardware) and has sketchy ties to Tencent, unfortunately. But for anywhere with good internet, it's wonderful... ultra graphics on a nice screen in a lightweight and quiet form factor.

As for dev on Linux, yeah, that sounds right! I use Adobe less and less these days, frankly, but I do really enjoy any chance I get. Used to do a lot of graphics work with the dev work, before my job became super-specialized :( Right now I'm really happy with my Macbook, but if ARM ever gains a foothold in the PC laptop market and we see better hardware (especially performance/watt and decibels/performance) in the future, I'd reconsider that. Apple Silicon is pretty phenomenal for the time being... blows my old ThinkPads out of the water.
If it's any consolation, videos like this quell the urge inside me to do it myself. If one guy destroying one phone for millions of people stops just 2 people from destroying their phone, it's arguably a net positive.
Cisco and Splunk merger/acquisition rumors are at least 1 year old. Lots of Splunk employees speculated that it would be announced at the last Splunk conf (2022). Either way I vote for this being a blatant insider trading.
The prices depend on the costs that a downloaded/uploaded petabyte would cost on the exchanges. Gamestreaming would rise again since a nessesary amount of people have now access to the required bandwith, if the cost leaves people with enough money that they don't have to worry.
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The moment we can make an alternative zero emissions car for less, it will probably be the end of the BEV. Cost per mile is wildly exaggerated as an argument since all vehicles will eventually face road taxes.
It's pretty easy to say "terminal based" or "text mode" instead of CLI, which is misleading. I was expecting an alternative to sed.
Don't read BS PR, look for actual related news.

Charging stations delays because of grid:
https://www.energylivenews.com/2023/07/24/uk-faces-ev-charge...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/09/09/electric-car...

Restrictions in West London because of grid:
https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/better-infra...

Renewable projects delayed because of grid:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65500339

And of course electricity production has to go up a lot to accommodate the new demand... probably the equivalent of several nuclear power plants.
Answering myself: I found this interesting article https://adam-p.ca/blog/2022/02/ipv6-rate-limiting/
Also true everywhere else in the world, probably at least slightly better in the US and other democracies.
Nobody can beat Germany at coal :))
I have the DMS edition with the 4.5-digit multimeter, reads down to 10µV and has the GPIB. A damn handy combination of options. A comparable modern Fluke costs $1200. I found this one on a curb.
Here in Morocco, 80s era car engines are still being converted to run on butane/propane and used to generate electricity to run well pumps (their favorite is the Mercedes M102 E23).
This is yet another problem that could, hypothetically, be addressed by centralizing / single-payering the system.

With one administrator having access to all that data, it would be straightforward to see where ERs and ambulances are being over-used for non-emergencies and address that in the community with both more funding for preventative care and intervention / education initiatives to get people using preventative care.
I was going to suggest something similar. Limit scope to something that is pretty (all of the pdf/ps display model?), but doesn’t support arbitrary code execution or surveillance.

Prodigy (a walled garden network like aol or compuserve) in the US tried to build this in the late 80’s / early 90’s (not with the same motivation—-they were trying to build a terminal with vector graphics for the masses).

For this sort of project, and the emotional reasoning you have for building it, I truly believe less is more.
Everything you talked about generally runs on 120V DC. You are basically suggesting changing everything in your house to save some money on inverter.

It isn't possible to run full-sized fridge on 12V DC with reasonably sized wires. It is more efficient to run 12V generator through inverter, 120V AC over the wires to AC gear, and convert back down to 12V for the things that need it.