lispi314

@lispi314@mastodon.top

Programmer and Free Software proponent.

Extra Pins:

Software and Assumed Privilege, common problems: https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/111253066257920146

Writing Privacy-preserving software & services 101: https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/110849018589421824

#Kopimism #FreeSoftware #CommonLisp

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

MeanwhileinCanada, to random
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social avatar
lispi314,

@MeanwhileinCanada The dark is quite fine if it's cold-enough you don't get swamped by mosquitos because they've all frozen.

Comfy clothes, no unshielded fusion reactor searing your retina, what's not to like?

I still think we should all just move to using TAI time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time) for everything, it makes so much more sense.

As for driving? Simple, we should just fix our infrastructure so it's no longer needed.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Not paying your workers well doesn't even make sense financially, what do they think people do with extra money? Corporations shoot themselves in the foot, and then ask all of us to stop the bleeding.

lispi314,

@vfrmedia @RickiTarr @WagesOf In that last parenthesis, you get no less messed-up zaibatsus though.

gsuberland, to random
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

just checked a major review site and not a single smart TV was released in the past two years without integrated ads that you can't opt out from or disable. that's depressing.

lispi314,

@gsuberland @djb Life hack: Have too shitty eyes to notice the difference.

chikorita157, to random Japanese
@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe avatar

While I will get an email the Framework 13 AMD 7840U being shipped out in the middle of November possibly so I can move all the Cevio AI and Recotte Studio stuff off my GPD Win 4 (I still need to make the Japanese script for my brief thoughts on Oshi ga Budoukan Itte Kuretara Shinu).

If the AMD Ryzen 8050/9050 have a newer version of USB4 that provides the speeds of Thunderbolt 5, I may consider upgrading the mainboard and making the old one a ESXi node.

:neocat_think:

That if, Framework doesn’t come out with a Snapdragon X Elite mainboard, if that is even possible.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-8000-9000-apu-roadmap-leaks-out-strix-point-to-launch-mid-2024-fire-range-and-strix-halo-in-2025

lispi314,

@chikorita157 Interesting. I wonder if framework mainboards support ECC memory, given those CPUs do.

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

my favorite thing about the XFCE desktop environment is how the network applet pops up these messages all the time and there's a handy dandy "don't show this again" button that does ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING

lispi314,

@foone I wonder why it doesn't.

Does the network get renamed or something?

vascorsd, to linux
@vascorsd@mastodon.social avatar

I had suspected today before on another try but just confirmed the absolute shit that it just made on my laptop.

When turning on dns over tls on systemd-resolved be aware that it will fuck over when trying to connect to public wifi spots that have the common captive portals where only protocol allowed to work before logging in is plain dns and plain http.

You will have to turn off dns over tls!

#linux #archlinux

lispi314,

@vascorsd I guess that's one point for dnscrypt or DNS-based proxying.

lispi314,

@vascorsd Yeah, it was nice to play it back when TLS & HTTPS transports weren't all the rage yet.

Wider and faster platform might've kept it relevant.

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

What the actual fuck.

Yes, it's real:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231102174038/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/10/30/what-a-third-world-war-would-mean-for-investors

Wayback Machine link because screw that, they're not getting the clicks.

lispi314,

@rysiek "sneaking up on" -> "being actively sponsored and invested in by"

aral, to Bulgaria
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

🚨 Another EU mass surveillance attempt. Will kill privacy on web. Must not pass. 🚨

“[A]ll web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.

These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.”

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

lispi314,

@aral So they really want to accelerate everyone dropping PKI as the complete untrustworthy turd it is, don't they?

lispi314,

@opendna @aral Do you understand what PKI authorities do and their role in TLS interception?

If the answer to that is no, you might want to cease making a fool of yourself and read up on it first.

No one gives a shit about the keys to be trusted. The problem is the means to achieve that which are also concerned by the same legislation: the certificate authorities.

If you have a compromised root PKI certauth? You own the TLS net. That's it. You can eavesdrop and interfere with everything.

lispi314,

@mariusor @aral It's well-considered enough it isn't stupidity, it's malice.

Such users may also become targets in other ways, if their fast move to authoritarian surveillance goes as intended.

lispi314,

@mariusor @aral Abetting authoritarianism in self-delusion and rationalization of one's misdeeds isn't meaningfully differentiable from malice, and that's the only real alternative left.

lispi314,

@opendna @aral That is another part of the "PKI is fundamentally broken" deal, indeed.

Corposcum cannot be trusted either and their neglect (and perverse incentives in many/most cases) have already been well-documented.

shoq, to random
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

If you’d said, even as recently as 2001, that in less than 25 years, a substantial segment of modern society would use hand held computers to spew largely random and often acrimonious comments at each other, at any hour of the day or night, no one would have taken you seriously. But here we are.

lispi314,

@shoq Considering feature phones (especially in Japan) were already most of the way there, I'm skeptical.

HeavenlyPossum, to random

Ancaps: “The logic of the capitalist market will inevitably drive prices down!”

Actual capitalists:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/14-big-landlords-used-software-to-collude-on-rent-prices-dc-lawsuit-says/

lispi314,

@HeavenlyPossum Basically, a cartel turning into a rentier class is the usual outcome.

Capitalism eats itself and out come the rentiers and everyone else (including other less powerful capitalists) is fucked.

Which isn't even remotely new, that's literally what the word "antitrust" comes from. Busting the trusts a few local oligopoly/cartel rail operators had built to screw everyone else over.

kiwa, to random
@kiwa@bitbang.social avatar

already failed no windows 3.1 november

lispi314,

@kiwa cc @ezio

mhoye, to random
@mhoye@mastodon.social avatar

People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.

lispi314,

@mhoye I'm not a fan of GCC's manual for a number of reasons, but it's infuriating how many distros feel like it's necessary to split out the documentation from it.

Just package it as gcc-full (aliased to gcc) by default and if someone absolutely wants it without documentation then they can install gcc-bin or whatever.

lispi314, to usenet

I have complicated feelings regarding #Usenet and #NNTP due to some server-centric aspects.

Granted due to message #gossip the death of any given instance isn't catastrophic and moving is largely unnoticeable, but it still puts some hurdles on usability in adverse conditions.

It still fulfills most of the #AsynchronousCommunication characteristics handily, but that's still a nagging thought, since /most/ instances demand fairly high-uptime to peer and don't allow such instability from peers.

lispi314,

@simon_brooke Yeah, the UUCP/NNCP-accepting instances are of the ones that don't have such uptime demands.

ajroach42, to random
@ajroach42@retro.social avatar

Earlier today, while I was sitting in a car driving up the road, I wrote a long kind of meandering thread: https://retro.social/@ajroach42/111319166733665805

I had just driven passed a burger joint that was built on the site of, and using the facade of, a building from the 1700s, and it stirred up a bunch of memories and feelings about a project I've been thinking about and working on.

But it's a long meandering thing, the kind of thread that, while I am obviously talking about something takes a long time to get there.

So I'm going to try again.

lispi314,

@cmdrmoto @ajroach42 @drwho A bit more comfortable and practical to bootstrap from than raw assembly. And more portable too.

lispi314, to random

Occasional restating that I hate how houses and apartments have all those easily broken-through windows these days.

Forget the security door, if your window is a single brick away from no longer existing and easily letting a human through, you've got other problems.

North, to random
@North@chaos.social avatar

Hot take: Do whatever you want to old shit if it means you'll use it. Unless it has archeological value (It's the only/last of its kind, undocumented hardware, etc) then I'd much rather see a "vintage" computer with yellowed plastic and a big hole drilled in the side for a battery pack running someone's automated garden watering system or home automation than a pristine system powered off in a private collection. Don't get too precious about these mass manufactured tools.

lispi314,

@North I think whether it still works (or can practically be repaired) should factor into it.

If it still worked, some destruction of the original thing is involved.

If it's not, then it was already fairly late for preservation.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

USB (OLD): You have various cables. Some of them have a blue color inside the plug. The ones that are blue inside the plug work better.

USB (C): You have various cables. Plug one in for a fun surprise!

lispi314,

@mcc The standard shouldn't have been released without a sane (and mandatory) labeling system.

At the moment it's up to the user to tie tags to them after mucking about with the expensive USB-c tester they never should've needed to buy.

autonomysolidarity, to random German
@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu avatar
lispi314,

@autonomysolidarity So what if I don't for the latter and still dislike low-effort low-artistry/low-quality tagging stuff?

(Which does correctly suggest I like some of the other stuff.)

dekkzz76, to random
@dekkzz76@emacs.ch avatar

@lispi314

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=umSuLpjFUf8

lispi314,

@dekkzz76 @drewdiver Yeah, individuals had little choice in the matter anyway due to price, but there were competitors to Turbo Pascal (most significantly more costly though, which is considerable considering it wasn't itself cheap to start with).

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • ngwrru68w68
  • everett
  • InstantRegret
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • Durango
  • ethstaker
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • Leos
  • osvaldo12
  • tacticalgear
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • anitta
  • provamag3
  • modclub
  • mdbf
  • GTA5RPClips
  • tester
  • megavids
  • normalnudes
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •