numist

@numist@xoxo.zone

Inveterate tinkerer trying to make the world a better place for everyone.

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numist, to random

Love Swift? Come work with me! We have a great team, a bold mission, and an ability to get it done that you won't find anywhere else. https://mastodon.social/@jacquesf/112564879191437626

kyleve, to random
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Excited to add a couple more SF tchotchkes to my collection: Old street signs!

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numist,

@kyleve @boredzo I've had the Lawton one on my watchlist for years. maybe I should just do it.

numist, to random

Reminded by https://botsin.space/@kottke/112333649621233510 of something a friend said that really stuck with me: it's a tragedy how easy it is to look at people in middle age and assume that their life went according to plan, that what you see is everything they wanted.

It's impossible for a stranger to see what's not there, what dreams might have been. This can take many forms, but it's probably most painfully true for a person in want of a child.

numist, to random

If the industry was serious about retaining women there'd be a lot more part time opportunities.

It would even help women in other industries, too; I would happily go part time so @tab could take something FT-only, but it's just not a thing in tech unless you go into contracting/consulting, which is a very different kind of work.

numist, to random

Is anyone here (or someone they know) a lawyer with an interest in persuading a manufacturer to uphold their warranty?

Basically a friend (lives in Arizona) sent the product back to the factory a year ago (in California; I delivered it) and they ghosted him until the warranty expired before replying with "here's an invoice for $7200, we waived the labour and gave you a discount on the parts"

steve, to random
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Everyday is Caturday when you’re on vacation.

numist,

@Migueldeicaza it's nice to hear it's not just me

numist, to random

Dog bless whoever decided that "
(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)\n" should be their file format's first 48 bytes. Saved me a lot of squinting.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I appreciate that the Godot source code uses tabs to indent code, as God intended.

numist,

@Migueldeicaza I had a teammate convert me from spaces to tabs recently based on a convincing argument that the latter is more accessible.

numist, to random

:ohnobubble:

> After observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz package) on
Debian sid installations over the last weeks (logins with ssh taking a lot of
CPU, valgrind errors) I figured out the answer:
>
> The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.
>
> At first I thought this was a compromise of debian's package, but it turns out
to be upstream.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

numist,

From another thread, if you run anything derived from trixie (debian's "testing" release) you should update your system immediately. https://xoxo.zone/@numist/112180274090592877

fraying, to random
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Weird how, when an AI text generator lies it's called a "hallucination," but when a journalist lies it's called "you're fired."

numist,

@fraying at least in Canada it's called "well, you still have to make good on your agents' promises" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

numist, to random

Shot: Roku locks customers out of devices until they agree to binding arbitration. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/disgraceful-messy-tos-update-allegedly-locks-roku-devices-until-users-give-in/

Chaser: Roku just disclosed a data breach they've known about since January. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-15-000-hacked-roku-accounts-sold-for-50-each-to-buy-hardware/

I'm sure these two events are totally unrelated.

numist, to random

TIL macOS comes with a program called splain, which you can have "explained" to you by typing man splain

kyleve, to random
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This lil mf is a jumpscare every time

Boom random keyboard 6 inches from ur face. Hello

numist,

@kyleve can't you pair a Bluetooth keyboard with this thing or what

numist, to random

"Keep hackers out" by opening myself up to a SIM swapping attack? No thank you? Just give me TOTP or, better yet, support for passkeys.

oglaf, to random
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https://update.oglaf.com/gratitude-journal/

numist,

@annika @oglaf here https://www.oglaf.com/gratitude-journal/

pixel, to random
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@ivory Youve probably considered this and I’m guessing there’s a technical limit… but would it be possible for ivory to fetch all replies to a post if I show the detail view of the post?

numist,

@ivory @grork @pixel opening a post on its home server in a browser shows all (public) replies, is that backed by an API?

numist, to random

I cut "crazy" from my casual lexicon ages ago but was still surprised to be informed today that "sanity check" is also on the bad words list.

numist, to random

Trying not to be daft here, but what does it mean for a Bitcoin transaction (or AI server farm, or whatever) to "consume x amount of fresh water"? What makes it unusable to downstream users?

As an analogy, power stations also use fresh water for cooling, which they return it to the waterways. It's warmer (to the detriment of local ecology) and presumably not quite as clean, but the news doesn't seem especially bothered. Is this a grudge in the reporting or is there something else I'm missing?

numist,

@skyfaller I'll have to do some math when I get home but "and large amounts of water are lost through evaporation from the reservoirs that supply hydroelectric plants" is a good example of what I meant by grudge reporting. By that logic you could credit Bitcoin for the water it saved from evaporation by sending it downstream to produce power instead.

To be clear I think crypto is a scam (see footnote #3 in https://numi.st/post/2022/what-is-mmt/#fn:ransom), my problem is that bad reporting undermines its own message.

numist,

@skyfaller Couldn't wait to get home:

• Linked article claims nearly 1,600GL water consumed in 2021
• agupubs estimates 173TWh in 2020 (close enough for napkin math)
• Math says evaporation energy for 1,600GL is 1004 TWh which is >5x more.

So it's not evaporation, at least not majority.

numist, to random

Hashtag follows on Mastodon would be way more useful if they could be treated like people and added(/confined) to lists.

numist, to random

We take diffing code by line for granted but every time you have a conflict it becomes obvious that:

  1. it only works because lines are a useful proxy for statements
  2. there would be way less manual resolution of conflicts if the tools would recurse into the offending hunk by token (usefully proxied by whitespace and possibly changes in character class)
numist,

Speaking of lines being a useful proxy for statements, you can usefully git diff databases by putting this in your .gitconfig:

[diff "sqlite3"]
binary = true
textconv = echo .dump | sqlite3

(and *.db diff=sqlite3 in your gitattributes, if you're so inclined)

numist,

Git diff support for plists:

[diff "plist"]
binary = true
textconv = /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -x -c print

(and *.plist diff=plist in your gitattributes, if you're so inclined)

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