teajaygrey

teajaygrey, 5 days ago

@sarahjamielewis Once upon a time I was invited to a home where the albeit, former, CTO of Canonical was residing.

As the evening progressed, eventually it was decided that some people wanted to watch Jodorowsky's Dune. A copy was on DVD, but the former CTO's laptop ran Linux.

The former CTO, had never heard of all the DeCSS hubbub apparently? Even though I seem to recall some had such things printed on tshirts? Slashdot was awash in such stories, from my vantage, for years.

I asked if I could take a look and a short:

%sudo apt-get update
%sudo apt-get upgrade
%sudo apt-get install libdvdcss

Later, we were able to watch the DVD.

That Micro$oft, chose Canonical's Ubuntu for their WSL Linux BS, was completely unsurprising to me.

Even at the executive level, Canonical demonstrated profound (perhaps willful?) ignorance of DRM circumvention.

Notably the libdvdcss has apparently been renamed more than once and is at most recent check called: libdvd-pkg

Because, why would those fucking assholes want to make it easy or consistent, when they can instead keep mv-ing things so everyone else has to play whack a mole & deal with deprecated documentation?

DVD copy protections are broken & have never been meaningfully updated, so instead of accepting defeat, those who are complicit, perpetuate inordinate amounts of bull it.sh apparently?

teajaygrey, 10 days ago

@mjg59 Did ArcAttack! do that? Or some other Tesla Coil band?

I deejayed an anti-surveillance fashion show with some other @Noisebridge after ArcAttack! performed a set at Maker Faire many years ago.

teajaygrey, 10 days ago

@whitequark Room thermostats and HVAC are relatively imprecise in my experience.

I wonder though: perhaps if using Fahrenheit instead of Centigrade, they might have less of a range of fluctuation due to the more minute measurements of difference which Fahrenheit uses?

Probably comes a lot down to implementation and I haven't worked in HVAC or dealt with thermostat microcontrollers in an awfully long time.

teajaygrey, 14 days ago

@LexiGirl who?

Sorry, I'm a Californian. The political BS around California being part of America is contentious enough.

Am I supposed to know who that person is?

We have approximately 333.3 million Americans presently and I will be dead and buried having never heard of most of them, let alone ever bothered to get to know the slightest thing about them presumably.

Based on search engines, she's apparently some "journalist" for CNN?

I haven't paid for cable since my marriage fell apart in 2005 and have no plans to pay for advertising laden media ever again. My ex-wife liked soap operas. I already spend too much time staring at glowing screens and don't need more distractions from for-profit morons.

@shoq

teajaygrey, 14 days ago

@shoq I only do journalism in my spare time for undeadly.org for the last 20 some odd years and my general outlook on American journalism is:

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Is just about the only person left whom I have observed even trying to do that field justice.

Well, aside from the court jesters such as Jon Stewart and John Oliver. I have a penchant for mortuary humor on a dying planet.

The rest of the lot are more or less resplendently part and parcel with the oligopoly that the USA has devolved into and presumably will remain that way so long as they have advertisers' best interests at heart rather than any higher ideals.

@LexiGirl

teajaygrey, 17 days ago

@jacqueline parasocial marketing as a service?

No one needs that.

Well, except those who profit from advertising.

Namely, Alphabet Inc./Google/YouTube and others who are sucking Satan's Cock in advertising and marketing I guess?

teajaygrey, 23 days ago

@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.53 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23996

GitHub Actions CI passed OK!

As in the past, I don't have commit access, so it will be up to someone else to merge it.

Thank you for your continued improvements and to khm and kvibber for their contributions as well!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

teajaygrey, 22 days ago

@grunfink Totally unexpected yet welcome:

Someone else submitted a PR to improve the MacPorts' snac Portfile to work with older versions of gcc and tested on a version of OS X I haven't used as a "daily driver" in years:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23999

My approach with newer code on older OSes has typically been to install newer C compilers such as recent clang/llvm but there are many ways to get similar results!