As if the integration of a broken, backwards technology into the core of our computing systems happened by accident.
"No, you see the OS doesn't get to see those bits of the screen, so it totally makes sense why the system scraps your financial documents and passwords but not netflix" - utterly unhinged worldview
@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.
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?
@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.
Wouldn’t it be wild if there was a Sunday news show that did nothing but debunk the bullshit on all the other news shows—in real time? Dana Bash says something idiotic (again), and you quickly flip on the Bullshit Today Channel (BTC), and a panel of people who actually know something are patiently explaining what she doesn’t know, isn’t saying, or can’t comprehend?
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 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.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.53 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.
Added some (partial) support for Event object types.
Minor fixes: Allow unboosting your own posts (contributed by khm), CSS fixes for the Dillo browser (contributed by kvibber).
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:
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!
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.52 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Posts that were liked or boosted can now be unliked and unboosted.
Outgoing message timeouts are no longer hardcoded and can be configured (see snac(8) for more information).
Fixed a bug that caused some incorrect unfollows under special conditions (with shared inboxes enabled and users from the same instance that follow each other, the internal message distributor was confused).
Mastodon API: Added support for lists.
Added a header to avoid over-zealous caching in some browsers (contributed by louis77).
Added support for running and federating inside hidden networks like Tor, I2P or Loki (contributed by iwojima).
Fixed an error processing polls coming from Pleroma instances.
There are lots of interlingual soy milk jokes (comic examples attached).
Though, all this reminds me of DJ Statik (of Das Bunker notoriety, though in more recent years deejayin at Midnight Mess in Tokyo, Japan) going out to Indian food with me and DJ Abattoir (RIP).
He held up a piece of naan bread and asked me: "これはナンですか。”
「kore wa nan desu ka」Translation:
"Is this naan?"
Which is a homonym of これは何ですか。「kore wa nan desu ka」
Translation:
"What is this?"
Definitely one of those kinds of jokes that required interlingual knowledge and literacy to grok.
Hmmm. Write Z80 first, then port to 6502? Write 6502 first, then port to Z80? Write 68000 first, then port to both Z80 and 6502? Write a bytecode interpreter on both 6502 and Z80 and then code to that bytecode?
I guess I'm looking for an excuse to think about writing code instead of, you know, actually writing code.
@jbqueru I feel as if I had similar things in my mind.... in the 1980s.
sigh Pretty sure I don't have access to any of that code. From the day I took my first programming class, until the day I got my first computer, was 12 years, and I was programming, on other people's systems, even before that first class. ;(
So many things I contributed to lost to time, and others' systems.
@jbqueru ah yeah, I was incarnated as a human this lifetime in Menlo Park and was surrounded by others' systems that most only might know from history books.
Even today, my parents' old church in Menlo Park shares a parking lot with SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and I knew other folks at SRI like Doug Engelbart and Bill English personally.
Lamentably, I didn't begin formal instruction in programming until maybe 1981 or so? In New Mexico. Candidly, it felt as if I had gone backwards in time, technologically, by decades. ;( It was an excruciatingly frustrating experience for me, I remember crying on occasion because I couldn't yet touch type and the piece of shit mainframe that class used had a timeout on login set to 60 seconds on their green and black terminals or something clearly not designed with a six year old who had already been using GUIs for years in mind.
Not the last time such an experience would occur either. For some reason I ended up going to a college in Minnesota in the 1990s. That campus had a 56K uplink, for their entire school! I had a 14.4 modem personally and I was a poor kid, not some USR HST warez courier like some of my friends in highschool. But, already in highschool I was repeatedly being invited to tweak code (and some microcode) for the SGIs and Sun Microsystems at nps.navy.mil. Two sysadmins at the Naval Postgraduate School, even asked me to be co-SysOps on BBSes they ran for fun outside of work.
I don't even remember my first programming language anymore, but I remember taking a class in Logo in the 1980s which inspired me to learn z80/x86 and 6502 asm, because Logo was so friggin slow! I asked around how video games were rendering things so quickly and learned about going lower level and "Racing the Beam". By the time I finally got to real C compilers they seemed bloated to me. The first graphics library I used in college, felt like cheating.
I still <3 asm but find I rarely get to enjoy it like I used to these days. ;(
Been 20+ yrs and even tho partner and I saw it a few times then, we can't seem to remember too much by way of specifics/details.
Rewatching now and it's the overall treat we recall. Hilarious too
@SRDas Fantastic film. RIP 伊丹 十三「itami jūzō」(the director; some think his death was actually a hit made to look like a suicide, performed by 極道「gokudō」who took offense at his portrayals of ヤクザ「yakuza」).
For a while, the DVD was out of print. I remember finding a torrent which had like, 4 people seeding it.
I was elated when Criterion released it on BluRay.
So much so, that I purchased an extra copy and gave it to the video store in Japan Center, which was selling bootlegged versions of the DVD.
Lamentably, not only did I not see them start selling bootlegged versions on BluRay, the last time I went in there, I didn't see any Jūzō films on their shelves. ;( He directed some other outstanding movies as well, though I admit, I haven't seen all of them yet.
Trivia: The UC Theater (on University Avenue, in Berkeley California) used to show the opening sequence during their pre-movie screenings/trailers, as a kind of "silence your cell phone" message. It's so good!
If only more theaters, and patrons would get the message.
@SRDas The Funeral was shown in one of my undergraduate Japanese classes and has a lot of jokes that are extremely culturally relativistic (such as camera shots focusing on feet and legs while people are sitting in seiza 正坐 "proper sitting", which is very uncomfortable for many, especially for prolonged periods of time). A Taxing Woman I think I may have once seen on a PBS channel? It has a sequel as well. I still haven't seen his other films.
What was it a couple of weeks ago where I was head scratching about Taylor Swift having TWO private jets?
I re-watched Inception last week.
How could I have forgotten that they performed their Inception-errific-injection during a first class air fare (of an airline owned/purchased by the adversary) by sabotaging the target's private jet? Thus necessitating them to book a ticket on a plebeian airline?
I guess Taylor Swift's threat model is just on a different level?
I am grateful I am not so rich and famous as to have to worry about fictional threats from Christopher Nolan movies.
I have more than enough real world threats as it is.
My "threat level" was already set to: "we do not have multiple founding partner level employees flying the same flights" mitigations as far back as 2010, because iSEC Partners was not looking for a repeat of this disaster: