LisPi

Hi, I'm Lispi, Lisp (Technomancer) Wizard (to eventually be).

You might know me from LisPi (npub1rp2…mhtw)

I like Free Software, #Emacs and resilient computing a lot.

I also like anime girls, animes with cute girls doing cute things and artwork with them too. Cute stories are good too.

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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

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2024-10-28 22:29:10

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There are also zero-click drive-by infection options on a disturbingly frequent basis because Javascript runtime security in browsers is a joke.
(So much fucking up in the JIT that could easily be avoided, if they're not going to bother doing it properly, by just not doing it at all. (https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/))

2024-09-19 23:09:54

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The hypocrisy is impressive, indeed.

2024-09-19 23:07:57

One unpleasant aspect with homomorphic encryption is that it's certain it will be used by proprietary malware when practical.

2024-09-19 23:03:24

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It annoys me how uncommon it is to find locking variants for powercords and devices that take them.

2024-09-19 22:59:50

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d00t

2024-09-19 20:20:57

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I have no idea what Nintendo could have *patented* for a game that was reused/replicated by Palworld that will not be found trivial and obvious to any game programmer.

2024-09-13 05:10:44

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> maybe something like roam research / log seq?
Reminds me vaguely of org-roam (which I do use).
That's more... knowledge work/notes/storybuilding than stuff like finding all music & images I've decided are associated with Blame! (Is this a tag? a collection object? both? In any case, no current system supports this out of the box), queuing some of it and re-reading one's favorite parts of the manga. Maybe annotating bits of songs with comments and references to particular pages that seem to fit well together.
> ur inb4 reminds me of pharo which does look cool but idk it also seems kinda just like a simpler web browser kinda thing
Yeah, Pharo & its "Glamorous Toolkit" certainly could be used to implement what I'm talking about/envisioning, though I don't know that to have been done already.
The object database part is not something they have as far as I know and considering just how much data I have, it just isn't optional (my music collection alone wouldn't fit in any amount of memory I can reasonably buy).

2024-09-13 04:50:46

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I recall that vaguely (I'm rewatching some of the videos), I hadn't thought about it in a while.
I think that might be a fair bit too out of the computer for me (among other concerns/constraints) but then, they do highlight the communal computer target use-case so that's to be expected.
The midi-sequencing bit with paper is pretty neat and it would definitely be fun to make some poor hacker's take on modular synths with that. Some blu-tack, paper and some time using markers sure would be a lot cheaper & more readily available.
The implied structure of the underlying computing system is also quite intriguing.
The nearly-free integration of analog computing is also very neat.

2024-09-13 03:56:20

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inb4 "There was some Smalltalk system like that a few decades ago and it died"

2024-09-13 03:51:31

I feel this is probably a hopeless query, but does anyone know of some sort of shell, GUI-based or whatever, that has something like a built-in object database, various possible interactions based on those object types (or messages they answer to, works too) and where one can run arbitrary queries & expressions for finding those objects (as well as drilling down graphically)?
I'm currently annoyed with the hierarchical filesystem structure for my data and the haphazard tools I've made to vaguely approach some of that with Emacs & SQL(ite) just feel like a pale shadow of what it could be (plus the rigid table-typing of SQL doesn't allow for a first-class implementation of the dynamism I want).

2024-09-13 00:27:44

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Ceph is also wa too brittle in practice for whatever reason.
It's been around for over a decade now and yet...
The machine redundancy costs also make it impractical for individual users, but for mass storage facilities it's fine.

2024-09-12 23:41:22

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9/10, relatable, but distinct.

2024-09-12 23:40:23

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Refusing to learn what is necessary for their job, in any other job, would be a good way to get fired.
Maybe that should be implemented?

2024-09-12 23:38:40

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Would dipping it in bathwater save it?

2024-09-12 23:35:51

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lmao, yab

2024-09-12 23:35:22

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Well, Doll died (permanently) so unfortunately Uzi x Doll was kind of complicated.
Hm, for canon, which girl did Uzi get along with best?
(For non-canon, J or Cyn are fun ships.)

2024-09-12 23:27:50

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Confirmed cute stuff. Checks out.

2024-09-12 23:25:23

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Hopefully they're not dumb-enough to do that.
Resetting the trap to snap it shut once more a few years after once they've locked themselves into it is just far too obvious a move, now that they've specifically demonstrated willingness to do it.

2024-09-12 23:23:40

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This sounds very clearly like anticompetitive behavior by a conglomerate with an effective monopoly and several near-monopolies.

2024-09-12 23:17:46

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lmao
Typical.

2024-09-12 23:14:09

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The funniest thing is that it wouldn't be possible for it to happen if they just used database blob storage.
SQLite has some relatively low limits and even lower if performance matters, but PostgreSQL actually *has* optimized large object storage capacities built-in.

2024-09-12 23:10:13

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Nice to see you're the kind of person that would readily endorse slavery & imprisoning or executing those attempting to flee if it were legal.

2024-09-12 23:03:10

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It is a moral duty to disregard & violate unconscionable laws.
Their program is at best a guest on the user's system. It is unacceptable for it to abuse the user.

2024-09-12 23:00:31

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Yeah, for whimsy's sake I tried to listen to one of my old music discs and found out that most of my collection is now dead.
Thankfully, I'd ripped them a long them ago anyway.

2024-09-12 19:31:58

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It's a dynamic storage medium that requires periodic checking and integrity verification & repair (and redundancy to handle drives failing).
Why is this supposed to be a surprise to anyone?
It's like they did no due diligence whatsoever before picking that.
As for tape, it *also* requires periodic maintenance because it *also* degrades even in ideal conditions.
Essentially, what Iron Mountain is doing is admitting to gross negligence (they should never have *accepted* bare drives to be left inert for years).
Millenium Disc was largely vaporware so as far as I'm aware, we do not have any centuries-long archiving other than punched cards (in particular ones not made of paper but something more hardy).

2024-09-12 18:59:32

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Programs that do not serve the user, and abuse the user, are called malware.
What the devs (apparently) want is malware behavior.

2024-09-12 18:36:15

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Mastodon ideas. Not even once.

2024-09-12 10:19:10

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keyboard sus

2024-09-12 10:16:09

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Yeah, that's its name.

2024-09-12 10:11:05

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You could put some conduit on the wall though, if you want to have it neater-looking & off the floor or whatever.
Of course if you've got attachment points to tie the cables to so they don't droop onto the floor the conduit ends up purely aesthetics (it can also keep pets away from it, I suppose).

2024-09-12 10:08:56

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There is tooling for fiber splices available.
It's somewhat expensive and the whole process is tedious.

2024-09-12 10:07:52

Reiteration of my annoyance at the confounding and merging of content warnings and subjects/titles for posts.
Those are orthogonal concerns, they should each use a different object slot.

2024-09-12 00:40:43

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And now to slowly release anxiety for the next few days until it builds up again.

2024-09-12 00:37:42

I wonder if there is some modernized tooling for mainframes or if they still use that awful command & job language.
Seriously, even *COBOL* is an improvement over that.

2024-09-12 00:34:00

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> But, there is no future where a privatized centralized data center, trying to extract patterns and monetary value from god-knows-how-much-data, is not a resource hog.
Endless extractivism seeking infinite growth indeed cannot be green. By definition it disregards the notion of sustainable limits.

2024-09-12 00:32:17

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You could argue it's similar to adding lanes to a highway. Induced demand.
Worth considering that expensive compilation like Rust has also might end-up significantly more expensive than incremental programming in live dynamic languages' images like Lisp & Smalltalk's.
Since Rust needs that expensive rebuild on *every* modification, whereas dynamic languages very much don't.

2024-09-12 00:31:38

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You could argue it's similar to adding lanes to a highway. Induced demand.
Note considering that expensive compilation like Rust has also might end-up significantly more expensive than incremental programming in live dynamic language images like Lisp & Smalltalk's.
Since Rust needs that expensive rebuild on *every* modification.

2024-09-12 00:21:42

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It looks a bit like Fairy Tale?

2024-09-11 09:31:36

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Possibly piercing it through with twine of some natural fiber and tying it in place.

2024-09-11 09:17:55

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They should put some concrete-anchored bollards in front of them.

2024-09-11 09:15:06

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Existence is such a strange thing.

2024-09-11 06:44:35

Bloodborne on PC when?

2024-09-11 06:28:12

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Probably should at some point.
Doesn't Fate/Extra require an expensive magical box to play though?

2024-09-11 06:25:22

I have very mixed feelings when human exceptionalism isn't played for laughs or absurdity in a story.

2024-09-11 02:03:27

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Is live transcoding not an option?

2024-09-10 21:33:45

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Or she might be. 💙

2024-09-10 21:28:32

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> Dust in space is a non-issue, or wait.. uhh yea.. it has to be sealed off.
Even sealed HDDs with helium rely on the atmosphere for cooling, it already needed to be sealed & gas-filled just for that.
(So do SSDs. And even water cooling systems, which just move the heat via fluid to a more practical exchange surface.)
> Excluding hw failure, there isn't much to any maintenance needed.
Indeed, storage has a fairly limited lifespan. So at a minimum that'll need replacement.
> But considering the limitless budget, it's be possible to have a controllable robot arm on a rail going around the servers.
There's a possibility of failure of such apparatus or its rails. Equipment to fix that would also be required, and at that point robots with more mobility become of interest.
> (Note: Remember to ship a fire extinguisher. Or many.)
Depending on the gases used and chemistries for various components (batteries), that might or might not work or be necessary. (Some chemistries have all they need to burn even without an atmosphere.)

2024-09-10 21:21:27

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There isn't really any point to that.
You *can* use merkel trees appendable only by that one user (key ownership as write capability verified by signature) if you want to be sure no messages are missing, I suppose. But tamper-resistance is as simple as cryptographic signatures & a key-addressing scheme.
Allowance for eventual upgrade of the encryption and key-type replacement would need to be considered.

2024-09-10 21:17:04

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I wonder if that's Ruby screwing up laziness at a semantic level or if it's again implementation. Haskell doesn't screw it up nearly as bad, from what I've seen. (Though there are definitely cases where it's users do use & recommend eager evaluation.)
> There is no reason for local operations (vs fundamentally async federated stuff) to go through work queues rather than being fully synchronous local filesystem ops that complete immediately.
I see. I wonder why that indirection step. Although under high load, even non-transactional IO very much doesn't complete instantly. But that's still no argument for the indirection, concurrency is a thing.

2024-09-10 21:12:36

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Yeah, I actually get used as a reference or starter point for a number of topics by acquaintances & friends.
I likewise poke a few of them on some things.

2024-09-10 21:11:38

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> which also means you can't see someone's posts until they come online
Scuttlebutt solved that problem a *long* while ago, as have many of its predecessors.
There is software of the UUCPnet era that fixed that problem.

2024-09-10 21:07:50

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I'm assuming that includes images, so necessarily it's an implementation thing.
Nothing mandates the implementation to pull the image data. Or, indeed, to really resolve past the initial activity itself.

2024-09-10 21:06:09

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I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong about Ruby that requires it to be that slow (though well-specified the language is and how that gets in the way is another matter).
The implementations suck, that much is manifest.

2024-09-10 21:04:42

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> when did we get to the point where *websites* became the most expensive thing a computer could possibly do?
We're not even close to that, in truth.
> how mastodon costs the GDP of a small nation to run an instance the size of a small town got me thinking this morning
Mastodon is kind of a joke.

2024-09-10 20:58:14

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> Nobody approaches their friends asking stuff like "What do you make of this?" anymore.
They don't? Huh.

2024-09-10 20:56:30

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Keep FLAC, convert to opus for random devices & shit.

2024-09-10 20:54:07

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Without building them in-situ that has issues.
The same goes with orbiting most stuff, it has ridiculous environmental costs.

2024-09-10 20:52:23

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Cost can be ignored in a number of ways.
Basic physics issues, not so much. Radiation-hardening & using fault-tolerant systems is feasible
Practical concern related to maintenance: How is one going to send someone up for maintenance? Are they going to live there?

2024-09-10 20:44:35

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> The bigger problem out here is that junkies steal the batteries from ground-level plant equipment fairly frequently
It might be an idea to have that supervised?

2024-09-10 20:43:56

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Presumably the power providers had more money for the corruption budget than the mobile companies.

2024-09-10 20:31:31

Regarding datacenters in space... there's a reason they're built on planetary surfaces, usually.
They use the planet & its atmosphere as a heat sink. Where's that heat going to go in space?
Radiate it away? One *will* have to throttle the compute a lot for that to be enough.
That datacenter will be worse and less reliable than one hosted in some random programmer's homelab.

2024-09-10 20:06:25

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I would generally hope that people wouldn't saw off their legs if you gave them a 100k$ check.
It makes sense to do... for all of a fraction of a second before the obvious consequences happen.
Additionally, it is not an (user) agent. It is a *warden*.

2024-09-10 20:03:35

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> More capability is going to drive more data access, and people will grant it.
Why the hell would anyone do that?

2024-09-10 20:00:54

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Heisenbugs~

2024-09-10 19:56:39

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Isn't that something you generally intuit after playing a few RPGs and noticing the grinding curve vs difficulty of fights?
You *can* keep going until max level, but past a certain it is completely meaningless as anything other than bragging rights and takes way too long for what benefit it provides.

2024-09-10 19:54:31

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Most apps are proprietary malware, they're worthless.

2024-09-10 19:53:39

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Ladybird is still C++ anyway.
There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about that, considering how much of a disaster it has been for the other browsers using it.

2024-09-10 18:29:47

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Hm, potential new Nyxt backend that might be relatively safe? Nice.

2024-09-10 03:19:39

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In my opinion they should have to share the frequency. Fuck the corposcum.

2024-09-09 22:32:59

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Payment processors should get regulated like the infrastructure they have made themselves into.
No denying service for shit & giggles being an option anymore.

2024-09-09 22:31:17

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Yet another server-centric platform service.
Predictable results.

2024-09-09 22:30:30

I'd never heard of cohost before, lol

2024-09-09 19:48:26

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I've been persistently impressed by Ukraine as far as these things go.
Even in active warzones they seem to do better than my country at the best of times.

2024-09-09 19:37:48

Too many silly thoughts, no.

2024-09-09 19:34:19

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I don't think there's an effective difference beween questioning reality and doubting it.

2024-09-09 19:15:52

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Then the sunk cost fallacy kicks in?

2024-09-09 19:07:14

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Given they insist in using unsafe languages for all of that, it has only resulted in gratuitous vulnerabilities & bugs and nothing of actual use.

2024-09-09 19:00:01

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Die, presumably.

2024-09-09 18:21:55

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oldstale?

2024-09-09 18:12:43

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Joining Phase Connect soon?

2024-09-08 21:27:30

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That's an interesting mindset.
> or find joy in a deterministic system of horror like Sisyphus, the mortal originating from Greek mythology who got punished by the gods and sentenced to forever roll a stone up a hill, watch it roll back down again and repeat into eternity - yet he found joy in it..
Wait, really?

2024-09-08 21:16:33

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> Always to the head, apparently.
It always makes me wonder why they have such high esteem of their accuracy when they have hitherto shown no indications of any inclination to practicing.
More machismo bullshit?

2024-09-08 21:09:59

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If your principles aren't flawed in some critical way on analysis, then necessarily the principles.
Mutual dependency can make this complicated, if to disassociate promptly is tantamount to suicide.

2024-09-08 20:58:42

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If one doesn't even need to physically reach the datacenter to access privileged interfaces, one is bypassing physical access requirements & auditing.

2024-09-08 20:49:06

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That's not physical access then, that's allowing other access types too.

2024-09-08 20:31:24

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Well, if you ignore the not-weaponizing-space treaties, you might be able to?

2024-09-08 20:28:29

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I have no idea what that is.

2024-09-08 20:27:11

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That depends greatly on the model. They all at minimum are designed to leak /below/ the legal limits, but any shielding beyond that varies and isn't indicated anywhere, you have to buy a testing/detection device.

2024-09-08 20:08:34

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Rewrite it in Common Lisp, it'll keep the corpos away, if the GPL/AGPL license didn't suffice on its own.

2024-09-08 19:48:38

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Didn't Lizzie do exactly that at some point?
Hm, the fact I don't remember who exactly probably means I'm due for a rewatch.

2024-09-08 19:47:11

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It's not like it's even that hard to put a refrigerator on a bike trailer.
Or just... getting it delivered.

2024-09-08 19:42:32

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There are no reasons to prevent dress in one's national courts.
Arbitration should only ever be opt-in.

2024-09-08 19:38:15

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Fun molecule?

2024-09-08 19:20:48

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Does rainmeter count as XP widgets? It was resizable.

2024-09-08 08:54:17

Huh, there is no third-party SQLite library for Python3 to replace the sucky stdlib one.
Its handling of transactions is just gnarly.

2024-09-08 06:40:45

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SELinux, and Linux in general (since the two are inseparable in use), has a much larger attack surface than Xen.
That being said, virtualization does involve a disturbing amount of trust in unauditable hardware features.
Not much will fix that with UNIX-likes though. The whole model of programs in unsafe languages with mostly-direct access to (mapped) memory instead of capability-addressing is the root of the problem. Addressing that problem directly would require a monumental rewrite effort (mostly because of hardware support).

2024-09-07 21:51:53

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It's a problem that many programs do not separate security updates from malware-converting feature updates.

2024-09-07 21:44:41

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The rules don't seem to be quite clear if the polycule has to involve exclusively yuri or not, though the description suggests it might be.

2024-09-07 21:38:10

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In canon, anyway.

2024-09-07 21:37:23

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Relatable.