John-Mark Gurney

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2024-09-02 07:18:52

Crash reporting for game consoles and the like should be turned off 2 years or so (if not sooner) after last firmware/maintenance release. My PS3 still wants to report crashes.
(And no, updating Blu-ray keys does not count as a firmware update.)

2024-07-29 00:45:42

Got back from a long trip in our EV, and the charging infrastructure for non-Tesla EV's is absolute shit. Of all the charging (7 or so times), there was only one time I'd consider successful, and that is pulling up, it working and getting full speed.
It doesn't help when the VW infotainment system says an EA charging station is available, but it hasn't even been finished installing (EA's app properly shows it's unavailable).

2024-07-26 03:48:17

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@npub1yck…ujmw it's a GitHub specific issue, not git. It's how they store git repos. When you fork a repo on GitHub, you don't get your own git repo, you get your own private namespace in a unified git repo, so you have access to all the commits (hashes) that all forks have committed.

2024-07-26 03:28:24

I reported a similar issue years ago.
Because GitHub has a unified repo for forked repos, you could fork a repo, commit code. Then you could submit an update to a code based that uses the form as a submodule and make it appear as if your code was part of the official repo.
GitHub's response was a minor UI improvement.
Not surprised this happened.
> https://mastodon.social/users/asmodai/statuses/112845413158764842

2024-07-20 13:56:04

Guess it's time for a reminder that the security industry is just the interest payments for the rest of the computer industry's failure to build their products securely.
Since it's currently over $100b industry, that means the principal is over $1t.

2024-07-17 15:44:13

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@npub1c9m…9xjd
Doesn't help when the colors don't match the labels.
#Tri

2024-06-24 20:22:46

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@npub1uw8…88kr
At least in America there are shipping stores and corner stores that will accept packages on your behalf to deal with this (for a small fee).

2024-06-11 19:23:25

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@npub1yck…ujmw
Did you read what I wrote? I have an id.4 and I cannot charge it with the adapters on the market because Tesla and/or VW haven't "authorized it" yet. That isn't open.

2024-06-11 18:39:39

Tesla still hasn't opened up their super chargers. Until you can buy a third party adapter, and w/o interference between Tesla and your car manufacturer charge your car, the super charger network is NOT open.

2024-06-08 02:03:44

Question for people who have purchased a level 2 charger for home, is there any real difference between the different manufacturers? Because it's just a bit of electronics to negotiate the current, and a contactor to connect/disconnect the AC.

2024-06-07 19:54:55

Interesting how usb-c pd 2.x+ dropped 12v and adding 9v and 15v.
And crazy you can do lead acid charging doing constant current (bulk charge) and constant voltage (float) with revision 3.0. though you'd be limited by the current supported over the cables.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#PD

2024-05-14 21:43:32

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@npub1yck…ujmw and GC of "old" containers doesn't even need to be that complicated either, only keep the last 10, or say anything used in the last 2-4 weeks or some blend as well.
and it does look like the plugin is pure JS, so seems like it'd be totally doable.

2024-05-14 20:53:31

One habit I need to get out of is logging out of accounts when they have their own browser container. For decades I'd make sure I'd log out of accounts to help prevent XSS attacks, but w/ containers that is/shouldn't be a problem as that container is only used for that specific site.

2024-05-13 03:22:33

This is why Dems like Nancy Pelosi want/need a "strong" GOP. If they didn't have a strong GOP, then the center/right Dems wouldn't be able to control the party and more left wing candidates would get elected.
> https://kolektiva.social/users/sidereal/statuses/112430915564456740

2024-05-09 19:50:33

If you're promoting UBI, but not adding alt text to your info graphic, you really don't care too much about the U in UBI.
(Accessibility is part of basic needs.)

2024-05-01 01:06:34

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@npub1yck…ujmw Ok, looks like Amazon is improving their IAM game. Previously w/ CloudFront you *HAD* to grant public access to your S3 bucket for CloudFront to serve up the content, but it looks like they finally added a special access policy so the bucket doesn't have to be public anymore.

2024-05-01 00:49:26

The whole S3 charging for unauthorized/denied accesses to #S3 shows exactly the culture of #Amazon . Just because they reversed this policy (TBD if they actually do) doesn't mean that other similar policies will be changed. That the support person couldn't raise concerns, that the middle managers didn't care enough about the customers to realize how bad/stupid/damaging it is.

2024-04-29 23:07:50

One of the best things I learned a few years ago, was that you can checkout a projects "home page" from github. That is:
```
git clone https://www.github . com/username/project
```
just works. so in a browser I find the project I want to clone, cmd-l to select the url, cmd-c to copy it, then switch to the terminal to clone it.
don't have to fiddle w/ clicking the code drop down, or manually adding the .git extension.

2024-04-29 20:33:11

Are there any car manufacturers these days that commit to letting third parties repair the car so you don't have to go into a dealer shop to diagnose and repair things?

2024-04-21 17:56:57

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@npub1yck…ujmw
It's not clear if that was air to air or air to ground, my guess is the former. If it was air to ground, it'd likely have hit sooner than you, e.g. the 10 miles they often cite.

2024-04-21 17:04:45

Holy shit:
> Geostationary satellites often measure bolts that are hundreds of miles long. In 2021, researchers recorded one that was 477 miles in length and stretched across parts of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
> https://beekeeping.ninja/users/dulcedemon/statuses/112306857271135259

2024-04-16 22:39:33

When you're sad that you can't be subtly racist anymore.
> https://ruby.social/users/njvack/statuses/112278186479767767

2024-04-05 22:30:41

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@npub1jfd…s8ga
ln -s is like cp.
cp fromtarget dest
ln -s fromtarget tolinknamd

2024-04-04 19:33:20

Universal usb-c charging is nice. Last night, my laptop wasn't plugged in to charge, and so it was low this morning, and I wanted to use it in bed a bit. Luckily I could just use the charger that I use with my phone to charge the laptop. Didn't have to move or panic or anything.
Wonder how much longer low power household devices will switch to it.

2024-04-03 19:53:11

A few years ago I realized that more companies need to let engineers have some money to contribute to OSS. Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
This would help fund software, help get rid of the bureaucracy (don't have to justify it, etc), and put the money where it's likely most needed.
They likely know which projects are under funded or critical to the company.
> https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software-needs-to-be-more-expensive.html

2024-04-03 02:10:08

Totally unsurprised that Apple would try to prevent this from happening. This is why news orgs need to have independent editorial control where the parent company cannot control it.
We've lost a lot of that.
> https://post.lurk.org/users/rra/statuses/112201597182007282

2024-03-29 21:41:11

I really wish some of the more basic debugging information that dealers/shops have were more widely available.
One of my car's battery is draining when parked. And it'd be easy to help track down if I had the list of expected draws per fuse and other information. I have the tools to do basic diagnostics, but not the information.

2024-03-29 17:56:24

Re don't speak ill of the dead.
If they were proud of their actions during life, then they should be fine with people being reminded of what they did after they died.

2024-03-28 23:47:35

OMG:
> customers will have access to upwards of 1 petabyte of storage in a single 1U of rack space
https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-p5316-ssd-review-30-72tb

2024-03-15 20:05:11

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@npub1ynl…873s
Have you tried a probiotic?
Reason I ask is the article mentioned the gut biome, and I have been diagnosed with RA and had similar alcohol intolerance. But recently I started taking a probiotic and it cleared up some of the inflammation/fatigue I've been having. I haven't tried alcohol yet since I've started, but I do have a feeling I'll be able to tolerate it again.

2024-03-15 19:40:20

Can we get some of that $30/MWh electricity here in California please! Right now home electricity prices are 10x that. This shows you the crazy premium pg&e and the cpuc are charging consumers.
> https://mas.to/users/bascule/statuses/112090913030406994

2024-03-12 19:12:27

Unsurprisingly it looks like CEOs lied about theft in order to hide their performance issues. Wonder where the lawsuits are for them lying about the problems?
> https://press.coop/users/NPR/statuses/112077950008391579

2024-03-05 21:41:03

Two things I'd like to see added to #ZFS is, first an API for allowing programs to control trasactions on files, that is, "freeze" a file, allow arbitrary writes to the file, and then commit all the writes at once. This would allow DB's and others to not add their own logging layer.
Second is an object store.

2024-02-28 21:11:23

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@npub1yck…ujmw Yep, that's what I do as well. I haven't [spent time to] figured out how to rip 4k discs yet, nor how best to handle playback.

2024-02-28 16:05:49

Simple case for 4k discs, you can actually seek with them. The seeking experience, even with gig fiber is terrible.
Netflix via PS3 isn't terrible, but not great. Amazon Prime via Chromecast is absolutely terrible.
So yes, I'll be buying a few 4k discs (already have), because the experience is so much better than the standard streaming services.
> https://mastodon.social/users/verge/statuses/112009819230520835

2024-02-23 21:51:45

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@npub1yck…ujmw You mean something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/EBL-Battery-Batteries-Capacity-Rechargeable/dp/B08RZ5NDMM
I was wanting something like these a few years ago, but they weren't available, but looks like they're finally available.
A little expensive but considering they'll be the last ones I ever buy. Also seems a little overkill for a remote control.

2024-02-23 21:46:44

Does anyone have a good brand of aa batteries that would release junk all over your electronics after a few years of being installed in them? I've had it with Duracell batteries that end up leaking all over the place.

2024-02-21 22:00:04

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@npub1yck…ujmw https://www.funkthat.com/gitea/jmg/ntunnel#user-content-example-for-quic
it does require a temp file though, but it's a single command. If I used bashisms, I could make it not require a temp file.

2024-02-21 21:32:24

So much this. Proper secure example of GTFO. Any software that has insecure examples doesn't take security seriously and needs to be replaced.
And yes, this includes examples that use http and not https. It's one command to generate a self signed cert, and then it's an [relatively] easy step to replace the self signed cert with a proper cert.
> https://hachyderm.io/users/hazelweakly/statuses/111967729341316770

2024-02-06 20:18:10

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@npub19fc…ay3c
If we want to get off oil/gas, we need a law that requires that landlords must install a level 2 charger in a renter's parking spot if there's off street parking. And it either MUST be free electricity or hooked into the unit's meter (second meter would work as well, but much more expensive). And the landlord cannot deny renting based upon them driving an EV.
Best is better public transit, but that won't happen quickly enough compared to evs.

2024-02-06 16:42:04

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@npub19fc…ay3c
This is changing. They are going to allow it (to continue to get fed $$ and already in testing) and adapters and coming soon after they opened up NACS (now what they call it).
@npub12kp…439z

2024-01-05 19:44:13

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@npub1yck…ujmw
I haven't tested restore, but I've been doing tm over NFS or sshfs (fuse). Also, it looks like you can do a clean install and use the migration assistant to do a restore from the TM volume. I used that to migrate from my old x86 laptop to the M1.

2024-01-05 18:35:25

One of the best reasons to use #ZFS snapshots on my time machine backup is that once every couple years, Apple corrupts it. So I can go back to a previous snapshot where it was good, and use that. Just recovered my backup this way. Once it's done, I'll need to do the promote and rename to replace the old, corrupted backup.

2023-12-13 08:08:35

Wonder if it's be cheaper to pay YouTube to "advertise" nothing to yourself. I.e. pay the same price the advertisers would to Google to skip ads.
For some people, like me, it's likely be cheaper than paying for YouTube's ad free version.

2023-12-10 18:10:47

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@npub1yck…ujmw
And beeper mini required you to use a Google account (from what I read, haven't tried it), so you'd need to spin up Google accounts, which require phone numbers, etc., so it's not easy either.

2023-12-10 12:59:34

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@npub1yck…ujmw
And how is this different from beeper cloud would also opens the door to spam? And what beeper cloud does wouldn't be hard to do by spammers if they wanted to.

2023-12-10 03:28:09

Apples claim about caring about user security is flatly false. Because Beeper cloud is significantly less secure than beeper is yet apple "allows" it (not that they can do anything about it since it's a legit apple device talking), and beeper can read messages sent via cloud, but not the solution that they just shut down version.
> https://mastodon.social/users/dangillmor/statuses/111553646836028450

2023-12-02 02:10:20

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@npub1u3f…nne2
Maybe just set your local time to 9am Jan 1st. Maybe it only uses local time!

2023-11-17 03:23:14

Having phone updates that take less than 5 minutes is so very nice. It means you can do the update in the middle of the day. Just did my phone update and was only a few minutes (didn't time it).
#Android

2023-11-16 19:41:44

Just showing how the secret service and the city of SF is saying fuck you to normal people:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-university-club-wedding-18491881.php
> He directed her to the city’s APEC website, which she said she has been checking frequently for updates.
The correct response is, here's a number of a person that will help you deal w/ this bullshit, and expedite any problems you have, instead of basically saying good luck and hanging up the phone.

2023-11-07 00:31:49

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@npub1yck…ujmw not using netgraph, using eap parrot, and no, don't have the newer XGS-PON (at least I'm pretty sure I don't).
And I'm looking at extracting a cert from my older router now.

2023-11-07 00:14:57

Wonder what the 802.1x timeout on at&t fiber is. Thinking I could possibly keep the at&t router off, when I get an EAP packet, turn it on, do the negotiation, and turn it back off.

2023-11-03 20:54:10

What a very cool bridge:
https://youtu.be/SsGEcLwjgEg?feature=shared

2023-11-03 00:46:11

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@npub1yck…ujmw
TIL about another tool.
well, the above command (w/o wrapper script) is suppose to do it as well, but it doesn't tag the audio/video differently, so if both are webm's, it won't work. Every tool is buggy in their own way.

2023-11-02 08:34:29

#FreeBSD 14.0 is scheduled for release this Tuesday. I'll be making and releasing the magnet links once it happens.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/

2023-11-01 22:25:10

For reasons, here's a script I wrote:
```
yturl="$1"
vid="$(youtube-dl --get-filename -o 'video.%(ext)s' -f bestvideo "$yturl")"
aud="$(youtube-dl --get-filename -o 'audio.%(ext)s' -f bestaudio "$yturl")"
vidname="$(youtube-dl --get-filename -f bestvideo "$yturl")"
vidname="${vidname%.*}"
rm -f "$vid" "$aud"
youtube-dl -o 'video.%(ext)s' -f bestvideo "$yturl"
youtube-dl -o 'audio.%(ext)s' -f bestaudio "$yturl"
ffmpeg -i "$vid" -i "$aud" -codec copy "$vidname".mp4
```
#AdBlock #Google #YouTube

2023-10-13 22:48:09

Thank God we're using AES!
> https://mastodon.social/users/kennwhite/statuses/111226394853564725

2023-10-11 18:15:20

Today, whole taking a shower, I wonder why drain water heat recovery isn't more common. For places like California where natural gas heating is common, it's a good way to reduce your burning of fossil fuels. Not sure how much of an impact it'll make on the newer heat pump hot water heaters.
Seems like an easy thing to mandate on homes, especially larger homes (>2k sq ft).
https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/drain-water-heat-recovery

2023-10-05 00:39:18

This is dependency hell, did a `sudo port install openssh`, and it installs both openssl3 @ 3.1.3_0 and openssl @ 3_13. Because you just need more [possibly vulnerable] versions of OpenSSL on your system.

2023-10-02 19:41:29

This is pure standard capitalism. Steal from the future to pay the rich today. We are failing to invest in the future and we are already seeing the gapping holes (homelessness, crime, loan debt), and the problem is that when the holes are this big it's an even bigger investment to fix.
(The GOP wantd to make it worse, and the Dems aren't doing much/anything to fix it, but instead saying at least we aren't making it worse like the GOP.)
> https://infosec.town/notes/9kchpf5xbpivx63n

2023-09-26 21:57:08

It takes like a decade after a file format is finished/frozen before it'll see wide adoption, that Google killed JPEG-XL after just a few years isn't letting the market even decide if they want to use it:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/free-software-group-decries-google-dropping-space-saving-jpeg-xl-format/

2023-09-22 19:57:11

That's $8.86 trillion if it was quoted like the social programs are (over a 10 year period). Remember that the next time they complain about a social program costing $100b.
> https://masto.ai/users/rbreich/statuses/111104188248679812

2023-09-20 21:39:11

As a message to those who think that bounds checks are too expensive, remember that modern malloc libraries do lots of extra work to deal with out of bounds writes that could have been caught earlier, and much more cheaply.
> https://bsd.network/users/otto/statuses/111096020349779546

2023-09-12 17:53:11

The national debt is a loan to billionaires/rich people.
> https://mastodon.cloud/users/dcjohnson/statuses/111050644461971434

2023-08-30 18:20:34

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@npub1v7w…2s4p
I mean the govt is in effect paying for it via the tax write off so there isn't anything wrong as the govt is "purchasing" it so the govt should be free to make it public domain if they want to.

2023-08-30 02:32:39

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@npub1yck…ujmw
Macosx, it's a USB 3.2 cable to a docking station which has an HDMI 2.0 port on it, so running 4k@60.

2023-08-30 00:33:53

Really wish there was an easy and user visible way to see why my display keeps dropping out. Is it because the cable is bad or something? Who knows, all I know is that sometimes it comes back after a few seconds, other times it comes back after I unplug and replug it back in.

2023-08-21 23:41:26

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@npub1yck…ujmw are you saying that thunderbolt spec requires accurate markings on the cable? I'm seeing cables w/ markings, but they don't look standardize/mandatory. They look like some engineer decided hey, lets put the version number on it, picked a random font, and put a 3 or a 4 on the cable.

2023-08-21 23:37:28

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@npub1yck…ujmw I thought that windows 7 or 8 had this feature that would pop up a little dialog telling users that things were slow, but I guess maybe they got rid of it because there's enough shit products like terrible USB thumb drives that talk USB 3.0 5Gbps, but their flash chips still run at 10MB/sec, so running faster than USB 2.0 doesn't make any sense.

2023-08-21 23:36:06

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@npub1yck…ujmw I understand paying more money, the problem is figuring out what cable supports what.
Even modern computers won't tell you, hey, idiot, something between your computer and your device isn't usb 3 compatible, might want to change it. And w/ how much smarts are required for each component in the chain, it wouldn't actually be that hard to have added the ability to pinpoint the "broken" component.

2023-08-21 23:17:50

You should not be allowed to sell USB-C cables that aren't USB 3.0 (5Gbps) capable w/o VERY clearly labeling as such in the title AND on the actual cable.
I bought a USB-C "charger cable" made by Anker, and burried in the specs is: Data Transfer: USB 2.0, 480 Mbps, but no where on the cable is it so labeled.

2023-08-09 16:25:40

I experienced this first hand. We had an appliance that would work fine for months then get packet loss but a reboot "fixed" it.
Problem was someone set the appliance for 100mbit full, disabling autoneg, despite switch using autoneg. The driver had a bug where it wouldn't reinit the phy after setting the mode, so it's stay in autoneg mode till link down (switch got rebooted) and then the phy would be 100 full, but switch would be half as the card didn't autoneg.
> https://infosec.exchange/users/nuintari/statuses/110860281442228933

2023-08-02 20:53:22

Nice business to buy ips for way below $44 and then rent them out at $44/year.
> https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/110810279053734082

2023-07-27 21:26:16

Ok, this makes my crazy idea of doing ssh port forwarding to access any admin services on my mikrotik not so crazy anymore.
> https://infosec.exchange/users/sambowne/statuses/110787158853886551

2023-07-17 19:31:26

I find it interesting how teen vogue and rolling stones does better investigative reporting than most of the major mainstream outlets.
> https://mstdn.social/users/RollingStone/statuses/110729680299218014

2023-07-03 17:44:17

So true! Sail ships can sail up wind, and also they can sail down wind faster!?! than the wind! (Though unlikely when it's a cargo ship with cargo).
via @npub1cne…muve
https://beige.party/@OutOnTheMoors/110648861928387969

2023-06-29 21:00:25

Email is broken is so many ways. servers intentionally ignoring 400 temporary errors, and treating them as 500 errors. 500 errors not being raised to the user because it's some automated system that's fire and forget. Yet, it's works the best since it's a common protocol that almost everyone implements, instead of the mess that is all the other communications protocols.

2023-05-30 19:56:19

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@npub1yck…ujmw
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I thought there was, but crt seems to have decreased in popularity in the last few years.

2023-05-30 19:03:00

Apparently all the front ends to searching CT logs disappeared?

2023-05-27 00:10:31

sed -e 's/^$.*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/'
when you don't bother running 2to3. ;p

2023-05-18 00:00:41

A part of me feels sad when a website about cryptography doesn't offer https.

2023-05-13 19:16:46

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@npub1yck…ujmw This is because of the AC-4 decoding. ATSC 1.0 uses AC-3 which is/was widely available.
I'm not sure why SiliconDust is using cloud to decode AC-4, but I have a feeling it may have to do with patents (that it was easier to license patents for the few servers, than all the apps that they provide for free, when most users won't even use the feature).

2023-05-13 19:10:21

I wonder if #SiliconDust plans on selling the watch data that the get.
W/ their new ATSC 3.0 tuner (Flex 4k), their app sends AC-4 audio data to their cloud for decoding. Easy way to extract what people are watching from the audio data.

2023-05-11 02:31:20

Don't understand why #Python hasn't added pread/pwrite style methods to their IO classes. Requiring a seek can cause issues in async/multithreading cases and it can make some code more clear.

2023-05-10 18:27:42

One of the issues w/ #IPv6 is that it isn't monitored/maintained nearly as well as IPv4.
I've been having connectivity issues the last few days, and pretty sure it's down to spotty IPv6.
Of course people are going to disable IPv6 if the quality of their internet is worse than on IPv4 only.
Main host I've having issues w/ right now is docs.python.org, but others as well.

2023-05-03 19:42:50

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@npub1yck…ujmw Just tried it, and yes, it includes the data I was expecting, but I really don't like/want to depend upon perl/external program for this.
It does have a JSON export option, which is good and makes it more usable.

2023-05-03 19:31:02

So, trying to extract information from [Canon] RAW files, and of course none of the open source libraries actually extract most/all of the information in them.
ImageMagick (via wand-py) doesn't, dcraw doesn't, libraw doesn't (or at least not by default and no obvious way to get the rest out).
I may have to pull out my old python code I wrote like 15 years ago and update it.

2023-05-03 19:25:29

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@npub19fy…n5nv Yep, my experience is that offices are worse than schools. These days teachers drill home washing hands, etc. Adults feel that they can get away w/o that.

2023-05-03 18:43:15

Has anyone actually done a proper scientific study to prove that adults get sick from their children going to school?
Reason I asked is that my personal experience says no. When I worked in the office, I'd get sick at least once a year. When I started wfh, I stopped getting sick, despite having a child start elementary school the time I started wfh.
Though I will say that my kid didn't get sick much, maybe once every few years.

2023-04-22 16:47:02

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#[0]
Oh, I'm sure that some caddy developer uses it at work, and they have a shitty program that depends upon it not returning 500 in an error case and so refuses to allow the default to change because it'd require them to have the opposite example of your follow up.
So often shitty behavior in [OSS] programs is because of companies refusing to fix their own shit to be standard compliant.

2023-04-20 15:56:31

I wish that the back light on Mac computers could have less adjustments. That is you pick the four or five levels that you want, and the hot keys cycle through those.

2023-04-18 22:51:07

It worries me when there's a version number associated w/ a crytographic algorithm, but isn't included in the name of it, e.g. there will be confusion if you don't ask which version.
There's apparently an Argon2i v1.3, but everyone just refers to it as Argon2i, which is apparently different from the the previous versions of it..

2023-04-14 21:28:00

I have to saw I think awk is my second favorite programming language after Python.

2023-04-12 20:09:49

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You know you can do hidden root, right? Where you run the root server and push to providers?

2023-04-06 16:37:44

This is a bad day for any dual use security tools as well. Metasploit and other tools that could be used for security testing could now be considered criminal tools.
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https://mastodon.social/@Viss/110147473595720123

2023-04-03 17:08:53

Just realized the one thing that C23 SHOULD have added was a directive to turn off all optimizations for a block of code, or at least disable most of the liveliness checks/dead code elimination, etc.
You cannot write [guaranteed] constant time code in C w/ how the standard is written.
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2023-03-29 16:59:07

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Need the p there to prevent confusion with nvme1p1 and nvme11.
The use of letters to enumerate disk devices on Linux always drove me nuts (lol, tried to avoid using number, but just ended up using a variation).

2023-03-28 19:51:13

Suggestions for a caffeine containing drink?
(That isn't coke/cola, coffee, tea, or Thai iced tea.)
I wished they made a version of Sprite that contains caffeine.
I got some tabs, but keep forgetting to take them.

2023-03-21 18:25:31

Lol. Finally they think it might be them after all these years.
Yes, police brutality was enabled by the cities.
https://newsie.social/users/ProPublica/statuses/110061936984517986