Farce Majeure

Hooloovoo, kernel{, }hacker. Building better worlds. Opinions are messages from space. Facts approximate. Photos are square. he/they. 0.9x eng 🚴 :mbta: Ban cars.

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vathpela_at_better.boston@mostr.pub

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2024-08-13 05:00:20

The replays of actual Olympic events are now all gone from the Peacock app. One day later. This is shameful and ridiculous.

2024-08-11 17:07:06

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@npub1c9m…9xjd Roku devices have exactly that, but it's hit or miss which services it works with.

2024-08-09 04:44:50

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@npub18yv…xxyn okay so when there's anything near 400M Americans.

2024-08-09 04:37:43

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@npub18yv…xxyn when we get anywhere near a billion Americans?

2024-08-07 04:26:43

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@npub1cm7…32y8 I have some stories. One of their product leads called me a wizard to my face once. I don't see this as a compliment.

2024-07-24 04:49:52

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@npub18yv…xxyn yeah, I'm not seeing the connection here. (Haven't watched the film, it looked shitty.)

2024-07-24 04:38:12

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@npub18yv…xxyn okay that didn't help, he didn't say anything about bluegrass? (Yes, I know why the original MD logo was a mountain man in a shack.)

2024-07-24 02:54:14

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@npub18yv…xxyn lol, do I even want to know?

2024-07-22 00:55:00

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@npub1pfe…e2dm but he's GMO!

2024-07-19 20:24:28

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@npub18yv…xxyn yeah, wildly unclear to me how that might work.

2024-07-19 16:53:24

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@npub1pfe…e2dm true, but also we don't know that this isn't malicious.

2024-07-19 16:27:27

This, by the way, is why LVFS has staged roll-outs.

2024-07-19 16:11:57

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@npub18yv…xxyn just fix it at the breaker panel fifteen times.

2024-07-19 15:21:00

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@npub1xkg…gph9 so... dude did MAGA in public and their Board fired his ass?

2024-07-10 21:41:09

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@npub18c7…er9d I'm looking forward to https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/

2024-07-09 07:34:36

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@npub1pfe…e2dm lol no, that's a century earlier.

2024-07-09 02:27:48

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@npub1pfe…e2dm it's only been since 1976, they're still getting used to it.

2024-07-09 02:15:41

Vans has a thing where you can upload a photo and they'll print it on a shoe, and I'm a little worried about their copyright lawyers.
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/112/754/112/558/557/415/original/39c0f4ea115a99cb.jpg

2024-07-02 04:58:23

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@npub12ty…vnqc wait, so when did this change, because I really thought I was running a recent test of the new one. And I'm a paranoid software engineer.

2024-07-02 04:49:24

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@npub12ty…vnqc did that change in the last few weeks?

2024-07-02 04:46:42

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@npub12ty…vnqc okay but can we get a "never crop my (or others') photos", even/especially in the feed view? How does only Google Photos get this right?

2024-06-07 16:48:36

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@npub18c7…er9d yeah, but it doesn't matter - people already figured out how to turn it on and turn off the icon for it, so AFAICS off-by-default changes nothing from a malware perspective.

2024-06-05 14:05:40

“aiBIOS provides new ways for how people interact with and maximize the potential of their PC, while also reducing the burden on manufacturer customer support,” said Jeremy Wang, Chairman and CEO of Insyde Software. “We believe this exciting new AI-powered firmware-assist technology will help our customers deliver even more valuable computing experiences to market,” added Wang.
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/112/564/387/351/009/468/original/f7a2bf897d8d0773.jpeg

2024-05-31 02:26:19

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@npub18yv…xxyn I do wonder if the RNC has even considered holding meetings on changing rules for a nominee.

2024-05-17 15:39:16

Any company doing anything with blockchain or ML which also claims to have climate goals is lying to you. It's just that simple.

2024-05-12 18:59:57

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@npub1qk5…jlda Domino's delivers with motorcycles?

2024-05-10 17:40:39

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@npub1up2…k6en counterpoint:
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/112/418/016/084/694/645/original/740d3afb551e4b87.jpg

2024-05-07 05:32:16

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@npub1f6s…y8ra I wish it were my photo :)

2024-05-06 18:08:36

I don't understand these people. Either you think this is a parking space or you don't. Either way the sidewalk isn't.
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/112/395/477/440/925/916/original/3161a5c1a60f47ac.jpg

2024-04-27 00:56:20

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@npub1up2…k6en ethtool probably works, since davem probably wrote it and your driver...

2024-04-12 03:15:54

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@npub18yv…xxyn
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/112/256/068/353/071/813/original/4539eadfb465b6a6.jpg

2024-04-08 19:35:44

Just sayin'.
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/112/237/224/703/741/029/original/35210de97d2352c4.jpg

2024-04-08 03:19:14

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@npub1ua7…rrg3 ... My mom, on the phone with a cold-call font salesperson, in like 1997.

2024-04-03 15:00:49

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@npub18yv…xxyn I think the Internet was state sponsored hardware, primarily.

2024-04-03 14:59:20

One thing we need to learn from xz is just how hard good code review is to do. It's breathtakingly difficult, and we pretend it isn't.

2024-03-31 01:26:08

The OpenSSF post that's going around flat out fails to understand what's going on, and their suggestion can only hurt; it can't possibly help.

2024-03-07 06:39:17

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@npub1qk5…jlda wait, so it held 1.33 photos in raw? I hope their jpeg compressor was good.

2024-03-02 21:01:24

Huh. My cousin just advertised at me. That was weird.

2024-02-09 19:50:04

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@npub1h4m…f22a aka food service shoes.

2024-01-27 15:56:14

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@npub1dyt…q8lq interesting article. Is there some chance you used speech-to-text on part of this? I ask because in the group of paragraphs starting with "Perhaps I am just project" (sic), there's a distractingly large cluster of grammatical thinkos. A missing "ing", "my" instead of "by", a mismatched plural, etc.
Anyway I did learn from it ;)

2024-01-10 15:32:52

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@npub178r…qekt this take surprises me; I usually think of "The Tetons and Snake River" (which is usually what I see on calendar covers, for example) or "Moon Over Half Dome" as much more well known and more commonly circulated. Not that Moonrise isn't recognizable, mind you, I'm just surprised you think it's "most" recognizable.

2024-01-06 07:03:00

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@npub1cm7…32y8 @npub1a23…xxt8 okay, I agree that the confusion between old European number delineation and modern/American demarcation is awkward (not sure the correction helped), it's probably more interesting that this is like 32 salaries, tops?

2023-12-22 13:58:55

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@npub18wj…lvmv to be fair, he appears to be quite bad at it.

2023-12-07 21:36:03

@npub1upk…tcwy you should not like this, but something like: git rebase HEAD~5 --exec "git reset --soft HEAD^ ; git commit --amend --no-edit"

2023-12-06 21:41:02

We did a thing! And then people used it a hundred million times, which took a little while. https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2023/12/06/100-million-firmware-updates-supplied-by-the-lvfs/ #fwupd

2023-11-16 05:06:11

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@npub18yv…xxyn if you haven't stopped posting to birdshite as the first thing and having it mirrored here, why not?

2023-11-14 19:09:43

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@npub18yv…xxyn Well, if it makes you feel better, TPM is using a hell of a lot less than autoconf.

2023-11-14 19:05:16

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@npub18yv…xxyn Oh, I figured you were making a joke about running out of it.

2023-11-14 18:29:46

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@npub18yv…xxyn Surely it's negative - the waste heat must create more entropy than is actually extracted through the RNG circuit alone.

2023-11-07 01:35:40

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@npub18wj…lvmv that's interesting, they appear to have run my auto draft this morning.

2023-10-26 18:16:04

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@npub1upk…tcwy because GitHub keeps writing their own command line tools instead of productively collaborating to that end.

2023-09-29 17:16:16

OH: "so I see all these news articles about Feinstein dying and was 90, but none of them say whether or not that means she won't run again"

2023-09-21 19:29:07

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@npub18yv…xxyn is that the one that only runs from a floppy, and has copy protection that eventually destroys it, or was that only a problem on the c64?

2023-09-19 03:46:47

It still manages to amaze.
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/111/089/758/931/150/419/original/f0caffb28f70d585.jpg

2023-07-25 06:27:47

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@npub18yv…xxyn @npub1f6z…saax no, I mean it's really difficult to understand what you mean by those words. Not trying to be hostile, but it's kinda gibberish...

2023-07-25 06:24:02

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@npub18yv…xxyn we're talking about Famicom BASIC, huh?

2023-07-25 06:11:55

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@npub18yv…xxyn so this, of course, is the AT&T 3B1. I never knew it had a name.

2023-07-25 06:01:31

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@npub18yv…xxyn it's the compaq portable

2023-07-25 05:59:01

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@npub18yv…xxyn @npub1f6z…saax probably because "one of a punk band from" is really hard to parse.

2023-07-22 20:42:16

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@npub18yv…xxyn the act of name-calling is hurtful in and of itself, but also whether or not *you* like some Catholics has nothing to do with whether you should know it will rightfully be insulting to some people, which you clearly do since you decided after the fact to try and disclaim it.

2023-07-22 19:12:06

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@npub18yv…xxyn engaging in actual name-calling right after you've said you're taking a break from the subject after falsely accusing others of name-calling is really not a classy look.

2023-07-11 04:32:56

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@npub1cm7…32y8 @npub18yv…xxyn if only git had commit hooks that worked meaningfully and got checked out with a repo :(

2023-07-11 04:27:36

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@npub18yv…xxyn @npub1cm7…32y8 'sort -d' won't be anywhere near the desired output though; it's blocks of key:value that need to be internally sorted and then sorting the blocks by a specific key's value.

2023-07-07 03:55:41

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@npub1j2n…cejd @npub1pfe…e2dm arguably we have TLS because they did that to SSL...

2023-06-25 22:44:05

In a bit under 90 minutes, I'm watching BLUE CRUSH with the crowd over at #HATM. Join us!
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1670824873164193795
RT @HerbertHistory@twitter.com
This week Historians At The Movies talks about the histories of Hawai’i, surfing, women, and endless summers. Join us on @PrimeVideo@twitter.com at 8pm eastern this Sunday, June 25 for BLUE CRUSH.
Keep #HATM growing by retweeting and we’ll see you soon!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1670824873164193795
https://files.better.boston/media_attachments/files/110/607/272/806/171/811/original/aa678e0b6c4685b5.jpg

2023-06-01 04:04:47

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@npub178r…qekt watching this now, and basically screaming STOP TALKING GET A LAWYER STOP TALKING GET A LAWYER the whole time. Thanks for the recommendation, I think?

2023-05-10 02:54:41

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@npub178r…qekt what's your thought process for lots of ND vs just cranking ISO way way down here? (Apologies, I haven't used a Phase One and am not familiar with the specs of what they can do, but I assume it's pretty competitive...)