Viewing profile — kar1181

Robin used to go by 'bro' and he was insanely good deathmatcher, also an LPB (low ping bastard) as the Uni of NSW/RMIT folks had decent net links unlike the rest of us plebs.

Quake was special for me, the first time I felt truly immersed in a world. I'd played doom/wolf, obviously, but being able to look down, and move in a 3d space just felt real in a …

Oh man - herdr is great. This will not be net good. Sigh.

This is true. But Anthropic did us dirty most recently and so it’s their turn on the pitch fork. Sam will do us too. Just not yet.

Anthropic want you to use claude code cli badly and are prepared to be very generous if you do. People want to take that generosity without the reciprocity. I don't normally like t…

Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpu…

This is it, in terms of pure text editing zed is the best GUI land editor I've used. Not quite there with emacs/vim but it's a much more accessible environment and more convenient …

Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jet…

I feel like the voyager spacecraft are a part of me, growing up in the 80s marvelling at all the images they sent back it was a magical time. The idea of voyager going dark feels l…

One of things I struggle with is on certain issues like Ukraine and Israel libertarian folks I normally (largely) agree with seem to hold inexplicable views which seem to border on…

Clanpnp/ftb myself. Still remember some of the server IPs by muscle memory.

I was heavily involved with the australian team fortress (quake 1 version) community in the late 90s and 'bro' (Robin Walker) and John Cook were gods to us, regularly involved in t…

Sounds like Apple / Xerox all over.

Intel ride or die here. My 2019 i9 mbp is trucking along still - and this time of year the heat helps keep the room hospitable. Was looking towards M3 for a big leap, but apart fro…

We did move out of the US and funnily enough food (bread especially - we lived in the south) was part of the reason. However since our return to the UK the over processing of what …

Ultra processed is the end result of mckinsification of our food chain.

My son is allergic to soya - that was a catalyst for us looking into the supply chain of what we buy and eat and if there is one profound change above all is the fact soy is in -ev…

More pertinently than that, it's a quick win for a kids show, ads when young kids are involved increase friction so much it's not worth it.

Just waiting for spotify to do it too.

I recently read ultraprocessed people and while it's a bit hyperbolic it's still eye-opening about the state of the packaged food business. My son is allergic to Soya, Nuts, Eggs, …

I was about to ask the same question - basically the Packt books I have read have been (almost) universally poor quality. It's been a long while since I've bothered with them so ho…

I started on RedHat and it has a special place in my heart - even now they still host the original distributions I cut my unix teeth on all the way back. But sadly times change. Ge…

One of the first utilities I had to get to grips with way back was awk, and it serves me well to this day. Best bang for buck investment of time in my entire career. Even today I s…

Gandi are so gross. Had an issue 5 years back now where their site/my connection glitched and they double charged me. It was the most confrontational support exchange I've had (eve…

They still host images for the versions of linux I cut my teeth on in the 90s. For that as much as anything I'm really greatful! Redhat 4.2 Biltmore represent!