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Right! If you spend enough time in there to be reading you didn't actually need a shit.

> God, I hate techno-solutionism. I don't hate it nearly as much as this weird genre of accelerationism where any attempt to improve one's immediate circumstances is just a distrac…

> The article mentions that an abuser could put spyware on your phone? Is that a realistic scenario? Yes, stalkerware is an entire genre of software and it is designed for exactly …

> but I guess there is at least this precedent for using the word like that. In Windows 3.1, the SYSTEM.INI had a setting called "shell" for overriding the default program started …

> Thanks, I saw that, but I never can make heads or tails of just MP. Feel like some phones have much lower MP but the quality of the photo is much higher. It does not merely feel …

My old man has been running Linux for nearly 20 years now. I PROMISE not only that he has never once opened a console, but would spontaneously combust if you suggested it. (I have …

I am going to get good at TIG welding. This is mostly because there's a lot of subprojects of my car that would really benefit from me doing TIG - stainless, aluminium, etc (I alre…

> I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling. There is nothing wrong with this article. Please continue …

That's a fun trick, but please consider adding ARIA roles (e.g. role="presentation" to , role="heading" aria-level="[number]" to the elements used for headings) to make your site u…

I fed the text of John F Kennedy's 1962 speech "We choose to go to the Moon" into ZeroGPT and it is rated as 72.02% AI generated.

I think that merits an apology from me, then: what I said was wrong and I'm sorry. If I'd thought about that sentence for more than ten seconds, it'd be clear that it's all better …

From the UK too, and your experience is matched by mine. The last time I was in one (I mean "the last time" in both senses of the words) I waited over 20 minutes for my food; I do …

(I don't know why your comment got flagged. I vouched for it; whatever we might argue about here, I don't think you're out of line in any way.) I actually feel everything you have …

As someone building a particularly stupid car in a genre almost but not entirely unlike the OP (a turbo LS1-swapped Rover P5), I am not totally making stuff up when I say that this…

Yes, any time someone says "I'm going to make a thing more reliable by adding more things to it" I either want to buy them a copy of Normal Accidents or hit them over the head with…

> They were more or less just rewriting what you wrote. The literal opposite of what I wrote, actually, because "that" refers to "celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk", an activi…

If this is intended to accuse me of being a Charlie Kirk fan I can only conclude that you either did not read what I wrote (in which case, you should refrain from replying to it), …

> I'm on mathstodon.xyz (mastodon for maths) and haven't seen any of that. So I guess it's the people you subscribe to. I was on an automotive-focused instance. I did see a lot of …

I was on Mastodon for three years. I deleted my account. When I found out that Charlie Kirk was murdered, my second thought was "well, best create yet another filter on Mastodon so…

No, it is because a significant subset of React developers do not know how to write HTML.

> There's really no good practical solution to this problem. Remote attestation via trusted execution environments is a thing. It is not a theoretical one either. See, for example,…

You removed some words just now, which changes the meaning of the sentence. > but the base $3.5k spec with only 256 GB is extreme. The plain meaning of this sentence is "I expect m…

> The main thing that gives me anxiety about this is the security surface area associated with "managing" a whole OS— kernel, userland, all of it. Like did I get the firewall confi…

I know it's poor form to speak ill of the dead in general and of St Jobs in particular, but I do not see how anyone gets much more from stories like this than "Steve Jobs was an il…

At every step there is human agency involved. People came up with the idea, people wrote the code, people deployed the code, people saw the consequences and were like "this is fine…