Notices by Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉 (swelljoe@mas.to)

At first, I thought, "OK, this song really sucks, but at least they tried." But, no. They didn't try.

I will accept shitty music made by humans, I might even find it charming. I will not accept shitty music made by mixing 300,000 copyright violations in a blender.

Bunch of AI slop in the latest Perifractic video about the C64 Ultimate? We were promised a digital oasis...if there's AI slop in the digital oasis, I'm going to keep walking in the desert. #c64ultimate

@gemlog I chose Gitea, because it's a decent balance of easy to setup and functional. Gogs is also easy, but does less and moves slower. Savannah and Gitlab are very hard to setup, at least last time I tried either. I haven't tried Forgejo, yet.

@fasterthanlime I can mess up my entire codebase with sed all by myself. I did it mere hours ago, in fact.

@evan 100%, no question. There's a long history of recipes being in the commons. Even when written down, they're not eligible for copyright protection.

@thomasfuchs My dad and I found a huge Lisa setup at a garage sale when I was a kid in the late 80s, maybe early 90s. I think we paid about $50 for all of it. It had three external hard drives, tons of software, etc. and was in pristine condition and had all the original receipts and paperwork (it was something like $25,000 worth of stuff when new, Apple stuff was crazy expensive back then, too). We tinkered with it for a couple weeks, and sold the whole pile for, I think, $300.

@thomasfuchs I mean, a regular working Lisa sells for like $9,000, right?

I think the existence of Docker is a net-negative for opsec and devops (and not in ways a better implementation like podman can fix, though podman is a better implementation).

I keep finding containers hiding ancient buggy dependencies baked in. It's so easy for brokenness to hide in containers, they're just black boxes people pile up until things kinda sorta work. Everyone is afraid to touch the containerized stuff because they have no idea how it works or how the pieces fit together.

“We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero” - Charlie Kirk

Gotta hand it to him. When he's right, he's right.

Me not speaking ill of the dead. A thread. "Charlie Kirk Calls for an ‘Amazing Patriot’ to Bail Out Alleged Pelosi Attacker" https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlie-kirk-wants-an-amazing-patriot-to-bail-out-paul-pelosis-alleged-assailant/

@mattl more foods should be defined by the number of layers. Even better if we all agree that foods sold by the layer are vegetarian. Give me the seven-layer lasagna, please. Seven-layer burger.

@mattl it is good! The vegetarian options had gotten quite dire at Taco Bell lately. I mean, you can custom order almost anything to be vegetarian at Taco Bell and that's nice, but that's a lot of effort for a mediocre meal. At least the 7-layer burrito is easy to order, tastes pretty good, and is priced reasonably.

@hacks4pancakes I've had management folks give out our domain registrar administrative password to random contractors, including a spammer they hired to send marketing emails. I've had to explain on a couple of occasions that that's very close to the most dangerous thing they could do (management doesn't have access to do more directly dangerous things, but a patient and smart attacker with registrar access could escalate to owning everything in time).

Just in time. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp92pr5pr48o

@foone the Perl codebase I work on, which is probably a couple hundred thousand lines of code, still has quite a few Perl 4-isms in it. Works fine on current Perl versions.

@jwz @cstross the problem is that a lot of that money is going to go into the pockets of the very grifters who started the bubble, and who are currently working to elect a fascist regime by hook or by crook. It's going to wreck the "normie" economy, in a way that Bitcoin tried and mostly failed to do, and a bunch of money will be relocated from productive use by companies that employ people to grifters who'll replace those workers with vastly inferior technology that pretends to do the work.

The Republican candidate sure is old. Oldest presidential candidate in history, I hear. Aren't they worried about how he rambles incoherently sometimes? Seems like a real concern.

@thomasfuchs also reminded me that it was invented at Kodak! They could have ruled the digital camera revolution, but the innovator's dilemma killed them.

@thomasfuchs it's beautiful. I like that it has a pull-focus handle (I assume that's what the lever is). They were thinking ahead to digital cinema cameras.

@tokyo_0 a fixed-rate mortgage (which is what most folks choose, after a bunch of fuckery from lenders over the past couple-few decades with variable rate mortgages cost people their homes), so their payments never change for the life of the mortgage. They probably pay higher property taxes over time, and maybe higher insurance premiums, as those are subject to inflation and rising home values, but most of their housing cost is fixed.