Notices by sourcecode jerk (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website), page 2

@m455 i used dreamhost's shared hosting for 19 years lol

https://orbital.rodeo/~mike/20210804-get-you-a-vps/

now i'm on one of dreamhost's vps things, it's fine. there's cheaper sketchier ones and cooler more expensive ones

@technomancy thanks, i hadn't seen this

dunno how i feel about it yet but current temperature is, there's lots wrong here but i usually reserve calls for ejecting someone to abhorrent behavior

if she were to step down due to public outcry, would the next mozilla corp ceo do anything different? idk

eich on the other hand was a good ejection, shoulda been out a high window

maybe mozilla should spin firefox off into an independent project to be developed by the community so they can dedicate full focus to greed and bullshit. i'm thinking you could call this innovative new project a "network landscape communicator," maybe a net-scape of some sort. i wonder if netscape.com is available

i agree with https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111668900333795840

i agree with https://hachyderm.io/@leftpaddotpy/111668100875439131

firefox is still the best browser we have. mozilla just seems like they're mismanaging their funding that so many projects would be lucky to have 1% of

i do think mitchell's ridiculous salary should be interrogated, but if so, we gotta do so for all the other nonprofit ceos making more too

do i want mitchell out? nah

maybe time to abandon the concept of a "web browser" though

hiring manager: you use latex to format your resume! impressive. that computer modern font is so distinctive

me (haughtily): computer modern? how pedestrian. if you care to look more closely you might observe that this is Concrete Roman and Italic, a derivative of Computer Modern designed to blend with Herrman Zapf's mathematical typeface AMS Euler for the publication of Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science by graham, knuth, & patashnik

me: hired

manager: quits

huh i guess i did accomplish kindof a lot of stuff during the past 4⅔ years at $work

gotta finish tying up any loose ends, 12 hours from now i'm no longer an employee

colleagues are asking what i'm looking for next, and i'm super grateful and i don't want to pass up any opportunities but otoh what i really want most is like a week of absolutely nothing. the void. floating

extreme competitive voidfloating championship tournament

so i'm looking for work

my last job was writing software to sell vegetarian sandwiches to omnivores, with the stated mission of changing attitudes toward vegetarianism enough to make a dent in climate change

i think convincing myself that my work was doing some good in the world is why i didn't burn out, first time ever

so i'm looking around for not-for-profits, b-corps, co-ops, that sort of thing

1/2

mentioned my preferences to former boss and he said i might find opportunities in the "clean tech" sector

clean tech companies are ostensibly better for the environment than others? but there's a big hype train behind it recently and tons of venture capital being invested

that's a massive red flag for me 🚩🚩🚩

venture capital ruins everything. what are those investors going to do to get their unicorn level returns

am i being paranoid?

know of any good companies?

is typesetting your resume in computer modern with LaTeX still catnip for hiring managers or has that gone the way of the floppy diskette

@technomancy yeah, http(s) transports that use auth will use this

but in my case the whole thing was motivated by wanting to set up git send-email without having to store my smtp server password in my .gitconfig (sendemail.smtppass) (because .gitconfig is in my public dotfiles)

you're using pass, the best password manager, right?
https://passwordstore.org

this shell script plugs pass into git as a "credential helper"

chock it into your $PATH and run git config --global credential.helper pass, and thenceforth git will use pass to store credentials

https://git.orbital.rodeo/mike/home.git/html/bin/git-credential-pass.html

not bad for 28 sloc and i bet i can lose a few more

if you're using some other password manager, you can find similar tools for those here https://git-scm.com/doc/credential-helpers

til you don't need to store sendemail.smtppass in your .gitconfig because it will fetch it from git-credential

git-credential can invoke various helpers to obtain the password:

• a normal password dialog (ssh-askpass)
• from a cleartext file (git-credential-store)
• from a cache (get-credential-cache)
• from other helpers, extensible with scripts!

so i can totally make git automatically use my favorite password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/

more info: man 7 gitcredentials

pass uses git as a backend so with this script, pass can ask git to push your passwords to your offsite backup repo which might require git to ask pass for the credentials which will have pass read them out of a gpg encrypted file in its local git clone whee 😵

@technomancy ohhhh i see what you mean

well, in my case, yes i do use a tiling wm. but if i went single-screen let's pretend that I could setup keybindings or tags or something to let me manage the stuff on the right separately from the stuff on the left

i'm currently more interested in "gosh i wish i hadn't got this wide hidef monitor because even thought the text is crisp i can't make my editor tall enough for these long ass functions i have to deal with"

please to solicit opinions on multiple monitors with at least one rotated into "portrait mode"
vs.
one large fancy pants extra wide screen one
in terms of comfort while programming (not gaming)
from those who have tried both setups

the utopian star trek vision of a world where our voice-activated computing tools are named "computer" and don't pretend to be human

other portentous unix timestamps (los angeles timezone)

furthermore, one might choose to interpret unix 32-bit timestamps as a sequence of four 8-bit characters:

"easy"
➡️ 0x65, 0x61, 0x73, 0x79
➡️ 0x65617379
➡️ 1700885369
➡️ Nov 24 '23 08:09:29p

the above assumes you read the integer out of memory big-byte-first or "big-end-ian" which is intuitive but not what most cpus these days do. if you go litte-endian, the bytes are reversed:

"easy"
➡️ 0x65, 0x61, 0x73, 0x79
➡️ 0x79736165 (little-endian!)
➡️ 2037604709
➡️ Jul 27 '34 02:18:29a

so,

portentous unix timestamps that spell words (los angeles timezone; little-endian architecture)

portentous unix timestamps that spell words (los angeles timezone; little-endian architecture)