Notices by Cybarbie (nf3xn@mastodon.social)

In which @bagder is wrong about something, maybe.

"Wider code is harder to read."

Seems obvious it is highly subjective. Period.

I personally find excessive line breaking very difficult to read.

Being a DEC bunny I grew up on 80 chars. I always preferred my VT100 on 132w.

I found reading the blog post hard.

Breaking words is probably even worse (inset) 😂

I guess you can get used to anything.

But is there any evidence to support this dogma?

tldr; No. /1

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/

@sj probably just not counting people at all then? That does seem to be a trend in USA. Or maybe not being able to read and write or have any disposable income is not a barrier to having a high standard of living in USA. idk I do know some of the conclusions stood out immediately as having a cultural bias. But by all means believe what you want. You still didn't tell me what insight there was, the whole 'Everything is fine'? lol ok then.

@sj Oh no I did take some time and I got far enough to see that it was grossly out of date and a shockingly poor analysis. Understanding this melange of nonsense is an exercise in futility. Disappointed I couldn't find the graph that was screenshotted because so long and tortuous. I was really only interested in what you found interesting tbh. I offered my own opinion being somewhat NHS adjacent... What did you find interesting? Perhaps I missed some pearl.

@sj ...largely down to the absolute heroism of NHS staff, selfless dedication working under chronically inept leadership at times for much lower salaries than they deserve, for longer hours than is safe. UK is still has people willing to sacrifice for the public good, socially-minded. Or suckers and losers as MAGA would probably call them. It is an outlier itself. The French system is much better managed for example.

@sj I didn't get into it because tldr; and their data is chronically out of date -article is nearly 10yo and some of it dubiously sourced. Their analysis often does not follow. My hunch is that higher US healthcare costs are largely down to Big Pharma and Health Insurance rorting the living fuck out of US but that life expectancy has more to do with lifestyle/diet than that. Also there is no guarantee that NHS outcomes would improve with the same per capita spend as USA. NHS outcomes are... /1

@sj how do you uncitizen someone who got citizenship by birth?

@carnage4life birthright citizenship??? 😬 ...it's a bit late for that lol

@lanodan @neil @revk Yep def some infosec creeper decided to turn his OSINT toolchain into a business...

@lanodan @neil @revk No they are looking at leaks from other services that you have signed up for previously with the same address. It's dumb shit. They probably have a haveibeenpwned account.

@skinnylatte How does restricting H1B visas to only those positions that cannot be filled with Americans harm immigrants?

TBC I will never be affected by layoffs but I know very experienced, very smart people on here who have been and live in constant fear and WHY THE FUCK SHOULD THEY just because Elon wants slaves who will do any unethical thing he asks, cheaper.

@phaedral I understand you, like many people, are having an emotive response to the killing and I in no way seek to deminish or devalue that. For me it is interesting to have a more objective discussion around reporting anomalies re:pro hit or keen amateur e.g being able to clear a jam is firearms 101, yet how did he know where to be and when, a fucking bike? lol ok. Why was the CEO in town and so on.

@phaedral @tinker @krypt3ia Because it would not be true obviously.

@NosirrahSec @tinker @krypt3ia Again I was not making a value judgement. He may well have got what he so richly deserved. I just do not want to elevate CEOs to some important status, nor would I want 'assassinate' to become synonymous with 'bitch had it coming'.

@tinker @krypt3ia I appreciate you taking the time to explain your thinking. I would be extremely wary myself of any CEO killing or any, say F500 company automatically becoming an 'assassination' - even though every last one of them plays politics to some extent. Very happy to accept your analysis - probably you know more about the guy than I do.

@tinker @krypt3ia Indeed the lines are blurred. If someone offed Elon - you could say that was political. So I did not realise that was exactly what you were saying about this individual?

@tinker Then I miss your political point entirely since afaik he was a private individual and we do not know the motive of the assailant.

@tinker Assassination is not the right word here - 'targeted killing' or just 'murdered'. I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi either.

@inthehands So 49% were totally fine with MAGA fascist government gotcha.

@WarnerCrocker I am sorry but I cannot sanction criminal damage have they tried using drones to write inspirational messages with weed killer.

@feld @lain @Datenegassie It is recommended to semi-regularly cycle your device to counter malware that lacks persistence.