Notices by egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social), page 4

@technomancy @a CVT is a huge improvement over the 80s-90s slushbox automatics I learned on, but I still prefer the no-surprise does-exactly-what-I-tell-it experience of a manual.

I'll give it up for a reasonable EV, but none have yet appeared on the market and I'm increasingly pessimistic that they ever will.

@aphyr Are there even good keyservers anymore? Haven't kept up, but I remember there was an attack that was supposed to be impossible to mitigate or avoid.

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f

Literally at least half of the actions I take in Discord, pop up a CAPTCHA.

Just tried to send a DM, and guess what.

Is this just like... normal? How Discord is? Does every Discord user tolerate this shit?

Had reason to make a Discord account recently. What an absolute trash fire of a thing that is. Fuckin' every other thing I do causes a CAPTCHA. Horrible

Maybe it's my weird browser that Discord doesn't like? Nope, mainline Chrome does the same thing. Just a hell of CAPTCHAs. Open invite link "are you human?" Fill out CAPTCHA. Click "Accept Invite," get another CAPTCHA. *During* the accept process, I guess, check it out buddy: I still think you might be a robot, have a CAPTCHA.

Finally get in and... Messages Failed To Load.

I have no idea how anyone can use this at all, much less like it.

#buglog

With modern car badging being so widely-spaced, manufacturers put discrete letters on the back, which has a lot of potential for hilarity.

If you bought an extra badge set for the new Ford Bronco, you could have the badging on the back say BROOOO

Standard eBooks has some very nice stuff, and I read a good amount from there.

But let's not forget that Project Gutenberg did a lot of the work, since they digitized the texts in the first place. And they've been at it for *52 years*.

@kelly @TheJen Same, I do not like the corporate censorship nuspeak.

(I am GenX and have a 20tb NAS)

@vkc You might already know this, but the Firefox family of browsers support OpenSearch, which is a way for sites to tell browsers how to search them. Right click a search field, and you'll get "Add (site name)", if the site uses OS. Then you can pick it from the location bar.

There are other/more sophisticated ways to streamline multie search engines, but this one is built-in and low friction.

@thomasfuchs @flowerpot Can you reach out to Kagi support to ask for a refund? Enough people do that and maybe they'll take note.

Love Mozilla, "the browser that respects my privacy," whose extensions site is crapped up with tracking garbage on every page.

If you search for "ublock origin", every extension in the results page is full of Google utm_junk: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=ublock%20origin

And on extension pages, every outbound link bounces through a shady tracker: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Fuckin clown-ass company

I write one (1) Clojure macro, consisting of two (2) lines of code.

Kondo blows up because it can't analyze user-defined macros, obviously a great feature for a Lisp.

I tell Kondo to shut the hell up about it.

The version of Kondo we're using is too old to understand my instructions to shut up.

I track down where we're pulling that in.

It's a Dockerfile full of YOLO "download from github main branch" junk.

I update the Dockerfile to pin versions and open an MR.

The build fails for no comprehensible reason.

I update one of its deps, which is ancient and push that up.

The build fails because I didn't update changelog.md.

*yakety sax plays*

How it started: I need to silence a linter warning.

How it's going, two hours later: I need to debug why I can't pull Docker images from the corporate ECR.

Thrashed basically all day today because of this bizarre heisenbug in Kondo.

https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/issues/2252

@technomancy No, but I already agree. Static analysis of a dynamic language is not the right approach.

Me: I'd like to add a macro to this Clojure project.
Kondo: Absolutely not. Fuck you

clj-kondo has never, not even once, sparked anything other than deep annoyance for me.

@technomancy They just need to stop making bad episodes (like they do now) and start making bad episodes (like they used to).

@technomancy Not sure. I'm on LibreWolf, which performs fine otherwise. Semaphore (the updated Pinafore fork) is very fast. Phanpy is.. full of blur effects I don't like & can't disable and unusably slow.

Looks nice, though, and it supports *showing* bookmarks, which Semaphore doesn't.

@technomancy Man, gave this a whirl but it is *dog* slow. I'm typing this on an M1 MacBook Pro with 64gb of RAM and I'm typing faster than the window can insert the characters. What the hell