Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social), page 2

@carnage4life "Nobody wants to work two levels above their pay grade anymore."

Paraphrased, that reads "At a molecular level, parts of the Covid19 virus look and seemingly behave a lot like cobra venom and rabies."

Turns out being "covid cautious" is just a revealed preference for not wanting strangers to sneeze rabies and snake venom analogues into your lungs.

Wear a mask.

jfc this paper

"Profound similarities between highly nAChR affine toxins (i.e., from snakes of the Ophiophagus (cobra) [...], Rabies lyssavirus [...] strains [...] and Cobratoxin (naja siamensis) [...] and SARS-CoV-2 specific proteins were found by analyzing the toxin’s amino-acid (aa) sequence alignment and comparing it to the motifs in spike glycoprotein (SGP) from SARS-CoV-2."

https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7

Semver should be a data type.

"for 1.20 you will need to write api-version: '1.20' with quotation marks because YAML treats it as a number, not a string, which can be condensed down to 1.2 which is not a supported API version. "

I can't believe people tolerate this.

[Agent Smith voice] ... but what good is an ad blocker, Mr. Anderson, if you cannot control your OS?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301768/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-prompt-copilot-plus-pcs

Lazyweb, a question: What is the best soundtrack, in the worst movie?

Soundtrack greatness times movie terribleness, what's at the top of that list?

@sidawson @lightweight Right!?

18 minutes from "hello plz where should I file this" to "it's in-tree" is a new personal best.

I don't want to spoil it before it ships, apparently tomorrow, but I just moments ago had an interaction with a core Debian project in which I went from asking in an IRC channel where I should file a feature request to being told "normally the bug tracker, but let me just implement that" to "it should merge and be in unstable tomorrow" in 18 minutes.

The reason the "nature or nurture" question is repeated so often is that it silently lets our societies and institutions off the hook.

I am seeing _so many_ complaints in so many fields these days asking "why are the yoots so bad at (THING) now, back in my day" and those conversations are never "what has changed in our institutions, that the people who successfully navigate them are unprepared for practice".

I want to love Via Rail a lot but Via Rail does not always make that easy.

Lazyweb, a question: what is the simplest command that will give me a Linux machine’s IP address, and only that?

Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.

I’ve long thought that a “security health check” would be a killer feature for a browser, along with a “do one thing” button. A Firefox-monitor-plus idea, a password manager that could warn you about compromise, weakness or re-use and rather than throwing up alerts, offer you a clean path to take one action to improve your situation and an option to schedule a nudge to do a second in a little while.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/13/24295543/most-common-passwords-list-2024

There are many infuriating passages in this book, where the author chooses to fully embody so many of the worst qualities of the soi-disant "designer", but this is one high-water mark.

"... so the outcome shows no indication of any thought toward legibility..."

This is the exact opposite of true. No type has been studied more thoroughly, or more carefully, or at greater expense than that of road signage, because _bad road signage decisions kill people_.

But our guy thinks it's ugly, so.

Having sat down and squint-slogged my way through the "Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works" book, I am here to inform you that it is not good, often patronizing, frequently and profoundly wrong when it comes to technology, smugly ignores its own advice about basically everything, makes only the barest nod to the idea that legibility matters and doesn't admit the idea of accessibility at all.

My advice is: just steal the sheep.

You can read it here:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/fonts.google.com/en//knowledge/stop_stealing_sheep.pdf

@mekkaokereke @molly0xfff the thing that kills me is the staggering waste of it, that people keep claiming like six transactions per second globally is a viable, reasonable number.

That is a _nothing_ number. It’s nothing at all! If it wasn’t for the mind-blowing wastefulness of zero-trust computing you could run the entire Bitcoin ecosystem, the entire damn thing, off one raspi and that raspi wouldn’t even warm up.

If you'd like to feel good about some numbers today:

The largest nuclear power plants in North America produce about four gigawatts of electricity, and that number tapers down quickly as they get smaller.

Globally, in 2023, the world deployed that much new wind power about every two weeks.

Today, right now, the world is deploying that much new solar energy every four days.

I love the implicit "answer this right or we'll drive a robot over a stranger someday" part of the whole prove-you're-a-human experience.

Imagine an ad for Pepsi whose main message was, "It's good if you mix it with Coke".

Imagine a world where a third of the market is looking for some other better option, and that's your pitch.

I think I think https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113296098233486301 is probably right, that this is where it went wrong.