Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social), page 3

A question about Mastodon (or other social Activitypub platforms): How viable are, by which I mean have people deployed and maintained, text-only instances?

@Gargron While I agree with this, it might also be time to move the work prioritizing federated safety and collective protection to the front of the queue.

"linux" is apparently a burger joint, jeans, an industrial magnet company and a wood stove.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/490612577

https://www.rockdenim.eu/menswear/jeans-for-men/slitna-jeans/linux-cipo-baxx-jeans-blue

https://linuxmagnetics.com/

https://vardeovne.dk/produkt/varde-linux-3/

@ironchamber It is amazing to me how careful you have to be with any demo. Demo code, demo apps, whatever it is, people will so often decide to see only what they can understand on their own terms, not what becomes possible.

This isn't about AI but it could be.

@phaedral For whatever it's worth, I'm on the side that "if this question even comes up, something else is going really, really wrong."

Like, in the example given: "I spend an hour today debugging a possible problem only to notice that "SignOn" != "Signon"."

You're in a dynamic language, fine, but: there's _no indication at all_ from the tools that you're using Signon for the first time? Or that you're using a one-off name in there? No syntax highlighting, no compiler alerts, nothing?

Amazing. TypeScript and typescript are just two entirely, wildly unrelated things.

One is a static typing extension of Javascript that Microsoft introduced in 2012, the other is the recording format for a console record/replay tool called "script" dating back to BSD 3.0 in 1998 or so.

Who says learning linux is difficult.

Sorry, "Linux". "linux" is probably something like an mysterious archaeological site or an astral body or a milkshake flavor or something.

Look all I’m saying is that we can put anything we can envision on a screen, that we can create and share information through any medium or format we can conceive of, maybe “one string at a time and never more than you can fit on a punch card” is not a healthy contribution to the conversation or anything close to what we’re capable of.

Random linux question: I have my command history, in Linux, but not a record of command outputs. Now that text is as close to free as makes no difference, should we not store both? Command executed, standard-out resulting, all stored?

Given screamingly fast IO and effectively infinite drive space, at least as far as text is concerned, it's sort of remarkable how much useful information we just accidentally throw away these days, how little we routinely save.

The NYT tech workers are on strike, and they've asked people to boycott the site in solidarity, a virtual picket line.

While it's not much of a contribution to the cause, last year I compiled a list of Wordle alternatives:

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2023/02/21/wordplay/

Suggested additions are welcome.

Don't cross picket lines.

@Ashedryden @powersoffour If you haven't heard their middle-child King James' Version album yet, may I recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q1oMq5uZXs

@powersoffour @Ashedryden OK, rathole time it is then!

Flagpole Sitta was, arguably, the weakest song on that album. Carlotta Valdez is so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_vdCOqlaAA

@Ashedryden They did not deserve that label! Their crowdfunded Little By Little album was _great_, and their last single - The Show Must Not Go On - is probably their best single recording, and on frequent rotation here.

(And you can have both with a few clicks!)

http://harveydanger.com/downloads/

PARENTS: remember to CHECK YOUR KIDS HALLOWEEN CANDY.

Every year, people are giving AMERICAN CHOCOLATE to our CHILDREN when they TRICK or TREAT.

It might LOOK almost like REAL CHOCOLATE but DO NOT BE FOOLED. It tastes like HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, PETROLEUM BYPRODUCTS, SHAREHOLDER DIVIDENDS and BROWNISH.

BE ON THE LOOKOUT. Don't let your children start believing that AMERICAN CHOCOLATE is how REAL FOOD TASTES or EVEN ANY GOOD.

Take a job that could be done literally anywhere, use it to make people live like this so that office buildings stay valuable and then announce that the health and wellness program now includes mindfulness coaching and yoga.

https://gizmodo.com/san-francisco-startup-sees-huge-demand-for-sleeping-pods-that-cost-700-a-month-2000520007

Thirty six years almost to the day after the release of the Morris Worm, OKTA announces they've just patched a bug where you can just log in with no password if your username is too long.

Could we please, before the Morris Worm turns forty years old, make a habit of, god help us all maybe even a standard practice of, sanitizing our inputs.

https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/okta-ad-ldap-delegated-authentication-username/

100% of the people who mix up correlation and causation end up dying, but since I have made no such mistake my immortality is assured.

Question for the dads out there: if we - with preparation, of course, steeling ourselves and approaching the task with resolve - if we throw away that container of random old nuts, bolts and screws. Do we ever recover from that, emotionally, or do we just live with its loss?

@wlonk I’m not talking cables, though. I’m not feeling that ambitious today.

Turns out you _can_ see it when a skeleton dies on the inside.

The 100% homemade costumes are the best. We’ve got something from Roblox, a bunch of skeletons, a clown that’s also an axe murderer? Solid one-two punch right there. One parent with a heavy Irish accent looked like a coachman, but when I asked said “ah dunnoo! Whatamah?”

His kid muttered something, and he said, really loudly: “staympoonk? Whassa staympoonk?” It was magical.