Snot Flickerman

In a world that loves to tout “efficiency” sprawling GUIs and mouse-click-everything has drastically reduced efficiency when a keyboard + shortcuts + macros are far more efficient.

The further we stray from the CLI the further we stray from God. CLI-nliness is next to Godliness.

To be fair to the Open Source community, Canonical is a private company, and so it’s not really a shocker that they keep promoting bullshit tied to their own ecosystem. Especially with someone like Mark Shuttleworth involved, he was one of the early rich out of touch space tourists, long before Bezos looked like an idiot coming back from space. The profit motive always infects everything it touches.

Reading Ed Zitron’s coverage of the Google antitrust cases is pretty eye opening.

Mostly because it says basically what you just said: we’ve already reached pretty much peak efficiency in these forms, and since they can’t bleed out more money via “efficiency” they’re now leaning towards “How many customers can I piss off while increasing ad interactions by 1%?” As Zitron points out, they’re literally chasing tiny percentage points of growth through “how many people can we piss off and still grow?” instead of offering anything new and useful. It’s just “we’re entrenched, so why would we try anything risky at all ever?” all the way down.

Why did this happen?

The cynical but probably truer than we’d like to admit answer is “middle managers who bring nothing to the table but need to ‘make big changes’ to justify that promotion they’ve been chasing.”

Source: Pretty much all corporations at this point have these people, my sister’s ex-husband is one at Google.

Those moments when you can’t decide if someone’s username means they’re a science nerd or a Venture Bros. fan.

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That won’t push me to use yt-dlp to just download the fucking video and watch it locally or anything, completely giving up on using their shitty fucking site. VLC has no ads on pause.

The audit details and whitepaper details are far beyond my capabilities to understand. Can anyone with knowledge of the field tell us about the findings? If you would be so kind, please and thank you.

Good on them for getting an audit and making the code publicly auditable, but I really would like to hear an opinion from some folks who are more involved in cryptography on whether this is Discord being genuine and doing the right thing, or is it Discord trying to use Public Relations and weasel words to make it seem like they’re doing the right thing.

It’s just hard to trust a private company’s motives sometimes, but that doesn’t mean they’re not capable of doing the right thing. Thanks to anyone who can give some input on this.

Have you ever worked in a corporation or in government? Even moreso, have you ever worked at a secured facility of any type?

You don’t just get to install whatever the fuck you want on machines, you know? They have to go through a process, and since this is a government organization, if the law doesn’t allow them to install something like that on a thin client, it’s kind of pointless to reference.

I’ve worked a shitty corporate job where I basically had no power and I had to get approval from a couple different teams for something like Microsoft PowerToys, which is free and made by Microsoft.

Does OnlyOffice run on Swintec typewriters? How many people are going all-in on not reading the article today?

I’m betting the budget isn’t the problem.

Jesus ya think? Is today “everyone painfully obviously didn’t read the article and commented anyway” day?

Just quoting myself here:

They’re promoting new legislation to allow the libraries to allow modern equipment and not just typewriters.

Does Libre Office run on Swintec typewriters?

Because the issue is they’re not even allowed a PC, the budget only allows typewriters.

They even point out in the article that a new Swintec technically costs more than a new, crummy laptop.

They’re promoting new legislation to allow the libraries to allow modern equipment and not just typewriters.

Further, since it’s a Correctional Facility library, there’s gonna be strict controls and even if they wanted Libre Office instead of Microsoft Office they would have to put in a formal request for it and then have various security teams deciding whether it was safe to use or not, even though it is technically free. I mean, that goes for pretty much any government job or corporate job, too. They don’t usually let people install whatever they want on government or corporate networks.

But the Lord came down to see the city OS and the tower app the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking programming the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city OS. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

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digital temp adjustment

Digital temp adjustment is different than a sensor that tells you the exact temp at the tip.

Pretty sure any 10+ year old unit is just setting a temp, not telling you the actual temp through a measurement.

For those not wanting go search:

Mozilla’s Position

Devices that offer serial interfaces often expose powerful, low-level functions over the interface with little or no authentication. Exposing that sort of capability to the web without adequate safeguards presents a significant threat to those devices. A user deliberately installing a site-specific add-on may be adequate, given sufficiently understandable consent copy.

Seems reasonable to me.

Google mainly built this WebSerial shit because they HAVE TO to make Chrome OS more than just a useless web browser.

Smart soldering irons have been around a while, so yes. It is now like a PC and specs matter a little.

One advantage smart irons have is being able to give you a readout of the exact temp of the tip of your soldering iron, something a traditional iron cannot do.

It also needs chips and sensors to do things like auto-off when it is set down.

So the quality and speed of chips affects performance.