Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.

33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except ... the desktop.

(I'm paraphrasing his quote -- he said something like this years ago, can't find it, though.)

(Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I "hallucinated" the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else's comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )

The building, used by several hundred employees, had a security systems with 4-digit codes. I've been part of group of people who liked to work late times, and the building would lock at midnight -- the box by the door would start beeping and you would need to unlock it within a minute or so, or "proper alarm" would ensue.

However, to unlock the alarm you did not need your card -- all you needed to do was to enter any valid code. Guess what was the chance that, say, 1234 was someone's valid code? Yes.

We've been all using some poor guy's code 1234, and after several years, when he left the company we just guessed some other obvious code (4321) and kept using that.

By the way, after entering the code to the box by the door, it would shortly display name of the person whom the code "belonged" to. One of our colleagues took it as a personal secret project to slowly go through all 10000 possible codes and collect the names of the people, just for the kick of it.

(By the way, I don't work for that company anymore, and more importantly, the company does not use that building anymore, so don't get any ideas! 🙃 )

what.. I've had uBlock Origin enabled all the time, just never went to settings.. :-D

makes me think of the good ol't times when the air was cleaner, roads were safer and our bosses used to pay us in Thinkpads, not this "fiat money" nonsense.

Basically a cigar butt with eyes, shut up it works for me.

I was not planning to comment (i am no better) but even if I was, this line pretty much disabled me for straight 5 minutes.

I'm a ROFLcopter now...

IDK but if, say, Motörhead came to a 50 seat library in some small town it would be kinda cute and would make the library famous, and it would make all other libraries envy them in a good way.

Edit: just learned that Lemmy died 8 years ago. Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something...

Speaking about security codes, a little story about a tiny hotel I've been in.

When we arrived, there was no reception, the agreement was that once we arrived we would call the receptionist/owner. So we did, and turned out the rooms were prepared in advance, and they would just need to give us code to unlock the main door, code to unlock our room door and some basic instructions -- all of that could be done over the phone. Fine.

So they gave us the code, it was, say, 1234, and our room was 33. So we opened the main door -- worked fine, went to the lobby and tried to open our room. The code 1234 did not work. So we called back and after some checking they apologized and told us that the correct code was--you guessed it---1233.

Luckily there was also a proper metal key in the room--only one though (we were a group of 6), so if we wanted to actually protect our valuables we had to share the metal key.

(Overall, the hotel was great, and all, the owners were nice, all was fine -- it's just that they were apparently not exactly security nerds... 🤓 )

Is "pharmacists seeing more patients" really a measure of something good? I'm a non-native English speaker so cut me some slack but all I can imagine is just longer queues in the pharmacy and more tired pharmacists (and people who now need to wait in the queue now).

that's some serious good-ass news good ass-news

It was not. I vaguely recall that during my onboarding (which was long before I needed to use the code) I was asked to pick a code and I needed several attempts.

Funny that If it was possible, codes like 1234 would still be almost guaranteed to be valid, but because the code needed to be unique, there were far more valid codes, which made the guess even easier.

Plus when trying to pick my own code during onboarding I could note all the failed attempts as also valid codes.

So much fun! :D

"everything has pros and cons"

I usually give the CGP Grey's legendary answer: "...but it's hardly ever the case that all the pros and all the cons all PERFECTLY balance each other out, right?"

Even in areas where they would fit it's really annoying how some companies are trying to push it down our throats.

It's always some obnoxious UI element, screaming at me their 3 example questions, and I always sigh and think, "I have to assume you can only answer these 3 particular questions, and why would I ask those questions, and when I ask UI questions I expect precise answers so would I want to use AI for that."

I have no doubt that LLM's have more uses than I can think of, but come on...

I'm happy for studies like this. People who are trying to smear their AI all over our faces need to calm, the f..k, down.

Unfortunately later I learned that for some reason, somehow (surely my mistake), the only full copy of my dad's contacts was at the nextcloud instance, so that collection was the "hostage". Far more sadly, my dad deceased earlier this year, so in a weird irony when I received bill this time, the sad fact enabled me to put this all behind myself, so today I just canceled the service and goodbye.

On the other hand, it would feel pretty normal to us.

Perhaps even our time perception would be probably a bit different. As someone coming from world where bodies require about 8-9 hours of sleep, the perception of time is naturally affected (if not dictated) by having series of waking periods of about the same length every day.

If there was no such thing as sleep (which might be a bit different than just "not requiring sleep" as you suggest) then we'd just be conscious in one continuous chunk from birth to death. Given what problems our brains solve by sleep (learning, sorting memories / feelings), if the brains were to do these things continuously, the consciousness itself would probably be at least quite a bit different experience.

I don't know if I'm answering, but few years ago I've figured out and started to test this hypothesis:

Memory is context-driven, and such is our own ability to retrospect about spent time.

For example, let's say I spent whole Saturday doing one of my favorite combos; playing Factorio and listening to podcasts. Next day I would go to a dinner with a friend who (as most people on the planet) is not really interested in neither of these things. There's no way I could justify day spent, to my friend it would look like time wasted. Thing is, it's actually easy to come to a similar conclusion just myself -- I would feel like from some "objective", "classic" point of view, the time spent in Factorio was wasted.

However, one thing is easily missed: due to the contextual nature of our memory, the memory spent in one mindset (playing Factorio with podcast) is not readily available outside that mindset. (It has to be like this to some extent, right? we don't need to remember how to ride a bike when not close a bike!)

It sometimes happens to me that when I open old map from Factorio, memories from "the Factorio mindset" would start coming (including topics from podcasts or audiobooks), as if I visited some old place. If my friend walked up to me while I'm playing Factorio and asked me about how I spent my time, I could probably share lots of stories about how I came up with this structure and how I found myself stranded among enemy bases, etc. It's he change of context that prevents me to do so at the Sunday dinner -- part of the new context is that I'm with someone who's not interested in Factorio or podcasts.

The question is then, do all these experiences contribute in a positive way to something more long-term, like my personality? While playing/listening, am I training something that is going to be useful later on? It boils down to comparing what else could I have done, which is ultimately a futile enterprise anyway.

TL;DR: Could it be that in retrospect time can feel wasted but it's just because we're trying to "reach" the time from another context? Maybe we always spend our time the best way we can, it's just that we're not equipped to judge the time properly, at least not from any context.

Seems related, if not the same.

Some consumers (especially those who don't appreciate world burning around their kids) don't want to buy a new device every 1-3 years just because of batteries.

maybe I'm too much of an engineering brain, but I just want to cry when they put fingers in my hair and ask "about this long"?

Like, I know it's not a rocket science but come on, that's like 800% error bar.

Once, a lady had enough emotional intelligence to explain herself whether she meant "cut above the finger" or "leave below the finger". I will never go to any other hairdresser (luckily she's much younger than me so we could actually pull it off). I ain't got time for these axe throwers.

...aand, we're back to Web 0.0.

By the way, is this how most sites are going to work in Metaverse?

Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn't feel blindingly bright at night...

Don't wanna be that guy, but these template news-article openings always make my brain hurt. Come on, as if everyone has ever called it anything else than "Dark mode".

Looks good. Anyone knows if there are .deb's somewhere?

TBH, I'm not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to, and with $meta+= exec htop in my .i3/config I'm not exactly the primary audience.

(By the way, that's nothing against the author's decision to go "flatpak first", I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS. I don't have the resources to help so I'm happy to wait until the project grows enough until the deb appears..)

Today I learned:

• curl development cycle has a cooldown after a freeze.

How cool is that?

funny how lot of comments are saying "i also look at my face while other person is talking"

what I meant when I was writing this post: looking at my face while I was talking.

...on second thought, I'm not sure, I might as well just be looking at myself 100% time.

Which part of

By the way, that’s nothing against the author’s decision to go “flatpak first”, I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS

is whiny?

oh, you mean this part

I’m not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to

OK, maybe a little bit. I did not mean to sound like that :)

trying to keep up with the vaping industry?

Fun fact: With those 4 games it looks like a tie, but weighed by Steam scores, Linux wins. (Warhammer has like 3/5).

(Disclaimer: I have never played any of those 4 games and don't plan to in a forseeable future. I also realize full well how ridiculously insignificant a sample of 4 is.)

I always thought there's exactly 0 counterfeit/fake items at amazon, so ... 0 times million ... phew...

/s

We may have an uphill battle though, like biology

I'm afraid the joke's on you on this one. The biology simply is not that simple as we were taught in kindergarten.

There's lot about this on the nets, my favorite is this episode on Huberman Lab.

i would love to be in that camp, fall is great, it's just too depressing that winter is coming soon.

few more summers like this one and i'll start getting depressed on Spring, because of looming Summer.

Yeah. And I like how even from the message it shows that it's been already well recognized by then.

If I recall correctly from some RMS' talks I've seen many years ago, they've been working on it for years before, it's just the kernel that was missing. As I see it, GNU and Linux was the breakthrough for FLOSS, since at that time you would still have to use a proprietary kernel. (Well, there's GNU Hurd, but I'm not sure if it existed at that time, and even if it did, it was not ready.)

I guess I understand.

For myself, though, not being a big fan of FPS/RTS games, basically anything I play is fine as long as it's around 30 and most of it is 10+ years old and/or indie game... I'm pretty much in the phase when if the game does not work on my OS (which is barely the case), the game has to go.

It's rarely the case for me though, last time I really did that was like 7 years ago with Doom 3: I haven't realized that it's Windows-only so I ended up asking for money back on Steam. Nowadays, with Steam Deck & Proton it's not a problem; I actually got Doom 3 on Steam again, and I can play it just fine. (Well, "fine" with the exception that the monsters are scary so I'm scared, but the game is fine!)

I'm not posting this to feel smug, cos I'm not. It's 100% legit to want your games to look and feel awesome, you deserve that.

I'm posting it just as a flag, that for people with far less demanding taste, Linux is just fine. I can't think of a game right now that I would want to play so much that I would be willing to install Windows.

Where did you get the impression that words like covfefe and Kamabla were tweeted with full focus, stable, decent, ergonomic sitting pose and both hands dry?

The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)

free & open source model is superior to proprietary, especially for users, and for long term. (funding the dev part is a crazy hard problem, to be fair, but that's true for anything that should benefit users, including roads and health care)

but the point was that the "people still dumb" take assumes that Linux users are superior, which is a bunch of childish BS of course (wasn't probably even meant seriously)

"If I asked people what they want, they would say, better AI"

MBA tech bro: "so ... that means what they really want is the same shitty AI, right?"

I don't have experience with Twitter or Mastodon but it reminds me of time when I quit drinking.

When I quit drinking and tried to stay around people I used to drink with, I realized really fast how pointless this "engagement" (really just two people speaking past each other, and feeling like they have deep conversation) is. It's almost insulting what a waste of effort such an "engagement" can be.

I would still not sleep well; other things might log URI's to different unprotected places. Depending on how the software works, this might be client, but also middleware or proxy...

🤔

But pockets at seem to force me to have some sort of system.

I feel that if I had to wear a bag it would be a holy mess.

I've realized this true randomness is something that current Web does not offer, all the algorithms are so optimized to keep bringing "what interests you" or "what interests lot of people".

The randomness is so addictive, and perhaps even a bit dangerous.

I thought I wanted that, but learned my lesson.

I'm so good at fixing computers that if I had a car repair shop, I would "fix" every car until it became a bike, because I believe, and refuse to negotiate, that bikes are better.

The point of a book cover is to cover the book.