stilgar [he/him]

@stilgar [he/him] @infosec.pub
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The enshittification doubles by the day, good lord

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Solidarity to our Swedish comrades, showing Tesla the power of united labour!

There are some massive intrinsic advantages of the CLI though, that apply for everyone, not just leetcoders:

  • The terminal can remember everything you ever did. Forgotten the command you wrote 2 months ago? You can do a search for it with a tool like fzfand run the exact same command again.
  • Communicating with others. GUI programs require step by step instructions, often accompanied by screenshots while CLI may be copy/pasted.
  • Combining programs together. There are a few different techniques for combining CLI programs to search/format output, use secrets without ever having them in the clipboard or on disk, monitor something frequently/constantly etc etc

So while I agree with you that there's plently of elitism around the CLI, you do yourself a disservice if you try to avoid it.

They're Hot Chips if you're being fancy

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Gradle is absolute rubbish, definitely the worst experience I've had with a build system. But Maven is also rubbish.

IMO a CLI should be the primary way of interacting with the build system (see e.g. Go, Rust, JS with NPM or Yarn, Python with Poetry) and manually editing the build file should be reserved for edge cases and extensions.

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No, you missed the homeless encampments, forest fires and car centric cities.

There's no apt install utopia.

Only if it's specified and documented as part of a contract with the user. If they're relying on internal implementation details, well that's a good lesson for them not too do that.

No I prefer to fall asleep mid morning when I'm awake and alert after two coffees

Again?! Is there some kind of reverse Darwin award for doing the most stupid shit and somehow not dying?

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Nice summary, I'll link confused normie friends to it.

BTW, the header on your site is very large on Firefox mobile

Large header screenshot

Taking the anarchy out of the anarchychess, that must deserve some pipi in your pampers

My proudest moment was getting a PR with typo fixes for PyPI docs merged 😂

Thank fuck! I'm so sick of rebasing and merging Dependabot PRs.

I'm imagining you shipping yourself in a crate to another country and wanting to avoid getting poo all over you 🤣

Link for anyone interested: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

Edit: fixed broken link

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These "uber commands" tend to be much better since they are more explorable with --help explanations and readable flags.

Much better than the random jumble of characters you're expected to have memorised for awk, sed, find et al.

Yes the EU has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which among other things gives users the right to request their data back from platforms.

It's regulation with teeth since many of the tech multinationals have already had multi billion dollar fines. The fines can be up to 4% of global revenue.

IMO an engineer should be able to develop a complex system which an entire company could potentially be based upon.

A developer who isn't an engineer would focus more on individual libraries, apps or tools that don't necessarily require the mindset of an engineer to design and maintain.

Audiobooks! I listen to The Sleepy Bookshelf, but anything will do, there are lots of free audiobooks on YT etc too.

I use a sleep timer so it'll stop playing after half an hour.

Presumably because it uses LFP battery cells? If that's the case, then the lower rated range is not as important since those cells tolerate many charge cycles to 100%.

One typically only charges to 80% with other Li battery chemistries so one effectively loses that top 20% of range.

I couldn't even start the test because the button was entirely hidden, added some screenshots 👆

No, the queens are all wallflowers, why do you think they aren't dancing?? I'll tell you, they're too shy.

This page is completely unuseable with Firefox on Android!

Edit: screenshots

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Are you thinking of going for oat scrambled eggs or egg porridge?

I have a feeling this one comes from Instagram and that's how it entered the mainstream lexicon. But I find both PM and DM easy to understand.

If you're really keen on a FOSS setup you may need to go terminal based, I haven't tried this setup but it looks good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_EJhH49Ms

I'm tempted to upgrade for:

  • Wireless charging
  • 5G

But I'm not that tempted so I haven't done it, still very happy with my Oneplus 7T from 2020.

Google en pavlova

This is an excellent lecture (though admittedly quite long) which provides some much needed context on these issues.

The University of Chicago: Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer

I don't know if there's any "evidence" but it's well known that the devs of Lemmy are Marxist-Leninists, and that's the reason for many choosing to use Lemmy.

Yes, the Model Y is the best selling car in Norway ever, but your smooth brain knows much better than everyone who has been in the market and purchased one because it was the best option for them.

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This is a good way to realise that you don't need a function for that use case.

This looks like a lot of fun to use, I loved the example from What If, so many units!

You fucking heathen! I only use !

Thanks, I grabbed the URL off the Aurora Droid app, I guess its not compatible with the FDroid website. Fixed now!

Great post! We solve far too many problems (many of them are very much in the nice-to-have category) with our systems at my work, the systems get huge and difficult to change or maintain. I'm on a constant campaign to stop people building things we don't need, I'm definitely filling my senior role lol.

The idea is that you should die and not further your genes if you do such idiotic things (that's the premise of the Darwin awards), this guy is very stubbornly not dying!

I've got a MYLR and the sustained acceleration is terrifying, its very seldom that I floor it.

The M3P must be bonkers since its lighter, lower and more powerful.

I learn such a huge amount from every one of their videos! Has quickly become one of my absolute favourite channels.

They're talking about the rendering speed, not the playback speed.