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C++ alarms and surprises me, to be fair.

Sure; I have a Walltaker[0] (hi Gray) client with Buttplug support[1], it buzzes when your wallpaper updates! But my magnum opus was software akin to Edgeware[2] - basically, based on a Yaml config, it'll show you local or remote porn in various ways. That would have Buttplug support had Github not nuked the repo and ignored my reinstatement request for 4 months. I chucked it on Codeberg[3] if you're curious.

[0] https://github.com/pupgray/walltaker

[1] https://github.com/dogkisser/walltaker-engine/blob/8bc374162...

[2] https://github.com/araten10/EdgewarePlusPlus

[3] https://codeberg.org/rocketcookie/goonto

>If I'm REALLY turned on, how long does it take for me to go from "I wanna use this" to "I am using this"?

I'm glad this is a concern. I maintain software to the effect of buttplug.io and a particular inspiration to start the project was how difficult alternatives were to get going with. I don't want to install anything, or register anywhere, I just want to get my rocks off!

And thank you for buttplug.io. It's super easy to integrate!

I realise this isn't much of a question, sorry :)

Oh, I don't know, I don't mean to slander Librewolf. I'm just saying that intermediaries are sure to cause some kind of inefficiency.

I suppose I should finally switch to Librewolf.

I really don't like Firefox forks, for the slow updates and because I do genuinely use some bleeding edge features, but I'm tired of Mozilla.

> Maybe not to places like North Korea (which we don't have a presence in anyways)

Sure they don't ;)

That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero.

And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did you fuck that up?". They never promised it'd work in WSL.

IMO marking the row as generated makes its intent clearer. It also means less code - no generating UUIDs, shorter queries = more robust.

For my workloads at least, I think it's worth the tradeoff of forcing Postgres to muster 15 random bytes.

The experience is pretty poor in Australia too. Texts are more common than calls, but the rate is roughly 1/day.

It doesn't seem like that odd of a choice. What else would you use?

Not really! In modern Linux specifically it's just a regular user group, but it's the de-facto standard name of the "administrator" group - users who can escalate to root privileges.

You might not even have wheel anymore; Debian just calls it "sudo" now.

I'm Australian and concur that OP sounds full of himself.

Telling self-righteous... friends, to wind their neck in is far more Australian than OP's behaviour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

Edit:

To clarify, I have no problem with his style of writing, which is great, but "I am clearly better than most of my competition"? Lord, get a grip.

$50 seems a bit steep for a 3D-printed RFID tag.

$1.500.000 sounds like a lot for names and addresses. What particular value would a buyer derive from this data?

Even less clickbaity title:

Most Republicans didn't share misinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential election on Twitter.

I own a Framework :)

The build quality is pretty good - particularly given I can tear it apart. The speakers are okay. The webcam and microphone are poor. The battery life is acceptable, but I trust that's at least in part Linux' fault. The fans ramp up more often than I'd like... it's certainly good for a Windows laptop, and I like the ethos, but it's not at all MacBook territory.

For context, the last MacBook I owned was a 2017 model, the one with the awful keyboard. Ironic, I know.

They're the man at the end, actually. No extortion necessary.

> Why doesn’t a great MacBook alternative exist?

I really don't get this either. Every laptop I've looked at has some wart somewhere - battery life, webcam, structural integrity, display, CPU, temperatures, speakers, IO, repairability (not that Macbooks are good here either).

Some of these things aren't even hard to get right. It's like laptop manufacturers just don't care.

What gave you that impression? I tried spamming "a" and the URL indeed did not get longer.

Reassuringly:

   function serialize(value) {
        if (value === '') { return ''; }
        const data = new TextEncoder().encode(value);
        const compressed = pako.deflate(data, { level: 9 });
        return Base64.fromUint8Array(compressed, true);
    }

jan Misali has a great video on why most spelling reforms are bad[0][1] and this one falls for a very very common fallacy - spelling makes more sense when it "maps" to "pronunciation".

> VJScript fixes these issues [...] no silent letters, and one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds.

You cannot do this. It's impossible, because not everybody speaks English the same.

How do I spell "hour" in VJScript? Do I write down the h, or not? How about "potato", or "tomato"? Or "Graham" - is it pronounced Grayham or Gray'm? You have to either choose one, and forfeit every claim you've made to VJScript's accurate representation of speech, or pretend every other dialect of English doesn't exist. Neither are particularly constructive given the typical goal of a language reform is to get everybody on the same page.

[0] https://youtu.be/TEsqY4MH40s

[1] And a cathartic rant on people moaning about English orthography.

I'm sorry if this sounds a bit brash. Linguistics inspires that in me.

No offense to the author, but was this deliberately written to hard to read? Or does all PS look like this?

I certainly see Kitty is as a little crufty ("feature-packed" to some), but from my limited research it appears to be one of the fastest, so I can't really complain :-)

Of course "we" know how LLMs work. Nobody would be able to make one, otherwise.

Interesting; will this change propagate to Linux? I don't know how intertwined OpenBSD and Linux' OpenSSHes are.

I'm so much a music person I enjoy a great deal of music in languages I don't speak :) Vocals and instrumentals working together is the most important part to me.

I think it is. What does Meta's annual revenue have to do with a parent's ability to say "no, you can't install Instagram"?

Because that's the crux of the issue; children should not have access to social media, and the solution is not to weave intricate legislation regulating the entire industry, or obliging me to hand over my ID, it is for parents to not give children access to social media.

I was disappointed by its architecture too. You must write intermediary files, you must call qbe as a separate binary, and you must write the resultant objects to disk.

If I recall correctly, the author has no interest in re-architecturing qbe like this.

Yeah, fair point.

I think we can agree genetically modifying plants is pretty different to genetically modifying animals to harvest their organs.

I'd also contend pet breeding is a wildly misguided practice too. Attempting to maintain breed "purity" is at the very least detrimental to their health, but even a pug mutt is clearly not an animal that should exist.