jaydenmilne

> That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point

Very impressive work, WireGuard is a phenomenal piece of software, congrats on getting to 1.0

I can see Raymond Chen’s eye twitching at some of those (clever and necessary!) undocumented workarounds though :D

Windows is just a different world I guess

People forget that macOS and even Windows (well, pre-11) excel at swapping. There are all sorts of hacks and tricks they do to make sure the system remains responsive when under severe memory pressure.

This compared to Linux, where desktop environments seem to get noticeably bogged down and stressed out when swapping (the cursor starts stuttering and the shell becomes unresponsive).

Although even KDE does OK on 4gb of RAM in 2026 as long as you only have one instance of Chromium loaded.

Other states that do this well don't start counting mail in ballots until after polls closed. They know if someone voted in person, so their mail in ballot is rejected before being opened and verified.

I ought to complain about YouTube more often, #47 with an average of 1200 points per post

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

Unfortunately I don't have pictures from before this change, but you used to get 5-6 videos I believe. Now you get two (and maybe one is an ad).

The point is that I made a joke projection in my last post in April that by next May there would be only one video on the homepage, because obviously that would be ridiculous, right? Then I turned on my TV and it happened.

See the previous blog post: https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses....

Satire is dead

1070 TI works perfect on Arch for the past ~6 months with latest drivers (better than Debian stable!). This card is old enough that only the closed source drivers are supported, but it seems to work fine.

Tangentially related: once I bought a no name Amazon HDMI switch that would cause FM interference but only when the screen was mostly white: https://youtu.be/n2DPLEvwO-k

Another reason to use dark mode I guess

In which the Gmail team lampoons the agentic AI future 16 years in advance.

Clearly you’d never want a computer reading and responding to your emails unsupervised - right?

ArchiveTeam is trying to brute force the entire URL space before its too late. You can run a Virtualbox VM/docker image (ArchiveTeam Warrior) to help (unique IPs are needed). I've been running it for a couple months and found a million.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

"Writing is its own reward"

― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

"… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!"

― Jayden Milne (2025). https://jayd.ml/about/

I think both are true.

I’ve noticed that they have different, worse headlines in the digital edition and on the web. They seem more clickbaity.

I just want to get on the record and say that whoever in the paper argues for and writes the fun headlines is on the right side of history

Microsoft has ruined their PC games with this. I hesitate to fire up Minecraft or Master Chief Collection these days because I just _know_ it is going to make me reauth for no apparent reason. I took 2FA off my Microsoft account because of this, so congrats.

These are a video games, not a bank account! Please just let me have fun!

“Writing is its own reward”

― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

“… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!”

― Jayden Milne (2025). “About”, https://jayd.ml/about

I read this and was left wondering - is this about technology, or civilization?

I think the machine is just other people. And maybe the music has seemed off lately.

I've done this. For example, here's some handycam HI8 footage of STS-106 and a launch tower tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2eye32EA8

Filmed in HI8 480p, but YouTube's 480p looks like mud and doesn't do the uncompressed analog source justice. You can see this when you select 4K

YouTube should just show ads, that's what makes money anyway right?

Cable TV figured this out a long time ago.

There's nothing new under the sun, I thought I was being clever.

I'll have to watch it!

"Feed Me Seymour"

I agree, but I didn't buy this one

Its oddly relaxing.

As an aside, this is something I've noticed recently switching to KDE from Windows/OSX No one is trying to get me to do anything with my computer to pump their metrics. You log in the first time, there's a little welcome popup, and that's it. You are now free to use your computer as you wish.

It's oddly stressful being a rat in a bunch of PM's maze.

Yup! That's the point, I'm mourning what was and shaking my fist at a cloud.

They're probably right by their metrics, they can probably rigorously prove this makes them more money. But I think its subjectively worse, it feels claustrophobic and prescriptive to me.

Yup, and that's what I meant by them turning the pain dial all the way towards money. Presumably they can run A/B tests and will no doubt be able to prove that this change makes them $X more money (since it's 1/6 a full screen ad after all). At the cost of being a miserable tasteless change.

The YouTube team has been blindly chasing monetization at the expense of their website being useful and pleasant for a while now. Unfortunately it seems they can get away with it. I wrote this post to just shake my fist at the cloud

Good news everyone - I was able to follow the link in the letter, successfully fill their form, and confirm with the TVL that I do not need a TV license.

We’ll see if they send mail or jackbooted inspectors across the pond to confirm.

I'm pretty sure we fought a war over that, but I could be wrong