digastricus @digastricus@qoto.org

@gadgetboy It's the same for phone reviewers. They seem to think the public wants phones that weigh less than a sheet of paper with batteries that last 2.5 seconds. My ideal phone only needs to be charged once a month and can be thrown through a window with a note tied to it as a threat. It should be held together with drywall screws and replacement parts should be available at Lowe's.

In 1947 Bell Labs invented the transistor. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

So I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to tell if a particular app is running in Wayland or XWayland.

This is the answer I get off Stack Overflow. I'm thinking… No. No, that's too silly. It can't be the best way.

I keep researching. It's the best way.

You run xeyes.

Wayland has security that keeps windows from knowing about mouse events in other windows. XWayland doesn't.

Xeyes will track your cursor whenever you're over an XWayland window, then stop if you pass over anything else.

Clifford Stoll in 1995: "Tonight, twenty letters want replies, three people have invited me to chat over the network, there's a dozen newsgroups to read, and a volley of files to download. How can I keep up? I see my reflection in the screen and a chill runs down my spine. Even on vacation, I can't escape the computer networks. I take a deep breath and pull the plug." #othernetworks #slownetworks

The six million dollar man, but decades later when he’s living with crippling implant rejection, firmware updates that slow him to an overheating crawl, ads directly into his visual cortex, incompatible new battery cells, not being able to log in to his brain without a facebook account, and occasionally corrupted mbr

Debian 12 release notes:
[A syslog daemon is no longer installed by default]

Dieser neumodische Schnickschnack taugt einfach nix

infosec industry in shambles

A little something different from my #NerdStitch archives. Prince of Persia from the Apple II, I recreated the main character running animation in 8 frames of cross stitch and then attached them to a hand crank flip book kit to make it go.

The next time you feel imposter syndrome and are convinced that everyone is better than you, just remember that someone got paid for this hospital design.

hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking

"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.

Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.

Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104300

This is so damn good.

Heads up 99%.

Whenever someone from a think tank talks about “the economy”, mentally insert the words “rich people’s yacht money” into the sentence.

We can’t provide free healthcare, because it might harm rich people’s yacht money.

Nurses are going to have to feed themselves from food banks in order to protect rich people’s yacht money.

We’ve decided to let kids work in slaughter houses to help boost rich people’s yacht money.

It works every time. Give it a try.

#RichPeoplesYachtMoney

English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').

When a #RIFA cap feels threatened, it fans out it's plumage to make itself look bigger.

#VintageComputing / #RetroComputing

Oh no. It's the Meeping Angels.

#DrWho #DoctorWho #SciFi #Muppets

In 1985, Digital Research released their GEM desktop for PCs and the Atari ST. Apple didn't like that, claiming that it was a bit too close in look-and-feel to their operating system. Trouble is, they'd taken inspiration from someone else... Story time!

https://youtu.be/aAAU5S1irP0