R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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Two thoughts on the Forbes location tracking story.
1 - Tiktok issuing a statement that they knew wasn't true is quite concerning.
2 - That journalists, reporting on a company, have trouble blocking their location from that company is shocking. This isn't blaming the reporters, but rather the people who've designed the location tracking infrastructures, cross-application linkage, and ability to control all that.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/
@derickflorian There is a stty setting on Linux, onlcr, where the kernel inserts a CR (\r) before each newline (\n, LF) before giving it to the terminal. Programs using cursor addressing usually turn this off.
Teletypes sometimes needed a delay, or maybe a few NUL characters, following the CR character to give the carriage time to return to the left margin before they could process more characters (such as the line feed to advance the paper). There are settings in stty for this as well (crN, ffN, nlN, ofill, ofdel).
Probably at this point we should just repurpose \v for something else.
@derickflorian yeah, is the same thing \n does if your terminal is not configured to convert it to \r\n. \v is basically unused nowadays but in its day would move the printer down to the next printable line on the forms you were printing on
@lauren How this happened? Don't understand.
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I am once again asking you to stop using LastPass. The company has a history of security issues dating back years, and has yet to make holistic security improvements — or heck even investigate incidents properly.
Good alternatives:
- 1Password is my #1 rec, best for most use cases
- Bitwarden if you want open source
- KeePassXC if you want local vaults and open source
- I hear ok things about Dashlane but don’t know a ton
https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
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Kids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.
@derickflorian that's LF (\n); as I understand it, VT is like LF but can go down several lines, depending on how you've set up the vertical tab stops in your teletype
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Israel Gelfand on mathematics (2006) :
“From my point of view, mathematics is a part of our culture, like music, poetry and philosophy. I have mentioned the closeness between the style of mathematics and the style of classical music or poetry. I was happy to find the following four common features: first,
beauty; second, simplicity; third, exactness; fourth, crazy ideas.”
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writing a tiny mastodon app right now for fun and I really love that all the endpoints allow CORS so the whole thing can just be a static site (no server code!!)
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I'll use Archive links, no matter how circumspect they are, most of these articles are being taken down in a few hours:
https://archive.md/tD8xX
(Google Translate works well, @DeepLcom@twitter.com works a bit better)
@tao Does this mean students who prefer doing math to prompt engineering will fail their math exams?
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"Proved the baby version of this claim, now let's do the general case!"
"Wow, it's not that easy."
"Wow, it's hard."
"Wow, it's false."
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Here's Danny O'Brien @mala (Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web) giving his talk:
“The Moment” #AaronSwartzDay2022 https://youtu.be/MZhD2Rj3Vyo
@oley Thanks.
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RT @GergelyOrosz
Paul Graham - founder of Y Combinator, and someone who was supportive of Elon Musk since the Twitter takeover - announced he’s taking a break from Twitter, and suggested people can find his Mastodon account on his website.
He was banned a few hours later.
I cannot believe it…
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@Pwnallthethings Where I can learn more?
@clairelhay What kinds of things did they say?
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My yak shave of the weekend is trying to get back into my irc bouncer.
I don’t remember what my raspberry pi is named on the local network (and sometimes it randomly changes and adds a number)
My network sniffer to find the name, Fing, no longer works on Mac (any desktop download is immediately marked as damaged and dumps to my trashcan).
Nmap, an alternative to Fing, is giving me no end of shit about openssl even when I point to my home brew install of it.
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💡 This weekend would be a perfect time to #GiveUpGitHub.
☣️ #GitHub is the #Twitter of software development, creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
