Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@oilyfish Is there an "introduction to fosstodon culture for newcomers" document which could explain things like the mindset behind caring so much about using invidio.us?

(Personally, I care about the risk of broken links so much that I think it's bad enough to be using YouTube, even with its own frontend... let alone a frontend that considers it a point of pride to not use YouTube's official API when youtube-dl spends so much time keeping up with YouTube's changes.)

@gairsty http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ really helped me get a grasp on things back when I was a geeky teen just getting started with it.

I'd also recommend these, since talking the terminal and related stuff digs up so much about the system as a whole:

* http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
* https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
* http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
* http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/ (Stuff like why ASCII is laid out the way it is.)
* http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ (Focused on *why* UNIX programs are designed as they are.)

@mollusk @codesections Almost certainly JavaScript, given the ridiculous amount of effort poured into it and the results that show up in The Benchmarks Game.

@codesections I would own two RasPi boards.

Checkmate. :P

(Seriously, though, that's probably how I'd write it. I'm a bit of a nitpicker about my own use of language.)

@mollusk @codesections When devotees are fighting for the honour of their favourite language, they come out about equal:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/which-programs-are-fastest.html

It's all about the algorithms and features implemented and how much effort is put into optimizing.

@theodraxis Sounds like my preference to not use such stimulants for my ADHD was a good choice. 90%+ of the time, my problem isn't motivating myself to start what I *should* be doing, it's motivating myself to stop what I *am* doing... which is usually something with a similar "big work, big reward" profile to "actual work" (eg. hobby projects) and, thus, likely to have Ritalin emphasize the benefits of continuing to work on it.

Without any drugs, I already have a pretty good track record for "If I can just motivate myself to change tasks, five minutes on the new task will turn into five hours".

It reminds me of a comment on the TV Tropes secondary pages by a contributor who took some Adderall with the intent to work on a paper and wound up spending three hours improving TV Tropes instead.

@ataraxia937@fosstodon.org ...that said, I should find or write a YouTube userscript which forces 480p or 720p quality on logged-out video playback, rather than "auto". "auto" is often over-sensitive to YouTube's heavy page loads, resulting in videos starting at 144p and spending too long there.

(And, "auto" or the inconsistent play/pause performance, Google is famously impervious to receiving feedback from users in forms other than randomly-appearing "on a scale of 1 to 5, how well is YouTube working today?" popups.)

@ataraxia937@fosstodon.org Agreed. On desktop, with uBlock, I just don't see Invidious as having a worthwhile value proposition... especially with the bug where, when the Play/Pause button is focused, the arrow keys don't do anything.

(I habitually never click the video frame because if the browser is bogged down, it can take 10+ seconds for YouTube to react, while Play/Pause always reacts quickly.)

I got used to not logging into YouTube years ago when they tried to force me to make a Google+ profile.

@lupyuen Having skimmed that paper as someone who's lurked on /r/rust/ and the Rust RFCs since before version 1.0, my impression is that the paper's focus is misguided:

1. I didn't see any evidence of them addressing the question of whether Rust affects the *number* of CVEs filed per amount of code, which seems like an obvious important thing to consider in a situation like this.

2. It comes across as if they're oblivious to the fact that other safe languages, like Python, have FFI support, like the ctypes module, and are calling out Rust as uniquely flawed in how the safe and unsafe code interact.

3. When they're classifying the vulnerabilities, it feels like they're oblivious to the fact that they are re-discovering the already well-known implications of constructs necessary for C FFI. (Had they approached it from a "does the real-world of Rust match the expectations for these constructs?" angle, it wouldn't bother me, but what they wrote feels like it lacks that self-awareness.)

4. I'm not a programming language theorist but, given the level of theoretical discourse that shows up in Rust RFCs, the kinds of ideas that show up in Rust team member blog posts, and the kinds of tooling, both experimental and production-ready, which get announced in /r/rust/, their recommendations for mitigating the risk feel so simple that I'd be surprised if they weren't already on the list of things that have already occurred to the relevant people and either are "easier said than done" or have non-obvious fatal flaws.

All in all, it just has an air of "People who know far less than they think they do acting with un-earned confidence".

(In fact, it feels vaguely reminiscent of the parts of the Unix Hater's Handbook that, yes, are a problem with Unix... but nobody else has managed to put anything better into practice.)

@CaptainStack I'm also in the market for one... though, if it requires permission to post to or modify my Mastodon account, I may go without since I'd prefer not to have to audit and self-host to feel suitably comfortable with it.

@wizzwizz4 @ticoombs

If you look at the spec for ABE definitions, you'll see that it supports whole-URL regular expressions too.

@protonmail For the focus-tracking, unless it's penalizing you for allowing your mouse and keyboard to go idle, you could also just run it in something which virtualizes the concept of "active window" like Xephyr, Wine in virtual desktop mode, or a VM like VirtualBox or KVM.

@randynose @shibayashi @lain

Fundamentally, the question is whether you're old enough to have strong memories of TVs from before they had the processing power to substitute a blue fill when failing to sync with an NTSC/PAL signal's timing.

@wizzwizz4 @ticoombs

If you want to block subresource requests, I used to use NoScript's ABE module to do things like neutering Google Instant without killing off Google's search pages entirely.

https://noscript.net/abe/

@andrioid@mastodon.technology

@vancha Oh, I almost forgot. I've gotten some excellent indie music from bundles on https://groupees.com/ over the years.

(For example, the albums containing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5u9glfqDsc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52rxz2sjRs )

@vanitasvitae @fribbledom That one amused me because, as a UI/UX enthusiast, I agree with the sentiment but, perhaps ironically, I can also do that because I habitually unpack archives in the terminal.

@alexbuzzbee @Jason_Dodd I'm similar, but I usually say "Unixy OSes".

@TsRoe @vordenken When I have time, I want to set up my own mail server which uses a milter combined with a web service to treat e-mail aliases as revokable API keys bound to expected senders.

(eg. So an eBay seller who subscribes my eBay address to their newsletter without asking will find it bouncing with "You are not an authorized sender for this e-mail address. Please fill out this CAPTCHA to exempt the current message. Note that abusing this feature may result in blacklisting.")

@vordenken I have a domain registered through the registrar https://nearlyfreespeech.net/ partnered with and I pay 3¢ per day for e-mail forwarding on it with no limit on how many addresses.