Deep thought police
From a GamingOnLinux comment thread about the Colorado Age Attestation billās possible effects on GNU/Linux:
Johnologue: āHopefully the damage done by age verification laws can be limited (ideally, they would not be made at all, but Iām not expecting much in the way of regulatory competence right now).ā
Gerarderloper: āI do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.ā
Purple Library Guy: āCould be worse. What if instead of your id, they wanted to scan your superego?ā
Arehandoro: āOne would hope that only happens in Nietzsche applications.ā
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
āCatherynne M. Valente
The Fall of Sonatype Nexus
With Nexus Repository Manager v3, Sonatype has turned to the dark side.
Go away, Gatekeeper
Iāve had enough. Gatekeeper is fired.
Python Dependency Management is Missing a Piece
A comparison of dependency resolution across software ecosystems, and why Pythonās model leaves library authors with no good options.
Technological tribulation XI
TIL: tar xf archive.tar.gz auto-recognizes gzipped tar (without the z option), but tar cf archive.tar.gz ... does not produce a gzipped tar. -_-
Some like it hardcopy
Am I alone in finding it hilarious that the print function in JavaScript pops up a Print dialog?
Technological tribulation X
TIL: If you let a domain name expire, hackers can purchase it using a service like DropCatch, then restore your old content but with the forms replaced with phishing loggers! Ugh, maybe Iāll just park my retired domains from now onā¦ š©
Expedited serpentry
The mamba project has made me love conda again. No more waiting minutes at a time for the solver, only to have it ultimately fail. Hereās my conda config ā Zsh + conda + mamba + esc/conda-zsh-completion + aliases. These can help you defeat the pain! šØāš§
Great news
Wow! Thanks, TurboTax! #softwaregore
A worm in your Apple
I will never forget August 2014 when we added analytics to Fiji to find out which features to focus onāand the community revolted on privacy grounds. Six years later, if you own a Mac, the nightmare has arrived: Apple knows everything you do. My next machine will run Linux. š„
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
A dearth of lavish vacations
Iām not big on exotic locales, but itās still rough seeing my Google Maps travel summaries splashing pharmacy and fast food as top highlights for the 10th month running. š£
Have your cloud and eat it too
I wrote a beets plugin to upload music to iBroadcast. With the shutdown of Google Play Music, Iām surprised iBroadcast doesnāt have more buzzāIām impressed with it so far. And beets is a dream come true for CLI-obsessed OCD music collectors! š¶
At long last
Emily found a web-based Python turtle environment! I taught her about parametric equations and normalization and Python functions and HSV & RGB color spaces today! I HAVE WAITED TEN LONG YEARS FOR THIS!!! š»š¢š¤©š„³
Rational actors
Old news for most pro webmasters, but OMG User Agent strings. Care to play Guess the Browser?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134
https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
The keys to success
How to fix a MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard. ;-)
MY EYES! MY EYES!
A new era of DANCE!
My new StepManiaX stages are installed and ready to go! Goodbye, aging DDR Extreme arcade cabinet in my garage. Hello, year-round dance workouts in climate-controlled splendor. Huge thanks to Kyle Ward and everyone at StepManiaX for all their hard work making this hardware a reality.
Space lizards!
If, in the final 7000 years of their reign, dinosaurs became hyperintelligent, [and] built a civilizationā¦it would be virtually impossible to tellā¦Thatās what 180 million years of complete dominance buys you in the fossil record.
Committed to the bit
Charmed by its ready-to-hand predictive power, we will embed machine learning ā like the asbestos of yesteryear ā into larger systems, and forget about it. But it will remain susceptible to hijackingā¦
āIntellectual Debt: With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance
Hyperconnectivity
Bit the bullet and launched Gitter again after my 2-week vacationā¦ let the triage begin!
