Dave.

consider what happens if the actual data contains them.

Then you’d escape them by using another character in front. But if their data format is ASCII text or is guaranteed not to have characters below ASCII 32 then using ASCII delimiters is fine.

Mainly when you are building a single-purpose , “appliance” device and you have the bare minimum of RAM/storage available. You just want to get the board powered up and initialised and then jump to your application.

So you build a kernel with only the correct drivers you need, you skip initrd, you skip initscripts and (lord forbid) systemd, you just jump straight to your program, with possibly busybox available if you need debugging.

Edit: I’m talking more about building it from scratch here, not LFS. Regarding security issues, you then “only” have to deal with kernel exploits, with a limited surface as you have limited modules linked, and exploits in your application.

There are phases of sleep that you pass through. Seems like you pass through the lighter ones relatively quickly and you’re getting dragged awake out of a deep sleep phase.

Either give it a little bit longer (like 35-45 minutes) or try 10 minute catnaps.

Then you end up with an inbox full of drive-by spam to abuse/admin/aardvark/… (insert dictionary here)…/zack/ziggy.

I search for complicated things on google, because that’s when I need to search for stuff.

I take about three seconds to look at the LLM-generated summaries/answers, disregard them as tedious monotonic bullshit, and then scroll down to links where real people are discussing the real problems and the real solutions they have.

…use Windows on an air-gapped PC to do all your software development? At least then hackers won’t steal your source and post your shameful code on the internet.

Ollama released a new feature yesterday

Ollama 0.5.1, yesterday : “Fixed issue where Ollama’s API would generate JSON output when specifying “format”: null”

Ollama-rs 0.2.1: released 08/09/24.

Gee I wonder why it doesn’t play nicely with the latest Ollama API which uses new/updated behaviour for an option 🤔

“Just got to spin through a few trillion instructions to get things sorted before we go to standby! Won’t be a minute!”

It’s likely to be forced participation.

You want to use airtags and benefit from other phones providing tag locations? Then you have to supply data to the airtag network as well. Quid pro quo and all that.

You can set up fast roaming (802.11r) which is supported by most mobile clients and gives a much more organised handover between APs. Bit of config tangle but apparently works ok once you get it going.

Why the fuck isn’t there just a simple status LED that is on the same circuit as the camera?

Because cameras aren’t simple on-off devices powered by a single wire, that’s why. It’s always got power, and it’s turned “on” (send image data over the data bus) and “off” (do not send data) by software commands over the same data bus.

So the most convenient solution is then have the camera IC have an output that can drive an indicator light. And as camera ICs are basically full computers in their own right, they can be reprogrammed so that they don’t turn on that output.

End result is that you are much better off either having a physical cover over the camera lens, or having a USB camera that you can unplug.

, couldn’t the brokers just filter the period when i started clickning everything?

They don’t care about the quality of an individual profile, it’s the quality of the aggregate data that’s important to them. If anything, your profile might be identified as an outlier compared to the average and simply discarded. They’re not going to look any further than that and try and “rescue” your data, they’ve got a million other profiles to sell to advertisers.

22 million users. 2700 million likes. 122 likes per user?

That engagement ratio seems a little off?

You’ve got the motive back to front.

yah, let’s get rid of these cheap, easily manufactured and implemented dials and knobs

In modern cars those buttons are an input to a body computer which then sends commands over the vehicle data bus to another module that performs the appropriate function. The touchscreen option is much cheaper once you have more than a few buttons to deal with.

Buttons have different physical shapes, the little decal for the button on each one has to be printed and put on top, each one needs to be connected to power, each one needs to be slotted into the dash somewhere , each one needs to be backlit so you can use it at night, and the signal for each one has to be routed somewhere through increasingly bulky harnesses, etc etc.

A touchscreen sits on the vehicle data bus and with a bit of software, sends whatever command is needed.

Is it a great user experience to press fiddly buttons on a touchscreen while driving down a bumpy road? Fuck no. But it is definitely cheaper and less complicated for the manufacturer.

Effective advertising has a clear and simple visual language, and this is what UIs should strive for.

Interfaces can be needlessly complex regardless of being flat or skeuomorphic.

But flat interfaces still require mental effort to parse. Especially when the interface is complex and/or crowded and you’re trying to pick out active UI elements amongst decorations like group boxes/panels.

Essentially, flat interfaces are currently popular because of touchscreen devices. Touchscreen devices have limited space and thus need simplistic UI elements that can be prodded by a fat finger on a small screen.

But I don’t need a flat touchscreen-friendly interface on my non-touch dual 24" monitors with acres of screen real estate. I need an interface that nicely separates usable UI elements from the rest of the application window. That means 3D hints on a 2D screen, which allows my monkey-brain with five million years of evolved 3D vision the opportunity to run my “click the button” mental command as a background process.

you gotta indoctrinate them while they’re young & impressionable so that they will more easily accept your biases as reality;

Lol and social media companies are just such complete white knights too and would never engage in such tactics.

You people are underselling yourselves.

A thousand a night, indexed to inflation. First year in advance, and then payment every morning after that, with the condition that if you miss one night, it’s all over.

I think the ongoing payment adds a bit of spice to it. Do you set a goal of X dollars and stop then? Will you be ordered by the court to continue wearing it for alimony for your gold digging ex wife that you met in the first year? Will the temptation of easy money for minor suffering slowly drive you insane? Time will tell.

“I have no mouth and I must scream” could end up being a plausible way to spend eternity.

I was thinking that I would have to switch to bsd.

Finally the year of Hurd on the desktop?

Not really, it’s just phrased differently to the usual signup pitch, they’re putting in a middle ground between full “premium” subscribers (whatever that is) and public access with tracking and ad metrics.

Companies need revenue to operate. They get that revenue from advertising data and selling ad slots, or subscriptions. Whether they actually cease all tracking and ad metrics when you subscribe is something I’d doubt though, and that could be a case for the legal system if they didn’t do what they claim.

Personally, this behaviour is the point where I would not consider the site to be valuable enough to bother with.