jzb

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by jzb 11d ago
Finally, a keyboard that’s perfect for Emacs.
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by jzb 13d ago
Surely the keyboard switches would start to fail within minutes.
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by jzb 14d ago
The server was fine, but we have a throttle that kicks in if we get a flood of new account creations at once to ward off spammers and scammers. We're keeping an eye on the queue now to ensure that these are waved through quickly. Sorry
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by jzb 14d ago
You'll be happy to know the title has been updated. Apologies for any undue concerns we have caused. :)
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by jzb 21d ago
I spent more Friday and Saturday nights at the Tivoli in St. Louis at RHPS showings in my teen years than I can count. Quite literally, I lost track somewhere around 80 showings. (Not all at the Tivoli, but most.) The first time I went to s
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by jzb 2mo ago
“Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity?” No. There’s no singular “American identity” or story to capture. The U.S. has produced some amazing writers and storytellers who are, IMO
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by jzb 2mo ago
But they do have authority over the domain registrar, so you’re vulnerable there no matter where you live. I don’t agree with the premise of age verification, but of course a prosecutor would go after the assets they can reach if enforcing
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by jzb 2mo ago
Good performance, not really a good movie. It was a bit of a letdown after parts I and II, but he was well cast. The writing wasn’t there: didn’t quite stick the landing.
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by jzb 2mo ago
It’d be nice if there were a consumer version of this. I have plenty of old RAM.
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by jzb 2mo ago
Could substitute a tractor tire, maybe? Would certainly smell better long term…
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by jzb 2mo ago
Do you have stats on that? I’m not sure piracy or AI training are really affecting book publishing dramatically. But if you have data, I’d be curious to see it. AI scraper bots are a total pain for online publishers and FOSS sites, but AFAI
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by jzb 3mo ago
Sorry if it sounded like it was only in Debian; that was not my intent. I tried to make clear that the Debian package maintainer and upstream maintainer were one and the same, and that the change was upstream first. That was the reason cite
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by jzb 3mo ago
I think “abject poverty” is probably overstating the case a bit. I do think quality of life is trending downward given the fact that housing, food, gas, medical care costs are all increasing while wages are stagnant or worse.
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by jzb 3mo ago
There's an enormous imbalance between company and customer that you're ignoring, not to mention the difference between a private person and a company's very public personas who own said business. If a company was sniffing a
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by jzb 3mo ago
If the far-right parties they're supporting are similar to MAGA in the U.S., what they're doing is taking customer money and funneling it into a political effort to do just what you're describing - just in a different way. &q
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by jzb 3mo ago
A right to say something is not the same as the right to say (and do) something without being called out on it. He has the right to do what he’s doing. Other people have the right to react and say “That sucks, it’s against my values, I no l
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by jzb 3mo ago
This is not new. AirPods are newish, but this is not new. People have been wearing headphones in public spaces since the Walkman, if not before, in large numbers. You can probably find opinion columns bemoaning this shortly after the introd
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by jzb 3mo ago
The difference is really volume, which is the case with a lot of problems related to AI/LLMs. Humans have always submitted crappy code. LLMs, however, do so at a much faster rate. Even the most active lousy coder is not going to be cap
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by jzb 4mo ago
ISTM this developer did people a favor: He’s shown a real-world vulnerability pattern in a way that didn’t do real harm. Odds are he’s not the first to think of this, he absolutely won’t be the last. If your agents, CI/CD pipeline, or
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by jzb 4mo ago
No. It’s not. It’s just that we’ve been conditioned to accept that disposable devices are the way of things.
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by jzb 4mo ago
This is wonderful. I grew up watching WKRP and wanted to be Doctor Johnny Fever when I grew up. Managed to work in radio for a few years part-time, but by then DJing was “here’s a program sheet. Play these songs, exactly” - not the dream of
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by jzb 4mo ago
Um. I grew up watching WKRP. I’m in my mid-50s.
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by jzb 4mo ago
Lord. I pity the managers that are going to be worrying about their jobs sitting in 1:1s with people who are also looking for answers when there really aren’t any to give.
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A new era for memory-management maintainership(lwn.net)
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by jzb 4mo ago
This doesn’t sound like they’ll be weaning off it, though: it’ll be cold turkey. That’s going to let wealth holders pick up more property at depressed prices and drive down wages.
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by jzb 5mo ago
If they’re hosting network services, sure. I wouldn’t put vibe-coded software outside a home network, ever. But it seems low risk if people are just creating their own desktop software: especially since it’s less likely to be vulnerable to
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by jzb 5mo ago
“There is no poverty of information.” Quite the opposite, in fact. But there’s a difference between the information being present somewhere, and a reasonable way to get that information in front of people in an actionable form. We’re drowni
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by jzb 5mo ago
It's only "necessary" if one accepts that the current way is the only way. I'm not really sure what the point of encouraging new development is if the end result is "big company scoops it up and makes it shitty, but
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by jzb 5mo ago
This is amazing. Page says it works on RHEL 14.3, which doesn’t exist. Current RHEL is 10.x, this must’ve been done in a TARDIS.
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by jzb 5mo ago
“I'd like to know how to avoid it.” To paraphrase a popular quote from IBM: “Executives and MBAs can never be held accountable: therefore executives and MBAs must not be allowed to make decisions.” Slightly less flippant: The only way

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