Jan Rychter

The graph that should be front page news, but isn't. We are being fed clickbait and ragebait about clowns that we elected to be "politicians".

Instead of focusing efforts on clean energy (fusion, solar, wind, nuclear) and reducing emissions overall, we say "rah rah too expensive" and go with whatever is easiest now (change nothing).

(image from this article: https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news)

I always thought these YOLO "curl some-shady-script.sh | bash" copy/pasteable things on software websites were a borderline insane idea, but this takes it to the next level.

I just realized that the biggest friction point in my day-to-day work is…

Copy and paste.

I don't know why everybody decided to reinvent selections and: add doodads, bells and whistles, hijack clicks, auto-select, add various menus, automatically copy (and fail to do so).

This is a solved problem: 'xterm' solved it well and instead of poorly reinventing the wheel everybody should learn from it. It got double and triple-clicking right, auto-copy was there, and it WORKED.

It is mind-boggling that if you pull up with an EV to a charging station, you have absolutely no idea how much you are going to pay per kWh. There is an obscure labyrinth of subscriptions, apps, RFID cards, etc., and even though every charging station has a display, you will never see the price that you are actually going to pay, and you will never be asked to confirm.

I don't think this is going to settle itself without regulatory intervention. It's too good for the businesses involved.

RE: @cmb@cathode.church

FWIW, I have the Glasgow Interface Explorer revC and I love it. The hardware is well designed, the tool is very practical, and software, well, unlike most software, Glasgow software is a joy to run and use.

For those who have no idea what this is: it's like a Swiss army knife for digital electronics. Think programmable logic analyzer with high-speed protocol decoding, but also with write capability: it can actively talk to your electronics.

Highly recommended.

I wonder when and where Claude Code got the idea of using bb to script things for more complex testing of my Clojure/ClojureScript app? 🤔

"⏺ Let me write a small bb nREPL client for read-only inspection to pick fixtures."

I mean, it's a good choice! But a bit surprising nonetheless! Cc @borkdude@mastodon.social

Glasgow Interface Explorer is an amazing tool for AI to debug devices, as well as write drivers. The combination of a logic analyzer and a programmable protocol handler is really powerful in the "hands" of an AI, which can quickly write python scripts to talk to devices over I2C, SPI or UART.

Yak-shaving which would take me days/weeks now takes minutes/hours.

(and yes, my bench is messy, don't judge)

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Every time I look at HN comments below mine, I regret it. I'm not sure why I keep doing it or why I keep posting on HN at all.

In this case I also wonder: what possible motivation would someone have to post AI slop on HN? 🤯

I've been wondering why I couldn't talk to a small board module bought on Aliexpress through I2C, even though the chip supports I2C or SPI, and the board has clearly labeled SDA and SCK pins. Well that's what I get for just looking at the photo of the board and not going through the full description… 🤦‍♂️

SDA is really SPI_CS and SCK is really SPI_CLK. It's a SPI-only board.

I feel you, Claude Code… I'm having a bad day, too.

I tried again to quickly report spammers that use services like Mailgun or Mailchimp (I've given up on Google/Microsoft/AWS, they just ignore spam reports).

Now, this auto-reply from Mailgun has me puzzled. This is either 1) a joke, 2) incompetence, or 3) deliberate effort to make reporting spam more difficult so that people don't bother them.

#Samsung is really taking this AGREE AGREE AGREE thing to new levels. This just popped up after their app logged me out. And it's all for controlling and air conditioner. That I paid for. It is getting truly disgusting.

Note how in this dialog EVERY option means AGREE. But you don't *have* to agree to *any* of the "options" which are presented as radio buttons so as to confuse you and make you think that you need to pick one.

Disgusting.

Take a break from computers, they said. Get into woodworking, they said. You will be able to turn off your brain and just drill holes, they said.

Meanwhile, me:

I think it is bizarre that Ubuntu nginx packages do not ship with brotli support. This has been going on for years and getting brotli is increasingly difficult.

It's one of the best compression schemes and pretty much the quickest way to deliver pre-compressed web assets to pretty much every browser out there.

I am so tired of this pattern of companies trying to screw you all the time when you're not paying attention.

This time, Stripe (I did not expect that from them) — I never signed up for any "Radar" thing, but they put me on the Standard plan a while back (I guess) and the Standard plan will start incurring fees in several months. Small fees, so perhaps people won't notice.

But hey, if I do pay attention, I can "downgrade" to Lite. Which doesn't incur fees. For now.

Not cool, Stripe. Not cool.

Along similar lines, I have no idea how subscriptions that the AI companies sell are legal. What they sell you is an undefined amount of ill-defined "something" (tokens) and both of these things are changed over time by the seller. You, the buyer, have no idea what you are buying and how much of it you are buying. You basically pay for goodwill, hoping that the seller will grace you with some amount of access to the service.

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange And how about silly things to say about it?

RE: @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

Oh yes, please. The world would be a better place if every developer did that!