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vestige
@vestige@sleepyhe.ad
mastodon 4.7.2+glitchGeneric xennial enby nerd, working in software engineering and infosec.
I'm a parent, I'm not here to post NSFW content, but I may seriouspost a bit too much.
Nazis and fascists DNI.
Trans rights are human rights.
Back to uspol-posting
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Joined December 29, 2024
tired:
yes
sanity:
system-failure
contact:
vestige@sdf.org
Replying to
@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
Cheers! I finally got Teams out of my life, and now I'm thinking about what I'd give to get rid of Atlassian.
ELF files are just archives, you can just 7z x them, extract an ELF file at home today!
Replying to
guh
https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/str/mod.rs.html#121
/// Returns the length of `self`.
///
/// This length is in bytes, not [`char`]s or graphemes. In other words,
/// it might not be what a human considers the length of the string.
why is programming in 2026 like this?
(turns out i actually need floor_char_boundary because truncating strings is hard)
The boost copyright file is 2MB and I have 23 identical copies of it installed on a modest Ubuntu 24.04 box.
(Talking /usr/share/doc/libboost1.83-dev/copyright etc)
I clicked a "Share via E-mail" link in Zillow and LibreWolf opened Emacs and my Emacs isn't even configured as an email client.
2026 is so weird.
😲 Vivaldi Browser comes out of the box with a Mastodon plug-in as part of the initial user experience.
Replying to
A lot of folks seem to be struggling to put words to the concept of "LLMs violate human dignity" -- and yeah that's true, and also it's such a difficult argument to pin down.
Broke: Let me Google that for you
Woke: I don't know, but here's what ChatGPT says
(woke = also broke, even more broke, actually)
Had to break out the old OG Pixel XL today to test something, and idk if GBoard was just that much better on old phones, or it's just memory, but gosh typing on that keyboard feels so much better than on my modern Pixel.
There is a type of developer who enjoys a burger loaded with grilled mushrooms, and decides that grilled mushrooms are delicious.
And so they find some mushrooms in the woods, and cuts up those mushrooms, grills them, and eats them on a sandwich. The developer then dies slowly and painfully.
I was looking at a bug trap we have set up to catch spotted lanternflies, an invasive pest. It's a sort of net cage that is easy for bugs to fly in to, but difficult to fly out of.
Looking at it from a few feet away, it's easy to see how to chart a course out of it, were one to be trapped. But if you're in it and don't know about the big picture, you're stuck.
Been wondering if we humans are in the same kind of trap. If we are, the efficiency and effectiveness of language and communication are probably the "big picture" we're missing in terms of how to escape. Many concepts in science and sociology become very straightforward once we figure out how to communicate them.
Replying to
@nixCraft
In my experience the face filters are pretty rare. But I'm still on multiple panels a week these days where it is obvious that the candidate is reading answers from a screen.
Hmm, fuck dynamic pricing.
Those of us who haven played Satisfactory already know that plastic is basically free.
Whether you're extracting natural gas or oil, it comes with monomer by-products like ethylene and propylene. They might sound familiar, because they are the base molecules cross-linked into plastics like high-density polyethylene (milk jugs) and polypropylene (which is the plastic part of all your metallized/mylar-style chip bags, and even things like your polycarbonate water bottles start off as propylene extracted from the ground).
Right now about 10% of petroleum and natural gas are extracted and converted into plastics, and that's expected to grow as Asia and Africa modernize and consumerize, especially as petroleum demand tapers off due to electrification.
But it's also relatively straightforward to make ethylene - some of the bioplastics packaging products you can buy right now are made from ethylene produced from fermented corn and sugarcane.
Propylene's trickier though - there are plenty of processes, but right now they're all fairly expensive relative to getting it for "free" out of the ground as a by-product.
Anyway, right now, propylene and ethylene aren't just basically free -- they are byproducts that need to be processed in order to free up capacity to extract more fuel. So next time you go shopping and drive your automobile and burn 8 lbs of fuel to get there and back, make sure you buy at least 1 lb of gross plastic packaging or other plastic products to make sure to keep your consumption in balance.
13:12
holy crap the RTX 5090 is $4-5k
Hmm, Signal has a "Name not verified" badge on some of my contacts - I guess ones that aren't in my Android address book? Weird.
ya'll who think mythos/fable are NBD are not checking your logs.
Set mem_sleep_default=deep on my kernel cmdline to try and troubleshoot lockups after waking up from sleep and... waking up is like it's 1990 all over again, but at least there haven't been any hard locks.
Replying to
@Unixbigot@aus.social
kittttt I know you are making that joke but srsly
# --- No spyware ---
# Generic (consoledonottrack.com)
export DO_NOT_TRACK=1
# AI / ML tools
export VLLM_NO_USAGE_STATS=1
# Node / JS ecosystem
export NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 # Next.js
export NUXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 # Nuxt
export GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 # Gatsby
export ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 # Astro
export TURBO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 # Turborepo
export ANGULAR_CLI_ANALYTICS=false # Angular CLI
export NG_CLI_ANALYTICS=false # Angular CLI (older)
export CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=0
# Package tooling
export ADBLOCK=1 # suppresses opencollective/funding prompts
export DISABLE_OPENCOLLECTIVE=1
# .NET
export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
# HashiCorp (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant)
export CHECKPOINT_DISABLE=1
# AWS
export SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0
# Homebrew (macOS / Linux)
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
# Stripe CLI
export STRIPE_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
# Scarf (package download analytics used by many npm/docker packages)
export SCARF_ANALYTICS=false
# Chainlit
export CHAINLIT_TELEMETRY=false
Replying to
@angrystaffer.bsky.social
what if i told you
we are trying so fucking hard anyway
but shakira law makes it so hard
Replying to on corteximplant.com
@SynAck@corteximplant.com
This sounds like a culture fit issue.
And remember, Streptococcus thermophilus doesn't ask.
Replying to
@acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com
What is the most dangerous predator? Is it the common housecat, or could it be the Boeing aircraft?
Replying to
@acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com
MAINTAIN LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS TO EXTENT PRACTICAL ON UPPER DECKS
LOWER DECK PAX ARE NON-REV AND DID NOT PAY FOR LIFE SUPPORT