cobratbq - cranky-by-design

Software {engineer, hobbyist}, watches anime, scifi, grim/dark, fantasy. War-movies are not my thing.

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languages: NL, EN, science, computers

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2026-07-24 16:26:30 UTC

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nah, you were thinking about very different concerns. I mentioned TLS because you seemed to imply unstable connections. You're actually implying that you don't want to maintain a persistent connection, and then all of the mechanisms w.r.t. connection management in the protocol. That's fair. We were considering very different matters.
I'll take your points into consideration. There is smth elegant about pressing a button, syncing data, and leaving. Though I'm afraid it'll kill interactivity.

2026-07-24 03:11:28 UTC

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I don't understand your explanation. Not trying to be mean.
You can list people present in a channel. So only speak if smth needs saying. If you know someone by name, there are mechanisms to monitor presence in the background. I'm not sure what 'broadcasting' you mean exactly. Connection could be TLS-based, so should be fairly solid.
I feel like I'm missing the point in your explanation.

2026-07-23 23:29:42 UTC

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I'd love to see irc florish.
I've seen the following noted by others as well: end-to-end encryption doesn't make much sense for public chatrooms, so proper transport security guarantees and modern feature set goes a long way. IRCv3 has some nice things. Some people seem to want persistence but I thought it kinda nice to just go in and go with the flow. Maybe some identity that allows one to find another easily. That's the one thing that would make personal interaction more convenient.

2026-07-23 21:51:21 UTC

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I mostly skipped usenet. I encountered irc and forums first. Both work well imo. It's not that I dislike the newer solutions, but they want to be everything and centralized and with ever-changing nonsense. And that shit gets tiring. I think forums with their targeted selection of topics are actually nice, because you go there and it will be interesting because of it.
The social media oriented solutions are general first.

2026-07-16 23:31:36 UTC

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that's a fair point. In a sense you're right. But forums were more directed conversation, in a sense. I guess the lemmy instances (not sure which software) represent those okay. Still there is smth about the classic forums.

2026-07-16 20:56:32 UTC

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same. I've been thinking about what it would mean if forums worked with a shared API, then client would generate ids, and you would be able to add a forum/community to a client and work with it from there. Ideally, no registration simply with a generated identity. Compatible over SMF, phpBB, vBulletin, etc. Like .. add a forum and participate, with each forum being specific to its community/topic.

2026-05-03 03:28:31 UTC

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grub isn't great either. Though systemd-boot can be set up to load with EFI-runnable kernel and initrd from esp and/or as single packaged whole with UKI which allows a bit more control towards certain set-ups. Each their own. Conversely, systemd is getting rather sizeable which may be cause for worry in itself. It's hard to say.

2026-02-09 16:05:29 UTC

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I've got a whole lot of people I'd like to send into nature. 😂

2026-02-04 01:25:38 UTC

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dmesg shows (or hints at) the patterns. It shows series of a single value, with the test-value alternating per iteration. I haven't checked how intelligently it checks for bit variations.

2026-02-04 01:17:22 UTC

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dude! I've been checking this 'memtest=7' out and it is pretty sweet as simple precaution. I haven't found errors but it's nice to know there is some elementary precheck that might find anything serious.
The `>1` makes sense as not every bit-flip from every position would cause problems. Is there anything else meaningful to say about that memtest-param or is it really as straight-forward as that?

2026-01-29 23:46:09 UTC

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so, do you have any info on what it does in practice? Like, it performs tests in the background or on every region when first allocated, or am I completely off in my guesses?

2026-01-03 13:12:52 UTC

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I know what you're saying. I have to deal with some particularly hateful things because of lies that are very "sticky" because some people very much want them to be true.
I think, if you see ongoing responses based on those lies, emphasizing/repeating the truth helps, possibly pointing to public facts. Some people will choose prejudice and some will want you to be the bad actor, but those aren't the people you're trying to inform. It's the people who don't know or were deceived.

2026-01-03 07:10:05 UTC

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look, fwiw, people sometimes claim "social media is bad" etc. but people can be enormous manipulative assholes in local setting as well. I think social media isn't that much worse, but is more apparent. I'd recommend you write about ongoing harassment. You shouldn't deal with it alone. People notice but don't always know how best to help. It doesn't mean it should not be exposed.

2026-01-03 07:03:17 UTC

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[..] Try observing how they're attacking, based on what, how many lies/deception, etc. After several years I found what helped me is some silly memes with proverbs on sensible bits of wisdom that help establish what normal behavior is supposed to be. The crap I had to deal with, at least, became both large-scale and very manipulative.
I would say, do write about it. It helps others to keep track. (Parts that don't expose you, make you vulnerable. The events.)

2026-01-03 06:58:41 UTC

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my experience with people who jump into the victim role, as of late, often are involved in malicious practices themselves. I don't like to play that game, personally. I called out for "attacking work-products/results instead of the person", but they'll often refuse if they have malicious intent. If they're reasonable, they'll criticize the topic instead personal attacks.
A tip: toxic/abusive people usually are more unreasonable than a reasonable person would expect. [..]

2025-11-22 19:10:17 UTC

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they reduced it to some 12 or so puzzles, so you are effectively given more time for fewer puzzles.

2025-11-13 00:00:46 UTC

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okay, if you say so, please ignore it then. I have some doubts considering recent other posts, but regardless if needed you would've been properly informed.

2025-11-12 15:28:39 UTC

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i think the UX mention was supposed to be an attack excuse .. you're misinformed. https://mastodon.social/@cobratbq/115537462203753169
I have been mostly observing in a few mailinglists as early as during subversion's rising. Later during development of bazaar. And with Jitsi it was discussing in case of questions with PR for contributions themselves. Sending patches is a bit more tedious, but not bad, if you consider there are ongoing conversations that you can follow along with.

2025-11-11 16:13:08 UTC

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I wasn't really part of it at that time, but the email-based interaction was a lot more focused on communication and less on mechanical pull request processing. Regardless, fair enough. No point in engaging in a way you wouldn't enjoy.

2025-11-11 11:56:21 UTC

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some mailinglists don't need subscribing, possibly just wait a day for approval of the initial message. It doesn't have to be a big deal.

2025-06-14 14:55:27 UTC

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don't know this one. How's it called? Makes me think of Flame of Recca.

2025-04-29 13:02:37 UTC

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you know the timely boosting was already explained to be non-malicious, right? There is no point in continuing the practice based solely on misunderstanding.

2025-04-05 22:40:04 UTC

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what anime?

2025-03-15 03:39:44 UTC

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intolerance?

2025-02-08 18:20:00 UTC

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if this is supposed to be an attack, again, then you should better get your facts straight.

2025-01-25 23:33:35 UTC

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do you know the general ideas and way of reasoning of Jacques Fresco? I like his general way of solving trivial and mechanistically-solvable problems with automation and tackling problems and issues with plain practical reasoning. He outlines a lot of ideas but a lot of it seems to originate from his practical approach to problem solving.

2025-01-25 23:07:30 UTC

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sure, but that's why I'm saying "things don't add up". I was wondering whether this change was partially in jest because of earlier comments of Trump about being a dictator on day 1. It would be kind of an interesting joke to do that and have people bitch about for 4 years after. Still, his focus in general has changed in unclear ways and for unclear reasons.

2025-01-25 22:47:12 UTC

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I'm trying to figure out his deal. Some things don't add up.

2025-01-07 11:58:15 UTC

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in what ways? I don't follow that news.

2024-12-01 20:26:33 UTC

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I don't know enough about OpenSUSE but what would long-time users say about the distro. I get your point, but I don't recall ever that I heard stories that they left their users out in the cold for any reason whatsoever. And from the suse conf videos it seems a lot of things are changing, so maybe your timing is just somewhat impractical.

2024-11-25 21:17:29 UTC

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false and misleading.
See https://doctors4covidethics.org/ for example of professionals opposing the established claims. Also, one of the banned drugs was Nobel-prize winning discovery, known for many uses, that got dismissed as horse medication.

2024-10-24 17:44:47 UTC

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i have long lost track of what all the attacks are about.

2024-08-28 12:23:00 UTC

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oooohhh .. then it makes sense too. But isn't that just simplifying to the necessities? Like those subway systems where human drivers aren't necessary because it's a confined system.

2024-08-28 03:08:21 UTC

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you don't mean the classic "expert system" term, right? Like .. the one where knowledge and facts and used for automated decision-making?

2024-08-27 11:02:29 UTC

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I'm more concerned with political distractions and whether rules are abused. We can't have "oh I don't like this service, so now I turn away from injustice".

2024-08-23 03:48:38 UTC

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congratulations! You scored a full 100% with those guesses. I kinda feel like more detail is possible, but I cannot penalize your perfect score based on that alone. :-P