2026-04-19T16:29:16Z https://yabu.me Chris [list of emoji] https://yabu.me/npub14x9gcund4aqhv5tu4asmfuqmv2y28xs5jkhmzjxc4s7twfgp888shwtc6z https://nfts.freeradical.zone/accounts/avatars/109/127/168/397/951/576/original/e8a0b6da977923a8.jpeg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/accounts/avatars/109/127/168/397/951/576/original/e8a0b6da977923a8.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsps3ted4srq74hzmc5scm83duf77hv9y8shufhf93nv37ffa7j6jgzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu75zajjg Blech. $GREAT_GREAT_GRANDBOSS has announced that all development roles are going to become sloperator roles. I really like this job but unless this endeavour collapses (not unlikely), I&#39;m going to need to start job hunting soon.<br/><br/>So, if you know anyone who’s looking for an expert in static analysis and compiling (preferably remote, Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) area), feel free to point them at me. 2026-03-28T11:27:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9dx4s4854220azdg42t5xghhk4sdgmk4ckfxzf7y6wq5tnuyh4pszyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7rm43eq You can tell if someone is a computering supergenius if their solution to a difficult problem looks like nothing.<br/><br/>Lisp is six functions. Forth is 200 bytes. Unix is just tiny programs and text files. The original web is just a hacked SMTP server sending SGML files. And yet, it does *that*.<br/><br/>The huge, complex stuff--Windows, Java, the modern web--is all the work of mediocre thinkers with big budgets and too little time. 2026-02-01T13:37:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2hqlhw2fjvf0hlynrywh57r7q94qcd5vw9fzuwkl2mkdg6rq2ccszyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7tnpxqv Cloudflare is still down because their engineering staff can&#39;t reach stackoverflow.com. 2025-11-18T14:26:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsys7gdluzuxs8lsf898tzvrkxmeqsqna7mgmhea9unvnu9cxxx67gzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7pafddx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyqfg043vguzrpshhazzkvhkj9mv0806h920j4yusnermcfqclacqe9jvy9'>nevent1q…jvy9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Am I the only one here who immediately envisioned Flavor Flav on reading that? 2025-11-11T13:52:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswvr8mq5n5a8dh58d8vsn4cycvldkw0qenkqsdcpdc04fl459vtcczyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7tzjg04 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqk4dh9x4vxhd4q50ku7md7zsahpa0a622z0wvarmnuxlg2em4mmq60amyd'>nevent1q…amyd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Lovely, but I hope it doesn&#39;t keep happening. That sort of thing gets old *very* fast. 2025-11-10T12:32:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxkjqfqeh9pemmv5mxruqmszalfdggpgpwf7jzmegvfus3z0dpflczyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7rs06ez In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsthkj2ehc5964shswrk43mmlr2wt2gg6l6seup3ljj0zdnrfzu5mqdy5rdy'>nevent1q…5rdy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(Also, tangentially: when Linux stuff needs to be fixed, it&#39;s because the devs haven&#39;t been able to do the work yet, but when MS/Apple stuff needs fixing, it&#39;s because management has directed the UX team to carefully break the system in ways that will nudge me toward buying cloud services. I know what I&#39;d rather waste time on.) 2025-08-15T12:10:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsthkj2ehc5964shswrk43mmlr2wt2gg6l6seup3ljj0zdnrfzu5mqzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7ldw2py In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp3sdy87jpmajcwqu8fpax0d4dwkvr4dutu2ml8pghw0f3ky7wrdqdp2zhc'>nevent1q…2zhc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(I do find that doing a major OS upgrade disrupts everything, so I delay those as long as possible. I generally use Ubuntu LTS releases and then don&#39;t upgrade for 4+ years.)<br/><br/>(Also, I learned embarrassingly late in life to *keep searchable notes* of my fixes.) 2025-08-15T12:06:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp3sdy87jpmajcwqu8fpax0d4dwkvr4dutu2ml8pghw0f3ky7wrdqzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7j2r9r5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2v504vpxc3a4ruuj3n85rpac7zlvgawvvhr8m4z7rpe9s88xt3tctjsdkp'>nevent1q…sdkp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>IME as a long-time Linux user, dealing with a certain amount of complexity is just the cost of doing business. Making computers &#34;simple&#34; requires MS/Apple-sized budgets and desktop Linux is still mostly a volunteer-run project.<br/><br/>The good news is that a) stuff you fix tends to stay fixed and b) it&#39;s easier than it used to be. On the whole, I find I spent less time* tweaking Linux than Windows or macOS.<br/><br/>* Disclaimer: experienced Linux user. YMMV.<br/><br/>(ctd) 2025-08-15T11:59:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf3h2q558rvxm59j42wwtck9tjn4dxtdpk9n796tvwcwl5mmkp6fszyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7w6hunr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr3t4fdn7s27lcjnfa7ydza4py3jqc0sj7l3plqklkyxgsh9an0wswqvzyl'>nevent1q…vzyl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(Sorry if this comes across as condescending. I just want to ensure that there&#39; s not some mismatch of assumptions going on.) 2025-04-22T16:51:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr3t4fdn7s27lcjnfa7ydza4py3jqc0sj7l3plqklkyxgsh9an0wszyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7tgh4w4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8l878c3u3u08hrnlufgg2ttnnwcuw0p44zv7ura03v4els4ckj6qhwrnaf'>nevent1q…rnaf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s wierd. It ought to scroll.<br/><br/>Dumb question: you pressed enter after the &#34;y&#34;, right? 2025-04-22T16:48:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp7nudmemczq5qpet7csyddjkn5r867hhpy0ycrc7hdrma7u8zphgzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7pynw30 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0n9ljflrsaly68tc2qqr3vgm6p69xvf5f8r62ljgthmm25hxvypqmjqmer'>nevent1q…qmer</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What&#39;s going on here is that system messages (i.e. the syslog) is also getting spammed onto that terminal, so you&#39;re getting junk. That&#39;s not output from your command, just garbage spewed by something else. If you clear it with CTRL+L, it&#39;ll go away.<br/><br/>(This is a really annoying bug, IMO.)<br/><br/>I&#39;ve tried doing CTRL+ALT+(other function keys) to get a different virtual terminal, if there&#39;s one enabled and that sometimes helps. 2025-04-22T16:23:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxyrwfhsmd3xrfwg0twplqvqd50f7gsafhra0euftpdk2zm0ntqlczyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu70mguxu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf28ysgxjlujufl0yl0273hd4wgvf2da0pw9cnd9uvtxnjacus65g0zar4r'>nevent1q…ar4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, this just showed up in my feed:<br/><br/><a href="https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/03/31/about-printers/">https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/03/31/about-printers/</a> 2025-03-31T14:12:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf28ysgxjlujufl0yl0273hd4wgvf2da0pw9cnd9uvtxnjacus65gzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7ah69hu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfefv0cr5kxehh08msgr88rt5d2k4kmr82s3t5jcguwnrddhem9ns6na39z'>nevent1q…a39z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(Disclaimer: I&#39;m not an expert in this.)<br/><br/>One thing you didn&#39;t mention (or I missed) is that this tracking is in place only for *colour* printers. So a monochrome laser printer is likely to be safer.<br/><br/>The reason for these dots in the first place was that governments (even non-facist ones) were concerned about easy counterfeit money, which is only a problem with colour printers.<br/><br/>So, second-hand airgapped B&amp;W laser printer with a nice random stippled background on your poster. 2025-03-31T13:10:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstlexkpev7fd0dfkhja879ljamnlnyq26snglj75tmxlmjca6cgzgzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7reexm5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8eg0ukpgtwnw6cxd0wrh6na0m0dkhxzwgrrz38u38j6smvq5tt7ggyjx57'>nevent1q…jx57</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mostly the overall experience of getting the phone usable. Graphene installed and ran pretty much flawlessly (IIRC) but finding replacements for the stock Google apps took a bunch of searching and experimentation and the ones I found were often quirky and unpolished.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a bit more work than stock Android or iOS, where a lot of effort has gone into onboarding, but it also isn&#39;t constantly upselling cloud services or feeding your data to LLMs, so it&#39;s a net win. 2025-03-26T14:23:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxm034hhxhredl2609ddhrkm42den820y544zk7kczd6dyag40jxgzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7uepyhu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9hq0apzayjy970zahqsx2ysupmzl3pm644u3tjr55r6trmjjy5wstdkqzt'>nevent1q…kqzt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I use GrapheneOS and really like it. I get most of my apps from F-Droid with Aurora Store for the few Google store apps I care about.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a bit janky but also doesn&#39;t keep trying to upsell me cloud services, so big net win.<br/><br/>Downside: it only supports Pixel phones. I got lucky a few years ago with a really cheap used one (from the batch with slightly defective screens) and its upgrade, a steeply discounted Pixel 7(?), so it&#39;s an option but tricky. 2025-03-24T12:39:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqq74ll5n3v4t3mzee9ul3nn06vmg33khaprj24jrt9nt2jgfagtqzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7l4dnz6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2pc29a8e00elmvdacpdxfqer8a2f20lryy2jgw58caqsmpvsxw7qz4xtse'>nevent1q…xtse</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>How does that work?!?!? Does the mesh subsystem have its own processor with access to the keyboard and screen?<br/><br/>(Yes, *this* is the part I&#39;m fixating on.) 2024-12-18T14:21:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstmkrledsjn6jxczhz5fav922447alhfanj3d2q833v068ccenyrgzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu76jd0z2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2565sz99k8uvfgums9qz4k3gn2rrpgs5gnprkdz6tgfy3p08s4cgfqdxl2'>nevent1q…dxl2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I remember reading it a long time ago, and it was... something? <br/><br/>It felt like everything served the mood and if you thought too hard about *why* someone would do that, it stopped making sense.<br/><br/>The ending annoyed me because it casually invoked an aspect of the in-setting universe that had never been mentioned before. As if an editor who&#39;d only ever experienced SF on TV unilaterally rewrote it. 2024-09-28T19:40:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxg76m4qfsh4mz0u7xhs0583juf6zpqa5w6pgg7l90crs4e3myw8gzyz5c4rrjdkh5zaj30jhkrd8srd3g3gu6zj26lv2gmzkrede9qyuu7ekgs7t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr8j7jncz20ty9efdeyhkwlc6fzuhmu777ch9zj0q28rthupz3hmqskj6lu'>nevent1q…j6lu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fun fact: mailbox.org gives you basic email+webmail+calendar+contact for €1/month, if you want to know the price point for that service. 2024-09-23T13:48:12Z