Bitrot

Bitrot, 1 year ago

You can make them into stickers and put them into messages, can even have them moving. That stuff was an advertised feature though.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

Strongly, generally, although I also try to see who they are today versus who they might have been. It also depends on what they are saying and less on what somebody tells me they believe. For example, if someone doesn’t understand or is uncomfortable with a trans person but at the same time believes everybody should have the rights and ability to live life as they choose (basic tolerance, essentially), I don’t consider that transphobic specifically. Some people would though.

I avoid altogether, look for alternatives, or do my best not to support them financially at least. So I avoid anything written by Lunduke, I don’t avoid all of JKR because I like the franchise, but I get anything secondhand.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

It is up to the home instance of the user, and problematic nodes are defederated.

Instances can choose to operate either blacklist or whitelist mode. Most are on blacklist mode, where new instances federate automatically.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

Someone would fork something and continue on the old path (probably with a lot of the old user and devs).

Posts like this always ignore that people do things because they’re interested in it.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

My coping mechanism is hyper-planning. I don’t live in or enjoy the present much, but have never been late on a payment.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Most recent Stable release was December 13, fixing a CVE. Someone is working on it (Red Hat still pays a few to do so, at the very least).

Bitrot, 1 year ago

“Very few” apparently doesn’t include all the high school English students that read it every year.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

It doesn’t. Even if you defederate with an instance, you can still comment and vote on posts from that instance that predate the defederation and people on your instance will see them, it just won’t go to the original one.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

Everything you do on your own instance is against a cached version of the original post that is saved on your instance. Your instance sends updates in the background, the other instance can be entirely down and you can still browse, comment, and vote as normal on your own. The updates will just stay local though.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

There have been. Creating another one creates another one. Not that someone shouldn’t, but it will always be one among many.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Curious about this too. From what I could find, for those it seems like the push is being used to wake up the app and tell it to connect to the server where it grabs the data and then creates the notification locally. Even if a bare minimum is used there is room for traffic analysis, and I imagine Google can easily tell the app being targeted for the push, but it shouldn’t mean the contents of the displayed notification are necessarily what was sent through the server. It’s hard to find info without digging because consumer-facing stuff just calls every notification a push notification.

The alternative is an app keeping a constant connection open to the server, which understandably mobile OSs don’t like. With push only the one service needs to keep an open connection to provide updates for all the apps.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

A surprising number of those things have ended up being at my local Best Buy (including both of your examples), but lower level components like resistors are impossible to find. Even at hobby shops there are only components specifically related to rc vehicles, nothing miscellaneous.

Edit: I guess this was a common opinion. You’d think interest had picked up with so many electronics “maker” things popping up with Arduino or the Pi.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

There are people with the last name Null and they tend to have issues with poorly written applications too.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

What greeter are you using? GDM? You can disable auto login from the command line.

Assuming gdm, as root edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and set AutomaticLoginEnable=False.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Ah, I can duplicate this behavior too. I think it is probably related to emacs being a metapackage. It does not include emacs itself but forces the install of emacs-gtk. In my mind removing the metapackage should allow you to autoremove dependencies, but people have broken their systems badly with this behavior so it may have been changed or it’s stuck behind some configuration option.

Removing emacs-gtk itself will work as you expect. You can also install emacs-nox for a cli-only one that is smaller.

Edit: there is a setting called APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections that by default includes meta packages and I think is the cause of this.

Bitrot, 1 year ago

It is a very typical way of doing things, you just have to read the output and make sure no important packages are in the list.

Your command should be working. It won’t remove manually installed dependencies but should take care of automatic ones. You can check an individual package with apt show and look at the APT-Manual-Installed field.

Bitrot, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

Braid tugging and poorly written female characters aside, a very large number of the interpersonal problems in those books could be solved in anybody ever talked to each other. The nobody ever trusts anybody or talks about an issue gets kind of irritating. Even if he was going for realism it is pretty over the top.

Kind of like how a large number of Seinfeld episodes would be over in five minutes if they had cell phones.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

I imagine they couldn’t get the rights to The Lord of the Rings in order to adapt book 1 of Shannara.

Bitrot, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

That isn’t automix, that’s smart shuffle.

Automix is only enabled on a few playlists, and not Liked songs.

If you’ve ever listened to a dance album where one song merges seamlessly into the next, automix does that. When you hear a playlist using automix it is very noticeable.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

Pandora sort of has some of that but not so far in depth. You can customize with crowd favorite songs or hits or deep cuts or discovery. Their library is much smaller though, and you’re stuck in a genre based on the station for the most part.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

Train station seems like an important detail.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

Maybe they’ll send them to Madagascar.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

Because I like going through life with a 2-5% discount on everything I buy.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

WARN applies to companies with 100 or more full time employees, so they could potentially be just shy of the number. There are also some exceptions that could apply. I worked at a place that from the layman’s reading you would think had an exception, they were sued in a class action and ended up having to pay some (although a tiny amount to most of us). It seems like the exceptions might be a pretty high standard to meet.

Bitrot, 2 years ago

$1,000 to a campaign in 2008. A majority of Californians voted that way, btw. Good chance many of those millions of voters (and campaign donators) make your tech.

He’s done other things like his covid noise, continuing to use that one 15 years later shouldn’t sway many.