Dave.

Mostly so future me doesn’t undo something I already argued with myself about. They’re in docs/adr if you’re curious.

Mostly so future LLMs don’t undo something they already argued with themselves about.

Nice! Although I do wish everyone would get with IPV6 at some stage. But it seems everyone is OK with the current coping mechanisms in IPV4, so maybe I should pin my hopes on IPV7 or 8.

Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs

The joy of living in the US I guess. My ISP in Australia charges $5 a month for a static IPV4 address.

“This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we’ll have more at 11.”

The QR code is pretty dense , probably plenty of space to include the panic reason and stack trace.

Edit: For those of you that don’t know, exiting or crashing the init process (PID 1) causes the kernel to panic. Essentially it’s the, “Well what the hell do I do now if I have no processes to serve?” response.

Still, a QR code is a marked improvement on the “Something went wrong :(” message of recent Windows releases.

So if your phone is hot it could be:

• working as intended,
• working as intended but bad at it,
• or working as intended but working really hard right now.

How is this, in any way, useful information?

To quote a famous line from Billy Madison: “Everyone is this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”

Cute graphic for the malicious package upload explaining four relatively simple steps in detail to take up 3/4 of the page, meanwhile “Opus 4.7 attacks real target and deletes records” is a single sentence in passing.

like the insurance won’t approve it or something like that

That’s the part that’s broken, not the concerns that you might get false negatives.

In any case, I would hope that the system would return “results inconclusive” rather than a hard no, prompting you to be put in the queue for normal diagnostics.

Qualcomm has its “IZat” system where:

- every AP’s BSSID your phone sees is sniffed by a program running continuously in the background, mapped to a latitude/longitude if possible (via GPS or any phone location means) and sent to their servers,

- So that other devices can send a list of AP BSSIDs and signal strengths and get a triangulated location within 5-10 meters.

So the server ends up with a global database of AP locations, and also the location of every device in the world using the service within ~5-10 meters.

They’ve had this in action since 2012.

Now if you turn anything off (like that stupid autobrake that brakes for cars in the left hand turn lane beside me), they’ll use that to say “it’s not our fault, the driver turned it off!”

Don’t try and spin this as a convenient liability-limiter for manufacturers.

Unless it is an actual failure of a safety critical system, with no warning, that then directly leads to harm, manufacturers are in no way responsible for how you operate the chunk of metal and technology that you bought from them.

All this stuff absolutely helps to reduce the overall risk of injury when operating a vehicle. Is it also a pain in the ass sometimes? Sure it is. Can you turn it off? Sure you can. But sometimes that shutoff is just temporary, because governments - not manufacturers - mandate that some things are now required, because they’re sick of hosing body parts off of highways.

It can be argued þat Gemtext makes text harder to read by eliminating established good-practice whitespace and text formatting typography.

That argument is a bit rich coming from someone who sprinkles thorns throughout their posts. 👀

Oh man that’s sweeeeet. This is the kinda shit I want to see at trade shows , not yet another iteration of “world’s thinnest phone with a chunky camera bulge”.

Oh your new phone can fold in half and it’s got a 600MP camera and it has a 37Ah battery that lasts for 3 days even when it’s churning on its internal navel-gazing AI 24/7? That’s greaaaaat.

But I want crazy shit!

I want a row of clicky buttons down one side as direct shortcuts to apps.

I want a TV tuner and a pull-out antenna so I can watch Judge Judy serve some proper smackdown to some entitled neighborhood dispute when I’m on the bus, nearly poking someone’s eye out when we hit a pothole.

I want a phone with a laser pointer and an IR blaster (again).

I want a phone that looks like the palmtops of old, with a clamshell case and a little hardware chicklet keyboard and it runs on AA’s, except it’s also a phone.

I want a phone that slots into a boom box and fully controls and plays tapes with auto-reverse.

I want a phone that’s a drone, throw it in the air and it takes group photos.

I want a phone that has gyros and can self-balance on one of it’s corners, and do little party tricks, and can hop along behind you if you leave it behind somewhere.

I want a phone that’s also a mini 1080p laser projector.

I want its calculator to also have an I Ching mode and print “a suffusion of yellow” instead of any answer greater than 4.

Where’s all the FUN stuff?

The article is quite fixated on how dialup was around in the early 2000s, and how Americans used dialup in the early 2000s with screeching modems, and how AOL turned off their dialup last year and only a thousand people were using dialup by then.

But there’s no indication that this has anything to do with the application, except for maybe everyone used a popular means to connect to the Internet to use it when it was first built.

Now if someone maintained a bank of modems and people legitimately called them up and connected to the system like it was an ISP, and it was secure by way of that was the only way to access it as opposed to over the Internet, then sure, I can see that maybe it’s time to work on that part.

Complains about incomprehensible short commands in legacy shells.

Builds own shell with a new set of incomprehensible short commands, minus the hookers and blackjack of existing shells.

(Insert xkcd standards comic here)

I’m quite sick of my browsers auto-updating and adding stuff I don’t need.

I’m pretty much at the point where I’m going to turn browser updates off. It’s perfectly functional for me as is, and if I ever hear of some crippling browser security issue I’ll consider its impact myself before thinking about updating.

Consider only exposing a VPN service, like Wireguard.

Then when you are away from home, it’s one tap / click to be back on your LAN again.

You’re not thinking black-swan enough.

You’re typing your comments using a blob of goo with about a hundred million neurons in it that cycles under a hundred hertz and draws less than 20 watts.

I don’t think that we’ll be running packs of goo in our PCs any time soon. But I do think some entirely different way of looking at the problem will emerge that will reduce computational requirements by many orders of magnitude. And it won’t involve gigantic statistical engines trying to find the best average response to a question.

I’m just waiting for the closed-source AI industry to have their Black Swan moment.

Something’s going to come out of left field from the open AI community and all that investment in proprietary models and mega-compute is going to be rendered useless.

Webrings were themed though, so if your interest was cars, or cats, or ham radio, you could get on a webring for one of those topics and cycle through them.

And it wasn’t all random, you could move left or right on the ring , or jump randomly. So a good webring manager could group sites together as you went around the ring as well.