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John_Doe_Fletcher

anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy

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John_Doe_Fletcher


								

								

								
								
								

								
							
					
 
				


				
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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you don't mind my asking, what sort of birth defect? I ask because I was born with a cleft lip (possibly palate? unsure tbh) which was treated quickly after I was born, but I've got the "dad cough" and I apparently snore like a lawnmower. "Moderately clogged all the time" sounds familiar enough for me to wonder if I should get my nose looked at.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 16, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's quitter talk. Do it for the craft, do it to skill up, do it to impress your friends, anything - but talking yourself out of having fun because the end result may possibly be dredgeable out of the electronic collective unconscious is stupid. I've talked myself out of working on side projects before because someone's already done it, and I was still wrong to do so! Don't do nothing now because you'll (presumably) be able to do it better in the future, you're skipping the important steps of practicing and fucking up, also known as having fun and learning!


Anyway I'm working on my attention span. I haven't given myself time to touch most of my side projects recently because IRL, but I did take some time to set up custom firmware on my friend's 3DS. I'm also trying to work through FUTO's guide to setting up a self-hosted home cloud.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And he's back.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Mu!


I'm not engaging with your argument, I'm criticizing your process of Notice lack of knowledge -> Consult unvettable bullshit generator -> Present unvettable bullshit generator output. Would you ask a parrot its opinion on the field of economics and place any real weight on its response?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 2, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's pretty much right. Were you expecting a novel?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


As I'm not an economist, I asked GPT for what economics has contributed to mankind and the best I saw in its list was game theory.




If you don't know what to say, you can just not say anything. Don't be a conduit from the weighted random text shoggoth to the comment box.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Call me a Luddite but the ChatGPT joke in their readme is a red flag that they use it at all, and my limited experience with Rust is that it's a very verbose and dense language when written by humans. I can't satisfactorily convince myself that their code isn't LLM generated. That's all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
ClamAV is quite good, I've been using the Windows frontend ClamWin for over a decade now. I believe Trellix also has an AV product for Linux, though it may be more along the lines of enterprise endpoint protection than no-frills AV. There's also libredefender, though it seems like it's basically a frontend for ClamAV and I have some concerns about their ChatGPT/Copilot usage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I second this - I've read Macintyre's book, it's excellent. Also I feel like it's got a very approachable writing style, even for a younger reader.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for January 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Started actually teaching myself some Processing 3D utilities this week. I'm gonna clone Dungeoneering if it kills me!


Missing the ability to jump to "next comment at same level" is really starting to get to me now that I'm actively lurking again, so I'm gonna hack that into Quokkit this weekend probably.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Ooooof, that sounds rough. At least my shop is aware of the licensing problem - part of our major infra push is an effort to fix it, but we're still kinda kneecapped by policy at the end of the day.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Best I can do is complain about how wonky the budget is for a somewhat important piece of shipping software. You'd think we could get $ENTERPRISE licenses squared away easily, we're not some fly-by-night shop. Because we don't have $ENTERPRISE licenses we apparently aren't allowed to install $TOOLS I need to unify our Unix and MS build processes, and we can't just stand up a build server running, say, $DROP_IN_ENTERPRISE_ALTERNATIVE or something on it because policy. Devsecops is goofy.


Also, as a sidebar - apparently barely anybody has put in the effort to try to build $WELL_KNOWN_INFRA_TOOL for Windows on Unix in the last decade and a half, and somewhere down the stack it just completely blows up because of preprocessor hell in a cross-build environment. My favorite thing in the world is when a header is included with nice and neat capitalization that doesn't match the actual file's (entirely lowercase) capitalization, so it builds just fine on MS because MS filesystems aren't case-sensitive and dies on Unix because someone wanted their includes to look pretty. I have done black magic to this dependency tree to get it close to building and then it still dies because of platform-specific linker options that are getting improperly set in a CMakeList. There's reasons why we're building this from source instead of using a package for it, but it's a huge morass of fiddly that I'm allowed to keep bashing my head on because if we get this to work, the payoff for our whole CI environment is huge. Somehow I've only had two drinks in the last six months.


(Apologies if you find the formatting obnoxious but I'm trying to keep a minimal degree of opsec.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd still be okay with this, comparatively speaking.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably a naive question, but does the MN supreme court have any precedent cases where they punted on a "political" issue? This seems pretty clear-cut to me in favor of the GOP, and the rules-lawyering by the DFL seems to me as exactly the sort of behavior you should throw the book at, under the "win stupid prizes" principle.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Money is great, but I prefer the sax segment from Us And Them, around 5:20ish.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 17, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Does anyone have any advice on safely getting rid of a smallish, mostly-full canister of propane? Most of what I'm finding online assumes the canister is empty. Hazardous waste disposal in my city is handled in a different county, by appointment, bringing it to their facility and waiting in line, and the next day they have appointment slots open is December 7th. I want to get this out of my space as quickly as possible - at the very least I'd like to find a safe way to empty it. The only reason I even have it is that my old roommate brought it from our previous apartment and the canister wound up in a box of stuff in a bathroom closet when we moved.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Like the IBC spent the last three revisions updating the spacing of outlets on a kitchen island, but there's no standard place to mount an extinguisher.




Oof, that's annoying. Especially doesn't help that mine is mounted under the kitchen sink, which is a great way to rarely see or think about it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is your bathroom fan on a timer that runs for hours a day?




It is not, we just tend to run it a lot cause GF and I tend to nuke the bathroom. Plus the white noise helps me sleep, usually.




Having a washer and dryer in the house rather than a shed sounds like a lot of trouble. I'd never even thought about dealing with lint in an interior.




To be clear, the bathroom fan is on a different duct than our dryer - there was just so much dust buildup/clumping on the fan intake that it was basically the consistency of lint. Sorry if that was confusing. I've had a washer/dryer combo in every place I've lived in and never had much trouble beyond the dryer not drying effectively. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Had a fire in my apartment early yesterday morning - bathroom fan burned out and ignited a bunch of trapped lint. Saw it very quickly after it started, thanks flu making it hard to sleep. Didn't remember we had a fire extinguisher until girlfriend called 911. Extinguisher put it out quickly, thankfully the only flammable stuff that was touched was the bath mat and not the very full trash can. Burned my hand and foot, thankfully not too heavily. Girlfriend and cats are completely fine. Currently staying at a hotel, gonna crash with a local friend once we check out tomorrow.


If our management hadn't sent out an email the other week reminding us that it's almost time for the yearly fire extinguisher inspection, I might not have remembered we had one. As it is, I only made the association when GF said she'd call 911. There's a whole lot of little things that have lined up recently that by some factor have contributed to saving our lives. It is a miracle to me that the only casualties in this situation are my bath mat, a bunch of my stuff being covered in soot, and blisters on my hand and foot.


If anyone has any advice on how to de-soot linens and stuff, or anything else I should know about...just processing a near-miss like this. I'd appreciate it.


Double-check where your nearest fire extinguisher is. Make a mental note.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
>front page

>not browsing by board catalog

hownew.ru :^)


Sorry to break character but I didn't want that to make an actual link, would anyone happen to know a convenient way to break autolinking with The Motte's comment formatting? disregard that nyeh


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 1, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Brave (browser), DDG/Startpage (search engine). I've heard about Kagi but haven't actually tried it yet.


Also worth noting that Brave is a great mobile browser given how few adblocking solutions there are for mobile platforms.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Maker's Monday
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Didn't know about that, lol. Here's the repo.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Maker's Monday
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So, Quokkit. Haven't put in any time on it this last week due to IRL responsibilities. The big thing that's currently annoying me: I'm currently storing the list of comment ids in a flat array, this makes navigating comment threads cumbersome because there's no concept of comment depth. Changing this to a tree would be more representative of thread structure and simplify future work on comment navigation and loading comments after the initial page load. Once that's dealt with, a nice-to-have for this week would be making the "Load more comments" button navigable so it can be activated with keybinds.


I was working on a click-to-select feature as a workaround for having to manually navigate through a thread, and that's still on the map, but I haven't nailed it down yet.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 5, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Undefined behavior isn't something you solve at runtime, it's literally implementation-defined behavior. Working in kernelspace is definitely not gonna give you the performance leeway to catch UB whoopsies. What should be catching it is a static analysis tool like Fortify, especially given Falcon is deployed on government hardware. If Crowdstrike doesn't have Fortify or a similar tool as part of their ops process, they've got security compliance issues.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Forum-specific keybinds like voting and replying and editing comments I guess. Why use RES over vimium?