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Oh, good, my MacBook is failing to wake the external monitor again. (I did think it had been getting slower to connect, but wasn't sure.)

Garoo 🧑‍💻12h ago

First thing in the morning, new five-minute video essay about Outer Wilds' themes just coming in, ruining my day, and clearing out 😒

Garoo 🧑‍💻13h ago

Did they really send them to the Moon with Bluetooth devices 💀 https://scorpinc.social/@az/116345653530848124

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Attached: 1 image 50 years on and space travel has become the techno utopia we have always wanted, as summed up in this quote from NASA's Artemis II livestream

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Garoo 🧑‍💻1d ago

I've been stuck for the past three days deciding on a new dev workflow that works for me (thanks, 26.4) and once again I ask, why on earth did they let Linus Torvalds design the VCS for the world 😫

Garoo 🧑‍💻1d ago

I had seen mentions but not the explanation of why they're doing this. Hacking into /etc/hosts (it's a simple edit, but entirely overstepping the bounds of what can reasonably expected by running an installer) just so the Adobe website can tell if you've got Creative Cloud installed is properly unhinged. https://tech.lgbt/@somebitslinks/116342309248779411

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog (@[email protected])

Adobe fuckery: Company is now modifying critical system config files so it can market to you better https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/comment/oe1ap9h/ #creativecloud #networking #malware #windows #adobe #hosts #-

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Garoo 🧑‍💻1d ago

I can't believe SkillUp's review made me add Crimson Desert to my wishlist, but a huge world to explore that takes pains not to repeat itself is exactly my thing.

I'm not gonna get to it anytime soon though — too many projects I can finally start, not to mention a bunch of better games waiting to be played. That means they'll polish off some issues, but I worry this might be the kind of game where they add so much stuff post-release that onboarding becomes even more forbidding than it is now.

Garoo 🧑‍💻1d ago

Apparently LLMs are getting good at finding and reporting security vulnerabilities in code (not so much at fixing them), which is:
- good because the vulns are getting fixed
- bad because maintainers are swamped
- also bad because most LLM vulnerability investigation is presumably done and paid for by actual attackers rather than people who want the credit of reporting them https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116336957584445742

Garoo 🧑‍💻2d ago

Am I really gonna have to buy a specific tool just to open my Apple TV remote and clean the buttons? Can't find anything else that works 🙄

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Garoo 🧑‍💻3d ago

Although come to think of it, photographers used to switch films depending on what they shot, didn't they 🤦

Garoo 🧑‍💻3d ago

RE: https://mamot.fr/@garoo_photos/116335220871823775

I'm very happy with the overall look of my preset in RNI Films but these days I'm mostly taking photos of flowers along my walks and running incredibly vibrant DCI-P3 reds, purples, and greens through the filter feels like a small crime every time.

(I definitely picked the worst film emulation for this, I'm sure it would look better if I switched to reversal film, but that would defeat the point a bit.)