@plaes

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I break stuff. And file bug reports. Occasional retrocomputing.
Member of K-Space.ee hackerspace.
Websitehttps://plaes.org
Githubhttps://github.com/plaes
plaes2d ago
Adrian Cockcroft2d ago
#RetroComputing an old #SunMicrosystems buddy in New Jersey is cleaning out his basement collection of (mostly) working systems Ultra 1, Ultra 10, V210, V65X and Cobalt Cube. He says the only issue could be the drives on the V65X. Anyone want to go and get anything before they go to recycle? Happy to pass on contact info.
plaes4d ago
Show threadgloriouscow4d ago
I got embarrassingly far into designing an ack/retry mechanism into my UDP protocol when I realized I was re-inventing TCP
plaes4d ago
Gil Durán5d ago
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3mjwqsyj54s2a
plaes5d ago
Show threadPaul Bowsher6d ago
@neil fun story: when I was 15 I registered askjeves.co.uk, copied the site and made it respond with “Piss off, I’m busy” to any question. They threatened to sue my parents, I was obviously terrified so immediately transferred the domain. Their lawyers later confessed it was the funniest thing they’d seen. I was not popular with my parents for a while.
plaesApr 30
Hannah GraceApr 30

My community management team at the European Commission is nominated for the European Ombudsman award! We read and respond to comments in all EU languages, making our social feeds more interactive (and removing #HateSpeech before you have to read it)!

We're also responsible for replies like the one below on Facebook. If you'd like to see more of this: why not give us your vote?

Right now projects are up for a public vote here, Vote for project number 32 please: https://enonet.eu/survey/index.php/227332?lang=en

plaesApr 28
Michael K JohnsonApr 28

Updated to Fedora 44, and discovered pretty quickly that middle click is disabled. 🤮

Not a big fan of Jordan Petridis right now. The attitude in his pull request was not awesome. Next I expect GNOME will remove the ability entirely with the excuse that "nobody uses it" since that was also used as part of the excuse for disabling it by default, calling all of us who use it a "nobody" which is kind of disrespectful.

They didn't even add it to settings. The repair is not particularly discoverable.

For everyone else caught by this mess, the incantation is:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

plaesApr 28
BAAS - Blame AI As Service...
plaesApr 28
Show threadmhoyeApr 27

But my favourite part of this, bar none, is how it's everyone else's fault.

It's Cursor's fault, Railway's fault, maybe even Anthropic's fault, someone's gonna hear from my lawyer.

The CEO of a company running a stochastic stack without access control, data hygiene or backups is blameless and powerless. That's AI's real selling point, after all: It's Not My Fault As A Service.

"This isn't a story about one bad agent or one bad API. It's about an entire industry ..."

Or, maybe it's you.

plaesApr 28
Marek idkfa 🌕Apr 28
Aktualizacja obrazka xkcd...
#security #infosec
plaesApr 27

Does Github still have a QA team?

While rolling out the new PR review interface they have missed the ability to pull the plain-text patches with `curl`.

In the old interface, you can add `.patch` to the end of URL (when viewing single commits either in PR or commit history) to get the plaintext commit.

Anyway.. reported here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/163932#discussioncomment-16725264

#github #codeberg #git

Improved pull request "Files Changed" experience feedback · community · Discussion #163932

About the new experience This updated experience focuses on performance, accessibility, and user productivity. Read more in the changelog. TipIf you are not already using the new experience, click ...

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