technosophist

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Having fun discovering how things work and why they're here.

Find me at https://www.thoughtfull.systems/

Githubhttps://github.com/technosophist
How far we have fallen ...
Somehow I survived until today without knowing about httpie

Free game idea: Mailbox or Not

You are a snow plow driver, and you get shown a pile of snow and a random multiplier. You have to guess if it contains a mailbox or not. You wager points and if you are right or wrong you gain or lose points (with the multiplier).

@joe very cool. Is this custom, or is there a tool you used? I'm kinda interested how my photos would look
People griping about software I write: rude, entitled, symptom of a world where unpleasantness is rewarded
Me griping about software other people write: radically honest, fair-minded, an exercise of belief that we can all do better
TIL that tac exists. It will print the lines of a file in reverse order.
Coming to work for one day between two days off is weird, because it's like yesterday was Saturday and today is Monday but tomorrow is Saturday because today is Friday.

On the one hand when people are like, "LLMs just reproduce other people's 'stolen' code." I'm like, aaaand so do humans?

But on the other hand when I google and the AI summary just shows some guy's SO code verbatim without attribution, I'm like, "That's messed up!"

@chris__martin Everyone should grow strawberries

TIL you can add an SSH key fingerprint to your DNS records. (NOTE: You cannot trust it without DNSSEC.) Does anyone use this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFP_record

SSHFP record - Wikipedia