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• Post #4297478

  "residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of their life

• Post #4149051

  I'm seeing some people I used to trust on LinkedIn start to realize the whole LLM coding thing ain't working out like they thought it would. Not many, but it's a start It is so, so tempting to post receipts of their all-in posts, calling the rest of us “incurious" over the realizations they are now coming to, with a demand for a retrospective "how are you ensuring you won't fall for this type of bullshit again?” The bridges are already gone, th...

• Post #4149050

  a year or two ago we were "incurious" now we're "fearmongering" so it's working, keep it up

• Post #4149049

  too big to fork is the software equivalent of too big to fail

• Post #4149048

  Welcome to the future, where your car will hold you hostage for half an hour on practically zero notice, so it can do a software update

• Post #4149047

  “Please disable your popup blocker to continue" excuse me, what year is this?

• Post #4149046

  Oh boy

• Post #4149045

  the two hardest problems in technology are communication and consent

• Post #3478219

  I could use some networking help/advice: despite being out of town for over a week this month, comcast is telling me we've gone over our data allotment and used 1.5TB this month. According to them, our typical month uses about 600GB I've changed our wifi passwords, but I suspect that one of our internet-connected devices (air conditioner, robot vacuum & litter box, that sort of thing) has been compromised, and I’d like to try and figure out what's using bandwidth without having...

• Post #2699160

  Happy #caturday!

• Post #2699159

  I’ve forced myself to learn to cook over the past few years, something of a challenge for people with #adhd because, well, cooking requires really good time management. I’ve been getting better Tonight I tackled my first pie, and from scratch; my kid of course wanted the one with a meringue topping (a S’mores pie recipe from America’s Test Kitchen), and it turned out well

• Post #1981345

  I don’t always read Mike Montiero’s weekly newsletter, but when I do, I’m glad I did, thanks to gems like this Full piece is here: https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-smoke/

• Post #1702620

  the thing about “never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence” is that it’s rat-fuckable when there is functionally no difference between the two, engaging with someone as if they’re incompetent means accepting their frame, that what they’re ultimately trying to accomplish isn’t *bad*, they’re just going about it in a way with bad side-effects, and people use in bad-faith our good-faith willingness to treat them as incompetent to push their agendas engaging with someo...

• Post #1673135

  a: it was published in 2015. Here's the discussion on Hacker News to prove I didn't backdate it > b: those are en-dashes, not em-dashes. You imbecile. You absolute tool.

• Post #1252724

  response to a linkedin post this morning

• Post #930636

  ... I was not expecting this, but niiice https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1sboprh/comment/oe8n9k7/

• Post #746468

  I'm really amused at the number of voicemails I get – even from legit callers – who think they're talking to a person: Hello? Helloooo? I get that this is because their robocaller is waiting for the thing to pickup before dispatching the call to a person, but you'd think more people would understand that voicemail is a thing

• Post #746467

  a passion project of late has been a keyboard-driven GUI file manager in the vein of ranger or yazi There are a lot of "finder, but better" apps (on macOS, at least) a lot of norton commander clones a lot of windows explorer clones but nothing like this for the gui and a lot of things I do on the computer benefit from the gui environment and OS integration I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, it's still very much pre-alpha quality; I&#3...

• Post #746466

  the "well, my people aren't who I thought they were" continues outside of the tech sphere: “ChatGPT would tell me if I was being a bad person” yeah, um, that's not how it works. that's not how any of this works

• Post #746465

  mac users: You download a techincally-oriented GUI app with a plain text config file format (let's say KDL or such) that you're encouraged to open. You expect it to be located in... I'd love to hear thoughts on this in the replies

• Post #746464

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@snarfmason/116279824032820289 please stop making your website dark-mode only please stop making your website light-mode only please stop making the setting a button, and use media queries instead. I wrote about this: https://lyonhe.art/following-system-color-scheme-settings-in-css/

• Post #679261

  hey, if you make software with a user interface that displays text, I need you to do something: make your base font-size user-configurable *you* might be able to read six-point type, but “just lower your screen resolution HUR DURRR" is not the appropriate answer to "how do I make the text in your app bigger?”

• Post #650874

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mattly/114134353931754065 Evergreen

• Post #650872

  computer programmers want the prestige of an engineering discipline without the responsbility of one

• Post #619997

  what's the point of all your cookies and tracking and popups and whatnot if I click on a tracked link in your newsletter and the first thing it does is prompt me to subscribe **to your newsletter which you _know_ I am subscribed to?** Like, what are you doing with this information even? Having your AI snort it like cocaine?

• Post #470461

  After three years of reading all 41 books, and some months of writing & editing, I finally finished my recommendation writeup for Discworld: https://lyonhe.art/book-recommendations/discworld/ It's focused on suggesting some good starting places and overcoming the (bad) idea that one should start by trying read the whole thing It clocks in at nearly 10k words, but has a writeup on 17 books and a bit about each of the seven subseries