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New comment by TheFuzzball in "Patrick Stewart has died"

TheFuzzball — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:07:42 +0000

You're kidding right? Shatner's had a beer belly for the last 40 years and Patrick Stewart has always been quite thin. It's just luck and genetics.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Linux 7.3"

TheFuzzball — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:31:23 +0000

Apple have dropped support for AFP, so SMB is the only game in town.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI"

TheFuzzball — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:35:10 +0000

It already does sound outdated.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

TheFuzzball — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:21:50 +0000

1. You can run NixOS with Lix (I do)

2. Because Guix is less mature and more, ehm, opinionated, than *ix + nixpkgs

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

TheFuzzball — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:58:16 +0000

So what Matter is to Thread, Reticulum is to LoRa?

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

TheFuzzball — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:44:16 +0000

Did you ask Claude to write this comment too?

New comment by TheFuzzball in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

TheFuzzball — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:12:28 +0000

That's already the case in determinate-nix. Flakes do have big problems though - try cloning a big data project with GBs of data and see how much you love flakes when it copies it to the store every time you run `nix run .#analysis`.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

TheFuzzball — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:23:17 +0000

Imagine building a brand new component library to replace your already quite successful component library and still making it React-only.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

TheFuzzball — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:48:46 +0000

It's annoying, sure, but it's not worth disabling SIP.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

TheFuzzball — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:02:07 +0000

Why?

New comment by TheFuzzball in "SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others"

TheFuzzball — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:21:18 +0000

But this is my point — it would take hundreds, or even thousands of years for aliens to get here. To do that they'd need some sort of abundant fuel source.

Let's say they have had thousands of years of Nuclear Fusion, for example, it wouldn't surprise me if they could produce any elements they need by fusing hydrogen.

But let's say they didn't, and they do in fact see Earth as a rare jewel full of precious materials... the logistics of taking our natural resources just seems like a joke. Surely the juice isn't worth the hundreds of years of planning and logistics squeeze.

I used to buy this dark forest idea, because it's scary and exciting, but I think the biggest mistake is projecting our behaviours onto extra-terrestrials.

If they wanted to destroy Earth they'd just slightly nudge a big asteroid in our direction and be done with it.

/ sorry for the ADHD rant

New comment by TheFuzzball in "SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others"

TheFuzzball — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:34:45 +0000

We're like a paranoid child terrified that anyone that enters our room is going to steal our Lego, so we must be left alone!

Nobody wants our Lego.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

TheFuzzball — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:24:58 +0000

> To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)

In my experience, the fewer moving parts the better.

I run Unbound on my OPNsense router, and it uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole and the stats page (blocked domains, DNS requests, etc) are the same afaict.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

TheFuzzball — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:47:25 +0000

I'm curious why you'd use pi-hole in combination with Unbound instead of using blocklists and stats that Unbound has built in?

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Boring is what we wanted"

TheFuzzball — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:48:14 +0000

What is multiplication if not adding over time?

New comment by TheFuzzball in "A Mac-like experience on Linux"

TheFuzzball — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:16:21 +0000

I have been looking into Desktop Linux recently because macOS has taken a bit of a quality dip. GNOME - I'm never going to pronounce it guh-nome, please stop, it's embarrassing - seems to have a strong alignment with the old macOS philosophy. It's opinionated.

It also clearly copies macOS: Epiphany and the Settings app being prime examples.

I installed NixOS on an old T2 MacBook Pro, and it's... awful. Things just don't work, or don't work properly. It actually reminds me of running macOS on PCs back in the day (osx86, etc). GNOME 49 is headed in the right direction I think, but Desktop Linux is still in an absolute state.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Obsidian Bases"

TheFuzzball — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:15:54 +0000

Coming from Logseq... this looks ideal for me.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "A gentle introduction to anchor positioning"

TheFuzzball — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:57:23 +0000

It could also be that there is a dirth of high quality CSS training data in comparison to JavaScript et al.

I wouldn't be surprised if the negative developer sentiment toward CSS is reflected in training datasets.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know"

TheFuzzball — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:17:27 +0000

Two other use cases spring to mind:

- "GitHub: Let me know when this PR is merged" - "Store: Let me know when this item is in stock"

Unfortunately I think it's only useful if it works everywhere, so we can't rely on every website implementing it themselves.

New comment by TheFuzzball in "Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements"

TheFuzzball — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:37:10 +0000

Just hope that Herbie doesn't go bananas again