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New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?"

WesolyKubeczek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:57:04 +0000

It’s almost like Nature doesn’t expect its readers to know who this Max Planck guy is. :-)

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:12:52 +0000

Good, but the number of internet stinks about this particular cultural appropriation I have encountered so far is zero. But I have encountered multiple dramas from people offended on behalf of the people who never asked them to whiteknight for them.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

WesolyKubeczek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:44:14 +0000

Then TLS, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 enter the chat, and now you can’t just send a request.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:03:58 +0000

Secure for whom?

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:03:21 +0000

Necessary, but not sufficient. Sometimes you want to block certain URLs and not whole domains.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

WesolyKubeczek — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:21:09 +0000

In some jurisdictions, it depends. You may film “a street”, and people go into and out of the frame all the time, and it’s okay. But if you take a random passerby and make them the focus of your recording, you may run into problems.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

WesolyKubeczek — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:18:38 +0000

I’m actually glad they say the quiet part out loud. Leaves no room for doubt about their nature.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

WesolyKubeczek — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:30:55 +0000

You should trademark Metaslop™!

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

WesolyKubeczek — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:29:23 +0000

The discussions around this have devolved to excrement anyway, I feel tempted to invoke the meme where the goose asking a guy what his jacket is made of, asks “where is your reproducer case!?” instead.

Instead we have a shitstorm over presumably legit issue, for which the only source is some mastodon post.

One command that used to work in 3.4.1 and stopped working in 3.4.3. Just one! We could have already bisected the living shit out of this and go home, but no.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

WesolyKubeczek — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:50:49 +0000

I hope some record of us stays so whoever comes next would be able to learn from our stupidity.

Yeah, and eternal shame is all we deserve.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

WesolyKubeczek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:01:43 +0000

The number of electrons involved in the so-called consciousness, compared to the number of electrons in the universe not involved in it, is so small that they are a mere temporary statistical aberration.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Love systemd timers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:17:23 +0000

Yeah, I'm a man of culture like this. However, systemd with its service dependencies runs circles around launchd in pretty much every aspect.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Love systemd timers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:32:51 +0000

/me cowers in fear

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Love systemd timers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:32:22 +0000

Since systemd is successfully parsing its INI files, and barks at you when you put weird shit into them, a grammar for them does exist as well.

XML is that wonderful format that gave us vulnerabilities like death by million laughs, up to a certain moment, you could MitM DTDs, and a whole slew of everything-XML stuff back when XML was like AI is today, none of which I miss today.

Oh, and remember times when programmers would argue whether argument order in XML files should be significant or not?

But XML books with their idealized XML future description did give me the same warm fuzzies as some intricate clockwork mechanism to a Victorian geek.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Love systemd timers"

WesolyKubeczek — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:20:38 +0000

Could have been worse.

Could have been YAML.

Could have been XML.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

WesolyKubeczek — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:32:10 +0000

Many people swear by Unicomp, but I had that bad luck that I first paid for the thing, got the thing, and then read that as of recently, there had been problems. Problems with quality, problems with output. Then they went so quiet people thought they had gone out of business, then they resurfaced. By that time, I've had an original Model M and two different OG Model Fs. When I buy old stuff from eBay, at least I have my expectations calibrated to the fact that this shit is real old.

Your unit must have been a couple years older than mine, so it just might be of that more legendary quality. Yours is from at least 2008, right? You may even had got it before markets went bonkers!

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

WesolyKubeczek — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:04:46 +0000

I don't want to have high friction from having to copy files to my host then back. I also don't want to experience latency from editing remotely. Thus, this.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

WesolyKubeczek — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:20:02 +0000

My Endura Pro started having issues three months in after arriving to me in 2013; I remember how it was $99 and shipping was $98, and then I had to pay VAT on it.

It died quite quickly after and become parts donor for old IBM Model Ms I bought out from people’s attics. It was a wonderfully repair-unfriendly thing, too.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

WesolyKubeczek — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:15:52 +0000

Mine is now at customs. Wondering how fucked it’s going to arrive. But I guess I like pain.

The 104-key model F I’ve got has a dead spring in numpad delete, and I can’t carve out enough time to disassemble and fix it. Mind you, I did disassemble, put in DIY foam, and reassemble a Model F XT, so I’m not afraid to do it.

Between me ordering the beam spring one and getting it, I managed to change my citizenship, name, and house. But it was only a two year wait, the first Model F remake (60%) took three years and I was quite late to that party.

New comment by WesolyKubeczek in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

WesolyKubeczek — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:05:16 +0000

I remember reading a book, Red Hat Linux System Administration Unleashed from 2000, where it has been postulated that knowing several tools with overlapping functionality is an essential skill, as you may end up on a broken or intentionally crippled system where, say, ls is unavailable, and you may need to cobble it together from shell and awk and what have you.

Back then you could indeed run a risk of having /usr nibbled by a grue such that it wouldn’t mount on the next boot, or you could get pwned and half of coreutils would turn into explosive pumpkins.

I’m pretty sure we are past many of the threats listed in that book, but the skill is still useful, as can be seen.