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New comment by blipvert in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

blipvert — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:22:18 +0000

I shall wait your collected thoughts. I’ll suggest The Mythical LLM Month as a title.

New comment by blipvert in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

blipvert — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:51:04 +0000

Well, yes, pick your poison.

But for just getting access to role accounts then I find it a lot nicer than distributing public keys around.

And for everything else, a periodic Ansible :-)

New comment by blipvert in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

blipvert — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:22:04 +0000

Hmm. For user certs you can have the service sign them for, say an hour, so long as you can ssh to your server in that time then there’s no need for any other interaction.

Sure you need your signing service to be reasonably available, but that’s easily accomplished.

Maybe I misunderstand?

New comment by blipvert in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

blipvert — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:55:34 +0000

If you generate short lived certificates via an automated process/service then you don’t really need to manage a revocation list as they will have expired in short order.

New comment by blipvert in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

blipvert — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:11:49 +0000

Can’t remember the exact quote, but there is something in The Omen II about future wars being fought over food (Thorn corporation being involved in agriculture/fertiliser or something).

Last time that I saw it I wondered if the Ukraine conflict might be about control of the “Breadbasket of Europe” as much as anything.

New comment by blipvert in "Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference"

blipvert — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:29:44 +0000

Maybe they are not fans of American citizens being shot in the face?

New comment by blipvert in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

blipvert — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:18:47 +0000

“I have had it with these anti-matter protons on this anti-matter truck!”

Or something.

New comment by blipvert in "China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000"

blipvert — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:58:57 +0000

If it’s not five nines then I’m not interested.

New comment by blipvert in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

blipvert — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:34:46 +0000

> The author already said they think it’s a good idea and that they’ll work on it over the weekend

Did you even say “thank you”?

New comment by blipvert in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

blipvert — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:26:49 +0000

Someone gave you a constructive suggestion.

> (which I don’t enjoy) > (which I avoid) > (which I don’t want)

You are quite the negative Nelly.

New comment by blipvert in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

blipvert — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:17:13 +0000

You could likely have written that tool in the time that it took to write that comment.

If it would be useful to you, and to others, then why not?

And if it is not accepted then publish it yourself. Stop your whining.

New comment by blipvert in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

blipvert — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:42:55 +0000

This sounds like a job for contrib-directory-man!

New comment by blipvert in "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike"

blipvert — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:59:06 +0000

Source?

New comment by blipvert in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

blipvert — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:05:17 +0000

Interesting

New comment by blipvert in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

blipvert — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:15:27 +0000

Genuine question - was your fair consideration prior to or after J6?

New comment by blipvert in "The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code"

blipvert — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:19:13 +0000

As I recall that changed the size of the (vector graphic) icons in the window.

Though it has been twenty-odd years since I last used an SGI box so open to correction!

New comment by blipvert in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

blipvert — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:20:39 +0000

Touché!

New comment by blipvert in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

blipvert — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:34:40 +0000

Here in the UK the leader of the opposition frequently refers to herself as an engineer.

She was a software engineer. LOL.

(I speak as someone with a degree in Computer Science and Software “Engineering”, and an inglorious past as a Chemical Engineering student)

New comment by blipvert in "Privilege is bad grammar"

blipvert — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:27:23 +0000

New comment by blipvert in "Privilege is bad grammar"

blipvert — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:26:01 +0000

Reminds me of the apocryphal story of Victor Hugo asking his publisher how his new novel was doing with a single “?”. The publisher replied “!”.

Do your boss could still save themselves 50% of the work.