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New comment by happysadpanda2 in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

happysadpanda2 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:35 +0000

Aren't they actually readline keystrokes, and emacs is "readline-aware"?

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

happysadpanda2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:01:10 +0000

This could be an argument for investing in more reliable/higher capacity public transit systems though. Which would also likely result in a fair increase in public health from moving a bit more and possibly less polluted air going in an out of the lungs of the populace.

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:21:10 +0000

I don't know whether or not it is our instance at $dayjob that has a wonky setup, or if it is the elements client, or what (probably the client, as the problems all but disappear in the webb-ui version), but oh how many synchronization issues we are facing. threaded conversations not showing up, or randomly disappearing, clients getting stuck in message fetching loops, not actually fetching anything, notifications of new messages either not appearing, or not disappearing upon reading them, and ON TOP OF THAT no custom stickers/emojis/gifs...

but those synchronization issues... if I want to be sure something reaches the rest of the team in a timely manner, I have reverted back to email

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

happysadpanda2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:33:27 +0000

The carriers can provide almost as good location data through just doing fairly simple calculations on timings and signal strengths received by the cell towers, and their implicit knowledge about where those cell towers are located. Good keywords for further reading are (("4G" or "LTE") and "GMLC") or ("5G" and "LMF") and/or OTDOA.

While Google and Apple may be hesitant, what are your thoughts about AT&T or Verizon?

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Aggressive bots ruined my weekend"

happysadpanda2 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:26:20 +0000

an evolution of the gpg web of trust could possibly be part of it

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:26:38 +0000

`uniq -c` introduces a "count" at the beginning of the line, so what we are then sorting is on frequency of the unique terms in the output, not sorting the unique terms again (which indeed would be kindof nonsensical)

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

happysadpanda2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:31:40 +0000

There was also Anna Lindh, Sweden, 2003

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'"

happysadpanda2 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:29:49 +0000

Aha! I too have seen thumbnails of videos with context clues (product brands in the thumbnail which doesn't exist under that brand in my country) yet with a video title in my native tongue, which a clear "machine translation"-feel to it.

Until I read this thread I assumed that it was the content creator doing shenanigans (low quality AI slop video mass-produced in many languages and targeting my locale with videos for my locale), but it does make so much more "sense" that it would be YT doing this.

And my reaction to those thumbnails, thinking it was the creator doing low quality AI slop, was to "reward" them with "Don't recommend this channel".

So I have been punishing innocent channels for crap that YT is doing...

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Why does Debian change software?"

happysadpanda2 — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:45:15 +0000

I can't argue that you are wrong, but I can argue that, for myself, if I don't trust a developer to not screw me over with telemetry, I cannot trust the developer to not screw me over with their code. I can't think of a scenario where this trust isn't binary, either I can trust them (with telemetry AND code execution), or I can't trust them with either. Could you describe what scenario I am missing?

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor"

happysadpanda2 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:49:25 +0000

I read the gp to mean that error.log (being parsed to look for OOM) would have no associations with userSearches.log, in which an end-user searched for OOM

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "How I Program in 2024"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:31:42 +0000

Aaaaaaand I replied to the wrong comment, mea culpa!

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "How I Program in 2024"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:29:31 +0000

Chiming in as an end-user of software: please try to minimize the amount of times I need to re-learn the user interface you put in front of me.

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet"

happysadpanda2 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 06:15:17 +0000

And then there is teapot, previously mentioned in relation to sc-im

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241136

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "My journey with Obsidian"

happysadpanda2 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:59:59 +0000

If I'd try to describe/categorize it, I'd call it a local, ?most often? single-user, scriptable and plugginable wiki-software.

I use it for taking notes, keeping a journal, TODO-list, and to bookmark/annotate stuff. Basically my own personal "knowledge base".

Technology-wise it saves notes as markdown, optionally with a yaml-style frontmatter, built on/with javascript, and exposes a bunch of APIs making it very extensible.

A strength/weakness with it is that it exposes the end-user to all this power, and does not enforce much in the way of ways of working, so you get to define for yourself how you go about using it.

I have mostly settled on workflows that works for me, but it also seems, if I am being completely honest, like there is always some little tweaking/refactoring going on.

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work"

happysadpanda2 — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:54:08 +0000

At various places of employment, /some/ meetings have absolutely been just so. Nothing of day-to-day value was ever communicated in those meetings, and nothing of value was lost when I stopped attending them.

Sprint Demos could also fall into this category if you squint, but at least there is a good chance you pick up something useful

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Kernel Hardening: Protect Linux user accounts against brute force attacks"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:39:53 +0000

> If a user really cares about changing the internals he can make his own operating system.

Don't we already have that, and it's called... Linux?

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel"

happysadpanda2 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:01:03 +0000

So say we all.

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Bug Thread"

happysadpanda2 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:11:38 +0000

Vaguely reminiscent of another Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/979

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Decision Table Patterns (2020)"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:26:38 +0000

I just re-read the entire reasoning, and I got it all wrong I think. N%2 will only ever yield one of two inputs. In short, I shouldn't try to brain before the morning coffee ;D

New comment by happysadpanda2 in "Decision Table Patterns (2020)"

happysadpanda2 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:17:36 +0000

> What we can do is replace the number N with the equation N % 2. That has only a finite number of inputs and leads to a valid table.

Just so I'm understanding it correctly, it should say "finite number of OUTPUTS" there, right?