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New comment by zomiaen in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

zomiaen — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:32:29 +0000

I work for a company that for years has had a very old-school, terminal style POS. Lots of key shortcuts. Like, black/white text terminal POS.

The folks who learn how to use it well navigate through it faster than the system can process their inputs.

The new system has lots of fancy GUI, but is slower, and the folks used to their shortcuts hate it. But it's so much faster to train people to use.

New comment by zomiaen in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

zomiaen — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:29:16 +0000

It's absurd how the propaganda against green energy on certain political spectrums essentially turned into, "It's all money/cash grab for green energy companies!"

As if the established industry has no incentive in the opposite direction? Everyone is going to act in their best interests in this system, that's how it's designed, the whole point of government is to mediate the system in the best interests of the whole.

New comment by zomiaen in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

zomiaen — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:48:50 +0000

>I have to point out stairs aren't typically made like this. That's a really complicated way to do it.

What do you mean? That's exactly how most residential stairs are built. Two to four stringers with risers and thread boards attached to them.

Granted, they will draw a template on one board and copy it to the others to make the stringers quickly well before mounting anything.

New comment by zomiaen in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

zomiaen — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:33:48 +0000

>LLMs really aren't that impressive at pentesting

The point is that Mythos apparently is quite capable and has developed novel exploits on its own.

New comment by zomiaen in "Linux from Scratch"

zomiaen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:53:38 +0000

You're looking at it incorrectly. LFS is an exercise in learning for the sake of it, and therefore, not a waste of time. This isn't intended to be easy, but to expose and teach you the lowest levels of creating a functioning install.

New comment by zomiaen in "LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet"

zomiaen — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:47:52 +0000

How many of these scrapers are written by AI by data-science folks who don't remotely care how often they're hitting the sites, and is data they wouldn't even think to give or ask the LLM about?

New comment by zomiaen in "All Delisted Steam Games"

zomiaen — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:40:58 +0000

That presumes you can find someone to agree to those terms (which you won't), and if they do, that it isn't a prohibitively expensive fee (which it would be).

New comment by zomiaen in "[dead]"

zomiaen — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:03:02 +0000

There are a vast number of scientists in agreement with each other that it is not a nothingburger.

It takes nothing but stark intentional ignorance to make a statement like yours.

It absolutely boggles my mind at the suggestion that green energy is all profit seeking, as if the counterparties in big oil aren't also just as or more interested in maintaining status quo in the opposite direction. Yet I never see someone who expresses ideas like this recognize or acknowledge that.

New comment by zomiaen in "Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI"

zomiaen — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:44:05 +0000

Will the AI let me make my taskbar vertical again?

New comment by zomiaen in "About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5"

zomiaen — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:08:36 +0000

Almost certainly some kind of zero click/zero user action RCE exploit.

Edit: I should've read, "Impact: Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption."

So simply receiving an image via SMS or loading it in some other way likely accomplishes the initial exploit, so yeah, zero click exploit. Always bad.

New comment by zomiaen in "Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees"

zomiaen — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:24:13 +0000

The Aspen trees provide ecosystem benefits to animals other than Elk-- birds, etc. Shorter grasses allow smaller animals to live and hide.

It's not choosing species we like as much as that there was previously an equilibrium all ecosystems trend towards, and our influence (killing the wolves) lead to significant ecosystem imbalances that hurt more than just wolves.

New comment by zomiaen in "Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees"

zomiaen — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:21:36 +0000

I wouldn't say pre-human settlement, since Natives were in these areas for many years, but they didn't have the desire to mass hunt wolves (and culturally, would not do so). So pre-US colonialism, perhaps.

Philosophically though you're correct- humans very easily see themselves as "apart" from the environment, when really we're just another mammal doing our thing. We are nature as much as we are in it, even for all of our tools and manufacturing.

New comment by zomiaen in "Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)"

zomiaen — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:22:35 +0000

From the first paragraph: "Without radar installations, it can be hard for port employees to detect small ships like those employed by pirates or by the terrorists who attacked the USS Cole in 2000"

I don't think this is intended to track the type of folks who leave their AIS broadcasting.

New comment by zomiaen in "What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like"

zomiaen — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 03:44:07 +0000

K8s starts to make sense when you want to provide a common platform for a multitude of application developers to work on. Once you can understand it was born from Google's Borg and what problems they were trying to solve with both, the complexity behind it makes a lot more sense.

New comment by zomiaen in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

zomiaen — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:15:39 +0000

This makes a whole lot more sense than the argument that OpenAI needs to store every single chat because a few people might be bypassing NYT's paywall with it.

New comment by zomiaen in "Cloudflare's Disruption"

zomiaen — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:29:35 +0000

Not on their backend. S3 goes down, nearly everything else does. We found out last year if Kinesis has issues, so does a bunch of other internal AWS services.

New comment by zomiaen in "Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate"

zomiaen — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:15:03 +0000

They're a member of the FIVE EYEs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

New comment by zomiaen in "AWS doesn’t know who I am"

zomiaen — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:04:21 +0000

This is essentially the classic "internet ID" proposal that's been floated around for a few years, which universally has been regarded as a bad idea.