Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

This is really wholesome, good on that other dev!

I recently heard a saying which I’m still trying to take to heart and apply to my own troubles working on creative pursuits: “Comparison is the thief of joy”.

We’re all so connected and online these days, it’s all too easy to see the work of others, and either feel “it has all been done before, what’s the point?”, or “this other person is so good I’ll never reach their level”.

Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.

We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.

Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.

Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck’s sake.

Can’t be… No one has ever seen a Grue. Grues hide in the darkest places, waiting to eat foolhardy adventurers who have no light source in their inventory.

Edit: Explanation

Use xcancel.com instead of directly linking to that site please.

https://xcancel.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032

I hope they succeed. Given Alphabet/Google’s recent moves to try and lock Android’s app ecosystem down and them just generally becoming more Evil every day, GrapheneOS and LineageOS etc. may be living on borrowed time.

I watched a video reviewing some phones smuggled out of North Korea a few days ago and it’s truly scary what the endgame of locked mobile phones looks like and given the trends worldwide towards authoritarianism, we’re frogs being boiled slowly toward the same situation.

Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/

This seems like a good idea.

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.

I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.

git repos seem to be real bait for these damn AI scrapers.

Horrifying to read. I don’t think we’re ready yet for radical transplantation like this until we perfect the immune-system reset procedure first that allows for doing away with anti-rejection drugs.

Whatever happened to that research? I had read there was some success in resetting a person’s immune system, by taking out bone marrow immune stem cells from both the donor and donee, letting the stem cells mature together in-vitro, and then injecting them back into the bone (after zapping the donee’s original bone marrow), giving the person an immune system that now saw both tissues as ‘self’.

What a world we live in, where making software secure for the end-user is considered an act against ‘the state’.

It’s like we’re right back at the early 90’s with Phil Zimmerman and PGP.

At some point we’ll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can’t block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it’ll dissuade them.