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(Other changes since the pic above: new keycaps for the ErgoDox, new high DPI 4k monitor that feels "retina"-ish, new job.)

My KVM swaps the monitor between work and personal, which I love. It means I can play music on my personal machine while focusing on work, or keep an eye on work during a weekend on-call shift while mostly using my personal machine.

SUCH a noticeable difference using a KVM to swap a display between M1 and Intel Macs. The M1 Mac recognizes the display becoming un/available within a couple of seconds and works perfectly every time. The Intel Mac takes 5-10 seconds and sometimes misidentifies the monitor.

Desk is a hideous mess right now but here's a nice-ish pic I took for this interview with ZSA a couple of years ago https://t.co/efWJrAelTA My Mac on the right is the same one as in this pic; the work Mac on the left is a newer M1 Mac. https://t.co/xpjt8QwA9W

@jeremy_soller The only one I've tried was Rocky, but its process to convert an existing CentOS 8 install impressed me. It worked the first time on my out of date install.

Important correlations between human testicle placement and Linux privileged port decisions #linux #ballsack #humanevolution https://t.co/nybhKE6t60

Elipsis, wait for an embedded web page to render an application consisting of a DOM and JavaScript, report, report, it's spam, it's spam, done. I would very much like this process to be two taps, with an undo button in case of a mistake.

@ThePatanoiac Have you ever played Paranoia? I've always wanted to. The Halloween flavor of fearful propaganda seems like it would be a good fit in that world somehow. https://t.co/xtajKf64EG

I sometimes seek that feeling in my own writing here - although every time I've attempted it it's always been paragraphs long, I've never achieved a short phrase or single portmanteau nearly that good. https://t.co/5pULXrBAk4

Reminds me of @GreatDismal's description of his book title "Neuromancer", a term with "considerable potential for cognitive dissonance, that pleasurable buzz of feeling slightly unsettled." https://t.co/OYo7kS82cY https://t.co/9K8HIKly8v

> ...the aluminum industry sometimes refers to its product as “solid electricity,” since that’s the dominant input into its costs. "Solid electricity" is a fantastic phrase. https://t.co/5P4qAkrUIR

Oh neat https://t.co/T9HmOONzsC

I could see Evil Me who needed money working in fraud, malware orchestration, something like that. However, I'm not sure it would pay more over the long term than my current legit career, on average. (I guess this is a cue for the devil to tempt me in the next scene.) https://t.co/g3C1G51wD6

I guess the other possibility is running a webserver that does this. Maybe less cursed than FUSE. But you'd have to trust the operator of the webserver, which isn't ideal.

How cursed would it be to make a FUSE filesystem that does this automatically. Needs config file to describe tarball contents per project, then just mount the FS and point your deb/rpm/apk repository config file to the mountpoint. Download/extract/package on fs read. Hmmmmmmmmm https://t.co/BTjAF9NW6M

First time playing Python ML/data science/AI crap to dick around with Stable Diffusion. Installing prereqs, my impression is "wow they made Python feel like NPM" :(

Damn, what a great logo for Python 3.10 https://t.co/xReW8YP3VA

This sucks lol https://t.co/T5ZPiWambT

Oh hmm, the guy whose blog posts are all about changing blog engines has written another blog post about changing blog engines. This regenerated the IDs of much (though not all ?) of his posts in RSS, time to mark all as read again. (Please interpret this light jab as friendly.)

Or, as the Russians say: trust, but verify. https://t.co/smgyIPSyhJ

But it's the most natural thing in the world, to think exactly that. To think that the truth is obvious, and that anyone who claims to see it differently is not just incorrect but probably dishonest.

Something I have always believed, but have not always practiced consistently: if you want to know the truth about the world, you have to starve and suffocate the inclination to trust your intuition. It's good to cultivate intuition, but it's not truth-seeking to trust it.

Also reminds me of Romans 1:20, which basically says that everyone can see the wonder of the universe, which is proof that god exists, and therefore, humans who reject god know that they're rejecting the truth. https://t.co/th7z7jEB4y

And from the outside its easy to criticize this. How small minded, do you really think that everyone else agrees with you in secret but refuses to acknowledge it because they're depraved deep down, etc.

This reminds me of a linguistics book I read sitting on the floor at a bookstore once - I'm afraid I don't remember which book - which was discussing word order, like in English it's typically subject-verb-object https://t.co/CiIyFTOuhp

And it quoted some writer from a previous century, who again I don't remember, who knew other languages, and who said something like "and they're all obviously not as natural as <my language>, which has the most obviously correct word order"

The book was trying to say that when you're learning other languages, be careful not to drag your own intuitions in with you, because they might just not apply, and it will feel very wrong. Your intuition isn't calibrated on the new language. Don't trust it.

> “We’re doing this like this because it just makes sense” is not just the general shape of made up stories I see programmers and engineers telling themselves all the goddamn time. It’s a habit that opens an attack surface on your soul. https://t.co/RlvBK53QGs

Thinking about the ergonomics makes my wrists and neck ache lol

My dad sent this to me saying that his dad wrote a textbook (civil engineering, iirc lots of work on asphalt recipes) on one of these things. Wild to think about writing that many words on that screen. https://t.co/nnmOg0rI5i

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This is the main reason I think tweet downvotes should be expanded to include ALL tweets, not just replies. We should be able to send a low-energy signal that something is annoying or worthless.

RT @internetarchive: We can't believe it's a photograph! Check out this 1982 shot of Saturn and lots more space photography in our #NASA co…

If you are getting engagement out of politics and that's what you want, I can't tell you that removing politics from your posts will get you more of it. But damn is it disappointing to mute/unfollow/turn off notifications for an account I love bc of this.

Oh man and there are some posters who I'd absolutely have notifications on for every tweet they post but for the moral pronouncements they make and shitfights they get into with people they don't respect or even like.

There are some posters on here I waffle on, following/unfollowing or muting/unmuting in cycles, bc they cultivate surprise or expert information on topics I care about, but I have to wade through microwaved cable TV political takes to get to it

One heuristic I have: mentioning a public person rather than an idea is really just useless gossip. Imo that's all most people do when they talk about "politics". Of course this is not an original idea. It's also not an iron law, just a rule of thumb. https://t.co/h8KmKvhwOY

@Jowjoso Fuck

I think about politics (and public/social morality, which is imo a better label for what most of us are doing when we talk about "politics") a LOT. I care a lot about doing the right thing. I'm not saying that focusing on what's right is useless.

Also, I do really enjoy following users here who talk about poliCY rather than poliTICS. Tell me why we should change middle school curriculum or how seemingly unrelated ordinances affect voter turnout or what the highest throughput/lowest fatality intersection in the world is.

@mrled "technically but socially depressing" is like, big tech's fucking motto

We can't believe it's a photograph! Check out this 1982 shot of Saturn and lots more space photography in our #NASA collection https://t.co/RkwYCzHtHJ #photographyarchive https://t.co/rs2aEBUzLS

I want to see more of your creations, your unique thoughts, your weird ideas, your useless side projects, photos of your electronics bench, an experience you had while walking in the mountains, pictures of a lizard you found!!! https://t.co/O11wHTAd0g

I wish I could somehow be kind and respectful while also telling certain wonderful, mysterious, fascinating posters on here who intermix something magical or deeply technical with political nonsense that they impoverish themselves and everyone listening to them.

RT @JPFreire: “After listening to all of your conversations, we felt it was time to give back.”

RT @MuckRock: Amtrak offers up a solid contender for greatest #FOIA redaction of all time https://t.co/wiTX0cl8JJ https://t.co/7vIGr93YLd

"But implementing captchas solves problems for websites". True! But eliminating captchas solves problems for users.

The real solution here is this, we just need to find a way to do it https://t.co/VWD1W3hu4x

Also I sort of resent Cloudflare's "wow captchas sure do suck" at the beginning. You guys proliferate captchas, don't talk about of both sides of your mouth.

This is technically cool but socially it bums me out. There is a path from here to "This website requires an approved device, please close this page and get an Apple or Google device to continue". I'm sure no one involved* is hoping for that outcome. And yet. *well, maybe Apple https://t.co/9dMUJUVHeU