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@mrled comedy option: you're using this for personal book keeping, use ledger lmfao

@mrled yeah but a: get your company to give it to you b: if you're not using it for work could just use gsheets. it's the other inconveniently not excel app

@Jowjoso I mean I'm not going to pay money for Excel

@mrled why would u ever try to do things in https://t.co/WVSpawc5XA

Fucked up but true, the best way to find out how to do something in Numbers is to first search Google for how to do it in Excel and then search for the Excel jargon with "https://t.co/ZPbkMSXCVK".

RT @ianthehenry: emacs on a remarkable 2, wireless edition https://t.co/J4wANHudKi

@katrosenfield @LawLiberty The connection of overbearing TSA experience to the overbearing mask enforcement experience puts its finger on something that is hard to talk about, although I don't understand why it ought to be. Thanks for writing it.

wrote up the essay-length version of this tweet thread for @LawLiberty https://t.co/5ejUFOL95e https://t.co/hmEwohSqHu

Oh uhh, I’m good thanks https://t.co/ytLiYc4jAe

@tqbf What does count as a “dark pattern”? I saw someone refer to green text bubbles as a dark pattern yesterday, which rubbed me wrong.

Charging money for 2FA is monstrous though.

But I don’t see the moral quandary here. A literally equivalent way of looking at “the SSO tax” is “the no-SSO rebate”. Just pay for the services you need and get on with your life.

I don’t LIKE the SSO tax. We SSO everything we can at Fly and it costs us money. I’d be happier if it didn’t. We don’t plan on SSO taxing (we’ll find other ways to rip your face off if you’re price insensitive).

The SSO tax exists because it’s a super-effective market seg signal. Overwhelmingly, the companies that need SSO are the least price-sensitive customer cohort. This is 101: charge price-insensitive customers more, so you can charge price-sensitive customers less.

An orange comment suggests that the infamous “https://t.co/pJmDk8VVD1” (the premium software companies charge to link up your single sign-on) is a “dark pattern”. I strongly object. Words mean things.

RT @EsotericCodes: A c program with a syntax error is not a c program OR Every text is a c program, most have a syntax error on the firs…

Do you ever wish you could message the inspiration for Amazon's "Buy it with" and ask them what cool project they're working on? https://t.co/rHEiutzeY4

"Add to Quote Cart" is one of the more cursed phrases I've read recently https://t.co/fGfHDg9MSb

“While it is not exactly true, it is almost true, and certainly very fun to say, that AUTOVON telephones feature a button that only the President of the United States is allowed to press.” https://t.co/CVbhmCnvWk

A c program with a syntax error is not a c program OR Every text is a c program, most have a syntax error on the first line

"There is absolutely no reason to explain the concept of precision and recall from first principles in a machine learning paper, and even if there were, anyone needing it would need an example. Either expand or cut this (but come on, seriously, cut it)."

I wish there was like a Tumblr or Blogspot account out there where this cranky, stubborn, absolute bull-headed asshole just edited important published academic papers as if they were communications intended to record and convey useful work.

"What the hell is this section doing here? Put it at the end. No, scratch that, cut it entirely. Dross."

"Why do you even have a section in this computer science paper about 18th century criminal investigations? Cut, cut, cut." (A real example I read yesterday!)

"Twenty pages to record what could be described in two. D+. Don't put anything like this on my desk ever again."

RT @SalaciousPat: Channing's "Tatum" 🤤 https://t.co/Po4brUuMm8

@jstn But I also wonder, is there something that we could build that would kindle interest in home servers this way? Something that needs to be in the home today even though the cloud exists, and oh, since it's here already, why doesn't it just host some files for you, etc? Exciting.

@jstn Love this take, I haven't thought about it this way before and it's catalyzing a lot of thoughts in response. One is that it might not have been avoidable, given the abysmal state of security at the time. I don't even put my Synology directly on the Internet _today_.

RT @jstn: my personal theory is that this one little policy (as well as upload caps) has done more damage to the web than anything else ove…

RT @jstn: you know why people don't run their own servers? because a couple decades ago american ISPs said "no" to having a web server in y…

New years is a fake holiday invented by realtors to send you advertisements (cards about your "real estate journey")

In my opinion, one cool thing you can do with a laser pointer is point it’s laser at things. No offense!!!!!!!

don't tell me it's too complicated. we let ordinary people operate *computers*

my personal theory is that this one little policy (as well as upload caps) has done more damage to the web than anything else over its lifetime, and led us to this moment of clamoring for decentralization. it's still something no one talks about or pushes back on

you know why people don't run their own servers? because a couple decades ago american ISPs said "no" to having a web server in your home, and it's been the same ever since. synology could've been the macintosh of the home server, instead we all use dropbox and web 2.0

I want to play with programmable USB switches next. If I could hit a key on my keyboard to swap the webcam around, that would be pretty amazing. For one thing, it would mean I could take the webcam switch off my desk.

Multiplexing is fun. It would be amazing if I could shrink the various things down into one controller with the brains for all of it, with just the controls I need and a single cable to each computer. The rats nest I have mostly hidden under the desk is pretty gnarly

Theoretically a single thunderbolt/usb4 cable could handle everything, even the display. If the display were separate that would still be a huge improvement of only two cables per computer, and I think I could get by with USB2.

In a similar vein PiKVM is very handy for managing machines without having to connect them to my KVM. (Surely you didn’t think I could fit all my computers on a single four port KVM.) https://t.co/13ZiNCTNJR

Uhhh what else. I have some special keys mapped in QMK that send key codes for Synergy to warp to a certain machine. It means my Synergy screens don’t have to be all contiguous.

The webcam switch lets me use my games PC for discord video instead. I don’t understand how playing a game and streaming video on a single PC is more reliable than a Mac doing nothing but streaming video but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wrote about the audio setup over here https://t.co/BYmCuPadNi. It’s so cool to have physical knobs for per-computer audio. I also have physical knobs for my mic inputs to different machines, meaning I have hardware control over whether my mic is hot on Zoom or whatever.

I was interviewed about an older incarnation of my multiplexing setup (and other things) for ZSA last year. It was a lot of work to get my desk that clean :) https://t.co/efWJrAelTA

I wish I didn’t need this webcam switch though. I didn’t plan to - I only use it when I need to video chat in Discord, and that’s something my laptop ought to be able to handle. Discord on macOS just doesn’t work very well though, lots of drops, crashes, sluggishness, etc.

The KVM is mounted upside down under the desk. I wish I could mount everything this way, but I haven’t found USB switches with buttons on the front that would allow this. https://t.co/TIhcisrZ0f

The synergy controller is an old Raspberry Pi 2 with a 4” HDMI screen. I can’t tell you how great it is. I never think about it.

I have two separate USB switches - one switches keyboard and mouse between my Synergy controller, whatever the KVM is switched to, and my iPad; the other controls the webcam. https://t.co/fUPphl4x4b

It’s really handy to be able to swap those things separately, especially bc my keyboard and mouse are almost always connected to the synergy controller. The KVM controls the main display, but I can move my mouse between eg laptop and work PC no matter which the KVM is on.

Here’s most of the setup. Headphones are hanging under desk off screen. https://t.co/uhLrkyDKHx

Added to my multiplexing setup - I can now switch my webcam between two different machines.