syklemil

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Smells a bit Scandinavian to me. In Norwegian we also use "ur" that way, including "urspråk" (Ursprache, ur-language). We have a different word for origin (opphav), so ur remains a prefix that's difficult for us to translate.

Going by Wikipedia however, the English translation for Norwegian urspråk and German Ursprache is proto-language.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had to figure out how to do the factory reset at the gym after I got the blue triangle of death when leaving work. Oddly enough it synced the gym plan I wanted and leaving it connected to the phone didn't seem to produce any other ill effects, but I stayed away from anything using GPS.

But yeah, the general advice for Garmins just now seems to be "just don't" and hope it doesn't triangle itself until the fix is out

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, same. Post-metal or thereabouts towards jazz can work too IME. Stuff like Russian Circles, Earthless, Elephant9. But stuff like Waveshaper and Amynedd are often safer bets.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 2 days ago

They're stuck in a reboot loop, but not bricked. A factory reset works (but the problem may reappear on update).

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's ultimately up to oneself to decide these things for oneself, but there is literature on the topic. Part of it you can just frame like the stories themselves: Is it worthwhile to read or watch a story unfold, rather than just read a summary? Is there any point to anything that ends? You know a good meal with your loved ones is going to end before you sit down—but you still choose the meal over going hungry and alone. Because the experience has value even if it ends. Some experiences are even valuable because they only existed a brief moment in time.

There are, ultimately, some stories that are so mired in despair and suffering that anyone would close the book early, but most of the stories are kind of trudging along, with their own motivations, hopes, fears and joys.

To quote another work on the topic: One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Smartphones – and to a lesser degree, tablets – kind of are not a phenomenal programming platform.

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But not everyone in 1990 had a personal computer, and I would venture to say that the group that did probably was not a representative sample of the population. I’d give decent odds that a lower proportion of the population as a whole could program in 1990 than today.

Yeah, and these things influence each other. Today we have a networked computer in our pockets, and depending on where you live, they may or may not be required or the standard way to do tasks like get a bus ticket, login to government websites so you can do your taxes and whatnot, transfer money, and a bunch of other tasks that to a degree are really sensitive.

So as we have a bunch of barely computer-literate people functionally dependent on these devices, we also need them to be locked down and secure. MS had some grand thoughts about "code everywhere", which turns out is pretty awful security-wise, especially with gullible networked users. The users in this community have very different capabilities and needs than the users who might not even want a computer, but feel forced to get one because the government stopped using paper and bank and post offices no longer exist. (This is, essentially, what it's like in modern Norway. We might be ending home delivery of snail mail soon; mail delivery every other weekday seems to be an unnecessary expense.) Beyond the lack of a keyboard, the platform has a bunch of constraints that don't make for fun computing, but they absolutely need to be there. Unfortunately we also wind up with a split between the common restricted platforms, and the casual, customizable platforms, and not everybody gets to be exposed to the latter.

There are probably, in absolute numbers, a whole lot more people who know js or Python than people who knew BASIC in the 80s. In addition there are people who are pretty good at spreadsheet programming, and other tasks that are essentially coding, even if they're not listed as regular programming languages.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better jobs. I would never have had the kind of career growth I had staying where I used to live.

Side note here: Better access to work-related events. It is possible to WFH for some jobs that were previously city-only, but you'll be missing out on not only the casual socialization of stuff like grabbing a pint after work, but also various technical meetups. I've gone to meetups for fields of work not related to me just because I find the topic interesting and it's easy to swing by.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Central Oslo resident:

  • Gym is about 8 minutes by bike away. I've gone to gyms further away to train with my PL club but ultimately the gym between here and work wins out (work is about 10 minutes by bike away).
  • Groceries are usually five minutes by foot away. Within ten minutes on bike I have access to bigger and more specialized shops.
  • There are plenty of bars within walking distance, with various concepts, so we can visit one we're in the mood for.
  • Quiz nights in bars are generally packed. They also frequently have board games available, but I tend to ignore them.
  • It's actually pretty quiet here. There are some noisy party streets, but you more or less just need to live a block or two away to not hear any of it.
  • We also have plenty of parks and easy access to the waterfront for Sunday Spaziergang and swimming.
  • IMO Oslo could learn a bit from German cafe/Konditorei-culture. We have good coffee pretty much anywhere, and some good pastries here and there, but not their cake selection. There's also plenty of restaurants around, again within walking distance. Depending on our mood we can just get a döner and watch Star Trek at home, or we could go out to eat at something mentioned in the Michelin guide, or something in between, or even get Foodora. (The Frau was severely pleased when one of her favourite places got a Bib Gourmand.)

A significant difference for the household economy is if you can own your home in the city and not have to own a car. The home will appreciate, while a car depreciates. Generally energy costs will also be lower if you share walls with your neighbours. And, of course, being two helps. Living with a friend or two in a collective is pretty common.

But also going to work and getting groceries is something almost all of us have to deal with. We have to wipe our asses in the city, just like everywhere else.

The bathrooms in the building need to be refurbished and I'm actually thinking of getting a Japanese style toilet with a built-in bidet.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Quotes are OK, shellcheck is happy, but, according to gtfobins, you can abuse tar, so running the script like this: ./test.sh /dev/null --checkpoint=1 --checkpoint-action=exec=/bin/sh ends up spawning an interactive shell…

This runs into a part of the unix philosophy about doing one thing and doing it well: Extending programs to have more (absolutely useful) functionality winds up becoming a security risk. The shell is generally geared towards being a collection of shortcuts rather than a normal, predictable but tedious API.

For a script like that you'd generally want to validate that the input is actually what you expect if it needs to handle hostile users, though. It'll likely help the sleepy users too.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah agreed on the 100 lines, or some other heuristic in the direction of "this script will likely continue to grow in complexity and I should switch to a language that's better suited to handle that complexity".

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

They shouldn't know directly, but they can still be informed by public discourse whether it seems like they have a majority normal users with some creeps thrown in, or if the only circles discussing and promoting their services are nazis, or etc.

So yeah, it's not a 100% identity between the two, but the point remains that the actions of the owners / operators will influence whether they'll be interpreted as openly running a nazi bar, or trying to run a normal bar but struggling to keep cryptofascists out, or something on that scale.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Privacy focused services will generally be sought after by nazis, illegal arms dealers, CSAM dealers (but I repeat myself). But like with the nazi bar analogy, they need to handle it properly and take certain stances to avoid that group becoming their only customers—and the rest of us blocking it.

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