@codinghorror I’d like to restrict incoming calls to a whitelist.

@nixCraft I was part of the GNOME project when we decided to use Ctrl instead of Alt for such commands. We screwed up. We should have stuck with the convention of CDE and Apple. I think we went with the Windows convention because it would be familiar to more people. I don’t remember anyone mentioning the modifier next to the space bar was ergonomically preferred; I learned about that years later.

I’m sure fixing this one mistake will bring users rushing to desktop Linux.

What we call “AI” today is to the thinking machines of “Dune” what a whisper is to a hurricane. And yet the harm may be greater.

Gamut.

Autism Gamut Disorder.

The gamut of sexes.

The gamut of genders.

The gamut of political ideas.

It is a much more apt word than “spectrum” in each of these uses.

The most common use of the word in my experience is in the phrase “gamut of emotions”, which people understand is not a one-dimensional range.

“Spectrum” is generally understood to be one-dimensional, despite recent use in other cases. It leads to confusion and requires explanation.

“Gamut” is more fun.

Gamut, damn it! 🙂

@evacide Thank you for reminding me of LOLCAT Wasteland. https://corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/

Sorry about the bills.

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

Anyone who knows me knows I am vehemently opposed to what the current regime in my country, the US, is doing. It occurs to me that I don’t post here publicly often enough for that to be clear to anyone looking at my account here, so let it be known.

::sigh:: Guess we gotta talk about this now.

This looks like "trying to get US farmers to grow food for domestic US market, instead of for export."

It extremely remains to be seen what he means by "tariffs on external product" or if they'll even happen. This admin likes to tweet first, retract later.

I won't keep pretending I believe in tech as a force for good.

That ship has sailed, that horse has bolted, and that gutless CEO has already embraced fascism.

Instead, I'll call it like I see it, and I see a world in forced decay.

If I sound like a luddite, that's a mantle I'm happy to take on. I see no shame in it.

We'd all be better off if we learned to question tech as a gift and see it for its grift.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/im-tired-of-pretending-tech-is-making-the-world-better/

How can one organize introverts for political action?

The fantasy of AI is not needing consent from another person.

@mpt I have completely given up on desktop free software. Twenty years is too damn long for drag and drop to still not work correctly.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

One party has denied these rights to half the population for as long as I’ve been alive.

@lobingera Anyone who thinks that one person alone can fix the drag and drop problem doesn’t understand the problem and belittles the entire FOSS community. I’ve blocked that ignoramus. I don’t have time for such idiocy.

Here’s a stupid opinion: It’s OSS, you can do it yourself.

No, dumb ass, I cannot fucking replicate the equivalent of the entirety of either Microsoft’s or Apple’s code base. Nobody can do that on their own. Stop belittling the work that has been done by the FOSS community by suggesting that one person can do it all on his own and correct every fucking mistake that has been made.

Drag and drop is fucked up and fixing it means fixing every toolkit, window manager, compositor, and application.

I have given up. I no longer believe that #GNOME or #KDE or any other #FOSS GUI will ever implement drag and drop correctly on either #X11 or #Wayland. It's been more than 20 years. The bazaar just isn't capable.

https://youtu.be/Ni8BrT0-6gM?si=mG3hRhqqpyt2euH_

Carol Cadwalladr is a hero. She was the reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica social media story, and has been subsequently hounded by some of the most powerful shady operators on the planet. If she is talking about something way beyond anything we have ever seen before pay attention. It's certainly coming. It will be sophisticated and infect every corner of media and social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/27/misogyny-emergency-huge-outpouring-kamala-harris-us-electionction

Artificial intelligence uses attentive reasoner hardware to do pretty good predictions.

Natural intelligence uses pretty good predictor hardware to do attentive reasoning.

@oilipheist @scottjenson Folders are supposed to be small and shallow. Ignore the bulk of the unix filesystem; that should basically be invisible. Folders, graphical representations of directories, are for people. If they get too big, like a music collection, someone is supposed to write an app that manages a file type, like music files. If they get too deep, like source code, someone is supposed to write an app, like an IDE, that manages that complexity. (2/2)